My laptop is a 9 years old Mitac Celeron M, 1.2Ghz with i810 graphics. It works perfectly and I don't need nor plan to buy a new one. Over the years, I saw Linux support becoming better and better for this all-Intel laptop. However, since 2008, things become more and more difficult. Features like KMS are hard to get working. Newer X drivers don't work anymore, requiring manual tuning to Xorg.conf to use "i810" instead of "intel". It means that installing a new Linux distro almost always requires text mode/kernel options. Although my laptop is nearly entierely made of Intel components, hardware support never reached 100% and will obviously never be. Sensors drivers, for example, were never written. I even tried to write them myself.
Ten years ago, as many others around the world, I advocated "Linux" saying it was lighter than Windows and did work on older hardware. I attended many LUG meetings, install parties and other kinds of events. I was installing Linux on 486s with Pentium Overdrives we donated to people who could not afford a computer. I was saying to everybody that Windows was evil. It was evil because "Microsoft had secret agreements with hardware vendors" so they would bloat windows and stop old hardware support to force people to buy a new computer.
Today, it's the same for Linux. Hardware vendors "contribute" to Linux (the kernel, X drivers and so on). In fact, they control Linux totally and don't have any plan to make it compatible with older hardware.
Now, I'll be forced to either stick with old software (and old bugs and old security issues) or go buy a new laptop.
Let's overflow them with false positive results. Hidden links to specially crafted files could lead to millions of inappropriate cease and desist letters, their horror tools will be useless. In a word, let's SPAM them;-)
If everyone is suspect, let's all seem guilty so they can't actually distinguish. I'm not against copyright, but i'm against spies and arbitrary investigations.
Have nothing to hide doesn't mean let everybody spy.
one solution to get really reliable results is to rank any non-registered commercial pages as low as possible and to have a strong policy for commercial subscribers (and affordable registration fee).
when searching, i get drowned in 'best price' advertising, price comparison sites and all this kind of irrelevant stuff. i'm usually looking for technical specs, good reviews,...
if poeple cheat, spam,... it's to sell something. from my experience, most irrelevant results point to sites trying to sell something.
so lowering the number of results pointing to sites trying to sell something should automatically improve the relevance of the results.
btw, if companies don't want to register and respect google policy concerning web page contents, there are chances that their page should get a low ranking.
This sounds to me like: "forget the philosophy, we're talking about bizness now. Money, you see. Bucks. You dreamers..."
What if i'm personally disgusted by certain "commercial practices"? Like trying to enforce improper rules by pushing foolish laws wolrwide.
What if i really want to live my way and still participate and make a living of it, and without patent or IP lawyers or biased reports?
Should i really be a convinced pro-capitalist to participate to your bizness, ms. Laura DiDio? Isn't it a bit closed, intolerant?
This is not the first time i read that kind of FUD against FOSS community and it's philosphic fundations.
I had the idea of honeypot-like hosts that would fool the bots. Imagine thousands of pointless cease and desist requests. Thousands of "fsck off" answers. It would be great if it could cost them a lot of time and money. Plus, we could use the information collected by the honeypots to build a blacklist of servers that run spying bots.
Yeah another great idea from the bloody-fucking-yankees-at-war-dept. I hope those US army bastards will try their shit on their own fucking oil stock. And hope those who reach climax when reading such news will die during the test too, eaten by their bacteria.
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My laptop is a 9 years old Mitac Celeron M, 1.2Ghz with i810 graphics. It works perfectly and I don't need nor plan to buy a new one. Over the years, I saw Linux support becoming better and better for this all-Intel laptop. However, since 2008, things become more and more difficult. Features like KMS are hard to get working. Newer X drivers don't work anymore, requiring manual tuning to Xorg.conf to use "i810" instead of "intel". It means that installing a new Linux distro almost always requires text mode/kernel options. Although my laptop is nearly entierely made of Intel components, hardware support never reached 100% and will obviously never be. Sensors drivers, for example, were never written. I even tried to write them myself.
Ten years ago, as many others around the world, I advocated "Linux" saying it was lighter than Windows and did work on older hardware. I attended many LUG meetings, install parties and other kinds of events. I was installing Linux on 486s with Pentium Overdrives we donated to people who could not afford a computer. I was saying to everybody that Windows was evil. It was evil because "Microsoft had secret agreements with hardware vendors" so they would bloat windows and stop old hardware support to force people to buy a new computer.
Today, it's the same for Linux. Hardware vendors "contribute" to Linux (the kernel, X drivers and so on). In fact, they control Linux totally and don't have any plan to make it compatible with older hardware.
Now, I'll be forced to either stick with old software (and old bugs and old security issues) or go buy a new laptop.
Let's overflow them with false positive results. Hidden links to specially crafted files could lead to millions of inappropriate cease and desist letters, their horror tools will be useless. In a word, let's SPAM them ;-)
If everyone is suspect, let's all seem guilty so they can't actually distinguish. I'm not against copyright, but i'm against spies and arbitrary investigations.
Have nothing to hide doesn't mean let everybody spy.
one solution to get really reliable results is to rank any non-registered commercial pages as low as possible and to have a strong policy for commercial subscribers (and affordable registration fee). when searching, i get drowned in 'best price' advertising, price comparison sites and all this kind of irrelevant stuff. i'm usually looking for technical specs, good reviews,... if poeple cheat, spam,... it's to sell something. from my experience, most irrelevant results point to sites trying to sell something. so lowering the number of results pointing to sites trying to sell something should automatically improve the relevance of the results. btw, if companies don't want to register and respect google policy concerning web page contents, there are chances that their page should get a low ranking.
This sounds to me like: "forget the philosophy, we're talking about bizness now. Money, you see. Bucks. You dreamers..." What if i'm personally disgusted by certain "commercial practices"? Like trying to enforce improper rules by pushing foolish laws wolrwide. What if i really want to live my way and still participate and make a living of it, and without patent or IP lawyers or biased reports? Should i really be a convinced pro-capitalist to participate to your bizness, ms. Laura DiDio? Isn't it a bit closed, intolerant? This is not the first time i read that kind of FUD against FOSS community and it's philosphic fundations.
I had the idea of honeypot-like hosts that would fool the bots. Imagine thousands of pointless cease and desist requests. Thousands of "fsck off" answers. It would be great if it could cost them a lot of time and money. Plus, we could use the information collected by the honeypots to build a blacklist of servers that run spying bots.
Yeah another great idea from the bloody-fucking-yankees-at-war-dept. I hope those US army bastards will try their shit on their own fucking oil stock. And hope those who reach climax when reading such news will die during the test too, eaten by their bacteria.