What is broken is the control over DNS and that is what this tries to correct.
Maybe someone can shed some light as to why USA should have the control? What is it that gives the US this right? Since the Internt is not USANet, and spans the globe, it would just be natural that a thing like DNS is on international control and not controlled by one single country alone. I'm sure that if the shoe was on the other foot, i.e some other country had control over DNS, USA would be the loudest kid in the class, screaming for international control.
In tmy book, USA is a big hypocrit in this issue as in so many other, so it was not really a big surprise.
USA want exclusive control? Fine, make a new network that is owned and operated exsclusively by USA and you can keep all control you want, just don't try to hook it up internationally.
hahaha. I understand one gets modded down on/. as a troll when one is on topic!
When DOD asks FBI to arrest a White House political staffer, it just goes to show how criminal and corrupt politicans are in the US, exactly the same that US accuses UN to be.
If the truth makes me a troll, I will be a happy to be called a troll.
Rather UN than USA which is a far from fee and democratic. It's corrupt legal and political system is many times worse than UN. No thanks! I prefer UN over USA. A country where schools want to teach creationism and were a White House political staffer were arrested in the West Wing and lead out in handcufss, doesn't instill any confidence in me.
When talking about corporations in this context I mean companies with humongous legal departments and enough money to pursue a lawsuite from here to hell. It's obvious that eDonkey do not fit into that category, but film and music industry does.
Don't be blinded by the fact that eDonkey is/was a company, it was a miniscule operation with little or no income, perfectly comparable with you and me in this case. So, yes, my claim still stands.
You mean "Welcome to USA, the country where corporations have more protection than the citizens"
This is just another example of the corrupt legal and political system we have in this country. It's on par with any 3rd world country and it's a disgrace!
A "Free Market" means that the customer is free to choose whatever product they like and that there are multuiple vendors serving a single need. Just like here.
What this monkey wants is a Free market ONLY for closed source and for MS in particular. What a moron!
I use KDE but not Konquerer, but I would be very interested in hearing what the background for your bombastic statement is? What work exactly is needed?
I'm sick and tired of people who throw out unsubstantiated claims like this without a single example to back it up. Most of the time I feel these claims are made by anti-KDE people since such a claim without further information only has one purpose, to make KDE look bad. If you have one or more examples of what work is needed, I expect that you have either:
a) Created bugs or enhancement report on the issue or at least checked that it is in the pipeline.
b) Used any other means to make sure that the right developers knows about the flaws you claim.
If not, then I understand that you are just trying to be a troll.
Yeah and anyone who works more than their agreed upon hours per week without compensation are stupid. Thanks to all the stupid people, bosses think they can do whatever they want with employees and the stupid ones let them.
Why the hell do you think people for ages fought for 40 hour work weeks? Just so they could lay on the beach the rest of the time? You don't think working 70-80 hour weeks have any influence on your health or your family life, children etc?
Every company that asked me to work those hours only got a harsh laugh before they saw my ass walking out the door still laughing. Needless to say, the company I now work for never require people to work outside their 40 hour weeks and if they do, it's copensated and it is very rare. A company that asks you to work 70-80 hour weeks have a horrible managment and should be avoided at all cost!
As fasr as I know, and I'm writing this from 64-bit FireFox under 64-bit Gentoo, there is no internal flashplayer in FireFox and 64-bit flash is still a wet dream. I only got a blank frame and a stupid install plugin bar which ofcourse leads to nothing since the plugin do not exist. Useless!
What are you doing for a living? There is no way in hell I would use LaTex for anything but scientific papers and even then it's not too good.
If i were to spend my days fiddeling with latex I wouldn't get a thing done. Plus the fact that latex is not exactly a Windows product either and a lot of us have to deal with multiple OS'es and communicate with user on various systems. Latex ? hahahahah
Another public transportation system here in USA that goes down the drain. Not surprisingly knowing how anti-public transportation this country is.
A quick look at any news channel over the past month or so, has shown the consequences of a virtually non-existant punblic transportation system. Katrina and Rita, need I say more?
And places that have public transportation, like where I live, it's so bad that I wouldn't want my worst enemy to cross the city using buses. But I guess people love to be robbed clean each time they drive their car. A sensible person would save tons of money each year by using an efficient public transportation system. Another issue with public transportation is, at least here, that they don't run when you need them. My last bus to downtown on a Saturday is like 7pm, last bus from downtown, around 8pm. 8pm on a saturday? No wonder people drink and drive. Use taxi to get home? if you can find one, I've waited up to 90 minutes to get a cab. This country is worse than a 3rd world country when it comes to public transportation, it's a 4th world country in this case. public transportation in USA == Disaster!
This is exactly where the double standards show up and quite forcefully. nobody, and I mean nobody, is allowed to check up on USA. Why? We all know that USA don't lie, cheat or steal. We know they only help little old ladies across the streets and the only thing USA wants, is to help every country on this planet become as free and democratic as USA. Spread the love! My answer: Stuff the antrax up our presidents ass and swap signs on the doors on Air Force 1 exit and toilet doors. let the moron take a dump from 30000 feet!
A more productive thing would be to put an effort into reducing crimiality and use of weapons, homicide is totally out of control in this country thanks to a 230 year old amendment that has no bearing on todays society and was meant for a total different purpose than what the gun-nuts claim today. The proliferation of firearms is way more destructive to society and women than porn is. Weapons are often used as a power tool, often against women. Porn destructive? Maybe, but weapons and violence are several magnitudes worse than naked bodies. One is a natural thing, the other is not. If you can't figure out which is which, it says more about your education and morality than anything else.
This is what you get with neo-con right-wing born-again crimials running the show. The funny thing is that not a single one of the neo-con right-wingers are christians, nor do they have the slightest inkling what it means to be a christian, they are just criminals and FBI should rather focus their attention on them rather than on sex.
This is what you get when violence is considered more "moral" than sex. USA - where sex is bad and violence is good!
I, for one, is happy to have a 64-bit, twice as difficult;-)
The article is moronic and only discusses the ip-address, the easiest thing to hide if you really want to. I guess this would be a life-changing article if you don't know anything about networks, other than that, it's not worth the click.
I'm not a US citizen either, just live and work here. Would NEVER get American citizenship. Why would I give up my citizenship for an inferior one, namely US citizenship?
a dictator state that can freely meddle in other countries internal affairs? last time someone wanted to do that with regards to Americans, USA looked more like a kid in the sandbox creaming because someone ELSE wanted their toy. International Court anyone? Kyoto anyone?
It seems to be OK as long as it is making money for Americans, once it requires some responsibility and decency from USA, it's thrown out as not in USA's interest. Well, most of the world think USA is not in the worlds interest and this is just another example of idioctic American corporate dictatiorship. USA - the only country where corporations have more protection and is more important than it's citizens. To bad I live in this shithole.
You are talking about GUI based apps, I'm talking about system apps that needs direct access to hadrware due to performance. One that uses shared memory, semaphores, multi threaded etc.
This is one of the reasons that we release versions at different points in time due to porting. We port to anything from Windows, Linux, various UNIX'es, VMS, OS/390, z/OS etc. This is more like porting something close to a kernel or a compiler, just more complex.
I work with a system that is 95% system independent, it runs on anything from Windows to mainframes. After each release, the main code goes to platform porting to actually port it to the specific flavour of UNIX, i.e Solaris, AIX (4 and 5, difference between these releases), HP-UX, Tru64, Linux (both 32 and 65 bit). So, for a lot of applications, it is a huge mess porting to various platforms, each platform with their own porting group.
The problems with multiple UNIX flavors are not of much concern for most of the programs geeks write anyway, but for big mission critical systems, it's a hassle and a big and costly one.
There are people out there (i'm one of them) who can't stand Apple's GUI. I find it ugly and unintuitive, but that is me.
Porting KDE to OSX just goes to show how portable the architecture is. IMHO KDE is a great environment and this is just another feather in the hat for the Qt/KDE people.
Not as long as politicians, as they are here in the US, are "elected" by corporations. Without these corporations "contributions", they would never have been elected or reelected.
Anyone who thinks politicians care about people here in the US, need their heads examined.
Realising that parents don't do their job or do it badly, just take a look at all the problems that are with children (nothing new, been like that for ages), why shouldn't the government step in when parents fail? Or do you think it's OK for parents to don't give a shit?
The problem is not so much the control, but that it is the *gasp* government! The fear of government here in USA is crippeling this country, Katrina was another example of this. Stop beeing so afraid that someone actually do the job that your parents should do. It's like my boss, if I don't do my job, he will get someone else to do it and make life a hell for me. Until parents have proved that they can handle the problem, I have no problems with regulations since it's obvious that selfregulation don't work.
You assume that everyone who wants the ability to digitally record TV also wants to mess around with building their own PVR rather than get a fully functioning working one. I don't. I have a lot of other things to spend time on and I'm not very interested in the parts prior to recording and watching the shows, so I'm very happy with my Brighthouse HD-DVR. Can't transfer shows to PC or DVD/CD? I don't need to and frankly I don't really care. As long as I can see the program when i want to see it, I'm happy and I delete the shows after watching them anyway. If there is a movie i really want, I prefer to get a DVD of it. Oh yes, that is true, I pay the big bad boys. Why? Why should I expect other peoples work for free no matter how much of a fat cow you think they are. You always have the choice to not pay if you don't want to, but don't expect free lunches... they don't exist.
Slashdot Mirror
What is broken is the control over DNS and that is what this tries to correct.
Maybe someone can shed some light as to why USA should have the control? What is it that gives the US this right? Since the Internt is not USANet, and spans the globe, it would just be natural that a thing like DNS is on international control and not controlled by one single country alone. I'm sure that if the shoe was on the other foot, i.e some other country had control over DNS, USA would be the loudest kid in the class, screaming for international control.
In tmy book, USA is a big hypocrit in this issue as in so many other, so it was not really a big surprise.
USA want exclusive control? Fine, make a new network that is owned and operated exsclusively by USA and you can keep all control you want, just don't try to hook it up internationally.
Troll?
/. as a troll when one is on topic!
hahaha. I understand one gets modded down on
When DOD asks FBI to arrest a White House political staffer, it just goes to show how criminal and corrupt politicans are in the US, exactly the same that US accuses UN to be.
If the truth makes me a troll, I will be a happy to be called a troll.
Rather UN than USA which is a far from fee and democratic. It's corrupt legal and political system is many times worse than UN. No thanks! I prefer UN over USA. A country where schools want to teach creationism and were a White House political staffer were arrested in the West Wing and lead out in handcufss, doesn't instill any confidence in me.
When talking about corporations in this context I mean companies with humongous legal departments and enough money to pursue a lawsuite from here to hell. It's obvious that eDonkey do not fit into that category, but film and music industry does.
Don't be blinded by the fact that eDonkey is/was a company, it was a miniscule operation with little or no income, perfectly comparable with you and me in this case. So, yes, my claim still stands.
You mean "Welcome to USA, the country where corporations have more protection than the citizens"
This is just another example of the corrupt legal and political system we have in this country. It's on par with any 3rd world country and it's a disgrace!
A "Free Market" means that the customer is free to choose whatever product they like and that there are multuiple vendors serving a single need. Just like here.
What this monkey wants is a Free market ONLY for closed source and for MS in particular. What a moron!
Interesting.
I use KDE but not Konquerer, but I would be very interested in hearing what the background for your bombastic statement is? What work exactly is needed?
I'm sick and tired of people who throw out unsubstantiated claims like this without a single example to back it up. Most of the time I feel these claims are made by anti-KDE people since such a claim without further information only has one purpose, to make KDE look bad. If you have one or more examples of what work is needed, I expect that you have either:
a) Created bugs or enhancement report on the issue or at least checked that it is in the pipeline.
b) Used any other means to make sure that the right developers knows about the flaws you claim.
If not, then I understand that you are just trying to be a troll.
Yeah and anyone who works more than their agreed upon hours per week without compensation are stupid. Thanks to all the stupid people, bosses think they can do whatever they want with employees and the stupid ones let them.
Why the hell do you think people for ages fought for 40 hour work weeks? Just so they could lay on the beach the rest of the time? You don't think working 70-80 hour weeks have any influence on your health or your family life, children etc?
Every company that asked me to work those hours only got a harsh laugh before they saw my ass walking out the door still laughing. Needless to say, the company I now work for never require people to work outside their 40 hour weeks and if they do, it's copensated and it is very rare. A company that asks you to work 70-80 hour weeks have a horrible managment and should be avoided at all cost!
As fasr as I know, and I'm writing this from 64-bit FireFox under 64-bit Gentoo, there is no internal flashplayer in FireFox and 64-bit flash is still a wet dream. I only got a blank frame and a stupid install plugin bar which ofcourse leads to nothing since the plugin do not exist. Useless!
You gotta be kidding me?
What are you doing for a living? There is no way in hell I would use LaTex for anything but scientific papers and even then it's not too good.
If i were to spend my days fiddeling with latex I wouldn't get a thing done. Plus the fact that latex is not exactly a Windows product either and a lot of us have to deal with multiple OS'es and communicate with user on various systems. Latex ? hahahahah
Another public transportation system here in USA that goes down the drain. Not surprisingly knowing how anti-public transportation this country is.
A quick look at any news channel over the past month or so, has shown the consequences of a virtually non-existant punblic transportation system. Katrina and Rita, need I say more?
And places that have public transportation, like where I live, it's so bad that I wouldn't want my worst enemy to cross the city using buses. But I guess people love to be robbed clean each time they drive their car. A sensible person would save tons of money each year by using an efficient public transportation system. Another issue with public transportation is, at least here, that they don't run when you need them. My last bus to downtown on a Saturday is like 7pm, last bus from downtown, around 8pm. 8pm on a saturday? No wonder people drink and drive. Use taxi to get home? if you can find one, I've waited up to 90 minutes to get a cab. This country is worse than a 3rd world country when it comes to public transportation, it's a 4th world country in this case. public transportation in USA == Disaster!
If we are to use USA's standards, yes.
This is exactly where the double standards show up and quite forcefully. nobody, and I mean nobody, is allowed to check up on USA. Why? We all know that USA don't lie, cheat or steal. We know they only help little old ladies across the streets and the only thing USA wants, is to help every country on this planet become as free and democratic as USA. Spread the love! My answer: Stuff the antrax up our presidents ass and swap signs on the doors on Air Force 1 exit and toilet doors. let the moron take a dump from 30000 feet!
A more productive thing would be to put an effort into reducing crimiality and use of weapons, homicide is totally out of control in this country thanks to a 230 year old amendment that has no bearing on todays society and was meant for a total different purpose than what the gun-nuts claim today. The proliferation of firearms is way more destructive to society and women than porn is. Weapons are often used as a power tool, often against women. Porn destructive? Maybe, but weapons and violence are several magnitudes worse than naked bodies. One is a natural thing, the other is not. If you can't figure out which is which, it says more about your education and morality than anything else.
Yepp, the title says it all.
This is what you get with neo-con right-wing born-again crimials running the show. The funny thing is that not a single one of the neo-con right-wingers are christians, nor do they have the slightest inkling what it means to be a christian, they are just criminals and FBI should rather focus their attention on them rather than on sex.
This is what you get when violence is considered more "moral" than sex. USA - where sex is bad and violence is good!
I, for one, is happy to have a 64-bit, twice as difficult ;-)
The article is moronic and only discusses the ip-address, the easiest thing to hide if you really want to. I guess this would be a life-changing article if you don't know anything about networks, other than that, it's not worth the click.
I'm not a US citizen either, just live and work here. Would NEVER get American citizenship. Why would I give up my citizenship for an inferior one, namely US citizenship?
a dictator state that can freely meddle in other countries internal affairs? last time someone wanted to do that with regards to Americans, USA looked more like a kid in the sandbox creaming because someone ELSE wanted their toy. International Court anyone? Kyoto anyone?
It seems to be OK as long as it is making money for Americans, once it requires some responsibility and decency from USA, it's thrown out as not in USA's interest. Well, most of the world think USA is not in the worlds interest and this is just another example of idioctic American corporate dictatiorship. USA - the only country where corporations have more protection and is more important than it's citizens. To bad I live in this shithole.
Oracle
You are talking about GUI based apps, I'm talking about system apps that needs direct access to hadrware due to performance. One that uses shared memory, semaphores, multi threaded etc.
This is one of the reasons that we release versions at different points in time due to porting. We port to anything from Windows, Linux, various UNIX'es, VMS, OS/390, z/OS etc. This is more like porting something close to a kernel or a compiler, just more complex.
Depends on your application.
I work with a system that is 95% system independent, it runs on anything from Windows to mainframes. After each release, the main code goes to platform porting to actually port it to the specific flavour of UNIX, i.e Solaris, AIX (4 and 5, difference between these releases), HP-UX, Tru64, Linux (both 32 and 65 bit). So, for a lot of applications, it is a huge mess porting to various platforms, each platform with their own porting group.
The problems with multiple UNIX flavors are not of much concern for most of the programs geeks write anyway, but for big mission critical systems, it's a hassle and a big and costly one.
There are people out there (i'm one of them) who can't stand Apple's GUI. I find it ugly and unintuitive, but that is me.
Porting KDE to OSX just goes to show how portable the architecture is. IMHO KDE is a great environment and this is just another feather in the hat for the Qt/KDE people.
Not as long as politicians, as they are here in the US, are "elected" by corporations. Without these corporations "contributions", they would never have been elected or reelected.
Anyone who thinks politicians care about people here in the US, need their heads examined.
Realising that parents don't do their job or do it badly, just take a look at all the problems that are with children (nothing new, been like that for ages), why shouldn't the government step in when parents fail? Or do you think it's OK for parents to don't give a shit?
The problem is not so much the control, but that it is the *gasp* government! The fear of government here in USA is crippeling this country, Katrina was another example of this. Stop beeing so afraid that someone actually do the job that your parents should do. It's like my boss, if I don't do my job, he will get someone else to do it and make life a hell for me. Until parents have proved that they can handle the problem, I have no problems with regulations since it's obvious that selfregulation don't work.
Why?
You assume that everyone who wants the ability to digitally record TV also wants to mess around with building their own PVR rather than get a fully functioning working one. I don't. I have a lot of other things to spend time on and I'm not very interested in the parts prior to recording and watching the shows, so I'm very happy with my Brighthouse HD-DVR. Can't transfer shows to PC or DVD/CD? I don't need to and frankly I don't really care. As long as I can see the program when i want to see it, I'm happy and I delete the shows after watching them anyway. If there is a movie i really want, I prefer to get a DVD of it. Oh yes, that is true, I pay the big bad boys. Why? Why should I expect other peoples work for free no matter how much of a fat cow you think they are. You always have the choice to not pay if you don't want to, but don't expect free lunches... they don't exist.
Talking about the 80's and cheesy, what about Olivia Newton-John?