It was obvious what to do. It was not that obvious that this was being implemented.
It is nice to sometime have a reminder that there ARE conspiracies happening out there. Not all of them are crackpot theories.
I always thought every municipality should have something like a bug tracking system that citizens could use. Does anyone know if some administrations ever tried that ?
No. This argument is just wrong. Autorun IS a bad idea. Any security expert asked about it even long before it was implemented would have called it stupid. When it was implemented they called it stupid also and it took 10+ years for microsoft to realize it. That was stupid and still is.
Also the "dominant OS gets more virus theory" doesn't hold water. Linux is the most dominant OS amongst servers and yet doesn't get more virus or worms.
After all, threathening to disconnect Google from internet in order to advance a political agenda is the closest I have seen from "cyberterrorism" in my book.
No, but a square shape, along with an L, an I and 2 elbow shapes, used in the context of a game where the aim is to line up these particular shapes to form an unbroken line may well be.
Nope. In theory not. You can make tetris-like, quake-like, bejewel-like. I guess in US you could patent some aspects of the game, but you can't copyright a set of rules.
Anyway, IP rights are a very very strange domain of the law. They are incoherent, often unenforceable and open to multiple interpretations.
Not even a problem Mainstream Distro problem. Its exclusive to Gnome's method of thumbnail creation on a plugged in device. He only demonstrated it on Ubuntu with Gnome, and specifically with Nautilus file manager
...which is, if I am up to date, one of the most popular default install of the linux world as of today. This problem IS serious. It is a Gnome/Ubuntu problem, not specifically a linux one, but downplaying its seriousness is not wise.
I think I'll do that too. I still don't understand why Europeans must pay and USians must not. Sounds a bit unfair if you ask me, but well, there are no international jurisdiction on these kind of things. I think it compensates for having crazy things like the DMCA and software patents...
So unilateral action and nation-building is ok when we use it to benefit the 'right' people?
Forcing unilateraly a free uncensored internet access into a nation is okay for me. There are no wrong or right people regarding this action. I am willing to see pro and anti-Mubarak benefiting from this, I am willing to see Talebans benefit from this, North koreans, and so on. There is no one I want to see blocked from internet.
I also wonder what would it take to bring more women to wikipedia ?
The more I read about feminism and the equality between men and women, the more I believe that the current cause of inequality is not caused by men refusing to give rights to women but more with women refusing to take them.
Honestly, the fight to make men recognize they don't have more rights than women has been won but the fight to make women accept that they have the same rights has still to be fought.
Who paid their debits to China... ... which actuall has a space program. It involves things US can not do anymore (sending a man on the moon) and something the US never did (building a base on the moon)
Every kid not spending his week end watching ads on TV is a fucking progress in my book.
I don't exactly know what so special about these science fairs in US/Canada, so I may be offtopic (and please mod me accordingly), my experience is mainly as a staff member of robotics student challenges. I can tell you that I have seen bad projects, bad designs, blatant flaws in implementation, software, hardware, tactics, even sometimes combined in a single project. I still thought that even the worst competitors were people who deserved praises. They had learned a lot (not enough obviously) and were eager to learn more. They show what the other team made, how they made it, they exchanged tricks, and criticism. The one team that many organizers thought deserved strong criticism is one that usually reach the #1 or #2 rank and that do not share its tricks, do not explain its techniques more than the strict minimum set by the rules and uses tools that frankly have no place in an amateur competition.
My point is that when you are student, your realizations are less important than your will to learn and to share. It may sound like a pukingly everybody-is-nice slogan, but that is the truth. A good student is good at learning and if s/he is good at sharing his/her knowledge too, that is the kind of student we need more. It is very different from when you arrive in the real arena of science where something that works and that works better than what the others made is what you want. (At least in theory, my experience on this is a lot more cynical)
And ?
Being completely ridiculous and being a travesty of the spirit of the law is not incompatible with being 100% legal. And I may say that this rather the norm than the exception in the intellectual property business...
I'd like to stress out that as a western European tourist, I didn't have the notion that there could be lethal wilderness in a developed country the first time I went to US. Of course now I understand the scale of it but please keep in mind that the idea you can get stuck somewhere more than a day of walk from a town is uncommon for some foreigners.
I honestly think that the point is mostly to get out of the office documents mess : Sharing a word/excel document amongst non-tech savvy users is a nightmare. Microsoft versions not working correctly with each others and open office users having their own mess. People in this case usually end up saying "ok, let's open a google doc for this and everyone share it"
The Nobel prize has laways have had controversial positions and made a few errors with hindsight. Obama's award was strange but all in all the institution is good and brings into light useful individuals and institutions.
Maybe you are the one polarizing by dismissing it because it awarded a prize to Obama ? Note that Wikileaks was nominated, meaning that it is an official contestant. Many people can be nominated. Georges W. Bush was nominated every year for instance.
Microsoft has made software development loose something like 20 years of progress. Their main innovations are virus and anti-competitive strategies. Too much of the developers' brain power of these last years has been used to adapt software to new versions of bug-ridden software from Redmond. Maybe is it good that this madness comes to an end and that we can innovate a bit in software insteand of doing reverse-engineering of poorly documented technologies.
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It was obvious what to do. It was not that obvious that this was being implemented.
It is nice to sometime have a reminder that there ARE conspiracies happening out there. Not all of them are crackpot theories.
I always thought every municipality should have something like a bug tracking system that citizens could use. Does anyone know if some administrations ever tried that ?
No. This argument is just wrong. Autorun IS a bad idea. Any security expert asked about it even long before it was implemented would have called it stupid. When it was implemented they called it stupid also and it took 10+ years for microsoft to realize it. That was stupid and still is.
Also the "dominant OS gets more virus theory" doesn't hold water. Linux is the most dominant OS amongst servers and yet doesn't get more virus or worms.
After all, threathening to disconnect Google from internet in order to advance a political agenda is the closest I have seen from "cyberterrorism" in my book.
Could work on obese guys but if you put that message on a hot babe it would sould like an ad for Sony...
No, but a square shape, along with an L, an I and 2 elbow shapes, used in the context of a game where the aim is to line up these particular shapes to form an unbroken line may well be.
Nope. In theory not. You can make tetris-like, quake-like, bejewel-like. I guess in US you could patent some aspects of the game, but you can't copyright a set of rules.
Anyway, IP rights are a very very strange domain of the law. They are incoherent, often unenforceable and open to multiple interpretations.
Not even a problem Mainstream Distro problem. Its exclusive to Gnome's method of thumbnail creation on a plugged in device. He only demonstrated it on Ubuntu with Gnome, and specifically with Nautilus file manager
...which is, if I am up to date, one of the most popular default install of the linux world as of today. This problem IS serious. It is a Gnome/Ubuntu problem, not specifically a linux one, but downplaying its seriousness is not wise.
I think I'll do that too. I still don't understand why Europeans must pay and USians must not. Sounds a bit unfair if you ask me, but well, there are no international jurisdiction on these kind of things. I think it compensates for having crazy things like the DMCA and software patents...
So unilateral action and nation-building is ok when we use it to benefit the 'right' people?
Forcing unilateraly a free uncensored internet access into a nation is okay for me. There are no wrong or right people regarding this action. I am willing to see pro and anti-Mubarak benefiting from this, I am willing to see Talebans benefit from this, North koreans, and so on. There is no one I want to see blocked from internet.
We lost a battle but not the war. Now hackerspaces are becoming more and more common and people begin to understand what it is about.
I also wonder what would it take to bring more women to wikipedia ?
The more I read about feminism and the equality between men and women, the more I believe that the current cause of inequality is not caused by men refusing to give rights to women but more with women refusing to take them.
Honestly, the fight to make men recognize they don't have more rights than women has been won but the fight to make women accept that they have the same rights has still to be fought.
Who paid their debits to China...
... which actuall has a space program. It involves things US can not do anymore (sending a man on the moon) and something the US never did (building a base on the moon)
Every kid not spending his week end watching ads on TV is a fucking progress in my book.
I don't exactly know what so special about these science fairs in US/Canada, so I may be offtopic (and please mod me accordingly), my experience is mainly as a staff member of robotics student challenges. I can tell you that I have seen bad projects, bad designs, blatant flaws in implementation, software, hardware, tactics, even sometimes combined in a single project. I still thought that even the worst competitors were people who deserved praises. They had learned a lot (not enough obviously) and were eager to learn more. They show what the other team made, how they made it, they exchanged tricks, and criticism. The one team that many organizers thought deserved strong criticism is one that usually reach the #1 or #2 rank and that do not share its tricks, do not explain its techniques more than the strict minimum set by the rules and uses tools that frankly have no place in an amateur competition.
My point is that when you are student, your realizations are less important than your will to learn and to share. It may sound like a pukingly everybody-is-nice slogan, but that is the truth. A good student is good at learning and if s/he is good at sharing his/her knowledge too, that is the kind of student we need more. It is very different from when you arrive in the real arena of science where something that works and that works better than what the others made is what you want. (At least in theory, my experience on this is a lot more cynical)
And ?
Being completely ridiculous and being a travesty of the spirit of the law is not incompatible with being 100% legal. And I may say that this rather the norm than the exception in the intellectual property business...
Probably less than with humans. I heard that as malfunctioning as they may be, no robots has ever reacted to an incentive to break its orders.
But after 3 years of UK success, the UK manufacturer wants to compete in US. "No" says the patent troll, you got to pay the "foreigner tax" first.
Having to pay a license to lawyers to be authorized to sell your own invention is not really what the patent system is supposed to be.
Open Office's main problem is that it is structured so that it can open/save MS Office documents. That is how.
I'd like to stress out that as a western European tourist, I didn't have the notion that there could be lethal wilderness in a developed country the first time I went to US. Of course now I understand the scale of it but please keep in mind that the idea you can get stuck somewhere more than a day of walk from a town is uncommon for some foreigners.
I honestly think that the point is mostly to get out of the office documents mess : Sharing a word/excel document amongst non-tech savvy users is a nightmare. Microsoft versions not working correctly with each others and open office users having their own mess. People in this case usually end up saying "ok, let's open a google doc for this and everyone share it"
Once again, it is Microsoft's fault.
Wikipedia, linux, none of these things work on paper.
I hope anonymous will derail their competition.
The Nobel prize has laways have had controversial positions and made a few errors with hindsight. Obama's award was strange but all in all the institution is good and brings into light useful individuals and institutions.
Maybe you are the one polarizing by dismissing it because it awarded a prize to Obama ? Note that Wikileaks was nominated, meaning that it is an official contestant. Many people can be nominated. Georges W. Bush was nominated every year for instance.
International links are shut down, but that says nothing about internal connectivity. In this context, Tor can be very useful.
Microsoft has made software development loose something like 20 years of progress. Their main innovations are virus and anti-competitive strategies. Too much of the developers' brain power of these last years has been used to adapt software to new versions of bug-ridden software from Redmond. Maybe is it good that this madness comes to an end and that we can innovate a bit in software insteand of doing reverse-engineering of poorly documented technologies.