The digital divide isn't a purely western concept because, at its heart, the digital divide has nothing to do with computing but with class. People least likely to have computers or access to computers are the lower classes of any society. Having these tools would be a form of empowerment, which the upper and ruling classes have fought against, since ignorant lower classes tend to remain a little more easy to control and manipulate for the good of the upper and ruling classes.
Just replace the term 'digital divide' with 'class divide', and it's just more of the same old stuff.
Yeah, really. They're going to use their overwhelming market share in the office productivity software and OS segments to take on a company with overwhelming market share and near monopoly in the publishing and "electronic paper" segments.
Two monopolies abusing each other is more like it.
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Or tell me if the guy I'm playing is a pool shark so forget the "friendly wager just to make things interesting"...
It would seem like Open Source could gain significantly more traction if there were an Open Source "Peace Corps"-like group that worked with countries that don't have the funds to pay lots of licensing fees to set up their infrastructures on Open Source (speaking generically, Free Software, Open Source, I don't give a damn) software.
There's a lot of out of work IT folks that could use a good cause.
Gates and almost every other Really Rich Person (RRP) make charitable donations that somehow work in their best interests. They didn't get rich by pissing money away on things that would have no return for them.
Interesting thing is,/. was never set up to be a definitive news source, from what I understand. It was (and still is) a few guys throwing stuff that interests them up on the web. By spending a lot of time on the site, you're in essence buying in to their [sometimes twisted] take on things. If you want a different flavor of propoganda, you either go somewhere else or create your own.
The FACT is, that it has taken 3 service packs and a huge amount of public thrashing to get the OS to the point that it can be certified.
As to whether the certification means anything, that's up to each of us to decide for ourselves. My Win 2000 will remain firewalled off from the rest of my network, while I use what I feel to be more secure OS's to get the job done.
Looking at the cumulative weblogs for my site (8/2000-10/2002), 65% of the visits are from one version or another of IE. Netscape 4.0 seems to have a pretty high hit rate (5.5%), but I think that's me hitting it with Chimera all the time. The rest is kinda evenly spread out with old versions of Netscape, Googlebot, Gulliver, [unknown], and MSProxy.
Looking at the most recent quarter, however, things are a bit more dire, with various flavors of IE accounting for 80% of the visits. Various flavors of Netscape account for only 9.8%, with Googlebot, Ask Jeeves, etc, taking up the rest.
The war may not be over, but I wouldn't get too cocky about who's winning just yet.
I wouldn't count on the average Joe getting educated on this issue, since the average Joe votes on wears the nicest tie in his or her television ad, not the issues.
However, everyone who logs on and reads Slashdot should be voicing their opinions to their elected officials. Electronic Frontier Foundation has made it pretty easy to do on a variety of issues on their website ( http://action.eff.org/action/index.asp ). This is your chance to do something good for the poor SOB who pays no attention to the man behind the curtain.
I think it's an interesting twist. The US government can continue to trumpet the values of freedom of speech, pocket the lavish campaign contributions of Hollywood and the RIAA, and force other countries to do the dirty work of censoring the citizenry of the US. Hell, Karl Rove couldn't have thought this one through! It's got more twists than a Tom Clancy novel!
That's the way some of the black box systems, such as Telezapper, etc, work as well. One unfortunate side effect is that credit card calls from some long distance companies also get blocked, since they use the same predictive dialing technology.
Of course, this does nothing to prevent manually dialed calls from getting through, so you still get the calls from the local carpet cleaning service.
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The digital divide isn't a purely western concept because, at its heart, the digital divide has nothing to do with computing but with class. People least likely to have computers or access to computers are the lower classes of any society. Having these tools would be a form of empowerment, which the upper and ruling classes have fought against, since ignorant lower classes tend to remain a little more easy to control and manipulate for the good of the upper and ruling classes.
Just replace the term 'digital divide' with 'class divide', and it's just more of the same old stuff.
Yeah, really. They're going to use their overwhelming market share in the office productivity software and OS segments to take on a company with overwhelming market share and near monopoly in the publishing and "electronic paper" segments.
Two monopolies abusing each other is more like it.
Or tell me if the guy I'm playing is a pool shark so forget the "friendly wager just to make things interesting"...
It would seem like Open Source could gain significantly more traction if there were an Open Source "Peace Corps"-like group that worked with countries that don't have the funds to pay lots of licensing fees to set up their infrastructures on Open Source (speaking generically, Free Software, Open Source, I don't give a damn) software.
There's a lot of out of work IT folks that could use a good cause.
Let's be fair here:
Gates and almost every other Really Rich Person (RRP) make charitable donations that somehow work in their best interests. They didn't get rich by pissing money away on things that would have no return for them.
Take a look at Microsoft's own documentation for the Service Packs. Most of the "service" in "Service Pack" is security fixes.
Until earlier this year when Microsoft declared that security was really, really important to them, certification probably wasn't even on their radar.
Interesting thing is, /. was never set up to be a definitive news source, from what I understand. It was (and still is) a few guys throwing stuff that interests them up on the web. By spending a lot of time on the site, you're in essence buying in to their [sometimes twisted] take on things. If you want a different flavor of propoganda, you either go somewhere else or create your own.
The FACT is, that it has taken 3 service packs and a huge amount of public thrashing to get the OS to the point that it can be certified.
As to whether the certification means anything, that's up to each of us to decide for ourselves. My Win 2000 will remain firewalled off from the rest of my network, while I use what I feel to be more secure OS's to get the job done.
There's a non-Wndows OS that has been allowing you to run Office for some time now. It's called OS X.
Looking at the cumulative weblogs for my site (8/2000-10/2002), 65% of the visits are from one version or another of IE. Netscape 4.0 seems to have a pretty high hit rate (5.5%), but I think that's me hitting it with Chimera all the time. The rest is kinda evenly spread out with old versions of Netscape, Googlebot, Gulliver, [unknown], and MSProxy.
Looking at the most recent quarter, however, things are a bit more dire, with various flavors of IE accounting for 80% of the visits. Various flavors of Netscape account for only 9.8%, with Googlebot, Ask Jeeves, etc, taking up the rest.
The war may not be over, but I wouldn't get too cocky about who's winning just yet.
I wouldn't count on the average Joe getting educated on this issue, since the average Joe votes on wears the nicest tie in his or her television ad, not the issues.
However, everyone who logs on and reads Slashdot should be voicing their opinions to their elected officials. Electronic Frontier Foundation has made it pretty easy to do on a variety of issues on their website ( http://action.eff.org/action/index.asp ). This is your chance to do something good for the poor SOB who pays no attention to the man behind the curtain.
Why were you smelling a book in the bathroom?
I think it's an interesting twist. The US government can continue to trumpet the values of freedom of speech, pocket the lavish campaign contributions of Hollywood and the RIAA, and force other countries to do the dirty work of censoring the citizenry of the US. Hell, Karl Rove couldn't have thought this one through! It's got more twists than a Tom Clancy novel!
That's the way some of the black box systems, such as Telezapper, etc, work as well. One unfortunate side effect is that credit card calls from some long distance companies also get blocked, since they use the same predictive dialing technology.
Of course, this does nothing to prevent manually dialed calls from getting through, so you still get the calls from the local carpet cleaning service.
It doesn't look as though they enabled privsep at all. No UsePrivilegeSeparation in the sshd_config.