Well, in a way US asked to be kicked in the nose..
Vietnam implemented a trade agreement with the United States in 2001 that requires the government to bring down the piracy rate. And the government also needs to do that to meet its goal of joining the World Trade Organization by 2005.
I do think pushing for the Uruguay round and the birth of WTO and TRIPS was just one of the grand mistakes the US corporations in their greed got their government to make. Nothing but greed over some lost revenue (revenue that was lost anyways with or without any WTOs and/or trade ``agreements") was the cause for forcing third world countries into bad deals. No wonder they are jumping the FLOSS wagon.
It would actually be nice if there'd be only one licence on one installation of Linux in whatever pre-decided directory location and softlinked to it where-ever needed..
I found your post funny (someone should mod it up if it is possible) but it lead me thinking a bit more deeply about the meaning of these things...
What I fear it would lead to would be a couple of known bands getting all the audience, thus end up with loads of money (if the corporate powers let them) and the others (usually the really good ones) would not get a nickle for their effort. People would only listen to what they hear and hear what they pay for. The only real influence in music business would then be the record companies releasing music videos on MTV and selling pay/play contracts to radio stations for the most successful (read: simple and dull) bands..
I am the pessimist here and sincerely the most fed up with most of the cut'n'paste bands out there on the top whatever lists. They wouldn't even get any better if their bonuses were changed to 'pay/play'.
HOW about "pay for play" or better yet "pay for excellence"? What ever happened to the philosophy of playing for ones own joy and then getting paid if the others liked it too? The royalty system is designed broken and has flipped backwards somehow. The artists should be rewarded for giving something to the people. I don't see myself investing in anything I don't like anytime in the future anyhow. If I listen to music, I do, but it shouldn't mean I should pay for all of it, even the songs I don't really even like that much..
I could write a book but I am not that brilliant with my english so I'll leave it here.
So the legistlation in the US no longer supports freedom of speech? God bless America, again.
You should really consider switch to using GNUnet/Freenet solutions for distributing such information there since it seems the Government there is just too restrictive.
I bet the NSA & Co. are after me now for whatever reason they can come up with... truth hurts yea I know...
"I would not use WinCE for a design, and I am a hardware engineer, with a real need to keep the costs way down. WinCE was 50 bucks, which is a lot of money in an embedded product."
Oh yeah, well I'm a rocket scientist!
You mean real rockets or just fire crackers?
On the other hand, Windows CE would do just fine embedded in fire crackers.
I don't think anyone even cared what IIS was, until Code Red hit.
I bet someone did, after all whoever created 'Code Red' must have, otherwise there've probably not been a 'Code Red' in the first place, wouldn't you agree?
And they (RIAA & CO) consider this kind of usage illegal and evil?
What's wrong with sharing, fansubbing, making highlight reels or adding commercial content to home made movies??? It can't just be about being able to view it on devices with no DVD-drives? I thought that was the whole point of Johansens app; "to make it viewable where it normally couldn't" It doesn't actually matter if the content was moved to a CD if it was used for personal use. And just a point to consider here: movie piratism was thriving already before Johansen made his apps, I don't see the point in making him the scapegoat since the programs originally used in ripping DVD-content were not only pirated commercial software but reverse-engineered to fit the pirates needs. They didn't need Jon Johansen to make it possible for themselves since the tools were already available.
We have the right to do whatever we wish with our legally bought DVD's, CD's, games, whatever. We should have the right to make as many copies we wish, we should be able to break any encodings on them if we wish, we should be able to incorporate them or parts of them into our own home videos/movies whatever. What's the point buying stuff if you are stripped of your rights of using it (includes the right view and to copy and secure the contents within). I rest my case here and will be modded as a troll.
But if you'd really want to go the environmental way, you'd take the buss. That's what I recon has a lot more space to carry passengers than your SUV does.
By selling a SUV I could have enough money to upgrade my computers nicely:) And still would have money to take the buss.
Btw, you are on my freaks list, does it mean you get +4 from me?
freedom fighters attack military or strategic (infrastructure) targets.
That's just simply not true. It's easier to cripple the infrastructure from inside than by clashing against the walls around it.
The Israelis
(claim to) go after only suspected terrorists
Which is true, the key words here being "claim to", so let's examine this one:
they don't just blow up random civilians.
They do claim themselves doing so, but is that the fact? When you blow up a building, you are clearly not in a position to say you just blew up a bunch of terrorists. Let's look at it closer.. Saddam for instance has been clever enough to locate his troops as close to sivilian residency as possible. Are you really sure a bomb, no matter how precise it is aimed wouldn't harm innocents? The same goes with Israel, they would bulldose whole areas of residencies down with casualties. How many of those might or might not have been innocent? How many were left without a home?
The Palestinians blow up random civilians.
True to a point, you still can't ignore the fact most of their attacks were made usually near and mostly in very close approximity of military assessments of Israel.
That makes Israel a brutal and oppressive police state, but probably not a terrorists.
Following the same analogy, US is the brutal and oppressive police state. And if there are random victims in this war it makes the members of the Ally terrorists too. Wouldn't you say so too? Atleast your reasoning brings me to that conclusion.
But my point is, terrorism IS NOT a synonym for freedom fighting. It's just that the enemies of freedom fighters want you to think they are as evil as terrorists, while terrorists want you to think they are as honorable as freedom fighters. Don't be misled.
Like you said, they are not synonymous, so where does the line go? In my point of view, anyone killing innocent people can not be a freedom fighter. I recall Bush and several other Americans saying this was a war of liberation? Sort of like US being a bunch of "freedom fighters"... What should I say, they all look like bunch of terrorists to me; Osama, Bush, Rumsfield, Saddam and a whole lot of others.
Bill said if NT can do this with only pc hardware just imagine what it can do with 32 processor systems.
Anyone successfully ran Windows NT on a 32 processor system?
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What is this, Iraq has fingerprints?
What the hell is a "weaponization fingerprint" after all? It's like telling me the packages containing anthrax were labeled "Iraq military biological warfare agents - top most secrecy", or something..
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So, here in Finland we have a low standard, me being just a student with a car, wife, two stereos, five computers, three cellphones with 5 different service providers, adsl-connection and halogen lights through out the apartment. Oh, did I mention I don't have to work to get by? How about medical urgencies, well, we do have quite good social services and medical training in Finland is one of the best in the world. Should I say more?
Yeah, this one was a troll, but for a reason. You could live somewhere else, but you have imaginary high standards you believe only apply the United States. And actually, I consider myself a lot more free than I feel Americans are. Do you have a passport? I do.
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We have helped rebuild every country we went to war against, once the peace treaties were signed.
So you are claiming US helped to rebuild for example the ripples of Jugoslavia and Afghanistan, I still can't see how the US has helped to rebuild any country they've 'policed' with their weapons. What country exactly has US helped to 'rebuild'?
The US supports the right of Israel to exist
And does US support the right of Palestine to exist?
The US, which is a country that has managed to throw off the worst of the medevial superstitions, has managed to become the highest technological country in the world
Umm, "the highest" seems a bit off.. Actually you can find most of the worlds(religious and other) fanatics right there in the USA.
The US is a free and independent nation
I bet it is, free to take others down you mean?
The US is NOT a Muslim state
And it isn't even relevant. It wouldn't make any difference since the US is still acting like a muslim state. (OK with different weaponry and tactics but the goals would be the same.)
The US, with a VOLUNTEER Armed Force, can beat any 12 other nations, even if they have help from France and Germany
Hatemonger. Do you think that scares someone? You are like a mad boxer without a foe. Hurling at anyone who gets a bit too close. Picking up a fight with whoever you can find.
This is not a war against "Iraq," this is a war against "Hussein."
So why not take out Hussein and leave all the innocent people to live? You must be stupid or something. Demolishing a country because a personal dispute is a bit too much.
Here's a clue, most of the Middle East ALREADY hates us.
Like they would stop hating you after you've bombed Iraq to the ground. Get some sense in your postings man. There are many more countries going to hate you for your policies and not just muslim countries or the middle east ones. Even Americans seem not to like themselves atleast if you can believe the news about the public demonstrations and stuff. Even on/. I've seen many comments by Americans themselves not respecting their countries actions in the Middle East.
We're not going to all switch to the Muslim faith, we're not going to pay tribute to a tinpot dictator, we're not going to regress into the middle ages and live as serfs and peasants to the royal houses, and we're not going to give up support of the only true democracy in the region, Israel.
Nobody ever asked you all to switch to Islam. Nobody ever asked you to pay tribute to a tinpot dictator. Nobody ever asked you to regress to into anything and Israel is one of the last countries to support in the genocide they are committing onto Palestinians.
Ignoring Iraq is like ignoring a bee hive. Once you get stung, you start looking for ways to remove it.
Bee hives provide with good honey, to remove a beehive is to upset the nature and to upset the nature is to not get any honey. In your case you can replace "honey" with "oil". Greedy bastards.
An ounce of prevention is worth pounds of cure.
The prevention is already too late, and starting a new war doesn't cure anything.
So if Slashdot was located in Uganda for example would "ours" refer to ppl from Uganda? Geesh, there are more nationalities involved here than "you". Just that there is a server somewhere doesn't mean the users of the same server have to be located right next to it.
But yes, "our politicians" means "our politicians" whether it be italian or bengalese politicians. We all live in the same world. Even Saddam Hussein is "our" politician, or atleast "our" dictator. Like all the others have been... Members of christianity say "Jesus Christ is 'our' saviour" whether they live in Sweden or in USA. That's just how the story goes.
Of course I didn't read the original post since it was cut off.
Sun J2RE runs most java applications quite well, I agree they can be slow on older hardware (like mine) but nevertheless they run quite stable though. If you don't already have it you can find all of them from Sun's pages or at http://www.blackdown.org
I have not tried Freenet yet, but since LimeWire does work quite nicely on my 400MHz machine I suppose Freenet can't be too slow on it either.
Hmm, my Karma seems to have already gone so I guess this doesn't do much more bad for it anyway.
But actually, the movement is still here, why else would you see comments from those who actually use Linux? The movement or the community is what keeps the stuff alive. I believe it has nothing to do with anyone cashing in on it. I don't know if Redmond is evil or not, but I don't personally find Windows usable for various reasons. The OS is just one of the tools I use and I find it awkward if the tool is not cut out to do the job well.
I find it very strange that when a school for instance invests money in OS'es and applications, there still isn't enough money to get all the stuff working everywhere. (At least not in the Windows world we live in.) There are licenses that cost money, you have to choose in what classes to install some particular software and in what classes to not to install that same software since investing in licenses allowing to setup all the hw would be too expensive. So when deciding what to put on the desks you do not only have to decide on HW issues (how big is the screen, how many Gigabytes does the hard drive have in a particular class), you have to figure out the software issues like what programs to buy, how many licenses, and where to buy to get most for your money. This is where thinking about 'products' takes us.
I can not think about Linux as a product (since it really doesn't reflect any reality at all), it is merely an entity of applications (tools) freely available to fetch and to use. Or that's probably what it should be.
And I'd like to rant a bit more on the "movement" issue. The movement I suppose doesn't have much to do with the tool itself or with its existence. The developers and coders are the reason these tools do exist, but the movement is probably there to prevent it from fading in to an oblivion. The movement consists of those in the community who do not just use the tools but actually spread the knowledge further. I don't care if you call it the GNU movement or the Linux or GNU/Linux movement, it is all the same to me.
If it is available, it is there for a reason.
I would further like to ask, if Linux is a byproduct of "freedom" or "freedom of speech", shouldn't it then be considered officially a Good thing?
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I do think pushing for the Uruguay round and the birth of WTO and TRIPS was just one of the grand mistakes the US corporations in their greed got their government to make. Nothing but greed over some lost revenue (revenue that was lost anyways with or without any WTOs and/or trade ``agreements") was the cause for forcing third world countries into bad deals. No wonder they are jumping the FLOSS wagon.
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It would actually be nice if there'd be only one licence on one installation of Linux in whatever pre-decided directory location and softlinked to it where-ever needed..
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I found your post funny (someone should mod it up if it is possible) but it lead me thinking a bit more deeply about the meaning of these things...
What I fear it would lead to would be a couple of known bands getting all the audience, thus end up with loads of money (if the corporate powers let them) and the others (usually the really good ones) would not get a nickle for their effort. People would only listen to what they hear and hear what they pay for. The only real influence in music business would then be the record companies releasing music videos on MTV and selling pay/play contracts to radio stations for the most successful (read: simple and dull) bands..
I am the pessimist here and sincerely the most fed up with most of the cut'n'paste bands out there on the top whatever lists. They wouldn't even get any better if their bonuses were changed to 'pay/play'.
HOW about "pay for play" or better yet "pay for excellence"? What ever happened to the philosophy of playing for ones own joy and then getting paid if the others liked it too? The royalty system is designed broken and has flipped backwards somehow. The artists should be rewarded for giving something to the people. I don't see myself investing in anything I don't like anytime in the future anyhow. If I listen to music, I do, but it shouldn't mean I should pay for all of it, even the songs I don't really even like that much..
I could write a book but I am not that brilliant with my english so I'll leave it here.
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So the legistlation in the US no longer supports freedom of speech? God bless America, again.
You should really consider switch to using GNUnet/Freenet solutions for distributing such information there since it seems the Government there is just too restrictive.
I bet the NSA & Co. are after me now for whatever reason they can come up with... truth hurts yea I know...
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You mean real rockets or just fire crackers?
On the other hand, Windows CE would do just fine embedded in fire crackers.
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I bet someone did, after all whoever created 'Code Red' must have, otherwise there've probably not been a 'Code Red' in the first place, wouldn't you agree?
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And they (RIAA & CO) consider this kind of usage illegal and evil?
What's wrong with sharing, fansubbing, making highlight reels or adding commercial content to home made movies??? It can't just be about being able to view it on devices with no DVD-drives? I thought that was the whole point of Johansens app; "to make it viewable where it normally couldn't" It doesn't actually matter if the content was moved to a CD if it was used for personal use. And just a point to consider here: movie piratism was thriving already before Johansen made his apps, I don't see the point in making him the scapegoat since the programs originally used in ripping DVD-content were not only pirated commercial software but reverse-engineered to fit the pirates needs. They didn't need Jon Johansen to make it possible for themselves since the tools were already available.
We have the right to do whatever we wish with our legally bought DVD's, CD's, games, whatever. We should have the right to make as many copies we wish, we should be able to break any encodings on them if we wish, we should be able to incorporate them or parts of them into our own home videos/movies whatever. What's the point buying stuff if you are stripped of your rights of using it (includes the right view and to copy and secure the contents within). I rest my case here and will be modded as a troll.
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But if you'd really want to go the environmental way, you'd take the buss. That's what I recon has a lot more space to carry passengers than your SUV does.
By selling a SUV I could have enough money to upgrade my computers nicely
Btw, you are on my freaks list, does it mean you get +4 from me?
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That's just simply not true. It's easier to cripple the infrastructure from inside than by clashing against the walls around it.
Which is true, the key words here being "claim to", so let's examine this one:
They do claim themselves doing so, but is that the fact? When you blow up a building, you are clearly not in a position to say you just blew up a bunch of terrorists. Let's look at it closer.. Saddam for instance has been clever enough to locate his troops as close to sivilian residency as possible. Are you really sure a bomb, no matter how precise it is aimed wouldn't harm innocents? The same goes with Israel, they would bulldose whole areas of residencies down with casualties. How many of those might or might not have been innocent? How many were left without a home?
True to a point, you still can't ignore the fact most of their attacks were made usually near and mostly in very close approximity of military assessments of Israel.
Following the same analogy, US is the brutal and oppressive police state. And if there are random victims in this war it makes the members of the Ally terrorists too. Wouldn't you say so too? Atleast your reasoning brings me to that conclusion.
Like you said, they are not synonymous, so where does the line go? In my point of view, anyone killing innocent people can not be a freedom fighter. I recall Bush and several other Americans saying this was a war of liberation? Sort of like US being a bunch of "freedom fighters"... What should I say, they all look like bunch of terrorists to me; Osama, Bush, Rumsfield, Saddam and a whole lot of others.
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Anyone successfully ran Windows NT on a 32 processor system?
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What is this, Iraq has fingerprints?
What the hell is a "weaponization fingerprint" after all? It's like telling me the packages containing anthrax were labeled "Iraq military biological warfare agents - top most secrecy", or something..
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So, here in Finland we have a low standard, me being just a student with a car, wife, two stereos, five computers, three cellphones with 5 different service providers, adsl-connection and halogen lights through out the apartment. Oh, did I mention I don't have to work to get by? How about medical urgencies, well, we do have quite good social services and medical training in Finland is one of the best in the world. Should I say more?
Yeah, this one was a troll, but for a reason. You could live somewhere else, but you have imaginary high standards you believe only apply the United States. And actually, I consider myself a lot more free than I feel Americans are. Do you have a passport? I do.
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That's a pretty big IF you got there pal. What if all the bombs miss Saddam? There isn't much to be salvaged then.
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I am with you on this one. This war is not good at all, not for United States, not for anyone.
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Hmm, and you are claiming the US is The world governing body? Can you back up your claim?
A country/nation/government is not an organized group? A country might not, but a nation and a government Should even.
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Oh, that's just sick! Americans are crazy!
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So you are claiming US helped to rebuild for example the ripples of Jugoslavia and Afghanistan, I still can't see how the US has helped to rebuild any country they've 'policed' with their weapons. What country exactly has US helped to 'rebuild'?
And does US support the right of Palestine to exist?
Umm, "the highest" seems a bit off.. Actually you can find most of the worlds(religious and other) fanatics right there in the USA.
I bet it is, free to take others down you mean?
And it isn't even relevant. It wouldn't make any difference since the US is still acting like a muslim state. (OK with different weaponry and tactics but the goals would be the same.)
Hatemonger. Do you think that scares someone? You are like a mad boxer without a foe. Hurling at anyone who gets a bit too close. Picking up a fight with whoever you can find.
So why not take out Hussein and leave all the innocent people to live? You must be stupid or something.
Demolishing a country because a personal dispute is a bit too much.
Like they would stop hating you after you've bombed Iraq to the ground. Get some sense in your postings man. There are many more countries going to hate you for your policies and not just muslim countries or the middle east ones.
Even Americans seem not to like themselves atleast if you can believe the news about the public demonstrations and stuff. Even on
Nobody ever asked you all to switch to Islam. Nobody ever asked you to pay tribute to a tinpot dictator. Nobody ever asked you to regress to into anything and Israel is one of the last countries to support in the genocide they are committing onto Palestinians.
Bee hives provide with good honey, to remove a beehive is to upset the nature and to upset the nature is to not get any honey. In your case you can replace "honey" with "oil". Greedy bastards.
The prevention is already too late, and starting a new war doesn't cure anything.
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So if Slashdot was located in Uganda for example would "ours" refer to ppl from Uganda? Geesh, there are more nationalities involved here than "you". Just that there is a server somewhere doesn't mean the users of the same server have to be located right next to it.
But yes, "our politicians" means "our politicians" whether it be italian or bengalese politicians. We all live in the same world. Even Saddam Hussein is "our" politician, or atleast "our" dictator. Like all the others have been... Members of christianity say "Jesus Christ is 'our' saviour" whether they live in Sweden or in USA. That's just how the story goes.
Of course I didn't read the original post since it was cut off.
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Eh, funny..
Really...
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I forgot about the C stuff.
I find it hard to believe that noone would make a client with C/C++, that's probably just a matter of time since Freenet is an Open Source project.
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Sun J2RE runs most java applications quite well, I agree they can be slow on older hardware (like mine) but nevertheless they run quite stable though. If you don't already have it you can find all of them from Sun's pages or at http://www.blackdown.org
I have not tried Freenet yet, but since LimeWire does work quite nicely on my 400MHz machine I suppose Freenet can't be too slow on it either.
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So freely translated it means Freenet supports free speech and GNUnet doesn't?
So which one should one really consider using?
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Hmm, my Karma seems to have already gone so I guess this doesn't do much more bad for it anyway.
But actually, the movement is still here, why else would you see comments from those who actually use Linux? The movement or the community is what keeps the stuff alive. I believe it has nothing to do with anyone cashing in on it. I don't know if Redmond is evil or not, but I don't personally find Windows usable for various reasons. The OS is just one of the tools I use and I find it awkward if the tool is not cut out to do the job well.
I find it very strange that when a school for instance invests money in OS'es and applications, there still isn't enough money to get all the stuff working everywhere. (At least not in the Windows world we live in.) There are licenses that cost money, you have to choose in what classes to install some particular software and in what classes to not to install that same software since investing in licenses allowing to setup all the hw would be too expensive. So when deciding what to put on the desks you do not only have to decide on HW issues (how big is the screen, how many Gigabytes does the hard drive have in a particular class), you have to figure out the software issues like what programs to buy, how many licenses, and where to buy to get most for your money. This is where thinking about 'products' takes us.
I can not think about Linux as a product (since it really doesn't reflect any reality at all), it is merely an entity of applications (tools) freely available to fetch and to use. Or that's probably what it should be.
And I'd like to rant a bit more on the "movement" issue. The movement I suppose doesn't have much to do with the tool itself or with its existence. The developers and coders are the reason these tools do exist, but the movement is probably there to prevent it from fading in to an oblivion. The movement consists of those in the community who do not just use the tools but actually spread the knowledge further. I don't care if you call it the GNU movement or the Linux or GNU/Linux movement, it is all the same to me.
If it is available, it is there for a reason.
I would further like to ask, if Linux is a byproduct of "freedom" or "freedom of speech", shouldn't it then be considered officially a Good thing?
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This one's better, no klunky Java.. My 400MHz super duper speedy machine might even run it :)
I might have to call my isp about the fw stuff though...
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