"Apple decides to update all the firmware in their iPhones to #BBBBBBBBBBBA"
The problem is they shouldn't be allowed to do this. If I buy an iPhone I'm the one and only owner of that object. Apple has no right to change firmware on *my* iPhone without asking me consent.
And by the way, checksum verification is cheap so they could easily skip iPhones with non-original firmware and let them alone.
when you have IPv6 you need no NAT, so basically you can switch your current router to be a dumb L2 bridge and run straight IPv6 over PPPoE or over PPPoA.
Sorry for being rude, I wasn't arguing against your thesis (not even in favor). I just wanted to tell you that you chose poor examples. And *I* don't have better examples either, so maybe *today* there's no thing as another microsoft.
Ok, so wal-mart has a minority stake over the market of 2 out of 25 european member states. Wow, so what?
An BP is a big oil company, so I don't understand how exxonmobil could be a monopoly.
Maybe I don't have full knowledge over global industry, but you surely are over-estimating some firms only because they are important in the states.
Microsoft is really different: they are a monopoly *everywhere* in the world and they're not just a sparkling drink... they have power control over government and industries.
In Italy people can't collect, use, process, sell and give away your personal information without your explicit written consent collected in advance.
For some data, the state is exempt by default (those strictly needed for tax and justice work).
Sensitive information (sexual, religious, about health and politics, and so on) is protected by special regulation.
Violating this law could result in penalties or prison, depending on gravity of violation.
This is very useful for spam too: many italian spammers have been already fined 250EUR for each spam email they sent (this money has been given to spammed people) plus legal costs.
And of course all of these problems are because of you americans, with your crappy software patents and DMCA. We europeans thank you every day for this.
70 K$/year? You have to be crazy! I'm an experienced system administrator, 8 years of real work experience on linux. ll work for you for 40 K$/year. The only problem: I'm not exactly in the bay area...
This time you americans should learn from us italians. We have a very strict law about personal data collection and processing. It's called law 675, we passed it in 1996. Under this law, you can't do ANYTHING with personal data until you have obtained EXPLICIT WRITTEN CONSENT by the owner. And personal data is owned by the person itself. You are not even authorized to go scanning the internet for email addresses, cause you have no written consent to collect those addresses.
Last Xmas night, italian people sent 300 million SMS with greetings (note, we've about 60 million inhabitants). I've sent about 10 SMSs that night, and despite the huge overload they all have been correctly delivered. The same happened Dec 31th. I don't remember anyone saying his messages were lost: the worst case was the phone saying immediatly "message not sent, try later". 7.5% lost is laughable.
Hey! Yes I'm talking to you, there in the states...
Why are you still there instead of migrating in a really democratic country, where citizens are free too write/use/export/pubish/reverse-engineer any kind of software they like?
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I just said they /could/, not that they do.
"Apple decides to update all the firmware in their iPhones to
#BBBBBBBBBBBA"
The problem is they shouldn't be allowed to do this.
If I buy an iPhone I'm the one and only owner of that object.
Apple has no right to change firmware on *my* iPhone without asking me consent.
And by the way, checksum verification is cheap so they could easily skip iPhones with non-original firmware and let them alone.
In Italy we use this monitoring method since at least 2005.
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See http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/4746787.s
yet...
You don't have to remember them!
You know, there's a tool called DNS which just for this purpose...
when you have IPv6 you need no NAT, so basically you can switch your current router to be a dumb L2 bridge and run straight IPv6 over PPPoE or over PPPoA.
Sorry for being rude, I wasn't arguing against your thesis (not even in favor).
I just wanted to tell you that you chose poor examples. And *I* don't have better examples either, so maybe *today* there's no thing as another microsoft.
Ok, so wal-mart has a minority stake over the market of 2 out of 25 european member states.
Wow, so what?
An BP is a big oil company, so I don't understand how exxonmobil could be a monopoly.
Maybe I don't have full knowledge over global industry, but you surely are over-estimating some firms only because they are important in the states.
Microsoft is really different: they are a monopoly *everywhere* in the world and they're not just a sparkling drink... they have power control over government and industries.
Intel doesn't dominate, in fact AMD out-smarted them.
Wal-Mart doesn't even exist in Europe
ExonMobil has several good competitors here in europe, in fact I believe the biggest oil vendor in Italy is AGIP.
BP: I don't even know who they are
Please think twice next time you have to give examples.
We have a law since 1996, it's number 675.
In Italy people can't collect, use, process, sell and give away your personal information without your explicit written consent collected in advance.
For some data, the state is exempt by default (those strictly needed for tax and justice work).
Sensitive information (sexual, religious, about health and politics, and so on) is protected by special regulation.
Violating this law could result in penalties or prison, depending on gravity of violation.
This is very useful for spam too: many italian spammers have been already fined 250EUR for each spam email they sent (this money has been given to spammed people) plus legal costs.
And of course all of these problems are because of you americans, with your crappy software patents and DMCA.
We europeans thank you every day for this.
mandrake sports postfix as default MTA since at least 7.1, which is 7 releases ago.
70 K$/year? You have to be crazy! I'm an experienced system administrator, 8 years of real work experience on linux. ll work for you for 40 K$/year. The only problem: I'm not exactly in the bay area...
This time you americans should learn from us italians. We have a very strict law about personal data collection and processing.
It's called law 675, we passed it in 1996.
Under this law, you can't do ANYTHING with personal data until you have obtained EXPLICIT WRITTEN CONSENT by the owner.
And personal data is owned by the person itself.
You are not even authorized to go scanning the internet for email addresses, cause you have no written consent to collect those addresses.
Last Xmas night, italian people sent 300 million
SMS with greetings (note, we've about 60 million
inhabitants).
I've sent about 10 SMSs that night, and despite
the huge overload they all have been correctly delivered.
The same happened Dec 31th.
I don't remember anyone saying his messages were lost: the worst case was the phone saying immediatly "message not sent, try later".
7.5% lost is laughable.
Hey! Yes I'm talking to you, there in the states...
Why are you still there instead of migrating in
a really democratic country, where citizens are
free too write/use/export/pubish/reverse-engineer
any kind of software they like?