... air travel,none whatsoever any more, so why should I want an FAA?
Oh wait, it helps me from all the stuff that gets shipped and by having planes not fall out of the sky on my head daily.
Sometimes you can't "see" the benfits to you directly but it still helps. In koreas case, it helped the over all economy by helping business which is producers/consumers/service in the totality.
I live rural, broadband would help me in a few ways if I could get it. I can get by with dialup, but it limits what I can do effectively from my location.
The public roads are a good analogy, imagine what all the food would cost if every single road was a private toll road and the owners could charge whatever they wanted to charge? And if those toll roads were literally just a double rut trail? How much would your shipped in food cost you then if you lived in town? How much would construction lumber cost?
Now I don't know if laying fiber or thicker copper everywhere would pay off in the long run, or if a better wireless scheme would be better. Most likely wireless for now, but in the long run fiber would be better I think.
...... it's the gestalt of all the little specifics that add up to a general wrongness. RFID tracks the part, thew widget, then you use a store card or cc or cash to buy it. They have cameras as well that go to the mix. Add in location of where you are at with a cellphone, yada yada yada, it isn't any ONE of those things that is wrong, it's ther ability to eventually tie them all in together that's wrong. I don't want a total surveilled/controlled/command and controlled society, which is exactly where this rfid stuff-and everything else- is heading, and make NO mistake, at some time the government is going to insist by law that you have a complex rfid implanted.
Totalitarian regimes don't spring up overnight, they take some time and come at you from many diverse areas, and rfid is definetly one of the areas they are going to use. Here is my original thought again
I am a human, a soverign man, distinct, unique, I am more important than business and government or their convenience. I am NOT their inventory.
The more they can tie "inventory" and "tracking" and "this is now part of the database" to *everything* you do, the closer we come to US human folks as individual soverign humans to be their "inventory".
It's a really large general concept that is made up of all the other smaller bits of data, rfid tracking is just one of them, it is not "the" only part, but I would say it's a pretty important part.
Want to know when it changed in society, where this mindshare paradign to "humans are the inventory, too" shifted? Exactly when we stopped being called "personel" and got turned into "human resources".
"The RFID is used to keep track of inventory. Just what does that impose on the customer? Please be specific."
I don't know about other folks, but as a human, I don't want to be part of the "inventory".
Attaching RFID to everything, having that in a database, then attaching your purchasing all over to the same database, with your location, time, etc starts to get into the bogus area pretty quickly. Add in traveling, the various schemes to have rfid in car tires, onstar like devices, your cellphone phoning home, etc, etc, etc, all start to add up to "humans as inventory". All the parts make up the "wrongness".
per individual spacecraft might be cheaper, but the over all cost would still be giant humongous expensive. Say mass production cut the cost in half, then 100 shuttles would cost roughly
~~~~~~~~~~ quick google lookup~~~~~~~~~~~
A GUHZILLION dollars
which is more than what I want to be taxed
better idea, get the government out of the space business, in fact, get the government out of almost all business, fire their collective butts, drop government back down to constitutional size, quit getting into wars unless it's *really* necessary,stop redistributing peoples money and taking a huge chunk of it as their cut and skim, everyone then keeps 90%-95% of their money, not 50%, and private adventurers and space crazed investors can do it with THEIR loot.
...and defense related places DON'T hire foreign nationals or domestic nationals with perhaps a bent for the blackhat side? This never happens? And everyone in government itself is sweet and pure as the mountain streams, and would never think of doing anything...strange... for some financial remuneration off the books? This never happens either? And so called "allied and friendly" governments don't run spooks inside our establishment and sleepers inside our citizenry? And they *always* have our best interests at heart?
Nope. Open source is still the best way to go, along with open government. When you let people hide "stuff", and when it's connected to massive political power and heaps 0 money, that's when crimes occur. The best bet is openness, bar none. It is not perfect, but it's the best design yet.
now you get into what is modest and how small a piece of pie will satisfy you. In todays society, it's more "I want the whole pie, or as much as I can get",what has become known as "money has no conscious", and when you have everyone doing that, hardly anyone will get any pie, no new pies will be made, no new flavors, etc, and what pie is there to get is expensive. It's a matter of tradeoffs and what youy are willing to give up. I have found the more I am willing to do without,"demand-wise" anyway, the more I seem to get, in a weird cosmic happenings sort of way. It gets into tithing and off in that direction for me at that point, and the concept of jubilee and forgiveness, so that's probably beyond the scope of this little sub discussion, but it certainly seems to work so far for me.
seems like you could just skip releases until such a time as it's really useful for you then, only do critical security minor changes. Pick-say-every third release minor variation instead of every single one.
I don't use gentoo, never tried it as all I have is a very old machine,the thought of weeks to install are.... well, it's not happening. I wouldn't bother with a binary version of what is touted as the ultimate source based, that would defeat the purpose of choosing that one, as that seems to go counter to the idea of compiling everything from source for maximum optimization. I use another binary version of linux, quite content with it. If I had another spare machine that was pretty new and powerful I would probably try it though, just for the heck of it.
Like I said, I don't know with gentoo source, maybe you should always stay as current as possible, I really don't know, but skipping versions seems at least theoretically possible, if you wish to always compile from source.
"If you write a book, should anyone be allowed to use that text as they desire, selling their own copies of it for profit? Why is this any different?" It wouldn't be different if it was exactly the same, but this creation isn't. If just similarity was illegal, then we would have only one murder mystery book, one science fiction book, one cook book, one math book, one.....
and etc
Nope, you are allowed to write your own book, even if it is similar to others, all the way to a similar plot line, similar characters, etc. Write a sci fi novel with a spceship, a captain and crew, exploring space, interact with space dudes, and etc. Totally legal and proper and useful, society seems to like "more". We don't have just one kind of ice cream, although "ice cream is ice cream", it's cold sweet stuff in a bowl.
Real has said they created a similarity, not that they made a copy. It's a "works-alike", not an "'exactly' is-alike".
That's their claim anyway, near as I understand it.
Linux is a unix "works-alike", not a unix "is-alike".
Ample precedent out there to argue the matter that way and have some good solid ground to stand on.
For you to create your creation, were all your steps yours alone, or did you build on the efforts of others? Did you design your own OS, build your own kernel, develop your own code language, code your own compiler for that language, design and build your own computer, all from scratch? If at every step of the way you were restricted to non-use of any of those tools or very expensive use, and if the knowledge of HOW to use what you have was further restricted, are you sure you could have built this application?
If having the tools and prior knowledge of others in the past is useful, then having them cheaper all the way to free is even more useful to use for your own new creation, yes? But wait, all those other folks insist on a huge sum of money, a non trivial amount, and want to dictate what you can do with their creations, they want it severely restricted. But wait again, those people themselves had others they relied on, and THOSE people further back up the creation-food chain want to restrict their efforts to a huge level as regards cost and what they allowed others to do with their products. And the folks ahead of them, and so on.
We had those times, it was called "the middle ages".
How far into restriction and huge cost do you want to go, just so that YOU can be creative? Do you wish to be able to cheaply and easily and completely "use" others works so that the work you are interested can be accomplished or attempted? Wouldn't that be a better deal for you? If so, isn't it logical that others would want the same, as regards your work?
You can't have it both ways, you must choose one way or the other.
....there's a good work out there called "I, Pencil" which addresses the current real world effort needed to manufacture another (mostly) simple wooden product. And this was written in 1958, it's even more complex now with the interactions.
The bottom line is it takes a lot more than one persons efforts usually to get to a wooden table.
Here is a reference to the essay, it's quite long so just the url:
http://www.econlib.org/library/Essays/rdPncl1.ht ml
The trends for software for the next ten years are for programming tools to get better, to the point virtually anyone may write their own programs easily. Right now it is commonly taught and used even in the less developed nations and societies, it is not the arcane science limited to a few thousand people it was when mass adoption of computers was just getting started 40 years or so ago. The business will be forced to change as it's quality gets greater combined with ease of creation. That means it will be worth-less. Not "worthless", but worth-less. Just like the references to copied art forms, when the only way to get an art form was to create or purchase the only copy in existence, it was worth a lot more, as it has become easier to re-create that effort, it naturally follows it is worth-less, all the way to the point now that copies of audio and visual "art" can be created for under a penny in actual cost and at minimal effort. The original creation of the work will have to be priced accordingly as well, as more people can "do it" compared to years past. The businesses of "art" and "software writing art" will eventually have to adjust to that reality. They can postpone the diminishing of "cost" to the consumer only with legislation, but only temporarily, societal changes will eventually force recognition of reality.
Hard to do + Hard to copy = limited over all use or enjoyment, limited to a select few, very expensive, your base paradigm.
Hard to do + Easy to copy = Greatly expanded use to members of society, more universal enjoyment, costs start dropping, distinction between originators and users starts to merge, beginning of the paradigm shift
Easy to do + Easy to copy = The paradigm shift completes to a new one, costs negligible, universal enjoyment and use, society must change, including their "laws", or stagnate
In my way of looking at it, we are almost exactly at the tipping over point between step 2 and 3.
I've read what some folks do when registering at various websites is to use a different email, so they can track if they start to get spam to that address with that exact addy. When it comes to just general email, I more or less stopped using mine for much around 3 years ago or so, just stopped registering for email lists or signing up for this or that, dropped my spam down a lot. I also don't give it out casually like I used to, and I told my friends to stop sending me html email if at all possible. I think scriptable email is teh debble.
Anyway, I was more talking about what can happen if you soc sec # gets hijacked and used, or your CC#, etc. The only way you can reduce that risk is to use them as little as possible, and sometimes you just have to put your foot down with various companies, or you have to make a personal decision to limit/modify your useages. It sucks because it's obviously easier to just use your cc a lot on the web for stuff, but sheesh, the basic default on web security any more is that it doesn't exist. I will only do business with a minimum level of contact info from any vendor, I have to be able to get a real human tied to a real telephone number and physical address before I consider purchasing anything remotely. If they want my real money, they have to be able to provide real contact info in case something goes wrong, one way or the other. Even then it's not perfect, but it drops down the chances of a fly by night operator just taking your cash. That and using postal money orders gives you another layer of legal protection, those post office boys take their policing pretty seriously.
I read about that "500 scammer arrest" here on slasherdot. Not sure-don't recall- if it was a standalone article or a reference in a subthread though, but defintely it was here.
My bottom line as a past identity theft victim is, I don't trust anyone or anyplace with my info now, although you are forced to provide it in some cases. I now use cash as much as possible, don't have an ebay or paypal, etc, account,never use them, don't pay any bills online, and tend to use postal money orders a lot for buying things "remotely", and even then, only if it's impossible to find or order what I want locally in a brick and mortar store. Yes, it's limiting, but still doable in our society, but it gets increasingly hard to do. It seems every business out there wants all your info, and nowadays every other website wants your info just to look at the website. Screw it. I love the *theory* of the internet, and I use it up to what my personal-choice limits will allow now, but the *practice* of the internet as regards any sort of rational "security" is a 50/50 crapshoot near as I can see as soon as "money" is involved in any manner. If your software isn't insecure, then the humans at the other end might be insecure.
... to be told what to do, where to do it, why to do it, and how to do it. They accept mandatory vaccinations, almost near mandatory forced drug addiction of their children with government "approved" drugs,and forced social engineering brainewashing of their children in the indoctrination centers, they accept the pharmco industry dictating to doctors which drugs are "approved" and which will be "illegal" or not even available.
This attempt, which they will camofluage by calling it a "proposal", is already a fait accompli, it's in the past tense even though the article pushes the illusion that it is future tense, society in general has said, by it's inactions, that they are willing to be force-fed at the corporate government restuarant, just like geese at the fois gras farm. All this is, is a very minor menu change. The "question" of whether or not it will happen is past tense,and is a moot point, that has already been decided for you by your betters and minders.
Next step, basically the government will determine what your day to day mood should be, they will determine how alert you are, when you should be active, when you should be angry, or happy, when you should be agressive, or passive, etc, etc.
And it will be illegal to "just say no". And to make sure of that, you will be required to take the RFID internally.
If you didn't know it said "idea", would you (you being joe average seeing something written with those fonts) know what it said? I can recognize it, but only because I know it's supposed to be idea. I think it would take you awhile to be able to use it in a general text sense.
refuse to do business with the government any longer because homeland security and cert dissed their browser? One would HOPE SO, I mean, MS has some pride and ethics, correct?
Old Apple and New Apple aren't the same traded corporation?
Anyway, I sort of get it now with what Slack3r78 mentioned about Jobs not wanting to compete in the cellphone/PDA market right now, as it shakes out. If they do most likely you would think they would just expand the functions of the iPod anyway.
I know they are on ebay, that's why I said junk shop, as in see it, walk away with it for two dollars or something. I get a lot of my electronic doo dads that way, like my sony watchman TV, 7$ IIRC.
Ahhh! I agree then, have stated such before on slashdot, but I didn't know that was Job's reasoning. Smart guy. The cellphone guys will eventually overtake the PDAs out there, just economy of scale and loot involved, and the aggregation of apps is becoming apparent.
...the same 95% of people using and developing for linux now come from a windows and unix background, and not a mac background? they sort of emulate what they were the most familiar with. Macs were put down for a long time because they were easy to use, no lie, I actually heard that a lot of times. "too easy to use, too simple". I thought that was a funny thing to say for a put down, but I heard it.
Anyway, I really don't know. How many ex-mac classic developers went to linux, instead of just migrating to developing for OSX, compared to ex-windows developers/users going to linux? I bet that's a big part of what's going on with the linux desktoop now. Like, what is the default "meaning" you think of when someone says they made a dualboot machine? See what I am getting at? Is it any wonder that the main drive is to reproduce a free windows-like experience then?
Slashdot Mirror
...stuck in many holes in many dikes might keep the ocean at bay, unless until we decide to build a more intelligent dike-or move to the high ground!
... air travel,none whatsoever any more, so why should I want an FAA?
Oh wait, it helps me from all the stuff that gets shipped and by having planes not fall out of the sky on my head daily.
Sometimes you can't "see" the benfits to you directly but it still helps. In koreas case, it helped the over all economy by helping business which is producers/consumers/service in the totality.
I live rural, broadband would help me in a few ways if I could get it. I can get by with dialup, but it limits what I can do effectively from my location.
The public roads are a good analogy, imagine what all the food would cost if every single road was a private toll road and the owners could charge whatever they wanted to charge? And if those toll roads were literally just a double rut trail? How much would your shipped in food cost you then if you lived in town? How much would construction lumber cost?
Now I don't know if laying fiber or thicker copper everywhere would pay off in the long run, or if a better wireless scheme would be better. Most likely wireless for now, but in the long run fiber would be better I think.
...... it's the gestalt of all the little specifics that add up to a general wrongness. RFID tracks the part, thew widget, then you use a store card or cc or cash to buy it. They have cameras as well that go to the mix. Add in location of where you are at with a cellphone, yada yada yada, it isn't any ONE of those things that is wrong, it's ther ability to eventually tie them all in together that's wrong. I don't want a total surveilled/controlled/command and controlled society, which is exactly where this rfid stuff-and everything else- is heading, and make NO mistake, at some time the government is going to insist by law that you have a complex rfid implanted.
Totalitarian regimes don't spring up overnight, they take some time and come at you from many diverse areas, and rfid is definetly one of the areas they are going to use. Here is my original thought again
I am a human, a soverign man, distinct, unique, I am more important than business and government or their convenience. I am NOT their inventory.
The more they can tie "inventory" and "tracking" and "this is now part of the database" to *everything* you do, the closer we come to US human folks as individual soverign humans to be their "inventory".
It's a really large general concept that is made up of all the other smaller bits of data, rfid tracking is just one of them, it is not "the" only part, but I would say it's a pretty important part.
Want to know when it changed in society, where this mindshare paradign to "humans are the inventory, too" shifted? Exactly when we stopped being called "personel" and got turned into "human resources".
"The RFID is used to keep track of inventory. Just what does that impose on the customer? Please be specific."
I don't know about other folks, but as a human, I don't want to be part of the "inventory".
Attaching RFID to everything, having that in a database, then attaching your purchasing all over to the same database, with your location, time, etc starts to get into the bogus area pretty quickly. Add in traveling, the various schemes to have rfid in car tires, onstar like devices, your cellphone phoning home, etc, etc, etc, all start to add up to "humans as inventory". All the parts make up the "wrongness".
"What needs to be done to help other Americans take responsibility for their actions?"
--outlaw insurance
--bring back deuling
per individual spacecraft might be cheaper, but the over all cost would still be giant humongous expensive. Say mass production cut the cost in half, then 100 shuttles would cost roughly
~~~~~~~~~~ quick google lookup~~~~~~~~~~~
A GUHZILLION dollars
which is more than what I want to be taxed
better idea, get the government out of the space business, in fact, get the government out of almost all business, fire their collective butts, drop government back down to constitutional size, quit getting into wars unless it's *really* necessary,stop redistributing peoples money and taking a huge chunk of it as their cut and skim, everyone then keeps 90%-95% of their money, not 50%, and private adventurers and space crazed investors can do it with THEIR loot.
Nope. Open source is still the best way to go, along with open government. When you let people hide "stuff", and when it's connected to massive political power and heaps 0 money, that's when crimes occur. The best bet is openness, bar none. It is not perfect, but it's the best design yet.
well, okey dokie then! I understand it better now, thanks!
... this past weeks osma bin ladin and the governator viruses?
now you get into what is modest and how small a piece of pie will satisfy you. In todays society, it's more "I want the whole pie, or as much as I can get",what has become known as "money has no conscious", and when you have everyone doing that, hardly anyone will get any pie, no new pies will be made, no new flavors, etc, and what pie is there to get is expensive. It's a matter of tradeoffs and what youy are willing to give up. I have found the more I am willing to do without,"demand-wise" anyway, the more I seem to get, in a weird cosmic happenings sort of way. It gets into tithing and off in that direction for me at that point, and the concept of jubilee and forgiveness, so that's probably beyond the scope of this little sub discussion, but it certainly seems to work so far for me.
... truckstop on one of those insert x-dollars for a few minutes web access kiosks.
Blinkx
I hope slashdot does a whole article on these guys. maybe they did, but I didn't see it.
seems like you could just skip releases until such a time as it's really useful for you then, only do critical security minor changes. Pick-say-every third release minor variation instead of every single one.
I don't use gentoo, never tried it as all I have is a very old machine,the thought of weeks to install are.... well, it's not happening. I wouldn't bother with a binary version of what is touted as the ultimate source based, that would defeat the purpose of choosing that one, as that seems to go counter to the idea of compiling everything from source for maximum optimization. I use another binary version of linux, quite content with it. If I had another spare machine that was pretty new and powerful I would probably try it though, just for the heck of it.
Like I said, I don't know with gentoo source, maybe you should always stay as current as possible, I really don't know, but skipping versions seems at least theoretically possible, if you wish to always compile from source.
"If you write a book, should anyone be allowed to use that text as they desire, selling their own copies of it for profit? Why is this any different?"
It wouldn't be different if it was exactly the same, but this creation isn't. If just similarity was illegal, then we would have only one murder mystery book, one science fiction book, one cook book, one math book, one.....
and etc
Nope, you are allowed to write your own book, even if it is similar to others, all the way to a similar plot line, similar characters, etc. Write a sci fi novel with a spceship, a captain and crew, exploring space, interact with space dudes, and etc. Totally legal and proper and useful, society seems to like "more". We don't have just one kind of ice cream, although "ice cream is ice cream", it's cold sweet stuff in a bowl.
Real has said they created a similarity, not that they made a copy. It's a "works-alike", not an "'exactly' is-alike".
That's their claim anyway, near as I understand it.
Linux is a unix "works-alike", not a unix "is-alike".
Ample precedent out there to argue the matter that way and have some good solid ground to stand on.
For you to create your creation, were all your steps yours alone, or did you build on the efforts of others? Did you design your own OS, build your own kernel, develop your own code language, code your own compiler for that language, design and build your own computer, all from scratch? If at every step of the way you were restricted to non-use of any of those tools or very expensive use, and if the knowledge of HOW to use what you have was further restricted, are you sure you could have built this application?
If having the tools and prior knowledge of others in the past is useful, then having them cheaper all the way to free is even more useful to use for your own new creation, yes? But wait, all those other folks insist on a huge sum of money, a non trivial amount, and want to dictate what you can do with their creations, they want it severely restricted. But wait again, those people themselves had others they relied on, and THOSE people further back up the creation-food chain want to restrict their efforts to a huge level as regards cost and what they allowed others to do with their products. And the folks ahead of them, and so on.
We had those times, it was called "the middle ages".
How far into restriction and huge cost do you want to go, just so that YOU can be creative? Do you wish to be able to cheaply and easily and completely "use" others works so that the work you are interested can be accomplished or attempted? Wouldn't that be a better deal for you? If so, isn't it logical that others would want the same, as regards your work?
You can't have it both ways, you must choose one way or the other.
....there's a good work out there called "I, Pencil" which addresses the current real world effort needed to manufacture another (mostly) simple wooden product. And this was written in 1958, it's even more complex now with the interactions.
t ml
The bottom line is it takes a lot more than one persons efforts usually to get to a wooden table.
Here is a reference to the essay, it's quite long so just the url:
http://www.econlib.org/library/Essays/rdPncl1.h
The trends for software for the next ten years are for programming tools to get better, to the point virtually anyone may write their own programs easily. Right now it is commonly taught and used even in the less developed nations and societies, it is not the arcane science limited to a few thousand people it was when mass adoption of computers was just getting started 40 years or so ago. The business will be forced to change as it's quality gets greater combined with ease of creation. That means it will be worth-less. Not "worthless", but worth-less. Just like the references to copied art forms, when the only way to get an art form was to create or purchase the only copy in existence, it was worth a lot more, as it has become easier to re-create that effort, it naturally follows it is worth-less, all the way to the point now that copies of audio and visual "art" can be created for under a penny in actual cost and at minimal effort. The original creation of the work will have to be priced accordingly as well, as more people can "do it" compared to years past. The businesses of "art" and "software writing art" will eventually have to adjust to that reality. They can postpone the diminishing of "cost" to the consumer only with legislation, but only temporarily, societal changes will eventually force recognition of reality.
Hard to do + Hard to copy = limited over all use or enjoyment, limited to a select few, very expensive, your base paradigm.
Hard to do + Easy to copy = Greatly expanded use to members of society, more universal enjoyment, costs start dropping, distinction between originators and users starts to merge, beginning of the paradigm shift
Easy to do + Easy to copy = The paradigm shift completes to a new one, costs negligible, universal enjoyment and use, society must change, including their "laws", or stagnate
In my way of looking at it, we are almost exactly at the tipping over point between step 2 and 3.
heh heh
I've read what some folks do when registering at various websites is to use a different email, so they can track if they start to get spam to that address with that exact addy. When it comes to just general email, I more or less stopped using mine for much around 3 years ago or so, just stopped registering for email lists or signing up for this or that, dropped my spam down a lot. I also don't give it out casually like I used to, and I told my friends to stop sending me html email if at all possible. I think scriptable email is teh debble.
Anyway, I was more talking about what can happen if you soc sec # gets hijacked and used, or your CC#, etc. The only way you can reduce that risk is to use them as little as possible, and sometimes you just have to put your foot down with various companies, or you have to make a personal decision to limit/modify your useages. It sucks because it's obviously easier to just use your cc a lot on the web for stuff, but sheesh, the basic default on web security any more is that it doesn't exist. I will only do business with a minimum level of contact info from any vendor, I have to be able to get a real human tied to a real telephone number and physical address before I consider purchasing anything remotely. If they want my real money, they have to be able to provide real contact info in case something goes wrong, one way or the other. Even then it's not perfect, but it drops down the chances of a fly by night operator just taking your cash. That and using postal money orders gives you another layer of legal protection, those post office boys take their policing pretty seriously.
I read about that "500 scammer arrest" here on slasherdot. Not sure-don't recall- if it was a standalone article or a reference in a subthread though, but defintely it was here.
My bottom line as a past identity theft victim is, I don't trust anyone or anyplace with my info now, although you are forced to provide it in some cases. I now use cash as much as possible, don't have an ebay or paypal, etc, account,never use them, don't pay any bills online, and tend to use postal money orders a lot for buying things "remotely", and even then, only if it's impossible to find or order what I want locally in a brick and mortar store. Yes, it's limiting, but still doable in our society, but it gets increasingly hard to do. It seems every business out there wants all your info, and nowadays every other website wants your info just to look at the website. Screw it. I love the *theory* of the internet, and I use it up to what my personal-choice limits will allow now, but the *practice* of the internet as regards any sort of rational "security" is a 50/50 crapshoot near as I can see as soon as "money" is involved in any manner. If your software isn't insecure, then the humans at the other end might be insecure.
... to be told what to do, where to do it, why to do it, and how to do it. They accept mandatory vaccinations, almost near mandatory forced drug addiction of their children with government "approved" drugs,and forced social engineering brainewashing of their children in the indoctrination centers, they accept the pharmco industry dictating to doctors which drugs are "approved" and which will be "illegal" or not even available.
This attempt, which they will camofluage by calling it a "proposal", is already a fait accompli, it's in the past tense even though the article pushes the illusion that it is future tense, society in general has said, by it's inactions, that they are willing to be force-fed at the corporate government restuarant, just like geese at the fois gras farm. All this is, is a very minor menu change. The "question" of whether or not it will happen is past tense,and is a moot point, that has already been decided for you by your betters and minders.
Next step, basically the government will determine what your day to day mood should be, they will determine how alert you are, when you should be active, when you should be angry, or happy, when you should be agressive, or passive, etc, etc.
And it will be illegal to "just say no". And to make sure of that, you will be required to take the RFID internally.
If you didn't know it said "idea", would you (you being joe average seeing something written with those fonts) know what it said? I can recognize it, but only because I know it's supposed to be idea. I think it would take you awhile to be able to use it in a general text sense.
refuse to do business with the government any longer because homeland security and cert dissed their browser? One would HOPE SO, I mean, MS has some pride and ethics, correct?
Old Apple and New Apple aren't the same traded corporation?
Anyway, I sort of get it now with what Slack3r78 mentioned about Jobs not wanting to compete in the cellphone/PDA market right now, as it shakes out. If they do most likely you would think they would just expand the functions of the iPod anyway.
I know they are on ebay, that's why I said junk shop, as in see it, walk away with it for two dollars or something. I get a lot of my electronic doo dads that way, like my sony watchman TV, 7$ IIRC.
Ahhh! I agree then, have stated such before on slashdot, but I didn't know that was Job's reasoning. Smart guy. The cellphone guys will eventually overtake the PDAs out there, just economy of scale and loot involved, and the aggregation of apps is becoming apparent.
...the same 95% of people using and developing for linux now come from a windows and unix background, and not a mac background? they sort of emulate what they were the most familiar with. Macs were put down for a long time because they were easy to use, no lie, I actually heard that a lot of times. "too easy to use, too simple". I thought that was a funny thing to say for a put down, but I heard it.
Anyway, I really don't know. How many ex-mac classic developers went to linux, instead of just migrating to developing for OSX, compared to ex-windows developers/users going to linux? I bet that's a big part of what's going on with the linux desktoop now. Like, what is the default "meaning" you think of when someone says they made a dualboot machine? See what I am getting at? Is it any wonder that the main drive is to reproduce a free windows-like experience then?