1.) Automate searching for subversive websites on the internet. 2.) Shut down those websites, and subpoena member/visitor logs and IPs. 3.) Find those people and straight to Guantanamo! 4.) Save American democracy from itself!
This is a proposal to develop a system to disable the internet's effectiveness in the event of a revolution... Way to go Congress! 404 to 6!
Of course you'll need to build a better firewall to keep subversives from elsewhere from building "cells of crazies" inside the U.S.
Meanwhile Slashdot complains about an attack on the internet that seems laughable, and get modded up.
I wish we could see the list of moderators on comments, that would hopefully remove the people who can't accept and examine articles instead f sticking their heads in the sand.
The other night I got drunk and went through all the books in my friends apartment, found 4 really good ones including "The Portable Neiche" (A must read if you worry life is boring, or you stop being good company for yourself).
Anyway it was fantastic to be able to relate to him knowing what he'd read and hadn't, and they were there to talk about it was fantastic. Don't get me wrong I love ebooks and read them all the time, but physical books have something special and I think you touched upon it.
You think being proud of your knowledge is bad? I don't know what comes next? Being insulted by your intellect? Your sense of right and wrong?
PDAs from 1-10% of the list price of this item are available on E-Bay I loved my palm IIIxe which I got for $30. 18 hours of battery life reading books, and it was easy to read. In fact it had a backlight which is something these lacks.
It's the people who wrote the GPL'd code that has been stolen by ASUS that care.
If it was used for commercial purposes and forced a renegotiation with the original authors then this would be true, however the GPL liscences the software equally to everyone (except in regards to reliscencing for commerical use) thus they are stealing from everyone.
When the authors offer their software under the GPL they ask the community to improve it but also protect it, reporting abuse is part of this protection.
Well Digital music has become the battleground for IP.
And since we live in the "information age" their positioning is kind of annoying.
Plus their whole tying into the telecom market affects internet infrastructure and communication... which is a bit of a PITA....
Apple doesn't seem to care, they just carry blithly along not being good or evil just apitalists.
It would be nice to have someone who cares in their position but it's not essential, continue allowing them to dominate if you feel like it... communal information will just go around.
the NSA will let us do away with $40 a month cell phone bills. Thank you mysterious hacker!
The future of VOIP isn't P2P, it looks more like Mail servers. Asterix boxes with a central lookup table, routing calls and availability based on specific connections to servers.
Unfortunately this system quickly becomes encrypted and impossible to monitor, so the fact that everyone could be using the 64kbps required for voip at the same time and not saturate a fraction of the wireless spectrum won't be enough to displace the telecos...
Crap.
CIA get some skills! Monitor the wireless spectrum everywhere, put broken encryption techniques in a wi-fi enabled phone and get rid of the damn telecos. Think how many regimes you could topple with the subsidies for AT&T alone! I'm in Canada, we'd welcome your business!
You won't be able to brag until you do, plus Opera users are very open minded. When firefox gets better than Opera our 3% marketshare will jump on board!
Yea but the music industry started looking at how much money consumers had total and trying to increase demand through monopoly advertising, and consumers have started to question the level of production expense and difficulty being provided by the manufacturer.
It's capitalism 2.0... and the consumer will win round 1.
Actually AMD is still a better value if you want a good motherboard... Serious Intel motherboards start at around $150 while AMD has high quality boards starting around $70...
Intel is still tempting but AMD isn't outclassed performance/price wise.
That being said my AMD 2600+ is still going strong, I tend to buy when performance has increased 3-4x, processors don't seem to be doing that, lower power consumption is nice but I'd prefer 3ghz quad cores, which should be possible with this latest design shrink in the $100-150 price range...
I want a robotic assistant, it would record everything I say. Convert it to text parse and store it, along with everything everyone else said to me, it would do research for me and provide remote teleconfrencing services.
It would also cook for me, rub my back and have sex with any officials I need to bribe:P
There are some really interesting documentaries about 3rd generation (currently youth) Germans. The free thinking ones are really pissed off with the repression surrounding discussions of Nazis and Nazism (it's significantly more restricted there than it is in North America).
Some of these free thinkers use Nazism to shock and some are totally ignorant of its real evil because of the straw man presented.
I wish I could find that documentary, it was on the CBC a few months ago...
So in short with Linux, customers benefit, government benefits, economy benefits, everyone but Microsoft walks home happy. This deal was definitely rigged by M$
Bzzzt Wrong!
Hardware manufacturers who get the nice microsoft 5 year obsolecence thing (works best on businesses who upgrade quick, having a driver come out in 5 months doesn't help a company printer)... Software makers who compete against OS products (Photoshop, Trillian, Skype list goes on and on)... Lots of companies are invested in keeping the microsoft monopoly.
Not that this case isn't MS's doing but lets not assume they're the only possible suspect... Plenty of companies out there with budgets bigger than most countries.
They don't sell you anything they sell to advertisers, and in that space they are definitely the top dog by a wide margin, and advertisers going somewhere else won't break their monopoly.
Microsoft controls the hardware manufacturers, their monopoly over that space becomes their monopoly over the desktop.
Now I don't really care if the advertisers get screwed, but Google doesn't seem to have ethics in that space... and their honesty towards users just covers it up.
One example of something they could do is let users know about local ISPs.
Slashdot Mirror
Steps to accomplish this goal on the internet.
1.) Automate searching for subversive websites on the internet.
2.) Shut down those websites, and subpoena member/visitor logs and IPs.
3.) Find those people and straight to Guantanamo!
4.) Save American democracy from itself!
This is a proposal to develop a system to disable the internet's effectiveness in the event of a revolution... Way to go Congress! 404 to 6!
Of course you'll need to build a better firewall to keep subversives from elsewhere from building "cells of crazies" inside the U.S.
Meanwhile Slashdot complains about an attack on the internet that seems laughable, and get modded up.
I wish we could see the list of moderators on comments, that would hopefully remove the people who can't accept and examine articles instead f sticking their heads in the sand.
There ya go eh?
Seriously those cracks in the desert, there's something splitting them...
The other night I got drunk and went through all the books in my friends apartment, found 4 really good ones including "The Portable Neiche" (A must read if you worry life is boring, or you stop being good company for yourself).
Anyway it was fantastic to be able to relate to him knowing what he'd read and hadn't, and they were there to talk about it was fantastic. Don't get me wrong I love ebooks and read them all the time, but physical books have something special and I think you touched upon it.
You think being proud of your knowledge is bad? I don't know what comes next? Being insulted by your intellect? Your sense of right and wrong?
http://www.fanfiction.net/
Authors and editors are becoming obsolete as well.
God we really are going to be remembered as the "information" age.
PDAs from 1-10% of the list price of this item are available on E-Bay I loved my palm IIIxe which I got for $30. 18 hours of battery life reading books, and it was easy to read. In fact it had a backlight which is something these lacks.
iTunes 2.0 We pay $150,000 a month to the RIAA so you don't have to.
Seriously maybe they'd get the point if some guy in his house distributed all the music in the world.
Wait there's like 50 of those guys.
That's RIAA capitalism for you, why do for $10 what you can do for $100 million.
That's a somewhat more modest objective than invading and occupying another country on the other side of the globe
Wait they were going to welcome Americans with open arms!
It's the people who wrote the GPL'd code that has been stolen by ASUS that care.
If it was used for commercial purposes and forced a renegotiation with the original authors then this would be true, however the GPL liscences the software equally to everyone (except in regards to reliscencing for commerical use) thus they are stealing from everyone.
When the authors offer their software under the GPL they ask the community to improve it but also protect it, reporting abuse is part of this protection.
These guys SHOULD be paid microsoft consultants.>br>
Well really come on, the whole type the whole address thing? It's absurd!
Well Digital music has become the battleground for IP.
And since we live in the "information age" their positioning is kind of annoying.
Plus their whole tying into the telecom market affects internet infrastructure and communication... which is a bit of a PITA....
Apple doesn't seem to care, they just carry blithly along not being good or evil just apitalists.
It would be nice to have someone who cares in their position but it's not essential, continue allowing them to dominate if you feel like it... communal information will just go around.
Russia is just copying, yea they be biting the U.S.
Course, the American's have them out gendered, Women's Bridge Anyone?.
Of course we shouldn't let intellectuals have any power, that's just CRAZY!
the NSA will let us do away with $40 a month cell phone bills. Thank you mysterious hacker!
The future of VOIP isn't P2P, it looks more like Mail servers. Asterix boxes with a central lookup table, routing calls and availability based on specific connections to servers.
Unfortunately this system quickly becomes encrypted and impossible to monitor, so the fact that everyone could be using the 64kbps required for voip at the same time and not saturate a fraction of the wireless spectrum won't be enough to displace the telecos...
Crap.
CIA get some skills! Monitor the wireless spectrum everywhere, put broken encryption techniques in a wi-fi enabled phone and get rid of the damn telecos. Think how many regimes you could topple with the subsidies for AT&T alone! I'm in Canada, we'd welcome your business!
Be better than Opera.
You won't be able to brag until you do, plus Opera users are very open minded. When firefox gets better than Opera our 3% marketshare will jump on board!
emboldening
Please don't pretend that's a word.
That the NSA and CIA are widely believed to have the best hackers and cryptographers in North America.
The most successful hackers have been social hackers... and will continue to be.
Coders expect to paid for THE NEXT peice of code they write.
They don't expect to write whatever and have people force fed it through payola and etc.... except microsoft of course.
But I think Slashdot has spoken on that..
Yea but the music industry started looking at how much money consumers had total and trying to increase demand through monopoly advertising, and consumers have started to question the level of production expense and difficulty being provided by the manufacturer.
It's capitalism 2.0... and the consumer will win round 1.
Actually AMD is still a better value if you want a good motherboard... Serious Intel motherboards start at around $150 while AMD has high quality boards starting around $70...
Intel is still tempting but AMD isn't outclassed performance/price wise.
That being said my AMD 2600+ is still going strong, I tend to buy when performance has increased 3-4x, processors don't seem to be doing that, lower power consumption is nice but I'd prefer 3ghz quad cores, which should be possible with this latest design shrink in the $100-150 price range...
Poof 1-3 and no bill either... :)
I want a robotic assistant, it would record everything I say. Convert it to text parse and store it, along with everything everyone else said to me, it would do research for me and provide remote teleconfrencing services.
:P
It would also cook for me, rub my back and have sex with any officials I need to bribe
There are some really interesting documentaries about 3rd generation (currently youth) Germans. The free thinking ones are really pissed off with the repression surrounding discussions of Nazis and Nazism (it's significantly more restricted there than it is in North America).
Some of these free thinkers use Nazism to shock and some are totally ignorant of its real evil because of the straw man presented.
I wish I could find that documentary, it was on the CBC a few months ago...
# of people who left feedback?
Well it only really works if the albumn is good and RadioHead is motivated to make their next albumn even better.
Those are aspects of the old model we need to fix... as well as stopping the executives.
So in short with Linux, customers benefit, government benefits, economy benefits, everyone but Microsoft walks home happy. This deal was definitely rigged by M$
Bzzzt Wrong!
Hardware manufacturers who get the nice microsoft 5 year obsolecence thing (works best on businesses who upgrade quick, having a driver come out in 5 months doesn't help a company printer)... Software makers who compete against OS products (Photoshop, Trillian, Skype list goes on and on)... Lots of companies are invested in keeping the microsoft monopoly.
Not that this case isn't MS's doing but lets not assume they're the only possible suspect... Plenty of companies out there with budgets bigger than most countries.
Google is a monopoly, in online advertising.
They don't sell you anything they sell to advertisers, and in that space they are definitely the top dog by a wide margin, and advertisers going somewhere else won't break their monopoly.
Microsoft controls the hardware manufacturers, their monopoly over that space becomes their monopoly over the desktop.
Now I don't really care if the advertisers get screwed, but Google doesn't seem to have ethics in that space... and their honesty towards users just covers it up.
One example of something they could do is let users know about local ISPs.