To believe that the TSA will only stop traffic in Tennessee is unreasonable. That the TSA is now stopping traffic on an Interstate highway means that ANY Interstate highway can be a target for their abuse of the 4th Amendment. The Tennessee experiment is just a trial balloon to see if the public will roll over and go back to sleep. It looks like they will, so you can count on the TSA stopping YOU sometime in the near future on ANY Interstate you travel. After that will come traffic stops on main traffic arteries in major cities, followed by stops set up at traffic nexus points in smaller communities. "I have nothing to hide", you say? You'd better read: http://www.aclu.org/drug-law-reform-immigrants-rights-racial-justice/know-your-rights-what-do-if-you or http://www.instructables.com/id/What-to-do-if-the-police-stop-you-1/
IF this is just a type of Federal work program, employing people as TSA agents, I'd rather have a restoration of the CCC. At least we'd get our infrastructure restored in the process.
I'd rather retain the freedoms the Bill of Rights gave me than to live as one imprisoned, my movements and speech (H.R. 3011) constantly controlled by Federal bureaucrats, "for our safety". Living under such control here is no different than living in Cuba, Venezuela, Iran or China.
Freedom has never been free. The 2nd Amendment gives us the right to handle both tyrannical governments and terrorists. Otherwise, the blood of all soldiers who fought to retain our freedoms in past conflicts has been shed for nothing.
the cozy back room deal is probably a lot worse for consumers than we realize.
I'm 70, and there was a time in my early life when Federal agencies upheld their mandate to protect the consumer from greedy or corrupt corporations. Now, the Feds protect the greedy, corrupt corporations from the wrath of of the consumers whom the corporations abused.
complete that C will still be a constant representing the maximum speed of the Universe, regardless of the frame of reference. It is, after all, the reciprocal of the square root of the product of two other physical constants.
So. It's legal, otherwise the Feds would prosecute. It is unethical.
Microsoft developed its software in Redmond, WA, but its sales offices are in Reno, NV, which has no sales tax. A couple years ago Ballmer derided Oregonians for not "paying their fair share of taxes". That's legal too, but also unethical.
If one is a "sin" the other is as well, if your "Social Justice" means anything.
for a GPS maker to sell a device which advertizes that it does not included purchased waypoints to misdirect the traffic. But, knowing the ethical level of businesses today, they'd sell a device that currently markets for $100 for $500.
This is the same government that is trying to send Italian geologists to prison because they can't predict earthquakes when, in fact, NO geologist on the planet can reliably predict when an earthquake will occur, even if they were given a latitude of several years, much less a particular day.
Now, they want to transform their government into a cabal, in which corporations make the rules to minimize their own liability and maximize the liability of their customers and of their profits.
These actions can only be explained by assuming that the Italian politicians are totally corrupt, which is a pretty good assumption there and here in America. Can we be far behind?
Only if you can prove that Google was holding a gun to your head when you chose Google over Bing or some other search engine.
Wikipedia lists over 300 Internet search engines users can choose from, and most are free for the using. Many use DuckDuckGo, for example, because it doesn't track users activities. Google doesn't have monopoly on the Internet search engine, and in a supposedly free market it is entitled to charge what ever the market will accept for the use of its paid services. There is amply evidence to support the contention that Microsoft used Google search results behind its Bing search display, after doing its own ranking and organizing of the Google results. Maybe that is what Microsoft is complaining about? That they cant exploit Google against itself like they are exploiting Linux but suing vendors who use Linux under the unproven pretext that Linux contains Microsoft IP? IF Linux does contain Microsoft IP then Microsoft has to explain how Linux can be so secure and stable and Windows so insecure and unstable, of both are using the same IP.
Contrast Microsoft's claims against Google with the PC OEM desktop, which is a hegemony, a monopoly, totally controlled by Microsoft and its ad rebate dollars. Perhaps that Congressional committee investigating Google will ask the Microsoft witnesses to explain their pricing structure to the PC OEMs if one of the OEM strays off of the Microsoft plantation and begins offering other operating systems preinstalled on their desktops. Looking at the current PC OEM desktops one could conclude from their behavior, and that of Microsoft, that the PC OEMs are wholly owned subsidiaries of Microsoft.
C#? Microsoft has "depreciated".NET/C#/Silverlight in Win8, in favor of HTML5 and Javascript, so your "salvation" has already failed.
I used to use VS at work running Qt with the exe Qt plugin for VS. But, I found that I could develop 2 to 5 times faster in Linux running Qt with Kate and KDbg than I could with VS in XP, so I switched out of VS and never looked back. Qt has Q_BLOCK, which adds garbage collection and automatically deletes pointers that lose focus, among other things. I especially like its "Signals & Slots" method of callbacks. So easy. So powerful.
We relied on FoxPro from the 2.5 DOS version through the upgrade path to Visual FoxPro6.0. Then, MS announced on the UniversalThread VFP forum that they were dropping VFP and set up classes on that forum to teach.NET, the "new" developer paradigm. They bestowed "MVP" badges to prominent VFP forum members who then played the.NET flutes that led the children out of the VFP villages. The outrage among a large number of the approximately 300,000 VFP developers, world wide, was palatable. MS was taken back and "recanted" the discontinuance, at least in print. The subsequent version releases: 7, 8 and 9, were essentially mere updates and MS announced in 2007 that V10 would not be released. By then it didn't matter. When MS initially announced that they were dropping VFP, we immediately dropped VFP and after a few months trying out various replacements chose Qt as our framework API to replace VFP, with Oracle and PostgreSQL as the back end.
Now, it seems, MS has kicked the.NET/C# programmers to the curb, announcing that HTML5 and Javascript (??!!!!) were the "new" dev tools. Oh,.NET and Silverlight developers needn't worry... their tools will be "along side" the new paradigm. Mono developers? Their tool has always been a day late and a dollar short, regardless of the De Icaza propaganda, and many feel it was Microsoft's way to sidetrack a lot of FOSS developers, but not many jumped on that train. Now it seems that the video showing "Monkey Boy" dancing around the stage, sweating profusely, and shouting "Developers, developers, developers.....", ad nausum, is a cruel joke indeed. Those who were made a monkey of are the.NET/C#/Silverlight developers. How much collective energy, time and money have they sunk into their.NET projects, only to have them relegated to a desert island? I'd wager hundreds of millions of dollars, if not billions, of development costs and products were lost.
When it, as a corporation, has more rights than a REAL corpus, a flesh and blood person. Corporations have always bought of Congressmen with "campaign contributions", which used to be called bribes, but since the SCOTUS ruling a couple years ago that corporations can bribe as many as they want with what ever amounts they want and they don't have to account to anyone showing how much and too whom, the Cabal is now complete. There already exists a revolving door arrangement between corporate CEOs & managers and the heads of the FDA, FCC, SEC, etc... Instead of fulfilling their mandate to protect the citizens from corporate greed and evil, they now protect the corporations from the wrath of the taxpayers.
So, when millions of voters elect a person or campaign for legislation to enable their wishes, a few million dollars, well placed, nullifies the votes of millions of REAL citizens. That kind of evil makes corporations an extension of our government and turns our republic into a cabal.
which was carried out by the hacker-soldiers of the government of Iran for the purposes of identifying the 300,000 Iranians that radical fundamentalist Theocracy wants to muzzle. In other words, state sponsored terrorism.
...shows how far Slashdot's reader base has fallen from being interested in FOSS and open development models.
I've noticed that too. That and the tendency of comments to veer off into discussions unrelated to the article, only to degenerate into exchanges of insults./. was reported in a story a week ago as being among the dying websites. It's easy to see why.
IF that is true, that Nokia has not added any functionality, fixes, or enhancements as proprietary binary libraries, the there is nothing stopping KDE.org or any other FOSS project from forking the latest Qt 4.7.1 code, except that it was released as LGPL v2.1. So, KDE.org would have to revert to Qt 4.4, which was under the GPL, because Qt4.5 was released in January of 2009 under the LGPL
Nokia has reduced itself to being nothing more than a smartphone hardware manufacturer for Microsoft, but they still want to control, even if indirectly, Qt's development and contributions, even from volunteers. It doesn't matter where the code is hosted, it only matters WHO owns and controls the code. In other words, which license is used. That's why they've chosen the LGPL v2.1 By coding significant features or enhancements as proprietary binaries, it forces Qt to be LGPL in order to utilize those features or enhancements, thus Nokia can control the direction of development of Qt while still claiming it is "open". When explaining why LGPL should not be used the GNU project states:
If we amass a collection of powerful GPL-covered libraries that have no parallel available to proprietary software, they will provide a range of useful modules to serve as building blocks in new free programs. This will be a significant advantage for further free software development, and some projects will decide to make software free in order to use these libraries. University projects can easily be influenced; nowadays, as companies begin to consider making software free, even some commercial projects can be influenced in this way.
Proprietary software developers, seeking to deny the free competition an important advantage, will try to convince authors not to contribute libraries to the GPL-covered collection. For example, they may appeal to the ego, promising “more users for this library” if we let them use the code in proprietary software products. Popularity is tempting, and it is easy for a library developer to rationalize the idea that boosting the popularity of that one library is what the community needs above all.
But we should not listen to these temptations, because we can achieve much more if we stand together. We free software developers should support one another. By releasing libraries that are limited to free software only, we can help each other's free software packages outdo the proprietary alternatives. The whole free software movement will have more popularity, because free software as a whole will stack up better against the competition.
This might be a time to say "Thanks, but no thanks". A time to take the last GPL version of the code and fork it away from Nokia's (and Microsoft's) control. Perhaps kde.org is a nice place to host the code because the most significant software created with Qt is the KDE desktop.
If humanity is to survive, we must pledge to eliminate all carbon dioxide from our atmosphere by 2030
Pure and utter nonsense. For thousands of years the level of CO2 in the atmosphere oscillated around 280 ppm. Even if we were financially and physically able to remove 100 ppm of CO2 from the atmosphere it would have little affect on the temperature of the Earth, which has varied widely over the Millennia. see it here
By 2007, Google invested hundreds of millions of dollars in wind, solar, solar thermal, and geothermal projects, including a 1.6 MW solar installation pilot project at its headquarters. In 2010, Google Energy made its first investment in a renewable-energy project, putting up $38.8 million into two wind farms in North Dakota. The company announced the two locations will generate 169.5 MW of power, or enough to supply 55,000 homes. The farms, which were developed by NextEra Energy Resources, will reduce fossil fuel use in the region. NextEra Energy Resources sold Google a twenty percent stake in the project in order to get funding for project development.[3] In addition, on July 30, 2010, Google Energy agreed to purchase 100 MW of Iowa wind energy from NextEra Energy at a fixed rate for 20 years.[4][5][6][7] The electricity is intended to be primarily used for Google's data centers, but also may be sold on the open market.
In 2010, Google Energy together with a group of other investors announced plans to build the Atlantic Wind Connection, an undersea cable off the Atlantic coast to connect future offshore wind farms with on-shore transmission grids.[8]
In April 2011 they extended their partnership with NextEra by signing a 20-year power purchase agreement from their Minco II Wind Energy Center.[9] The 100.8-megawatt wind farm being developed in Grady and Caddo counties near Minco.
How many other corporations the size of Google are investing that much money in electric power generation?
insecurity due to evil intent or incompetence, corporations will now have to follow rules made up by the most incompetent group of people on the planet?
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To believe that the TSA will only stop traffic in Tennessee is unreasonable. That the TSA is now stopping traffic on an Interstate highway means that ANY Interstate highway can be a target for their abuse of the 4th Amendment. The Tennessee experiment is just a trial balloon to see if the public will roll over and go back to sleep. It looks like they will, so you can count on the TSA stopping YOU sometime in the near future on ANY Interstate you travel. After that will come traffic stops on main traffic arteries in major cities, followed by stops set up at traffic nexus points in smaller communities.
"I have nothing to hide", you say? You'd better read:
http://www.aclu.org/drug-law-reform-immigrants-rights-racial-justice/know-your-rights-what-do-if-you
or
http://www.instructables.com/id/What-to-do-if-the-police-stop-you-1/
IF this is just a type of Federal work program, employing people as TSA agents, I'd rather have a restoration of the CCC. At least we'd get our infrastructure restored in the process.
I'd rather retain the freedoms the Bill of Rights gave me than to live as one imprisoned, my movements and speech (H.R. 3011) constantly controlled by Federal bureaucrats, "for our safety". Living under such control here is no different than living in Cuba, Venezuela, Iran or China.
Freedom has never been free. The 2nd Amendment gives us the right to handle both tyrannical governments and terrorists. Otherwise, the blood of all soldiers who fought to retain our freedoms in past conflicts has been shed for nothing.
P.S. -- He and Gates were not called "The Pirates of Silicone Valley" for no reason....
rectangles, rectangles with rounded corners, icons, buttons, touch screens?
What else? Air, water, trees ...?
"THERE IS NO COMMAND LINE IN WINDOWS... by hairyfeet (841228)
Protip: Never go full retard."
A listing of the 230 commands available from "command prompt" is here.
Of course, Microsoft says it is not a "DOS prompt", but, if it looks like a DOS prompt, talks like a DOS prompt and walks like a DOS prompt, then it must be a .... "Command Prompt":
http://0.tqn.com/d/pcsupport/1/G/R/5/-/-/command-prompt-windows-7.jpg
Translation: for Joe and Sally Sixpack it's a "DOS box".
the cozy back room deal is probably a lot worse for consumers than we realize.
I'm 70, and there was a time in my early life when Federal agencies upheld their mandate to protect the consumer from greedy or corrupt corporations. Now, the Feds protect the greedy, corrupt corporations from the wrath of of the consumers whom the corporations abused.
complete that C will still be a constant representing the maximum speed of the Universe, regardless of the frame of reference. It is, after all, the reciprocal of the square root of the product of two other physical constants.
So. It's legal, otherwise the Feds would prosecute. It is unethical.
Microsoft developed its software in Redmond, WA, but its sales offices are in Reno, NV, which has no sales tax. A couple years ago Ballmer derided Oregonians for not "paying their fair share of taxes". That's legal too, but also unethical.
If one is a "sin" the other is as well, if your "Social Justice" means anything.
The math tool. Fantastic piece of software.
for a GPS maker to sell a device which advertizes that it does not included purchased waypoints to misdirect the traffic. But, knowing the ethical level of businesses today, they'd sell a device that currently markets for $100 for $500.
Yours is the most intelligent comment so far, and spot on.
This is the same government that is trying to send Italian geologists to prison because they can't predict earthquakes when, in fact, NO geologist on the planet can reliably predict when an earthquake will occur, even if they were given a latitude of several years, much less a particular day.
Now, they want to transform their government into a cabal, in which corporations make the rules to minimize their own liability and maximize the liability of their customers and of their profits.
These actions can only be explained by assuming that the Italian politicians are totally corrupt, which is a pretty good assumption there and here in America. Can we be far behind?
Only if you can prove that Google was holding a gun to your head when you chose Google over Bing or some other search engine.
Wikipedia lists over 300 Internet search engines users can choose from, and most are free for the using. Many use DuckDuckGo, for example, because it doesn't track users activities. Google doesn't have monopoly on the Internet search engine, and in a supposedly free market it is entitled to charge what ever the market will accept for the use of its paid services. There is amply evidence to support the contention that Microsoft used Google search results behind its Bing search display, after doing its own ranking and organizing of the Google results. Maybe that is what Microsoft is complaining about? That they cant exploit Google against itself like they are exploiting Linux but suing vendors who use Linux under the unproven pretext that Linux contains Microsoft IP? IF Linux does contain Microsoft IP then Microsoft has to explain how Linux can be so secure and stable and Windows so insecure and unstable, of both are using the same IP.
Contrast Microsoft's claims against Google with the PC OEM desktop, which is a hegemony, a monopoly, totally controlled by Microsoft and its ad rebate dollars. Perhaps that Congressional committee investigating Google will ask the Microsoft witnesses to explain their pricing structure to the PC OEMs if one of the OEM strays off of the Microsoft plantation and begins offering other operating systems preinstalled on their desktops. Looking at the current PC OEM desktops one could conclude from their behavior, and that of Microsoft, that the PC OEMs are wholly owned subsidiaries of Microsoft.
C#? .NET/C#/Silverlight in Win8, in favor of HTML5 and Javascript, so your "salvation" has already failed.
Microsoft has "depreciated"
I used to use VS at work running Qt with the exe Qt plugin for VS. But, I found that I could develop 2 to 5 times faster in Linux running Qt with Kate and KDbg than I could with VS in XP, so I switched out of VS and never looked back. Qt has Q_BLOCK, which adds garbage collection and automatically deletes pointers that lose focus, among other things. I especially like its "Signals & Slots" method of callbacks. So easy. So powerful.
They didn't put that "work" into their code voluntarily. They were forced to do it because they were in violation of the GPL.
We relied on FoxPro from the 2.5 DOS version through the upgrade path to Visual FoxPro6.0. Then, MS announced on the UniversalThread VFP forum that they were dropping VFP and set up classes on that forum to teach .NET, the "new" developer paradigm. They bestowed "MVP" badges to prominent VFP forum members who then played the .NET flutes that led the children out of the VFP villages. The outrage among a large number of the approximately 300,000 VFP developers, world wide, was palatable. MS was taken back and "recanted" the discontinuance, at least in print. The subsequent version releases: 7, 8 and 9, were essentially mere updates and MS announced in 2007 that V10 would not be released. By then it didn't matter. When MS initially announced that they were dropping VFP, we immediately dropped VFP and after a few months trying out various replacements chose Qt as our framework API to replace VFP, with Oracle and PostgreSQL as the back end.
Now, it seems, MS has kicked the .NET/C# programmers to the curb, announcing that HTML5 and Javascript (??!!!!) were the "new" dev tools. Oh, .NET and Silverlight developers needn't worry ... their tools will be "along side" the new paradigm. Mono developers? Their tool has always been a day late and a dollar short, regardless of the De Icaza propaganda, and many feel it was Microsoft's way to sidetrack a lot of FOSS developers, but not many jumped on that train. Now it seems that the video showing "Monkey Boy" dancing around the stage, sweating profusely, and shouting "Developers, developers, developers .....", ad nausum, is a cruel joke indeed. Those who were made a monkey of are the .NET/C#/Silverlight developers. How much collective energy, time and money have they sunk into their .NET projects, only to have them relegated to a desert island? I'd wager hundreds of millions of dollars, if not billions, of development costs and products were lost.
When?
When it, as a corporation, has more rights than a REAL corpus, a flesh and blood person. Corporations have always bought of Congressmen with "campaign contributions", which used to be called bribes, but since the SCOTUS ruling a couple years ago that corporations can bribe as many as they want with what ever amounts they want and they don't have to account to anyone showing how much and too whom, the Cabal is now complete. There already exists a revolving door arrangement between corporate CEOs & managers and the heads of the FDA, FCC, SEC, etc... Instead of fulfilling their mandate to protect the citizens from corporate greed and evil, they now protect the corporations from the wrath of the taxpayers.
So, when millions of voters elect a person or campaign for legislation to enable their wishes, a few million dollars, well placed, nullifies the votes of millions of REAL citizens. That kind of evil makes corporations an extension of our government and turns our republic into a cabal.
Enjoy your Constitutional Rights.
which was carried out by the hacker-soldiers of the government of Iran for the purposes of identifying the 300,000 Iranians that radical fundamentalist Theocracy wants to muzzle. In other words, state sponsored terrorism.
...shows how far Slashdot's reader base has fallen from being interested in FOSS and open development models.
I've noticed that too. That and the tendency of comments to veer off into discussions unrelated to the article, only to degenerate into exchanges of insults. /. was reported in a story a week ago as being among the dying websites. It's easy to see why.
IF that is true, that Nokia has not added any functionality, fixes, or enhancements as proprietary binary libraries, the there is nothing stopping KDE.org or any other FOSS project from forking the latest Qt 4.7.1 code, except that it was released as LGPL v2.1. So, KDE.org would have to revert to Qt 4.4, which was under the GPL, because Qt4.5 was released in January of 2009 under the LGPL
I agree.
Nokia has reduced itself to being nothing more than a smartphone hardware manufacturer for Microsoft, but they still want to control, even if indirectly, Qt's development and contributions, even from volunteers. It doesn't matter where the code is hosted, it only matters WHO owns and controls the code. In other words, which license is used. That's why they've chosen the LGPL v2.1 By coding significant features or enhancements as proprietary binaries, it forces Qt to be LGPL in order to utilize those features or enhancements, thus Nokia can control the direction of development of Qt while still claiming it is "open". When explaining why LGPL should not be used the GNU project states:
If we amass a collection of powerful GPL-covered libraries that have no parallel available to proprietary software, they will provide a range of useful modules to serve as building blocks in new free programs. This will be a significant advantage for further free software development, and some projects will decide to make software free in order to use these libraries. University projects can easily be influenced; nowadays, as companies begin to consider making software free, even some commercial projects can be influenced in this way.
Proprietary software developers, seeking to deny the free competition an important advantage, will try to convince authors not to contribute libraries to the GPL-covered collection. For example, they may appeal to the ego, promising “more users for this library” if we let them use the code in proprietary software products. Popularity is tempting, and it is easy for a library developer to rationalize the idea that boosting the popularity of that one library is what the community needs above all.
But we should not listen to these temptations, because we can achieve much more if we stand together. We free software developers should support one another. By releasing libraries that are limited to free software only, we can help each other's free software packages outdo the proprietary alternatives. The whole free software movement will have more popularity, because free software as a whole will stack up better against the competition.
This might be a time to say "Thanks, but no thanks". A time to take the last GPL version of the code and fork it away from Nokia's (and Microsoft's) control. Perhaps kde.org is a nice place to host the code because the most significant software created with Qt is the KDE desktop.
If humanity is to survive, we must pledge to eliminate all carbon dioxide from our atmosphere by 2030
Pure and utter nonsense. For thousands of years the level of CO2 in the atmosphere oscillated around 280 ppm. Even if we were financially and physically able to remove 100 ppm of CO2 from the atmosphere it would have little affect on the temperature of the Earth, which has varied widely over the Millennia. see it here
Your link states this:
By 2007, Google invested hundreds of millions of dollars in wind, solar, solar thermal, and geothermal projects, including a 1.6 MW solar installation pilot project at its headquarters. In 2010, Google Energy made its first investment in a renewable-energy project, putting up $38.8 million into two wind farms in North Dakota. The company announced the two locations will generate 169.5 MW of power, or enough to supply 55,000 homes. The farms, which were developed by NextEra Energy Resources, will reduce fossil fuel use in the region. NextEra Energy Resources sold Google a twenty percent stake in the project in order to get funding for project development.[3] In addition, on July 30, 2010, Google Energy agreed to purchase 100 MW of Iowa wind energy from NextEra Energy at a fixed rate for 20 years.[4][5][6][7] The electricity is intended to be primarily used for Google's data centers, but also may be sold on the open market.
In 2010, Google Energy together with a group of other investors announced plans to build the Atlantic Wind Connection, an undersea cable off the Atlantic coast to connect future offshore wind farms with on-shore transmission grids.[8]
In April 2011 they extended their partnership with NextEra by signing a 20-year power purchase agreement from their Minco II Wind Energy Center.[9] The 100.8-megawatt wind farm being developed in Grady and Caddo counties near Minco.
How many other corporations the size of Google are investing that much money in electric power generation?
insecurity due to evil intent or incompetence, corporations will now have to follow rules made up by the most incompetent group of people on the planet?