You, sir, are one sick person. To advocate that anyone in America should be shot because of their political views is INSANE! The person who did the shooting in Az also shot the 1st and 2nd Amendments, or what's left of them.
You know someone is out of soap when they start lacing their arguments with the words "hater" or "hateful".
Aren't you actually confused with the Civilian National Defense Force" proposed by Pres. Obama? Its only political equivalent in modern times are the Brown Shirts or the Khmer Rouge.
Or, perhaps you had duck hunting in mind? That point of that video begins at about 4:15.
Both parties, and all their satellites, are mirror images of each other, and both are worthless as representatives of the people. Their common core is their love of corporate bribe money, a.k.a. "Campaign Contributions". That's how Pres Obama lost the health care "debate". He got one of the largest mandates in history to pass SIGNIFICANT health care reform, and he was given majorities in both houses to make sure he could do it. But, Dems couldn't keep their fingers out of the corporate cookie jars so a few million dollars nullified the votes of millions of voters. Now those Dems and their Rep clones can take their "campaign war chests" into retirement with them, along with their salaries, free health care with no caps or exemptions, and a 10% COL raise each year, all of which pass on to the spouse at their deaths, so they can live in the same luxury as the CEOs whose bribes they took.
The site has been offline for two years, but the Internet Archive has most of it is HERE .
Read it and weep. Nothing will be done because most Windows users, like you, prefer to not believe that they are being spied on, or that former Microsoft employee James Plamondon trained "Technical Evangelists" who astroturf websites making fun of such claims.
You should read James Plamondon's mea culpa concerning his training of PAID "Technical Evangelists" to do the "Slog", the "Stuffed Panel", Astroturf congress and various websites with pro Microsoft and/or anti-Apple or Linux lies, etc...
Plamondon had to do a mea culpa because his activity was exposed in the Combs vs Microsoft lawsuit where the training documents he wrote were released to the public. As an example of how TE's work, read exerpts from Plamondon's training manual for the phrase "stacked panel", "The Slog", and other techniques here.
Don't be insulting. Your "unlimited plan" has strings and strings ("I just wish unlimited data assigned to my account really meant unlimited data!!") and I doubt that you paid $23/m for it.
Verizon is " TESTING unlimited data plans. I currently pay Verizon $72/mo for two cell phones, no texting, no Internet, 1600 minutes. To use the "unlimited" plan for two phones would cost me $160/mo, assuming they aren't lying about being "unlimited" and they throttle my speed when I hit a GB limit.
Right now, following the new FCC "neutrality" policy becoming law, using a cell phone to access the Internet does not look attractive unless you make in excess of $150K/year so you can afford it.
No, you are wrong. It is NOT a matter of Physics. It could be at some time in the future but right now it is a matter of greed.
The USA ranks 31st in the world in average Internet bandwidth. It's not a matter of population density. Do those other 31 countries know something about Physics that we do not? It's not unusual tor cable and telco drones to astroturf such sites claiming that US speeds are "fine". Obviously we have lost our "1st world" Internet status to countries whose standard of living is way below ours.
Compare your speed in the US with other locations in the US HERE .
The 1996 Communications Act gave cable and telcos $200B to finish the fiber optic installations started by many local governments frustrated by refusals of those cable and telcos to move from Copper to glass, because of Copper's physical limitations to carry high bandwidth traffic. That act also prohibited local governments from "competing" against the cable and telcos, but it did not contain performance penalty clauses (imagine that!) so the cable and telcos pocketed the money and promptly forgot about the fiber optic. Oh, that act RE-DEFINED the definition of "high" bandwidth down to 200,000 b/s, which is about the top end of V.92 speeds. Now, you have telcos using phrasex like "fasterize your internet speed with ***", as they sell actually low speed DSL Tier connections, VOIP and Dish TV for $89/m for "life". In France, for $30/m, you can get 40Mb/s with free nation wide phone and 200 TV channels. Of course, France must know some Physics that is unknown in the US.
Apparently not. I don't hear any significant mass outcry against this, except from Geeks. I did see a lot of corporate drones spewing corporate propaganda about how the new rules would "keep the Internet neutral". Joe and Sally Sixpack aren't knowledgeable, or concerned enough, to care. Besides, you should know by now that the FCC isn't about protecting the American public from greedy corporations, its about helping those corporations maximize their profits beyond normal returns, after helping those corporations stealing control of what was a tax-payer funded and supported communication facility. The affect of bribing (a.k.a "Campaign Contributions") politicians in Washington was an "AT&T breakup" in reverse. Since FCC chairman are chosen from among ISP management and return to ISP management when their terms expire how could you expect a different result. The situation is the same in all of the regulatory bureaucracies, which is why our Republic has been replaced by a Cabal and the Constitution has been effectively gutted -- all in the name of "Security", of course.
I pay $72/mon for a 12Mb/s guaranteed no-cap connection. That does not include phone or TV. A friend of mine in France pays $30/m for a 40Mb/s connection which includes free calls 24/7/365 to any other phone in France PLUS 200 channels of TV. The difference is greed. I have a fiber optic cable buried in my front yard. It was put there 15 years ago by my city government after it got tired of trying to convince the local cable and telcos to bring highbandwidth to the city. The cable and telcos bribed Congress to outlaw such "unfair competition" and in that Bill Congress gave the cable and telcos $200 Billion to finish what the local governments had started. Unfortunately, the bill did not contain a performance penalty clause, so the cable and telcos pocketed the money and promptly forgot about the fiber optic plans. Now, they are trying to maximize their profits on old Copper wire by trying to "two-tier" packets. The FCC's new rule allows tiering for wireless but not for Copper. The reason is also obvious -- force cable users to wireless, where telcos can squeeze even more profits from users.
In the near future you can expect them to begin charging a monthly fee for each website you visit, along with a monthly data cap. Ten bucks per month for email, for Facebook, per RSS, 25 bucks for YouTube. All with monthly data caps that are so low it guarantees that the users will be pushed into expensive per Mb download charges.
Joe, Sally, by being so stupid you asked for it. Now you are going to get it. Unfortunately, so will the rest of us.
All of the Winddows OS's have been sending "demographic" data back to Redmond on a regular basis for years. This was throughly documented on the old F**KMicrosoft.com website.
Your comment demonstrates an obvious lack of historical knowledge. Read The $200 Billion Rip-Off by Cringely, to get a brief introduction to what you were too young to understand or over looked.
Fifteen years ago my community, after their repeated requests to the cable and telcos to build a Fiber Optic cable system to bring affordable HIGH BANDWIDTH to every citizen were rebuffed, decided to begin building it themselves as a public utility. (Our electricity is owned by city and we pay 6 cents/kwh). I watched as they trenched their way through my yard and buried FO cable. The cable and telcos lobbied Congress whining about "unfair" competition. Congress agreed and passed a low preventing local and state governments from "competing" against the cable and telcos. Cringely explains the rest, but failed to mention that while Congress FUNDED the cable and telcos to complete the FO project, they did NOT put performance clauses in the bill, so the cable and telcos took the money and stuffed it into their greedy pockets. To help the cable and telcos extract even more profits from their ancient Copper wire technology Congress REDEFINED "high" bandwidth to include any connection that was 200Kb/s or faster.
So now, in France, a citizen can pay $30/month and receive a 40Mb/s HIGH bandwidth Internet connection which includes 24/7/365 phone calls to anyone in France (and economical rates to other countries), and 200 channel TV.
I pay $72/mon for a 12Mb/s Internet connection, thankfully uncapped, but no phone nor TV. I do use Skype to talk for free to other VOIP users, and 2 cents/min to any cellphones or land lines in most of the Free World, and I can watch expried TV shows on HULU for $8/mon, but 12Mb/s is no where near 40Mb/s.
Now, the ISPs want to charge extra for Skype and Netflix bytes. IF you think it will end there you have a brick for a brain. Greed knows NO bounds. They'll find ways to justify charging for other types of data streams: VPN connections, encrypted data, cloud database data, etc..., then they'll tier the stream types to ratchet up the profit margins even higher, and all of it on ANCIENT Copper Wire technology. In the background their OWN data pipes are being converted to Fiber Optic, but the stuff streaming out to you will have a Copper segment. They need that bottle-neck to justify their robbery.
You elected your Congressmen to serve you. In the past they formed "watch dog" agencies to keep an eye on the corporations. Now, the corporations bribe the Congressmen to pass laws favorable to their profits, and the FCC, FDA, and DOJ are now instruments of enforcing corporate policy.
Didn't you ever wonder how President Obama, elected by a LARGE majority to fulfill his promise to clean up Health Insurance and the medical industry, was stymied by his OWN Democrat party members, the majority of whom took bribes from the health insurance industry and the pharmaceutical industry to maintain the status quo, to say nothing of insuring their own re-election so their own ride on the Federal gravy train wouldn't come to an end.
Welcome to the Corporate State. And you though you were living in a Republic or a Democracy, where your vote counted and the Constituion meant something. Silly you.
Microsoft tried to fight Linux with its "253 Patents infringed by Linux" portfolio, even supplying instructions on how to attack Linux in court to a would-be buyer. But, the cockroaches scurried away into the darkness when their plans came to light.
The entire purpose of this group's combined patent portfolio will be to fight Linux and FOSS, with a goal of doing what SCO failed to do: gain "ownership" of the Linux kernel.
I never realized how much of a Police State Canada has become. Cameras everywhere, a Billion dollar budget extension to twist a law against WWII German saboteurs into support for the suppression of the rights of free speech and assembly. How soon will it be before each citizen will be required to have a National ID number permanently tattooed onto their arm?
I read the patent, all 270 pages of it, most of which is repetitive photographs of text or drawings with slight word changes to make the "patent" apply to just about any industry they could think of 20 years ago. It uses two key words: "Contextualizing" and "Alternates". Each image usually has two adjacent boxes of text which look like outline notes. Another set of images is of display device which appears to have a screen and two knobs. The screen is divided into three sections. The upper left is and index tree, the lower left is a help section, and the right side is where information relating to the selection made in the upper left panel is displayed. Most dev tools API documentation is constructed like that, in either GUI or console format, and has been since well before the patent application date.
The example code is written in BASIC and is full of "CALL nnnn"'s as a way of controlling flow. It does not contain lines about moving a mouse icon over an HTML hotspot and have an action take place. The example code does not contain the concept of call-backs or other such coding mechanisms which would be required to respond to interrupts in an event loop.
The patent is written in such a general way that what it means is open to what ever the patent holder thinks it means, or can convince a judge and/or jury it means. The code it self could apply to selecting menu options with a mouse or by tabbing and using the Enter Key.
This "patent" is a classic example of what is wrong with patenting ideas, math formulas or coding algorithms.
The patched was announced by Canonical (Ubuntu) the same day that Ben Hawkes announced the exploit and published a proof of concept code.
The required kernel update is "2.6.32-24.43" or higher. That kernel was automatically updated on my 64bit Kubuntu 10.04 system with: -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 757586 2010-09-17 10:04/var/cache/apt/archives/linux-headers-2.6.32-24-generic_2.6.32-24.43_amd64.deb and, 11 hour later, again: -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 770132 2010-09-17 21:05/var/cache/apt/archives/linux-headers-2.6.32-25-generic_2.6.32-25.44_amd64.deb
the same day that Hawkes announced it. Most 64bit Linux desktops are single user, and not susceptible if the owner did not hand out local accounts to his or her kids (and even then?), and most corporate Linux users would not advertize that their servers or workstations were exploited, so claims that Linux systems are being "compromised left and right" are spacious, to say the least, or FUD or outright lying at worst.
Obviously, plus a LOT of political intrigue in the background. And, possible the German are a lot smarter than the Swiss. Munich is well along the conversion path:
I turned 57 this week. Probably why I am having trouble with my Gentoo install.
Probably, but Gentoo is a tough install. You could start here and follow the process. Or, you could download a Kubuntu LiveCD iso, burn it carefully, boot it, click through the timezone, keyboard type, enter your name and password, and click "install". Twenty minutes to an hour later, depending on what distro you choose, you reboot into your new desktop. Help is here.
I turned 69 a month ago and I am having NO trouble with Kubuntu 10.4 running KDE 4.5.1. I prefer KDE because it is more like the Windows environment I used at work for the last decade, except that Kubuntu doesn't get infected or slow down under a greater load.
Tiny Fey's SNL skit misquoted the comment by Palin about seeing Russia during a CBS interview.
The ridicule with humor tactic is straight from "Rules For Radicals" by Saul D. Alinksy, page 128, rule #5: "Ridicule is man's most potent weapon. It is almost impossible to counterattack ridicule. Also it infuriates the opposition, who then react to your advantage."
In this case the ridicule is built upon a deliberate deception. Palin said "You can actually see Russia from land here in Alaska." What Tina Fey spoke is certainly more funny, but the real purpose of the script was not to inform, but to misinform using ridicule. It was character assassination. It was a very successful tactic, even if it was dishonest and deceitful. It is identical in tactic to that taken by NewsWeek magazine when they took a full body sports photo for their cover, cropped it to show just the left side of her face, zoomed in to produce a grainy, unflattering affect. The original photo is not so unflattering. Another site tried a series of photoshopped pictures of Palin in an attempt to devalue her greatest, and probably only asset, her beauty.
Most people, except those on the Left, saw through the deception by doing their own investigation. In the process they probably decided what most people who are neither Right or Left have decided, namely that Palin is short on substance. There is little difference between reading notes off the palm of your hand versus off of a pair of teleprompters. With her as President we'd have another C student in the Whitehouse.
The USA is in a financial, political and social morass of such proportions that only the 1776 Revolution, the Civil war and the Depression of the 1930s comes close. In fact, we are probably in the Second Great Depression. Of ALL the candidates I've studied, from either side of the isle, or in the "Tea Party", there appears no one who has the knowledge, training or intelligence to serve in the Whitehouse during this time. The Right & the GOP are married to corporate powers, and even the far Left is in pursuit of corporate finance money, although they try to lie about it and hide behind mindless slogans. I fear for this country and for the futures of my grandchildren.
NetApp CEO Tom Georgens even said the two companies have shared a 'common vision' focused on providing solutions that reduce IT cost and complexity.
cost and complexity... two areas in which Oracle is the world class champion. Obviously, Georgens has neither purchased nor attempted to maintain an Oracle DB.
Burning books which express politically unacceptable view points is a prime marker of an oppressive government or society.
So is shutting down a political or religious website which is viewed unfavorably by society or the government. If it was done out of fear of reprisal by Muslims or because of Political Correctness it says loads about the "land of the free and the home of the brave".
We all condemn the Inquisition because it represented an unholy alliance between church and state. If you think the Inquisition was bad then research the doctrine of Abrogation practiced by teachers of Islam, Sharia Law, and see which version of democracy you'd like to live with.
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According to his YouTube video" explaining his views.
So much for all the accusations by the Dems against Reps, Fox News and the Tea Party.
"should be shot in the head"?
You, sir, are one sick person. To advocate that anyone in America should be shot because of their political views is INSANE! The person who did the shooting in Az also shot the 1st and 2nd Amendments, or what's left of them.
Always accusing their opponents of "hate" for "fomenting violence", the Left seems to have a short memory when it comes to evidence of their own fomenting hate. They made a movie about the assassination of President George W. Bush, in the Future past tense.
"Assault and Battery": Assault threatening harm to someone, Battery is physically harming someone.
Can someone point to an audio stream of Rush Limbaugh which matches the hate and violence spewed by Mike Malloy?
You know someone is out of soap when they start lacing their arguments with the words "hater" or "hateful".
Aren't you actually confused with the Civilian National Defense Force" proposed by Pres. Obama? Its only political equivalent in modern times are the Brown Shirts or the Khmer Rouge.
Or, perhaps you had duck hunting in mind? That point of that video begins at about 4:15.
Both parties, and all their satellites, are mirror images of each other, and both are worthless as representatives of the people. Their common core is their love of corporate bribe money, a.k.a. "Campaign Contributions". That's how Pres Obama lost the health care "debate". He got one of the largest mandates in history to pass SIGNIFICANT health care reform, and he was given majorities in both houses to make sure he could do it. But, Dems couldn't keep their fingers out of the corporate cookie jars so a few million dollars nullified the votes of millions of voters. Now those Dems and their Rep clones can take their "campaign war chests" into retirement with them, along with their salaries, free health care with no caps or exemptions, and a 10% COL raise each year, all of which pass on to the spouse at their deaths, so they can live in the same luxury as the CEOs whose bribes they took.
The archive for that web site is here
So they claim.
During the 4th quarter Apple sold 14 million iPhones, and over 73 million to date.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:IPhone_sales_per_quarter_simple.svg
The site has been offline for two years, but the Internet Archive has most of it is HERE .
Read it and weep. Nothing will be done because most Windows users, like you, prefer to not believe that they are being spied on, or that former Microsoft employee James Plamondon trained "Technical Evangelists" who astroturf websites making fun of such claims.
You should read James Plamondon's mea culpa concerning his training of PAID "Technical Evangelists" to do the "Slog", the "Stuffed Panel", Astroturf congress and various websites with pro Microsoft and/or anti-Apple or Linux lies, etc...
Plamondon had to do a mea culpa because his activity was exposed in the Combs vs Microsoft lawsuit where the training documents he wrote were released to the public. As an example of how TE's work, read exerpts from Plamondon's training manual for the phrase "stacked panel", "The Slog", and other techniques here.
When Joe Barr wrote SLIME in 1994, he didn't know about the TE's Microsoft had unleashed on the world, but he described them to a tea:
http://slated.org/more_microsoft_dirty_tricks_history
Internet Achive has the "SLIME" article here.
A more complete, but not exhaustive list of dirty tricks by Microsoft are listed here:
http://www.grokdoc.net/index.php/Dirty_Tricks_history
You obviously can't read with comprehension: "cable and telcos". For you translate that as "wired and wireless".
Don't be insulting. Your "unlimited plan" has strings and strings ("I just wish unlimited data assigned to my account really meant unlimited data!!") and I doubt that you paid $23/m for it.
Verizon is " TESTING unlimited data plans. I currently pay Verizon $72/mo for two cell phones, no texting, no Internet, 1600 minutes. To use the "unlimited" plan for two phones would cost me $160/mo, assuming they aren't lying about being "unlimited" and they throttle my speed when I hit a GB limit.
Right now, following the new FCC "neutrality" policy becoming law, using a cell phone to access the Internet does not look attractive unless you make in excess of $150K/year so you can afford it.
No, you are wrong. It is NOT a matter of Physics. It could be at some time in the future but right now it is a matter of greed.
The USA ranks 31st in the world in average Internet bandwidth. It's not a matter of population density. Do those other 31 countries know something about Physics that we do not? It's not unusual tor cable and telco drones to astroturf such sites claiming that US speeds are "fine". Obviously we have lost our "1st world" Internet status to countries whose standard of living is way below ours.
Compare your speed in the US with other locations in the US HERE .
The 1996 Communications Act gave cable and telcos $200B to finish the fiber optic installations started by many local governments frustrated by refusals of those cable and telcos to move from Copper to glass, because of Copper's physical limitations to carry high bandwidth traffic. That act also prohibited local governments from "competing" against the cable and telcos, but it did not contain performance penalty clauses (imagine that!) so the cable and telcos pocketed the money and promptly forgot about the fiber optic. Oh, that act RE-DEFINED the definition of "high" bandwidth down to 200,000 b/s, which is about the top end of V.92 speeds. Now, you have telcos using phrasex like "fasterize your internet speed with ***", as they sell actually low speed DSL Tier connections, VOIP and Dish TV for $89/m for "life". In France, for $30/m, you can get 40Mb/s with free nation wide phone and 200 TV channels. Of course, France must know some Physics that is unknown in the US.
Apparently not. I don't hear any significant mass outcry against this, except from Geeks. I did see a lot of corporate drones spewing corporate propaganda about how the new rules would "keep the Internet neutral". Joe and Sally Sixpack aren't knowledgeable, or concerned enough, to care. Besides, you should know by now that the FCC isn't about protecting the American public from greedy corporations, its about helping those corporations maximize their profits beyond normal returns, after helping those corporations stealing control of what was a tax-payer funded and supported communication facility. The affect of bribing (a.k.a "Campaign Contributions") politicians in Washington was an "AT&T breakup" in reverse. Since FCC chairman are chosen from among ISP management and return to ISP management when their terms expire how could you expect a different result. The situation is the same in all of the regulatory bureaucracies, which is why our Republic has been replaced by a Cabal and the Constitution has been effectively gutted -- all in the name of "Security", of course.
I pay $72/mon for a 12Mb/s guaranteed no-cap connection. That does not include phone or TV. A friend of mine in France pays $30/m for a 40Mb/s connection which includes free calls 24/7/365 to any other phone in France PLUS 200 channels of TV. The difference is greed. I have a fiber optic cable buried in my front yard. It was put there 15 years ago by my city government after it got tired of trying to convince the local cable and telcos to bring highbandwidth to the city. The cable and telcos bribed Congress to outlaw such "unfair competition" and in that Bill Congress gave the cable and telcos $200 Billion to finish what the local governments had started. Unfortunately, the bill did not contain a performance penalty clause, so the cable and telcos pocketed the money and promptly forgot about the fiber optic plans. Now, they are trying to maximize their profits on old Copper wire by trying to "two-tier" packets. The FCC's new rule allows tiering for wireless but not for Copper. The reason is also obvious -- force cable users to wireless, where telcos can squeeze even more profits from users.
In the near future you can expect them to begin charging a monthly fee for each website you visit, along with a monthly data cap. Ten bucks per month for email, for Facebook, per RSS, 25 bucks for YouTube. All with monthly data caps that are so low it guarantees that the users will be pushed into expensive per Mb download charges.
Joe, Sally, by being so stupid you asked for it. Now you are going to get it. Unfortunately, so will the rest of us.
All of the Winddows OS's have been sending "demographic" data back to Redmond on a regular basis for years. This was throughly documented on the old F**KMicrosoft.com website.
Your comment demonstrates an obvious lack of historical knowledge. Read The $200 Billion Rip-Off by Cringely, to get a brief introduction to what you were too young to understand or over looked.
Fifteen years ago my community, after their repeated requests to the cable and telcos to build a Fiber Optic cable system to bring affordable HIGH BANDWIDTH to every citizen were rebuffed, decided to begin building it themselves as a public utility. (Our electricity is owned by city and we pay 6 cents/kwh). I watched as they trenched their way through my yard and buried FO cable. The cable and telcos lobbied Congress whining about "unfair" competition. Congress agreed and passed a low preventing local and state governments from "competing" against the cable and telcos. Cringely explains the rest, but failed to mention that while Congress FUNDED the cable and telcos to complete the FO project, they did NOT put performance clauses in the bill, so the cable and telcos took the money and stuffed it into their greedy pockets. To help the cable and telcos extract even more profits from their ancient Copper wire technology Congress REDEFINED "high" bandwidth to include any connection that was 200Kb/s or faster.
So now, in France, a citizen can pay $30/month and receive a 40Mb/s HIGH bandwidth Internet connection which includes 24/7/365 phone calls to anyone in France (and economical rates to other countries), and 200 channel TV.
I pay $72/mon for a 12Mb/s Internet connection, thankfully uncapped, but no phone nor TV. I do use Skype to talk for free to other VOIP users, and 2 cents/min to any cellphones or land lines in most of the Free World, and I can watch expried TV shows on HULU for $8/mon, but 12Mb/s is no where near 40Mb/s.
Now, the ISPs want to charge extra for Skype and Netflix bytes. IF you think it will end there you have a brick for a brain. Greed knows NO bounds. They'll find ways to justify charging for other types of data streams: VPN connections, encrypted data, cloud database data, etc..., then they'll tier the stream types to ratchet up the profit margins even higher, and all of it on ANCIENT Copper Wire technology. In the background their OWN data pipes are being converted to Fiber Optic, but the stuff streaming out to you will have a Copper segment. They need that bottle-neck to justify their robbery.
You elected your Congressmen to serve you. In the past they formed "watch dog" agencies to keep an eye on the corporations. Now, the corporations bribe the Congressmen to pass laws favorable to their profits, and the FCC, FDA, and DOJ are now instruments of enforcing corporate policy.
Didn't you ever wonder how President Obama, elected by a LARGE majority to fulfill his promise to clean up Health Insurance and the medical industry, was stymied by his OWN Democrat party members, the majority of whom took bribes from the health insurance industry and the pharmaceutical industry to maintain the status quo, to say nothing of insuring their own re-election so their own ride on the Federal gravy train wouldn't come to an end.
Welcome to the Corporate State. And you though you were living in a Republic or a Democracy, where your vote counted and the Constituion meant something. Silly you.
Microsoft tried to fight Linux with its "253 Patents infringed by Linux" portfolio, even supplying instructions on how to attack Linux in court to a would-be buyer. But, the cockroaches scurried away into the darkness when their plans came to light.
The entire purpose of this group's combined patent portfolio will be to fight Linux and FOSS, with a goal of doing what SCO failed to do: gain "ownership" of the Linux kernel.
I never realized how much of a Police State Canada has become. Cameras everywhere, a Billion dollar budget extension to twist a law against WWII German saboteurs into support for the suppression of the rights of free speech and assembly. How soon will it be before each citizen will be required to have a National ID number permanently tattooed onto their arm?
I read the patent, all 270 pages of it, most of which is repetitive photographs of text or drawings with slight word changes to make the "patent" apply to just about any industry they could think of 20 years ago. It uses two key words: "Contextualizing" and "Alternates". Each image usually has two adjacent boxes of text which look like outline notes. Another set of images is of display device which appears to have a screen and two knobs. The screen is divided into three sections. The upper left is and index tree, the lower left is a help section, and the right side is where information relating to the selection made in the upper left panel is displayed. Most dev tools API documentation is constructed like that, in either GUI or console format, and has been since well before the patent application date.
The example code is written in BASIC and is full of "CALL nnnn"'s as a way of controlling flow. It does not contain lines about moving a mouse icon over an HTML hotspot and have an action take place. The example code does not contain the concept of call-backs or other such coding mechanisms which would be required to respond to interrupts in an event loop.
The patent is written in such a general way that what it means is open to what ever the patent holder thinks it means, or can convince a judge and/or jury it means. The code it self could apply to selecting menu options with a mouse or by tabbing and using the Enter Key.
This "patent" is a classic example of what is wrong with patenting ideas, math formulas or coding algorithms.
it wouldn't surprise me that the local cable company had something to do with the passage of the restrictive ordinance.
When you can't get 3G/cellphone internet connection that leaves only dialup (who wants that?) and cable.
The only question remaining is how much did it cost the cable company to insure their market monopoly?
against Hitler was "aggression" and justified Hitler's physical attack against England?
The patched was announced by Canonical (Ubuntu) the same day that Ben Hawkes announced the exploit and published a proof of concept code.
The required kernel update is "2.6.32-24.43" or higher. That kernel was automatically updated on my 64bit Kubuntu 10.04 system with: /var/cache/apt/archives/linux-headers-2.6.32-24-generic_2.6.32-24.43_amd64.deb /var/cache/apt/archives/linux-headers-2.6.32-25-generic_2.6.32-25.44_amd64.deb
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 757586 2010-09-17 10:04
and, 11 hour later, again:
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 770132 2010-09-17 21:05
the same day that Hawkes announced it. Most 64bit Linux desktops are single user, and not susceptible if the owner did not hand out local accounts to his or her kids (and even then?), and most corporate Linux users would not advertize that their servers or workstations were exploited, so claims that Linux systems are being "compromised left and right" are spacious, to say the least, or FUD or outright lying at worst.
Obviously, plus a LOT of political intrigue in the background. And, possible the German are a lot smarter than the Swiss. Munich is well along the conversion path:
http://www.muenchen.de/Rathaus/dir/limux/english/147197/index
I turned 57 this week. Probably why I am having trouble with my Gentoo install.
Probably, but Gentoo is a tough install. You could start here and follow the process. Or, you could download a Kubuntu LiveCD iso, burn it carefully, boot it, click through the timezone, keyboard type, enter your name and password, and click "install". Twenty minutes to an hour later, depending on what distro you choose, you reboot into your new desktop. Help is here.
I turned 69 a month ago and I am having NO trouble with Kubuntu 10.4 running KDE 4.5.1. I prefer KDE because it is more like the Windows environment I used at work for the last decade, except that Kubuntu doesn't get infected or slow down under a greater load.
Tiny Fey's SNL skit misquoted the comment by Palin about seeing Russia during a CBS interview.
The ridicule with humor tactic is straight from "Rules For Radicals" by Saul D. Alinksy, page 128, rule #5: "Ridicule is man's most potent weapon. It is almost impossible to counterattack ridicule. Also it infuriates the opposition, who then react to your advantage."
In this case the ridicule is built upon a deliberate deception. Palin said "You can actually see Russia from land here in Alaska." What Tina Fey spoke is certainly more funny, but the real purpose of the script was not to inform, but to misinform using ridicule. It was character assassination. It was a very successful tactic, even if it was dishonest and deceitful. It is identical in tactic to that taken by NewsWeek magazine when they took a full body sports photo for their cover, cropped it to show just the left side of her face, zoomed in to produce a grainy, unflattering affect. The original photo is not so unflattering. Another site tried a series of photoshopped pictures of Palin in an attempt to devalue her greatest, and probably only asset, her beauty.
Most people, except those on the Left, saw through the deception by doing their own investigation. In the process they probably decided what most people who are neither Right or Left have decided, namely that Palin is short on substance. There is little difference between reading notes off the palm of your hand versus off of a pair of teleprompters. With her as President we'd have another C student in the Whitehouse.
The USA is in a financial, political and social morass of such proportions that only the 1776 Revolution, the Civil war and the Depression of the 1930s comes close. In fact, we are probably in the Second Great Depression. Of ALL the candidates I've studied, from either side of the isle, or in the "Tea Party", there appears no one who has the knowledge, training or intelligence to serve in the Whitehouse during this time. The Right & the GOP are married to corporate powers, and even the far Left is in pursuit of corporate finance money, although they try to lie about it and hide behind mindless slogans. I fear for this country and for the futures of my grandchildren.
NetApp CEO Tom Georgens even said the two companies have shared a 'common vision' focused on providing solutions that reduce IT cost and complexity.
cost and complexity ... two areas in which Oracle is the world class champion. Obviously, Georgens has neither purchased nor attempted to maintain an Oracle DB.
Or greedy.
600K setting in a small fry's account is too much of a lure not to try an strong arm him out of it.
Burning books which express politically unacceptable view points is a prime marker of an oppressive government or society.
So is shutting down a political or religious website which is viewed unfavorably by society or the government. If it was done out of fear of reprisal by Muslims or because of Political Correctness it says loads about the "land of the free and the home of the brave".
We all condemn the Inquisition because it represented an unholy alliance between church and state. If you think the Inquisition was bad then research the doctrine of Abrogation practiced by teachers of Islam, Sharia Law, and see which version of democracy you'd like to live with.