We are supposed to believe that 9 gallons of enriched Uranium won't go into chain reaction but if you spill it onto a floor where it spreads out the chances of a chain reaction increases?
Excellent comment. If I had mod points I'd mod you up!
This article by Matt Asay, a laywer, is just one of several he's lobbed at Linux/GPL/FOSS lately.
It's understandable. Before moving to Afresco he worked for Novell, Microsoft's main Linux sock puppet. Alfresco's main products are ECM and WCM for Windows, but they cherry-pick their open source "community" project for improvements, patches and innovations, while not supporting it. Pot calling kettle black?
It seems Microsoft will have to either sue or shut up.
They can't continue making public claims and not mitigate "damages" by pointing to a culprit and specifying THE EXACT lines of their code which they believe is in Linux. That will lead, of course, to the issue of the validity of their IP claims since most suffer severely from prior art.
When Americans wake up and vote for politicians who will enact Free Universal Health Care from cradle to the grave.
Profits made by the Health Insurance industry on the misfortunes of others is obscene and health insurance companies should be abolished. A pharmaceutical industry that peddles poisons more dangerous than the illness they purport to cure should be throttled down and closely regulated.
I pay $55 for my 10MB/s RR bandwidth BUT I am required to pay $25 for 22 channels of Cable TV before they'd sell me the broadband connection. Total bill: $70. The TV stinks. After 11PM most of the channels have infomercials all night. During the day it is Judge Stupid, or 20-30 year old game or quiz shows. About the only good stuff on those 22 channels are PBS, CNN, and two CSPAN channels.
About fifteen years ago cities, towns and villages in the USA began building their own fiber optic networks so they could establish affordable PUBLIC Internet services. Lincoln, NE, buried a fiber optic trunk line in my yard. The cable companies lobbied congress to get special legislation that would reimburse them for the expense of putting in Fiber optic and forbid the cities, towns and villages from doing so. The cable companies took the money but never completed the fiber option network. Congress never called them on it, not that they ever successfully oversight anything anymore.
Which is why it's a good thing you're not on the panel... Seriously, you have to examine the offer in its entirety along with the technical details of the specification. It could be that the MS "standard" is the best thing out there, if this is the case, assuming there isn't a horrible amount of red tape why not go with HD-Photo?
He probably couldn't get on the panel after Microsoft finishes stuffing it with MS Sycophants that will vote FOR the MS "standard".
It is also obvious that you haven't been following Microsoft's tactics over the years. My favorite is an MS started and funded 5013c org, headed by James Pendergast, that claimed to be "grass roots". It wrote letters to congressmen and the public asking them to force the DOJ to stop "persecuting" Microsoft. The scam blew up in their face when it was discovered that the names on many of the letters were residents of their local cemeteries. Thus arose the term "Astroturfing", meaning fake "grass roots".
Why not go with HD-Photo? Because past history has taught us that Microsoft strives for only one thing: customers LOCKED INTO their proprietary formats. Just check out Massachusetts's document standards fiasco to see what that would mean for citizens of that state.
Or, why not require the police to wear light-tight blinders over their eyes?
That way, they won't be able "violate your right to privacy" by looking at your face. The fact that they could recognize someone wanted for a crime if they looked at the face of people they encountered is too close to that 'slippery slope' that will erode all of your liberties. Or better yet, just abolish police departments (and all military services) altogether. That way there'd be NO threats to your constitutional freedoms from folks who work for the government. However, if the ACLU had their way you wouldn't be able to guns in order to defend yourself against thugs who don't care if the law forbids them from carrying concealed weapons.
Increase the freedoms of felons while reducing the ability of law-abiding folks to defend themselves. That seems to be the thrust of the ACLU court actions through most of their existence, save for the occasional token case that is opposite to the basic pattern, for deniablility purposes.
OSX must have copied over the features from Vista and not the other way round
Been off planet for a few years and just got back, or did the following just slip your mind?
One of Jim Allchin's emails released to the public during a trail last year mentioned the visit by some of the Longhorn coding crew to the release announcement/showing of the Mac OS X. When they came back one wrote that he had been to "Longhorn Nirvana" and saw what he hoped Longhorn WOULD BECOME. Notice the future tense?
"All the real people you know"? How many is that? One, two?
No, VISTA is NOT a "casualty" of bad reviews, because most pre-release and just released reviews had been good. They've been good because they were bought off. How quickly you seem to have forgotten, for example, the free laptop fiasco which saw several journalists and bloggers receiving free Ferreira laptops in exchange for writing good reviews about VISTA. One has to wonder what "gifts" Microsoft sycophants like Rob Enderle and Laura Didio got for their continual gushing over VISTA, save for an occasional "faint praise" article, and to spread FUD about Mac and Linux?
The REAL reasons why VISTA is doing so poorly is because of word of mouth/keyboard by actual Windows users who have real world experiences to relate in talkbacks and independent blogs. For example: A "real people" and long time Windows fanboi, owner of a popular Windows blog site, and beta tester of VISTA, decided to compare it with Mac by forcing himself to run Mac for one month. After one month he surprised his readership by announcing that he decided to abandon VISTA and Windows, and make the Mac OS X his OS!
Another example: Our IT department got a DELL laptop with Enterprise VISTA installed in order to test it to see if they wanted to begin rolling it out to our 400+ workstations. The laptop was DELL 620 dual core with 2GB of RAM and an 80 GB HD. In the first three months several of the IT guys played with it a couple hours a day. Even with that low usage rate VISTA crashed so often and so bad that they had to reinstall it THREE TIMES. The video would randomly go in and out of HiRes, if they could get it into HiRes at all. Sometimes the DVD would work but mostly it wouldn't. DRM was butting in all the time, refusing to play legal media files , etc. It had even locked up on the first boot up following one fresh reinstall. They decided to use their XP volume license and replace VISTA with XP on all new DELL computers coming into the department. In my experience it was a wise choice. And now, this posting is but one of many more that continually flood talkbacks on various forums on a daily basis.
Despite the flood of bad news from REAL users, George Ou and Ed Bott and some of their colleagues at ZDNet, continue to report glowing experiences, sans problems, with VISTA. If that says anything, it says you have to be a computer expert to setup and run VISTA without experiencing problems. But, they might not be reporting the whole truth. It reminds me of the "uptime wars" several years ago when users of Win95/98 were claiming uptimes of 1 or 2 years in order to match uptimes claimed by users running Linux servers. (I had a SUSE server in my office run 630 days before it was shut down.) The wars came to a sudden end when Microsoft announced the 49.7 day clock bug. That bug hung any Win95/98 box which managed to reach that uptime, forcing a reboot. The fact that the Win95/98 fanboies reported uptimes far in excess of 49.7 days meant that they were lying about experiencing uptimes in excess of 49.7 days. If they had a Win95/98 box reach 49.7 days they learned about the bug or may have known of the bug but lied anyway because of their Windows zealotry.
Will VISTA eventually succeed? Probably. Money talks, and it talks best in a corrupt society, especially one as corrupt as our is. Microsoft has $60 Billion to spend to make VISTA "good enough", to continue the PR barrage and anti-Linux/Mac FUD campaign, to continue buying off politicians to get additional laws passed favorable to their proprietary products, ballot-stuffing Standards committee votes, if they can't just buy their proprietary format into being a "Standard", and reigning in DELL and other OEM slaves who wondered off the Microsoft plantation.
ALL of these zombies are computers running a Windows OS.
There. I've said it. Why hide the truth?
Are journalist thinking "everyone knows it is Windows that is so vulnerable to mere emails, so there's no use in embarrassing Microsoft"? I don't think so... any more than they "just happened" to get Ferrari laptops for writing good articles about VISTA.
Here is a posting to the Ubuntu forum that is SEVEN MONTHS old and refers to postings A YEAR OLD!
Printer drivers need to be installed with world execute permissions so that all users on the system can access the printer. The Samsung hacker's method of doing this, converting them to 4755 bin files and setting the original name as a link to the bin files, is one way of doing that -- IF his "unwrap" function had worked properly. That's the bug. Listed in the posting are files whose permissions need to be modified after the driver is installed.
#1 Old January 18th, 2007 tweedledee tweedledee is online now Way Too Much Ubuntu
Join Date: Dec 2006 Beans: 252 Ubuntu 7.04 Feisty Fawn User HOWTO Install Samsung Unified Printer Driver I had a fair amount of trouble initially getting my Samsung printer installed completely, but I finally have it all done, so here's a mini-guide for those who might benefit.
NOTE: for the last few months, the Samsung website has been utilizing some buggy Flash code that will crash many (all?) Linux browsers that have Flash installed - hopefully they will fix this soon, but they don't seem in any hurry. Either use a secondary browser that does not have the Flash plugin installed (e.g., if you mainly use Firefox, you could use Epiphany (Gnome) or Konqueror (KDE)) or download the drivers via another computer/OS. Alternatively, again if you use Firefox, you can install the "flashblock" extension, usually this prevents the crash (and is useful for many of the other websites that have been appearing recently causing the same behavior, although it's not 100% successful).
EDIT: The newest (as of this writing) driver from Samsung (20070324...) appears to solve some of the mfp/xsane issues, but also appears to missing a couple of library files. See post #23 for details. Also see posts #27-29 for details on...plc errors and solutions. Post #35 suggets the 200704.... drivers have resolved this issue, so this may now be irrelevant.
First, a disclaimer: much of the information I used came from this thread: http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=28774 7. Another good source of information is http://www.linuxprinting.org./ Finally, I did this using the 20060719... and 20070125.... drivers; newer (or older) drivers may require some tweaks. Also, especially if you have a monochrome, non-duplexing, non-multifunction printer, you very well may have success with a generic post-script printer as a driver, without having to install the Samsung drivers. Also note that for my printer, pretty much all functions except duplex control worked even if I skipped steps 2-4 below (i.e., don't install the driver, only the relevant.ppd file) - which also has the advantage of not needing to fix xsane (additional step 2).
This works for my CLP-550; similar steps seem to work for other Samsung printers not supported out-of-the-box with the drivers available in a fresh Ubuntu install. This is NOT a multi-function, multi-functions may require additional steps (but are discussed in other threads, a quick search should bring them up). Posts below from other users have reported sucess (sometimes with a couple of small modifications) with: ML-2510 (# 5, 14, 16, 26), ML-2510/XEU (# 18 ), ML-2571n (# 12), SCX-4200 (# 10), SCX-4521F (# 11), CLP-300 (# 35).
1. Download and untar the driver from Samsung's website; for this example I will assume you untar it to ~. 2. Open a terminal and navigate to ~/cdroot/Linux. I had to "chmod +w install.sh" to give write permissions, but that may be unusual. Edit install.sh as follows: a: change the first line from "#!/bin/sh" to "#!/bin/bash" (without the quotes) b (possibly not needed): change the line that includes "guiinstall.bin" (search for it, it's around line 1277) to eliminate the ".bin" (i.e
Corporations have: 1) Shipped American jobs and/or their factories out of the country, 2) Hired HB1 workers to replace those workers whose jobs remained here 3) De-qualified American workers for HB1 jobs to ensure they go to foreign workers 4) Used bogus bankruptcies to reneged on employment contracts after having failed to adequately fund retirement accounts and 5) plundered the remaining retirement funds in those accounts 6) Import cheaply made products from those foreign factories and slave workers, which honor NO environmental protections, to sell at prices designed just to prevent competition from startup American companies, 7) Sell those cheap products or poisonous food products at "super stores" using minimum wage part-time workers who do not get health insurance, 8) sell that health insurance to those who CAN afford it, but have doctors who can't or won't practice in the REAL world over rule doctors who do, just so corporations can make HUGE profits at the expense of YOUR health, 9) Supplement million dollar salaries of Managers with tens and hundreds of millions in bonuses for lacking the morals and ethics which would prevent them from DOING the above atrocities.
And now they want to add #10: abandon environmental protection laws that protect Americans from pollution which caused poisoning, cancer, birth defects, chromosomal damage, etc., JUST SO they can generate more PROFITS on the backs of those who can't even get adequate health insurance to get treatment for illnesses which most assuredly be the result of dumping Ammonia and hydrocarbons into public sources of drinking water? And this is to say nothing of the damage to the flora and fauna of the lake. It's like importing China's pollution.
If residents of states surrounding the lake stand still for this they deserve what will happen. At least they should vote for the first presidental candidate who promises to take PROFITS out of the health care industry and give univeral health coverage at the same level and quality as that received by our Congress. Most Congress persons may be immoral and unethical, or even outright crooks, but they do know what good health insurance requires because that's what they gave themselves. What's good enough for them is good enough for those who elected them and whom they "claim" to represent.
When communities started deploying their own fiber optic cable systems the communications industry was alarmed, even though they had plenty of opportunity to begin laying FOC themselves. They went to congress (lobbied and bribed congressmen) and got a law which forbid local governments from "competing" with free enterprise and paid the companies an advanced "reinbursement" to lay the FOC themselves. The communications companies, including Verizon, took the money but never laid the FOC. By ignoring the companies lack of compliance, even though they took the cash to do so, Congress has given defacto approval to the theft.
What does one expect when "campaign contributions" can be so easily converted to personal use?
viruses have been repeatedly infecting large numbers of personal computers and Internet servers running Linux. For YEARS the newspapers, magazines, and Internet media sites have been full of stories detailing such infections and the losses to business and personal information that they cause. Giant zombie farms containing thousands of Linux boxes infected by simple email attachments are legendary. What amazes me is that in the face of such infection rates and personal data lost people continue to use Linux. A totally brain dead decision.
Oh, wait,..... those stories are about Windows viruses and zombies!! Never mind.
Even though Anti-Virus software houses have tried to whip up a fear factor in Linux users by adding the word "linux" to hundreds of Windows jpeg and other viruses, in reality Linux has had only 6 ACTIVE infection agents in the last 15 years. The most recent, four years ago, was called the "Slapper worm" (http://www.cert.org/advisories/CA-2002-27.html) and infected a few thousand computers in Eastern Europe who where running a commercial Linux distro that set them up as root. During that time CodeRed was infecting MILLIONS of PCs running Windows. The ONLY way a cracker can create a Linux zombie farm is by manually breaking into each box, one by one, and hoping they don't get caught. That's why the prefer Windows boxes. A simple email or a visit to an evil website is all it takes. BTW, it is also interesting to note that CERT has stopped keeping historical data on infections. One has to wonder why if it is not to protect the repuation of the most bug ridden OS on the planet.
Did the FCC regulators get confused? I don't think so. This has all the SMELL of a political decision based on undue influence, not facts. If any OS should be outlawed is should be VISTA, which scored only an 84.2% detection rate against several thousand KNOWN viruses. IF proprietary coding practices produced such secure code why is VISTA so INSECURE?
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There are no "lost jobs". The jobs were shipped abroad years ago.
The 12.5 Billion figure stinks with the smell of excrement because of where they pulled it from.
Oh Please for sure.
We are supposed to believe that 9 gallons of enriched Uranium won't go into chain reaction but if you spill it onto a floor where it spreads out the chances of a chain reaction increases?
when Pigs fly.
Check out the Barns radius.
Excellent comment. If I had mod points I'd mod you up!
This article by Matt Asay, a laywer, is just one of several he's lobbed at Linux/GPL/FOSS lately.
It's understandable. Before moving to Afresco he worked for Novell, Microsoft's main Linux sock puppet. Alfresco's main products are ECM and WCM for Windows, but they cherry-pick their open source "community" project for improvements, patches and innovations, while not supporting it. Pot calling kettle black?
It seems Microsoft will have to either sue or shut up.
They can't continue making public claims and not mitigate "damages" by pointing to a culprit and specifying THE EXACT lines of their code which they believe is in Linux. That will lead, of course, to the issue of the validity of their IP claims since most suffer severely from prior art.
Love your sig, but it needs a 3rd part:
Separation of profits and health - ?
So, only people who agree with you should be allowed to write or speak?
When Americans wake up and vote for politicians who will enact Free Universal Health Care from cradle to the grave.
Profits made by the Health Insurance industry on the misfortunes of others is obscene and health insurance companies should be abolished. A pharmaceutical industry that peddles poisons more dangerous than the illness they purport to cure should be throttled down and closely regulated.
No, we don't.
I pay $55 for my 10MB/s RR bandwidth BUT I am required to pay $25 for 22 channels of Cable TV before they'd sell me the broadband connection. Total bill: $70. The TV stinks. After 11PM most of the channels have infomercials all night. During the day it is Judge Stupid, or 20-30 year old game or quiz shows. About the only good stuff on those 22 channels are PBS, CNN, and two CSPAN channels.
About fifteen years ago cities, towns and villages in the USA began building their own fiber optic networks so they could establish affordable PUBLIC Internet services. Lincoln, NE, buried a fiber optic trunk line in my yard. The cable companies lobbied congress to get special legislation that would reimburse them for the expense of putting in Fiber optic and forbid the cities, towns and villages from doing so. The cable companies took the money but never completed the fiber option network. Congress never called them on it, not that they ever successfully oversight anything anymore.
He probably couldn't get on the panel after Microsoft finishes stuffing it with MS Sycophants that will vote FOR the MS "standard".
It is also obvious that you haven't been following Microsoft's tactics over the years. My favorite is an MS started and funded 5013c org, headed by James Pendergast, that claimed to be "grass roots". It wrote letters to congressmen and the public asking them to force the DOJ to stop "persecuting" Microsoft. The scam blew up in their face when it was discovered that the names on many of the letters were residents of their local cemeteries. Thus arose the term "Astroturfing", meaning fake "grass roots".
Why not go with HD-Photo? Because past history has taught us that Microsoft strives for only one thing: customers LOCKED INTO their proprietary formats. Just check out Massachusetts's document standards fiasco to see what that would mean for citizens of that state.
the Vasoline.
That's still the consumer's responsibility.
What amazes me is that so many are still willing to bend over for this abuse... AND PAY FOR IT!
Or, why not require the police to wear light-tight blinders over their eyes?
That way, they won't be able "violate your right to privacy" by looking at your face. The fact that they could recognize someone wanted for a crime if they looked at the face of people they encountered is too close to that 'slippery slope' that will erode all of your liberties. Or better yet, just abolish police departments (and all military services) altogether. That way there'd be NO threats to your constitutional freedoms from folks who work for the government. However, if the ACLU had their way you wouldn't be able to guns in order to defend yourself against thugs who don't care if the law forbids them from carrying concealed weapons.
Increase the freedoms of felons while reducing the ability of law-abiding folks to defend themselves. That seems to be the thrust of the ACLU court actions through most of their existence, save for the occasional token case that is opposite to the basic pattern, for deniablility purposes.
Say What?
So you are saying that Microsoft should be "forgiven" for not including more productivity software with its OS because of the monopoly IT created?
That's like the kid who kills his parents pleading for mercy because because he is an orphan.
OSX must have copied over the features from Vista and not the other way round
Been off planet for a few years and just got back, or did the following just slip your mind?
One of Jim Allchin's emails released to the public during a trail last year mentioned the visit by some of the Longhorn coding crew to the release announcement/showing of the Mac OS X. When they came back one wrote that he had been to "Longhorn Nirvana" and saw what he hoped Longhorn WOULD BECOME. Notice the future tense?
See http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N-2C2gb6ws8
and notice the clip was AFTER the Max OS X release and before VISTA's release.
"All the real people you know"? How many is that? One, two?
No, VISTA is NOT a "casualty" of bad reviews, because most pre-release and just released reviews had been good. They've been good because they were bought off. How quickly you seem to have forgotten, for example, the free laptop fiasco which saw several journalists and bloggers receiving free Ferreira laptops in exchange for writing good reviews about VISTA. One has to wonder what "gifts" Microsoft sycophants like Rob Enderle and Laura Didio got for their continual gushing over VISTA, save for an occasional "faint praise" article, and to spread FUD about Mac and Linux?
The REAL reasons why VISTA is doing so poorly is because of word of mouth/keyboard by actual Windows users who have real world experiences to relate in talkbacks and independent blogs. For example: A "real people" and long time Windows fanboi, owner of a popular Windows blog site, and beta tester of VISTA, decided to compare it with Mac by forcing himself to run Mac for one month. After one month he surprised his readership by announcing that he decided to abandon VISTA and Windows, and make the Mac OS X his OS!
Another example: Our IT department got a DELL laptop with Enterprise VISTA installed in order to test it to see if they wanted to begin rolling it out to our 400+ workstations. The laptop was DELL 620 dual core with 2GB of RAM and an 80 GB HD. In the first three months several of the IT guys played with it a couple hours a day. Even with that low usage rate VISTA crashed so often and so bad that they had to reinstall it THREE TIMES. The video would randomly go in and out of HiRes, if they could get it into HiRes at all. Sometimes the DVD would work but mostly it wouldn't. DRM was butting in all the time, refusing to play legal media files , etc. It had even locked up on the first boot up following one fresh reinstall. They decided to use their XP volume license and replace VISTA with XP on all new DELL computers coming into the department. In my experience it was a wise choice. And now, this posting is but one of many more that continually flood talkbacks on various forums on a daily basis.
Despite the flood of bad news from REAL users, George Ou and Ed Bott and some of their colleagues at ZDNet, continue to report glowing experiences, sans problems, with VISTA. If that says anything, it says you have to be a computer expert to setup and run VISTA without experiencing problems. But, they might not be reporting the whole truth. It reminds me of the "uptime wars" several years ago when users of Win95/98 were claiming uptimes of 1 or 2 years in order to match uptimes claimed by users running Linux servers. (I had a SUSE server in my office run 630 days before it was shut down.) The wars came to a sudden end when Microsoft announced the 49.7 day clock bug. That bug hung any Win95/98 box which managed to reach that uptime, forcing a reboot. The fact that the Win95/98 fanboies reported uptimes far in excess of 49.7 days meant that they were lying about experiencing uptimes in excess of 49.7 days. If they had a Win95/98 box reach 49.7 days they learned about the bug or may have known of the bug but lied anyway because of their Windows zealotry.
Will VISTA eventually succeed? Probably. Money talks, and it talks best in a corrupt society, especially one as corrupt as our is. Microsoft has $60 Billion to spend to make VISTA "good enough", to continue the PR barrage and anti-Linux/Mac FUD campaign, to continue buying off politicians to get additional laws passed favorable to their proprietary products, ballot-stuffing Standards committee votes, if they can't just buy their proprietary format into being a "Standard", and reigning in DELL and other OEM slaves who wondered off the Microsoft plantation.
ALL of these zombies are computers running a Windows OS.
There. I've said it. Why hide the truth?
Are journalist thinking "everyone knows it is Windows that is so vulnerable to mere emails, so there's no use in embarrassing Microsoft"? I don't think so... any more than they "just happened" to get Ferrari laptops for writing good articles about VISTA.
Yes.
To whit:
The direction of computing is clear and key developers are moving into newer virtualization approaches and other projects.
Printer drivers need to be installed with world execute permissions so that all users on the system can access the printer. The Samsung hacker's method of doing this, converting them to 4755 bin files and setting the original name as a link to the bin files, is one way of doing that -- IF his "unwrap" function had worked properly. That's the bug. Listed in the posting are files whose permissions need to be modified after the driver is installed.
Congress in American history to pass laws preventing corruption by corrupt businesses?
Fat Chance.
Corporations have:
1) Shipped American jobs and/or their factories out of the country,
2) Hired HB1 workers to replace those workers whose jobs remained here
3) De-qualified American workers for HB1 jobs to ensure they go to foreign workers
4) Used bogus bankruptcies to reneged on employment contracts after having failed to adequately fund retirement accounts and
5) plundered the remaining retirement funds in those accounts
6) Import cheaply made products from those foreign factories and slave workers, which honor NO environmental protections, to sell at prices designed just to prevent competition from startup American companies,
7) Sell those cheap products or poisonous food products at "super stores" using minimum wage part-time workers who do not get health insurance,
8) sell that health insurance to those who CAN afford it, but have doctors who can't or won't practice in the REAL world over rule doctors who do, just so corporations can make HUGE profits at the expense of YOUR health,
9) Supplement million dollar salaries of Managers with tens and hundreds of millions in bonuses for lacking the morals and ethics which would prevent them from DOING the above atrocities.
And now they want to add #10: abandon environmental protection laws that protect Americans from pollution which caused poisoning, cancer, birth defects, chromosomal damage, etc., JUST SO they can generate more PROFITS on the backs of those who can't even get adequate health insurance to get treatment for illnesses which most assuredly be the result of dumping Ammonia and hydrocarbons into public sources of drinking water? And this is to say nothing of the damage to the flora and fauna of the lake. It's like importing China's pollution.
If residents of states surrounding the lake stand still for this they deserve what will happen. At least they should vote for the first presidental candidate who promises to take PROFITS out of the health care industry and give univeral health coverage at the same level and quality as that received by our Congress. Most Congress persons may be immoral and unethical, or even outright crooks, but they do know what good health insurance requires because that's what they gave themselves. What's good enough for them is good enough for those who elected them and whom they "claim" to represent.
put your IP where your mouth is and make "interoperability" a fact and not a PR campaign.
So, Linux use is up 129% from last year, to 0.1155%.
One thing is for sure... the Dutch will never be able to keep any secrets.
And your NOT ranting and bashing?
You have one thing right: no one is better informed after reading your rant.
http://www.newnetworks.com/broadbandscandals.htm
When communities started deploying their own fiber optic cable systems the communications industry was alarmed, even though they had plenty of opportunity to begin laying FOC themselves. They went to congress (lobbied and bribed congressmen) and got a law which forbid local governments from "competing" with free enterprise and paid the companies an advanced "reinbursement" to lay the FOC themselves. The communications companies, including Verizon, took the money but never laid the FOC. By ignoring the companies lack of compliance, even though they took the cash to do so, Congress has given defacto approval to the theft.
What does one expect when "campaign contributions" can be so easily converted to personal use?
viruses have been repeatedly infecting large numbers of personal computers and Internet servers running Linux. For YEARS the newspapers, magazines, and Internet media sites have been full of stories detailing such infections and the losses to business and personal information that they cause. Giant zombie farms containing thousands of Linux boxes infected by simple email attachments are legendary. What amazes me is that in the face of such infection rates and personal data lost people continue to use Linux. A totally brain dead decision.
Oh, wait,..... those stories are about Windows viruses and zombies!! Never mind.
Even though Anti-Virus software houses have tried to whip up a fear factor in Linux users by adding the word "linux" to hundreds of Windows jpeg and other viruses, in reality Linux has had only 6 ACTIVE infection agents in the last 15 years. The most recent, four years ago, was called the "Slapper worm" (http://www.cert.org/advisories/CA-2002-27.html) and infected a few thousand computers in Eastern Europe who where running a commercial Linux distro that set them up as root. During that time CodeRed was infecting MILLIONS of PCs running Windows. The ONLY way a cracker can create a Linux zombie farm is by manually breaking into each box, one by one, and hoping they don't get caught. That's why the prefer Windows boxes. A simple email or a visit to an evil website is all it takes. BTW, it is also interesting to note that CERT has stopped keeping historical data on infections. One has to wonder why if it is not to protect the repuation of the most bug ridden OS on the planet.
Did the FCC regulators get confused? I don't think so. This has all the SMELL of a political decision based on undue influence, not facts. If any OS should be outlawed is should be VISTA, which scored only an 84.2% detection rate against several thousand KNOWN viruses. IF proprietary coding practices produced such secure code why is VISTA so INSECURE?
Has someone at the FCC taken a bribe?
Bush's DOJ switched sides and now our government supports Microsoft so vigorously both here and in abroad.
Besides the free gift of your personal info, the are those backdoor keys. They didn't call them "NSA keys" for no reason.