When you realize that when students for instance use the wikipedia, which is a rich source of knowledge, are flunked because their teacher refuses to accept any other source than the "official" recources.
I wonder what would stop a company as Microsoft changing information to make it spin their way just because their Encarta is being seen by the Microsoft sponsored teacher as the only "official" source?
I use Microsoft only as a well known example but essentially you can fill in any corporate name here...
The quest next century will be who's info is been seen as a truthfull reference to things. Same goes for blogs, which are only very clever marketing tools to spin desinformation towards the badly informed masses.
More and more you see the inablity our governments face when it comes to catch individual criminals... Mainly because the corperate and governmental is so closely linked to the largest criminal acts on this planet...
1 example: Do you know how many Congolese and Ruandese people died for the Coltan that is needed to build your cell phone?
Only by criminalizing everybody else and imposing stricter laws they can get away with their criminal acts. Also hyjacking every bad news situation as excuse to impose these tougher laws.
This story says that in principle you can either obey these laws or not as it makes no difference if you do, when it's your turn to get nailed you get nailed anyway...
You are right,
Anarchy is what your country can do for you instead of the fascistic rant of jfk.
All politicians are scared to death for individualism.
I say that a healthy society has many different systems and doctrines that are in balance with each other.
DRM will kill the various networks very soon. I predicted in my journal of last februari already that soon we will see DRM enabled virusses that cannot be removed again from a DRM'ed system untill the whole DRM is taken out.
http://slashdot.org/~Yaa%20101/journal/60385
Now imagine a DRM'ed G3 platform with several DRM'ed virusses on it? How much do you think a network like that is worth? Indeed, nothing, only fools will get 1 time a subscription and after the experience never again.
In a way i am glad with spam, spyware and other disruptive tech. They make it hard, if not imposible for despotic governments to use tech to suppress people, because these tech attack the system one way or another and make any underlaying system funrable at various moments.
In Holland there are cases of people digging ground cables and hiding autodialers. This was normal POTS and many years ago, I am afraid this trick is also being used.
Add up modern day WiFi and you have autodialers picking up instructions through WiFi channels. BTW same can be said for RFID, we will have some very disruptive times with "WiFi~Other tech" connections coming years...
The means to interconnect everything will also bring that some people are able to make dozens if not hundreds of connections throughout several different network systems. Now try to find them, even with sophisticated stuff, time-frames will be the future fight in cracking and defencing. You will see traveling virusses clinging along on various packet movement then leaving the path and change from internet to cellphone/GSM networks, then again spreading through rouge WiFi channels.
Dunno, I kinda like the idea, kick them where it really hurts, yessiree, the balls...
But serious, as I have a small consultant buro in Europe, I am afraid that the big boys there will push through that flawed idiot patent system. The sooner a large scale patent war takes place the merrier for people like myself.
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if the parent is redundant then the whole article is, don't you think?
Especially on mommy and daddy...
This is a regulators wet dream
So we need laws that make patents non transferrable... Solves a lot of crap in our laws...
No they don't...
People don't care about infringement and maybe even endorse it, as long as you pony up at the end of the day...
Companies that you named are all able to pony up, so no problem there...
Worse thing you can do is find morale in our laws, there arent any, all laws are opertunistic rules of the ruling class at some period in time.
That chose a patented tech to be nominated to be a industry standards?
I run Linux even on old world (gray) Macs... It shouldn't matter what os can run on what hardware, yet I know... ...utopia.
specialist always die out in nature...
When you realize that when students for instance use the wikipedia, which is a rich source of knowledge, are flunked because their teacher refuses to accept any other source than the "official" recources.
I wonder what would stop a company as Microsoft changing information to make it spin their way just because their Encarta is being seen by the Microsoft sponsored teacher as the only "official" source?
I use Microsoft only as a well known example but essentially you can fill in any corporate name here...
The quest next century will be who's info is been seen as a truthfull reference to things.
Same goes for blogs, which are only very clever marketing tools to spin desinformation towards the badly informed masses.
Your comments reaks like the trickle down economy vaporware the Reagan also endorsed...
The problem was and is that nothing trickles down...
You need to do both short term help for needing people while seeking a long term solution that can indeed be a bold one, maybe even less bold...
More and more you see the inablity our governments face when it comes to catch individual criminals...
Mainly because the corperate and governmental is so closely linked to the largest criminal acts on this planet...
1 example:
Do you know how many Congolese and Ruandese people died for the Coltan that is needed to build your cell phone?
Only by criminalizing everybody else and imposing stricter laws they can get away with their criminal acts.
Also hyjacking every bad news situation as excuse to impose these tougher laws.
This story says that in principle you can either obey these laws or not as it makes no difference if you do, when it's your turn to get nailed you get nailed anyway...
That the current american politicians will do this...
There is probably a catch as there is always...
Don't get me wrong, it would be great if they pull it off, but the history tells different...
Sorry I refuse to trust any government.
I wonder who still uses xunfree86?
why do these hipocrites say that after they sold off their own company to these conglomerates?
You are right, Anarchy is what your country can do for you instead of the fascistic rant of jfk. All politicians are scared to death for individualism. I say that a healthy society has many different systems and doctrines that are in balance with each other.
There is a thing called indexed mode. Transform your ping into that before saving and it's a 8bit gif compatible.
RTFA
Ever heard Apache?
Now there is a success story...
The better...
This seems the nnnth try to get old hardware platforms out of the way for new plans...
Every year I get more synical about companies trying to help consumers...
It is simply not true that they help us, period.
I refuse to believe it is in all our interests...
Good luck!!
I think they got it from here:
http://www.whois.sc/
I use that for quite a while now...
I forgot to mention one thing...
DRM...
DRM will kill the various networks very soon.
I predicted in my journal of last februari already that soon we will see DRM enabled virusses that cannot be removed again from a DRM'ed system untill the whole DRM is taken out.
http://slashdot.org/~Yaa%20101/journal/60385
Now imagine a DRM'ed G3 platform with several DRM'ed virusses on it?
How much do you think a network like that is worth?
Indeed, nothing, only fools will get 1 time a subscription and after the experience never again.
In a way i am glad with spam, spyware and other disruptive tech.
They make it hard, if not imposible for despotic governments to use tech to suppress people, because these tech attack the system one way or another and make any underlaying system funrable at various moments.
In Holland there are cases of people digging ground cables and hiding autodialers.
This was normal POTS and many years ago, I am afraid this trick is also being used.
Add up modern day WiFi and you have autodialers picking up instructions through WiFi channels.
BTW same can be said for RFID, we will have some very disruptive times with "WiFi~Other tech" connections coming years...
The means to interconnect everything will also bring that some people are able to make dozens if not hundreds of connections throughout several different network systems.
Now try to find them, even with sophisticated stuff, time-frames will be the future fight in cracking and defencing.
You will see traveling virusses clinging along on various packet movement then leaving the path and change from internet to cellphone/GSM networks, then again spreading through rouge WiFi channels.
Interesting and very disruptive times...
Dunno, I kinda like the idea, kick them where it really hurts, yessiree, the balls...
But serious, as I have a small consultant buro in Europe, I am afraid that the big boys there will push through that flawed idiot patent system.
The sooner a large scale patent war takes place the merrier for people like myself.
Is to punish the ones that hire spammers and spammers themself.
Everybody can read who's advert it is and where the owner of the advert resides.
Nah, the current members of the Europeean comission don't need help to undermine credibility.
They are doing a fine job at that themselfs.