OTOH the choice becomes: stay free and HTML5 compliant or (try to) restrict viewers relying on 3rd party technology which won't work well and forever on millions to billions of devices.
DRM on HTML is the best way to make all HTML an ex-standard.
Closed or controlled-as-in-android OS means forced obsolescence is way easier. Do you think hardware makers would keep subjecting themselves to MS Apple and Google now that alternative ecosystems cover A LOT of use cases? This explains 3d, secure boot, acpi and other annoying problems that were not present when I was installing ppc linux on a powerbook in 2003.
The end user texts the transaction? maybe to a friend to tell him about the deal he has made? Leaving traces for no reason seems what a burned up brain would do anyway
In fact picking up some cues let you experience a better 3d effect with one eye rather than looking at the flat screen with both eyes. At least for me, an immersive videogame like a FPS becomes more 3d-like with one eye closed. I suspect that tricking your eye like that is not a good idea for a prolonged time. Looking at the crosshair for a prolonged time is equally bad, worse than following a mouse cursor around a screen.
Meh, failing predictions is easy. Real men destroy them.
"Think of the large computers (the mainframes and the minis) as the passenger train and the Apple personal computer as the Volkswagen. The Volkswagen isn't as fast or as comfortable as the passenger train. But the VW owners can go where they want and with whom they want. The VW owners have personal control of the machine" -- Steve Jobs, creator of the centralized-app-store-dependent iPhone.
IMHO they ARE the outcome of a GPL world, and take for granted what others fought for. So they have their compilers, distros, and stuff all ready.
If all they had were BSD and apple had just sued GNUstep... er... BSDstep, the only compatible free alternative, for patent violation, they would care a bit more about licensing issues.
You are talking about debian stable, and calling it debian. Are you aware of those other flavours, testing, unstable, experimental? What about a chroot for some packages? what about running ubuntu packages depending on a different libc by using LD_LIBRARY_PATH and not having the rest of the ubuntu stuff shoved down your throat? What about linux mint debian edition?
But let's stick to stable. Who in his right mind uses a system like debian stable, whose software and data formats tends to stay the same, and upgrades do not involve changing habits. One cannot reliably WORK with those systems right?:)
The amount of money raised for this is just too canny, IMHO sounds like advertisement for a disinfo op. Or maybe Anonymous IS the disinfo op itself, and the fake disinfo op would be fought by Anonymous in an epic, fake battle.
To go from speculation to prediction, this would mean this operation will piss off many anonymous supporters eventually.
Good point but the possibilities are varied. It might be that the US or some other state wants to throw money at cyberwar prevention (a bogus issue most of the time), so Israeli contractors have one succesfully thwarted attack in their track record. Or OTOH Israel has some infrastructure problems and that they fake an Anonymous attack to deter other from trying the same.
>I think the important part of the wiki article (English version) is that it mentions nuclear attack orders may be relayed through the station and that there are four others, with additional wiki links to those stations.
oh ok then, they simply want to draw the hackers' attention to the base so that a nuclear first strike can be blamed on a hacking attempt:)
You don't need to devour spy novels or watch 007 all night long to understand one simple aspect of the story (as reported in the summary, at least): once news about X leak out, X is to be considered COMPROMISED.
In this case it is blatant. Something that shouldn't have been there is available? assume the bad guys got it, if it is important, STFU if it's not important.
So, this move from the French secret service is muscle flexing, or counterintelligence (making people concentrate on a decoy), or a way to make openness and free exchange of information look contrary to national interests.
> Some Microsoft guy made some comments thorugh personal channels... That COINCIDENTALLY reflect the corporate views. It's not astroturfing, never ever. "As much control as possible" is the corporate view for most corporations. "As much freedom as possible" is the people view for most people. Well, more precisely, the view is "As much doing_whatever_I_want as possible", which becomes "as much slavery as possible" if you soak up enough propaganda. But I digress.
Fact: google doesn't name linux in its linux based offering.
Fact: NOBODY ELSE, who sells stuff based on generic things available through other channels, stresses that fact. They want to make the consumer think they are different from all the rest.
How many drugs are based on generic substanced that have fallen out of patent protection? how many say that in the ads? NOBODY of course. "Get FOOSPIRIN B, with the same active ingredients that you find elsewhere for less!!!" sounds like a convincing campaign? Neither does "Get Google ChromeBook, it runs LINUX, the same operating system that you can install for free into your existing laptop, else you can install a different flavour of LINUX in our ChromeBook to ruin our business model!!!" Neither does "Get Ubuntu! if you have problems with it you can always fall back on Debian or Mint!!!"
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OTOH the choice becomes: stay free and HTML5 compliant or (try to) restrict viewers relying on 3rd party technology which won't work well and forever on millions to billions of devices.
DRM on HTML is the best way to make all HTML an ex-standard.
Closed or controlled-as-in-android OS means forced obsolescence is way easier. Do you think hardware makers would keep subjecting themselves to MS Apple and Google now that alternative ecosystems cover A LOT of use cases?
This explains 3d, secure boot, acpi and other annoying problems that were not present when I was installing ppc linux on a powerbook in 2003.
Monsters!
Monsters from the id!
I label people and concepts according to some definition If I find them applicable. Don't you?
BTW it was you who sarcastically judged my joke, notice it is in the "create expectation, laugh at the guy who falls for it" class.
The end user texts the transaction? maybe to a friend to tell him about the deal he has made? Leaving traces for no reason seems what a burned up brain would do anyway
They are morons because their joke is semantically at the same lameness level as mine is.
>Sure sure, just one question, why are they morons?
Here`s the answer.
>distinguishing between drug use and drug addiction...
addicts tend to become dealers.
Yes.
And while the standard moron often shows initiative, these ones are "obeying morons", the duller subset.
Come on, make your parents regret having had you.
Again.
In fact picking up some cues let you experience a better 3d effect with one eye rather than looking at the flat screen with both eyes. At least for me, an immersive videogame like a FPS becomes more 3d-like with one eye closed. I suspect that tricking your eye like that is not a good idea for a prolonged time. Looking at the crosshair for a prolonged time is equally bad, worse than following a mouse cursor around a screen.
Vandalism is a good way to drive away people from your cause indeed.
What about:
- i am against animal cruelty so all experimentation and ALL EXPERIMENTS' results must be public.
At least animals suffer only once.
Failure to do so, using animals to compete for treatments, is a sadistic blood rite, not science.
Meh, failing predictions is easy. Real men destroy them.
"Think of the large computers (the mainframes and the minis) as the passenger train and the Apple personal computer as the Volkswagen. The Volkswagen isn't as fast or as comfortable as the passenger train. But the VW owners can go where they want and with whom they want. The VW owners have personal control of the machine" -- Steve Jobs, creator of the centralized-app-store-dependent iPhone.
IMHO they ARE the outcome of a GPL world, and take for granted what others fought for. So they have their compilers, distros, and stuff all ready.
If all they had were BSD and apple had just sued GNUstep... er... BSDstep, the only compatible free alternative, for patent violation, they would care a bit more about licensing issues.
You are talking about debian stable, and calling it debian. Are you aware of those other flavours, testing, unstable, experimental? What about a chroot for some packages? what about running ubuntu packages depending on a different libc by using LD_LIBRARY_PATH and not having the rest of the ubuntu stuff shoved down your throat? What about linux mint debian edition?
But let's stick to stable. Who in his right mind uses a system like debian stable, whose software and data formats tends to stay the same, and upgrades do not involve changing habits. One cannot reliably WORK with those systems right? :)
The amount of money raised for this is just too canny, IMHO sounds like advertisement for a disinfo op.
Or maybe Anonymous IS the disinfo op itself, and the fake disinfo op would be fought by Anonymous in an epic, fake battle.
To go from speculation to prediction, this would mean this operation will piss off many anonymous supporters eventually.
You insensitive clod.
> It looks like Rackspace made, and open sourced, the test suite.
So, vendors can extend the open source test suite to alter the parameters of compliance :)
even slimmer: debootstrap --variant minbase on another partition
more info on debian installation manual.
Any criminal can. Stolen laptop, open or cracked wireless access point.
Good point but the possibilities are varied. It might be that the US or some other state wants to throw money at cyberwar prevention (a bogus issue most of the time), so Israeli contractors have one succesfully thwarted attack in their track record.
Or OTOH Israel has some infrastructure problems and that they fake an Anonymous attack to deter other from trying the same.
After all, everybody can impersonate Anonymous.
An eye for an eye.... an eye squared.
Invalidating 10 good patents as chosen by the competitors would be more fitting IMHO
>I think the important part of the wiki article (English version) is that it mentions nuclear attack orders may be relayed through the station and that there are four others, with additional wiki links to those stations.
oh ok then, they simply want to draw the hackers' attention to the base so that a nuclear first strike can be blamed on a hacking attempt :)
You don't need to devour spy novels or watch 007 all night long to understand one simple aspect of the story (as reported in the summary, at least): once news about X leak out, X is to be considered COMPROMISED.
In this case it is blatant. Something that shouldn't have been there is available? assume the bad guys got it, if it is important, STFU if it's not important.
So, this move from the French secret service is muscle flexing, or counterintelligence (making people concentrate on a decoy), or a way to make openness and free exchange of information look contrary to national interests.
It is not a way to increase national security.
> Some Microsoft guy made some comments thorugh personal channels...
That COINCIDENTALLY reflect the corporate views. It's not astroturfing, never ever.
"As much control as possible" is the corporate view for most corporations. "As much freedom as possible" is the people view for most people.
Well, more precisely, the view is "As much doing_whatever_I_want as possible", which becomes "as much slavery as possible" if you soak up enough propaganda. But I digress.
Yes, the linux stigma is pure speculation.
Fact: google doesn't name linux in its linux based offering.
Fact: NOBODY ELSE, who sells stuff based on generic things available through other channels, stresses that fact. They want to make the consumer think they are different from all the rest.
How many drugs are based on generic substanced that have fallen out of patent protection? how many say that in the ads? NOBODY of course. "Get FOOSPIRIN B, with the same active ingredients that you find elsewhere for less!!!" sounds like a convincing campaign?
Neither does "Get Google ChromeBook, it runs LINUX, the same operating system that you can install for free into your existing laptop, else you can install a different flavour of LINUX in our ChromeBook to ruin our business model!!!"
Neither does "Get Ubuntu! if you have problems with it you can always fall back on Debian or Mint!!!"