Terrorists hurt taxpayers but all the terrorism related expenses go to some contractors. Money to rebuild, to cure disease, to scan people at the airport and so on.
So basically all 9/11 terrorism did was transfer wealth to the capitalists, create a casus belli for american involvement in the middle east. And getting a large numbers of people killed. Mostly innocent. Way to go. Terrorism has won, just as it always did since the French revolution, not terrorists.
Terrorism will always win unless a terror act is considered just as a criminal act and the only response is punishing those involved and restoring the previous situation in all respects, political social and all. That would make a terrorist act irrelevant. Once somebody can get political, economic, social changes from an act of terrorism, that will become attractive, either as a normal or as a false flag operation.
3. Fragmentation factors in because a fix can't be rolled out quickly (or at all) to the fragmented handsets which may or may not get updates from the OEMs/Carriers.
So the problem is not fragmentation. The lazy ass OEM is not gonna help you quickly after you purchased something from it. While in the fragmented world of linux distribution you get a fix issued quickly (at least on the major distros, which are not few).
So the real problem is "depending on lazy ass OEM", or "Not Having Control Of Your Device".
> Light Peak is a design that is intended to replace the myriad of bus technologies present in the average computer.
That's exactly what was said about firewire when it debuted.
I hope this time things will work differently, as I too would prefer usb2 for dumb peripherals, ethernet and a high performance interface for all the rest.
> Provide a stable binary interface, and the manufacturers will provide drivers, at least for common processors.
Are you sure it's all about binary interfaces? Hardware vendors lose control of whatever runs under linux, while a slightly incompatible windows release/service pack every now and then ensures forced obsolescence.
That would change a bit with binary interfaces but not that much. And it would get in the way of kernel development.
But I could be wrong so somebody could mantain some kernel with a fixed ABI and see what happens. T2 project does have specified targets already IIRC.
If the bad guys are so determined to steal your data that resort to such extreme measures, they are probably likely to know about remote wiping. Since remote wiping occurs after a signal, they just need to remove battery or antenna, jam the signal, or take it where the signal is too weak (underground garage). Encryption solves this kind of problems in a better way.
I personally have my boycott list yet I expect no change: the economy is a real thing only for small fish. Big players decide how much money to put in circulation; airlines, coaches, all depend on the same banking cartel.
You go against "them" when you regain some independence (growing your own food is a disobedience act) Note that independence is different from individualism: e.g. a big family is always more independent than the same members living on their own. You go against them when you live unaffected by greed for the money and associated power and instead follow your conscience and a moral system (one that *you* chose, because zeitgeist = culture filtered by propaganda).
If big players exert control through a system, they want it to be the only universally effective one. They might pit all alternative moral systems against each other until people gets hurt, push the idea that religion and cultural difference is an obstacle to peace (in this context, atheism is like religion whenever it involves activism, organization, moral choice...).
Winning battles against these people is next to impossible, but since powerful people won't ever be satisfied and require more control on all aspects of life, you win the war simply acknowledging the situation and, no matter what the circumstances may force you to do, recalling you have a conscience.
So by all means, go on as much as you can, but do not call it voting with the wallet, call it being a man.
PS. even more OT, but since I condensed my theory of everything I can spare a paragraph. The desire for control is exemplified very well in the last words of Orwell's 1984- Big brother wins when it forcefully obtains Winston's love. Christians may recall the devil asks Jesus to adore him in exchange for power. Envious of God, he mirrors, perverting it, the universal love. Aptly, Latin term for "a bad person" is "captivus", prisoner.
Apple's fault was part of the walled garden fault which is the biggest fail, as I said. MS failed too since well done program should never request to delete data files which do not belong to it.
Could the FPGA also implement codecs? that would be a more flexible alternative to hardware based decoding/encoding. Or is it a job for a programmable dsp instead, I don't really know.
I'd do it in one point: the whole reasoning in the article is "a mandatory built-in rootkit controlled by national security is the way to win cyber wars" to which I reply "and give an exceptional degree of control to a bunch of people that are answerable to no one, better and cheaper to fix security holes in FOSS stacks instead and sandbox all the rest"
> the standard "File Edit View Window Help" menu layout originated at Apple?
they had done a great thing by making it standard through guidelines and libraries, but IIRC the menu bar is the smalltalk object browser bar simplified. Grossly oversimplified, for my personal taste.
We thought a lot about how this would be perceived in the open source community
I know, I know!
Community is probably amused witnessing Microsoft that comes to terms with open source because the alternative is "less windows servers".
Free software guys are scratching their beards saying: "why on earth would anybody want to run stuff on evil untrusted stacks? it's 2010... sorry I mean it's 1262300400 since the unix epoch! bah!" and screen -r into their emacs. From a long term perspective they are right, but the problem is your client's not yours, it's nice to offer choices.
Philosoraptor thinks: If Open Source is evil... Why didn't Microsoft certify it sooner?
That leaves me, enlightened by my tinfoil hat, saying: what? MS certified, "silver" in the name? You're just part of a conspiracy that, after much wikipedia editing, will make Bill Gates declare that MS invented open source. Admit it, TRAITORS!
> Y'all are bargaining in the wrong direction. For only 16 million a year I'd take the Microsoft CEO gig and I can guarantee a 20% stock price bump my first 90 days or it's free.
Good offer. But first we should check whether a +20% would occur the very first day if the current Microsoft CEO were suddenly replaced by a lolcat.
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a hosts file in a git distributed repo would be a nice idea for small organizations, provides a way to safely add/update entries.
Terrorists hurt taxpayers but all the terrorism related expenses go to some contractors. Money to rebuild, to cure disease, to scan people at the airport and so on.
So basically all 9/11 terrorism did was transfer wealth to the capitalists, create a casus belli for american involvement in the middle east. And getting a large numbers of people killed. Mostly innocent. Way to go.
Terrorism has won, just as it always did since the French revolution, not terrorists.
Terrorism will always win unless a terror act is considered just as a criminal act and the only response is punishing those involved and restoring the previous situation in all respects, political social and all. That would make a terrorist act irrelevant.
Once somebody can get political, economic, social changes from an act of terrorism, that will become attractive, either as a normal or as a false flag operation.
what about `ANotObviousPatentAtLast`
>free FOSS...
and that constitutes the only part of your post that makes some sense.
care to troll in a more refined way?
why not, we discussed crazy claims before, like some sw patents.
So the problem is not fragmentation. The lazy ass OEM is not gonna help you quickly after you purchased something from it. While in the fragmented world of linux distribution you get a fix issued quickly (at least on the major distros, which are not few).
So the real problem is "depending on lazy ass OEM", or "Not Having Control Of Your Device".
> Light Peak is a design that is intended to replace the myriad of bus technologies present in the average computer.
That's exactly what was said about firewire when it debuted.
I hope this time things will work differently, as I too would prefer usb2 for dumb peripherals, ethernet and a high performance interface for all the rest.
> Provide a stable binary interface, and the manufacturers will provide drivers, at least for common processors.
Are you sure it's all about binary interfaces? Hardware vendors lose control of whatever runs under linux, while a slightly incompatible windows release/service pack every now and then ensures forced obsolescence.
That would change a bit with binary interfaces but not that much.
And it would get in the way of kernel development.
But I could be wrong so somebody could mantain some kernel with a fixed ABI and see what happens. T2 project does have specified targets already IIRC.
If the bad guys are so determined to steal your data that resort to such extreme measures, they are probably likely to know about remote wiping.
Since remote wiping occurs after a signal, they just need to remove battery or antenna, jam the signal, or take it where the signal is too weak (underground garage). Encryption solves this kind of problems in a better way.
I personally have my boycott list yet I expect no change: the economy is a real thing only for small fish. Big players decide how much money to put in circulation; airlines, coaches, all depend on the same banking cartel.
You go against "them" when you regain some independence (growing your own food is a disobedience act) Note that independence is different from individualism: e.g. a big family is always more independent than the same members living on their own.
You go against them when you live unaffected by greed for the money and associated power and instead follow your conscience and a moral system (one that *you* chose, because zeitgeist = culture filtered by propaganda).
If big players exert control through a system, they want it to be the only universally effective one. They might pit all alternative moral systems against each other until people gets hurt, push the idea that religion and cultural difference is an obstacle to peace (in this context, atheism is like religion whenever it involves activism, organization, moral choice...).
Winning battles against these people is next to impossible, but since powerful people won't ever be satisfied and require more control on all aspects of life, you win the war simply acknowledging the situation and, no matter what the circumstances may force you to do, recalling you have a conscience.
So by all means, go on as much as you can, but do not call it voting with the wallet, call it being a man.
PS. even more OT, but since I condensed my theory of everything I can spare a paragraph.
The desire for control is exemplified very well in the last words of Orwell's 1984- Big brother wins when it forcefully obtains Winston's love. Christians may recall the devil asks Jesus to adore him in exchange for power. Envious of God, he mirrors, perverting it, the universal love. Aptly, Latin term for "a bad person" is "captivus", prisoner.
Apple's fault was part of the walled garden fault which is the biggest fail, as I said. MS failed too since well done program should never request to delete data files which do not belong to it.
I agree on your solution but the problem here is technical, not policy related.
an application removes more data than it should
big fail of ms but even bigger for the walled garden=security theorem.
not that i care,if the theorem were true I'd stay out the walled garden anyway...
Could the FPGA also implement codecs? that would be a more flexible alternative to hardware based decoding/encoding. Or is it a job for a programmable dsp instead, I don't really know.
I think they wanted printing support for osx without much trouble. cups fit the bill, and it has improved since.
> there's no reason to only enable printing to those handful of HP devices...
the reason is to encourage getting new printers.
it is also the reason nobody likes linux on the desktop. except possibly ubuntu, which tends to be a lil bloated.
Another one (that made a deal with MS) bites the dust.
I'd do it in one point: the whole reasoning in the article is "a mandatory built-in rootkit controlled by national security is the way to win cyber wars" to which I reply "and give an exceptional degree of control to a bunch of people that are answerable to no one, better and cheaper to fix security holes in FOSS stacks instead and sandbox all the rest"
> the standard "File Edit View Window Help" menu layout originated at Apple?
they had done a great thing by making it standard through guidelines and libraries, but IIRC the menu bar is the smalltalk object browser bar simplified. Grossly oversimplified, for my personal taste.
uh mod me redundant, somebody made an equivalent comment down the discussion tree 3hrs ago --- I lag...
encryption adds latency. you know, the first enemy of videogames.
increases costs and time to market too.
they might have got no other choice.
By `business` parent really means `playing solitaire whenever the boss is not around`.
I know, I know!
Community is probably amused witnessing Microsoft that comes to terms with open source because the alternative is "less windows servers".
Free software guys are scratching their beards saying: "why on earth would anybody want to run stuff on evil untrusted stacks? it's 2010... sorry I mean it's 1262300400 since the unix epoch! bah!" and screen -r into their emacs. From a long term perspective they are right, but the problem is your client's not yours, it's nice to offer choices.
Philosoraptor thinks:
If Open Source is evil...
Why didn't Microsoft certify it sooner?
That leaves me, enlightened by my tinfoil hat, saying: what? MS certified, "silver" in the name? You're just part of a conspiracy that, after much wikipedia editing, will make Bill Gates declare that MS invented open source.
Admit it, TRAITORS!
> Y'all are bargaining in the wrong direction. For only 16 million a year I'd take the Microsoft CEO gig and I can guarantee a 20% stock price bump my first 90 days or it's free.
Good offer. But first we should check whether a +20% would occur the very first day if the current Microsoft CEO were suddenly replaced by a lolcat.
MS exec 1: Whoa, this release is stable and works reliably. We must have messed up somewhere.
MS exec 2: Damn! who will buy new crap with our sticker on it if what they have works reliably? Ruin it! RUIN IT NOW!
whereas "invoke-rc.d apache2 start"...