At the end of the day simple refuse and walk away ie. do not fly and demand a refund. In fact want to put the TSA out of business then stop flying all together, no flights, no need for the TSA.
The alternative, is demand TSA also do private and charter flights, let the rich and greedy be xrayed, groped and cavity searched and see how long the laws last.
No fly weeks make more sense as a group activity to put pressure on out of control authorities.
However it is logically demonstrable that time does not exist. For time to exist, the present is the infestimally small sliver between the past and the future, so infinitesimally small as to logically be zero, the past of course no longer exists and the future is yet to exist, hence for time to exist the universe can not.
The truth is your ISP already has this power, so if the government wants it, will they demand only they have access to it and bar ISPs from unauthorised deep packet inspection and randomly audit their computers to ensure they can not do it without authorisation.
Think about it want foreign agents to gain access to secret data both government and private, them get them working as network engineers at ISPs, deep packet inspection can already reveal far more secrets than the government or wealthy people realise.
A shift in that would be leasing MMO to ISP's based, who can then included them in their offerings. The ISP wins by attracing customers and reducing their costs by keeping more traffic on their network, they can vene create premium offerings with free MMOs and basic without.
It creates major savings in managing MMO's as billing and associated accounting costs are substantially reduced and game servers are simply file servers to download the latest updates to the ISPs to minimal ongoing costs apart from game upgrades to keep the ISPs leasing the game. So distributed MMO gaming, based upon real distributed cloud computing not the lame lock in version (ISPs can interconnect their servers by no cost treaty to gain global reach for their users).
Treaties in reality are empty whishy washy things and countries only stick to them for as long as they want to. It basically is an excuse for corrupt politicians to point to the treaty and say, we can't do that because we have a treaty, at which point the citizens either shut up or remove the corrupt politician and replace them with one who will ignore the treaty.
Treaties have been ignored all the time through out human history. The current government can make all the bullshit crappy treaties it wants to, the population doesn't like the treaty then they simply remove the government and replace it with one that will ignore the treaty.
The only real repercussion from ignoring treaties is it becomes rather pointless signing treaties with that country because they will ignore them anyhow. Gees countries broke peace treaties and murdered millions of each others citizens, so what the fuck chance has ACTA have of surviving once the population gets sick of it and demands the government ignore it and make no attempt to base any laws on it.
You can bet ACTA ignores to two most important things, requirements for burdens of proof for any accusation and penalties for false accusations, the two most critical things for justice. They in fact balance the scales of justice and ensure the laws are not abused, without it ACTA should rightfully be binned from the get go.
Numbers count, get 500 million users and you have 500 million users, no one really looks at where they come from. A huge number of users with open source builds a ecosystem that in affect self funds it's development voluntarily (coders want to establish credentials, pride, employment opportunities). Remember it is open source not closed source and IBM has shown a track record of being far more forward thinking in that last few years.
As always with software, someone finally gains critical momentum and becomes 'the overnight success' that really took years of effort and becomes the dominant product in the market, will it happen, of course, now which open source product will do it, well your guess as good as any other.
Don't forget with open source forks, like a complex estuarine systems, they merge, re-fork and merge again etc. so we might no have even seen the final successful product yet, it could still be somewhere downstream.
There was once a time, when all those essays, reports and projects were treated just as a learning aid and only added a minor percentage to the final grade, everything was basically down to tests and exams, your passed or failed based upon your ability to recall information and handle the stress.
Apparently this created a gender bias whereby makes performed better in this regard forcing a grading restructuring. Now when you think about high grades can be achieved for not necessarily doing the work but for the cheerleader set to seduce geeks and nerds into doing the work. There are courses that have no exams at all and all grades are based upon 'er' project work.
Now personalty I have found the work reflects the exam style of grading, where you were under pressure and expected to be able to produce the answers immediately and any project work was expected to be credit worthy only any higher and you were wasting time on that project when you should have already moved onto the next.
Likely I am a bit biased, as I always seemed to be able to guess the right areas to cram the day before exams, making them a less stressful experience once started.
Fast compile times, now will that bring joy to wage slave coders or really piss them off. Gone will be compile coffee breaks, the extended internet 'er' research periods and, for those few remaining nicotine addicts, the extended smoke break. A much enjoyed era in computers coming to an end.
Will it is different if the company is a public company and it's share value is based upon it's perceived future income. Falsely misrepresenting the sales value of their leading products in order to promote the future value of the company is more than just bending SEC rules.
Especially when the CEO simultaneously sells more than a billion dollars worth of shares, now that is called insider trading because the CEO had access to information that the rest of the public was not aware of and especially when that information what have a marked impact upon the value of the companies shares.
Companies that sell networking solutions will start promoting parallel networks. An inside secure network and an outside less secure network, with separate devices on both networks and no connection between the two networks. Hardware is cheap enough and you can wire the secure network and wireless the insecure network.
So insecure personal, email and internet access, secure everything else and when it leave s the office it only does so on dedicated lines, hard copy or controlled and specifically checked data only devices.
Saving a few pennies only to have it cost you tens of thousands even hundreds of thousands of dollars makes no 'cents'. If it absolutely, positively, most certainly, doesn't have to be connected to the internet that don't connect it to the internet.
Smart terminals without storage media devices for internal and smartbooks with ready to rebuild backups for external ie if the external goes down, meh, fix it in ten to twenty minutes inform the user of the error and away they go, meanwhile internal productivity continues uninterrupted. PS only authorised network security officers port data from the external to the internal network after it is scanned. It costs a little more in the short term but it is guaranteed to save millions even billions in the long term.
It still brings to mind the thought, if they inject brain geared stems cells into the testicles of jock straps will they be able to think more clearly and that's with or with out an erection, the mind boggles, or in the case of jockstraps, instead of thinking giving them a headache it will trigger a braingasm.
In the interim the current holy grail of power generation is low cost, light weight, high energy storage density batteries. Something that will power power a smart book for 12 hours, a car for 500 miles and a house for 48 hours (allows better load balancing and effective local energy generation, wind and solar). Better battery technology makes renewable energy, wind, solar, tidal, even lighting (if distributed throughout a whole grid, incorporating major surge capacitors) far more viable.
The reason to start steeping back from the Oracle version, is they are likely to push Oracle Office cloud and make Open Office undesirable to get more people to their cloud lock in. Of course if you are already heavily into Oracle cloud lock in, bonus, if not then transitioning to libreoffice makes sense.
You can also give http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_Lotus_Symphony a shot as the current version is based upon open office. Interestingly enough software development is done IBM China Development Laboratory, located in Beijing, so there is very likely to be a huge surge in the number of users in the not to distant future.
The advantage of open source is made very apparent as a result of Oracle machinations, choice. Of course what will be the macro language in the future will also be an interesting question, Ruby would be nice.
If your talking about spoken language then I am definitely betting on Chinglish http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinglish. It has been around for quite some time but impetus for it's growth is really kicking off.
Hmm, lets see; bricklayer labourer, fish cleaner, printer, waiter, porter, soldier, production line worker, take your pick. They all had their positive points and negative points, except maybe the fish cleaner and it really depends on the wages at best buy. The reality is if you can't pick when.net is the only available job things have got to be pretty buggered already and to be honest right now.net really doesn't seem to be the way to go with the focus os mobile platforms and Android winning and open source generally winning that market. PS. take the hint from Ballmer now is the time to sell out of M$.
Well then get the law changed and establish the principle in civil court that the loser pays all reasonable court costs http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_rule. The application of this rule should quieten things down a bit, whereby the rich, when they know they are going to lose will back off knowing full well rather than being able to target their chosen victim with legal costs all they will do is end up paying both sets of legal fees.
An interesting thing judges can do where they feel the law is overly broad and difficult to enforce properly without giving excessive interpretive power to law enforcement is to apply a broad interpretation and force a rewriting of the law to narrow it's scope.
Under the law as it is currently written, the individual cited did break the law and should be penalised, the problem is the law needs to be rewritten to narrow it's scope to something far more reasonable otherwise police are able to abuse the law to victimise select individuals who make casual unintended errors of judgement.
IPv6 will shake things up on the blocking front. There is nothing stopping web sites like Facebook having scattered IPv6 addresses in the background for each user and internally routing back to the core range of addresses for admin and help. This will force backward isolations, oh no, we can't maintain control if people freely discuss ideas, countries to block the whole internet and only allow access to predefined IP addresses. So if you want to gain access to a web site that is not on the approved list you will have to make an application or if web sites want to access that countries population base they will to make an application. Really problematic when phones shift to IPv6 based addressing.
Don't discount the outdoor trades so readily. The only reason I went office was at that time there was a glut of trades and an absence of office, so building estimating etc. rather than carpentry or electrical. Of course the office enabled me to get on early on computing that was the only real benefit.
As for shit coding environments and good coding environments, that is tied to creativity and that has a real impact upon performance. If someone hates M$ and.net then it will cripple the creativity and their productivity will be terrible, fact of life.
As for computer languages learning the new hotness is always a good idea so ruby and ruby on rails seems to be gaining popularity catch with that is, it's gaining popularity because it is easy to learn.
Sometimes the older archaic languages can be more profitable (not many people left to maintain existing systems) but the reality is simply check the adds wanted and see where the demand is. A bit more geeky thing might be to check past history for the last 6 months to see how demand has changed. The other thing is location, some languages work better in some locations than others ie company type locations.
The question seems to be more which language will replace Java and trust of Oracle zeroes out as they kill the language by having clumsy fools trying to monetise it.
Yeah yeah, I know evil government owned corporations, gas, electricity, telecoms, water. Any profits went straight back into the public purse and fact, they were cheaper and fact they provide better service and fact the public had far greater control over them via the government. Suck it up the National Broadband Network will force competitive no caps broadband and privatised Telstra is screwed and mass media in Australia is also screwed, rant all you want, that is the way it is and will be. Also riht wing politics in Australia will be screwed as they will be able to ban all commercial political advertising as equal access to all parties by the majority of Australians will be available via no caps broadband, oww now that's gotta hurt.
What was the demand for cars and bitumen roads when they first came out. What was the demand for planes and airports when they first came out. What was the demand for houses when the cavemen first moved out of their caves. Demand for fibre optic high speed broadband can not exist until it is accessible and, yes the incumbents will be screwed as well as mass media with them.
Here's a fact if the government had never sold Telstra their original plan had been to get fibre optic to the majority of homes by 2005, greed and stupidity managed to bugger up that one. In fact every single privatisation that occurred in Australia as turned out for the worst for the majority of Australian, higher charges and worse service across the board, with only a handful of rich greedy psychopaths and their pathetic narcissistic minions profiting.
Well to be the fair the Australian 'National Broadband Network' will be paid for by the Australian government to ensure by far the majority of Australians gain access to fibre network http://www.nbn.gov.au/ to private corporations where resistant to providing.
I dare say this will have caused some annoyance to the US government and it's stance on protecting the profits of the current incumbents (and that whole woolly population density can't afford fibre thing) and basically making the look primitive and backward.
So the NBN will be wholesaling access and I suppose as such it is only fair to demand full details of any company hooking up equipment to that network and on selling access should provide full details. After all whilst we don't really like the idea of government wire tapping with due cause and a warrant even worse is the idea of corporations doing the exact same thing without a warrant simply a desire to intercept and monitor all our transmission for a for profit basis.
That used to be true in the old world mass media space, where bas stories where killed off but is is no longer true on the internet. The longer the story is kept alive, the more people you can engage, the more harm it does to those corporations.
So in this case every effort must be made to keep the story going, to keep hounding BP and it's political supporters, to keep pushing for fairness and where required changes to the law. To keep discussion going on and on and on for years, to keep picking away at them, to keep working ar=t taking away the customers of corporations or the foolish supporters of corrupt politicians. A continuous grinding struggle to wear those fuckers down, we might be ants and they are immense dinosaurs but we will continue bite them done to size bit by fucking bit, no matter how long it takes.
So yes discussion on slashdot and on every other forum, anti-BP web sites, and also driving past BP service stations and fuelling elsewhere, and does this preclude any other measures to ba taken to seek justice for those affected by BPs pollution, of course not, it is just part and parcel of the overall battle, the first step informing and discussing, prior to taking further action.
The reality is Linux is winning, hand over fist, stomping all over windows. Shh, no one really notices but Linux is ending up everywhere in appliances of all manner, types and descriptions. Most people don't even know they are using it, it runs the appliance application software and they never ever interact with operating system.
The reality is that Linux conquest of the human computer interface is leaving the desktop till last, the exact opposite of the previous dominant operating system windows, really odd that it is doing it in the exact opposite direction but it's just the way it happens to be panning out.
People will want Linux on their desktop not because it is better but simply because it is like their other appliances be it a phone or a TV etc.
Telstra is a major telecommunications corporations with vasy techincal and engineering skills. They knew exactly the nature of the products, exactly what hardware and what software was in those products and they knew full well the licence conditions of the software. This is not some corner store computer shop this is a multi billion dollar corporation, an incumbent copper phone network, with satellites, mobile phone networks and, undersea cabling.
Yet they have a past history of lying, cheating and stealing until they get caught and like some child blaming it on the new guy, the contractor, we were going to do it we just hadn't got around to it and just lately they have been blaming everything on those evil executives they have gotten rid of and now they are a better company.
This sort of stuff is typical for Telstra, especially as they are as far as marketing is concerned tied very tightly to M$. M$ will be really pissed if Telstra starts distributing open source code and promoting open source software, M$ would already hate Telstra selling those particular products. Truth is Telstra would likely sell more of them if they promoted Linux and open source software it just simply is much cooler.
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At the end of the day simple refuse and walk away ie. do not fly and demand a refund. In fact want to put the TSA out of business then stop flying all together, no flights, no need for the TSA.
The alternative, is demand TSA also do private and charter flights, let the rich and greedy be xrayed, groped and cavity searched and see how long the laws last.
No fly weeks make more sense as a group activity to put pressure on out of control authorities.
However it is logically demonstrable that time does not exist. For time to exist, the present is the infestimally small sliver between the past and the future, so infinitesimally small as to logically be zero, the past of course no longer exists and the future is yet to exist, hence for time to exist the universe can not.
The truth is your ISP already has this power, so if the government wants it, will they demand only they have access to it and bar ISPs from unauthorised deep packet inspection and randomly audit their computers to ensure they can not do it without authorisation.
Think about it want foreign agents to gain access to secret data both government and private, them get them working as network engineers at ISPs, deep packet inspection can already reveal far more secrets than the government or wealthy people realise.
Addons like https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/229918/ could become far more popular.
A shift in that would be leasing MMO to ISP's based, who can then included them in their offerings. The ISP wins by attracing customers and reducing their costs by keeping more traffic on their network, they can vene create premium offerings with free MMOs and basic without.
It creates major savings in managing MMO's as billing and associated accounting costs are substantially reduced and game servers are simply file servers to download the latest updates to the ISPs to minimal ongoing costs apart from game upgrades to keep the ISPs leasing the game. So distributed MMO gaming, based upon real distributed cloud computing not the lame lock in version (ISPs can interconnect their servers by no cost treaty to gain global reach for their users).
Treaties in reality are empty whishy washy things and countries only stick to them for as long as they want to. It basically is an excuse for corrupt politicians to point to the treaty and say, we can't do that because we have a treaty, at which point the citizens either shut up or remove the corrupt politician and replace them with one who will ignore the treaty.
Treaties have been ignored all the time through out human history. The current government can make all the bullshit crappy treaties it wants to, the population doesn't like the treaty then they simply remove the government and replace it with one that will ignore the treaty.
The only real repercussion from ignoring treaties is it becomes rather pointless signing treaties with that country because they will ignore them anyhow. Gees countries broke peace treaties and murdered millions of each others citizens, so what the fuck chance has ACTA have of surviving once the population gets sick of it and demands the government ignore it and make no attempt to base any laws on it.
You can bet ACTA ignores to two most important things, requirements for burdens of proof for any accusation and penalties for false accusations, the two most critical things for justice. They in fact balance the scales of justice and ensure the laws are not abused, without it ACTA should rightfully be binned from the get go.
Numbers count, get 500 million users and you have 500 million users, no one really looks at where they come from. A huge number of users with open source builds a ecosystem that in affect self funds it's development voluntarily (coders want to establish credentials, pride, employment opportunities). Remember it is open source not closed source and IBM has shown a track record of being far more forward thinking in that last few years.
As always with software, someone finally gains critical momentum and becomes 'the overnight success' that really took years of effort and becomes the dominant product in the market, will it happen, of course, now which open source product will do it, well your guess as good as any other.
Don't forget with open source forks, like a complex estuarine systems, they merge, re-fork and merge again etc. so we might no have even seen the final successful product yet, it could still be somewhere downstream.
There was once a time, when all those essays, reports and projects were treated just as a learning aid and only added a minor percentage to the final grade, everything was basically down to tests and exams, your passed or failed based upon your ability to recall information and handle the stress.
Apparently this created a gender bias whereby makes performed better in this regard forcing a grading restructuring. Now when you think about high grades can be achieved for not necessarily doing the work but for the cheerleader set to seduce geeks and nerds into doing the work. There are courses that have no exams at all and all grades are based upon 'er' project work.
Now personalty I have found the work reflects the exam style of grading, where you were under pressure and expected to be able to produce the answers immediately and any project work was expected to be credit worthy only any higher and you were wasting time on that project when you should have already moved onto the next.
Likely I am a bit biased, as I always seemed to be able to guess the right areas to cram the day before exams, making them a less stressful experience once started.
Fast compile times, now will that bring joy to wage slave coders or really piss them off. Gone will be compile coffee breaks, the extended internet 'er' research periods and, for those few remaining nicotine addicts, the extended smoke break. A much enjoyed era in computers coming to an end.
Will it is different if the company is a public company and it's share value is based upon it's perceived future income. Falsely misrepresenting the sales value of their leading products in order to promote the future value of the company is more than just bending SEC rules.
Especially when the CEO simultaneously sells more than a billion dollars worth of shares, now that is called insider trading because the CEO had access to information that the rest of the public was not aware of and especially when that information what have a marked impact upon the value of the companies shares.
Companies that sell networking solutions will start promoting parallel networks. An inside secure network and an outside less secure network, with separate devices on both networks and no connection between the two networks. Hardware is cheap enough and you can wire the secure network and wireless the insecure network.
So insecure personal, email and internet access, secure everything else and when it leave s the office it only does so on dedicated lines, hard copy or controlled and specifically checked data only devices.
Saving a few pennies only to have it cost you tens of thousands even hundreds of thousands of dollars makes no 'cents'. If it absolutely, positively, most certainly, doesn't have to be connected to the internet that don't connect it to the internet.
Smart terminals without storage media devices for internal and smartbooks with ready to rebuild backups for external ie if the external goes down, meh, fix it in ten to twenty minutes inform the user of the error and away they go, meanwhile internal productivity continues uninterrupted. PS only authorised network security officers port data from the external to the internal network after it is scanned. It costs a little more in the short term but it is guaranteed to save millions even billions in the long term.
It still brings to mind the thought, if they inject brain geared stems cells into the testicles of jock straps will they be able to think more clearly and that's with or with out an erection, the mind boggles, or in the case of jockstraps, instead of thinking giving them a headache it will trigger a braingasm.
In the interim the current holy grail of power generation is low cost, light weight, high energy storage density batteries. Something that will power power a smart book for 12 hours, a car for 500 miles and a house for 48 hours (allows better load balancing and effective local energy generation, wind and solar). Better battery technology makes renewable energy, wind, solar, tidal, even lighting (if distributed throughout a whole grid, incorporating major surge capacitors) far more viable.
Apparently not http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Go-oo and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LibreOffice indicate there are several differences. Also libreoffice is based upon version 3.3 of open office plus Go-oo enhancements hence the beta.
The reason to start steeping back from the Oracle version, is they are likely to push Oracle Office cloud and make Open Office undesirable to get more people to their cloud lock in. Of course if you are already heavily into Oracle cloud lock in, bonus, if not then transitioning to libreoffice makes sense.
You can also give http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_Lotus_Symphony a shot as the current version is based upon open office. Interestingly enough software development is done IBM China Development Laboratory, located in Beijing, so there is very likely to be a huge surge in the number of users in the not to distant future.
The advantage of open source is made very apparent as a result of Oracle machinations, choice. Of course what will be the macro language in the future will also be an interesting question, Ruby would be nice.
If your talking about spoken language then I am definitely betting on Chinglish http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinglish. It has been around for quite some time but impetus for it's growth is really kicking off.
Hmm, lets see; bricklayer labourer, fish cleaner, printer, waiter, porter, soldier, production line worker, take your pick. They all had their positive points and negative points, except maybe the fish cleaner and it really depends on the wages at best buy. The reality is if you can't pick when .net is the only available job things have got to be pretty buggered already and to be honest right now .net really doesn't seem to be the way to go with the focus os mobile platforms and Android winning and open source generally winning that market. PS. take the hint from Ballmer now is the time to sell out of M$.
Well then get the law changed and establish the principle in civil court that the loser pays all reasonable court costs http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_rule. The application of this rule should quieten things down a bit, whereby the rich, when they know they are going to lose will back off knowing full well rather than being able to target their chosen victim with legal costs all they will do is end up paying both sets of legal fees.
An interesting thing judges can do where they feel the law is overly broad and difficult to enforce properly without giving excessive interpretive power to law enforcement is to apply a broad interpretation and force a rewriting of the law to narrow it's scope.
Under the law as it is currently written, the individual cited did break the law and should be penalised, the problem is the law needs to be rewritten to narrow it's scope to something far more reasonable otherwise police are able to abuse the law to victimise select individuals who make casual unintended errors of judgement.
IPv6 will shake things up on the blocking front. There is nothing stopping web sites like Facebook having scattered IPv6 addresses in the background for each user and internally routing back to the core range of addresses for admin and help. This will force backward isolations, oh no, we can't maintain control if people freely discuss ideas, countries to block the whole internet and only allow access to predefined IP addresses. So if you want to gain access to a web site that is not on the approved list you will have to make an application or if web sites want to access that countries population base they will to make an application. Really problematic when phones shift to IPv6 based addressing.
Don't discount the outdoor trades so readily. The only reason I went office was at that time there was a glut of trades and an absence of office, so building estimating etc. rather than carpentry or electrical. Of course the office enabled me to get on early on computing that was the only real benefit.
As for shit coding environments and good coding environments, that is tied to creativity and that has a real impact upon performance. If someone hates M$ and .net then it will cripple the creativity and their productivity will be terrible, fact of life.
As for computer languages learning the new hotness is always a good idea so ruby and ruby on rails seems to be gaining popularity catch with that is, it's gaining popularity because it is easy to learn.
Sometimes the older archaic languages can be more profitable (not many people left to maintain existing systems) but the reality is simply check the adds wanted and see where the demand is. A bit more geeky thing might be to check past history for the last 6 months to see how demand has changed. The other thing is location, some languages work better in some locations than others ie company type locations.
The question seems to be more which language will replace Java and trust of Oracle zeroes out as they kill the language by having clumsy fools trying to monetise it.
Yeah yeah, I know evil government owned corporations, gas, electricity, telecoms, water. Any profits went straight back into the public purse and fact, they were cheaper and fact they provide better service and fact the public had far greater control over them via the government. Suck it up the National Broadband Network will force competitive no caps broadband and privatised Telstra is screwed and mass media in Australia is also screwed, rant all you want, that is the way it is and will be. Also riht wing politics in Australia will be screwed as they will be able to ban all commercial political advertising as equal access to all parties by the majority of Australians will be available via no caps broadband, oww now that's gotta hurt.
What was the demand for cars and bitumen roads when they first came out. What was the demand for planes and airports when they first came out. What was the demand for houses when the cavemen first moved out of their caves. Demand for fibre optic high speed broadband can not exist until it is accessible and, yes the incumbents will be screwed as well as mass media with them.
Here's a fact if the government had never sold Telstra their original plan had been to get fibre optic to the majority of homes by 2005, greed and stupidity managed to bugger up that one. In fact every single privatisation that occurred in Australia as turned out for the worst for the majority of Australian, higher charges and worse service across the board, with only a handful of rich greedy psychopaths and their pathetic narcissistic minions profiting.
Well to be the fair the Australian 'National Broadband Network' will be paid for by the Australian government to ensure by far the majority of Australians gain access to fibre network http://www.nbn.gov.au/ to private corporations where resistant to providing.
I dare say this will have caused some annoyance to the US government and it's stance on protecting the profits of the current incumbents (and that whole woolly population density can't afford fibre thing) and basically making the look primitive and backward.
So the NBN will be wholesaling access and I suppose as such it is only fair to demand full details of any company hooking up equipment to that network and on selling access should provide full details. After all whilst we don't really like the idea of government wire tapping with due cause and a warrant even worse is the idea of corporations doing the exact same thing without a warrant simply a desire to intercept and monitor all our transmission for a for profit basis.
That used to be true in the old world mass media space, where bas stories where killed off but is is no longer true on the internet. The longer the story is kept alive, the more people you can engage, the more harm it does to those corporations.
So in this case every effort must be made to keep the story going, to keep hounding BP and it's political supporters, to keep pushing for fairness and where required changes to the law. To keep discussion going on and on and on for years, to keep picking away at them, to keep working ar=t taking away the customers of corporations or the foolish supporters of corrupt politicians. A continuous grinding struggle to wear those fuckers down, we might be ants and they are immense dinosaurs but we will continue bite them done to size bit by fucking bit, no matter how long it takes.
So yes discussion on slashdot and on every other forum, anti-BP web sites, and also driving past BP service stations and fuelling elsewhere, and does this preclude any other measures to ba taken to seek justice for those affected by BPs pollution, of course not, it is just part and parcel of the overall battle, the first step informing and discussing, prior to taking further action.
The reality is Linux is winning, hand over fist, stomping all over windows. Shh, no one really notices but Linux is ending up everywhere in appliances of all manner, types and descriptions. Most people don't even know they are using it, it runs the appliance application software and they never ever interact with operating system.
The reality is that Linux conquest of the human computer interface is leaving the desktop till last, the exact opposite of the previous dominant operating system windows, really odd that it is doing it in the exact opposite direction but it's just the way it happens to be panning out.
People will want Linux on their desktop not because it is better but simply because it is like their other appliances be it a phone or a TV etc.
Telstra is a major telecommunications corporations with vasy techincal and engineering skills. They knew exactly the nature of the products, exactly what hardware and what software was in those products and they knew full well the licence conditions of the software. This is not some corner store computer shop this is a multi billion dollar corporation, an incumbent copper phone network, with satellites, mobile phone networks and, undersea cabling.
Yet they have a past history of lying, cheating and stealing until they get caught and like some child blaming it on the new guy, the contractor, we were going to do it we just hadn't got around to it and just lately they have been blaming everything on those evil executives they have gotten rid of and now they are a better company.
This sort of stuff is typical for Telstra, especially as they are as far as marketing is concerned tied very tightly to M$. M$ will be really pissed if Telstra starts distributing open source code and promoting open source software, M$ would already hate Telstra selling those particular products. Truth is Telstra would likely sell more of them if they promoted Linux and open source software it just simply is much cooler.