Copyright under the US constitution categorically declares that the work must be useful, it must contribute to society in order to justify it's protection for a limited time, as obviously it infringes the right of "free speech", really want to protect it, keep it to yourself, do not release it to the public.
That money is not created, it is bled from the rest of the economy, a parasitical existence is not a contributory existence, they neither feed, house, clothe, heal, transport or produce useful usable goods. Plus, please do not confuse the exploited creators with the exploitative publishers. The creative commons, openly self published on the internet is a far more valuable and inclusive resource, where content is a participatory experience.
So profit and greed is what you claim as their one saving grace, hmm , drug dealers and pimps could also fit exactly that same profile and oddly enough they are equally destructive of society and as it turns out, they are also closely associated with the content publishing industry, now why do I not find that a surprise.
To be honest the internet is a threat to the digital economy --------- of the middle men, those that contribute nothing but, hmm, bullshit. The publishers who spend their lives lying about the quality of the content they 'publish', who produce (not create) some of the worst content imaginable (I not sure that word should be associated with the content they produce) where they pay peanuts to the best performing casting couch specialists, the endless parade of one hit drunken drug addled performance artists.
What does this work or those people actually contribute to society, is their work to be considered a useful art, or should their narcissist sociopathic behaviour become a part of shameful history. Their willingness to corrupt everything they touch, law, politics, society, and even children and they believe they are worth protecting, that their ability to exploit and distort human mores to fit their own psychosis is of valuable to society.
So will the digital economy be better with or without them, how about the real economy, the one of humanity and the planets natural resources, can they continued to be wasted upon this groups their very public excesses, you could not find a group that consumes and pollutes more than them.
Consider the alternate, you could be watching adults playing games like children trying to remember your glory days as a high school jock strap or cheer leader, , you could be watching reality TV, you could be watching day time soaps, your could be watching TV adds, you could be watching Fox advertising as news, hmm, slashdot still way better than staring at the idiot box.
The story has an odd tilt, I wasn't aware they you could actually steal the truth, although I suppose you can rob lies of their effectiveness.
It is far worse than that. It is like junk food companies lobbying to prevent people sharing recipes or cooking their own meals and of course putting all supermarkets on a watch list for supporting free open recipe foods by supply the potentially infringing ingredients.
It would be interesting to see how their foreign offshoots get treated in the countries they have targeted. Could those foreign branches be considered treasonous in their willingness to damage the overall economy of a country to favour US corporate software interests.
FOSS in a commercial sense is a cost reduction model that specifically targets the bane of all businesses overheads.In fact 99.99 percent of businesses should be lobbying governments to foster and promote FOSS software because of it's cost and overhead reduction benefits. Not just in supply of software, but also in forced endless incompatibility upgrades, early release of purposefully buggy software, constant retraining to adapt to new interfaces and menu structures, repeated security, reliability and stability failures, all of those represent additional overhead cost burdens.
Not so much perverted, let's some it up in three words, anal control freak, hmm, that can be more than just a little perverted. Class action civil suit is silly, parents of the school sue the school to get money, to pay for additional taxes to fund the additional fiscal needs of the school. The just need to wait a little, and if the school or city officials are not charged with criminal offences, the sue the county/state to force criminal prosecution.
It was a face palmingly stupid thing to do, randomly turning on cameras to monitor students using school supplied computers after hours in the government legislated privacy of their own homes, without direct parental consent to do so. What can you say but stupid, stupid, stupid, being a idiot is not a criminal defence.
The underlying reality is, the computer market is maturing. From a customer point of view, windows advertising is now windows blah blah blah, this version blah blah blah, next version blah blah blah. They just don't care, they use what came with the machine, with absolutely no interest in upgrading and will stick with it until the machine dies. When their next machine arrives if it doesn't have an OS they will simply install they one they already have, if it does have an OS already installed they will use the installed OS.
Right now all that windows advertising is basically throwing money away, no one cares and no one believes it (especially since M$ stuck it to future generations of computers users with overheating xboxes and lying about it). For them to already start promoting windows 8 just they can stick everyone with two years operating system upgrades just kills of any opportunity for the slim chance of windows 7 upgrades.
For me, vista came with the machine but it sucked so hard (the very first unpatched version) I replaced it with XP from the dead machine (high powered notebooks eventually cook themselves) it replaced, chances for upgrade after than zero, chances for cross grade, well, all my machines are dual boot, one partition for games and the other to keep that one working, for backups, for real security and for work.
Windows two decades more advanced than Linux, do you have any idea how stupid that sounds to the computer geek/nerd crowd at slashdot, 20 whole years, that's like 1990, do you have any idea at all what computers and software was like in 1990, talk about a marketdroid drone bot, oh my;D (ohh yeah we believe).
I think you will find that OLED has come under attack from LCD LED, a two layer screen, LCD layer for colour, white LED for light, one led for each LCD set (three colours plus white). So a series of additional steps in the manufacture of LCD panels to incorporate LEDs within the panel versus a complete new production plant for OLED panels.
Of course the dream of flexible roll up monitors is now further away. Of course when you think about incorporating LEDs in the LCD panels, it looks so sensible it is a wonder it hasn't been done yet, but then it is the old patent stretch, keeping out technology whilst you maximise profits, a good example of this is of course near dead texas instruments DLP.
Collateral damage, hmm, do you even know that term. The greatest risk of all when murdering people by remote control, loss of humanity. It is so easy for them is it, whoops, just blew up a baby and it's mother, whoops, there goes a grandad, whoops, legless child, all so easy to walk away from the carnage with excuses of I was ordered to do it (exactly how do those victims now seek justice). Of course, but the other side is worse (number of casualties caused would tend to indicate this is a lie), of course you can always hide your shame behind faulty hardware, guess shots soon become it veered of course (you chose the hardware, you used the hardware, you are the murderer when your hardware fails).
You implement justice by upholding it not abandoning it. You can only ever capture terrorists, when you arrest them, when you try the in court, when you put up your evidence so that it can be challenged and proven. Murdering suspects in the field is just that, murder. Self defence whilst attempting to conduct arrests is the only excuse to open fire and then that fire must aimed directed and minimised, not a bomb or missile that sometimes targets the individual but always kills any innocent people in the near vicinity.
You can never abandon your human responsibility for the choices you make, when you choose to kill that is your burden, that is your act of evil which you will be forced to account for, failure to refuse to kill when it is not an act of self defence is cowardice.
In this case there is a weapon with which to legally terrorise the RIAA, MPAA et al, the creative commons. Simply swap to that model for all your creative needs. Don't buy their content, tell everybody else not to buy their content, shun those that do suck up to their content as being lame arsed. At the very least drop cable TV as a start it sets a terrible precedent of renting content and it's owners are the antitheses of shared content.
It really is insanely stupid to pay them to steal your rights, to force you into working in poverty and, to corrupt you government. A sustained political effort is required to shake things up, a shift from a two party system to a three or more party system (they don't need to win, they just need the balance of power, greed by the majority powers means they can never work together).
Now that response is more interesting when looking at distribution choice so, Kubuntu or Ubuntu is a more interesting choice than which distribution. The big choice is whether to Gnome or KDE, rather than the distribution running those GUIs. The reality is the underlying distribution really doesn't make all that much difference http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_distribution, for a list of the most popular ones.
For the most logical choice just check out which distribution is most popular in your local region, your neighbourhood or city and go with that one, so you stand the best chance of getting local support (you will find there is also a gui bias built within that).
Don't be shy though try different distributions, with the same GUI, configure to look and run link windows and get a feel for tweaking and adding programs to different distributions, experience the choices that FOSS provides.
I can guess that over aggressive caching would be targeted at improving only one companies products at the expense of other companies products. Pre-fetching programs that you might use is really just a marketing fudge to make certain programs look like they perform better than they actually do, with the added benefit that programs outside the queue now wait while something else is loaded then unloaded prior their getting loaded.
Most used programs will generally get loaded immediately following boot, this is after fighting over windows delayed services booting marketing fudge to get a partially functional desktop to appear as soon as possible. So they you now add pre fetching of guesses of which program might be loaded but not looking at when it might be loaded.
Statistics can lie, the better economic indicator is the minimum wage, and what percentage of the population earn the minimum wage and whether that minimum wage is actually liveable, paying for food, clothing, buying accommodation and of course health. Pointless looking at the median income if the majority of people in point of fact actually earn considerably less than that, I know it is their fault for not being born in a family where nepotism ensure earning many many multiples of the average salary.
Remember producing a functioning healthy and happy society is not about ensuring that the minority can exploit the majority, it is about ensuring that the exploitative minority are isolated from the rest of society in rehabilitative institutions, whilst the rest of society to works together on creating healthy and happy communities.
When it comes to wages, look at the minimum wage, the number of annual leave holiday days, public holidays, number of paid sick days, the number of long service holiday days, overtime penalty and of course health care provisions. All that added together defines the actual true wage conditions and it behoves a modern controlled social capitalist society to control and enforce reasonable of employment as well as to protect them from external subversion.
The best defence against cyber attack from the internet, if it doesn't need to be connected to the internet then don't bloody connect it. Next up, if it is only marginally more expensive and a little inconvenient if it isn't connected to the internet, the don't bloody connect it.
Modern day logic is parallel networks, internal secure and wired with it's own interactive devices and completely separate external wireless or wired network (dependent upon existing EMR loads within the working environment better safe than sorry) for connection to the internet with it's own separate interactive devices. Yes, this does mean you use the sneaker net via the computer systems security office to transfer data from one network to the other, all reviewed, all scanned, all justified, all logged and all audited. Security is an inefficient pain but, that has always been the real choice, efficiency or security, you can't really have both.
As with all non personal purely logical decisions it is a matter of trust and risk, big emphasis on 'RISK' assessment. On the trust side until they fail that trust they should be trusted on the risk side extended prison terms for what by far the majority of people upon a global basis, a reasonable right to express their opinion about the nature of their government and corruption with public officials, well, that is a really bug risk.
So real consideration is required, in logical non personal trust and risk decisions you logically always side with risk unless the a definitive benefits for going with trust, in this case, you offend the government of China, meh, no biggy, they will just have to learn to get over it just like modern democracies do when their citizens stick it to them upon a regular basis. In fact their reaction will be the most certain indicator of whether the denial of trust in favour of a significant reduction in risk was a valid decision.
What the essay fails to capture is the nature of the functioning of the eyeballs in practice, between open source and closed source. In closed source, the eyeballs only look at what they are paid to look at, if the code is just barely good enough to sell, then out it goes and nobody looks at that code again until the complaints start rolling in and then and only the do they fix it, well, sort of fix it, they of course only fix it just barely enough to silence the noisiest of complaints and the only if there are real consequences for failing to do so. Don't think so then try this http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Search/en-GB?query=this%20is%20a%20know%20fault&ac=8 and a huge number of them have never been fixed.
Open source follows a completely different series of routes; 1) People looking for faults because they get a kick out of finding them and fixing them. 2) Tweaks to functions that indirectly remove bugs by simply replacing them with better code. 3) Discoveries in user interactions, less of a complaint because there is no force in pushing the fix. 5) Governments and government departments directly pursuing more secure code. 6) Corporations seeking to build a public reputation by demonstrating coding expertise.
So in the case of open source software there are many 'different' kinds of eyes, so those eyes all working from different perspectives do in reality make bugs very shallow. In the closed source proprietary world the bugs are buried in the depths of the code, hiding in the dark, basically because of profits versus workmanship issues, which means no light is shone on them because only one set of eyes looking from a single 'shallow' perspective looks at them.
There is of course one other set of eyes looking at code, the saboteurs both private and government, looking for faults to exploit. Hard with open source because it can rapidly turn around and bite you on the arse if you use it (if you protect against it everybody notices). Closed source (mostly but a lot of less than honourable eyes lend up looking at it), of course can be targeted as long as you, well, use open source code yourself whilst promoting closed source to everybody else (hmm, kind of reminds me of all those mainland China computer companies, odd that, isn't it).
Especially when the answer is so easy and morally sound, less on war and weapons and more on space and research. The beauty of space and research, is that more gets spent on direct wages, rather than inflated profits, especially profits on consumable that get blown up on purpose. Research should of course be extended out into other non-profit but high savings areas, like biological controls of introduced pest species, long term and detailed research into herbal supplements (rather that high cost loaded with exorbitant profit margins pharmaceuticals), gravity research (extremely high potential but unknown research time and costs) and, open patent research in commercial ventures that have a high priority for the future of humanity where the current patent system is harming development.
The commercialisation of space is very problematic due to high risk and cost and attempting to commercialise a shared resource that no one can claim ownership of can get out of hand very quickly. One commercial squeeze on cost to maximise profits can leave a lot of debris in space that would become a major problem for decades to come. The biggest problem with today;s corporation are truly terrible corporate executives who are only concerned with this years bonuses and damn the consequences for the company next year, it should be obvious to everyone by now how destructive and dangerous that really is.
In Australia they would now be free to gain the data from the white pages (you likely could transcribe the data and rekey, maybe even scan and OCR it for reproduction) but not to copy the yellow pages but they again likely can extract the data and reproduce that (yellow pages contains artwork, in the form of advertisements and the would be copyrightable ).
Non-fiction text books are a better example, whilst you are free to extract the facts and rewrite them in your own words you cannot copy the original creative presentation of the facts.
As for electronic factual databases, whilst the facts are not copyrightable, the interface to access, search and present those facts are. One would still have to wonder about purposeful errors, false created facts, if you copy those even just the data you would be infringing copyright as those entries are creative content. Rather odd isn't it, with regards to the law in affect, lies are copyrightable but the truth isn't. From this I gather that pigopolists can not be trusted with a monopoly on the truth but they have "carte blanche" on their speciality, lies;D.
The bureaucrats last far longer than that and ultimately they are often the ones that make decisions by undermining decisions more often based upon power plays and ego, rather than upon sound economic decisions. In this case one person was making statements full of if, could, necessarily, assumption, all to cover the fact that they had not bothered to conduct any research. The reason for the lack of research, that research could cost more than $500 million dollars a year, one could only guess that Graham Fry was intending to contract out the research into using open source software to a closed source proprietary software company.
Obviously Fry has no concept of foreign debt, no understanding of maintaining control over software upgrade cycles, no idea about monitoring historical trends and how many times they have bought the same software, no concept at all of life cycle costing, believes the lie that closed source proprietary software is free of maintenance costs and, fails to understand how governments choices in this sector impact upon private industry choices and further impact foreign by a nominal factor of 10 (500 million becomes 5 billion). A true asshat that does not belong in a role that legacy, longevity and, political astuteness has provided him, rather than expertise, national economic awareness or even basic common sence. Sounds like the Green Party in Australia is far more technologically aware than the rest (they also oppose censorship).
It seems that global trend of the right shifting to the loony bin and the left shifting to the right of centre leaving the humanity and environment (over greed and power) based parties, in this case the Greens, to take up the centre left position, holds true. With FOSS the bulk of the money in software can always be spent locally and that's down to state and city level, not just country.
You fail to understand religions. Religions were all largely created to establish a system of controls over society, by those seeking to attain or maintain power. Religion is basically a derived set of rules to establish a set of morals, these rules are buried within stories and subject to interpretation by the religious leaders and more often by the political power behind the religious leaders. Especially in the period following the demise of the original religious authors. That period where the religion is rewritten to suit the rulers of the days, this is of course obfuscated over time by the simple expediency of killing anyone who disagrees with the later interpretations. This principles is extended in neighboring regions, naturally enough with monotheism unlike polytheism, conflicting gods cannot be accepted but, that provides the excuse to purge, via religious edict unbelievers and confiscate their property (in the favor of the political elite of the day), hence the underlying driver for monotheism as it was actually deployed and used.
See, not pulled out of someones arse, but a concerted conspiracy to enrich and empower a minority at the expense of the majority, the poor get the vacuous promises and the rich and powerful get everything else, including ownership of the poor, modern example of this religious perversity is of course capitalism, where the god worshiped is greed (they still wrap themselves up in other religions but of course they don't show the slightest pretense of adhering to any of the moral principles of those religions, that's for the poor).
The interpretation part is most amusing, take the Christian bible, is it true, absolutely not and I quote "Listen then to what the parable of the sower means: When anyone hears the message about the kingdom and does not understand it, the evil one comes and snatches away what was sown in his heart. This is the seed sown along the path. The one who received the seed that fell on rocky places is the man who hears the word and at once receives it with joy. But since he has no root, he lasts only a short time. When trouble or persecution comes because of the word, he quickly falls away. The one who received the seed that fell among the thorns is the man who hears the word, but the worries of this life and the deceitfulness of wealth choke it, making it unfruitful. But the one who received the seed that fell on good soil is the man who hears the word and understands it. He produces a crop, yielding a hundred, sixty or thirty times what was sown". So the bible is a "story" written in parables, not a factual account. Fascinating how the first line describes exactly how typical politicians use the bible for their own "EVIL" uses. So either these parables are true and the rest is false, or the rest is true and these parables are false, but if that is true then the bible still untrue.
To cut a long story short http://news.cnet.com/Office-2007-fails-OOXML-conformance-test/2100-7344_3-6237855.html, M$ Office fails it's own standards test, so as regards the monopoly office application the standard is obviously not standard to anything, even within it's own purpose designed program suite. I suppose for that you have to buy the next upgrade or even perhaps the one after that etc. etc..
For M$ to adhere to ODF is simply a choice, for others to adhere to OOXML represents high risk of patent infringement, licence fees, of the standard saying one thing whilst their program does another, ensuring all competitors will never end up being totally compatible and remain a bit buggy.
It is not executive election it is executive evaluation. The two biggest problems being faced by corporations is getting stuck with sociopath management and narcissist management. For sociopaths there apparently is now an effective test http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bp0P8t4SJ4I&feature=related. Perhaps it is simply high time that those with a great degree of responsibility and in positions where they can cause great harm, where given thorough psychiatric evaluations, to isolate those for whom terrorism and exploitation are a natural state of being.
There are some dangers in genetic evaluation of psychotic disorders but for some positions within society it is very likely essential to prevent human caused catastrophes. False wars, profit driven pandemic scares, toxic medications, pollution, ruthless exploitation of labour, subversion of democracy, it is very likely that the bulk of these are directly tied to the presence of psychopaths and narcissist, in position of power and governance, where they emphatically do not belong. Psychopaths 1 percent of the human population but 20 percent of the prison population, it is about time the problem was nipped in the bud.
In this case they are not filtering content, they are censoring a particular web site by blocking it's IP address range. This represents an infringement of trade designed to favour Verizon's other business interests. First 4chan than others to follow.
I smell a trap though, instigate internet digital 'terrorism' sic, then claim justification for the commercial disruption because of the resultant attacks, meanwhile your friendly professionally paranoids are monitoring (they are short on their quota of harsh interrogation, isolation and imprisonment of children). In this case better to stick it to them in court, it is a slam dunk freedom of speech thing, one case by 4 chan and a class action by it's users.
The best receiver of the prize is anyone fighting the double speak Internet Freedom Act and it's ilk, anywhere they appear in those world. The internet can only remain open while it remains open amd, that it receives the peace prize really would indicate that people who oppose net neutrality and promote censorship really are anti-peace, are the fermentors of deceit and war and are basically evil.
Far more importantly all those molecular bonds are not locked in, they are in transition from one state to another state, human bodies are living organisms, a fully active molecular processing system. Altering the energy states of molecules in transition has an outcome on the resultant new molecules formed. Probabilities are low but you are dealing with billions of molecules of trillions of reactions, those low probabilities suddenly become lethal given sufficient time, genetic predisposition and plain bad luck.
That this generation wants to take a chance with the lives of the next generation because it is more profitable to do so, fine, as long as the perpetrators pay the full price, for causing the early deaths of the next generation.
The telecoms don't think there is a problem, fine let's see those life time guarantee and warranties, ensuring against damages from radiation and make today's corporate executives liable for tomorrows victims. Lets see how many life insurance companies would be willing to take on the risk of insuring against cellular damage caused by radiation all built within the price of a single telephone contract and covering the user for the rest of their life, lets see the telecoms put their money and their current executives future freedoms where their current PR=B$ advertising mouth is.
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Copyright under the US constitution categorically declares that the work must be useful, it must contribute to society in order to justify it's protection for a limited time, as obviously it infringes the right of "free speech", really want to protect it, keep it to yourself, do not release it to the public.
That money is not created, it is bled from the rest of the economy, a parasitical existence is not a contributory existence, they neither feed, house, clothe, heal, transport or produce useful usable goods. Plus, please do not confuse the exploited creators with the exploitative publishers. The creative commons, openly self published on the internet is a far more valuable and inclusive resource, where content is a participatory experience.
So profit and greed is what you claim as their one saving grace, hmm , drug dealers and pimps could also fit exactly that same profile and oddly enough they are equally destructive of society and as it turns out, they are also closely associated with the content publishing industry, now why do I not find that a surprise.
To be honest the internet is a threat to the digital economy --------- of the middle men, those that contribute nothing but, hmm, bullshit. The publishers who spend their lives lying about the quality of the content they 'publish', who produce (not create) some of the worst content imaginable (I not sure that word should be associated with the content they produce) where they pay peanuts to the best performing casting couch specialists, the endless parade of one hit drunken drug addled performance artists.
What does this work or those people actually contribute to society, is their work to be considered a useful art, or should their narcissist sociopathic behaviour become a part of shameful history. Their willingness to corrupt everything they touch, law, politics, society, and even children and they believe they are worth protecting, that their ability to exploit and distort human mores to fit their own psychosis is of valuable to society.
So will the digital economy be better with or without them, how about the real economy, the one of humanity and the planets natural resources, can they continued to be wasted upon this groups their very public excesses, you could not find a group that consumes and pollutes more than them.
Consider the alternate, you could be watching adults playing games like children trying to remember your glory days as a high school jock strap or cheer leader, , you could be watching reality TV, you could be watching day time soaps, your could be watching TV adds, you could be watching Fox advertising as news, hmm, slashdot still way better than staring at the idiot box.
The story has an odd tilt, I wasn't aware they you could actually steal the truth, although I suppose you can rob lies of their effectiveness.
It is far worse than that. It is like junk food companies lobbying to prevent people sharing recipes or cooking their own meals and of course putting all supermarkets on a watch list for supporting free open recipe foods by supply the potentially infringing ingredients.
It would be interesting to see how their foreign offshoots get treated in the countries they have targeted. Could those foreign branches be considered treasonous in their willingness to damage the overall economy of a country to favour US corporate software interests.
FOSS in a commercial sense is a cost reduction model that specifically targets the bane of all businesses overheads.In fact 99.99 percent of businesses should be lobbying governments to foster and promote FOSS software because of it's cost and overhead reduction benefits. Not just in supply of software, but also in forced endless incompatibility upgrades, early release of purposefully buggy software, constant retraining to adapt to new interfaces and menu structures, repeated security, reliability and stability failures, all of those represent additional overhead cost burdens.
Not so much perverted, let's some it up in three words, anal control freak, hmm, that can be more than just a little perverted. Class action civil suit is silly, parents of the school sue the school to get money, to pay for additional taxes to fund the additional fiscal needs of the school. The just need to wait a little, and if the school or city officials are not charged with criminal offences, the sue the county/state to force criminal prosecution.
It was a face palmingly stupid thing to do, randomly turning on cameras to monitor students using school supplied computers after hours in the government legislated privacy of their own homes, without direct parental consent to do so. What can you say but stupid, stupid, stupid, being a idiot is not a criminal defence.
The underlying reality is, the computer market is maturing. From a customer point of view, windows advertising is now windows blah blah blah, this version blah blah blah, next version blah blah blah. They just don't care, they use what came with the machine, with absolutely no interest in upgrading and will stick with it until the machine dies. When their next machine arrives if it doesn't have an OS they will simply install they one they already have, if it does have an OS already installed they will use the installed OS.
Right now all that windows advertising is basically throwing money away, no one cares and no one believes it (especially since M$ stuck it to future generations of computers users with overheating xboxes and lying about it). For them to already start promoting windows 8 just they can stick everyone with two years operating system upgrades just kills of any opportunity for the slim chance of windows 7 upgrades.
For me, vista came with the machine but it sucked so hard (the very first unpatched version) I replaced it with XP from the dead machine (high powered notebooks eventually cook themselves) it replaced, chances for upgrade after than zero, chances for cross grade, well, all my machines are dual boot, one partition for games and the other to keep that one working, for backups, for real security and for work.
Windows two decades more advanced than Linux, do you have any idea how stupid that sounds to the computer geek/nerd crowd at slashdot, 20 whole years, that's like 1990, do you have any idea at all what computers and software was like in 1990, talk about a marketdroid drone bot, oh my ;D (ohh yeah we believe).
I think you will find that OLED has come under attack from LCD LED, a two layer screen, LCD layer for colour, white LED for light, one led for each LCD set (three colours plus white). So a series of additional steps in the manufacture of LCD panels to incorporate LEDs within the panel versus a complete new production plant for OLED panels.
Of course the dream of flexible roll up monitors is now further away. Of course when you think about incorporating LEDs in the LCD panels, it looks so sensible it is a wonder it hasn't been done yet, but then it is the old patent stretch, keeping out technology whilst you maximise profits, a good example of this is of course near dead texas instruments DLP.
Collateral damage, hmm, do you even know that term. The greatest risk of all when murdering people by remote control, loss of humanity. It is so easy for them is it, whoops, just blew up a baby and it's mother, whoops, there goes a grandad, whoops, legless child, all so easy to walk away from the carnage with excuses of I was ordered to do it (exactly how do those victims now seek justice). Of course, but the other side is worse (number of casualties caused would tend to indicate this is a lie), of course you can always hide your shame behind faulty hardware, guess shots soon become it veered of course (you chose the hardware, you used the hardware, you are the murderer when your hardware fails).
You implement justice by upholding it not abandoning it. You can only ever capture terrorists, when you arrest them, when you try the in court, when you put up your evidence so that it can be challenged and proven. Murdering suspects in the field is just that, murder. Self defence whilst attempting to conduct arrests is the only excuse to open fire and then that fire must aimed directed and minimised, not a bomb or missile that sometimes targets the individual but always kills any innocent people in the near vicinity.
You can never abandon your human responsibility for the choices you make, when you choose to kill that is your burden, that is your act of evil which you will be forced to account for, failure to refuse to kill when it is not an act of self defence is cowardice.
In this case there is a weapon with which to legally terrorise the RIAA, MPAA et al, the creative commons. Simply swap to that model for all your creative needs. Don't buy their content, tell everybody else not to buy their content, shun those that do suck up to their content as being lame arsed. At the very least drop cable TV as a start it sets a terrible precedent of renting content and it's owners are the antitheses of shared content.
It really is insanely stupid to pay them to steal your rights, to force you into working in poverty and, to corrupt you government. A sustained political effort is required to shake things up, a shift from a two party system to a three or more party system (they don't need to win, they just need the balance of power, greed by the majority powers means they can never work together).
Now that response is more interesting when looking at distribution choice so, Kubuntu or Ubuntu is a more interesting choice than which distribution. The big choice is whether to Gnome or KDE, rather than the distribution running those GUIs. The reality is the underlying distribution really doesn't make all that much difference http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_distribution, for a list of the most popular ones.
For the most logical choice just check out which distribution is most popular in your local region, your neighbourhood or city and go with that one, so you stand the best chance of getting local support (you will find there is also a gui bias built within that).
Don't be shy though try different distributions, with the same GUI, configure to look and run link windows and get a feel for tweaking and adding programs to different distributions, experience the choices that FOSS provides.
I can guess that over aggressive caching would be targeted at improving only one companies products at the expense of other companies products. Pre-fetching programs that you might use is really just a marketing fudge to make certain programs look like they perform better than they actually do, with the added benefit that programs outside the queue now wait while something else is loaded then unloaded prior their getting loaded.
Most used programs will generally get loaded immediately following boot, this is after fighting over windows delayed services booting marketing fudge to get a partially functional desktop to appear as soon as possible. So they you now add pre fetching of guesses of which program might be loaded but not looking at when it might be loaded.
Statistics can lie, the better economic indicator is the minimum wage, and what percentage of the population earn the minimum wage and whether that minimum wage is actually liveable, paying for food, clothing, buying accommodation and of course health. Pointless looking at the median income if the majority of people in point of fact actually earn considerably less than that, I know it is their fault for not being born in a family where nepotism ensure earning many many multiples of the average salary.
Remember producing a functioning healthy and happy society is not about ensuring that the minority can exploit the majority, it is about ensuring that the exploitative minority are isolated from the rest of society in rehabilitative institutions, whilst the rest of society to works together on creating healthy and happy communities.
When it comes to wages, look at the minimum wage, the number of annual leave holiday days, public holidays, number of paid sick days, the number of long service holiday days, overtime penalty and of course health care provisions. All that added together defines the actual true wage conditions and it behoves a modern controlled social capitalist society to control and enforce reasonable of employment as well as to protect them from external subversion.
The best defence against cyber attack from the internet, if it doesn't need to be connected to the internet then don't bloody connect it. Next up, if it is only marginally more expensive and a little inconvenient if it isn't connected to the internet, the don't bloody connect it.
Modern day logic is parallel networks, internal secure and wired with it's own interactive devices and completely separate external wireless or wired network (dependent upon existing EMR loads within the working environment better safe than sorry) for connection to the internet with it's own separate interactive devices. Yes, this does mean you use the sneaker net via the computer systems security office to transfer data from one network to the other, all reviewed, all scanned, all justified, all logged and all audited. Security is an inefficient pain but, that has always been the real choice, efficiency or security, you can't really have both.
As with all non personal purely logical decisions it is a matter of trust and risk, big emphasis on 'RISK' assessment. On the trust side until they fail that trust they should be trusted on the risk side extended prison terms for what by far the majority of people upon a global basis, a reasonable right to express their opinion about the nature of their government and corruption with public officials, well, that is a really bug risk.
So real consideration is required, in logical non personal trust and risk decisions you logically always side with risk unless the a definitive benefits for going with trust, in this case, you offend the government of China, meh, no biggy, they will just have to learn to get over it just like modern democracies do when their citizens stick it to them upon a regular basis. In fact their reaction will be the most certain indicator of whether the denial of trust in favour of a significant reduction in risk was a valid decision.
What the essay fails to capture is the nature of the functioning of the eyeballs in practice, between open source and closed source. In closed source, the eyeballs only look at what they are paid to look at, if the code is just barely good enough to sell, then out it goes and nobody looks at that code again until the complaints start rolling in and then and only the do they fix it, well, sort of fix it, they of course only fix it just barely enough to silence the noisiest of complaints and the only if there are real consequences for failing to do so. Don't think so then try this http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Search/en-GB?query=this%20is%20a%20know%20fault&ac=8 and a huge number of them have never been fixed.
Open source follows a completely different series of routes;
1) People looking for faults because they get a kick out of finding them and fixing them.
2) Tweaks to functions that indirectly remove bugs by simply replacing them with better code.
3) Discoveries in user interactions, less of a complaint because there is no force in pushing the fix.
5) Governments and government departments directly pursuing more secure code.
6) Corporations seeking to build a public reputation by demonstrating coding expertise.
So in the case of open source software there are many 'different' kinds of eyes, so those eyes all working from different perspectives do in reality make bugs very shallow. In the closed source proprietary world the bugs are buried in the depths of the code, hiding in the dark, basically because of profits versus workmanship issues, which means no light is shone on them because only one set of eyes looking from a single 'shallow' perspective looks at them.
There is of course one other set of eyes looking at code, the saboteurs both private and government, looking for faults to exploit. Hard with open source because it can rapidly turn around and bite you on the arse if you use it (if you protect against it everybody notices). Closed source (mostly but a lot of less than honourable eyes lend up looking at it), of course can be targeted as long as you, well, use open source code yourself whilst promoting closed source to everybody else (hmm, kind of reminds me of all those mainland China computer companies, odd that, isn't it).
Especially when the answer is so easy and morally sound, less on war and weapons and more on space and research. The beauty of space and research, is that more gets spent on direct wages, rather than inflated profits, especially profits on consumable that get blown up on purpose. Research should of course be extended out into other non-profit but high savings areas, like biological controls of introduced pest species, long term and detailed research into herbal supplements (rather that high cost loaded with exorbitant profit margins pharmaceuticals), gravity research (extremely high potential but unknown research time and costs) and, open patent research in commercial ventures that have a high priority for the future of humanity where the current patent system is harming development.
The commercialisation of space is very problematic due to high risk and cost and attempting to commercialise a shared resource that no one can claim ownership of can get out of hand very quickly. One commercial squeeze on cost to maximise profits can leave a lot of debris in space that would become a major problem for decades to come. The biggest problem with today;s corporation are truly terrible corporate executives who are only concerned with this years bonuses and damn the consequences for the company next year, it should be obvious to everyone by now how destructive and dangerous that really is.
In Australia they would now be free to gain the data from the white pages (you likely could transcribe the data and rekey, maybe even scan and OCR it for reproduction) but not to copy the yellow pages but they again likely can extract the data and reproduce that (yellow pages contains artwork, in the form of advertisements and the would be copyrightable ).
Non-fiction text books are a better example, whilst you are free to extract the facts and rewrite them in your own words you cannot copy the original creative presentation of the facts.
As for electronic factual databases, whilst the facts are not copyrightable, the interface to access, search and present those facts are. One would still have to wonder about purposeful errors, false created facts, if you copy those even just the data you would be infringing copyright as those entries are creative content. Rather odd isn't it, with regards to the law in affect, lies are copyrightable but the truth isn't. From this I gather that pigopolists can not be trusted with a monopoly on the truth but they have "carte blanche" on their speciality, lies ;D.
The bureaucrats last far longer than that and ultimately they are often the ones that make decisions by undermining decisions more often based upon power plays and ego, rather than upon sound economic decisions. In this case one person was making statements full of if, could, necessarily, assumption, all to cover the fact that they had not bothered to conduct any research. The reason for the lack of research, that research could cost more than $500 million dollars a year, one could only guess that Graham Fry was intending to contract out the research into using open source software to a closed source proprietary software company.
Obviously Fry has no concept of foreign debt, no understanding of maintaining control over software upgrade cycles, no idea about monitoring historical trends and how many times they have bought the same software, no concept at all of life cycle costing, believes the lie that closed source proprietary software is free of maintenance costs and, fails to understand how governments choices in this sector impact upon private industry choices and further impact foreign by a nominal factor of 10 (500 million becomes 5 billion). A true asshat that does not belong in a role that legacy, longevity and, political astuteness has provided him, rather than expertise, national economic awareness or even basic common sence. Sounds like the Green Party in Australia is far more technologically aware than the rest (they also oppose censorship).
It seems that global trend of the right shifting to the loony bin and the left shifting to the right of centre leaving the humanity and environment (over greed and power) based parties, in this case the Greens, to take up the centre left position, holds true. With FOSS the bulk of the money in software can always be spent locally and that's down to state and city level, not just country.
You fail to understand religions. Religions were all largely created to establish a system of controls over society, by those seeking to attain or maintain power. Religion is basically a derived set of rules to establish a set of morals, these rules are buried within stories and subject to interpretation by the religious leaders and more often by the political power behind the religious leaders. Especially in the period following the demise of the original religious authors. That period where the religion is rewritten to suit the rulers of the days, this is of course obfuscated over time by the simple expediency of killing anyone who disagrees with the later interpretations. This principles is extended in neighboring regions, naturally enough with monotheism unlike polytheism, conflicting gods cannot be accepted but, that provides the excuse to purge, via religious edict unbelievers and confiscate their property (in the favor of the political elite of the day), hence the underlying driver for monotheism as it was actually deployed and used.
See, not pulled out of someones arse, but a concerted conspiracy to enrich and empower a minority at the expense of the majority, the poor get the vacuous promises and the rich and powerful get everything else, including ownership of the poor, modern example of this religious perversity is of course capitalism, where the god worshiped is greed (they still wrap themselves up in other religions but of course they don't show the slightest pretense of adhering to any of the moral principles of those religions, that's for the poor).
The interpretation part is most amusing, take the Christian bible, is it true, absolutely not and I quote "Listen then to what the parable of the sower means: When anyone hears the message about the kingdom and does not understand it, the evil one comes and snatches away what was sown in his heart. This is the seed sown along the path. The one who received the seed that fell on rocky places is the man who hears the word and at once receives it with joy. But since he has no root, he lasts only a short time. When trouble or persecution comes because of the word, he quickly falls away. The one who received the seed that fell among the thorns is the man who hears the word, but the worries of this life and the deceitfulness of wealth choke it, making it unfruitful. But the one who received the seed that fell on good soil is the man who hears the word and understands it. He produces a crop, yielding a hundred, sixty or thirty times what was sown". So the bible is a "story" written in parables, not a factual account. Fascinating how the first line describes exactly how typical politicians use the bible for their own "EVIL" uses. So either these parables are true and the rest is false, or the rest is true and these parables are false, but if that is true then the bible still untrue.
To cut a long story short http://news.cnet.com/Office-2007-fails-OOXML-conformance-test/2100-7344_3-6237855.html, M$ Office fails it's own standards test, so as regards the monopoly office application the standard is obviously not standard to anything, even within it's own purpose designed program suite. I suppose for that you have to buy the next upgrade or even perhaps the one after that etc. etc..
For M$ to adhere to ODF is simply a choice, for others to adhere to OOXML represents high risk of patent infringement, licence fees, of the standard saying one thing whilst their program does another, ensuring all competitors will never end up being totally compatible and remain a bit buggy.
It is not executive election it is executive evaluation. The two biggest problems being faced by corporations is getting stuck with sociopath management and narcissist management. For sociopaths there apparently is now an effective test http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bp0P8t4SJ4I&feature=related. Perhaps it is simply high time that those with a great degree of responsibility and in positions where they can cause great harm, where given thorough psychiatric evaluations, to isolate those for whom terrorism and exploitation are a natural state of being.
There are some dangers in genetic evaluation of psychotic disorders but for some positions within society it is very likely essential to prevent human caused catastrophes. False wars, profit driven pandemic scares, toxic medications, pollution, ruthless exploitation of labour, subversion of democracy, it is very likely that the bulk of these are directly tied to the presence of psychopaths and narcissist, in position of power and governance, where they emphatically do not belong. Psychopaths 1 percent of the human population but 20 percent of the prison population, it is about time the problem was nipped in the bud.
In this case they are not filtering content, they are censoring a particular web site by blocking it's IP address range. This represents an infringement of trade designed to favour Verizon's other business interests. First 4chan than others to follow.
I smell a trap though, instigate internet digital 'terrorism' sic, then claim justification for the commercial disruption because of the resultant attacks, meanwhile your friendly professionally paranoids are monitoring (they are short on their quota of harsh interrogation, isolation and imprisonment of children). In this case better to stick it to them in court, it is a slam dunk freedom of speech thing, one case by 4 chan and a class action by it's users.
The best receiver of the prize is anyone fighting the double speak Internet Freedom Act and it's ilk, anywhere they appear in those world. The internet can only remain open while it remains open amd, that it receives the peace prize really would indicate that people who oppose net neutrality and promote censorship really are anti-peace, are the fermentors of deceit and war and are basically evil.
Far more importantly all those molecular bonds are not locked in, they are in transition from one state to another state, human bodies are living organisms, a fully active molecular processing system. Altering the energy states of molecules in transition has an outcome on the resultant new molecules formed. Probabilities are low but you are dealing with billions of molecules of trillions of reactions, those low probabilities suddenly become lethal given sufficient time, genetic predisposition and plain bad luck.
That this generation wants to take a chance with the lives of the next generation because it is more profitable to do so, fine, as long as the perpetrators pay the full price, for causing the early deaths of the next generation.
The telecoms don't think there is a problem, fine let's see those life time guarantee and warranties, ensuring against damages from radiation and make today's corporate executives liable for tomorrows victims. Lets see how many life insurance companies would be willing to take on the risk of insuring against cellular damage caused by radiation all built within the price of a single telephone contract and covering the user for the rest of their life, lets see the telecoms put their money and their current executives future freedoms where their current PR=B$ advertising mouth is.