...or it is simply an executive attempting to show a valid reason as to why they should continue to be employed in a position that seems to be beyond them, claiming as many patents as possible no matter how pointless or where they come from. Their web page already could claim trademark protection so this seems to be nothing more than throwing money away for a corporate executives ego trip. Doubly pointless as it also makes the company look bad.
The reality is the modern search page is a box in the top right corner of a browser, that then leads to an output page, where the user might or might not edit the search query, depending upon the quality of the results. So the reality of the current google search page no longer even remotely looks like the one they patented, 'Google' is to the left of an input box and one action button is to the right, with the output below, and a horizontal menu across the top, this is in fact the page that gets viewed by far the majority of the time, so the design patent they got is well and truly pointless.
This is slashdot you know, the home of introvert computer geeks. Crack under the isolation, absolutely not, peace and quite at last, heaven 'off' earth. The most forbidding waste last, a room full of air head jock straps and cheer leaders, just the thought of being exposed to that for days on end gives me the chills;D.
Here the difference is, we are currently at a very primitive state of space exploration technological development. There remains enormous scope for continued development, only the will is required, for example something as simple as a greater understanding of gravity and the technological use of that understanding.
So a one way trip to Mars, might not necessarily be a one way trip but really just be long term stay on Mars of indeterminate duration, subject to the continued development of more advanced forms of space travel and more effective launch and landing systems systems.
Even under those nebulous conditions it will still be no problem for them to gain tens of thousands of highly qualified persons to take that trip. So one way trip to Mars with a 'reasonable' chance of reaching the goal and a 'possible' chance of long term survival and a 'maybe' chance of retrieval. You might not want to go but there will be plenty of others that would jump at the chance.
Old games, Condition Zero. I guess they tried it on there first, gauge the reaction before shoving into newer titles. The catch is this is apparently the second time they have tried it on, so it is very likely they will not stop. Once enough users are stuck with a large enough steam investment, Valve will simply stick it to the end user ie. throw away say a thousand odd dollar investment in games or suck up the adds, the basic screw you sucker.
Of course that breach of trust means that for me steam is over, as adds appear in the other games I will simply uninstall the and once the last title is dead, I will uninstall steam. I am bound to a level of moral integrity that prevents me from selling the account, if it is shite, I can't just push on the problems to someone else, otherwise I would have the same lack of moral integrity that the management at valve has. Sucks to get ripped off like that but that is the nature of dealing with modern corporations and any form of DRM.
That of course is the biggest problem with the petition. All should be treated equally under the law, so while they might call the petition under his name and as a memorial to his efforts, the petition should actually seek redress for everyone wrongfully persecuted under that legislation.
The hacker community as presented in China by the government of China, aren't necessarily the back yarders that the government of China likes to pretend that they are. With the extensive corruption, a lot of those hackers are paid professionals and, often government agents. This is going to get really out of hand, there will be some interesting political shenanigans going on as technology is used more and more in their political manoeuvrings, disconnections, source private information for leverage, disrupt income sources and simple revenge attacks.
You could see China getting cut off from the net as these attacks spread off shore.
Of course they can share it with other allied countries, thus work on improving relationships, so democracy across FOSS borders. Other countries that choose to implement it will obviously want to work on the code and as a result will contribute to it so that Australian defence force are likely to save considerable amounts on future development.
So the savings can extend globally and add up to hundreds of millions of dollars (and over the years even billions of dollars), ouch, that has to really sting for closed sourced proprietary flight simulator developers.
Now of course you can also add in the underlying operating system, especially across a server based environment. Now if it will squeeze onto an end users desktop, well instead of America's Army you could have Australia's Airforce, it will certainly appeal to the geek audience with sufficient intellect to suit an air force career.
The only sure way to waste money on software, especially when you are talking multi million dollar investments, is on dead end closed source proprietary software licences, the product that never stops costing you more money and the only way to stop money going down the endless upgrade drain is to drop the product.
As for in game adds, I have stopped purchasing games of steam, they poisoned a game with banner adds, a banner add mind you in the top 15 percent of the screen, a game I paid for and they did it as a patch. I unloaded that game regardless of whether I paid for it and it will be last game I ever purchase from steam, they can basically GGF.
The same quite simply applies to any game I buy and naturally enough I will no longer be buying any games until well after release to pick up on B$ like that, in game adds, I'll never buy them and, seriously give steam and valve a big miss, they are really suck to mess up a game like that.
As for the money I wasted on the now banner added game, valve can choke on it.
That is the real problem a free and independent news service that is, that audited by governments to ensure they tell the truth and when falsities are discovered they are often held accountable.
That is what the Murdoch's hate most of all, truth in the news, they want to package up PR and marketing as the news and the have to gall to sell it to consumers. The really do, as a family, represent the worst of mass media and the drive for greed over the truth. The Faux news network, the network that sued for the right to lie in the news and pretend it is the truth. It must be a really proud family where the lies, deceits and sins of the father are obviously passing on through so the sons, sociopathy is obviously inheritable. If there is one company that should be driven right out of the news business it is definitely the Fox network.
The little lying, rat flocking, weasel is basically saying that the truth is for sale (well at least their version of it) and the government should not affect the price of it by giving away the truth for free. The two main reasons most people will refuse to pay for any version of FOX news; 1) They are the gullible idiots who believe everything that is on it and they are either to poor to pay for it or they are too greedy to pay for it (they emulate the Murdoch's greed) 2) They don't believe the tripe served up by the Fox Network as such it is a complete waste of time to pay for it.
Image the disgusting gall of this ass hat, you don't have a right to know unless you pay for it, flood warnings no subscribe well tough you drown, bushfire warnings don't pay then burn baby burn, tornado warnings if you can't afford to pay for that news then you can't afford a tornado shelter etc. dont' pay for the news then you don't have a right to be informed, warned or alerted to what is going on. The future of 'independent journalism' can best be served by driving arse holes like him out of it.
When it comes to Dell and HP, the majority of Word licences are part of works and not part of office. In that case works is just a wedge to get office in the door and is a marketing exercise on M$'s part and to keep OpenOffice.org out as such the price is likely to be very low, free and could even generate a discount on windows. So M$ makes a gain from word continuing to be installed, as such Dell's and HP's requests are likely not so much their own but being done a upon M$'s promptings.
M$ lied cheated and stole and they are meant to be penalised for it, so in this case the problems caused to Dell and HP by M$, should be solved in court by Dell and HP suing M$. As for disgruntled customers Dell and HP can simply install OpenOffice.org in the interim.
Now of course if you factor in survivability, what, blimps have zero survivability and in fact would be enormous nearly impossible to miss targets. That must be for use on those kinder gentler battle fields where people don't shoot a flying targets.
Hmm, lots of hang time, continuous 24/7 monitoring, sounds more likely to be used over zones of occupation and perhaps even domestically, rather than any actual battlefields. For that investment dollar it certainly sounds like they will be loading them up with much more than just radar systems and will be looking to incorporate every kind of monitoring equipment available as well as the latest in telecommunications interception and tracking systems.
Perhaps that number might change with the growth in medical tourism where people travel overseas for cheaper access to expensive surgical procedures. So perhaps if some countries where to to promote their medical expertise, they could drive the market for compulsory organ harvesting and significantly reduce the threshold for capital punishment and substantively increase the profitability of the criminal 'er' injustice system.
You'll of course have to wonder if tourists who have disappeared have really disappeared or have simply reappeared in society upon a component basis. Tell you one thing, I would never travel to a country that has compulsory organ harvesting, together with sedition, conspiracy or blasphemy laws, especially one that uses enhanced interrogation techniques to obtain for profit confessions.
Weeellll, BINGO, clearly yes the whole site is taking the piss our of M$ and their endless 'get the facts' non facts FUD campaigns. So at the FSF you do have a bunch of people who work together, enjoy what their doing and their involvement with computer technology is driven by way more than just shallow corporate profits, eg. http://theangrypixel.com/blog/ and the site licence http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/3.0/.
Now these people are pretty bright and they are bound to have a pretty broad sense of humour and they know exactly how this campaign will affect the M$ marketing department, the M$ marketdroids will be frothing at the mouth and contacting all their advertising dollar puppets to bash the site and from the FSF foundations viewpoint, cheeky chaps and lasses that they, drive more of them to the site.
Now if your unhappy with M$ you will like the site and spread it and, if you are happy with M$ you most likely wont even bother to go there, of course if you are a M$ marketdriod you will be forced to go there suffer an apoplectic fit and immediately start scheming and plotting, inbetween curses and mad cackling, trying to find ways of gaining marketing revenge;D.
Here is how it works. It really has nothing to do with socialism or capitalism. It is all about a handful of individuals who gain power and seek to keep it. Technically all those systems whether fascist, stalinist, theocracy and monarchy are really outside of the political scale in terms of democratic principles and have simple shifted to an authoritarian police state, where extreme violence is used to enforce the demands of the handful at the top and to keep them in power (they are not about the people but about the handful of individuals at the top, psychopaths and the government simply reflects their own personality defects.
In socialist terms, is can only ever be a government of the people, by the people and for the people, once it shifts from that it is no longer socialists it is simply branding as an exercise in marketing. Now on the right, the capitalist side, it can never be a government of the people by the people and for the people, again they are simply using marketing tactics, your free of government control but are completely subject to the control of the rich, because it is a government of the rich, by the rich and for the rich. In reality of course the 'er' private rich are now the government, so you are actually subject to government control, there are just a bunch of 'actors' who pretend to be your government who stand between you and any actual role you have governing your society. So big socialist government has to be big because it has to incorporate all the people in way or another in actual governance and, small authoritarian government is small because the majority people are specifically excluded from any form of governance and it only needs to cater to the wishes of a handful of sociopaths, who are simply driven by their own personal, lusts, greed and ego and the government reflects that.
In human terms, the nation should be an extension of the community, which is an extension of the neighbourhood, which is an extension of the family and, should reflect the same sense of caring and sharing otherwise it becomes inhumane as defined by normal human behaviour. So the greater the shift away from that, implicitly the greater is the shift of the leaders and enforcers from normal human psychology and their behaviour reflects their abnormal sociopathic tendencies. They don't care or share because mentally they are incapable of doing, so it is the 'rich and greedy' (religion, politics or wealth as the measure) and what ever political charade and masquerade they are currently running to screw everyone else.
At the current price why would anyone bother with second hand routers, switches etc. They would do it with new gear, redo the factory default in a chip programmer and, then offer them at a discount, in the thousands. Especially with countries deeming it appropriate to become involved in large scale computer hacking as intelligence operations and, for the inevitable rogue agents and contractors, a future 'route' to profits.
I will quite simply explain it to you. You see the world has quite a few mercenary greedy folk ad no matter how much matter they are worth they still hate to pay taxes. They demand that the police force be kept small and cost efficient. So when your car stereo gets stolen twice in a row, there are quite simply not enough police officers to man a surveillance station on your car, cost of vehicle plus three shifts of two officers, plus rotation for weekends. You see those greedy folk have forced a simply cost calculation, say it takes a week, van hire $130 per day, police officer costs $25 per hour, equipment rental $50 per day, so we are up to $9660 for your lousy car stereo and it hasn't even gotten to court yet, meanwhile those six police officers are not pursuing muggers, bank robbers, murders, rapists, terrorists etc.
Now too humour you on the whole trap idea, how about we look at it from another point of view, say a police officer just happens to be walking past and they catch the guilty party in the act, your saying the appropriate punishment is to cut the persons fingers off, no anaesthetic, no antiseptics, no medical treatment etc. and if they die, well, that's just a bonus. Your car stereo is worth other peoples fingers, so what would you value your whole car be, other peoples lives, or perhaps just an arm and leg. Now just to be fair, say you have a car accident and it's your fault, is not the victim entitled to claim what ever parts of your body they choose as recompense.
Now just to make sure you really understand your point of view, let's say the thief is an ten year old homeless hungry child, do you still want to cut off their fingers off and is that one at a time or all at once?
Any customer:I have a problem. M$:what are your credit card details Any customer: What do you mean, what are my credit card details, I thought you provided service and support M$: We do, but we can't talk to you until you provide credit card details and pay for the service and support call Any Customer: Then what service and service do you actually provide without charging more M$: We provide security fixes Any Customer: That ain't service and support that's just repairing your mistakes. M$: Defects in the program are not covered by the EULA and I can't speak to you any more without you credit card details.
I wont even bother what it is like discussing it with windrones, your a noob, you configured it wrong, bad drivers. Personally I always loved logging onto M$ tech support and seeing "that's a known fault", that dead end is really annoying and when it;s been like that for months, you know, you absolutely know, they have no intention of ever fixing it the current version of the software because they are going to sell it to you in the next version of the software.
As for your little lie of blaming the Linux community, the whole community mind you, literally tens of millions of people, yeah like you communicated with all of them and posted on every known Linux forum. Now if you want to complain be a little more specific, which particular forum did you not like and which distribution did you find the most difficult. Personally I always found the answers I was looking for on the forums I checked out and never added query just searched the forum and long and very detailed answers were always there.
Well that's a lie. Just as in most countries the FCC and it's equivalents around the world, have responsibility over telecommunications, that's phones for the not so bright. It is pretty obvious with the transition from an analogue systems to digital systems, the internet is a direct extension of phone of phone calls and should cover that extension and provide private communications between subscribers.
So telecommunications aren't allowed to listen in to what is going on in your home when your not using your phone (it can quite readily be done), they are not allowed to listen in to your phone calls (except for strictly controlled quality of service and you should be notified), they are not allowed to prevent you from calling people or prevent people from calling you, they are not allowed to disconnect you at random and, they are bound to quality of service provisions ie. they are not allowed to purposefully interfere with the quality of your service.
Now for the endless telecommunications liars out there, that is the basis upon which the companies entered that market, that is the basis upon which those companies has been valued for decades and for once and for all that is the basis upon which they can retain their telecommunications licences. Now if the no longer want to operate under the laws that governs their operators licence, they can quite simply pull out of the market, sell off their infrastructure and f**k o*f 'er' go away;P.
Nanny State, is a political lie, simply used to promulgate other political lies. Realistically it has not place in modern politics, it is an artifice of ignorance over intelligence. So the 'Nanny State' protects individuals from the fraud and deceit of other individuals, those lying ass wipes who say the victim choose to be exploited and the Nanny state should not interfere, the lie, the reality is you only ever get to choose when you have all the factual information, the truth. This is the way it is used by far the majority of the time, in what ever variants, as such it is devoid of any true value except to bring into question the genuineness of the person who used it.
So what you are saying is people who spend a lot of time playing the games, basically using what that are paying for are not good customers. Good customers pay for the game without actually playing in, hence use no resources apart from billing and accounts receivable, an interesting idea. You haven't spent any time working for health insurance or casinos by any chance. Health insurance only want customers who make no claims and go out of their way to get rid of customers who make any claims and, casinos routinely bar people who win and much prefer amateurs who lose.
This story has really put me off the idea of ever bothering with any subscription based multilayer game, if I like it too much and play it too often they will kick me off, no refund for subscriptions to date, no payment for the time lost on now evaporated virtual goods. It is really inappropriate to kick people because it is cheaper and easier than tweaking game play to resolve problematic issues.
Now even though I do dislike playing on games when long term, really frequent players gain a huge advantage and you just end up being a pointless target playing what becomes a rather ineffectual boring game, kicking those players is still wrong, tweaking game play to achieve some sot of balance seems far more sensible, golfers managed it, it's called a handicap and ensures the game maintains greater competitive accessibility. So in game virtual taxes to subsidise newer players.
The only concern about resolution is bandwidth and download times. Better street view resolution would be great as long as google started doing a lot of ISP mirroring around the world. You do not own the external view of your house or garden, world over, that is recognised as being owned by the broader community as it has an impact on their lives. Planning approvals must be gained before you significantly alter the appearance or use of your property and you must adhere to planning rules both local and state.
You are part of a community, as is the property you reside in and hence the reflections from it. Tectonically google is not peering in or invading anything, they are driven down the street collected reflected photons, photons that your property is projecting out into public space, photons that could also be collected by all passing strangers.
This seems more to do with control, or more specifically illusory perceptions of control and how much of your need for control you can force upon other people, eliminating their ability to control their environment. I don't even see the hassle with faces and registration plates but I would certainly agree that internal views of private property should be obscured.
The nanny state stuff is getting to be real nonsense. A state the values it citizens and attempts to preserve their lives is not nor ever was a nanny state. If fact the whole nanny state nonsense came about as a result of limits placed upon private interests and their ability to exploit the citizens of a nation.
Prison for drug users is not a nanny state solution, how could anyone consider the idea that preventing someone from using drug by imprisoning them for thirty years or more in harsh, violent and dehumanising institutions is what a nanny would recommend.
Destroying drug users was blatant knee jerk politics, peoples lives were destroyed so hard on crime arse holes could get elected. The war on drugs straight from hollywood movie scripts to real life, a fantasy becomes a real life nightmare, brought to you by what was nothing but a shallow self serving actor, who acted the part and used the best PR techniques and mass media to created an illusion that did not preserve the lives of millions of people but destroyed them and in the process sent billions of dollars up in smoke.
Not only was this not bad enough but, via threats of economic and military punishments this stupidity was forced on other countries, literally billions of peoples lives affected, so that some of the most worthless scum on the planet could empower and enrich themselves. Instead of throwing drug users in prison, they should have been throwing corrupt politicians and corporate executives in prison, what a different world in would be now if the last thirty years had not be blown on greed and stupidity.
It still does nothing to prevent a frame up. So one hair with the root intact(genuine sample) under the finger nail of the victim (time specific) and, I bet you anything you like, that the people who genuinely provided you the alibi will join you in prison for sic. perjuring themselves. DNA can be a very powerful and dangerous piece of evidence, it can automatically get people off the hook and we as automatically sentence them.
It is not the exclusive right to make out of print books that is a problem, you can't claim ownership of publishing writes unless you created the content or those rights were assigned by the person who created that content.
The privacy is the big problem. Should a person not have the same right to privacy, when they access a digital library as has been accepted through out the democratic world when they access a hard copy public library.
Google is really going to shoot itself in the foot and then stick the bloody stump in it's mouth. It claiming to be a public virtual library or at least creating the marketing pretence of being one it should be bound by the exact same expectation that people have when they attend a normal library, privacy, free access, non exclusivity of content and of course a complete absence of off topic advertising.
For authors of course, it means a huge amount of exposure and a huge amount of competition. So while the book now is continuously made available to a global audience it is also buried and obscured by a huge number of competitive titles. The best of 'class' books that get 'honestly' reviewed will get the bulk of the market and all the rest thousands upon thousands of titles will get basically nothing. Big profits for the best of 'class', no absolutely not because nearly as good as but one tenth the price will wipe them out. So the commoditising of books, 99 cents a copy anyone. Now add to that non-exclusivity and you can see why authors, especially publisher and, even retail sales are bitching.
You can also bet google will make 'open' books freely available on that site as well, so even more competition. With a world full of people who are more concerned with the knowledge imparted and of course with establishing a publicly acknowledged level of expertise, you can expect open books will inevitably become best of class because they will continue to be worked on, refined and improved, whilst remaining free.
So stop google, 'NO' absolutely 'NOT', let's just ensure non-exclusivity and, mandated strictly enforced privacy;D.
However the law is defined by logic, the catch there of course, even though the judge should be aware of it and all lawyers should be aware of it, you will only gain access to it if you pay enough. The law demonstrates how blind, all should be treated equally, hence the law should be blind to peoples differences, and unfortunately deaf and dumb, the law and the courts play pretend with their own rules and persecute and prosecute people, when their lawyer is not good enough and cant mount a full, proper and complete defence. So even though the defendant should be found innocent, all involved play their little game of make believe justice driven by greed and punish them for not being able to afford a real legal defence.
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The reality is the modern search page is a box in the top right corner of a browser, that then leads to an output page, where the user might or might not edit the search query, depending upon the quality of the results. So the reality of the current google search page no longer even remotely looks like the one they patented, 'Google' is to the left of an input box and one action button is to the right, with the output below, and a horizontal menu across the top, this is in fact the page that gets viewed by far the majority of the time, so the design patent they got is well and truly pointless.
This is slashdot you know, the home of introvert computer geeks. Crack under the isolation, absolutely not, peace and quite at last, heaven 'off' earth. The most forbidding waste last, a room full of air head jock straps and cheer leaders, just the thought of being exposed to that for days on end gives me the chills ;D.
Here the difference is, we are currently at a very primitive state of space exploration technological development. There remains enormous scope for continued development, only the will is required, for example something as simple as a greater understanding of gravity and the technological use of that understanding.
So a one way trip to Mars, might not necessarily be a one way trip but really just be long term stay on Mars of indeterminate duration, subject to the continued development of more advanced forms of space travel and more effective launch and landing systems systems.
Even under those nebulous conditions it will still be no problem for them to gain tens of thousands of highly qualified persons to take that trip. So one way trip to Mars with a 'reasonable' chance of reaching the goal and a 'possible' chance of long term survival and a 'maybe' chance of retrieval. You might not want to go but there will be plenty of others that would jump at the chance.
Old games, Condition Zero. I guess they tried it on there first, gauge the reaction before shoving into newer titles. The catch is this is apparently the second time they have tried it on, so it is very likely they will not stop. Once enough users are stuck with a large enough steam investment, Valve will simply stick it to the end user ie. throw away say a thousand odd dollar investment in games or suck up the adds, the basic screw you sucker.
Of course that breach of trust means that for me steam is over, as adds appear in the other games I will simply uninstall the and once the last title is dead, I will uninstall steam. I am bound to a level of moral integrity that prevents me from selling the account, if it is shite, I can't just push on the problems to someone else, otherwise I would have the same lack of moral integrity that the management at valve has. Sucks to get ripped off like that but that is the nature of dealing with modern corporations and any form of DRM.
That of course is the biggest problem with the petition. All should be treated equally under the law, so while they might call the petition under his name and as a memorial to his efforts, the petition should actually seek redress for everyone wrongfully persecuted under that legislation.
The hacker community as presented in China by the government of China, aren't necessarily the back yarders that the government of China likes to pretend that they are. With the extensive corruption, a lot of those hackers are paid professionals and, often government agents. This is going to get really out of hand, there will be some interesting political shenanigans going on as technology is used more and more in their political manoeuvrings, disconnections, source private information for leverage, disrupt income sources and simple revenge attacks.
You could see China getting cut off from the net as these attacks spread off shore.
Of course they can share it with other allied countries, thus work on improving relationships, so democracy across FOSS borders. Other countries that choose to implement it will obviously want to work on the code and as a result will contribute to it so that Australian defence force are likely to save considerable amounts on future development.
So the savings can extend globally and add up to hundreds of millions of dollars (and over the years even billions of dollars), ouch, that has to really sting for closed sourced proprietary flight simulator developers.
Now of course you can also add in the underlying operating system, especially across a server based environment. Now if it will squeeze onto an end users desktop, well instead of America's Army you could have Australia's Airforce, it will certainly appeal to the geek audience with sufficient intellect to suit an air force career.
The only sure way to waste money on software, especially when you are talking multi million dollar investments, is on dead end closed source proprietary software licences, the product that never stops costing you more money and the only way to stop money going down the endless upgrade drain is to drop the product.
As for in game adds, I have stopped purchasing games of steam, they poisoned a game with banner adds, a banner add mind you in the top 15 percent of the screen, a game I paid for and they did it as a patch. I unloaded that game regardless of whether I paid for it and it will be last game I ever purchase from steam, they can basically GGF.
The same quite simply applies to any game I buy and naturally enough I will no longer be buying any games until well after release to pick up on B$ like that, in game adds, I'll never buy them and, seriously give steam and valve a big miss, they are really suck to mess up a game like that.
As for the money I wasted on the now banner added game, valve can choke on it.
That is the real problem a free and independent news service that is, that audited by governments to ensure they tell the truth and when falsities are discovered they are often held accountable.
That is what the Murdoch's hate most of all, truth in the news, they want to package up PR and marketing as the news and the have to gall to sell it to consumers. The really do, as a family, represent the worst of mass media and the drive for greed over the truth. The Faux news network, the network that sued for the right to lie in the news and pretend it is the truth. It must be a really proud family where the lies, deceits and sins of the father are obviously passing on through so the sons, sociopathy is obviously inheritable. If there is one company that should be driven right out of the news business it is definitely the Fox network.
The little lying, rat flocking, weasel is basically saying that the truth is for sale (well at least their version of it) and the government should not affect the price of it by giving away the truth for free. The two main reasons most people will refuse to pay for any version of FOX news;
1) They are the gullible idiots who believe everything that is on it and they are either to poor to pay for it or they are too greedy to pay for it (they emulate the Murdoch's greed)
2) They don't believe the tripe served up by the Fox Network as such it is a complete waste of time to pay for it.
Image the disgusting gall of this ass hat, you don't have a right to know unless you pay for it, flood warnings no subscribe well tough you drown, bushfire warnings don't pay then burn baby burn, tornado warnings if you can't afford to pay for that news then you can't afford a tornado shelter etc. dont' pay for the news then you don't have a right to be informed, warned or alerted to what is going on. The future of 'independent journalism' can best be served by driving arse holes like him out of it.
When it comes to Dell and HP, the majority of Word licences are part of works and not part of office. In that case works is just a wedge to get office in the door and is a marketing exercise on M$'s part and to keep OpenOffice.org out as such the price is likely to be very low, free and could even generate a discount on windows. So M$ makes a gain from word continuing to be installed, as such Dell's and HP's requests are likely not so much their own but being done a upon M$'s promptings.
M$ lied cheated and stole and they are meant to be penalised for it, so in this case the problems caused to Dell and HP by M$, should be solved in court by Dell and HP suing M$. As for disgruntled customers Dell and HP can simply install OpenOffice.org in the interim.
Now of course if you factor in survivability, what, blimps have zero survivability and in fact would be enormous nearly impossible to miss targets. That must be for use on those kinder gentler battle fields where people don't shoot a flying targets.
Hmm, lots of hang time, continuous 24/7 monitoring, sounds more likely to be used over zones of occupation and perhaps even domestically, rather than any actual battlefields. For that investment dollar it certainly sounds like they will be loading them up with much more than just radar systems and will be looking to incorporate every kind of monitoring equipment available as well as the latest in telecommunications interception and tracking systems.
Perhaps that number might change with the growth in medical tourism where people travel overseas for cheaper access to expensive surgical procedures. So perhaps if some countries where to to promote their medical expertise, they could drive the market for compulsory organ harvesting and significantly reduce the threshold for capital punishment and substantively increase the profitability of the criminal 'er' injustice system.
You'll of course have to wonder if tourists who have disappeared have really disappeared or have simply reappeared in society upon a component basis. Tell you one thing, I would never travel to a country that has compulsory organ harvesting, together with sedition, conspiracy or blasphemy laws, especially one that uses enhanced interrogation techniques to obtain for profit confessions.
Weeellll, BINGO, clearly yes the whole site is taking the piss our of M$ and their endless 'get the facts' non facts FUD campaigns. So at the FSF you do have a bunch of people who work together, enjoy what their doing and their involvement with computer technology is driven by way more than just shallow corporate profits, eg. http://theangrypixel.com/blog/ and the site licence http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/3.0/.
Now these people are pretty bright and they are bound to have a pretty broad sense of humour and they know exactly how this campaign will affect the M$ marketing department, the M$ marketdroids will be frothing at the mouth and contacting all their advertising dollar puppets to bash the site and from the FSF foundations viewpoint, cheeky chaps and lasses that they, drive more of them to the site.
Now if your unhappy with M$ you will like the site and spread it and, if you are happy with M$ you most likely wont even bother to go there, of course if you are a M$ marketdriod you will be forced to go there suffer an apoplectic fit and immediately start scheming and plotting, inbetween curses and mad cackling, trying to find ways of gaining marketing revenge ;D.
Here is how it works. It really has nothing to do with socialism or capitalism. It is all about a handful of individuals who gain power and seek to keep it. Technically all those systems whether fascist, stalinist, theocracy and monarchy are really outside of the political scale in terms of democratic principles and have simple shifted to an authoritarian police state, where extreme violence is used to enforce the demands of the handful at the top and to keep them in power (they are not about the people but about the handful of individuals at the top, psychopaths and the government simply reflects their own personality defects.
In socialist terms, is can only ever be a government of the people, by the people and for the people, once it shifts from that it is no longer socialists it is simply branding as an exercise in marketing. Now on the right, the capitalist side, it can never be a government of the people by the people and for the people, again they are simply using marketing tactics, your free of government control but are completely subject to the control of the rich, because it is a government of the rich, by the rich and for the rich. In reality of course the 'er' private rich are now the government, so you are actually subject to government control, there are just a bunch of 'actors' who pretend to be your government who stand between you and any actual role you have governing your society. So big socialist government has to be big because it has to incorporate all the people in way or another in actual governance and, small authoritarian government is small because the majority people are specifically excluded from any form of governance and it only needs to cater to the wishes of a handful of sociopaths, who are simply driven by their own personal, lusts, greed and ego and the government reflects that.
In human terms, the nation should be an extension of the community, which is an extension of the neighbourhood, which is an extension of the family and, should reflect the same sense of caring and sharing otherwise it becomes inhumane as defined by normal human behaviour. So the greater the shift away from that, implicitly the greater is the shift of the leaders and enforcers from normal human psychology and their behaviour reflects their abnormal sociopathic tendencies. They don't care or share because mentally they are incapable of doing, so it is the 'rich and greedy' (religion, politics or wealth as the measure) and what ever political charade and masquerade they are currently running to screw everyone else.
At the current price why would anyone bother with second hand routers, switches etc. They would do it with new gear, redo the factory default in a chip programmer and, then offer them at a discount, in the thousands. Especially with countries deeming it appropriate to become involved in large scale computer hacking as intelligence operations and, for the inevitable rogue agents and contractors, a future 'route' to profits.
I will quite simply explain it to you. You see the world has quite a few mercenary greedy folk ad no matter how much matter they are worth they still hate to pay taxes. They demand that the police force be kept small and cost efficient. So when your car stereo gets stolen twice in a row, there are quite simply not enough police officers to man a surveillance station on your car, cost of vehicle plus three shifts of two officers, plus rotation for weekends. You see those greedy folk have forced a simply cost calculation, say it takes a week, van hire $130 per day, police officer costs $25 per hour, equipment rental $50 per day, so we are up to $9660 for your lousy car stereo and it hasn't even gotten to court yet, meanwhile those six police officers are not pursuing muggers, bank robbers, murders, rapists, terrorists etc.
Now too humour you on the whole trap idea, how about we look at it from another point of view, say a police officer just happens to be walking past and they catch the guilty party in the act, your saying the appropriate punishment is to cut the persons fingers off, no anaesthetic, no antiseptics, no medical treatment etc. and if they die, well, that's just a bonus. Your car stereo is worth other peoples fingers, so what would you value your whole car be, other peoples lives, or perhaps just an arm and leg. Now just to be fair, say you have a car accident and it's your fault, is not the victim entitled to claim what ever parts of your body they choose as recompense.
Now just to make sure you really understand your point of view, let's say the thief is an ten year old homeless hungry child, do you still want to cut off their fingers off and is that one at a time or all at once?
Yeah, the M$ response is sooooo much better.
Any customer:I have a problem.
M$:what are your credit card details
Any customer: What do you mean, what are my credit card details, I thought you provided service and support
M$: We do, but we can't talk to you until you provide credit card details and pay for the service and support call
Any Customer: Then what service and service do you actually provide without charging more
M$: We provide security fixes
Any Customer: That ain't service and support that's just repairing your mistakes.
M$: Defects in the program are not covered by the EULA and I can't speak to you any more without you credit card details.
I wont even bother what it is like discussing it with windrones, your a noob, you configured it wrong, bad drivers. Personally I always loved logging onto M$ tech support and seeing "that's a known fault", that dead end is really annoying and when it;s been like that for months, you know, you absolutely know, they have no intention of ever fixing it the current version of the software because they are going to sell it to you in the next version of the software.
As for your little lie of blaming the Linux community, the whole community mind you, literally tens of millions of people, yeah like you communicated with all of them and posted on every known Linux forum. Now if you want to complain be a little more specific, which particular forum did you not like and which distribution did you find the most difficult. Personally I always found the answers I was looking for on the forums I checked out and never added query just searched the forum and long and very detailed answers were always there.
Well that's a lie. Just as in most countries the FCC and it's equivalents around the world, have responsibility over telecommunications, that's phones for the not so bright. It is pretty obvious with the transition from an analogue systems to digital systems, the internet is a direct extension of phone of phone calls and should cover that extension and provide private communications between subscribers.
So telecommunications aren't allowed to listen in to what is going on in your home when your not using your phone (it can quite readily be done), they are not allowed to listen in to your phone calls (except for strictly controlled quality of service and you should be notified), they are not allowed to prevent you from calling people or prevent people from calling you, they are not allowed to disconnect you at random and, they are bound to quality of service provisions ie. they are not allowed to purposefully interfere with the quality of your service.
Now for the endless telecommunications liars out there, that is the basis upon which the companies entered that market, that is the basis upon which those companies has been valued for decades and for once and for all that is the basis upon which they can retain their telecommunications licences. Now if the no longer want to operate under the laws that governs their operators licence, they can quite simply pull out of the market, sell off their infrastructure and f**k o*f 'er' go away ;P.
Nanny State, is a political lie, simply used to promulgate other political lies. Realistically it has not place in modern politics, it is an artifice of ignorance over intelligence. So the 'Nanny State' protects individuals from the fraud and deceit of other individuals, those lying ass wipes who say the victim choose to be exploited and the Nanny state should not interfere, the lie, the reality is you only ever get to choose when you have all the factual information, the truth. This is the way it is used by far the majority of the time, in what ever variants, as such it is devoid of any true value except to bring into question the genuineness of the person who used it.
So what you are saying is people who spend a lot of time playing the games, basically using what that are paying for are not good customers. Good customers pay for the game without actually playing in, hence use no resources apart from billing and accounts receivable, an interesting idea. You haven't spent any time working for health insurance or casinos by any chance. Health insurance only want customers who make no claims and go out of their way to get rid of customers who make any claims and, casinos routinely bar people who win and much prefer amateurs who lose.
This story has really put me off the idea of ever bothering with any subscription based multilayer game, if I like it too much and play it too often they will kick me off, no refund for subscriptions to date, no payment for the time lost on now evaporated virtual goods. It is really inappropriate to kick people because it is cheaper and easier than tweaking game play to resolve problematic issues.
Now even though I do dislike playing on games when long term, really frequent players gain a huge advantage and you just end up being a pointless target playing what becomes a rather ineffectual boring game, kicking those players is still wrong, tweaking game play to achieve some sot of balance seems far more sensible, golfers managed it, it's called a handicap and ensures the game maintains greater competitive accessibility. So in game virtual taxes to subsidise newer players.
The only concern about resolution is bandwidth and download times. Better street view resolution would be great as long as google started doing a lot of ISP mirroring around the world. You do not own the external view of your house or garden, world over, that is recognised as being owned by the broader community as it has an impact on their lives. Planning approvals must be gained before you significantly alter the appearance or use of your property and you must adhere to planning rules both local and state.
You are part of a community, as is the property you reside in and hence the reflections from it. Tectonically google is not peering in or invading anything, they are driven down the street collected reflected photons, photons that your property is projecting out into public space, photons that could also be collected by all passing strangers.
This seems more to do with control, or more specifically illusory perceptions of control and how much of your need for control you can force upon other people, eliminating their ability to control their environment. I don't even see the hassle with faces and registration plates but I would certainly agree that internal views of private property should be obscured.
The nanny state stuff is getting to be real nonsense. A state the values it citizens and attempts to preserve their lives is not nor ever was a nanny state. If fact the whole nanny state nonsense came about as a result of limits placed upon private interests and their ability to exploit the citizens of a nation.
Prison for drug users is not a nanny state solution, how could anyone consider the idea that preventing someone from using drug by imprisoning them for thirty years or more in harsh, violent and dehumanising institutions is what a nanny would recommend.
Destroying drug users was blatant knee jerk politics, peoples lives were destroyed so hard on crime arse holes could get elected. The war on drugs straight from hollywood movie scripts to real life, a fantasy becomes a real life nightmare, brought to you by what was nothing but a shallow self serving actor, who acted the part and used the best PR techniques and mass media to created an illusion that did not preserve the lives of millions of people but destroyed them and in the process sent billions of dollars up in smoke.
Not only was this not bad enough but, via threats of economic and military punishments this stupidity was forced on other countries, literally billions of peoples lives affected, so that some of the most worthless scum on the planet could empower and enrich themselves. Instead of throwing drug users in prison, they should have been throwing corrupt politicians and corporate executives in prison, what a different world in would be now if the last thirty years had not be blown on greed and stupidity.
It still does nothing to prevent a frame up. So one hair with the root intact(genuine sample) under the finger nail of the victim (time specific) and, I bet you anything you like, that the people who genuinely provided you the alibi will join you in prison for sic. perjuring themselves. DNA can be a very powerful and dangerous piece of evidence, it can automatically get people off the hook and we as automatically sentence them.
It is not the exclusive right to make out of print books that is a problem, you can't claim ownership of publishing writes unless you created the content or those rights were assigned by the person who created that content.
The privacy is the big problem. Should a person not have the same right to privacy, when they access a digital library as has been accepted through out the democratic world when they access a hard copy public library.
Google is really going to shoot itself in the foot and then stick the bloody stump in it's mouth. It claiming to be a public virtual library or at least creating the marketing pretence of being one it should be bound by the exact same expectation that people have when they attend a normal library, privacy, free access, non exclusivity of content and of course a complete absence of off topic advertising.
For authors of course, it means a huge amount of exposure and a huge amount of competition. So while the book now is continuously made available to a global audience it is also buried and obscured by a huge number of competitive titles. The best of 'class' books that get 'honestly' reviewed will get the bulk of the market and all the rest thousands upon thousands of titles will get basically nothing. Big profits for the best of 'class', no absolutely not because nearly as good as but one tenth the price will wipe them out. So the commoditising of books, 99 cents a copy anyone. Now add to that non-exclusivity and you can see why authors, especially publisher and, even retail sales are bitching.
You can also bet google will make 'open' books freely available on that site as well, so even more competition. With a world full of people who are more concerned with the knowledge imparted and of course with establishing a publicly acknowledged level of expertise, you can expect open books will inevitably become best of class because they will continue to be worked on, refined and improved, whilst remaining free.
So stop google, 'NO' absolutely 'NOT', let's just ensure non-exclusivity and, mandated strictly enforced privacy ;D.
However the law is defined by logic, the catch there of course, even though the judge should be aware of it and all lawyers should be aware of it, you will only gain access to it if you pay enough. The law demonstrates how blind, all should be treated equally, hence the law should be blind to peoples differences, and unfortunately deaf and dumb, the law and the courts play pretend with their own rules and persecute and prosecute people, when their lawyer is not good enough and cant mount a full, proper and complete defence. So even though the defendant should be found innocent, all involved play their little game of make believe justice driven by greed and punish them for not being able to afford a real legal defence.