Personally I gave up free to air and cable. I am not interested in any kind of 'channel' forcing my entertainment viewing in their preferred direction. It's the internet, man, watch what I want to watch when I want to watch it. Couple of screens, mindless video on the larger one and interaction on the smaller and closer one.
So whether it is streamed or recorded media on the larger one, meh, it is mostly just background and general interest.
I get far more entertainment and knowledge on the smaller screen with the attached keyboard and mouse all sitting on my custom over bed table which wraps around the rocker recliner.
So that is what will really suck up the bandwidth, not streaming a few hundred channels but streaming millions of different channels and more often than not multiple different channels into the same house hold at the same time even for the same person.
The did have right wing enclaves, military schools, didn't prove very popular and the associated abusive practices from the past are generally considered illegal today but, it would certainly go a long way to explaining some of the perverted practices of the current rank of right wing politicians.
People forget the liberal arts are the 'free' arts, the ability to express your self freely and not be subject to violence because other people prefer alternate methods of expression. In terms of politics liberal politics is again the politics of the free, where people are free to express their political ideals and not be subject to violent censure.
Of course this also makes it some what difficult to remove teachers who are not and likely will never (due to personality traits) make a good teacher. You can hardly base it upon grades because that in turn is largely subject to the quality of the students even more than the quality of the teacher, although a very good teacher will get much better results from less able students.
So you end up being stuck with putting cameras in every classroom and randomly monitoring teacher and class performance. Where there are questions about the quality of teaching the recordings can be accessed by an independent board comprising psychologists, teachers and other suitably qualified professionals. No one likes to be continually monitored in their work practices but it seems to be the only realistic way. As it turns out this will more likely end up right wing teachers (selfishness, religious intolerance, always 'right' sic) more than liberal teachers (free shared expression, broaden the imagination, openness to new ideas), as right wing teachers are far more likely to attempt to force their opinions and beliefs on students.
So the 'right' will love the idea of monitoring all those 'liberal' teachers, only to find most of the bad ones who have no love of learning and teaching and are in it just for the money, also tend to be on the political 'right' or is that 'wrong';).
Some things they might consider rather than key logging is booting from supplied portable media or booting from the network. Using key logging tends to set a bad precedent and the whole of school experience is part of their education, including accepted practices by government and respect for the privacy of individuals.
So boot from network and a quick scan and check, or boot from a cdrom which contains all required software and the exams, it also initiates a system check and then uploads the results to the network. Really easy to do with free open source software but could prove expensive with closed source proprietary software ie licences on top of licences and even 'illegal' in some cases.
Perhaps not in this case. After all it is not just one fake article but a whole journal of fake articles distributed upon a regular basis. So a team of marketing/PR scumbags worked upon the rag on a regular basis, a real act of conspiracy to defraud and mislead the public. The intent is just so far beyond the pale that criminal prosecutions and jail time are well and truly warranted.
Any government that lets this sort of extreme deceit to pass unnoticed is really betraying the trust that the voters placed in them. At which point should some corporations be considered a risk to the general public good and be broken up, Merck is really approaching that point and considering the harm caused by some of their products and their callous intent to maximise their profits by misinforming and deceiving the general public really does warrant a review of their future ability to do business in any form.
So that simply makes the problem much easier. The holder of the trademark will successfully sue for damages, now those damages absolutely can not relate to the value that google has added to that name of the other 47 companies it can only relate the the value of the name prior to it's use by google.
So a shut down company with no turnover has no real legitimate value in the trademark. However they can of course fight to keep their name and get the benefit (no real cost) of all that free advertising and perhaps even sell it to a competitor.
Now for the more interesting part, as google was aware of the trademark issues and did not inform it's customers, those 47 other companies being sued can in fact loose up purpose, sue google for that loss and any other potential losses incurred.
So the initial civil suit could only represent a relatively minor dollar value compared to the final class action suit by the 47 other companies against google which could amount to hundreds of millions of dollars. Plainly google management was stupid and this reflects real immaturity at the higher levels and, it really comes off as a hand full of google executives believing their own marketing hype.
As an interesting side point on that issue, M$ knew all about Sony's root kit prior to it being released in fact they were involved in evaluating it and it was a M$ advertising blogger who announced it to the world not long after it was released and of course just prior to the release of the playstation 3, ahh, the wonderful world of modern marketing techniques.
All this talk about losers, lets no forget the winners and I mean really big winners. The brokerage companies involved, the lawyers and of course those corporate executives who got massive bonuses as a result. The reality is the Time Warner AOL merger was one hundreds percent successful for those people who initiated it just as of course splitting off AOL from Time Warner will again be one hundreds percent successful for the same group. When it comes to the shareholders, expect to lose money if you buy into AOL.
The reality is Time Warner has copied all of the bits of AOL it wanted and, absorbed the quality staff into new, upgraded and re-branded units within Time Warner. So on paper they will be splitting off AOL from Time Warner but in reality AOL will still be a part of Time Warner, they are simply going to sell and empty shell with no real future. A quick cash up with multi million dollar sales commissions going to a handful of people which in the end will be paid for by AOL and Time Warner shareholders. Those poor corporate executives have to make up those loses they accrued in the financial sector when their buddies ripped them off, there just ain't no honours amongst thieves no more.
That of course is the ultimate catch in cyber warfare. You must have security holes that you can exploit and because all over the world the digital infrastructure is much the same, that means you cannot close those holes in you own country and you must keep the vulnerabilities secret other wise you destroy you own cyber weapons. Doing that of course means leaving yourself completely vulnerable to the cyber weapons you want to deploy against other countries who in turn can attack you with those very same cyber weapons.
The reality is cyber warfare is a purely defensive operation and as such is far more effectively handled by domestic security organisations ie. plug up all the holes and inform the rest of your country so they can also plug up those same holes. In offensive terms, WTF, you are dropping bombs on people and seriously trying to kill them, they last thing they will worry about is their internet connection, so offensive cyber warfare, blow up power stations no power no internet.
As for countries not playing nice but, you don't want to go to war (which of course you should avoid, murdering people is never really an acceptable solution) simply don't allow them to connect to your domestic network, really, what is so hard about that.
To not put to fine a point on it because M$ always has ulterior motives and they tend fabricate reasons to hide the real motives which everyone finds out about only when the inevitable problems. Where as Firefox or Mozilla upgrades tend to be of benefit to end users and tends not to have hidden features or code which are all about locking in a monopoly in that software or associated software or generating licence fees in order to effectively develop for that software ie. silverfish, quickbasic,.net etc. etc..
So it is the old story about the boy who cried wolf, when a company B$'s enough, no one really believes anything they have say and they will always look for the ulterior motives. So you can bet I will be keeping IE* off my game and recreational browsing machine for as long as possible and likely permanently, why bother I am already happy with Firefox and it just ain't worth the bandwidth;).
What is really odd about your statement, you use sub as in subculture but I think you don't really know what it means, in light of the way you used it. So the new internet democracy, people as individuals have the opportunity to have a voice, and collections of people ie. all of the various subcultures of the overall culture of that particular societal group will be able to share their thoughts within that subculture as well as within society as a whole.
So 4chan, or the Republicans, or the Klu Klux Klan or Bankers or Corporate Executives or Religious Fundamentalists or any of the other subcultures which express views which substantially diverge from the average, more reasonable and moral view of the general populace, will have a voice, however they will not be able to inflate that voice through violence or by paying for a much louder voice and effectively silencing the majority as they have done for the last couple of hundred years.
So the internet age is, the age of "a government of the people, by the people and for the people" and not as a platitude but as a developing reality.
There is currently a very good example in Australia. A government research program was created to search for a deploy a effective biological control fro rabbits which are a destructive pest in rural areas. A virus was found, tested and then deployed (deployment wasn't all that smooth). The next government come in and under their administration all on going research was killed, why, 'NO PROFIT', ie. no company could buy it and then sell it on an ongoing basis (100% reaganism), it could only be given away for free. Yeah, sure it saved billions of dollars but so what, "NO PROFIT". Note, the the current government has re-established funding (I know, how socialist of them).
There are countless other areas of research where the results are basically given away free for the greater good, biological pest control (Monsanto et al are guaranteed to lobby against it, no pesticide of gene patent profits) disease prevention (pharmaceuticals heavily into the long term profits of controlling symptoms rather than curing the disease are sure to lobby against it) to clean renewable energy research (fossil fuelers are guaranteed to go ballistic).
There are also areas of research where the end product would be far more economically supplied if the research was publicly funded and kept 'open' so that it could be done upon a global basis with contributions from around the world (providing the benefit of very competitive supply of the end product), yeah I know 'NO PROFITS' but sometimes it is all about 'SAVING' money and lives.
So a principle of open source coding allows the DOD to do one thing particularly well, review the code of likely job applicants. Obviously should you submit high quality code, as they likely shift to a 50:50 split (internal:external) coding, they will look to employ you directly
This also allows for coding inputs of allied countries and even some not so allied countries. Dual benefit there is, the are establishing friendlier and more open and communicative ties with other countries (repair some of the damage done by the previous administration) and their military as well as of course establishing a database overseas coders.
This demonstrates a shift in current thinking from the military basically acting as a source of inflated profits for a handful of corrupt corporations to serving the country upon a sound and cost efficient basis.
It really is all a deceitful act of marketing. It provides M$ with the opportunity of once again inflating the sales of the next OS and provides them the opportunity of killing support for the virtual machine at a moments notice with the claim, "but you are already running the new OS". They are locked into the idea of deploying full DRM as part of the windows OS and unless you pay the licence fees to access the OS you will not be able to sell software or hardware on it and naturally enough killing off open source software.
They are already playing up the security issue when you install any new M$ software on the older OS, "oh noes you are running XP you will die unless you to upgrade to vista". Really think about it, they want to charge you to upgrade to windows 7 so that you can run windows xp in a virtual machine, so that you end up paying for nothing, except of course more DRM and a slower OS (oh, and a few hundred millions dollars worth of PR=B$ advertising).
'ER' you have the proof, the email, it's source and it's content and no fine until it is investigated, perhaps say after receiving 10 separate complaints from different people, who could also be charged and fined for submitting false complaints if they are trolling. In Australian you can already forward spam to http://www.acma.gov.au/WEB/STANDARD/pc=PC_310300 and I assume once the receive sufficient complaints from a particular source they act upon them where possible.
So actual investigation by a legal authority rather than mass mailing complaints against anyone and everyone, so quite a substantive difference, law and justice versus blind greed.
The difference between opt-out and opt-in is product quality. Opt-in works fine when you are a reasonable company with reasonable products, however when you are a crap corporation with crap products and a bad reputation, nobody wants to opt-in, which is why they pay lobbyist to allow opt-out to remain legal rather than politicians banning all unsolicited communications.
Simple legislation, if you receive unsolicited communications and you complain to an legislated department they fine the advertiser and you receive half the fine as the victim, unless the advertiser can substantiate that you 'directly' opted-in (all the indirect opt-in also should be eliminated).
Trademarks are also bound to product types for example http://www.purax.com.au/products/microsoft-quilts versus http://technet.microsoft.com/en-gb/default.aspx. So the trademark for a product that clearly has nothing to do with other companies holding the same trademark name but for completely different products can also pass. So unless Taser is also manufacturing range of dildos in addition to it's range of lethal weapons, then it has a fair complaint otherwise it is completely invalid and that is not even touching the virtual satirical context.
Although they might claim that law enforcement officers using Tasers are doing so to fulfil sadistic sexual perversions rather than as a defensive weapon and, so it could be considered a sexual stimulation device, likely true but no one is going to admit to it in court, so still difficult to prove;).
It is a conspiracy. A government department is allying directly with a single corporation to make sure it's product and only it's product remains suitable for use, specifically ensuring all other competing products are excluded and to make matters worse it is doing it at the taxpayers expense, so that it can continue to spend even more taxpayer dollars on making billionaires even richer.
I don't know about you but that money as well as all the other "BILLIONS" of dollars spent on exclusionary licence fees, could far more effectively be "INVESTED" in developing open source software and employing tens of thousands of people at the local level rather than off shoring jobs and bloating the pocket books of a hand full of corrupt deceitful people.
My first experience with Linux was also associated with windows. I created a dual boot and basically used Linux to backup windows on the same drive and safe from the various vagrancies and idiosyncrasies of windows. It basically gave me access to all the various windows configs and dlls to fix them easily when windows inevitably crapped out. Of course using that on the desktop (I have continued the practice on all my windows game playing machines since) lead me to make the obviously sensible decisions to shift servers from windows to Linux, after all why bother to dual boot servers, one OS that is secure and stable to fix the other OS which, well, the only real benefit being there is a lot of software that will run on it, so Samba is my other major Linux experience.
So after running a Linux server for eighteen months my biggest defining experience was, when asked I thought I had only been using it for six months, I had to check the date to find out how long I had actually had it on site, the difference in the admin was that stark.
Oddly enough the eating until bloated is some what of a misconception. THC is a MSG blocker, so only junk food addicts get the munchies when stoned, people who avoid the various excito toxin, neuro stimulants do not get the munchies as they do not suffer from drug withdrawals and are not forced to compulsively eat in order to fulfil the "flavour enhancer" (what a huge steaming pile of PR=B$ for a legalised drug) addiction.
THC as a blocker for MSG et al also explains why it is so effective in treating various severe diseases caused by those sic. "flavour enhancers" and of course has the potential to do huge damage to the pharmaceuticals profits via the selling of patentable drugs to cure the problems created by legal junk food drugs and they conspire and fund at all levels to keep the pig trough flowing.
I read the site and of course the sites of the originators. It is a commercial site, it main aim really is the indirect promotion of the individuals involved, art types seeking web time. Real storm in a teacup stuff but, which wikipedia is forced into defending lest it get out of hand with wikipedia'*' sites opening up all over the the place for the purpose of 'commercial' self promotion.
China is inevitably screwed. They are polluting themselves to death, productivity is tied to a working in poverty exploited workforce and corruption is out of control. The majority of citizens in China, by far the majority, can not afford to buy the bulk of products they produce. They live and work in conditions, that would drive the majority of more modern democratic citizens to physical violence against those who tried to force them in via the 'police state'.
China's economic viability is purely based upon western corporations and their complete absence of morals and patriotism ie. a complete and total disregard for the harm they do to their country and fellow citizens.
So it boils down to the enforcement of reasonable laws, you can not have free trade without 'Fair Trade", where competition is based upon technical expertise, a skilled workforce and natural resources not upon who can more ruthlessly exploit the environment and fellow human beings.
What a lot of western countries can no longer afford are bloated destructive corporations and their amoral and immoral corporate executives.
The people are the government and the government only really gets away with what the people let them get away with. When it comes to election time, voters should they choose can actively pursue government services and demand change and improvement, which "democratic" governments around the world inevitably buckle down to and provide in order to get re-elected.
Private corporations just spend money on PR=B$ or civil suits to shut complainers up and, when it comes to the inevitable 'competition' yarn, hell, they just buy out competitors, ramp up the price and squeeze down services to pay for it, keeping all the various bits and prices separate on paper to make it looks like there is completion in the market.
Every time a government provided service has been privatised, thousands of workers have been fired, prices have gone up and to rub salt into the wounds the quality of service and support has plummeted, the one and only benefit, a very small minority of people have managed to gouge enormous profits from the majority. Add to that, whilst the stripping every bit of profit out of the service they can, they run it into the ground, sell it to the public (as pension plans et al) and then let it go bankrupt, so that the government is forced to take it over, fix it at taxpayer expense and low and behold the lobbyists come back demanding that it be privatised so they can start the cycle again.
It is fun to joke and complain about government provided services (the bulk of it really is just jokes) but over exploited privatised monopoly or duopoly services are really truly shit, the only thing they provide more of is invasive and deceitful advertising.
In this case there was no way that was ever going to happen. End result, all it does is continues to demonstrate the utter corruption and moral absence of the recording industry upon a global basis, sex drugs and rock and roll obviously have nothing to do with justice and morality.
Now the Swedish government is left looking legally foolish and incompetent because they allowed this,ever so public, travesty of justice of occur. It is mind boggling that they Swedish copyright executives thought they would get away with it, damn the quality of drugs up there must be pretty good, as for the judge feigning no conflict of intrests, I would bet there would be a whole 'family' of interests involved in copyrights fronting and supporting activities.
Police computer networks can provide lots of useful information. Individuals susceptible to blackmail, individuals susceptible to bribery, access details for known criminals and of course ongoing investigation activities. All autocratic governments are well know for their criminal activities and major organised crime activities in those countries can only exist with the support of corrupt government officials and this extends into overseas operations.
It would be expected that most countries are now involved in computer network espionage activities and, for the Government of China to so childishly deny that activity just makes them look guiltier and more to the point makes those Chinese Officials who are directly involved in those activities look like they are attempting to further their own private interests at the expense of the Government Of China and the childish 'not me, somebody else did it" are self defeating attempts to hide their own guilt.
Where it maybe difficult to obtain a criminal conviction there is nothing stopping various police departments and investigation agencies from pursuing civil suits and inflicting major fiscal penalties via another route and of course facilitate a legal opening up of a range possible investigation targets.
From a experienced project management viewpoint, anyone who is asking these questions prior to starting a complex project where it has been stipulated that they have to provide 'better' estimates for completing features, is in real trouble. Attempting to learn project management whilst winging it in on a hope and a prayer on a current project is not the most sensible thing to do.
My advice would be to admit the limits of of experience to management, hire in a reputable consultant and pay attention to what they do for the next project, either that or start looking for another job now. It is not to bad learning to apply project management techniques on small simple jobs but you really don't want to be learning whilst attempting large complex jobs. Small jobs with large stuff ups, still don't hurt that much but, major jobs even with small stuffs ups can be hugely expensive. Good project management is all about experience and learning from your mistakes and being quick enough to correct them before they get out of control.
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Personally I gave up free to air and cable. I am not interested in any kind of 'channel' forcing my entertainment viewing in their preferred direction. It's the internet, man, watch what I want to watch when I want to watch it. Couple of screens, mindless video on the larger one and interaction on the smaller and closer one.
So whether it is streamed or recorded media on the larger one, meh, it is mostly just background and general interest.
I get far more entertainment and knowledge on the smaller screen with the attached keyboard and mouse all sitting on my custom over bed table which wraps around the rocker recliner.
So that is what will really suck up the bandwidth, not streaming a few hundred channels but streaming millions of different channels and more often than not multiple different channels into the same house hold at the same time even for the same person.
The did have right wing enclaves, military schools, didn't prove very popular and the associated abusive practices from the past are generally considered illegal today but, it would certainly go a long way to explaining some of the perverted practices of the current rank of right wing politicians.
People forget the liberal arts are the 'free' arts, the ability to express your self freely and not be subject to violence because other people prefer alternate methods of expression. In terms of politics liberal politics is again the politics of the free, where people are free to express their political ideals and not be subject to violent censure.
Of course this also makes it some what difficult to remove teachers who are not and likely will never (due to personality traits) make a good teacher. You can hardly base it upon grades because that in turn is largely subject to the quality of the students even more than the quality of the teacher, although a very good teacher will get much better results from less able students.
So you end up being stuck with putting cameras in every classroom and randomly monitoring teacher and class performance. Where there are questions about the quality of teaching the recordings can be accessed by an independent board comprising psychologists, teachers and other suitably qualified professionals. No one likes to be continually monitored in their work practices but it seems to be the only realistic way. As it turns out this will more likely end up right wing teachers (selfishness, religious intolerance, always 'right' sic) more than liberal teachers (free shared expression, broaden the imagination, openness to new ideas), as right wing teachers are far more likely to attempt to force their opinions and beliefs on students.
So the 'right' will love the idea of monitoring all those 'liberal' teachers, only to find most of the bad ones who have no love of learning and teaching and are in it just for the money, also tend to be on the political 'right' or is that 'wrong' ;).
Some things they might consider rather than key logging is booting from supplied portable media or booting from the network. Using key logging tends to set a bad precedent and the whole of school experience is part of their education, including accepted practices by government and respect for the privacy of individuals.
So boot from network and a quick scan and check, or boot from a cdrom which contains all required software and the exams, it also initiates a system check and then uploads the results to the network. Really easy to do with free open source software but could prove expensive with closed source proprietary software ie licences on top of licences and even 'illegal' in some cases.
Perhaps not in this case. After all it is not just one fake article but a whole journal of fake articles distributed upon a regular basis. So a team of marketing/PR scumbags worked upon the rag on a regular basis, a real act of conspiracy to defraud and mislead the public. The intent is just so far beyond the pale that criminal prosecutions and jail time are well and truly warranted.
Any government that lets this sort of extreme deceit to pass unnoticed is really betraying the trust that the voters placed in them. At which point should some corporations be considered a risk to the general public good and be broken up, Merck is really approaching that point and considering the harm caused by some of their products and their callous intent to maximise their profits by misinforming and deceiving the general public really does warrant a review of their future ability to do business in any form.
So that simply makes the problem much easier. The holder of the trademark will successfully sue for damages, now those damages absolutely can not relate to the value that google has added to that name of the other 47 companies it can only relate the the value of the name prior to it's use by google.
So a shut down company with no turnover has no real legitimate value in the trademark. However they can of course fight to keep their name and get the benefit (no real cost) of all that free advertising and perhaps even sell it to a competitor.
Now for the more interesting part, as google was aware of the trademark issues and did not inform it's customers, those 47 other companies being sued can in fact loose up purpose, sue google for that loss and any other potential losses incurred.
So the initial civil suit could only represent a relatively minor dollar value compared to the final class action suit by the 47 other companies against google which could amount to hundreds of millions of dollars. Plainly google management was stupid and this reflects real immaturity at the higher levels and, it really comes off as a hand full of google executives believing their own marketing hype.
As an interesting side point on that issue, M$ knew all about Sony's root kit prior to it being released in fact they were involved in evaluating it and it was a M$ advertising blogger who announced it to the world not long after it was released and of course just prior to the release of the playstation 3, ahh, the wonderful world of modern marketing techniques.
All this talk about losers, lets no forget the winners and I mean really big winners. The brokerage companies involved, the lawyers and of course those corporate executives who got massive bonuses as a result. The reality is the Time Warner AOL merger was one hundreds percent successful for those people who initiated it just as of course splitting off AOL from Time Warner will again be one hundreds percent successful for the same group. When it comes to the shareholders, expect to lose money if you buy into AOL.
The reality is Time Warner has copied all of the bits of AOL it wanted and, absorbed the quality staff into new, upgraded and re-branded units within Time Warner. So on paper they will be splitting off AOL from Time Warner but in reality AOL will still be a part of Time Warner, they are simply going to sell and empty shell with no real future. A quick cash up with multi million dollar sales commissions going to a handful of people which in the end will be paid for by AOL and Time Warner shareholders. Those poor corporate executives have to make up those loses they accrued in the financial sector when their buddies ripped them off, there just ain't no honours amongst thieves no more.
That of course is the ultimate catch in cyber warfare. You must have security holes that you can exploit and because all over the world the digital infrastructure is much the same, that means you cannot close those holes in you own country and you must keep the vulnerabilities secret other wise you destroy you own cyber weapons. Doing that of course means leaving yourself completely vulnerable to the cyber weapons you want to deploy against other countries who in turn can attack you with those very same cyber weapons.
The reality is cyber warfare is a purely defensive operation and as such is far more effectively handled by domestic security organisations ie. plug up all the holes and inform the rest of your country so they can also plug up those same holes. In offensive terms, WTF, you are dropping bombs on people and seriously trying to kill them, they last thing they will worry about is their internet connection, so offensive cyber warfare, blow up power stations no power no internet.
As for countries not playing nice but, you don't want to go to war (which of course you should avoid, murdering people is never really an acceptable solution) simply don't allow them to connect to your domestic network, really, what is so hard about that.
To not put to fine a point on it because M$ always has ulterior motives and they tend fabricate reasons to hide the real motives which everyone finds out about only when the inevitable problems. Where as Firefox or Mozilla upgrades tend to be of benefit to end users and tends not to have hidden features or code which are all about locking in a monopoly in that software or associated software or generating licence fees in order to effectively develop for that software ie. silverfish, quickbasic, .net etc. etc..
So it is the old story about the boy who cried wolf, when a company B$'s enough, no one really believes anything they have say and they will always look for the ulterior motives. So you can bet I will be keeping IE* off my game and recreational browsing machine for as long as possible and likely permanently, why bother I am already happy with Firefox and it just ain't worth the bandwidth ;).
What is really odd about your statement, you use sub as in subculture but I think you don't really know what it means, in light of the way you used it. So the new internet democracy, people as individuals have the opportunity to have a voice, and collections of people ie. all of the various subcultures of the overall culture of that particular societal group will be able to share their thoughts within that subculture as well as within society as a whole.
So 4chan, or the Republicans, or the Klu Klux Klan or Bankers or Corporate Executives or Religious Fundamentalists or any of the other subcultures which express views which substantially diverge from the average, more reasonable and moral view of the general populace, will have a voice, however they will not be able to inflate that voice through violence or by paying for a much louder voice and effectively silencing the majority as they have done for the last couple of hundred years.
So the internet age is, the age of "a government of the people, by the people and for the people" and not as a platitude but as a developing reality.
There is currently a very good example in Australia. A government research program was created to search for a deploy a effective biological control fro rabbits which are a destructive pest in rural areas. A virus was found, tested and then deployed (deployment wasn't all that smooth). The next government come in and under their administration all on going research was killed, why, 'NO PROFIT', ie. no company could buy it and then sell it on an ongoing basis (100% reaganism), it could only be given away for free. Yeah, sure it saved billions of dollars but so what, "NO PROFIT". Note, the the current government has re-established funding (I know, how socialist of them).
There are countless other areas of research where the results are basically given away free for the greater good, biological pest control (Monsanto et al are guaranteed to lobby against it, no pesticide of gene patent profits) disease prevention (pharmaceuticals heavily into the long term profits of controlling symptoms rather than curing the disease are sure to lobby against it) to clean renewable energy research (fossil fuelers are guaranteed to go ballistic).
There are also areas of research where the end product would be far more economically supplied if the research was publicly funded and kept 'open' so that it could be done upon a global basis with contributions from around the world (providing the benefit of very competitive supply of the end product), yeah I know 'NO PROFITS' but sometimes it is all about 'SAVING' money and lives.
So a principle of open source coding allows the DOD to do one thing particularly well, review the code of likely job applicants. Obviously should you submit high quality code, as they likely shift to a 50:50 split (internal:external) coding, they will look to employ you directly
This also allows for coding inputs of allied countries and even some not so allied countries. Dual benefit there is, the are establishing friendlier and more open and communicative ties with other countries (repair some of the damage done by the previous administration) and their military as well as of course establishing a database overseas coders.
This demonstrates a shift in current thinking from the military basically acting as a source of inflated profits for a handful of corrupt corporations to serving the country upon a sound and cost efficient basis.
It really is all a deceitful act of marketing. It provides M$ with the opportunity of once again inflating the sales of the next OS and provides them the opportunity of killing support for the virtual machine at a moments notice with the claim, "but you are already running the new OS". They are locked into the idea of deploying full DRM as part of the windows OS and unless you pay the licence fees to access the OS you will not be able to sell software or hardware on it and naturally enough killing off open source software.
They are already playing up the security issue when you install any new M$ software on the older OS, "oh noes you are running XP you will die unless you to upgrade to vista". Really think about it, they want to charge you to upgrade to windows 7 so that you can run windows xp in a virtual machine, so that you end up paying for nothing, except of course more DRM and a slower OS (oh, and a few hundred millions dollars worth of PR=B$ advertising).
'ER' you have the proof, the email, it's source and it's content and no fine until it is investigated, perhaps say after receiving 10 separate complaints from different people, who could also be charged and fined for submitting false complaints if they are trolling. In Australian you can already forward spam to http://www.acma.gov.au/WEB/STANDARD/pc=PC_310300 and I assume once the receive sufficient complaints from a particular source they act upon them where possible.
So actual investigation by a legal authority rather than mass mailing complaints against anyone and everyone, so quite a substantive difference, law and justice versus blind greed.
The difference between opt-out and opt-in is product quality. Opt-in works fine when you are a reasonable company with reasonable products, however when you are a crap corporation with crap products and a bad reputation, nobody wants to opt-in, which is why they pay lobbyist to allow opt-out to remain legal rather than politicians banning all unsolicited communications.
Simple legislation, if you receive unsolicited communications and you complain to an legislated department they fine the advertiser and you receive half the fine as the victim, unless the advertiser can substantiate that you 'directly' opted-in (all the indirect opt-in also should be eliminated).
Trademarks are also bound to product types for example http://www.purax.com.au/products/microsoft-quilts versus http://technet.microsoft.com/en-gb/default.aspx. So the trademark for a product that clearly has nothing to do with other companies holding the same trademark name but for completely different products can also pass. So unless Taser is also manufacturing range of dildos in addition to it's range of lethal weapons, then it has a fair complaint otherwise it is completely invalid and that is not even touching the virtual satirical context.
Although they might claim that law enforcement officers using Tasers are doing so to fulfil sadistic sexual perversions rather than as a defensive weapon and, so it could be considered a sexual stimulation device, likely true but no one is going to admit to it in court, so still difficult to prove ;).
It is a conspiracy. A government department is allying directly with a single corporation to make sure it's product and only it's product remains suitable for use, specifically ensuring all other competing products are excluded and to make matters worse it is doing it at the taxpayers expense, so that it can continue to spend even more taxpayer dollars on making billionaires even richer.
I don't know about you but that money as well as all the other "BILLIONS" of dollars spent on exclusionary licence fees, could far more effectively be "INVESTED" in developing open source software and employing tens of thousands of people at the local level rather than off shoring jobs and bloating the pocket books of a hand full of corrupt deceitful people.
My first experience with Linux was also associated with windows. I created a dual boot and basically used Linux to backup windows on the same drive and safe from the various vagrancies and idiosyncrasies of windows. It basically gave me access to all the various windows configs and dlls to fix them easily when windows inevitably crapped out. Of course using that on the desktop (I have continued the practice on all my windows game playing machines since) lead me to make the obviously sensible decisions to shift servers from windows to Linux, after all why bother to dual boot servers, one OS that is secure and stable to fix the other OS which, well, the only real benefit being there is a lot of software that will run on it, so Samba is my other major Linux experience.
So after running a Linux server for eighteen months my biggest defining experience was, when asked I thought I had only been using it for six months, I had to check the date to find out how long I had actually had it on site, the difference in the admin was that stark.
Oddly enough the eating until bloated is some what of a misconception. THC is a MSG blocker, so only junk food addicts get the munchies when stoned, people who avoid the various excito toxin, neuro stimulants do not get the munchies as they do not suffer from drug withdrawals and are not forced to compulsively eat in order to fulfil the "flavour enhancer" (what a huge steaming pile of PR=B$ for a legalised drug) addiction.
THC as a blocker for MSG et al also explains why it is so effective in treating various severe diseases caused by those sic. "flavour enhancers" and of course has the potential to do huge damage to the pharmaceuticals profits via the selling of patentable drugs to cure the problems created by legal junk food drugs and they conspire and fund at all levels to keep the pig trough flowing.
I read the site and of course the sites of the originators. It is a commercial site, it main aim really is the indirect promotion of the individuals involved, art types seeking web time. Real storm in a teacup stuff but, which wikipedia is forced into defending lest it get out of hand with wikipedia'*' sites opening up all over the the place for the purpose of 'commercial' self promotion.
China is inevitably screwed. They are polluting themselves to death, productivity is tied to a working in poverty exploited workforce and corruption is out of control. The majority of citizens in China, by far the majority, can not afford to buy the bulk of products they produce. They live and work in conditions, that would drive the majority of more modern democratic citizens to physical violence against those who tried to force them in via the 'police state'.
China's economic viability is purely based upon western corporations and their complete absence of morals and patriotism ie. a complete and total disregard for the harm they do to their country and fellow citizens.
So it boils down to the enforcement of reasonable laws, you can not have free trade without 'Fair Trade", where competition is based upon technical expertise, a skilled workforce and natural resources not upon who can more ruthlessly exploit the environment and fellow human beings.
What a lot of western countries can no longer afford are bloated destructive corporations and their amoral and immoral corporate executives.
The people are the government and the government only really gets away with what the people let them get away with. When it comes to election time, voters should they choose can actively pursue government services and demand change and improvement, which "democratic" governments around the world inevitably buckle down to and provide in order to get re-elected.
Private corporations just spend money on PR=B$ or civil suits to shut complainers up and, when it comes to the inevitable 'competition' yarn, hell, they just buy out competitors, ramp up the price and squeeze down services to pay for it, keeping all the various bits and prices separate on paper to make it looks like there is completion in the market.
Every time a government provided service has been privatised, thousands of workers have been fired, prices have gone up and to rub salt into the wounds the quality of service and support has plummeted, the one and only benefit, a very small minority of people have managed to gouge enormous profits from the majority. Add to that, whilst the stripping every bit of profit out of the service they can, they run it into the ground, sell it to the public (as pension plans et al) and then let it go bankrupt, so that the government is forced to take it over, fix it at taxpayer expense and low and behold the lobbyists come back demanding that it be privatised so they can start the cycle again.
It is fun to joke and complain about government provided services (the bulk of it really is just jokes) but over exploited privatised monopoly or duopoly services are really truly shit, the only thing they provide more of is invasive and deceitful advertising.
In this case there was no way that was ever going to happen. End result, all it does is continues to demonstrate the utter corruption and moral absence of the recording industry upon a global basis, sex drugs and rock and roll obviously have nothing to do with justice and morality.
Now the Swedish government is left looking legally foolish and incompetent because they allowed this ,ever so public, travesty of justice of occur. It is mind boggling that they Swedish copyright executives thought they would get away with it, damn the quality of drugs up there must be pretty good, as for the judge feigning no conflict of intrests, I would bet there would be a whole 'family' of interests involved in copyrights fronting and supporting activities.
Police computer networks can provide lots of useful information. Individuals susceptible to blackmail, individuals susceptible to bribery, access details for known criminals and of course ongoing investigation activities. All autocratic governments are well know for their criminal activities and major organised crime activities in those countries can only exist with the support of corrupt government officials and this extends into overseas operations.
It would be expected that most countries are now involved in computer network espionage activities and, for the Government of China to so childishly deny that activity just makes them look guiltier and more to the point makes those Chinese Officials who are directly involved in those activities look like they are attempting to further their own private interests at the expense of the Government Of China and the childish 'not me, somebody else did it" are self defeating attempts to hide their own guilt.
Where it maybe difficult to obtain a criminal conviction there is nothing stopping various police departments and investigation agencies from pursuing civil suits and inflicting major fiscal penalties via another route and of course facilitate a legal opening up of a range possible investigation targets.
From a experienced project management viewpoint, anyone who is asking these questions prior to starting a complex project where it has been stipulated that they have to provide 'better' estimates for completing features, is in real trouble. Attempting to learn project management whilst winging it in on a hope and a prayer on a current project is not the most sensible thing to do.
My advice would be to admit the limits of of experience to management, hire in a reputable consultant and pay attention to what they do for the next project, either that or start looking for another job now. It is not to bad learning to apply project management techniques on small simple jobs but you really don't want to be learning whilst attempting large complex jobs. Small jobs with large stuff ups, still don't hurt that much but, major jobs even with small stuffs ups can be hugely expensive. Good project management is all about experience and learning from your mistakes and being quick enough to correct them before they get out of control.