Now consider the nature of the company, that one that attempts to sell the digital commute to everybody else, work from home and broadband into the office. Now for the reality, they can't make the digital commute work for them and demand that tax payers pick up the bill for their failure, whilst they blithely attempt to market the digital commute to everybody else, what was that about eating your own dog food.
States funding companies is all about corporate blackmail, not what is good for the community. Corporation routinely play off one state against the other and call that blackmail and the defrauding of other tax payers in the state, fair competition. All tax laws, all state funded benefits, all state funded infrastructure should be provided to each upon a fair basis, and upon their need not their greed. This funding of a bridge serving one company is reducing the companies costs and inflating their profit margin, it essentially amounts to a free gift of cash straight to M$ shareholders from around the world.
The original contract defines bandwidth, throttle the connection and you are no longer providing that bandwidth. What does an admin do, when there boss decides to lie, cheat and steal. Either they learn to put up with it or leave, the boss has absolutely no interest in answers that cost them money, they are only interested in hearing what makes them money.
The admin might as well start looking for a new job, the small ISP is bound to build up a lot of resentment in that small customer base and eventually a competitor will enter that market and they will lose all their customers.
What this does point out though is exactly how the deliberate oversell occurs, how the ISP lies to the customer about what they are buying, and then leaves the customer with a degraded service for as long as they can get away with it.
That is totally correct the blimps have absolutely nothing to do with monitoring so called enemy territory but everything to do with monitoring 'enemy' domestic populations or subjugated countries. This is the panopticon http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panopticon taken from behind prison walls, and put out into all public spaces and private space, welcome to prison planet.
The dirigible will obviously sport a full range of optical and infra-red sensors, spy video captured 24/7. Truly dangerous stuff, they will know when you lack an effective alibi and with a quick bit of digital editing be able to place you at the scene of any crime. You want to access the data to protect yourself, forget about it, it will be protected by nationally security concerns, they want to use it against you, not a problem you are a threat to national security.
So now new technology, just the general public's willingness to accept a perverted use of existing old technology.
The reality is though that facebook is not about your or anybody else's life, it is a fabricated digital facade, a impression you wish to create of yourself to be viewed by others be they strangers or friends. The lawyers fishing expedition was not even about catching real fish, it was all about trying to catch phantom illusory fish and then hoping to present that illusion as real.
So a real warning to people who naively surrender their privacy, about how that information can be misused and twisted out of shape to present in what ever light people can use to their advantage. So face book, myspace et al, a really bad idea unless you simply want to put up a completely non personal digital illusion of yourself and present yourself in the best possible light. New online business prospect, the creation and maintenance of PR=B$ on line profiles, you too can now be like the rich and greedy pseudo celebrities, where publicists create an illusion to hide the venal self serving worthless reality.
Do you also know that you can also use that illusory personal profile in court cases to your advantage, as long as it is suitable and carefully prepared over an extended period.
What pass, until the previous lot are in prison it will never be over and, should this lot prove just as bad, they can join the others behind bars. What is interesting is I never mentioned any names, so it would appear that you acknowledge who the criminals are, justice demands prosecution for those crimes and true justice never rests, never gives a free pass because it is to politically inconvenient and, certainly never pretends it didn't happen.
You don't do that because you just end up looking lame and stupid in a testosterone choked environment. When you are assigned stupid tasks you simply point out the flaw in the task and stand up for yourself or be branded weak and suffer for it, either stand your ground or you get walked all over or worse.
How should the military treat it's nerds, at arms length as civilian employees of the military. The last thing you want is your low IQ cannon fodder regardless of rank driving out your intellectual talent, the two are mutually exclusive. The same idiot stuff carries over from high school to the military where the none to bright jock straps target those that make them feel intellectually inadequate, a bit of sweat and you can catch up to them in the muscle department and they know no matter how hard they try they'll still be as dumb as stumps in comparison. Trying to find those few that can stand their ground physically whilst being of high intellectual value is very difficult and trying to keep them is virtually impossible (often those types of people are also anti-authoritarian). To put it bluntly unless the physically 'challenged' nerds can safely tell military jock straps to 'fuck off' when appropriate why would they join or remain to suffer abuse and of course for the tougher geeks they still need to be able tell military jock straps to 'fuck off' else you end up firing them or they also quit.
To be successful with intellectual types you need to create a team environment not an authoritarian environment, which of course is what the military needs to be in order to retain control of their low IQ cannon fodder.
I actually like to cruise down streets in differing locations on street view, get a feel for the state of the infrastructure, check out architectural differences, get a feel for city planning ie. see new and interesting places with out all the hassle or cost of actually going there.
This particular poly (doesn't deserve a cracker) is just trying to get attention, just think about it, it is public space, you can just walk, ride or drive past it. What's next, if is is blurred in street view and google maps you must also obtain a special permit to walk or drive past the structure, and if you dare to take a photo you'll prosecuted for the illegal collection of protected photons. How about if you share a boundary with those special structures, black out all your windows facing them, perhaps banished from you own yard lest you accidentally look at them and will it just be made illegal for you to own a camera because you might take a non-blurry photo.
The idea is just grand standing combined with a element stupidity.
The catch with that thinking, is the reality of the situation is that upwards of 90% of the desks just need a basic office suite to do there job, maybe that stretches in database entry as well but again OS makes very little difference when it comes to major databases apart from per seat cost, performance issues and stability.
So if they were only selling windows OS for photo shop users approximately how many seats would that be and how long before Adobe abandon M$ before M$ stabs them in the back, the front and the side, silverfish anyone;).
Gees, get real, it will take the new administration, just the ones at the very top at least a year to replace the previous administrations crony placements, not that the next lot are guaranteed to be better but there are a whole bunch of Alaskan styled cow lovers buried through out every government department and it will take law enforcement agencies years to clear them all out excluding of course the ones that try to bail before the get busted for their past wanton criminal activity. Who can forget a for profit FDA, a EPA that was facilitating pollution not cleaning it up or the FCC that was being controlled by the corporations it was meant to be controlling.
It will takes years, possibly even decades to repair the damage done by that blatant very public corruption. The real measure of the success of the current administration will be how many prosecution for corruption they can achieve, possibly even in the thousands and that is a huge amount of investigation and prosecution to work through. You do know that is the part of the job of the administration, ensuring corrupt officials are caught and prosecuted, not covering it up, not pretending it doesn't exist, not lying about and absolutely not participating in it. So you measure failure by how long it took to catch them, not by how many they catch, catching and prosecuting is success.
That same logic extends into party politics, when those with in a party abuse the positions and get caught you publicly burn them at the stake so as to convince the public the rest of your are different and you are demonstrating your integrity by turning over the traitors to the party, doing the opposite just means they inevitably take you with them. So basically you do a phoenix, build a whole new party from the burnt ashes of the failures, elected, appointed or public figures doesn't matter, the brighter the fire, the more attention your attract and the better you end up looking, as long as you are one of the ones feeding the flames and, they are not in a position to 'out' you;0.
Slashdot might be called news for nerds but I can assure you that there are a host of non-nerd types haunting the forum, government agents, government propagandists, marketdroids, intellectually handicapped failed jock straps all filling the forum with all sorts of rants, makes it more interesting.
Generally speaking an exchange of ideas is what/. is all about, so when you exchange, you are in fact exchanging correct ideas for faulty ideas, so obviously some posts will be wrong and upon correction people will revise their ideas and, often by creative leap feed back into the forum new ideas.
Of course when it comes to room temperature superconductivity, it should be obvious that no one has the right idea, so everyone throws in a bunch of wrong ideas think about the faults and via that creative process try to come up with the more correct ideas that will eventually lead to a solution. When it comes to the interplay of ideas, right wrong or indifferent makes little difference to nerds/geeks, playing with those ideas, formulating new creative thoughts and, of course the brain chemical rewards while lost in those thoughts are the purpose, perhaps you are missing out on those endorphin rewards that a lot of/.ers get.
Superconductivity, hmm, electron flow within in turbulent electron fields, eliminate the turbulence from the electron fields and you have smooth flow, any turbulence and you disrupt flow which increase turbulence and further disrupts flow, energy build up is released as photons to achieve equilibrium. So superconductivity is all about creating smooth electron fields to facilitate the flow of electrons and the prevention of the build up of turbulence. Micro structures, perhaps molecular toroids or channels are the most likely route to a solution, so micro channels on the inside surface of a conductive conduit would be an interesting idea to pursue, after all as long as it is super conductive you don't need very much material to provide the required conductivity.
The reality is they did indeed have criminal intent as they stole computer processing power, wear and tear of hardware, electricity and of cost data transmission which affects user upload/download caps. It really was not their right to make use of other peoples machines regardless of the use to which they were put, it really was a bad mistake and they obviously received bag legal advice. Of course in the UK the individual doesn't press charges, the government does and the victim is just a witness, so it is really up to the police as to whether they should or will pursue the illegal access and use of other peoples computer systems as well as internet accounts. The worst of it all, they did it to make money, not for free, they were all paid, they derived a fiscal reward from their theft.
Rather humerus though, a windows users points out the rather lame free games that you pay for when you buy the OS as a benefit but hey, they forget, Linux distributions all come free with an unlimited client file server. So lame window dressing for the windows OS versus thousands of dollars saved in per seat client licences.
I am still waiting for the day when M$ sales stuff stumble and point out you can get OpenOffice.org on windows to make it more competitive with Linux;D.
It is neither civil disobedience nor a malicious act of mischief, just as background random searches to obscure your searches in not a criminal act. Succinctly you are effectively obscuring any add you choose to click on and hiding them behind random arbitrary clicks. Any interpretation, use or attempts at profiting by those clicks are googles responsibility in their contract with the seller.
Google et al are the ones invading your privacy and preparing automated psychological profiles for targeted advertising, you are attempting a reasonable defence against gross dehumanising behaviour by a corporation. Of course wont work for me, as I already block all privacy invasive google scripts as well as double click.
As for click fraud, google only cares about it if the advertisers complain and any monitoring and prevention programs are just window dressing to make the advertisers feel good about throwing their money away on entry level advertising like spamwords.
Really at the end of the day it is likely a composite of factors ie. poor junk food diet leads to a disruption of the immune system which in turn makes people more susceptible to environmental pollutants. Similar in the way that consumption of soy damages the digestive system and makes people susceptible to celiac disease, so root cause soy (it various toxic elements) leads to a gluten intolerance.
Outdoor air quality as well, consider bitumen roads. There is absolutely no monitoring of bitumen for toxic chemicals it is simply a waste product of the oil refinery process and you get what you get.
You have to remember I live in a country with an effective social welfare net. So the fear and desperation is just not there. Think of a more caring and just society. So prescription $20 odd regardless of actual price, hospital stay one copayment on the first day regardless of final duration and pay for own TV, doctor $20odd copayment per visit. So a lot of the stress, combativeness and, fear is gone. Can't imagine any more what it is like to live with that grinding fear, where a family members illness might send you broke, or you can't afford it and they must suffer, or you lose you job and you company paid health insurance, all loaded on top of the fear you feel about family members health outcome.
Carpets is a tricky one unless you are specifically talking about synthetics. After all in times past, you had rugs and, heavy drapes all struggling with efficient word burning heating systems and of course nomads spent their whole life huddled in fabric and hide tents on fabric and hide floors, all swaddled up in fabric and hide and all clustered together a rife breeding environment for pests and parasites.
Lazy parents who use the TV as a baby sitter for hours on end are also likely to be lazy when it comes to preparing healthy meals and resort to take away meals and junk food snacks. Also children that suffer from asthma are likely to prefer less arduous activities, like watching TV, in order to reduce the risk of an attack.
As for the growth in asthma, increasing levels of exotic pollutants (that generate hormonal reactions in people) plus the effects of junk food consumption during pregnancy are the most likely the culprits.
Feeding neuro stimulant so called 'flavour enhancers' to unborn children is most likely not the brightest idea in the world and maybe the future health of an unborn generation should be put ahead of the profits of junk food and chemical additive manufacturers.
I think the person is after a fully automated solution that requires no maintenance. One of those local boards where people offer service in their local area to other people, possibly a barter board or the like.
They are now learning one the internet biggest lessons, creating a web site is a relatively simple thing, keeping it running and up to date is a never ending chore and the more interactive it is, the more maintenance required.
There really are no quick easy solutions, which is of course why some many companies, pay all those professional web geeks, to maintain web sites.
No it is a gross abuse of the most basic principle of law, your are innocent until proven guilty. So some company sends through a text file with some log records and gets you account cancelled without monetary recompense. Now if you want the account reconnected because the charges are false, you must now pay for the time and effort and attempt to prove that you didn't upload those files, hmm, don't keep a digitally recorded log of all your internet activities, well tough luck.
Did anyone notice that subtle shift from uploading content to accusations of downloading content and exactly what are the penalties for false accusations. So how much can the end user get back from the ISP and from the copyright claimant when they fail to prove your guilt, not when you fail to prove your innocence.
Well just to be fair, I used a little search box on the site, so all the way back to 2007, this terrible non-M$ evangelist, wrote 5, yes 5 articles that mention the word Linux. So it sounds more like someone caught up in the bankruptcies, who used to sell M$ licences, whose job is possibly at risk, venting their spleen in a rather humorous and definitely exaggerated fashion.
He really did highlight a interesting point with regard to upgrade contracts, companies going bankrupt and so called M$ 'partners' getting caught having to pay for non-existent seats. The article also is a reminder for companies laying off employees in order to survive, still having to paying for unused upgrade licences, which is clearly a bad idea.
I never knew companies were selling those upgrade contracts at a loss in hopes of getting the service and support contracts and hardware sales. I always thought being an M$ 'partner' was an invitation to being, well, 'screwed over' (oh know, the imagery of the article has crept into my brain) but I never thought is was this severe;).
This guy is basically attempting to patenting Amazon, now this should be interesting. So I gather that his patent goes beyond 'single click' purchasing, hmm Amazon in a box.
lets not forget that each successful of failed mission produces large amounts of data which you can incorporate in future missions to ensure better success rates. So China started late in the race and likely 'er' borrowed data from other countries missions.
China's biggest problem and in terms of the rest of the worlds biggest problem will be corruption and how that affect the success of their missions and the consequences of failure for the rest of us.
Militarising space is a shockingly bad idea, each and every satellite up there is already playing russian roulette with meteorites and putting weapons up there will inevitably lead to catastrophic failure.
Giving things away is a lot more satisfying. It's given you your moneys worth, you have been satisfied, give a new lease of life by giving it to someone who needs it and can't afford it. Being a greed freak scrounging for every dollar sucks and it's just plain boring, an existence of making your life and everybody around you miserable because everything you do or touch has to make your more money, more money, more money.
When I have got out of a product what I wanted and replace it, I always try to give it away unless it is worth thousands of dollars. It takes very little effort, you feel better I just don't get the idea over drooling over every cent like you life depends on it and continuously scheming to make more is just so petty.
Let's just think about that. A patient EHR electronic health record system, so no one is capable of creating a open free system with 17 billion dollars. The government is not capable of putting to tender the creation of an open source system where the vendor or vendors have to surrender copyright as part of a lump sum payment for that system. So instead they are committing to a closed source, data locked up, per seat, perpetual licence fee upgrade cost.
All with no public review of patient confidentiality and security requirements, no review of data ownership, no review of abuse of data and no review of data longevity and accessibility. So the new administration comes up with a sound investment for the future which is immediately squandered away by existing crony government managers from the previous administration feeding their corporate sponsors profit margins.
The current administration will really have to sharpen up and focus on the fact, the existing cronies from the previous administration know they are on borrowed time and will cheat at every opportunity to pick up those 'purchasing' commissions and future cushy job placements. GE is already bragging about getting most of the money and they are a suck PR=B$ firm, so locked up in bullshit that they own even mass media companies, news at a profit fro GE and bugger the public interest.
They like a bunch of other corporations are all pushing for don't save the mortgagees, if they can't pay kick them out. The reason why, they want you and your family out of your house and on the street, so they can buy your ex-home at 20 cents and the dollar and then rent it back to you based upon it's original value and then ultimately sell it back to you at 10 times what they paid for it. Greed at it's finest. The corporate sponsors of the, oh my, Rush Limbaugh party, basically want to buy up America at fire sale prices, the more of you they can evict the more money they make.
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Now consider the nature of the company, that one that attempts to sell the digital commute to everybody else, work from home and broadband into the office. Now for the reality, they can't make the digital commute work for them and demand that tax payers pick up the bill for their failure, whilst they blithely attempt to market the digital commute to everybody else, what was that about eating your own dog food.
States funding companies is all about corporate blackmail, not what is good for the community. Corporation routinely play off one state against the other and call that blackmail and the defrauding of other tax payers in the state, fair competition. All tax laws, all state funded benefits, all state funded infrastructure should be provided to each upon a fair basis, and upon their need not their greed. This funding of a bridge serving one company is reducing the companies costs and inflating their profit margin, it essentially amounts to a free gift of cash straight to M$ shareholders from around the world.
The admin might as well start looking for a new job, the small ISP is bound to build up a lot of resentment in that small customer base and eventually a competitor will enter that market and they will lose all their customers.
What this does point out though is exactly how the deliberate oversell occurs, how the ISP lies to the customer about what they are buying, and then leaves the customer with a degraded service for as long as they can get away with it.
That is totally correct the blimps have absolutely nothing to do with monitoring so called enemy territory but everything to do with monitoring 'enemy' domestic populations or subjugated countries. This is the panopticon http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panopticon taken from behind prison walls, and put out into all public spaces and private space, welcome to prison planet.
The dirigible will obviously sport a full range of optical and infra-red sensors, spy video captured 24/7. Truly dangerous stuff, they will know when you lack an effective alibi and with a quick bit of digital editing be able to place you at the scene of any crime. You want to access the data to protect yourself, forget about it, it will be protected by nationally security concerns, they want to use it against you, not a problem you are a threat to national security.
So now new technology, just the general public's willingness to accept a perverted use of existing old technology.
The reality is though that facebook is not about your or anybody else's life, it is a fabricated digital facade, a impression you wish to create of yourself to be viewed by others be they strangers or friends. The lawyers fishing expedition was not even about catching real fish, it was all about trying to catch phantom illusory fish and then hoping to present that illusion as real.
So a real warning to people who naively surrender their privacy, about how that information can be misused and twisted out of shape to present in what ever light people can use to their advantage. So face book, myspace et al, a really bad idea unless you simply want to put up a completely non personal digital illusion of yourself and present yourself in the best possible light. New online business prospect, the creation and maintenance of PR=B$ on line profiles, you too can now be like the rich and greedy pseudo celebrities, where publicists create an illusion to hide the venal self serving worthless reality.
Do you also know that you can also use that illusory personal profile in court cases to your advantage, as long as it is suitable and carefully prepared over an extended period.
What pass, until the previous lot are in prison it will never be over and, should this lot prove just as bad, they can join the others behind bars. What is interesting is I never mentioned any names, so it would appear that you acknowledge who the criminals are, justice demands prosecution for those crimes and true justice never rests, never gives a free pass because it is to politically inconvenient and, certainly never pretends it didn't happen.
You don't do that because you just end up looking lame and stupid in a testosterone choked environment. When you are assigned stupid tasks you simply point out the flaw in the task and stand up for yourself or be branded weak and suffer for it, either stand your ground or you get walked all over or worse.
How should the military treat it's nerds, at arms length as civilian employees of the military. The last thing you want is your low IQ cannon fodder regardless of rank driving out your intellectual talent, the two are mutually exclusive. The same idiot stuff carries over from high school to the military where the none to bright jock straps target those that make them feel intellectually inadequate, a bit of sweat and you can catch up to them in the muscle department and they know no matter how hard they try they'll still be as dumb as stumps in comparison. Trying to find those few that can stand their ground physically whilst being of high intellectual value is very difficult and trying to keep them is virtually impossible (often those types of people are also anti-authoritarian). To put it bluntly unless the physically 'challenged' nerds can safely tell military jock straps to 'fuck off' when appropriate why would they join or remain to suffer abuse and of course for the tougher geeks they still need to be able tell military jock straps to 'fuck off' else you end up firing them or they also quit.
To be successful with intellectual types you need to create a team environment not an authoritarian environment, which of course is what the military needs to be in order to retain control of their low IQ cannon fodder.
I actually like to cruise down streets in differing locations on street view, get a feel for the state of the infrastructure, check out architectural differences, get a feel for city planning ie. see new and interesting places with out all the hassle or cost of actually going there.
This particular poly (doesn't deserve a cracker) is just trying to get attention, just think about it, it is public space, you can just walk, ride or drive past it. What's next, if is is blurred in street view and google maps you must also obtain a special permit to walk or drive past the structure, and if you dare to take a photo you'll prosecuted for the illegal collection of protected photons. How about if you share a boundary with those special structures, black out all your windows facing them, perhaps banished from you own yard lest you accidentally look at them and will it just be made illegal for you to own a camera because you might take a non-blurry photo.
The idea is just grand standing combined with a element stupidity.
The catch with that thinking, is the reality of the situation is that upwards of 90% of the desks just need a basic office suite to do there job, maybe that stretches in database entry as well but again OS makes very little difference when it comes to major databases apart from per seat cost, performance issues and stability.
So if they were only selling windows OS for photo shop users approximately how many seats would that be and how long before Adobe abandon M$ before M$ stabs them in the back, the front and the side, silverfish anyone ;).
Gees, get real, it will take the new administration, just the ones at the very top at least a year to replace the previous administrations crony placements, not that the next lot are guaranteed to be better but there are a whole bunch of Alaskan styled cow lovers buried through out every government department and it will take law enforcement agencies years to clear them all out excluding of course the ones that try to bail before the get busted for their past wanton criminal activity. Who can forget a for profit FDA, a EPA that was facilitating pollution not cleaning it up or the FCC that was being controlled by the corporations it was meant to be controlling.
It will takes years, possibly even decades to repair the damage done by that blatant very public corruption. The real measure of the success of the current administration will be how many prosecution for corruption they can achieve, possibly even in the thousands and that is a huge amount of investigation and prosecution to work through. You do know that is the part of the job of the administration, ensuring corrupt officials are caught and prosecuted, not covering it up, not pretending it doesn't exist, not lying about and absolutely not participating in it. So you measure failure by how long it took to catch them, not by how many they catch, catching and prosecuting is success.
That same logic extends into party politics, when those with in a party abuse the positions and get caught you publicly burn them at the stake so as to convince the public the rest of your are different and you are demonstrating your integrity by turning over the traitors to the party, doing the opposite just means they inevitably take you with them. So basically you do a phoenix, build a whole new party from the burnt ashes of the failures, elected, appointed or public figures doesn't matter, the brighter the fire, the more attention your attract and the better you end up looking, as long as you are one of the ones feeding the flames and, they are not in a position to 'out' you ;0.
Slashdot might be called news for nerds but I can assure you that there are a host of non-nerd types haunting the forum, government agents, government propagandists, marketdroids, intellectually handicapped failed jock straps all filling the forum with all sorts of rants, makes it more interesting.
Generally speaking an exchange of ideas is what /. is all about, so when you exchange, you are in fact exchanging correct ideas for faulty ideas, so obviously some posts will be wrong and upon correction people will revise their ideas and, often by creative leap feed back into the forum new ideas.
Of course when it comes to room temperature superconductivity, it should be obvious that no one has the right idea, so everyone throws in a bunch of wrong ideas think about the faults and via that creative process try to come up with the more correct ideas that will eventually lead to a solution. When it comes to the interplay of ideas, right wrong or indifferent makes little difference to nerds/geeks, playing with those ideas, formulating new creative thoughts and, of course the brain chemical rewards while lost in those thoughts are the purpose, perhaps you are missing out on those endorphin rewards that a lot of /.ers get.
Superconductivity, hmm, electron flow within in turbulent electron fields, eliminate the turbulence from the electron fields and you have smooth flow, any turbulence and you disrupt flow which increase turbulence and further disrupts flow, energy build up is released as photons to achieve equilibrium. So superconductivity is all about creating smooth electron fields to facilitate the flow of electrons and the prevention of the build up of turbulence. Micro structures, perhaps molecular toroids or channels are the most likely route to a solution, so micro channels on the inside surface of a conductive conduit would be an interesting idea to pursue, after all as long as it is super conductive you don't need very much material to provide the required conductivity.
The reality is they did indeed have criminal intent as they stole computer processing power, wear and tear of hardware, electricity and of cost data transmission which affects user upload/download caps. It really was not their right to make use of other peoples machines regardless of the use to which they were put, it really was a bad mistake and they obviously received bag legal advice. Of course in the UK the individual doesn't press charges, the government does and the victim is just a witness, so it is really up to the police as to whether they should or will pursue the illegal access and use of other peoples computer systems as well as internet accounts. The worst of it all, they did it to make money, not for free, they were all paid, they derived a fiscal reward from their theft.
Rather humerus though, a windows users points out the rather lame free games that you pay for when you buy the OS as a benefit but hey, they forget, Linux distributions all come free with an unlimited client file server. So lame window dressing for the windows OS versus thousands of dollars saved in per seat client licences.
I am still waiting for the day when M$ sales stuff stumble and point out you can get OpenOffice.org on windows to make it more competitive with Linux ;D.
It is neither civil disobedience nor a malicious act of mischief, just as background random searches to obscure your searches in not a criminal act. Succinctly you are effectively obscuring any add you choose to click on and hiding them behind random arbitrary clicks. Any interpretation, use or attempts at profiting by those clicks are googles responsibility in their contract with the seller.
Google et al are the ones invading your privacy and preparing automated psychological profiles for targeted advertising, you are attempting a reasonable defence against gross dehumanising behaviour by a corporation. Of course wont work for me, as I already block all privacy invasive google scripts as well as double click.
As for click fraud, google only cares about it if the advertisers complain and any monitoring and prevention programs are just window dressing to make the advertisers feel good about throwing their money away on entry level advertising like spamwords.
Really at the end of the day it is likely a composite of factors ie. poor junk food diet leads to a disruption of the immune system which in turn makes people more susceptible to environmental pollutants. Similar in the way that consumption of soy damages the digestive system and makes people susceptible to celiac disease, so root cause soy (it various toxic elements) leads to a gluten intolerance.
Outdoor air quality as well, consider bitumen roads. There is absolutely no monitoring of bitumen for toxic chemicals it is simply a waste product of the oil refinery process and you get what you get.
You have to remember I live in a country with an effective social welfare net. So the fear and desperation is just not there. Think of a more caring and just society. So prescription $20 odd regardless of actual price, hospital stay one copayment on the first day regardless of final duration and pay for own TV, doctor $20odd copayment per visit. So a lot of the stress, combativeness and, fear is gone. Can't imagine any more what it is like to live with that grinding fear, where a family members illness might send you broke, or you can't afford it and they must suffer, or you lose you job and you company paid health insurance, all loaded on top of the fear you feel about family members health outcome.
Carpets is a tricky one unless you are specifically talking about synthetics. After all in times past, you had rugs and, heavy drapes all struggling with efficient word burning heating systems and of course nomads spent their whole life huddled in fabric and hide tents on fabric and hide floors, all swaddled up in fabric and hide and all clustered together a rife breeding environment for pests and parasites.
Lazy parents who use the TV as a baby sitter for hours on end are also likely to be lazy when it comes to preparing healthy meals and resort to take away meals and junk food snacks. Also children that suffer from asthma are likely to prefer less arduous activities, like watching TV, in order to reduce the risk of an attack.
As for the growth in asthma, increasing levels of exotic pollutants (that generate hormonal reactions in people) plus the effects of junk food consumption during pregnancy are the most likely the culprits.
Feeding neuro stimulant so called 'flavour enhancers' to unborn children is most likely not the brightest idea in the world and maybe the future health of an unborn generation should be put ahead of the profits of junk food and chemical additive manufacturers.
I think the person is after a fully automated solution that requires no maintenance. One of those local boards where people offer service in their local area to other people, possibly a barter board or the like.
They are now learning one the internet biggest lessons, creating a web site is a relatively simple thing, keeping it running and up to date is a never ending chore and the more interactive it is, the more maintenance required.
There really are no quick easy solutions, which is of course why some many companies, pay all those professional web geeks, to maintain web sites.
No it is a gross abuse of the most basic principle of law, your are innocent until proven guilty. So some company sends through a text file with some log records and gets you account cancelled without monetary recompense. Now if you want the account reconnected because the charges are false, you must now pay for the time and effort and attempt to prove that you didn't upload those files, hmm, don't keep a digitally recorded log of all your internet activities, well tough luck.
Did anyone notice that subtle shift from uploading content to accusations of downloading content and exactly what are the penalties for false accusations. So how much can the end user get back from the ISP and from the copyright claimant when they fail to prove your guilt, not when you fail to prove your innocence.
Well just to be fair, I used a little search box on the site, so all the way back to 2007, this terrible non-M$ evangelist, wrote 5, yes 5 articles that mention the word Linux. So it sounds more like someone caught up in the bankruptcies, who used to sell M$ licences, whose job is possibly at risk, venting their spleen in a rather humorous and definitely exaggerated fashion.
He really did highlight a interesting point with regard to upgrade contracts, companies going bankrupt and so called M$ 'partners' getting caught having to pay for non-existent seats. The article also is a reminder for companies laying off employees in order to survive, still having to paying for unused upgrade licences, which is clearly a bad idea.
I never knew companies were selling those upgrade contracts at a loss in hopes of getting the service and support contracts and hardware sales. I always thought being an M$ 'partner' was an invitation to being, well, 'screwed over' (oh know, the imagery of the article has crept into my brain) but I never thought is was this severe ;).
This guy is basically attempting to patenting Amazon, now this should be interesting. So I gather that his patent goes beyond 'single click' purchasing, hmm Amazon in a box.
lets not forget that each successful of failed mission produces large amounts of data which you can incorporate in future missions to ensure better success rates. So China started late in the race and likely 'er' borrowed data from other countries missions.
China's biggest problem and in terms of the rest of the worlds biggest problem will be corruption and how that affect the success of their missions and the consequences of failure for the rest of us.
Militarising space is a shockingly bad idea, each and every satellite up there is already playing russian roulette with meteorites and putting weapons up there will inevitably lead to catastrophic failure.
Giving things away is a lot more satisfying. It's given you your moneys worth, you have been satisfied, give a new lease of life by giving it to someone who needs it and can't afford it. Being a greed freak scrounging for every dollar sucks and it's just plain boring, an existence of making your life and everybody around you miserable because everything you do or touch has to make your more money, more money, more money.
When I have got out of a product what I wanted and replace it, I always try to give it away unless it is worth thousands of dollars. It takes very little effort, you feel better I just don't get the idea over drooling over every cent like you life depends on it and continuously scheming to make more is just so petty.
Let's just think about that. A patient EHR electronic health record system, so no one is capable of creating a open free system with 17 billion dollars. The government is not capable of putting to tender the creation of an open source system where the vendor or vendors have to surrender copyright as part of a lump sum payment for that system. So instead they are committing to a closed source, data locked up, per seat, perpetual licence fee upgrade cost.
All with no public review of patient confidentiality and security requirements, no review of data ownership, no review of abuse of data and no review of data longevity and accessibility. So the new administration comes up with a sound investment for the future which is immediately squandered away by existing crony government managers from the previous administration feeding their corporate sponsors profit margins.
The current administration will really have to sharpen up and focus on the fact, the existing cronies from the previous administration know they are on borrowed time and will cheat at every opportunity to pick up those 'purchasing' commissions and future cushy job placements. GE is already bragging about getting most of the money and they are a suck PR=B$ firm, so locked up in bullshit that they own even mass media companies, news at a profit fro GE and bugger the public interest.
They like a bunch of other corporations are all pushing for don't save the mortgagees, if they can't pay kick them out. The reason why, they want you and your family out of your house and on the street, so they can buy your ex-home at 20 cents and the dollar and then rent it back to you based upon it's original value and then ultimately sell it back to you at 10 times what they paid for it. Greed at it's finest. The corporate sponsors of the, oh my, Rush Limbaugh party, basically want to buy up America at fire sale prices, the more of you they can evict the more money they make.