Now of course it wasn't all that far back into last year, where M$ took retaliatory action against a individual how outed them for failing to fix a security fault in Vista. In fact M$ make it a standard procedure to keep these faults secret and will attempt retaliate against anyone who announces a security fault.
So now they actually have the gall to say that (P)OS Vista has fewer declared faults or to quote the article 'complied the number of vulnerability disclosures and security updates", what a pack of lying, deceitful, misleading ass hats.
There not even pretending to be honest, public vulnerability disclosures and security updates, versus the number of faults that have actually been found, and have not been fixed and those people who found them have been threatened with legal and financial sanctions if they disclose them.
So reading between the lines M$ security and legal have been far more effective in preventing public disclosure of windows security vulnerabilities and their failure to fix then they have in the past.
Gravity is also dependent upon motion. If any thing ceases to move it also ceases to exist as logically it can not longer be observed or measured in any way (no further interaction is possible). The 'speed' of light is very much tied to time being a dimension rather than just a relative measure of change hence it produces a lot of aberrant calculations to justify it's existence in current physics and is a major stumbling block in the understanding gravity.
Well perhaps US colleges and students should consider a class action law suit for the malicious mendacities and slanderous accusations published by the MPAA, clearly intended to bring into to ill repute and cause permanent harm the fine reputation of US college students, as well as college staff and administration for their implied complicity in illegal and hence criminal activities.
Especially as MPAA also makes the accusation that piracy is used to fund global terrorism and organised crime, hence attempting to connect and establish a link between US college students and those activities, it appears to have worked with the US Department of Homeland (in)Security sneaking and skulking about colleges on the lookout for all those unshaven computer geeks (armpits count just like beards for all you independently thinking female computer geeks);).
Speaking of the title, note the difference in the/. submission, 'now has more than 10 million paying subscribers and the article which states that subscribership (now how exactly would you define that) has recently passed 10 million.
The difference between the two, I would guess to be all those trial accounts that were opened for free and never continued, ahh, the wonderful world of B$ corporate marketing and not trying not to fall foul of the SEC for misleading investors, of course lying to, 'er', misleading potential customers is somehow all fair and legal like.
Man, you must not be able to sleep at night. NT4 was the biggest pile of steaming dog do do. I remember the fear of applying M$ patches, the big dice roll 1-6, throw a six and the patch worked as it was meant to, throw a 1 and you had to reinstall the system. The numbers in between ranged from the patched failed to fix the bug it was meant to or after the patch ran is disabled the service it fixed and you needed another patch to get it to work again, or you have to apply the patch more than once and for some reason after the fourth of fifth try it would actually work(of course 10 minutes reboots made that one real fun), or the patch only worked if you edited the registry, reconfigured the settings, stood one one foot, whilst facing in the direction of Redmond and whistled dixie when you hit return.
I even remember support for their SBS crap line, before the ass wipes would even talk to you they demanded your credit card number and charged you and would only refund you some time in the future if it was yet another known fault. How many times that stupid (P)OS crapped out and you searched the M$ tech support site only to find that infamous line 'this is a known fault'. NT4 developed a permanent undying hatred in me for all things M$. The only thing that performed well for NT4 was the M$=B$ advertising.
Of course there is a distinct and criminal difference between selling at a discount and selling bellow cost. Sell at a discount that's fine, sell below cost and that's anti-competitive and punishable by law.
If you are going to donate, then donate, but don't donate money only on the conditions they give the money straight back to you, that sounds like some sort of weird charity tax fraud and slimy bullshit to boot.
Besides all M$ is doing is pushing additional costs onto business forcing them to retrain staff to use open source software. It is about time approximately 99.9999% of business stood up to this kind of activity and demanded that schools teach students with more cost effective software.
Why schools should favour approximately 0.0001% of companies and allow one company to define what will be used my hundreds of thousands of other companies is beyond me.
'Er' no, it is meant to be a government of the people, by the people and for the people. In europe people readily do force the government to work in and preserve their best intrests. When the government does something for the people it is the people doing something for the people, not some mysterious alien force. When the government is corrupted it is private agencies, individuals who corrupt the government so it only serves the intrests of a greedy minority.
Rampant capitalism is simply feudalism and bonded servants. In the US it has been the dismantling of the good work done at the end of the depressions, the rules the constrained the worst excesses of corporations and the rich, the social services that were put in place that stabilised and produced a healthier society, and as a result a more complacent society. It was a complacent society that allowed the damage to be done starting in the 70 and culminating in the current disaster.
You can guarantee things will get worse if you create an even more ineffective social security net, allow fewer constraints upon the greed of corporations, less tax for the rich (they should pay the most, they benefit the most), fail to ensure free trade is actually fair trade (it ain't free trade if one side can cheat by underpaying workers, with poor and dangerous working conditions, use child slave labour, and polluting the environment). Failure to turn things around will ensure a path to a more primitive Mexican economy of the previous century that the Mexicans are now endeavouring to leave behind. A vote for even more necon capitalism is a vote for 'El Presidente de la República de los USA' , a vote for someone who fights for the workers, the majority of the people, is a vote to recreate a country the respects it's own constitution and the people it is meant to respect (don't think so, check out the social security net of Mexico that's what you are aiming for).
As for turning around private campuses, haven't you realised yet, that they are in fact trying to get rid of the smart arse free thinking individualists because they are buggering up the grade averages and making to hard for the spawn of the 'rich but ugly' and the 'pretty but stupid' to gain a passing mark;).
9. The work to be copyrighted must actually further the arts and the sciences as per the constitution.
Now that one really does scare the crap out of the pigopolists. Don't play nice and we will get the christian right to decide what work should have the protection of copyright and what work should not have any protection at all.
Security and privacy have always been a struggle of the common man over autocrats. That is the history of democracy, the struggle of slaves, serfs and servants to gain control over their own lives, whilst the autocrats attempted to force servitude out of them. In order to maintain that servitude those slaves, serfs and servants had to be carefully watched and monitored , as the are inherently lazy, they are of low morals, they would steal bread off their masters table, they would dare to work together to ferment rebellion against their righteous masters rule and seek obscene things like freedom for themselves and democracy for all.
Privacy and the security of that privacy preserves the ability to share ideas with others, to discuss problems and possible solutions, so that when those individuals feel secure they can broach those ideas with the public for further discussion and not be targeted for repression before they achieve a measure of security that a caring and involved public provides. Privacy also provides an opportunity for individuals to anonymously inform the public when they do feel insecure and know there would be severe ramifications for informing the public of the truth.
Those corporations that would steal an individuals privacy and sell it for a profit are contemptible. Probing into a persons likes and dislikes, their personal preferences, analysing their personality, doing psychological break downs and associations, establishing extended family and friend associations and connections, establishing a full extended profile of a person as they mature from child hood to becoming an adult. All so they can be more effectively manipulated into liking what they are told to like, into believing what they are told to believe, and of course in hating who they are told to hate. They and their supporters are the greatest threat to freedom and democracy, as has been demonstrated by their for profit activities in autocratic countries, censoring and monitoring all freedom motivated democratic activities. I wonder for example how google audits the success of it's censorship and monitoring activities, does it count the cost dollars spent per successful prosecution of a democratically minded individual so that it can demonstrate the value of it's activities and software to autocratic governments.
Don't confuse the party with the individuals of the groups of individuals who have conspired to hijack the party. Remember you don't just vote for the party you voter for the representative who claims to believe in the parties principals. When those individuals have a history of not actually supporting the principles they claim and you voters for them don't be surprised when they betray you.
Any politician with a history of receiving money from corporations whilst claiming the retain the principles of the political party who supports them, will demonstrate exactly who they really represent once they are elected.
So look into the history of potential candidates, if they have a record that goes against the ideals they are meant to represent then don't vote for them, if however they have a history of fighting for the issues their own party is meant to support then vote for them.
Corruption is the work of individuals, they should be ruthlessly hunted down, prosecuted, tried and if found guilty, incarcerated, regardless of their position with in society. The party should be demonstrably merciless when it comes to prosecuting those politicians who have betrayed the party, that is the true statement of the values and honesty of a political party, how effectively the out and punish corrupt representatives not how they attempt to hide the abuses for fear of embarrassing the party. Incarcerated politicians are a living example of the integrity of political parties not the opposite.
Give the poor political appointees at the EPA a break their just trying to hide their name change from the Environmental Protection Authority to the Environmental Pollution Authority. It really is hard to hide when you mandate changes from protecting the environment to informing industry just how much polluting they can get away with before the public launches a class action law suit. The US EPA finding new and more profitable ways of getting away with polluting the environment.
To quote the article 'federal law that makes it illegal for hospitals to refuse treatment to patients in their emergency rooms, regardless of a person's ability to pay' so for profit hospitals well be able to vet patients ability to pay before they gain access to the emergency room or preferably while they are still in the ambulance so those 'poor' patients can be sent to a competitors hospital.
Perhaps the MedFICO (not the actual name) system will allow ambulance drivers to start collecting commissions on bringing high credit value patients to specific hospitals and dumping low credit value ones to a competitors hospital, now that is worth while 'sic' as it will allow for a reduction in cost for ambulance services.
It all might be a bit worrying though, what with privacy invasion a new kind of on commission crime might develop, a quick MedFICO quick and a perfectly healthy person walking down the street with a good MedFICO credit rating close to a commission paying hospital might have the appendages broken or a quick skull fracture by an ambulance/hospital services scout, oh well, at least they will call an ambulance and notify the hospital to expect a patient (5% commission on a patient generating $10,000.00 dollars worth of service, one a night and you would be pretty well off and be able to afford health insurance yourself;) ).
The age old choice is between dying and killing to survive, so what goes around comes around, deny people health care and those same people will end up denying you your health in order to survive.
'One power outage' (not necessarily a city wide blackout).
'Cyber intrusions into utilities' (not necessarily control systems, just typical desktops).
'Cyberattacks have been used to disrupt power equipment. (not power stations, just some remote administered generators somewhere).
'The disruption caused a power outage affecting multiple cities (a single power outage affecting two cities in what way?)
So I read that to mean, that an ISPs electrical supply and back up generators (remote administered) were attacked and people from many cities were not able to use the ISP's services, and not that remote control was gained over an unnamed power station and many large unnamed cities suffered a blackout as a result.
So, yeah, internet evil, everybody guilty, must be watched, must be probed, need more money and power(sic) now.
Unless of course they are talking about the ineptitude of the US military and their inability to manage the Iraqi electrical supply (oh yeah, that's somebody else's fault).
Stop that!, you'll confuse the evangelicals and the yarn about the lord 'blessing' rich people with lots of money for being greedy;).
Back to the article it really makes you wonder why commercial web companies choose to remain customers of M$, surely they should have learned by now, that as soon as M$ sees the opportunity to screw them over they will.
Ballmer has created an aggressive anti-customer culture at M$ that ensures this will happen time and time again, it takes real effort to earn billy goat as a name, I can't think of a more loathed person in the computer industry.
I though there was already a union for bloggers, it is called being a citizen. As for comment that blogs are the new soap box, that is completely false, as people who stand on soap boxes generally force themselves into public places and you have to visit a bloggers site.
Bloggers are just more expressive versions of regular people (excluding of course the marketdroid ass hats who are in it only for the money), either their writing is of interest and a lot of people read it or it doesn't draw much attention beyond their particular local and remote group of friends.
Blogging does represents an interesting balance between expressing your private self and maintaining a level of digital privacy, writing about a subject you are interested in rather than writing about yourself and your family. Perhaps there will be a growth in private blogs housed on localised modem, firewall, router, switch open source web/mail servers. So will people start maintaining two blogs a public and a private blog, none of which they will maintain on data mined and privacy invaded corporate marketdroid servers like blogger, live spaces etc. (eww, data mining not only the blogs, but also readers comments and even who reads the blogs and how long they stay there and how often they return).
Nowdays you also have to wonder how much effect stumbleupon is having upon blog visit statitics. I end up visiting a lot of blogs often return visits to different entries on the same blog, but never by choice, it is just a random stumble event.
More likely contextual patents based upon data mining scientific research. Also it gives them valued data to sell to three letter government agency about what particular scientists are working on and more importantly what other people are interested in that research.
Got to be careful, a passing interest in bacteriological research might land you on the extreme better safe than sorry terror watch list. Where the systematically dismantle your household in search of dangerous substances, for untidy and scruffy computer geeks a very likely possibility of guaranteeing an immediate prosecution for harbouring and supporting microbes of mass destruction.
Just another googlite publicity stunt gone wrong, likelihood that scientific researchers will trust the googlites with their data, perhaps a scientist can do research on the subject, publish it with google, and we can all search it;D.
Well actually the closer reality is you do a wikipedia search to find the answer, get a background of the subject and to find more useful links to better information.
Only then do you start doing web searches so that you can find quotes from books that you can reference that fit the answers that you've found else where but are shunned as acceptable references.
As a last resort you search the university library website and on line journals. Face it if you actually physically need to visit the university library in person and use an actual dead tree book, either your are in the wrong century or the subject you are studying is a dead as the book it is in;).
Come on people just a little bit less sucking up to the proctologists of the internet, 'google the web' is really just being a sock puppet of the marketdroids.
Now that is an utter and total lie. M$ will with out any qualms or favour break every macro in every spreadsheet in they believe it will make them money and they have already done it once. I likeed the simple little macro language that cam with every spreadsheet program, sure there were some differences but it basically followed the same logic as the spreadsheet program itself.
Then the asshats at M$ wanted to make more money selling software licences for Bills baby, VBA, so fuck all the customers using spreadsheet macros, we will force them to change to VBA by dropping support for spreadsheet macros, and buy an additional software licence if they wanted the full program and the manual, at the same time we will use our monopoly to try to force every other company to incorporate a M$ VBA macro licence in their programs as well.
So will M$ fuck over the customer, in a heart beat.
Let me see on one hand quality of life or on the other hand high revenue. On the one hand public health, social welfare and not worrying to much if the company goes broke on the other hand company goes broke, health insurance disappears and if you need expensive medical treatments your screwed. On the one hand relatively low crime statistics and a police force the respects the public and the other hand high crime with guns every where and a police force that demands respect from the public. On the one hand restrictive EPA and environmental conditions on the other hand you are a walking talking air and water purifier.
You really wont to know when you are a success, it is when you are enjoying you current lifestyle and not being a jackass chasing some fore ever out of reach carrot. The Australian dream, own your own home, have good neighbours and enjoy a healthy and happy multicultural lifestyle. The US dream get rich at somebody else's expense and then flaunt it (well to be fair it is only the dream of a rather substantial greedy minority, unfortunately they seem to be controlling the country at the moment).
Actually it is tricky in terms of an open source software company. There is first off the very hard to assemble team of open source software experts (the staff) finding those people and getting them to work together is not as easy as it sounds (just ask M$), then there is the reputation the company has achieved and the level of branding identity it has achieved in the market place, then of course there are the simply things like current revenue, past revenue history and future revenue forecasts and now add to that the growth forecasts not necessarily for that company but for that segment of the industry in which the company participates.
Now on top of all that the buying company can completely fuck up the company that have just bought in as little as one year. So for open source companies it is going to be a tricky. You could be a bit wobbly and do some damage to your purchase before you manage to get you shit together, ala Novel and SuSe or be a SCO and end up smouldering in your very own Caldera.
Let me see, so what you are saying is a family approaching the check point in full knowledge that if they fail, they will be taken aside, separated from each other, forced to take of their clothes, humiliated, have brutish thugs sexual assault them and their family (how else would you describe groping someone genitals and groping peoples rectums, and exactly what is the age limit before it can be described as paedophilia), have all their luggage examined, their clothes torn open (have to check for hidden inner layers), all their electronic equipment confiscated (cameras, music players, mobile phones, laptop computers - they can all store gigabytes of data), miss their flight, be detained for more the 24 hours, left cold, hungry, isolated and denied access to sanitary facilities and wondering what has happened to the rest of their family. Er, yeah, sure there is nothing to fear at a US airport check point.
You should not consider archival records of government as historic, they should be considered as evidentiary. A legal record of the procedures of government to ensure accountability, and in the event of dispute either provide defence from litigation or as evidence for the prosecution of criminal offences.
It is clear when an administration destroys evidence of it's actions it is doing so to hide criminal and treasonous activities.
The person who destroyed those records should be held fully accountable, and as those records could show evidence of treasonous activities so they should be charged with treason, whether or not they testify against the person in the administration who gave orders to destroy a legal record of government activity.
Then they can add a new event for the athlete that sells the most crap and generates the most advertising revenue, the bullshit marketing gold medal, 'I'm not lying, I'm acting'.
The Olympics it's not about human achievement and peaceful competition, it's about selling crappy athletic shoes and clothing made by sweat shop child labour in third world counties to couch potatoes in first world countries all with maximum first world profit margins, where way more is spent on advertising than on making the product let alone paying realistic wages.
I'm waiting for the gladiator Olympics, where 'elite'(oh my) athletes that fail don't run for their lawyers, well, er, you know, the dead just don't complain;).
Of course there are plenty of other scientists who were simply tortured and executed, so focusing on Galileo is pretty meaningless.
In terms of of logical self defence and as a stance against a history of extreme persecution it is a very sensible stance.
So unless the pope want to give a speech as a scientist based upon sound scientific principles it is more appropriate that he 'er' pontificates from any one of tens of thousands of different religious pulpits that he has access to.
You could hardly call it censorship, more like when you've already got thousands of houses to speak from so a house of science is not really an appropriate or reasonable venue unless of course you intend to speak as a scientist.
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So now they actually have the gall to say that (P)OS Vista has fewer declared faults or to quote the article 'complied the number of vulnerability disclosures and security updates", what a pack of lying, deceitful, misleading ass hats.
There not even pretending to be honest, public vulnerability disclosures and security updates, versus the number of faults that have actually been found, and have not been fixed and those people who found them have been threatened with legal and financial sanctions if they disclose them.
So reading between the lines M$ security and legal have been far more effective in preventing public disclosure of windows security vulnerabilities and their failure to fix then they have in the past.
Gravity is also dependent upon motion. If any thing ceases to move it also ceases to exist as logically it can not longer be observed or measured in any way (no further interaction is possible). The 'speed' of light is very much tied to time being a dimension rather than just a relative measure of change hence it produces a lot of aberrant calculations to justify it's existence in current physics and is a major stumbling block in the understanding gravity.
Especially as MPAA also makes the accusation that piracy is used to fund global terrorism and organised crime, hence attempting to connect and establish a link between US college students and those activities, it appears to have worked with the US Department of Homeland (in)Security sneaking and skulking about colleges on the lookout for all those unshaven computer geeks (armpits count just like beards for all you independently thinking female computer geeks) ;).
The difference between the two, I would guess to be all those trial accounts that were opened for free and never continued, ahh, the wonderful world of B$ corporate marketing and not trying not to fall foul of the SEC for misleading investors, of course lying to, 'er', misleading potential customers is somehow all fair and legal like.
I even remember support for their SBS crap line, before the ass wipes would even talk to you they demanded your credit card number and charged you and would only refund you some time in the future if it was yet another known fault. How many times that stupid (P)OS crapped out and you searched the M$ tech support site only to find that infamous line 'this is a known fault'. NT4 developed a permanent undying hatred in me for all things M$. The only thing that performed well for NT4 was the M$=B$ advertising.
If you are going to donate, then donate, but don't donate money only on the conditions they give the money straight back to you, that sounds like some sort of weird charity tax fraud and slimy bullshit to boot.
Besides all M$ is doing is pushing additional costs onto business forcing them to retrain staff to use open source software. It is about time approximately 99.9999% of business stood up to this kind of activity and demanded that schools teach students with more cost effective software.
Why schools should favour approximately 0.0001% of companies and allow one company to define what will be used my hundreds of thousands of other companies is beyond me.
Rampant capitalism is simply feudalism and bonded servants. In the US it has been the dismantling of the good work done at the end of the depressions, the rules the constrained the worst excesses of corporations and the rich, the social services that were put in place that stabilised and produced a healthier society, and as a result a more complacent society. It was a complacent society that allowed the damage to be done starting in the 70 and culminating in the current disaster.
You can guarantee things will get worse if you create an even more ineffective social security net, allow fewer constraints upon the greed of corporations, less tax for the rich (they should pay the most, they benefit the most), fail to ensure free trade is actually fair trade (it ain't free trade if one side can cheat by underpaying workers, with poor and dangerous working conditions, use child slave labour, and polluting the environment). Failure to turn things around will ensure a path to a more primitive Mexican economy of the previous century that the Mexicans are now endeavouring to leave behind. A vote for even more necon capitalism is a vote for 'El Presidente de la República de los USA' , a vote for someone who fights for the workers, the majority of the people, is a vote to recreate a country the respects it's own constitution and the people it is meant to respect (don't think so, check out the social security net of Mexico that's what you are aiming for).
As for turning around private campuses, haven't you realised yet, that they are in fact trying to get rid of the smart arse free thinking individualists because they are buggering up the grade averages and making to hard for the spawn of the 'rich but ugly' and the 'pretty but stupid' to gain a passing mark ;).
9. The work to be copyrighted must actually further the arts and the sciences as per the constitution.
Now that one really does scare the crap out of the pigopolists. Don't play nice and we will get the christian right to decide what work should have the protection of copyright and what work should not have any protection at all.
Privacy and the security of that privacy preserves the ability to share ideas with others, to discuss problems and possible solutions, so that when those individuals feel secure they can broach those ideas with the public for further discussion and not be targeted for repression before they achieve a measure of security that a caring and involved public provides. Privacy also provides an opportunity for individuals to anonymously inform the public when they do feel insecure and know there would be severe ramifications for informing the public of the truth.
Those corporations that would steal an individuals privacy and sell it for a profit are contemptible. Probing into a persons likes and dislikes, their personal preferences, analysing their personality, doing psychological break downs and associations, establishing extended family and friend associations and connections, establishing a full extended profile of a person as they mature from child hood to becoming an adult. All so they can be more effectively manipulated into liking what they are told to like, into believing what they are told to believe, and of course in hating who they are told to hate. They and their supporters are the greatest threat to freedom and democracy, as has been demonstrated by their for profit activities in autocratic countries, censoring and monitoring all freedom motivated democratic activities. I wonder for example how google audits the success of it's censorship and monitoring activities, does it count the cost dollars spent per successful prosecution of a democratically minded individual so that it can demonstrate the value of it's activities and software to autocratic governments.
Any politician with a history of receiving money from corporations whilst claiming the retain the principles of the political party who supports them, will demonstrate exactly who they really represent once they are elected.
So look into the history of potential candidates, if they have a record that goes against the ideals they are meant to represent then don't vote for them, if however they have a history of fighting for the issues their own party is meant to support then vote for them.
Corruption is the work of individuals, they should be ruthlessly hunted down, prosecuted, tried and if found guilty, incarcerated, regardless of their position with in society. The party should be demonstrably merciless when it comes to prosecuting those politicians who have betrayed the party, that is the true statement of the values and honesty of a political party, how effectively the out and punish corrupt representatives not how they attempt to hide the abuses for fear of embarrassing the party. Incarcerated politicians are a living example of the integrity of political parties not the opposite.
Give the poor political appointees at the EPA a break their just trying to hide their name change from the Environmental Protection Authority to the Environmental Pollution Authority. It really is hard to hide when you mandate changes from protecting the environment to informing industry just how much polluting they can get away with before the public launches a class action law suit. The US EPA finding new and more profitable ways of getting away with polluting the environment.
Perhaps the MedFICO (not the actual name) system will allow ambulance drivers to start collecting commissions on bringing high credit value patients to specific hospitals and dumping low credit value ones to a competitors hospital, now that is worth while 'sic' as it will allow for a reduction in cost for ambulance services.
It all might be a bit worrying though, what with privacy invasion a new kind of on commission crime might develop, a quick MedFICO quick and a perfectly healthy person walking down the street with a good MedFICO credit rating close to a commission paying hospital might have the appendages broken or a quick skull fracture by an ambulance/hospital services scout, oh well, at least they will call an ambulance and notify the hospital to expect a patient (5% commission on a patient generating $10,000.00 dollars worth of service, one a night and you would be pretty well off and be able to afford health insurance yourself ;) ).
The age old choice is between dying and killing to survive, so what goes around comes around, deny people health care and those same people will end up denying you your health in order to survive.
'One power outage' (not necessarily a city wide blackout).
'Cyber intrusions into utilities' (not necessarily control systems, just typical desktops).
'Cyberattacks have been used to disrupt power equipment. (not power stations, just some remote administered generators somewhere).
'The disruption caused a power outage affecting multiple cities (a single power outage affecting two cities in what way?)
So I read that to mean, that an ISPs electrical supply and back up generators (remote administered) were attacked and people from many cities were not able to use the ISP's services, and not that remote control was gained over an unnamed power station and many large unnamed cities suffered a blackout as a result.
So, yeah, internet evil, everybody guilty, must be watched, must be probed, need more money and power(sic) now.
Unless of course they are talking about the ineptitude of the US military and their inability to manage the Iraqi electrical supply (oh yeah, that's somebody else's fault).
Back to the article it really makes you wonder why commercial web companies choose to remain customers of M$, surely they should have learned by now, that as soon as M$ sees the opportunity to screw them over they will.
Ballmer has created an aggressive anti-customer culture at M$ that ensures this will happen time and time again, it takes real effort to earn billy goat as a name, I can't think of a more loathed person in the computer industry.
Bloggers are just more expressive versions of regular people (excluding of course the marketdroid ass hats who are in it only for the money), either their writing is of interest and a lot of people read it or it doesn't draw much attention beyond their particular local and remote group of friends.
Blogging does represents an interesting balance between expressing your private self and maintaining a level of digital privacy, writing about a subject you are interested in rather than writing about yourself and your family. Perhaps there will be a growth in private blogs housed on localised modem, firewall, router, switch open source web/mail servers. So will people start maintaining two blogs a public and a private blog, none of which they will maintain on data mined and privacy invaded corporate marketdroid servers like blogger, live spaces etc. (eww, data mining not only the blogs, but also readers comments and even who reads the blogs and how long they stay there and how often they return).
Nowdays you also have to wonder how much effect stumbleupon is having upon blog visit statitics. I end up visiting a lot of blogs often return visits to different entries on the same blog, but never by choice, it is just a random stumble event.
Got to be careful, a passing interest in bacteriological research might land you on the extreme better safe than sorry terror watch list. Where the systematically dismantle your household in search of dangerous substances, for untidy and scruffy computer geeks a very likely possibility of guaranteeing an immediate prosecution for harbouring and supporting microbes of mass destruction.
Just another googlite publicity stunt gone wrong, likelihood that scientific researchers will trust the googlites with their data, perhaps a scientist can do research on the subject, publish it with google, and we can all search it ;D.
From the article 'Some have suggested that the human alarm pheromone could lead to chemical fear-sensors' try RTFA for a change.
Only then do you start doing web searches so that you can find quotes from books that you can reference that fit the answers that you've found else where but are shunned as acceptable references.
As a last resort you search the university library website and on line journals. Face it if you actually physically need to visit the university library in person and use an actual dead tree book, either your are in the wrong century or the subject you are studying is a dead as the book it is in ;).
Come on people just a little bit less sucking up to the proctologists of the internet, 'google the web' is really just being a sock puppet of the marketdroids.
Then the asshats at M$ wanted to make more money selling software licences for Bills baby, VBA, so fuck all the customers using spreadsheet macros, we will force them to change to VBA by dropping support for spreadsheet macros, and buy an additional software licence if they wanted the full program and the manual, at the same time we will use our monopoly to try to force every other company to incorporate a M$ VBA macro licence in their programs as well.
So will M$ fuck over the customer, in a heart beat.
You really wont to know when you are a success, it is when you are enjoying you current lifestyle and not being a jackass chasing some fore ever out of reach carrot. The Australian dream, own your own home, have good neighbours and enjoy a healthy and happy multicultural lifestyle. The US dream get rich at somebody else's expense and then flaunt it (well to be fair it is only the dream of a rather substantial greedy minority, unfortunately they seem to be controlling the country at the moment).
Now on top of all that the buying company can completely fuck up the company that have just bought in as little as one year. So for open source companies it is going to be a tricky. You could be a bit wobbly and do some damage to your purchase before you manage to get you shit together, ala Novel and SuSe or be a SCO and end up smouldering in your very own Caldera.
Let me see, so what you are saying is a family approaching the check point in full knowledge that if they fail, they will be taken aside, separated from each other, forced to take of their clothes, humiliated, have brutish thugs sexual assault them and their family (how else would you describe groping someone genitals and groping peoples rectums, and exactly what is the age limit before it can be described as paedophilia), have all their luggage examined, their clothes torn open (have to check for hidden inner layers), all their electronic equipment confiscated (cameras, music players, mobile phones, laptop computers - they can all store gigabytes of data), miss their flight, be detained for more the 24 hours, left cold, hungry, isolated and denied access to sanitary facilities and wondering what has happened to the rest of their family. Er, yeah, sure there is nothing to fear at a US airport check point.
It is clear when an administration destroys evidence of it's actions it is doing so to hide criminal and treasonous activities.
The person who destroyed those records should be held fully accountable, and as those records could show evidence of treasonous activities so they should be charged with treason, whether or not they testify against the person in the administration who gave orders to destroy a legal record of government activity.
The Olympics it's not about human achievement and peaceful competition, it's about selling crappy athletic shoes and clothing made by sweat shop child labour in third world counties to couch potatoes in first world countries all with maximum first world profit margins, where way more is spent on advertising than on making the product let alone paying realistic wages.
I'm waiting for the gladiator Olympics, where 'elite'(oh my) athletes that fail don't run for their lawyers, well, er, you know, the dead just don't complain ;).
In terms of of logical self defence and as a stance against a history of extreme persecution it is a very sensible stance.
So unless the pope want to give a speech as a scientist based upon sound scientific principles it is more appropriate that he 'er' pontificates from any one of tens of thousands of different religious pulpits that he has access to.
You could hardly call it censorship, more like when you've already got thousands of houses to speak from so a house of science is not really an appropriate or reasonable venue unless of course you intend to speak as a scientist.