More likely creative people spend a lot of time on line and pilfer stuff from all over the internet, ideas, content, cartoons what ever. Whether it be blogs, web sites or forums like/., I am sure a lot of other peoples work goes on to feed the pigopolists for free.
Not the most of those people aren't quite happy to share their ideas and content with other people, that just baulk at the idea of sharing 'er' being exploited by greedy ass hat corporations (we reserve the right to steal your stuff and sell it back to you).
It really is so much harder. In a lot of countries voting is held on a Saturday and volunteers from all the political candidates are allowed at the polling booths to monitor the polling process. Volunteers from each of the candidates are also included in counting the polls, more than one volunteer from different candidates count each and every vote and other volunteers wander around in the background monitoring it all and in turn the whole process is supervised by paid public representatives.
So yeah, in modern real democracies ballot box stuffing is really very hard indeed, as it should be. Secret ballots are secret to protect the voter from retaliatory actions by the successful candidate. Just look at how the current US administration publicly attacked and excluded companies who supported other political parties, a clear demonstration of why it is necessary. Hell they even required that potential employees detailed which political party they registered to vote with in their employment applications, a clear and gross abuse of power.
Government is all about people, why should there be any machines in the process at all, except of course to bloat corporate profits and to allow a single easy point to corrupt the political process to yet further bloat corporate profits.
Perhaps accounts payable baulked at the total bill. In most companies if costs where spiralling out of control, I would expect accounts to halt payments until the matter could be investigated. "In one office alone, unpaid costs for wiretaps from one phone company totalled $66,000", no wonder the telecoms have been lapping up invading every bodies privacy.
One FBI office, for one telecom, for a single billing period, exactly how many tens of millions of dollars has been spent on illegal wire taps to feed the political blackmail needs of an out of control US administration.
There are tens of millions of children who exist in the first and second world who cannot afford anything but a $75 dollar laptop. Are you saying because there a starving children in the third world, that poor children in the first and second world should just STFU and prepare for a job in the food service industry, a production line or as a fawning servant.
For once and for all drop the bullshit that the OLPC is only about third world children there are plenty of children on the wrong side of the digital divide in the rest of the world and the OLPC is also about them. As for the third world, what the fuck stops you from doing both, helping them with their current problems and providing them with knowledge so they can have a future with out them.
Nothing beats corporate for profit marketing, absolutely nothing, slime as low as it can go.
I don't know if you have seen that anit-piracy add but,
You wouldn't steal a car (no, but I would copy it)
You wouldn't steal a purse (no, but I would copy it)
You wouldn't steal a cell phone (no, but I would copy it)
You wouldn't steal a movie (hmm, just let me ponder the previous examples);).
If there was technology that would let me readily copy any of the initial examples, bugger anybody that tried to stop me. Sometimes commercials can really teach you the exact opposite of what some PR git intended.
Twelve companies who desperately wish they had heard about and deployed FOSS and who a very likely to go out of their way to do that in the future. The best way to 'steal' from the members of the Bull Shit Alliance is to not buy or use any of their software.
The attitude towards cars is typical for mass media, sell cars, new better than last years cars, with power speed and handling that is illegal to use on public roads but that will make you attractive and desirable to the opposite sex and give you bigger genitals to boot;).
It is always amusing to see people, caught out commenting on technology that clearly do not understand. Media personalities once they know a little about one subject, they start to believe their own B$ PR and become an expert in every subject, well, at least in their own minds.
Personally I prefer a home server absent of some one else's DRM, when it comes to digital rights, I'd prefer my home server to be looking after and securing mine, so that particular product would not even get a look in.
Are you saying facebook ain't commercial,hmm. Although it is likely to vary from country to country, I seem to remember some strong prohibitions coming through with regard to camera phones and protect the children campaigns.
Well Nicholas project was OLPC - 'one laptop per child', to get cheap reliable notebooks in the hands of children. If a whole range of companies are now competeting to do exactly that where they were not before, has he not achieved his goal and succeeded rather than failed.
AT the end of the day, whilst the OLPC has initiated a trend a lot of hardware manufacturers are now looking to jump in on that trend and that ultimately means cheap laptops for children anyhow.
As always M$'s myopic greed is to little to late as the most competitive software combination will be Linux and openoffice.org especially on a sub $200 laptop, and that is not third world, that is first and second world.
Not that Nicholas has failed, he has initiated a design concept that will go on to fulfil a need. As for M$'s contributions, they just continue to demonstrates exactly what kind of contemptible company they really are, a company that truly reflects the personality and amoral/immoral characteristics of it's management (exploit third world children for profits).
So why aren't the school administrators punishing students for publishing pictures of minors online with out the permission of the parents/guardians of the minors, which is in fact a criminal offence an offence to which facebook is a criminal accessory.
The consumption of alcohol is normally of minor harm but as has been demonstrated the publishing of those photos has caused considerable long term harm, which the school administrators are now legally required to report to the authorities otherwise they also become accessories after the fact.
Once you stick your nose in you have to be careful that it doesn't get bitten off.
Every contributing entity to an open source project is an independent group, preferring open source is in itself a strong indication of independent thought. A core group initiates a project but should the majority of contributors not like the direction they are going they will create a new core group take the software in a new direction and the majority of contributors will transfer across, all with out much fuss or bother.
Just look at the transitions from one leading Linux distribution to another. Redhat to SuSe to Ubuntu/Kubuntu all without much bother or fuss at all, not theory but actual practice. As for security the NSA has contributed as I am sure will the GRU (Glavnoje Razvedyvatel'noje Upravlenije) or even GAB (Guojia Anquan Bu). Of course they will be doing it to provide for their own security but the end result is we all still benefit. Simultaneous to that, oddly enough, those same organisations will also be working on ways to crack windows and hack other countries computers, this they will of course not share, proprietary code in action.
What are you talking about. It will be perfect for overage kids to scare the crap out of each other at night as various monsters, zombies, spectres and a random assortment of dangerous animals and insects sized to a fifty inch screen leap out from random reflective surfaces.
Oh yeah, a really hot fad it most certainly will be;).
WTF? Your statement makes abso-fucking-lutely no sense at all. In open source there is no such thing as a third party or second party, anyone and I mean absolutely anyone, be they part of the government, employed by a corporation company or private individual that contributes to open source software is a first rate party.
That is what open source is all about, anybody can contribute their worth while efforts to it. Contribution to open source not only includes code, it also includes, auditing as well as actual innovation and even those other activities like distribution, documentation, promotion and support.
So your illogical claim of failure is in reality open source success. I will never understand why closed source proprietary zealots just don't get it, I suppose it just goes to prove greed and stupidity really do go hand in hand;).
So who stole your bananas and left you so cranky. You know what, as you post, so you are =\.
First rule of civil suit, who has the most money and the best lawyers wins. Once you have put something on creative commons you can't take it back, you have initiated what is in effect an open contract and would have to get every one on the planet to agree with the alteration of contract, however that certainly doesn't stop you from getting some greedy ass hat lawyer to take the case and bleed you dry trying to win it, or as is often the case scare off the defendant who doesn't want to pay for their own lawyer.
So will greedy cheats try it on? Release stuff on creative commons, let people use it, take it back and deny everything, and then try to gouge them for money, of course, it's the modern corporate way, pretty much copying standard patent tactics and putting them into the copyright field.
The only way to simplify things is to force people to register content for copyright approval and then it can checked for originality and proof of ownership can be provided, and so all content that is not vetted and registered is then public domain is creative commons work.
Now consider if you spent that money on dvds and created you own internal cable network. Most movies are discounting to under $10 and TV series seasons discounts to around $30. The year of cable will pay for a solid years viewing of DVD and you still have it rather than cable where you stop paying and you have nothing.
Between broadband internet and DVDs, free to air TV or let paying for repetitive add marred cable, provides me with absolutely nothing.
Next up will be a digital juke box with several terabytes of storage, ripping all those DVD's to a more compact format will take a hell of a long time.
The big catch with remaining with the lock in theory, is when people finally do get cranky enough to leave they leave in droves and only a minority will ever return. Basically the company seems to overnight go from a thriving power house to a bit of dead wood floating amongst the rest of the flotsam.
Examples of which are, alta vista, wired, info seek, excite, orkut and even more examples at http://www.disobey.com/ghostsites/mef.shtml. So will faceboook, myspace or even google join them, possibly, the power they think they have and the more arrogant and customer abusive they become with that pseudo power the sooner the end arrives.
What is it with the web, companies become successful with a business model, get greedy and try to exploit it as much as possible, and then the market moves on and they get left behind. The is hardly a successful web site left from the original players and those that are left suffered some pretty massive market share losses before management was changed over and they started to slowly recover.
With a lot of web sites it is the customer that are actually creating them not the site administrators, lose customer mind share and they soon learn how little capital value is really in them. Real success is being able to survive for fifty or more years (with a excellent reputation with your customers), not make some short term revenue, generate enormously inflated executive bonuses and bleed a whole lot of ignorant mug investors to death when the company collapses (but then I suppose that is really not true for the modern corporate philosphy, silly me).
It is fact more than a search it is confiscation. The loss of the use of your computer hardware for an extended period. Do your buy a replacement upon the basis that the US government will steal it and never return it or they demand you fly back to the country to pick up the laptop at a greater cost than the laptop.
Juts another little egotistical power trip for pencil dick thugs, don't like your attitude, your appearance, your accent or your colour, and the dick heads steal your laptop and cost you a couple of thousand dollars.
So how long before the arse holes wake up about modern phones and their gigabyte storage capacity, and start stealing those to fullfill their petty power trips.
So it would seem other countries establishing their own independent domain name servers might not be that bad an idea, especially where a corrupt government administration allows corporations to establish criminally abusive business practices.
Perhaps Russia and China are on the right track, as it is obvious the US administration can not be trusted with anything that can be exploited for a profit.
Consoles are all about tacking on a licence fee for the console manufacturer. At the end of the day, PC games can always discount to the actual licence fee the console manufacturer charges, and always win the price war.
Consoles were originally about selling hardware at a price point regular PC couldn't compete with, that is their only advantage, we cheap powerful PC reach that price point consoles are a dead end. Why limit yourself to a toy when you can get full free choice with a Linux PC.
What nonsense. If it really worked it would be fitted to military aircraft first, and immediately following that every manufacturer, western, eastern, northern or southern, of shoulder fired heat seeking missiles would add in a second laser targeting system activated upon failure of the primary infra red targeting system.
All shoulder fired heat seeking missiles require high tech manufacture from recognised industrialised countries no back yard terrorist ever, ever makes any. The whole thing is just B$ designed to feed money to the bloated military industrialists. The nest line of B$ will be that all commercial aircraft ntering US airspace will require it to be fitted.
Ballmer has proven to be a big mouthed dead weight, Bill might want to go but he is stuck, Ballmer would be the death of any company if he was left solely in charge and running on bull shit and ego. Vista and office2007, xbox360 (poor build engineering) really do have the ballmer mark of failure on them.
Now, is it really that different from all the others thousands of articles that claimed that which ever version of windows, fixed which ever other versions of windows bugs, performance issues, stability and missing features claimed in advertising or we are sorry we lied but SP* of windows* actually really does fix, performance, stability, bugs and missing features promised in advertising in windows version*.
Oddly enough there were even thousands of artciles that proclaimed loudly and often that the bugs, performance issues, stability missing features never even existed in windows* that the Linux penguinistas made them all up. '"It's all lies, lies I tell you, everything is just fine, vista is perfect and doesn't need any patches, the penguinistas are committing suicide by the hundreds, they will all surrender" so sez 'Comical Ballmer'.
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Not the most of those people aren't quite happy to share their ideas and content with other people, that just baulk at the idea of sharing 'er' being exploited by greedy ass hat corporations (we reserve the right to steal your stuff and sell it back to you).
So yeah, in modern real democracies ballot box stuffing is really very hard indeed, as it should be. Secret ballots are secret to protect the voter from retaliatory actions by the successful candidate. Just look at how the current US administration publicly attacked and excluded companies who supported other political parties, a clear demonstration of why it is necessary. Hell they even required that potential employees detailed which political party they registered to vote with in their employment applications, a clear and gross abuse of power.
Government is all about people, why should there be any machines in the process at all, except of course to bloat corporate profits and to allow a single easy point to corrupt the political process to yet further bloat corporate profits.
One FBI office, for one telecom, for a single billing period, exactly how many tens of millions of dollars has been spent on illegal wire taps to feed the political blackmail needs of an out of control US administration.
For once and for all drop the bullshit that the OLPC is only about third world children there are plenty of children on the wrong side of the digital divide in the rest of the world and the OLPC is also about them. As for the third world, what the fuck stops you from doing both, helping them with their current problems and providing them with knowledge so they can have a future with out them.
Nothing beats corporate for profit marketing, absolutely nothing, slime as low as it can go.
You wouldn't steal a car (no, but I would copy it)
You wouldn't steal a purse (no, but I would copy it)
You wouldn't steal a cell phone (no, but I would copy it)
You wouldn't steal a movie (hmm, just let me ponder the previous examples) ;).
If there was technology that would let me readily copy any of the initial examples, bugger anybody that tried to stop me. Sometimes commercials can really teach you the exact opposite of what some PR git intended.
Twelve companies who desperately wish they had heard about and deployed FOSS and who a very likely to go out of their way to do that in the future. The best way to 'steal' from the members of the Bull Shit Alliance is to not buy or use any of their software.
It is always amusing to see people, caught out commenting on technology that clearly do not understand. Media personalities once they know a little about one subject, they start to believe their own B$ PR and become an expert in every subject, well, at least in their own minds.
Personally I prefer a home server absent of some one else's DRM, when it comes to digital rights, I'd prefer my home server to be looking after and securing mine, so that particular product would not even get a look in.
Are you saying facebook ain't commercial,hmm. Although it is likely to vary from country to country, I seem to remember some strong prohibitions coming through with regard to camera phones and protect the children campaigns.
Well Nicholas project was OLPC - 'one laptop per child', to get cheap reliable notebooks in the hands of children. If a whole range of companies are now competeting to do exactly that where they were not before, has he not achieved his goal and succeeded rather than failed.
No, this one is better, http://www.peakhillindustries.com.au/SheepHandling/peakplunge.htm, just ensure the fluid will wet all fuses so they can not ignite and short out any illegal electronic devices and oddly enough rather appropriate to the application ;).
As always M$'s myopic greed is to little to late as the most competitive software combination will be Linux and openoffice.org especially on a sub $200 laptop, and that is not third world, that is first and second world.
Not that Nicholas has failed, he has initiated a design concept that will go on to fulfil a need. As for M$'s contributions, they just continue to demonstrates exactly what kind of contemptible company they really are, a company that truly reflects the personality and amoral/immoral characteristics of it's management (exploit third world children for profits).
The consumption of alcohol is normally of minor harm but as has been demonstrated the publishing of those photos has caused considerable long term harm, which the school administrators are now legally required to report to the authorities otherwise they also become accessories after the fact.
Once you stick your nose in you have to be careful that it doesn't get bitten off.
Just look at the transitions from one leading Linux distribution to another. Redhat to SuSe to Ubuntu/Kubuntu all without much bother or fuss at all, not theory but actual practice. As for security the NSA has contributed as I am sure will the GRU (Glavnoje Razvedyvatel'noje Upravlenije) or even GAB (Guojia Anquan Bu). Of course they will be doing it to provide for their own security but the end result is we all still benefit. Simultaneous to that, oddly enough, those same organisations will also be working on ways to crack windows and hack other countries computers, this they will of course not share, proprietary code in action.
Oh yeah, a really hot fad it most certainly will be ;).
That is what open source is all about, anybody can contribute their worth while efforts to it. Contribution to open source not only includes code, it also includes, auditing as well as actual innovation and even those other activities like distribution, documentation, promotion and support.
So your illogical claim of failure is in reality open source success. I will never understand why closed source proprietary zealots just don't get it, I suppose it just goes to prove greed and stupidity really do go hand in hand ;).
First rule of civil suit, who has the most money and the best lawyers wins. Once you have put something on creative commons you can't take it back, you have initiated what is in effect an open contract and would have to get every one on the planet to agree with the alteration of contract, however that certainly doesn't stop you from getting some greedy ass hat lawyer to take the case and bleed you dry trying to win it, or as is often the case scare off the defendant who doesn't want to pay for their own lawyer.
So will greedy cheats try it on? Release stuff on creative commons, let people use it, take it back and deny everything, and then try to gouge them for money, of course, it's the modern corporate way, pretty much copying standard patent tactics and putting them into the copyright field.
The only way to simplify things is to force people to register content for copyright approval and then it can checked for originality and proof of ownership can be provided, and so all content that is not vetted and registered is then public domain is creative commons work.
Between broadband internet and DVDs, free to air TV or let paying for repetitive add marred cable, provides me with absolutely nothing.
Next up will be a digital juke box with several terabytes of storage, ripping all those DVD's to a more compact format will take a hell of a long time.
Examples of which are, alta vista, wired, info seek, excite, orkut and even more examples at http://www.disobey.com/ghostsites/mef.shtml. So will faceboook, myspace or even google join them, possibly, the power they think they have and the more arrogant and customer abusive they become with that pseudo power the sooner the end arrives.
What is it with the web, companies become successful with a business model, get greedy and try to exploit it as much as possible, and then the market moves on and they get left behind. The is hardly a successful web site left from the original players and those that are left suffered some pretty massive market share losses before management was changed over and they started to slowly recover.
With a lot of web sites it is the customer that are actually creating them not the site administrators, lose customer mind share and they soon learn how little capital value is really in them. Real success is being able to survive for fifty or more years (with a excellent reputation with your customers), not make some short term revenue, generate enormously inflated executive bonuses and bleed a whole lot of ignorant mug investors to death when the company collapses (but then I suppose that is really not true for the modern corporate philosphy, silly me).
Juts another little egotistical power trip for pencil dick thugs, don't like your attitude, your appearance, your accent or your colour, and the dick heads steal your laptop and cost you a couple of thousand dollars.
So how long before the arse holes wake up about modern phones and their gigabyte storage capacity, and start stealing those to fullfill their petty power trips.
Perhaps Russia and China are on the right track, as it is obvious the US administration can not be trusted with anything that can be exploited for a profit.
Consoles were originally about selling hardware at a price point regular PC couldn't compete with, that is their only advantage, we cheap powerful PC reach that price point consoles are a dead end. Why limit yourself to a toy when you can get full free choice with a Linux PC.
All shoulder fired heat seeking missiles require high tech manufacture from recognised industrialised countries no back yard terrorist ever, ever makes any. The whole thing is just B$ designed to feed money to the bloated military industrialists. The nest line of B$ will be that all commercial aircraft ntering US airspace will require it to be fitted.
Ballmer has proven to be a big mouthed dead weight, Bill might want to go but he is stuck, Ballmer would be the death of any company if he was left solely in charge and running on bull shit and ego. Vista and office2007, xbox360 (poor build engineering) really do have the ballmer mark of failure on them.
Oddly enough there were even thousands of artciles that proclaimed loudly and often that the bugs, performance issues, stability missing features never even existed in windows* that the Linux penguinistas made them all up. '"It's all lies, lies I tell you, everything is just fine, vista is perfect and doesn't need any patches, the penguinistas are committing suicide by the hundreds, they will all surrender" so sez 'Comical Ballmer'.