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  1. Re:Commercialization is the key. on The Next Fifty Years In Space · · Score: 1, Troll
    That is what it actually boils down to, solve the whole gravity thing and then there will actually be a space age, with out tackling gravity we can only tinker about the edges. Private will not achieve more than government, it never has, it just spends lots of money advertising claims that it has, so it can suck up all the public funds it can get hold of. The current example of growing failures and corrupting everything that was handed over to private intrests only point to the reason why the public elected the government to look after those things in the first place.

    So that whole tricky gravity drive thing is what needs to be the focus, shifting tons of cargo into space and not tons of fuel, after all, rockets are really, really, primitive technology.

  2. Re:Oddly enough... on States and DoJ Divided On Microsoft Antitrust Success · · Score: 5, Interesting
    OK. Lets add blatant lying about xbox fault rates, and defective design in order to extend their monopoly. Then just a few weeks ago paying off one of the studios to drop blu-ray. Then there are all the WGA lies about it working in the face of continual failures. Then the advertising about performance and stability of vista just a few weeks before they supply a performance and stability service pack. Add to that cheating on their taxes by off shoring patent royalties. Lets see, there are the crazy claims that M$ can use GPLv3 code with out being bound by GPLv3. Also there was the mother of all adware patents that uses "context data" from your hard drive to show you advertisements and "apportion and credit advertising revenue" to ad suppliers in real time. There was also that whole blatant blue jay patent theft thing.

    Yeah, I know that's not a full year, in fact I got sick of searching /. just back to july, if you want to find the rest of the disgusting B$ behaviour coming out of redmond for the nine months prior to that look for yourself ;).

  3. Re:Zoom on WGA Meltdown Blamed On Human Error · · Score: 1

    No it is true because it is true (they pointed out uses of blogs for advertising, they actually got caught sending out letters and I said if you wanted proof ask /.),besides why waste your stated hatred on M$, contempt certainly, dislike possibly, but they are hardly worth any genuine emotional effort, they are just empty deceitful liars with a proven and self admitted track record for being so and if you want proof of that you can search the /. postings yourself there are numerous occasions when they have been caught out.

  4. Re:OOXML has failed, but it isn't over. on If This Was a Month Ago, OOXML Would Be Over · · Score: 1

    As a geek with out boundaries I see blaming any nationality for the greed of a minority or the behaviour of multinational corporation who just happen to be located with in the countries boundaries as wrong, there are many good and kind Americans, it is just currently there voice is not heard above the the screams of the mindlessly greedy and the blind to reality Christian fundamentalists, the good and the honourable are just going to have to get angry and loud if they want to reclaim their country.

  5. Re:Agence France Presse should know that on Google News to Host Wire Service Stories · · Score: 1

    Well this will certainly please google's Chinese government masters no end, not only will google be able to censor searches to troublesome freedom and democracy news articles, they will now be able to directly censor the news items themselves, either via deft electronic automated editing based upon key words and contextual word sentence structures (go ahead google patent it) or just deleting the articles all together.

  6. Re:"What could this be? Google Desktop for Linux?" on New Google Apps For Linux Coming · · Score: 1
    It is nice that the google engineering people do good work, although I am particularly pissed off with the hack for http://www.customizegoogle.com/ so that the results that people wanted filtered out still suck up space but are greyed out, really arrogant, fuck the customer stuff.

    Perhaps if some of the more morally inclined google staff would attempt to get their honesty and integrity spread through the rest of the organisation especially the marketing team and management we end user might be better off. Fixed the customize google tool I just use to block google analytics now but I unloaded google search from the firefox search bar as well as deleting every other bit of google software.

  7. Re:questions, assumptions on Chinese Military Hacked Into Pentagon · · Score: 1
    Technically you can still do tricky stuff with wireless or even with the power supply. Just because a power is a power supply it does not mean it can not also be fitted out to send data back up the power cable, hmm, didn't think of that one did you. Besides China is tapped into the data by greed route and prefers sneaker net when it comes to pilfering data.

    This would simply be poking the US to see what happens, to see how lame they have become, push and push a little bit more. When it comes to hacking the network, China is much more interested in inserting controlled hardware that will simply die and crippling the western economy during any conflict by targeting infrastructure computers (transport bookings, traffic computers, law enforcement) and business computers.

    Feeding false information in the network would also be of benefit i.e. making honest citizens look like terrorists and simply overloading law enforcement with thousands of false leads that they have to follow up.

  8. Re:sortware or harware on Bulletproof Tool For Golden Age Browsing? · · Score: 1
    For greater security, you can boot only from cd and just use the hdisk data storage or even usb key for take away data storage, that way you get a clean reboot on every startup. Currently Ubuntu seems to provide the best boot from cdrom version.

    There is also this device http://www.linutop.com/ never used it or heard much about it but it certainly seems interesting.

  9. Re:What's that sound? on Iowa Antitrust Case Costs Microsoft $255M · · Score: 1
    I think you will find M$ has already raised the prices as high as they can with out killing demand. What strange land do you come from, surely not fantasy marketing land. Prices are set by supply and demand, companies will charge the maximum price they can with so long as they do not cripple demand and reduce revenue.

    Companies especially companies like M$ do not and never will set prices based upon generosity.

    So every cost, every civil suit, every legal punishment, we can stick M$ with, hurts their profits, and does not effect our costs one iota. So the more anti-M$ class action law suits the better, regardless of the cost to M$, as long as it starts to curb their customer abusive behaviour.

    Their WGA failures are well and truly deserving of a multi-million dollar class action law suit, with continuing penalties for every failure.

  10. Re:Zoom on WGA Meltdown Blamed On Human Error · · Score: 1
    Well lets make it easy for you, just ask the /. team to provide you with the IP records for postings during M$ working hours that are from IPs held by M$. If a paid M$ employee posts pro M$ comments during working hours with out declaring they are a M$ employee, then M$ are paying them to secretly post comments on /..

    The only other thing to track would be all the advertising agencies that M$ are known to deal with and their IP addresses. Now of course when can't forget the paid pro M$ blogvertisers and their IP addresses (I suppose you'll want proof of collusion on that as well).

    So nobody will get their non-existent private investigatory team to establish legal proof of typical M$=B$ marketing (it would be illegal to attempt to do so, invasion of privacy as you well know), but the reality is, people on the whole really don't run around barracking for a corporation unless they have some vested interest in doing so, people will of course support other customers freely and willingly because of course as customers it is in their own interest to do so. So yeah, all the anti-customer pro-company posts stand out for the marketing B$ that they are, and there just are an awful lot of M$=B$ versions of those posts on every major forum.

  11. Re:your analysis is incomplete and wrong on California Blocks RFID Implants In Workers · · Score: 1
    The reality behind the security argument of course points to the real reason for the rfid tag. To be able to locate the employee and track their location with in the working environment at all times. How long they spend in the toilet, who they meet with on the way their, how long they spend marking a cup of coffee, who is in the coffee room with them while they are making it, as well as of course when they leave and enter the premises. Next step of course the government will want to be able to gain access to the rfid via secret warrant to track the individual as well as any other individuals who a similarly tagged that meet with that individual.

    Of course I don't think it should be illegal to make these tags compulsory, I think should be made illegal to implant these tags in human beings for any reason at all. The whole idea is just wildly offensive, it is like they are claiming ownership of you 24/7.

  12. Re:OOXML has failed, but it isn't over. on If This Was a Month Ago, OOXML Would Be Over · · Score: 4, Insightful
    The problem with that of course is M$ seeming willingness to corrupt the ISO standard process to get it approved. It makes it appear that M$ is in fact corrupt to the core, all the lies, false advertising, defective products, political lobbying, are just M$'s basic nature. They have a complete disregard for the cost and harm they create and are only concerned with their own profits and ego.

    The whole thing should simply be tossed out as it is clear that M$ never intended to and never will produce a workable open standard, for them it is just a cynically corrupt exercise in marketing. Governments should really be taking a long hard look at this type of behaviour and regardless of the temporary inconvenience exclude them from government contracts for at least 10 years.

  13. Re:John 8:7 on Will the Pope Declare Google Evil? · · Score: 1
    In this case it is not only corporations that are exploiting tax havens, there are also likely large numbers of rich and greedy self serving ass hats involved in tax havens as well. Surely the governments of these tax havens needs to be targeted, they a profiting at every body else's expense, they are living off other countries taxes by giving a discount, they are wilfully and with malicious intent stealing from the public coffers of other countries and from those countries citizens.

    It really does show the inherent corruption of the WTO and all the other global organisations that only serve the rich and greedy and promote this kind of criminal behaviour. Tax havens should be outed and specifically targeted with massive, crippling tariffs and even complete trade embargoes.

  14. Re:Pay attention to the missiles, not the propelle on Virtual Earth Exposes Nuclear Sub's Secret · · Score: 2, Insightful
    It really is all rather pointless, you only need sufficient weapons to be able to guarantee that you will take out the opposing countries leadership and to be able to convince them of that fact, the rest is just the military industrial power and profit complex out of control.

    Still, quite a demanding exercise to be able to convince the opposing leadership that they will be specifically targeted, and that they will be successfully eliminated within the first few hours of any conflict. When it comes to autocrats the reality is that if they believe they will definitely be killed, they will comply, as long as they believe they will continue to survive with their power over their own populace largely intact.

    Democracies are a little bit trickier because the power is more widely distributed, and a lot of the players involved have no qualms about stabbing each other in the back ie. quite content for the majority of the leadership to get eliminated as long as they survive and can gain power. So technically autocrats require more weapons than democracies, as the autocrats need to target the population as a whole, whilst democracies only need to target the autocrats (the autocrats will target their own internal back stabbers with a vengeance).

  15. Re:"What could this be? Google Desktop for Linux?" on New Google Apps For Linux Coming · · Score: 2, Insightful
    Google only really makes minimal commitments to open source, really only sufficient for marketing purposes or to save itself money on licence fees. The only times you want to get into producing your own Linux distribution, is when you want to get into the service and support market upon a national or international basis (demonstrates expertise), you have a sufficient number of desktops to warrant your own corporate/government distribution (tens of thousands), high performance - high security - high stability i.e.. everything stripped out you do not need for your application.

    So google might build a special distribution for it's data centre but it's desktops would be a default popular install i.e. Ubuntu as well as a few other desktops for a depth of knowledge and trialling.

    Google is first and foremost a marketing company, a company that advertises itself as one of it's main priorities, any public action it's takes will be adjusted to promote a cool, friendly, feel good, image, of course anything done in private (subject to employee leaks) will be purely profit based, all rather smarmy. There is no marketing value in google creating it's own Linux desktop (if it creates a privacy invasive version to generate profits it would simply get caught and suffer the consequences), whilst there is marketing value in creating applications to run properly on Linux, google doesn't want invest the money(it still wants the free marketing of course), and definitely not contribute to open source versions, especially when the applications have a distinct element of prying into the users private life for 'marketing' purposes.

  16. Re:Cool hobby! on Google Geek's Photos of the Famous · · Score: 1

    Google are a marketing company, there is nothing random about loading up the place with celebrities, or 'random' feel good google stories, ah, modern viral marketing buzz at it's most salubriousness.

  17. Re:this is the result of socialism on Wikileaks Breaks $3 Billion Corruption Story · · Score: 1
    I think you have forgotten that the paid to post losers also occasionally get mod points. So why would they bother chewing up mod points, it is all just noise, to draw attention away from the current US administration and a mass media, corporate, religionist state. The funny thing is of course, that looting can only occur in so called socialist countries (actually in reality, undemocratic autocracies, branded as what ever the hell the leadership wanted to brand it as) with the direct and willing assistance of capitalist countries and their corrupt corporate allies.

    So then which is the more corrupt, the autocratic leader pillaging his own country, or the capitalist corporate executive from a democratic country providing the money laundering service so that the pillaging can occur and who often props up the auotcratic leader even to the extent of paying for lobbyist to ensure that their own some what democratic country will support the autocrat and ensure that the autocrat remains in power.

  18. Re:What this means is that M$ is begging again. on What Vista SP1 Means To You · · Score: 1

    Here's a hint for you is it Micro Soft or is it Microsoft, if your arguing meaningless try Mcdonalds, /. is a lot more than just computers and M$, and you didn't even try for M$=B$.

  19. Re:Congressional Hearings on DOJ Still Looks To Have Suit Against Verizon Tossed · · Score: 2, Insightful
    Technically speaking, as a democracy, the security of it's citizens is the first priority of 'national security' as such, ensuring that the government and it's agencies does act in a manner that would be approved by the citizens is in the interest of the citizens and provides them with security.

    So all those acts must be made public to ensure that they actually do or would receive public approval. In hiding it's methods and it's actions, the current administration and it's political appointees know that the public would not approve of those methods used and the actions taken, and they are specially via their secretive actions are endangering the security of the citizens and in turn having a major negative impact on national security.

    So you do in fact want national security, but you want if for real, not just legal bull shit to hide unconstitutional and criminal activities as well as the corruption that allows those activities to occur. The current administration gives major concessions to telecommunication industries that actively disadvantages the majority of citizens, in turn the telecommunication companies allows and supports gross abuses of the constitution and the law to occur on it's services for purely politically motivated purposes.

  20. Re:What this means is that M$ is begging again. on What Vista SP1 Means To You · · Score: 1
    The one major problem of course is that MS is far more recognisable as http://www.msaustralia.org.au/, just as M$ is far more recognisable as microsoft, get over it already. For a start it differentiates if from the various Multiple Sclerosis Societies around the world and is aptly descriptive of M$'s behaviour, greedy is as greedy does (and I use MSN).

    Perhaps to make you happy M$ should sue the crap out of every charitable Multiple Sclerosis Society around the world so that M$ can take over the MS logo.

    Back to support pack 1 for vista getting people to willingly swap from stale piss to vista, perhaps vista support pack one is just stale piss(see I'm avoiding abbreviations) with the (FU)DRM removed and rebranded ;).

    People will only take M$'s post as seriously or more specifically as genuinely as M$ does about marketing the quality of the products it produces, or marketing about hiding product failures, or marketing about denying product faults, or marketing about products sales and those products being 'Sold Out' or, etc. etc. in fact it would be easier just to write M$=B$ and everybody knows what it means.

    So M$ is mocked and treated with contempt because that is the way that M$ treats their competitors and their customers.

  21. Re:Wrong conclusion on Survey Shows More Women Blogging Than Men · · Score: 1

    The thing to bear in mind is some people consider a mypace page to be a blog, so it really depends on what they interpret as being a blog.

  22. Re:We all saw it coming. on Record Company Collusion a Defense to RIAA Case? · · Score: 1
    I see you miss the whole point, the artist is an mass marketed image, they do not really exist as a person, well at least the person they portray does not really exist. So you are forcing the mass marketed image to respond, forcing the mass marketed image that sells product to actually have an opinion or at the very least pretend to have an opinion.

    Now of course the only opinion as a rebel they can have is that it sucks and they will stop their music being used that way, else their mass marketed rebel facade collapse and exposes the self serving greed and bloated ego and the publishers can't have that, else who would want to buy their craptastic product.

    So your bit of mass marketing illusion is just that, an illusion, image the poor drunken, drugged up, multi millionaire, musician living in their palatial mansion is just a poor slave, oh the humanity, the suffer like soldiers risking their lives in the blood of their comrades, in the terror of combat, gees, blow me.

  23. Re:We all saw it coming. on Record Company Collusion a Defense to RIAA Case? · · Score: 5, Insightful
    The be more realistic they are attempting to hide behind the RIAA, so all the negative public reaction is directed at the RIAA and it's lawyers, rather than the music publisher and the artists in question who are allowing the work to be used to target those least able to defend themselves.

    Perhaps an alternate track(sic) might be to high light the publisher involved in each civil suit as well as the greedy self serving worthless artists whose content is being cited for those civil cases.

    Should not an effort be made to pursue those artists to see how they feel about their music being used to terrorise children and bankrupt their parents, I wonder what share do the so called artists get of the uncontested civil suits ;).

  24. Re:Sounds a bit too smooth on FBI's Unknown Eavesdropping Network · · Score: 1
    Well in this case it is a system doomed to self destruction. Whilst you can be sure every effort was made to enable continual monitoring of any one at any time, you can be sure that significant investment was not made to ensure, that the system itself could not be hacked. From un-authorised individuals gaining access to the network, to supplanting false information into the network, you can bet there were some real major failures in those areas.

    Now of course for the self destruct part, consider the privacy of politicians and their families (future hereditary politicians) they now have virtually no control over who will be monitoring and recording their and their families private communications for future posterity and of course control and manipulation. The one thing about 'the rich and the greedy' corruption of the political system is it requires a lot of communication down through the channels, it's really rather funny, they always believe it will target the poor (who in reality have very little to communicate) rather than themselves (who communicate a lot, have enormous amounts to lose, and a truly worthwhile targets for various forms of coercion).

    Much like 'shoot them in the face Dick Cheney's' "Blocking Property of Certain Persons Who Threaten Stabilization Efforts in Iraq,", typical of the ignorance of the current US administration, this legislation targets friends as well as imaginary foes. Consider, if you blow up a tuck load of US supplies in Iraq you are committing a terrorist act, just like stealing the truck and it's supplies also is "undermining efforts to promote economic reconstruction and political reform in Iraq and to provide humanitarian assistance to the Iraqi people", and naturally of course billing for a truck and it's supplies with out supplying it is just like stealing it or destroying it. Letting Dick write laws is just like letting him have a loaded gun, you are definitely safer as a target rather than being a member of his gang, like his buddies the creative billing champions of Halliburton, well, at least they have substantial assets worth confiscating along with Dick's share options, I wonder how many other companies and individuals who have been bilking the same system, are also under threat of confiscation of assets under similar circumstances.

  25. Re:Much Ado About Nothing on Does Google Own Your Content? · · Score: 1
    What is also interesting, is while goggle feels it is entitled to use and change any work you make accessible to the public via their services, you however are expressly forbidden from doing the same "Except as expressly authorized by Google or other proper third party rights holders, you agree not to modify, rent, lease, loan, sell, distribute or create derivative works based on Content, Google services or Software, in whole or in part except as specifically authorized in a separate written agreement.", fair use to the nth degree for google and none for you with out first begging for permission.

    So if they use and modify your work you are not allowed to use and modify that derivative work.

    So is Gmail public or private, the googlites are always preaching that there is nor privacy in email, so are you double done for, if you create a work via a google application and then transmit it via GMail.