Steal patents and by definition you are criminal, as for evil, what is or is not evil, but deceitful, dishonest, misleading, privacy invasive, well they are just your typical modern corporation and they are most definitely no longer the exception, honesty, integrity are no longer in their vocabulary along with freedom and democracy.
Well as the machines are rigged to favour the house against the player, should not the house be sued for false advertising as they are in fact not gambling at all.
Or more likely it is just good marketing, put in a high but likely losing bid with conditions that wont be accepted but make yourself look good in the public eye. Of course the other telecoms will just want to shut it off because as it would just compete with their existing networks. The reality is google could just shut up, put in the winning bid and subsequently make it available under what ever conditions they choose, but the marketeers and just doing their typical job of marketeering.
Well based upon the legal quality of the notice you certainly would not want to hire any law students from that particular university, oh my, talk about a bunch of buffoons, a bunch of morons, a bunch of idiots - "If you are caught downloading copyrighted material" - so if you use itunes or direct to drive or any of the other plethora (that word will definitely confuse those pitiful beggars at Kansa U) of legal Internet services they will kick you off their network. Hell, all web pages are protected by copyright, so in Kansas U if you download a copyrighted web page they will kick you off their ResNet, based upon that condition you are better off with out a Kansas U ResNet account. Now if the Kansas U Resnet home page is copyrighted, does that mean they will kick you off 'forever' even before you can join (I love that 'forever' bit, literally speaking 'forever' means that will go back in time to enforce that particular condition).
The executives of M$ are stuck with Vista, they can't pull it off the shelves with our themselves being pulled from their positions, with them forecasting improved sales of XP over Vista in 2008, next year, I shudder to think of the problems they have discovered in Vista since it's release and not told anybody about but they know those problems will have a major impact in future Vista sales.
Slashdot is cross representational forum, don't blame every article or every comment on what slashdot is or is not. It is obvious that this article and a lot of the comments are driven by people with a vested interest in one particularly privacy invasive US corporation. In this case the research is very threatening to that company, as the results would be available to a wide range of companies to implement creating an enormous amount of competition and a significant drop in profitability for the current search leader.
Personally I am sick of the old corporate lie that private companies do it better. A recent example is one in Australia where the current government is cutting off funding to research projects that can not generate a profit, sounds reasonable doesn't it, oh yeah what a lie, for weed control, it cuts of funding to natural weed control, like introducing a natural predator that will only attack the target weed because of course once introduced in can not continue to be sold at a fucking profit, so they will only fund herbicide research at the tax payer expense that then gets past onto a corporation for cents in the dollar and then sold back to the taxpayer at an inflated price.
The are many areas where taxpayer funded research could permanently fix problems and eliminate forever corporate profits in those problem areas, now how do you think those greedy corporate arse holes feel about that and what steps do you think they will take to thwart those efforts and to spread their own greed based lies.
The big shift in Vista is a the starting point for the future change in the sales system for the windows OS. A change that is championed by Ballmer, a low cost OS where you pay a licence fee for all hardware, software and content that you use on it, an xbox style OS and unfortunately for M$ the toy OS is just as reliable as their toy computer.
Upgrades for Linux are of course much smoother, it's software written by users for users and all the upgrades and changes are meant to be for the benefit of users, not to drive sales, or profit margins or lock ins or monopolies.
Personally I see windows 7 as beings Linux's lucky number. As for M$ quality bar reference, it really sucks that their quality bar is a whole lot lower than what customers expect and what M$ marketing sells, from my experience when it comes to the 'quality bar' M$'s (P)OSs do a limbo far more often than they do a high jump.
Your forget the one important and driving fact of both price tags, how much of it is profit. There is obviously insufficient profit in killing off soldiers or civilians from which ever side, but there are obviously enormous profits in destroying tons of military hardware.
Now they look to be turning Iraq into a military weapons test facility, how many Iraq's will this device need to kill before they declare it a success. The US military desperately needs to sit back and realise that this is somebody else's country.
No, the end user does it for google, which as it turns out is the most integral part of any operating system. This patent is coming off as a real anti-google desktop patent, so when will M$ software start declaring google desktop spyware.
Of course with all this stupid privacy invasive rubbish, it is only a matter of time until politicians start to fear their own privacy being invaded and their secrets being leaked all over the internet, that they make all this kind of crap completely illegal.
Now all we need is for Intel to patent this same rubbish at an even lower level than the OS (way to go M$), or than MMOGs running on top of OS's (yay google), embedded in the chip set, go Intel.
Not long ago I came across this http://www.biobidet.com/BB800_PrestigeBidet.htm toilet seat that cleans your back end, perhaps those invasive buggers from google and M$ should consider wiring these things up for the internet, who knows what they can find out and what they can target next.
Problem, easy, hmm, police spyware, the magic box solution, the code can't ever be copied and used for criminal purposes, less than honest law enforcement officers would never ever sell copies of the program for other people to use, never ever.
Technically law enforcement is giving the code away free, to the very criminals we should be endeavouring to keep the code away from, all they have to do is find it and get a cracker to reverse engineer it.
A back door is a back door is a back door, when you pay for security software you pay for a complete solution, not some thing that leaks like a sieve. Security companies either declare the holes in the package or they knowingly commit fraud about the security of the software that they are providing.
Basically if the law enforcement want to poke their sticky beaks in, they need to whack in a bit of hardware and have the warrant to go along with it, software is just a bull shit lazy trap waiting to blow up in their and our faces.
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Numerous closed source projects are killed all of the time and for all sorts of reasons. For example bought out by a competitor and then just killed regardless of user base desirability and all of it's paid contributors fired on the sport all to eliminate competition, or simply die on the vine, not because of bad code or poor programmers or even a lack of users, just bloated management bleeding a company dry until it fails or killed by a company making use of monopolistic tactics.
Some utility bits of open source of course do not need a lot of maintaining and reach full maturity pretty early and only require the odd tweak for hardware compatibility, for those projects maintaining a team is difficult, logically speaking those projects get pick up and carried by another open source project that can run them as a side line.
All rather pointless, the market place calls it Linux, the market place has spoken, no gnu for you. No amount of discussion will alter every bodies basic laziness, Linux takes 3 less letters than GNU Linux including a shift key, it is what it is, although no one really minds the odd regurgitation of the same old discussion.
Back to topic, as for GPlv3 stifling Linux take up, why would it make any difference at all, the kernel is sticking with GPLv2 so that solves that. I'm sure some companies that wanted to use source code from other projects that are shifting to GPLv3 might find it a bit threatening but only if they intend to do things that the majority of code contributors do not support.
As for the article in question, it is nothing more than a lead in for the M$ add, an add I quite like but what is it trying to sell, xbox networks at work, executive leisure suites, defy all challenges - tell your supervisor to GGF and continue playing games at work ?
It does not really matter whether the public is or is not stupid, all that matters is how many minutes and hours a day any person has to peruse any kind of Internet content.
Tech forums are not getting eaten alive by blogs or forums, they are getting eaten alive by blogs and forums and media streams and by the shear volume of content now available across a whole range of web sites.
Another big development is computer tech is all becoming a bit much of a yawn, a decade or more ago the changes in computer tech were really dramatic with enormous improvements in performance and capability, nowadays it is all refinements with the only really interesting part being the OS wars and Linux development and you get most of that from slashdot, M$ and which ever distribution home site.
Plus there is enormous competition from each tech site and they are just spreading their reader base thin across a wide choice. All that you will see happen is the large portals that offer a wide range of content will start to dominate again and the old world media companies will start gaining market share as they improve and broaden their net offerings.
As for google, is just gets lot's of 10 to 15 second clicks, not to mention http://mrl.nyu.edu/~dhowe/TrackMeNot/ which further inflates meaningless clicks, search is neither hear nor there, it is really just cheap entry level marketing. Companies are still adjusting to a global market and a global audience and global choice.
The reality is there is very little stream ripping going on. Who really would bother, listen to an hour of music to rip three minutes, when it is so easy to get it else where and most often from a friend who already has the music your after.
You listen to web radio basically when you couldn't be bothered turning on a regular radio or you want to listen to a range of music that is no available via regular radio and mots importantly you are really interested in listen to any specific music your just after a musical background.
Expectations about the income web radio can deliver are just totally unrealistic and spending additional money in trying to 'secure' it is pointless. The more hassle every body has with the current media empires the quicker the independent music scene will develop and dominate.
More to the point lawyers write the laws, since when will lawyers willingly write a law that would limit their potential income, patents are extremely profitable for lawyers and oddly enough their are a lot of lawyers in the political game to ensure legal complexity about, well, everything including patents, to guarantee their future incomes and that of their descendants are more nepotistic industry does not exist.
When it is the end user's who yet again pay the real costs of M$ damage control, do you think M$ really cares, in fact M$ looks for way to charge the end users extra to fix M$'s failures.
IP lawyers must love you. As for the actual reality, the harder the work the less you get paid and that is a fact. Besides everybody knows theft is by far the most profitable 'work'.
I have heard the term 'intellectual elite', what does it really mean, is it a good thing or is is a bad thing, is it really preferable to be ignorant and ill informed. I mean are the 'intellectual elite' putting their intellect to endlessly self serving purposes like the current US administration or your typical corporate executive.
Do the 'intellectual elite' fight for and strive for an even greedier, more vindictive and culturally prejudicial society. Those nasty 'intellectual elite' who control governments for their own self serving purposes quite unlike the beneficial and kind hearted control exerted by the rich and greedy of the world.
Gees you googlites just never let up. The email ain't free you pay for it by viewing adds. Search is a competitive area any excess fudging around will quickly csause lost market share. Catch up to IBM or SUN or Canonical or Redhat or Novell (they bought and paid for SuSe's contributions) before launching into another holier than thou marketing campaign.
As for that wireless spectrum just make it publicly low power accessible, and we can mesh it out ourselves and leave price gouging AT&T (and their monopolist buddies) and privacy invasive Google (and their endless advertising compadres) right out of it. As for yet another add laden service, just go away, far far away, I sick of every man and his dog trying to turn our lives into endless moving billboards.
What next 'free' fucking pillows, patented wireless pillows, that monitor you sleep state and when you achieve REM sleep, feed you subconscious sound bites, add to that microphones for people who talk in their sleep, I'm sure there's some useful psychological marketing data you could gain from that (and you know what's really sick about that idea, it would actually be extremely effective, people would be buying all sorts of crap with out ever knowing why).
As for noticing google good work's, how could anybody miss them, they are part of google's "Feel good about them, whilst they pry into your private life, lubricant marketing campaign".
Although you are largely correct, the infinity part is obviously a wee bit of an exaggeration (70 years beyond the life of the author, although fair use provisions make protecting a single line of code, somewhat of an illusion). With open source you could no alter the licence of code you have already released under GPLv2 because of course you can not prove anybody gained your re-licensed code directly from you rather then from somebody else's source who is still distributing it under an earlier version of a GPL.
Obviously Linux must have felt some pressure to alter the GPL for all future Linux kernel contributions but of course he has made the right choice. The Linux kernel should be made a widely available for use as possible. For good or ill, it should be up to each individual, company or country to make use of the kernel as they sometimes unfortunately see fit. As long as coding improvements are continually returned to ensure the continuing refinement and improvement of the code.
Ensuring that the Linux kernel remains an effective universally applicable part of the technological infrastructure of humanity is an important part of the community effort. One could envisage an international standard for the application of the Linux kernel and GPLv2 to ensure it maintains that fully open and accessible status far into the future.
As for GPLv3, it certainly has it's beneficial features in ensuring the creative content and knowledge of humanity is available to humanity, and definitely is applicable to other open source projects, especially media players, content creation software and also for example highly applicable to any open source search software, whether net or hdisk search.
This makes you think of M$ patent wrangling with Linux, perhaps they are going to produce their own add laden, patented Linux distribution, the out and out worst Linux distribution of all time.
Likely truth is, this is their way of stealing the Google's stolen patent for invading the gaming privacy of children, for a fully psychologically profiled targeted marketing campaign, after all the xbox has an operating system.
It will be interesting to see the court battle between the two, for this patent, I'd bet good money that Google would be the one to lose that court battle, and when it comes to the discovery part of the court action, we can all sit back, as each of them attempt to out privacy invade each other. Like the snake eating it's own tail, except in this case it would be two dogs sniffing each other butts, so hard, you only end up seeing to holes and two tails.
There is also the impact of their environment. Cooking their brains with microwaves from a young age, significantly altered eating patterns with a junk chemical saturated diet, pollution within their environment, hmm, the great corporate profit driven science experiment continues.
It will be very interesting to see the results pan out over the next few decades. Being able to remember a lot of data means being able to use it when you need to use it, there are lots of industries where waiting for someone to 'look it up' means the employer turning around a looking up an alternate employee.
The funniest part about using those electronic devices, is the same people who can't remember a lot of pertinent facts, also forget to key information into the device, forget where the device is, forget what information is in the device or forget to refer to it for their reminders.
Your so thin, so venal, so pointless, society look up the word, combine it with civilization and being civil, and I do feel sorry for you, obviously you have suffered, but you should stop and think before passing on that suffering to the people around you.
Yes there are people who actually do care for me and I do live in a society that will also provide a measure of care for me, you do have my sympathy, but chances are your own avarice is largely responsible for nobody being willing to watch out for your interests.
Still better than a pointless click measurement, what value 10 to 15 seconds versus than 180 times than 45 minutes. For an advertiser the first is pointless and the second means a high likely hood the consumer will remember the product.
Google's advertising has always been about advertising google's advertising, try and think of a product that has gained a meaningful market presence from addwords, beyond 'adds served by google'.
Of course some parts of the net can be measured really easily, hint, think streams, so as far as manufacturers are concerned net radio and net video I readily quantifiable. As for other sites, average clicks per hour from an single IP can be used to indicate a retained user, as a ration against the time required to take in the content on that page, and for games, better make sure there is a means by which continued user interaction can be measured.
So yeah, things look pretty sucky for the ill conceived perception of google's net dominance, but certainly excellent viral marketing by the googlites to create that perception in the first place.
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Steal patents and by definition you are criminal, as for evil, what is or is not evil, but deceitful, dishonest, misleading, privacy invasive, well they are just your typical modern corporation and they are most definitely no longer the exception, honesty, integrity are no longer in their vocabulary along with freedom and democracy.
Well as the machines are rigged to favour the house against the player, should not the house be sued for false advertising as they are in fact not gambling at all.
Or more likely it is just good marketing, put in a high but likely losing bid with conditions that wont be accepted but make yourself look good in the public eye. Of course the other telecoms will just want to shut it off because as it would just compete with their existing networks. The reality is google could just shut up, put in the winning bid and subsequently make it available under what ever conditions they choose, but the marketeers and just doing their typical job of marketeering.
Well based upon the legal quality of the notice you certainly would not want to hire any law students from that particular university, oh my, talk about a bunch of buffoons, a bunch of morons, a bunch of idiots - "If you are caught downloading copyrighted material" - so if you use itunes or direct to drive or any of the other plethora (that word will definitely confuse those pitiful beggars at Kansa U) of legal Internet services they will kick you off their network. Hell, all web pages are protected by copyright, so in Kansas U if you download a copyrighted web page they will kick you off their ResNet, based upon that condition you are better off with out a Kansas U ResNet account. Now if the Kansas U Resnet home page is copyrighted, does that mean they will kick you off 'forever' even before you can join (I love that 'forever' bit, literally speaking 'forever' means that will go back in time to enforce that particular condition).
The executives of M$ are stuck with Vista, they can't pull it off the shelves with our themselves being pulled from their positions, with them forecasting improved sales of XP over Vista in 2008, next year, I shudder to think of the problems they have discovered in Vista since it's release and not told anybody about but they know those problems will have a major impact in future Vista sales.
Personally I am sick of the old corporate lie that private companies do it better. A recent example is one in Australia where the current government is cutting off funding to research projects that can not generate a profit, sounds reasonable doesn't it, oh yeah what a lie, for weed control, it cuts of funding to natural weed control, like introducing a natural predator that will only attack the target weed because of course once introduced in can not continue to be sold at a fucking profit, so they will only fund herbicide research at the tax payer expense that then gets past onto a corporation for cents in the dollar and then sold back to the taxpayer at an inflated price.
The are many areas where taxpayer funded research could permanently fix problems and eliminate forever corporate profits in those problem areas, now how do you think those greedy corporate arse holes feel about that and what steps do you think they will take to thwart those efforts and to spread their own greed based lies.
Upgrades for Linux are of course much smoother, it's software written by users for users and all the upgrades and changes are meant to be for the benefit of users, not to drive sales, or profit margins or lock ins or monopolies.
Personally I see windows 7 as beings Linux's lucky number. As for M$ quality bar reference, it really sucks that their quality bar is a whole lot lower than what customers expect and what M$ marketing sells, from my experience when it comes to the 'quality bar' M$'s (P)OSs do a limbo far more often than they do a high jump.
Now they look to be turning Iraq into a military weapons test facility, how many Iraq's will this device need to kill before they declare it a success. The US military desperately needs to sit back and realise that this is somebody else's country.
Of course with all this stupid privacy invasive rubbish, it is only a matter of time until politicians start to fear their own privacy being invaded and their secrets being leaked all over the internet, that they make all this kind of crap completely illegal.
Now all we need is for Intel to patent this same rubbish at an even lower level than the OS (way to go M$), or than MMOGs running on top of OS's (yay google), embedded in the chip set, go Intel.
Not long ago I came across this http://www.biobidet.com/BB800_PrestigeBidet.htm toilet seat that cleans your back end, perhaps those invasive buggers from google and M$ should consider wiring these things up for the internet, who knows what they can find out and what they can target next.
Not only that but they will actually sell full licences at a 90% discount.
Technically law enforcement is giving the code away free, to the very criminals we should be endeavouring to keep the code away from, all they have to do is find it and get a cracker to reverse engineer it.
A back door is a back door is a back door, when you pay for security software you pay for a complete solution, not some thing that leaks like a sieve. Security companies either declare the holes in the package or they knowingly commit fraud about the security of the software that they are providing.
Basically if the law enforcement want to poke their sticky beaks in, they need to whack in a bit of hardware and have the warrant to go along with it, software is just a bull shit lazy trap waiting to blow up in their and our faces.
Some utility bits of open source of course do not need a lot of maintaining and reach full maturity pretty early and only require the odd tweak for hardware compatibility, for those projects maintaining a team is difficult, logically speaking those projects get pick up and carried by another open source project that can run them as a side line.
Back to topic, as for GPlv3 stifling Linux take up, why would it make any difference at all, the kernel is sticking with GPLv2 so that solves that. I'm sure some companies that wanted to use source code from other projects that are shifting to GPLv3 might find it a bit threatening but only if they intend to do things that the majority of code contributors do not support.
As for the article in question, it is nothing more than a lead in for the M$ add, an add I quite like but what is it trying to sell, xbox networks at work, executive leisure suites, defy all challenges - tell your supervisor to GGF and continue playing games at work ?
Tech forums are not getting eaten alive by blogs or forums, they are getting eaten alive by blogs and forums and media streams and by the shear volume of content now available across a whole range of web sites.
Another big development is computer tech is all becoming a bit much of a yawn, a decade or more ago the changes in computer tech were really dramatic with enormous improvements in performance and capability, nowadays it is all refinements with the only really interesting part being the OS wars and Linux development and you get most of that from slashdot, M$ and which ever distribution home site.
Plus there is enormous competition from each tech site and they are just spreading their reader base thin across a wide choice. All that you will see happen is the large portals that offer a wide range of content will start to dominate again and the old world media companies will start gaining market share as they improve and broaden their net offerings.
As for google, is just gets lot's of 10 to 15 second clicks, not to mention http://mrl.nyu.edu/~dhowe/TrackMeNot/ which further inflates meaningless clicks, search is neither hear nor there, it is really just cheap entry level marketing. Companies are still adjusting to a global market and a global audience and global choice.
You listen to web radio basically when you couldn't be bothered turning on a regular radio or you want to listen to a range of music that is no available via regular radio and mots importantly you are really interested in listen to any specific music your just after a musical background.
Expectations about the income web radio can deliver are just totally unrealistic and spending additional money in trying to 'secure' it is pointless. The more hassle every body has with the current media empires the quicker the independent music scene will develop and dominate.
More to the point lawyers write the laws, since when will lawyers willingly write a law that would limit their potential income, patents are extremely profitable for lawyers and oddly enough their are a lot of lawyers in the political game to ensure legal complexity about, well, everything including patents, to guarantee their future incomes and that of their descendants are more nepotistic industry does not exist.
When it is the end user's who yet again pay the real costs of M$ damage control, do you think M$ really cares, in fact M$ looks for way to charge the end users extra to fix M$'s failures.
IP lawyers must love you. As for the actual reality, the harder the work the less you get paid and that is a fact. Besides everybody knows theft is by far the most profitable 'work'.
Do the 'intellectual elite' fight for and strive for an even greedier, more vindictive and culturally prejudicial society. Those nasty 'intellectual elite' who control governments for their own self serving purposes quite unlike the beneficial and kind hearted control exerted by the rich and greedy of the world.
As for that wireless spectrum just make it publicly low power accessible, and we can mesh it out ourselves and leave price gouging AT&T (and their monopolist buddies) and privacy invasive Google (and their endless advertising compadres) right out of it. As for yet another add laden service, just go away, far far away, I sick of every man and his dog trying to turn our lives into endless moving billboards.
What next 'free' fucking pillows, patented wireless pillows, that monitor you sleep state and when you achieve REM sleep, feed you subconscious sound bites, add to that microphones for people who talk in their sleep, I'm sure there's some useful psychological marketing data you could gain from that (and you know what's really sick about that idea, it would actually be extremely effective, people would be buying all sorts of crap with out ever knowing why).
As for noticing google good work's, how could anybody miss them, they are part of google's "Feel good about them, whilst they pry into your private life, lubricant marketing campaign".
Obviously Linux must have felt some pressure to alter the GPL for all future Linux kernel contributions but of course he has made the right choice. The Linux kernel should be made a widely available for use as possible. For good or ill, it should be up to each individual, company or country to make use of the kernel as they sometimes unfortunately see fit. As long as coding improvements are continually returned to ensure the continuing refinement and improvement of the code.
Ensuring that the Linux kernel remains an effective universally applicable part of the technological infrastructure of humanity is an important part of the community effort. One could envisage an international standard for the application of the Linux kernel and GPLv2 to ensure it maintains that fully open and accessible status far into the future.
As for GPLv3, it certainly has it's beneficial features in ensuring the creative content and knowledge of humanity is available to humanity, and definitely is applicable to other open source projects, especially media players, content creation software and also for example highly applicable to any open source search software, whether net or hdisk search.
Likely truth is, this is their way of stealing the Google's stolen patent for invading the gaming privacy of children, for a fully psychologically profiled targeted marketing campaign, after all the xbox has an operating system.
It will be interesting to see the court battle between the two, for this patent, I'd bet good money that Google would be the one to lose that court battle, and when it comes to the discovery part of the court action, we can all sit back, as each of them attempt to out privacy invade each other. Like the snake eating it's own tail, except in this case it would be two dogs sniffing each other butts, so hard, you only end up seeing to holes and two tails.
It will be very interesting to see the results pan out over the next few decades. Being able to remember a lot of data means being able to use it when you need to use it, there are lots of industries where waiting for someone to 'look it up' means the employer turning around a looking up an alternate employee.
The funniest part about using those electronic devices, is the same people who can't remember a lot of pertinent facts, also forget to key information into the device, forget where the device is, forget what information is in the device or forget to refer to it for their reminders.
Yes there are people who actually do care for me and I do live in a society that will also provide a measure of care for me, you do have my sympathy, but chances are your own avarice is largely responsible for nobody being willing to watch out for your interests.
Google's advertising has always been about advertising google's advertising, try and think of a product that has gained a meaningful market presence from addwords, beyond 'adds served by google'.
Of course some parts of the net can be measured really easily, hint, think streams, so as far as manufacturers are concerned net radio and net video I readily quantifiable. As for other sites, average clicks per hour from an single IP can be used to indicate a retained user, as a ration against the time required to take in the content on that page, and for games, better make sure there is a means by which continued user interaction can be measured.
So yeah, things look pretty sucky for the ill conceived perception of google's net dominance, but certainly excellent viral marketing by the googlites to create that perception in the first place.