What about effectiveness of the statement? Malala is hardly going to change anything in Afghanistan. The reality is her culture hates women, and that's not going to change next year, or probably the next 200 years. Not without an army taking control of the entire country, and forcing the entire population to change their beliefs. The governments of the world no longer have the stomach for that sort of program so the US/AU/EU governments will pull out, and Afghanistan will collapse back into it's 13th century ways.
What Snowden has done on the other hand has global repurcussions. Because of Snowden governments in Latin America are already looking to move off of US based IT products, Chinese manufactured switches/routers are going to get a huge cash boost from this, and Linux is going to pickup a lot of users trying to get away from US government domination of their networks. I expect in 5 years time this will have been a watershed moment and the beginning of a slow long-term collapse of US technology companies.
Is that they have been obsessed with chasing down Mac OSX. But rather than copy the entire UI, they're just copying bits and pieces of it. They would have been better off hacking on gnustep rather than hacking on gnome to do it. Meanwhile gnome 3 has completely gone off the rails with it's weird tablet/mobile UI which completely fails on a large multimonitor setup. As long as Ubuntu keeps stuffing up it's UI it's going to have problems with users fleeing it in droves. Everytime I hear someone is trying Linux, they usually ask me what distro to try after Ubuntu. Usually I point people to Debian itself. It's gotten a lot easier to install.
We know the NSA has been promoting security standards that they can hack into. We know they've been pushing weaker security at standards organisations etc. Could SELinux which was developed by the NSA be vulnerable to this sort of attack? Could the NSA have a backdoor into Linux itself? I know that Linux should be the only alternative to Windows/OSX at this point for people trying to avoid NSA spying, but could Linux itself be vulnerable to the attacks the NSA can launch on other platforms?
The fleeing of businesses from America wasn't caused by unions, or high wages. It was caused by idiot USA politicians who voted for deregulation of trade tarrifs and outsourcing to be legal. There was even a British billionaire at the time who went on TV and said you were cutting your own throats, and look where we are now?
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I personally think the online subscription model is going to kill off a lot of these big companies. Who the fuck wants to pay $100/year for access to Office? Most people I know will switch to the free alternatives rather than pay for a license. They might be happy to buy a standalone license once every 5-10 years. But they'll never buy in every year. Most of these people prefer pirated software over the subscription stuff. I see bad times ahead for Adobe and Microsoft. Both want to crush piracy, both are trying to shakedown their customers for continuous money. It won't stand. The open source stuff is rapidly closing the gap, the biggest problem with Linux I'm hearing from people now is that Ubuntu/Gnome have gone crazy with the tablet UI bullshit rather than pushing a decent desktop. It's a damn shame too because Microsoft is falling into the same trap right now, and as long as Linux remains a good enough alternative heaps of people would be jumping across right now. People don't understand that the tablet market is a second market, it's a great place to get into but you have to treat it as a second product line. Touch and Desktop do not play nice together. The sooner people realise that the better. The way to survive in this new world is simple, maintain two versions of your apps, one with a touch UI and one with a desktop UI don't be a cheap ass and try to get away with one UI. Provide a cloud option if it's appropriate. Some things simply don't need a cloud option. Stuff like Photoshop being in the cloud is retarded, most people don't have enough bandwidth or stable internet access to use a product like that, the same goes for video editing applications. Apple has had a ton of success with this in the last couple of years because they correctly foresaw mobile/tablet as separate from Desktop. They have a common API that works on both platforms allowing tons of code reuse, but the UIs are separated, it helps that interface builder is perfectly designed for this allowing UI redesign without recompiling.
Could this Help Richard Stallman? I know he is a very gifted programmer but he unfortunately isn't able to type due to injury. If he could use this to program directly again it could be a massive boost to Free Software Foundation project development.
For those who don't know, there are actually multiple ways to run GNUstep's UI
There's Macintosh Style:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/camaelon/1317405806/lightbox/
There's Next Style:
http://www.gnustep.org/images/GWorkspace.jpg
And there's Microsoft Windows Style with all menus attached inside of application windows:
http://www.gnustep.org/experience/images/lm_xp_themed.png
The Classic UI style is only one of many options, you can set which style you prefer in System Preferences.app and it applies across all GNUstep applications automatically. It's better integrated than KDE and Gnome's versions of this. I really want to see webkit get completed,once it's done GNUstep will hae a usable desktop environment for everyday use and it should be a lot more comfortable to boot up on Linux and run it full time as a development/desktop environment. Let's face it, once you've setup X, Sound, and Networking most workstations don't get moved around, and all you really need is browser, text editor, music and video players along with terminal and Remote Desktop. GNUstep already has all of these tools, it's just missing the browser.
With the APIs being completed in GNUstep, including Quartz (called Opal in GNUstep) This becomes VERY possible to make. Once webkit is ported there will actually be a working desktop with browser, video player, music player, irc, terminal. OSX style menus already exist. It would also make it possible to port the quartz composer and related video technologies which remain some of the best video pipelining tools ever made.
Of course Murdoch hates the NBN, he owns the largest Cable TV network in Australia! Who would be paying to watch shows over the cable network when they can download them over fibre? Or worse yet, pay money to netflix to stream them to their houses directly. It's a massive threat to FOXTEL.
Spend a year documenting the network with the guy present, it's really the only way to do it. Anything else and basically you are screwed, get all the login codes, pray he doesn't forget any and start firing up the network scanners like nmap and logging in and documenting everything.
It's sad but true, Gnome 3 with it's stupid tablet interface completely sucks. Gnome is trying to double down on fail and it'll lead to complete extinction within a few months. They need to massively reverse course but too much ego will probably prevent it from happening. The Linux desktop has basically shot itself in the foot right when it's finally achieving mainstream gaming success. Personally I'm banking on GNUstep actually getting finished and offering an osx-alike experience on Linux. Gnome was a really nice desktop but by choosing to rush into tablets they've pulled a Microsoft and shot their desktop users in the face. The desktop isn't going anywhere, it's Gnome that's gone away.
It's already dead, unless Google themselves back it and get device manufacturers on board. I have a Yamaha audio receiver that already does DLNA and airplay, what niche does this fill? There's no way that AV receiver is going to get a bios update to support this, and there's no way I'm re-buying $1000 of equipment that already supports 4k resolution so I can have maybe 1 more format be supported. Linux already supports Airplay, this is typical ideological chest beating over open standards. Reinventing something that already works on Linux and Android is stupid and why Open code is having such trouble gaining adoption. You have to lead in innovation not play catch-up to the big boys. Don't try to get airplay remade, rather try to make 3d content stream,or something else that hasn't been done by the competitors.
So much money spent chasing different solutions... Billions into solar etc. Why can't we get $200 Million for a 100 megawatt Polywell Fusion plant? It'll either work, or fall on it's ass. Compared to the billions spent on the other pipe dreams a $200 Million dollar yes/no crapshoot seems pretty reasonable to me. The reward is worth it. The risk is pretty minimal. $200 Million that would be wasted in any other area of government.
Or for $2000 you can buy/build a 30TB file server and connect it via a lan port. Seriously you're complaining about internal storage in a computer that is begging for multi-terrabyte file content? This thing is built to do one job: Render 4k Videos. That means RAID arrays and not tiny little hard drives. But large disk volumes Like the 22TB hardware RAID-6 server near my desk.
I used to live about 15 minutes drive from the Barossa Valley. You can definately taste the difference between a $50 bottle and a $10 bottle, but having said that I don't believe the $600-2000 bottles are justified at all. I highly recommend the Yalumba Signature and Octavius wines. Bought at the cellar door they're ~$50/bottle tastes amazing. Much better value than the Grange Hermitage people love to harp on about from Penfolds. That starts at $600/bottle and goes up from there. I've tasted both of those wines within a day of each other and the Yalumba smashed the Grange out of the park.
Actually China is completely justified in stealing it. The Chinese government is being paid to acquire weapons and technologies by the Chinese people in the form of taxes to best serve the Chinese people's interests. if that means stealing technologies from the USA gives the Chinese a leg up, then damn right they are going to steal them.
Actually I'm paying you to build my weapons and defend me with them. I'm also paying you to keep those weapons locked up away from my enemies. When my enemies steal my weapons you get fired. That's the better analogy. Only we can't easily fire the government ven when they're being grossly incompetent which is what's happening. The government should be doing their job better.
Long term the trend is going to be to move away from Microsoft. Businesses just aren't there yet. But if I can sell my bosses on dropping in Samba 4 instead of AD Domain controllers, and we no longer use Exchange for communication because we've chenged to web based mail. Microsoft's days as a major driver in business are numbered. People talk about support and Microsoft and how they're amazing, but the reality is Microsoft doesn't support businesses with Windows deployments. Only third party vendors really provide support for Microsoft Products. Microsoft themselves are heinously expensive to get paid support from. $50+ per phone call outside of their licensing division. I see the future for Microsoft as being a slow downward spiral especially if they can't make a credible alternative to windows 8. They should split the product line into Windows Tablet and Windows Desktop. Their attempts at product diversification obviously haven't worked. They should try to spin off their diversification efforts into seperately managed companies that don't report to Microsoft's management chain directly. The management within Microsoft is horribly broken and unable to adapt to the rapidly changing market and needs to be sidestepped completely.
And thus it was that Skynet was created in the middle of suburbia... invading all aspects of our daily lives. I for one welcome our new distributed datacentre/robot overlords.
We need a LOT more hacking. As Shodan shows us with the amount of physical infrastructure being put online, we need to keep hacking the shit out of everything until these bad security practices are ended once and for all. Moronic companies and governments are putting everyone at risk of outside cyber warfare. Imagine if someone started attacking major power plants. Individual hackers need more freedom to break into systems IMHO, and government departments and companies need to start being fined for vulnerability breaches.
Contact Dean Kamen and ask about his Luke Robotic arm, it's a long shot as it was a DARPA funded ultra tech project, but you might be able to get somewhere if your family is rich.
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What about effectiveness of the statement? Malala is hardly going to change anything in Afghanistan. The reality is her culture hates women, and that's not going to change next year, or probably the next 200 years. Not without an army taking control of the entire country, and forcing the entire population to change their beliefs. The governments of the world no longer have the stomach for that sort of program so the US/AU/EU governments will pull out, and Afghanistan will collapse back into it's 13th century ways. What Snowden has done on the other hand has global repurcussions. Because of Snowden governments in Latin America are already looking to move off of US based IT products, Chinese manufactured switches/routers are going to get a huge cash boost from this, and Linux is going to pickup a lot of users trying to get away from US government domination of their networks. I expect in 5 years time this will have been a watershed moment and the beginning of a slow long-term collapse of US technology companies.
Is that they have been obsessed with chasing down Mac OSX. But rather than copy the entire UI, they're just copying bits and pieces of it. They would have been better off hacking on gnustep rather than hacking on gnome to do it. Meanwhile gnome 3 has completely gone off the rails with it's weird tablet/mobile UI which completely fails on a large multimonitor setup. As long as Ubuntu keeps stuffing up it's UI it's going to have problems with users fleeing it in droves. Everytime I hear someone is trying Linux, they usually ask me what distro to try after Ubuntu. Usually I point people to Debian itself. It's gotten a lot easier to install.
We know the NSA has been promoting security standards that they can hack into. We know they've been pushing weaker security at standards organisations etc. Could SELinux which was developed by the NSA be vulnerable to this sort of attack? Could the NSA have a backdoor into Linux itself? I know that Linux should be the only alternative to Windows/OSX at this point for people trying to avoid NSA spying, but could Linux itself be vulnerable to the attacks the NSA can launch on other platforms?
I think it's pretty safe to assume that all Cisco products have been cracked and the NSA has backdoors into all the infrastructure gear.
Put them to work on the polywell fusion reactor concept. Actually get the damn thing proven already.
The fleeing of businesses from America wasn't caused by unions, or high wages. It was caused by idiot USA politicians who voted for deregulation of trade tarrifs and outsourcing to be legal. There was even a British billionaire at the time who went on TV and said you were cutting your own throats, and look where we are now?
I personally think the online subscription model is going to kill off a lot of these big companies. Who the fuck wants to pay $100/year for access to Office? Most people I know will switch to the free alternatives rather than pay for a license. They might be happy to buy a standalone license once every 5-10 years. But they'll never buy in every year. Most of these people prefer pirated software over the subscription stuff. I see bad times ahead for Adobe and Microsoft. Both want to crush piracy, both are trying to shakedown their customers for continuous money. It won't stand. The open source stuff is rapidly closing the gap, the biggest problem with Linux I'm hearing from people now is that Ubuntu/Gnome have gone crazy with the tablet UI bullshit rather than pushing a decent desktop. It's a damn shame too because Microsoft is falling into the same trap right now, and as long as Linux remains a good enough alternative heaps of people would be jumping across right now. People don't understand that the tablet market is a second market, it's a great place to get into but you have to treat it as a second product line. Touch and Desktop do not play nice together. The sooner people realise that the better. The way to survive in this new world is simple, maintain two versions of your apps, one with a touch UI and one with a desktop UI don't be a cheap ass and try to get away with one UI. Provide a cloud option if it's appropriate. Some things simply don't need a cloud option. Stuff like Photoshop being in the cloud is retarded, most people don't have enough bandwidth or stable internet access to use a product like that, the same goes for video editing applications. Apple has had a ton of success with this in the last couple of years because they correctly foresaw mobile/tablet as separate from Desktop. They have a common API that works on both platforms allowing tons of code reuse, but the UIs are separated, it helps that interface builder is perfectly designed for this allowing UI redesign without recompiling.
Could this Help Richard Stallman? I know he is a very gifted programmer but he unfortunately isn't able to type due to injury. If he could use this to program directly again it could be a massive boost to Free Software Foundation project development.
For those who don't know, there are actually multiple ways to run GNUstep's UI There's Macintosh Style: http://www.flickr.com/photos/camaelon/1317405806/lightbox/ There's Next Style: http://www.gnustep.org/images/GWorkspace.jpg And there's Microsoft Windows Style with all menus attached inside of application windows: http://www.gnustep.org/experience/images/lm_xp_themed.png The Classic UI style is only one of many options, you can set which style you prefer in System Preferences.app and it applies across all GNUstep applications automatically. It's better integrated than KDE and Gnome's versions of this. I really want to see webkit get completed,once it's done GNUstep will hae a usable desktop environment for everyday use and it should be a lot more comfortable to boot up on Linux and run it full time as a development/desktop environment. Let's face it, once you've setup X, Sound, and Networking most workstations don't get moved around, and all you really need is browser, text editor, music and video players along with terminal and Remote Desktop. GNUstep already has all of these tools, it's just missing the browser.
With the APIs being completed in GNUstep, including Quartz (called Opal in GNUstep) This becomes VERY possible to make. Once webkit is ported there will actually be a working desktop with browser, video player, music player, irc, terminal. OSX style menus already exist. It would also make it possible to port the quartz composer and related video technologies which remain some of the best video pipelining tools ever made.
Of course Murdoch hates the NBN, he owns the largest Cable TV network in Australia! Who would be paying to watch shows over the cable network when they can download them over fibre? Or worse yet, pay money to netflix to stream them to their houses directly. It's a massive threat to FOXTEL.
Spend a year documenting the network with the guy present, it's really the only way to do it. Anything else and basically you are screwed, get all the login codes, pray he doesn't forget any and start firing up the network scanners like nmap and logging in and documenting everything.
Yup, gnome had something great then it jumped the shark. Blowing it is an understatement!
It's sad but true, Gnome 3 with it's stupid tablet interface completely sucks. Gnome is trying to double down on fail and it'll lead to complete extinction within a few months. They need to massively reverse course but too much ego will probably prevent it from happening. The Linux desktop has basically shot itself in the foot right when it's finally achieving mainstream gaming success. Personally I'm banking on GNUstep actually getting finished and offering an osx-alike experience on Linux. Gnome was a really nice desktop but by choosing to rush into tablets they've pulled a Microsoft and shot their desktop users in the face. The desktop isn't going anywhere, it's Gnome that's gone away.
Hit Israel, Mecca, and the Vatican at the same time. Watch all the Abrahamic nutters wet themselves. Bet none of the books predict that coming.
It's already dead, unless Google themselves back it and get device manufacturers on board. I have a Yamaha audio receiver that already does DLNA and airplay, what niche does this fill? There's no way that AV receiver is going to get a bios update to support this, and there's no way I'm re-buying $1000 of equipment that already supports 4k resolution so I can have maybe 1 more format be supported. Linux already supports Airplay, this is typical ideological chest beating over open standards. Reinventing something that already works on Linux and Android is stupid and why Open code is having such trouble gaining adoption. You have to lead in innovation not play catch-up to the big boys. Don't try to get airplay remade, rather try to make 3d content stream,or something else that hasn't been done by the competitors.
So much money spent chasing different solutions... Billions into solar etc. Why can't we get $200 Million for a 100 megawatt Polywell Fusion plant? It'll either work, or fall on it's ass. Compared to the billions spent on the other pipe dreams a $200 Million dollar yes/no crapshoot seems pretty reasonable to me. The reward is worth it. The risk is pretty minimal. $200 Million that would be wasted in any other area of government.
Or for $2000 you can buy/build a 30TB file server and connect it via a lan port. Seriously you're complaining about internal storage in a computer that is begging for multi-terrabyte file content? This thing is built to do one job: Render 4k Videos. That means RAID arrays and not tiny little hard drives. But large disk volumes Like the 22TB hardware RAID-6 server near my desk.
I used to live about 15 minutes drive from the Barossa Valley. You can definately taste the difference between a $50 bottle and a $10 bottle, but having said that I don't believe the $600-2000 bottles are justified at all. I highly recommend the Yalumba Signature and Octavius wines. Bought at the cellar door they're ~$50/bottle tastes amazing. Much better value than the Grange Hermitage people love to harp on about from Penfolds. That starts at $600/bottle and goes up from there. I've tasted both of those wines within a day of each other and the Yalumba smashed the Grange out of the park.
Actually China is completely justified in stealing it. The Chinese government is being paid to acquire weapons and technologies by the Chinese people in the form of taxes to best serve the Chinese people's interests. if that means stealing technologies from the USA gives the Chinese a leg up, then damn right they are going to steal them.
Actually I'm paying you to build my weapons and defend me with them. I'm also paying you to keep those weapons locked up away from my enemies. When my enemies steal my weapons you get fired. That's the better analogy. Only we can't easily fire the government ven when they're being grossly incompetent which is what's happening. The government should be doing their job better.
Long term the trend is going to be to move away from Microsoft. Businesses just aren't there yet. But if I can sell my bosses on dropping in Samba 4 instead of AD Domain controllers, and we no longer use Exchange for communication because we've chenged to web based mail. Microsoft's days as a major driver in business are numbered. People talk about support and Microsoft and how they're amazing, but the reality is Microsoft doesn't support businesses with Windows deployments. Only third party vendors really provide support for Microsoft Products. Microsoft themselves are heinously expensive to get paid support from. $50+ per phone call outside of their licensing division. I see the future for Microsoft as being a slow downward spiral especially if they can't make a credible alternative to windows 8. They should split the product line into Windows Tablet and Windows Desktop. Their attempts at product diversification obviously haven't worked. They should try to spin off their diversification efforts into seperately managed companies that don't report to Microsoft's management chain directly. The management within Microsoft is horribly broken and unable to adapt to the rapidly changing market and needs to be sidestepped completely.
And thus it was that Skynet was created in the middle of suburbia... invading all aspects of our daily lives. I for one welcome our new distributed datacentre/robot overlords.
We need a LOT more hacking. As Shodan shows us with the amount of physical infrastructure being put online, we need to keep hacking the shit out of everything until these bad security practices are ended once and for all. Moronic companies and governments are putting everyone at risk of outside cyber warfare. Imagine if someone started attacking major power plants. Individual hackers need more freedom to break into systems IMHO, and government departments and companies need to start being fined for vulnerability breaches.
Contact Dean Kamen and ask about his Luke Robotic arm, it's a long shot as it was a DARPA funded ultra tech project, but you might be able to get somewhere if your family is rich.