People will ignore the "bad publicity" because Amazon has near monopoly power, look at all the "bad publicity" Microsoft got over the years, and people are still not changing...
And now that Amazon has cut of the API they just have to wait a little till the company folds, and then there will be nobody left complaining about data theft (moreover in this particular case they probably do not even have to keep the data).
Moderately crazy, and you'll notice that they moved under the Amazon infrastructure when they where allready quite powerfull and successfull... They did not start with somebody elses cloud, they moved when they had enough cash to hire an army of lawyers in case of need...
Actually you could call it that : cloud == IT - programmers + lawyers....
The idea that "all the doctors would be working for the government" is a red flag waved by people who like the system as it is : way overpriced...
France has had mandatory insurance for probably over 20 years, and generalized insurance since the end of ww2.
And most of the doctors are independent professionals, and although you are supposed to identify a "generalist" as your "family doctor" and use him or her as an "entry door" before visiting a specialist (expect special cases like eye doctors, gyncologist,... and urgent cases...), you can change it very easily and the choice is free..
There is no reason to have a "UK" style health system, reglementation and competition can work together, you just have to try to get the best out of both...
Any corporation who would give it's customer list and profile to another company who own a significant part of the infrastructure you need to provide your service, and therefore would easely compete with you, would be deemed stupid.
Well no because it's "ta dam..." in the cloud "...."
Cloud computing has sense in two cases: you own your own cloud, or it's some amateur experiment, and you signed before a garanty (at least with yourself) that you would never ever want to make any money out of this, and would be very very happy if somebody else would become filthy rich out of your own work.
Or you confuse managerial competence and praying to marketing dribble..
It's because people like you do not know how to count that insurence finally has to be mandatory...
Corporation do not magically have "money" to spend, ALL their money at the end comes from YOUR pocket, the only difference between : Taxes, mandatory insurance where the money is collected by the state, mandatory insurance where the money is collected by recognized insurance, volontarely insurace is the billing system, and the potential spending oversight, not the "cost" in itself.
And not having an insurance when you are young is stupid because the insurances ajust for risk, so it is cheaper to get insurance when you are young and still a decent deal if you happen to be unlucky and either break a leg or get some nasty stuff you where not planning for...
So it is more efficient to lobby for a decent affordable well run insurance, than sticking your head in the sand...
So when the universe will be "real cool" it will generate new dimensions ? So maybe we do not have to fear the end of times, it will just become "curiouser and curiouser"...
I just wonder if there where some one or two dimensional sentient beings around at 100mev and 1mev, and what happened to them ? (except living and a cross of Jasper Pforde's bookworld and flatland...
First you would have to find a court that forces you to review resellers, except in very particular business (weapon sales for instance) no enterprise is responsible for the usage their customers do of theirs products.
If you sell ethernet cable and somebody strangles his neighbors with it you will find that it's not your responsibility, and a judge would have to prove that the customer bragged on how much he liked your cables because their hight resilience facilitates strangling...
If you sell hardware to resellers, a judge would have to prove that you knew they where guilty, and by the way if you sell e-government platforms to government who oppress their people and use it keep better track of political opponent and terrorize them, do you expect any law suite against you ?
You do not have/need a joe fatpockets, what you need is a willingness to have agents whose accounts you do not review..., and that is much harder to prosecute, and moreover many american would not like to loose the salary that the cash obtained this way brings in..
so of course it is "nice" to have the fantasy of punishing the bad CEO's, but changing the way you consume is a more efficient step..
.Weel one of the pareto laws makes this a failure...
If you have one guy able to win 1000 X ton one side and 1000 guys able to put 1 X he will win.... Basically the "cost of organizing" the 1000 people and the marginal gain for each person makes it that the guy with 1000X wins...
and if the guy is investing 900 X he still gets ahed by 100 X wich is assumedly something worthwhile, while the other get only 1/10th of X wich is not so much...
So bribes and democracy do not mix very well...
(but then old boys network are not much better...)
No, some people just pirate at "any price" because they are *** Other would pay, but they have jailbreaked their phone to do "X" for a "debatably ok reason", and now it's actually easier to pirate your software than to pay it. Others do not have a credit card, or at least one that your payment processor would accept (i'm not writing this anywhere from the G20:-) and others do not hava a credit card because they are not "adults"
A minority will pirate it, love it and then pay it (unfortunatelly this minority is probably refusing to use the kind of phone you wrote your program for, and they would like to have the source code also... so it's not a very good solution for you:-))
Anothfer element to take in account is that software is NOT like music or video, I'm using probably around 100 software "that I really need" (including ed and bc:-)) I do have way more "elements of music"...
So the business models are different.
A big part of your problem, and it's worse in the music business is a kind of "prisoners dilemna", if I sell my music for 99c but most users are using a torrent because it is way easier (not to mention cheaper) than buying the music of all the others who sell it for 10$, I will sell to the "RIAA compliant crowd" but get a small ammount of money because my price is low, maybe even less because the perceived quality in comparision with the competition will be seen as "low"... (it's cheap you see...)..
So hopefully competition will eventualy drive the price down and the convenience up... meanwhile I must confess, there is a very convenient service where I leave where I can get about any CD or DVD for 1 or 2 dollars, and a pizza for 4 for 2$ more (but then the DVD is only 1$ so it's always cheap...)
When ever I see a scene qui a computer, or a sculptor, or somebody speaking a "foreign language" that I know, I'm wondering...
Are all the scene about things I do not know anythng about just as bad ??? Are all the docter cringing when they see Dr House ? (probably) and what do the lawers make of the "good wife" ? and new york women of "sex and the city" ?
Or are we singled out to be really interpreted badly...
BTW I do actually laught but really hate the big bang theory... is it really necessary for the US general public to believe that inteligent scientist are social looser to enjoy a movie ? It's geeksplotation.. if you would stereotype any other human category as much you'd probably be sued to bankrupcy...
I guess we do have too much of a sense of humor...
And this is modded insightful ? Free Software is not a religion, it is a policy, and as strong political roots, altough these political roots are certainly not aligned to "bipartisan politics".
The issue with open souce and OpenGL is that a large part of the implementation of OpenGl (at least the efficient implementation) does not depend on any open source activist/developper but on the good will of video card developpers.
Now Microsoft has the "monopoly advantage" if they say now you need to cut off your left feet to implement Direct3D the videocard fabricant (Intel, Nvidia principally) will find somebody in charge of getting his or her feet cut off to keep the market. OpenGL has to reach a concensus...
Github replaced iit for some people as a "real forge", but you'll probably find many more mature project on sf.. So as an "advertisement platforme" SF is certainly a good bet for a team...
And anyway the announcement make most sense for people who want to host their own forge, they need the software, not SF users..
Well a rather large number, and it is promoted by the US as an anti AIDS measure, for measure the study that "proved" this showed that there was 60% less AIDS carried in the circumcised men group after some period of time, it kind of forgot that the quantity of affected people was very close to statistic uncertainty... So I disaprouve...
But this said, assuming that both mutilation would be made under ideal medical circumstance (ha!) you would still have a large group of women unable to attain orgasm (except apparently a very small "lucky" group) vs a very small minority of men similarly affected (well only the unlucky one that god a bad complication)
So comparing the two is misleading, like AIDS vs Influensa well both can be survived and both can kill I know wich I'd choose..
The question will be; what is the ratio of: (people who didn't have/want access to the internet + people who had and probably still have priviledge access to internet (state/corp satelite, like you need in iran and saudi arabia to download some serious porn...)) vs all the rest...
If the children of the cops and miltary start to violently yell at their parents because they cannot keep contact with their crew, the government is in bad shape...
It will be an interesting experiment, it shows the governement is deperate, in iran they just slow down the internet to make it boring when there are politicaly sensitive situation, but do not completely cut it...
hopefully de pharaon will be expulsed..
but do not hope too much between 85 and 97 % of the women in Egypt are still wictim of Female Genital Mutilation, it is illegal since 2007, but almost any egyptian woman who is older than 10..12 years and not member of a intelectual educated minority had probably been mutilated this way.
and do not expect the internet to "treat censorship as an error and route around" this died with operator consolidation and commercialisation of the internet...
I'm wondering what constitute a crime in NZ ? the article would hint at something like 30% of adults at age 32 would have done some sort of crime... Since most crimes are not starte before 15, and people have a tendency to calm down after 51 we could gessimate a total crime rate of something like 60% during the full life.... WTF ???? And NZ puts relativelly few people in jail so it would seem that in the US they would need an higher crime rate to fill up the jails, something like what ? 90%...
He is donating enormous amounts to "his" charity, wich means that he pays even less taxes. And all this means is that he has to use "charitably" 5% of the money put aside every year, the rest he can use to "invest" anyway he wants.
What most people do not realise is that over a certain amount money is just power... and fondations are ideal tools of power mongering.
Put another way he does no charitable work whatsoever, but has successfully outsourced part of the marketing, brand management and "CSR" of his cash cow to a tax haven.
And looking at recent bio related patents microsoft received it seems that the "feel good" investments in malaria research is not only third world country marketing (to make sure that they do not have the stupid idea of using free software for their government or even worse develop a real local IT industry (trading is ok, you need somebody to whitewash the gratfs)), but also a diversification scheme.
well it could be that americans "admire" people who robs them of lots of money, or that using phone survey for this kind of thing does not work...
I guess that if somebody would call me right now and ask "who are the three people you admire the most", (well I would just hang up, but) I would really tell the the name of three people recently in the news without being named guilty of some horrendous crime...
In a commercial product you just have to send an agent telling politely that it would be better for the company to put this piece of code and not tell anybody...
The PHB is part of the IT team, and the IT team is either: - accepting stupid decision while knowing it is bad for the company - being stupid because the only know a couple of "pre packaged clickomatic junk"
Nope, The company does not have an IE6 policy, it has a policy of "buying an intranet" with the support of the IT team. And then some shiny consulting firm suggest some expensive software to handle the watchalicallits and develop some addon software that only work with the "core software"... Meanwhile the IT team, or more preciselly it's PHB is enjoying information gathering trips, power lunches and conference invitations to learn how right s/he was to buy this software...
And then the company policy just make sure that anybody that complain or points out that there are alternatives is silenced.
The CEO couldn't care less if the staff is using IE6 or lynx, he just listen to the IT director then cuts a big check and finaly does not want to hear about this ever again.
And since he typically never uses the companies platform (except for some emails, preferably sent from his blackburry) s/he never sees anything wrong with the infrastructure.
Moreover if you are living in a company that has this policy it does not matter if it is the CEO CFO or CIO that is responsible, the best advice is "run as fast as you can it is not worth it..."
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People will ignore the "bad publicity" because Amazon has near monopoly power, look at all the "bad publicity" Microsoft got over the years, and people are still not changing...
And now that Amazon has cut of the API they just have to wait a little till the company folds, and then there will be nobody left complaining about data theft (moreover in this particular case they probably do not even have to keep the data).
Moderately crazy, and you'll notice that they moved under the Amazon infrastructure when they where allready quite powerfull and successfull...
They did not start with somebody elses cloud, they moved when they had enough cash to hire an army of lawyers in case of need...
Actually you could call it that : cloud == IT - programmers + lawyers....
The idea that "all the doctors would be working for the government" is a red flag waved by people who like the system as it is : way overpriced...
France has had mandatory insurance for probably over 20 years, and generalized insurance since the end of ww2.
And most of the doctors are independent professionals, and although you are supposed to identify a "generalist" as your "family doctor" and use him or her as an "entry door" before visiting a specialist (expect special cases like eye doctors, gyncologist, ... and urgent cases...), you can change it very easily and the choice is free..
There is no reason to have a "UK" style health system, reglementation and competition can work together, you just have to try to get the best out of both...
Any corporation who would give it's customer list and profile to another company who own a significant part of the infrastructure you need to provide your service, and therefore would easely compete with you, would be deemed stupid.
Well no because it's "ta dam..." in the cloud "...."
Cloud computing has sense in two cases: you own your own cloud, or it's some amateur experiment, and you signed before a garanty (at least with yourself) that you would never ever want to make any money out of this, and would be very very happy if somebody else would become filthy rich out of your own work.
Or you confuse managerial competence and praying to marketing dribble..
It's because people like you do not know how to count that insurence finally has to be mandatory...
Corporation do not magically have "money" to spend, ALL their money at the end comes from YOUR pocket, the only difference between :
Taxes, mandatory insurance where the money is collected by the state, mandatory insurance where the money is collected by recognized insurance, volontarely insurace is the billing system, and the potential spending oversight, not the "cost" in itself.
And not having an insurance when you are young is stupid because the insurances ajust for risk, so it is cheaper to get insurance when you are young and still a decent deal if you happen to be unlucky and either break a leg or get some nasty stuff you where not planning for...
So it is more efficient to lobby for a decent affordable well run insurance, than sticking your head in the sand...
So when the universe will be "real cool" it will generate new dimensions ? ...
So maybe we do not have to fear the end of times, it will just become "curiouser and curiouser"
I just wonder if there where some one or two dimensional sentient beings around at 100mev and 1mev, and what happened to them ?
(except living and a cross of Jasper Pforde's bookworld and flatland...
If i'd had mod points I would mod it funny :-)
First you would have to find a court that forces you to review resellers, except in very particular business (weapon sales for instance) no enterprise is responsible for the usage their customers do of theirs products.
If you sell ethernet cable and somebody strangles his neighbors with it you will find that it's not your responsibility, and a judge would have to prove that the customer bragged on how much he liked your cables because their hight resilience facilitates strangling...
If you sell hardware to resellers, a judge would have to prove that you knew they where guilty, and by the way if you sell e-government platforms to government who oppress their people and use it keep better track of political opponent and terrorize them, do you expect any law suite against you ?
You do not have/need a joe fatpockets, what you need is a willingness to have agents whose accounts you do not review..., and that is much harder to prosecute, and moreover many american would not like to loose the salary that the cash obtained this way brings in..
so of course it is "nice" to have the fantasy of punishing the bad CEO's, but changing the way you consume is a more efficient step..
Not just rich, it would be allowed to everyone..
.Weel one of the pareto laws makes this a failure...
If you have one guy able to win 1000 X ton one side and 1000 guys able to put 1 X he will win....
Basically the "cost of organizing" the 1000 people and the marginal gain for each person makes it that the guy with 1000X wins...
and if the guy is investing 900 X he still gets ahed by 100 X wich is assumedly something worthwhile, while the other get only 1/10th of X wich is not so much...
So bribes and democracy do not mix very well...
(but then old boys network are not much better...)
No, some people just pirate at "any price" because they are *** :-) and others do not hava a credit card because they are not "adults"
Other would pay, but they have jailbreaked their phone to do "X" for a "debatably ok reason", and now it's actually easier to pirate your software than to pay it.
Others do not have a credit card, or at least one that your payment processor would accept (i'm not writing this anywhere from the G20
A minority will pirate it, love it and then pay it (unfortunatelly this minority is probably refusing to use the kind of phone you wrote your program for, and they would like to have the source code also ... so it's not a very good solution for you :-))
Anothfer element to take in account is that software is NOT like music or video, I'm using probably around 100 software "that I really need" (including ed and bc :-))
I do have way more "elements of music"...
So the business models are different.
A big part of your problem, and it's worse in the music business is a kind of "prisoners dilemna", if I sell my music for 99c but most users are using a torrent because it is way easier (not to mention cheaper) than buying the music of all the others who sell it for 10$, I will sell to the "RIAA compliant crowd" but get a small ammount of money because my price is low, maybe even less because the perceived quality in comparision with the competition will be seen as "low"... (it's cheap you see...)..
So hopefully competition will eventualy drive the price down and the convenience up...
meanwhile I must confess, there is a very convenient service where I leave where I can get about any CD or DVD for 1 or 2 dollars, and a pizza for 4 for 2$ more (but then the DVD is only 1$ so it's always cheap...)
Not shre the MPAA would approuve;..
When ever I see a scene qui a computer, or a sculptor, or somebody speaking a "foreign language" that I know, I'm wondering ...
Are all the scene about things I do not know anythng about just as bad ???
Are all the docter cringing when they see Dr House ? (probably) and what do the lawers make of the "good wife" ? and new york women of "sex and the city" ?
Or are we singled out to be really interpreted badly ...
BTW I do actually laught but really hate the big bang theory ... is it really necessary for the US general public to believe that inteligent scientist are social looser to enjoy a movie ?
It's geeksplotation.. if you would stereotype any other human category as much you'd probably be sued to bankrupcy...
I guess we do have too much of a sense of humor...
And this is modded insightful ?
Free Software is not a religion, it is a policy, and as strong political roots, altough these political roots are certainly not aligned to "bipartisan politics".
The issue with open souce and OpenGL is that a large part of the implementation of OpenGl (at least the efficient implementation) does not depend on any open source activist/developper but on the good will of video card developpers.
Now Microsoft has the "monopoly advantage" if they say now you need to cut off your left feet to implement Direct3D the videocard fabricant (Intel, Nvidia principally) will find somebody in charge of getting his or her feet cut off to keep the market.
OpenGL has to reach a concensus...
Github replaced iit for some people as a "real forge", but you'll probably find many more mature project on sf..
So as an "advertisement platforme" SF is certainly a good bet for a team...
And anyway the announcement make most sense for people who want to host their own forge, they need the software, not SF users..
Then GForge closed up and was reopenned as fusionforge (http://fusionforge.org)
Well a rather large number, and it is promoted by the US as an anti AIDS measure, for measure the study that "proved" this showed that there was 60% less AIDS carried in the circumcised men group after some period of time, it kind of forgot that the quantity of affected people was very close to statistic uncertainty...
So I disaprouve...
But this said, assuming that both mutilation would be made under ideal medical circumstance (ha!) you would still have a large group of women unable to attain orgasm (except apparently a very small "lucky" group) vs a very small minority of men similarly affected (well only the unlucky one that god a bad complication)
So comparing the two is misleading, like AIDS vs Influensa well both can be survived and both can kill I know wich I'd choose..
The question will be; what is the ratio of: ...)) vs all the rest...
(people who didn't have/want access to the internet + people who had and probably still have priviledge access to internet (state/corp satelite, like you need in iran and saudi arabia to download some serious porn
If the children of the cops and miltary start to violently yell at their parents because they cannot keep contact with their crew, the government is in bad shape...
It will be an interesting experiment, it shows the governement is deperate, in iran they just slow down the internet to make it boring when there are politicaly sensitive situation, but do not completely cut it...
hopefully de pharaon will be expulsed..
but do not hope too much between 85 and 97 % of the women in Egypt are still wictim of Female Genital Mutilation, it is illegal since 2007, but almost any egyptian woman who is older than 10..12 years and not member of a intelectual educated minority had probably been mutilated this way.
and do not expect the internet to "treat censorship as an error and route around" this died with operator consolidation and commercialisation of the internet...
I'm wondering what constitute a crime in NZ ? the article would hint at something like 30% of adults at age 32 would have done some sort of crime... .... WTF ????
Since most crimes are not starte before 15, and people have a tendency to calm down after 51 we could gessimate a total crime rate of something like 60% during the full life
And NZ puts relativelly few people in jail so it would seem that in the US they would need an higher crime rate to fill up the jails, something like what ? 90%...
Scary ...
He is donating enormous amounts to "his" charity, wich means that he pays even less taxes.
And all this means is that he has to use "charitably" 5% of the money put aside every year, the rest he can use to "invest" anyway he wants.
What most people do not realise is that over a certain amount money is just power... and fondations are ideal tools of power mongering.
Put another way he does no charitable work whatsoever, but has successfully outsourced part of the marketing, brand management and "CSR" of his cash cow to a tax haven.
And looking at recent bio related patents microsoft received it seems that the "feel good" investments in malaria research is not only third world country marketing (to make sure that they do not have the stupid idea of using free software for their government or even worse develop a real local IT industry (trading is ok, you need somebody to whitewash the gratfs)), but also a diversification scheme.
well it could be that americans "admire" people who robs them of lots of money, or that using phone survey for this kind of thing does not work...
I guess that if somebody would call me right now and ask "who are the three people you admire the most", (well I would just hang up, but) I would really tell the the name of three people recently in the news without being named guilty of some horrendous crime...
So it must be utilising a different backdoor :-)
Actually it would be an interesting problem to calculate how many backdoors can a crypto engine acomodate before the various snoopers are detected :-)
no it has been modified as :
"hello, world" >> out
so now it is only a minor exploit
In a commercial product you just have to send an agent telling politely that it would be better for the company to put this piece of code and not tell anybody...
No I leave the company, that is the point...
Actually I use the dilbert test, when I feel that Dilbert is about "me" I leave..
The PHB is part of the IT team, and the IT team is either:
- accepting stupid decision while knowing it is bad for the company
- being stupid because the only know a couple of "pre packaged clickomatic junk"
in both case they are "guilty as charged" ...
Nope,
The company does not have an IE6 policy, it has a policy of "buying an intranet" with the support of the IT team.
And then some shiny consulting firm suggest some expensive software to handle the watchalicallits
and develop some addon software that only work with the "core software"...
Meanwhile the IT team, or more preciselly it's PHB is enjoying information gathering trips, power lunches and conference invitations to learn how right s/he was to buy this software...
And then the company policy just make sure that anybody that complain or points out that there are alternatives is silenced.
The CEO couldn't care less if the staff is using IE6 or lynx, he just listen to the IT director then cuts a big check and finaly does not want to hear about this ever again.
And since he typically never uses the companies platform (except for some emails, preferably sent from his blackburry) s/he never sees anything wrong with the infrastructure.
Moreover if you are living in a company that has this policy it does not matter if it is the CEO CFO or CIO that is responsible, the best advice is "run as fast as you can it is not worth it..."