Brilliant I completely agree. We can use the Internet to provide us much more ability to monitor all aspects of our government. We can even envision having a direct democracy where people could vote on individual pieces of legislation. And I think the Internet can do this while keeping it safe for private communications with very strong encryption. Ultimately I do believe that freedom will win-out in the end. If you just sit and watch CNN and MSNBC and FOX you'll think the USA is hopeless and everyone is falling for all the 1984 bull. It couldn't be farther from the truth. We are all much much better informed then ever and we know clearly we need major change. The trick is to stop falling for the deceptions and our own personal greed. We must start putting our great country first and realise these people are destroying everything and they must be stopped. This one website you reference is providing an excellent service. People need to know just how well something as critical as a police service is operating. Small business to the individual we all rely upon their good conduct and high standards. As bad as things look following 7 years of Bush I think there is reason to be optimistic about the future.
the number of UK Linux users, according to their own logs, exceeds some 50,000 to the one web page. Your statement that Linux is only in the 4-600 total number of UK users of Linux is flat out wrong and was promoted by the BBC to get out of legal requirements to provide players for Linux. Even BBC late last year admitted that their low Linux count was completely false.
BBC who is embracing digital rights management and a strong push by Labour to literally block people from the internet for life if they don't comply with this system. This makes the British government and BBC by far the most viciously anti open-source in general and pro police state surveillance of the Internet to say nothing of their constant video taping of all of London. Gives me the creeps and BBC is becoming less and less of a journalistic source of information and more of a mouth piece for the government. I dare say we can all ultimately live without BBC quite well.
The physicist that was found beaten to death in Florida had developed and patented a process by which hydrogen is "fractured" from water with very low (around one amp) power consumption. He created a working model and the Navy department took control of the patent only to sit on it and do nothing with it. There are several videos on youtube and google etc. He had converted ordinary cars to literally run on water. I'd imagine loads of criminals running our societies would want to get rid of him.
These vehicles run by burning the hydrogen created by his amazing fracturing process. Internal combustion engines are about 70 percent less efficient than electric engines. Internal combustion engines waste most of the energy they consume in the form of heat. In contrast hydrogen fuel cell powered cars are electric vehicles.
"Show me a natural system that is truly as inequitable as our human systems. Show me a species that over consumes and still survives. You may not like the truth, but that doesn't make it false. You can hide your head in the sand and ignore it, but that doesn't make it go away. You can insult people who think differently from you, but that doesn't make them wrong. And it also won't make intelligent people agree with you.
Capitalism isn't freedom, it is a path to slavery, as there are no negative feedback loops to halt the runaway concentration of capital into fewer and fewer hands. This will lead to a new type of feudalism, where a small percentage of people own all the means of production, and everyone else will have to do what they say, or starve. Freedom to choose what flavor of soda you drink is not real freedom.
Hope you enjoy your own intellectual-inbreeding. You are obviously so frightened of other points of view that you've put yourself into an echo chamber, where all you hear are confirmations of your own bias. Do you really think our current civilization is sustainable in the long term? What happens when we reach the limits of growth?"
I disagree: free market capitalism is the only way to go it produces the best advancements and the best quality of life over any other system. Communal government run capitalism has a great tendency towards fascism also. The problems is free market capitalism can twist itself into this feudalistic- fascistic system we see occurring even in the UK and USA at this very moment in time. Some of it even for good reasons others done just for the crooks running our governments.
In order for free market capitalism to survive and flourish it absolutely requires a free and even competitive press that is not owned by interests with conflicting motivations and it also requires a vibrant and free Democracy unhindered by a crooked voting system or by a press which is now owned by the defence industry and other contrary parties. Freedom and free market capitalism do require constant vigilance and they do require us to stop blindly following the leader and waving our "patriotic" flags. But they are worth the efforts. A free press with a free people is very powerful. It can turn us towards eliminating the poisoning our environment and create sustainable and renewable alternative energy sources. We can even imagine reclaiming deserts and other wonderful things. We can actually go down a path where we end up with a super clean and beautiful world as a product of what we do. But we cannot ever hope to get there if we sit back and allow the press to be run by a few people and the government to be run by big oil and defence industry monsters. Stop letting ourselves get brainwashed by the mindlessness of political thinking whether it be from the left or right who cares. We can wake up and do research and become active participants in our future.
We must also be very strong against market take-overs or any actions that inhibit or reduce competition in the market place. the only way to achieve all of this is to start by making it a felony to give money to political entities. All money must be purged from politics it poisons the Democracy.
"It sounds to me like what they're saying is that capitalism/freedom goes against the very laws of the universe and won't last much longer and then we'll all live according to leftist principles and finally be on track with the way we were meant to be. Gawd I'm glad I'm out of college and away from these intellectually-inbreeding socialist fucks."
I don't see how anyone but a brainwashed imbecile could think that capitalism and freedom mean we have to destroy our environment... We have less freedom and less free market when we allow our government to be bought off by mega corps who want to take over the marketplace and restrict freedom and destroy our environment. Freedom necessitates strong and constant labours both in it's defence and logically in it's sustainability. Strange how it is conservative to allow unfettered destruction of the environment and constriction of the free press both through ownership by defence contractors and consolidation. To them it is conservative to eliminate competition and socialistic to promote competition and a strong adherence to environmental protection rules. How completely ridiculous. All you are doing is proving Marx and Lenin's points that free market capitalism always ends up destroying itself with fascistic interweaving of super corporations and the government.
Not sure how the reply was keyed to me since I didn't write the original statement btw. I am a firm believer that we will be able to have tech development and the comforts of modern life without destroying the environment.
Darwin said natural selection/survival of the fittest should not be applied to humans and their society. For one thing there no reason to believe that the best of us will survive. The brightest are often the first killed off by fascist regimes I think with mankind the most aggressive dolts are the most likely to survive. We'd actually be going backward evolutionarily speaking.
I have seen several Stanfordites spout this Darwinian logic applied to humankind. Darwin rejected it utterly. And contrary to the Stanford researcher I do hope to think that because of our minds and souls we will survive ultimately due to advances in clean energy; a realization that we cannot let our governments be run by criminals and oil kingpins;and massive advances in nutritional and medical research.
I always have liked talking to Stanford professors but some of their work product is rather surprisingly less than ideal.
Why don't the Democrats scream that deficit spending is a tax increase plus interest. It is a much much worse tax increase!!
I'm really beginning to think all this politicking of the Democrats and Republicons is just a show to make us all think they are not really there just to steal our money.
These data centers might best be fueled in whole or in part by green or greener alternatives. Hydrogen fuel cells fueled by natural gas or some collectivized sourced fuel such as clean hydrogen generation might be one(one idea was to build man-made ponds of hydrogen producing lifeforms(already proven)-- estimated that several put in the State of New Mexico could produce enough hydrogen to meet all the energy needs of the entire United states and even make us a net-exporter of hydrogen).
I think it should be looked at because it could be a great source of benefit to the corporations public image aside from possible cost savings. Collectivized would mean several corps and other types of organizations come together to generate their own cooperative and clean energy thus possibly having an economy and feasibility benefit from a larger scale operation-- one where the consumers of the energy are the owners of it's production.
I still don't know why China and India aren't being more aggressive at alternative energy development. It would be lovely to see one day when we have hydrogen power running our homes cleanly not from a central source but from multiple competing sources. No more wasteful grid power but clean DC(non cancer causing power) coming from a separate fuel cell for all of our homes and offices.
It would also make us safe from problems when the electric grid goes down we'd all have separate fuel cells--It would be impossible for a bombing to shut-down a city.
I think NYC has a hydrogen road map and has entire office complexes fueled by natural gas powered fuel cells as an example. There really is so many possibilities that are well developed we could easily have a non-nuclear fission clean energy world in 5 years flat if we really tried to.
By the way carbon sequestration is silly... carbon is very useful for many products why not make money from it too?
Well why is it not a goal? Darl McBride was the reason SCO turned against Linux afterall. He was the one who had SCO sue open source. I remember my dad had bought SCO Xenix for like five billion dollars a copy...er more like 5,000 but anyway it was a well run company back then vending it's version of SysV and really working on issues like hardware drivers.
Unix/Linux should always be about working against fascism. We can make money and make massive advances at the same time with open source code and freedom. It's all this taking over/mergering and requisitioning and Darl's suing that poisons the water for tech advancement. A healthy free market and completely free press is essential to a free society. We need to not allow situations where a few can control the marketplace. One way will be to reduce copyright and patent terms so people have enough time to make a fair return on their labors and yet not stifle competition and tech advancement. I think we'd be a lot further along with tech in our society if we didn't have mostly a bunch of criminals trying to control and take over the marketplace. At some point mergers should become illegal or very very difficult.
But truth be told you are correct that the major press especially never reports tech issues correctly.
I don't thing it would be as great a threat that China is spying if we simply have a government that knows how to put together computer networks. Years ago my firewall detected attempts by Commerce dept to enter my computer. I did research and determined that their Solarus servers were contaminated and trying to spread their contamination to other computers. I called around and got nothing but people on the phone... heads of computer operations... counter terrorism and other things none of whom knew a thing about the underlying technology in question. All they had to do was rebuild the contaminated servers in question and harden them for the threat.
I mean it is literally insanely ridiculous how much the US government spends on computer systems per department and then we hear a story about some halfwit in England that breaks into a "major US military security system posing a grave threat to some of our most vital military systems" when virtually non of them should be web exposed and those that are should have competent Linux/Unix people running them. Trust me not one of the people I talked to running these systems was even remotely competent. Most of these vital systems on the web exposed end are put together so poorly it might as well be an open door with a neon sign saying "All Welcome". It's so bad one could literally accidentally invade a sensitive US government computer system. They really need to stop prosecuting teenager hackers who expose these horrible breeches in security. The major crime really is in the people that are administrating the agencies computer networks and security policies therein. That and we have a system of bribes to get government contracts etc--oh and Politicians well loads of problems we have... My point is we could be much more secure.
The picture frame's mistake is that it is just a usb drive with most of the frame raster code/rules on the drive itself. So all a virus program would have to do is right over those programs. Maybe if the main engine to show raster files could also control write access to the usb drive thus allowing only say Jpg and other picture file types-- and this engine could be locked away in a non-writable ROM chip. That would make the frames even less of a virus threat than a normal usb drive, possibly.
I've never heard of that being a major problem. Most people today use routers that you can easily password lock as to the DNS server and other settings. And by default those routers are never accessible on from the Internet even with no password. There are plenty of good alternative DNS servers people use for various reasons that are not rogue or evil. You can fix your DNS server settings even while keeping your IP setting DHCP in the Linux and windows OS so they go to the DNS servers of your choice(usually people use their ISP's by default) and do not rely upon. Host.txt if used or hosts can be locked to root. I think windows settings are encrypted and not easily changeable by any virus.
Why does one format have to win the war per se?? Why can't they both put out players with both formats supported? I mean we have about 10 billion video, graphics and audio formats on a pc why not two or more HD formats for players. To me unending competition and variety is what had made the tech and computer industries so great. Constant innovation.
We really purportedly have the potential for 1.5 terabyte bidirectional internet connections to our homes(yes that is terabyte with a "t") with existing wiring in place. That would make any media format issue pointless to worry about and make our virtual interconnectedness take on new possibilities and levels of magnificence. I mean I suppose we'd still need media for storing things...
I think defective ccds couldn't possibly be that statistically unique and besides couldn't they become defective overtime randomly??
What about the idea of open source hardware?? Demanding manufacturers comply with groups like EFF playing watchdog. This is a terrible infringement on our civil liberties. I mean we are beginning to have a full blown fascist state when we find things like this. Without any democratic component at all we have private companies adding essentially privacy invading police-state devices and features to the products we buy without telling us even.
I think this three strikes thing UK is supposedly planning for is extremely dangerous. It would allow virtually unchecked and blanket surveillance of anyone. It would be fighting to me what is a very minor crime by creating a very major crime on the part of the state. I would most definitely boycott the UK in all it's glory if this should be enacted.
It is extremely dangerous for many reasons if you just sit and think about it for a minute. But this brown guy came in office saying he's going to work against the reductions in freedoms and such resulting from 9/11 and 7/7 only to have what I think was a staged car bombing day the very day after he enters office and he suddenly conveniently uses it as a stage for virtually unending reductions in civil rights and vast increases in police powers. This is just one more example of Neocon Labour.
Keep in mind many of these so-called indie film companies are wholly or significantly owned by the giant Hollywood studios. They are "independent" or indie in artificially generated image only.
This possible action by the UK government is another threat to our freedom that we must fight. The UK should not be allowed to prevent people from sharing files or anything else. This immediately would open the Internet to blanket dragnet operations if you think about it many things or possibly even anything could be interpreted as potential illegal file sharing. UK is off my list of freedom loving nations if this goes through. I think any action that impedes the general freedom of the Internet should be fought and put a stop to. If need be we should boycott all UK media industry products in protest. I think it is just that serious a threat.
I also think the BBC's limiting of some of it's video streams to England-only or UK-only internet users is a terrible misuse of this wonderful globally interconnecting medium. Freedom and interconnectivity is what the internet is all about. My dad and granddad used to share audio tapes of LP records. Sharing is just a part of business you could say a cost but most of those that share wouldn't go buy if they had to as they simply couldn't afford it. The internet is providing all new ways for many many more people to make money with music and videos. Besides I never thought the words "music" and "industry" should go together. Freedom is what life is all about Freedom will win in the end regardless of what the anything goes neo-fascists might otherwise hope. The flow of the river of Freedom can only be impeded for short periods of time.
I think a so-called desktop OS must also be a server except in the most simple of usages. Linux of today is such a powerful full featured desktop experience. Yet I am also able to easily share my internet connection, printers and files with other systems. I can not just play web video games but I can have my own server serving them. I don't understand why someone would say being "desktop only and not a server" is a good thing.
Linux is now at least as novice user friendly as windows and Mac. And we can even run multiple OS's easily with server technology too. Linux desktop user experience and ongoing evolution is not at all reduced by it's server functionality.
A British computer engineer, Gary McKinnon, allegedly crippled vital US defense systems in the wake of the September 11 attacks by carrying out the "biggest military hack of all time", a court heard yesterday.
From his bedroom in North London, Gary McKinnon -- using the name Solo -- brought American government networks to their knees by infiltrating the Pentagon, the army and the navy, it was further alleged.
There is a question as to whether or not the systems were ever sufficiently secure in the first place to have been so easily hacked. Systems, afterall, we are told, that are so vital to the nation's defense as to warrant such a stir. This so called "massive attack" was entirely waged from a home computer by a single computer tech. How many enemy nations might be successfully doing the very same thing only covering their tracks more carefully? One wonders. Did McKinnon's alleged crimes serve, albeit unintentionally, to help us be more secure by exposing terrible weaknesses in such vital systems?
The MPAA (over 50% owned my non-american Jap companies) is insane. The MPAA is working against technology and freedom which cannot be allowed. In the end they will lose. They(big monopolistic film) represents a very small tiny fraction of the US economy and yet they are asking for measures which will stop freedom for everyone else. We need to have digital theatres with digital projectors we need to stop allowing the MPAA companies to control film distribution. If it takes it we need to boycott their products entirely. Small filmmakers have taken the lions share of film awards because their product is better in every way. We need to break up news monopolies and cable monopolies too. We need to so we can have an explosion of choice in a low-priced super competitive free market.
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Brilliant I completely agree. We can use the Internet to provide us much more ability to monitor all aspects of our government. We can even envision having a direct democracy where people could vote on individual pieces of legislation. And I think the Internet can do this while keeping it safe for private communications with very strong encryption. Ultimately I do believe that freedom will win-out in the end. If you just sit and watch CNN and MSNBC and FOX you'll think the USA is hopeless and everyone is falling for all the 1984 bull. It couldn't be farther from the truth. We are all much much better informed then ever and we know clearly we need major change. The trick is to stop falling for the deceptions and our own personal greed. We must start putting our great country first and realise these people are destroying everything and they must be stopped. This one website you reference is providing an excellent service. People need to know just how well something as critical as a police service is operating. Small business to the individual we all rely upon their good conduct and high standards. As bad as things look following 7 years of Bush I think there is reason to be optimistic about the future.
the number of UK Linux users, according to their own logs, exceeds some 50,000 to the one web page. Your statement that Linux is only in the 4-600 total number of UK users of Linux is flat out wrong and was promoted by the BBC to get out of legal requirements to provide players for Linux. Even BBC late last year admitted that their low Linux count was completely false.
BBC who is embracing digital rights management and a strong push by Labour to literally block people from the internet for life if they don't comply with this system. This makes the British government and BBC by far the most viciously anti open-source in general and pro police state surveillance of the Internet to say nothing of their constant video taping of all of London. Gives me the creeps and BBC is becoming less and less of a journalistic source of information and more of a mouth piece for the government. I dare say we can all ultimately live without BBC quite well.
The physicist that was found beaten to death in Florida had developed and patented a process by which hydrogen is "fractured" from water with very low (around one amp) power consumption. He created a working model and the Navy department took control of the patent only to sit on it and do nothing with it. There are several videos on youtube and google etc. He had converted ordinary cars to literally run on water. I'd imagine loads of criminals running our societies would want to get rid of him.
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These vehicles run by burning the hydrogen created by his amazing fracturing process. Internal combustion engines are about 70 percent less efficient than electric engines. Internal combustion engines waste most of the energy they consume in the form of heat. In contrast hydrogen fuel cell powered cars are electric vehicles.
"Show me a natural system that is truly as inequitable as our human systems. Show me a species that over consumes and still survives. You may not like the truth, but that doesn't make it false. You can hide your head in the sand and ignore it, but that doesn't make it go away. You can insult people who think differently from you, but that doesn't make them wrong. And it also won't make intelligent people agree with you.
Capitalism isn't freedom, it is a path to slavery, as there are no negative feedback loops to halt the runaway concentration of capital into fewer and fewer hands. This will lead to a new type of feudalism, where a small percentage of people own all the means of production, and everyone else will have to do what they say, or starve. Freedom to choose what flavor of soda you drink is not real freedom.
Hope you enjoy your own intellectual-inbreeding. You are obviously so frightened of other points of view that you've put yourself into an echo chamber, where all you hear are confirmations of your own bias. Do you really think our current civilization is sustainable in the long term? What happens when we reach the limits of growth?"
I disagree: free market capitalism is the only way to go it produces the best advancements and the best quality of life over any other system. Communal government run capitalism has a great tendency towards fascism also. The problems is free market capitalism can twist itself into this feudalistic- fascistic system we see occurring even in the UK and USA at this very moment in time. Some of it even for good reasons others done just for the crooks running our governments.
In order for free market capitalism to survive and flourish it absolutely requires a free and even competitive press that is not owned by interests with conflicting motivations and it also requires a vibrant and free Democracy unhindered by a crooked voting system or by a press which is now owned by the defence industry and other contrary parties. Freedom and free market capitalism do require constant vigilance and they do require us to stop blindly following the leader and waving our "patriotic" flags. But they are worth the efforts. A free press with a free people is very powerful. It can turn us towards eliminating the poisoning our environment and create sustainable and renewable alternative energy sources. We can even imagine reclaiming deserts and other wonderful things. We can actually go down a path where we end up with a super clean and beautiful world as a product of what we do. But we cannot ever hope to get there if we sit back and allow the press to be run by a few people and the government to be run by big oil and defence industry monsters. Stop letting ourselves get brainwashed by the mindlessness of political thinking whether it be from the left or right who cares. We can wake up and do research and become active participants in our future.
We must also be very strong against market take-overs or any actions that inhibit or reduce competition in the market place. the only way to achieve all of this is to start by making it a felony to give money to political entities. All money must be purged from politics it poisons the Democracy.
"It sounds to me like what they're saying is that capitalism/freedom goes against the very laws of the universe and won't last much longer and then we'll all live according to leftist principles and finally be on track with the way we were meant to be. Gawd I'm glad I'm out of college and away from these intellectually-inbreeding socialist fucks." I don't see how anyone but a brainwashed imbecile could think that capitalism and freedom mean we have to destroy our environment... We have less freedom and less free market when we allow our government to be bought off by mega corps who want to take over the marketplace and restrict freedom and destroy our environment. Freedom necessitates strong and constant labours both in it's defence and logically in it's sustainability. Strange how it is conservative to allow unfettered destruction of the environment and constriction of the free press both through ownership by defence contractors and consolidation. To them it is conservative to eliminate competition and socialistic to promote competition and a strong adherence to environmental protection rules. How completely ridiculous. All you are doing is proving Marx and Lenin's points that free market capitalism always ends up destroying itself with fascistic interweaving of super corporations and the government.
Not sure how the reply was keyed to me since I didn't write the original statement btw. I am a firm believer that we will be able to have tech development and the comforts of modern life without destroying the environment.
I completely disagree. Warring, destruction and barbarism do not require much intelligence or even exceptional physical ability.
Who the bloody hell cares??
Darwin said natural selection/survival of the fittest should not be applied to humans and their society. For one thing there no reason to believe that the best of us will survive. The brightest are often the first killed off by fascist regimes I think with mankind the most aggressive dolts are the most likely to survive. We'd actually be going backward evolutionarily speaking.
I have seen several Stanfordites spout this Darwinian logic applied to humankind. Darwin rejected it utterly. And contrary to the Stanford researcher I do hope to think that because of our minds and souls we will survive ultimately due to advances in clean energy; a realization that we cannot let our governments be run by criminals and oil kingpins;and massive advances in nutritional and medical research.
I always have liked talking to Stanford professors but some of their work product is rather surprisingly less than ideal.
Why don't the Democrats scream that deficit spending is a tax increase plus interest. It is a much much worse tax increase!!
I'm really beginning to think all this politicking of the Democrats and Republicons is just a show to make us all think they are not really there just to steal our money.
These data centers might best be fueled in whole or in part by green or greener alternatives. Hydrogen fuel cells fueled by natural gas or some collectivized sourced fuel such as clean hydrogen generation might be one(one idea was to build man-made ponds of hydrogen producing lifeforms(already proven)-- estimated that several put in the State of New Mexico could produce enough hydrogen to meet all the energy needs of the entire United states and even make us a net-exporter of hydrogen).
I think it should be looked at because it could be a great source of benefit to the corporations public image aside from possible cost savings. Collectivized would mean several corps and other types of organizations come together to generate their own cooperative and clean energy thus possibly having an economy and feasibility benefit from a larger scale operation-- one where the consumers of the energy are the owners of it's production.
I still don't know why China and India aren't being more aggressive at alternative energy development. It would be lovely to see one day when we have hydrogen power running our homes cleanly not from a central source but from multiple competing sources. No more wasteful grid power but clean DC(non cancer causing power) coming from a separate fuel cell for all of our homes and offices.
It would also make us safe from problems when the electric grid goes down we'd all have separate fuel cells--It would be impossible for a bombing to shut-down a city.
I think NYC has a hydrogen road map and has entire office complexes fueled by natural gas powered fuel cells as an example. There really is so many possibilities that are well developed we could easily have a non-nuclear fission clean energy world in 5 years flat if we really tried to.
By the way carbon sequestration is silly... carbon is very useful for many products why not make money from it too?
Well why is it not a goal? Darl McBride was the reason SCO turned against Linux afterall. He was the one who had SCO sue open source. I remember my dad had bought SCO Xenix for like five billion dollars a copy ...er more like 5,000 but anyway it was a well run company back then vending it's version of SysV and really working on issues like hardware drivers.
Unix/Linux should always be about working against fascism. We can make money and make massive advances at the same time with open source code and freedom. It's all this taking over/mergering and requisitioning and Darl's suing that poisons the water for tech advancement. A healthy free market and completely free press is essential to a free society. We need to not allow situations where a few can control the marketplace. One way will be to reduce copyright and patent terms so people have enough time to make a fair return on their labors and yet not stifle competition and tech advancement. I think we'd be a lot further along with tech in our society if we didn't have mostly a bunch of criminals trying to control and take over the marketplace. At some point mergers should become illegal or very very difficult.
But truth be told you are correct that the major press especially never reports tech issues correctly.
I don't thing it would be as great a threat that China is spying if we simply have a government that knows how to put together computer networks. Years ago my firewall detected attempts by Commerce dept to enter my computer. I did research and determined that their Solarus servers were contaminated and trying to spread their contamination to other computers. I called around and got nothing but people on the phone... heads of computer operations... counter terrorism and other things none of whom knew a thing about the underlying technology in question. All they had to do was rebuild the contaminated servers in question and harden them for the threat. I mean it is literally insanely ridiculous how much the US government spends on computer systems per department and then we hear a story about some halfwit in England that breaks into a "major US military security system posing a grave threat to some of our most vital military systems" when virtually non of them should be web exposed and those that are should have competent Linux/Unix people running them. Trust me not one of the people I talked to running these systems was even remotely competent. Most of these vital systems on the web exposed end are put together so poorly it might as well be an open door with a neon sign saying "All Welcome". It's so bad one could literally accidentally invade a sensitive US government computer system. They really need to stop prosecuting teenager hackers who expose these horrible breeches in security. The major crime really is in the people that are administrating the agencies computer networks and security policies therein. That and we have a system of bribes to get government contracts etc--oh and Politicians well loads of problems we have ... My point is we could be much more secure.
The picture frame's mistake is that it is just a usb drive with most of the frame raster code/rules on the drive itself. So all a virus program would have to do is right over those programs. Maybe if the main engine to show raster files could also control write access to the usb drive thus allowing only say Jpg and other picture file types-- and this engine could be locked away in a non-writable ROM chip. That would make the frames even less of a virus threat than a normal usb drive, possibly.
I've never heard of that being a major problem. Most people today use routers that you can easily password lock as to the DNS server and other settings. And by default those routers are never accessible on from the Internet even with no password. There are plenty of good alternative DNS servers people use for various reasons that are not rogue or evil. You can fix your DNS server settings even while keeping your IP setting DHCP in the Linux and windows OS so they go to the DNS servers of your choice(usually people use their ISP's by default) and do not rely upon. Host.txt if used or hosts can be locked to root. I think windows settings are encrypted and not easily changeable by any virus.
Why does one format have to win the war per se?? Why can't they both put out players with both formats supported? I mean we have about 10 billion video, graphics and audio formats on a pc why not two or more HD formats for players. To me unending competition and variety is what had made the tech and computer industries so great. Constant innovation. We really purportedly have the potential for 1.5 terabyte bidirectional internet connections to our homes(yes that is terabyte with a "t") with existing wiring in place. That would make any media format issue pointless to worry about and make our virtual interconnectedness take on new possibilities and levels of magnificence. I mean I suppose we'd still need media for storing things...
I think defective ccds couldn't possibly be that statistically unique and besides couldn't they become defective overtime randomly?? What about the idea of open source hardware?? Demanding manufacturers comply with groups like EFF playing watchdog. This is a terrible infringement on our civil liberties. I mean we are beginning to have a full blown fascist state when we find things like this. Without any democratic component at all we have private companies adding essentially privacy invading police-state devices and features to the products we buy without telling us even.
I think this three strikes thing UK is supposedly planning for is extremely dangerous. It would allow virtually unchecked and blanket surveillance of anyone. It would be fighting to me what is a very minor crime by creating a very major crime on the part of the state. I would most definitely boycott the UK in all it's glory if this should be enacted. It is extremely dangerous for many reasons if you just sit and think about it for a minute. But this brown guy came in office saying he's going to work against the reductions in freedoms and such resulting from 9/11 and 7/7 only to have what I think was a staged car bombing day the very day after he enters office and he suddenly conveniently uses it as a stage for virtually unending reductions in civil rights and vast increases in police powers. This is just one more example of Neocon Labour.
Keep in mind many of these so-called indie film companies are wholly or significantly owned by the giant Hollywood studios. They are "independent" or indie in artificially generated image only.
This possible action by the UK government is another threat to our freedom that we must fight. The UK should not be allowed to prevent people from sharing files or anything else. This immediately would open the Internet to blanket dragnet operations if you think about it many things or possibly even anything could be interpreted as potential illegal file sharing. UK is off my list of freedom loving nations if this goes through. I think any action that impedes the general freedom of the Internet should be fought and put a stop to. If need be we should boycott all UK media industry products in protest. I think it is just that serious a threat. I also think the BBC's limiting of some of it's video streams to England-only or UK-only internet users is a terrible misuse of this wonderful globally interconnecting medium. Freedom and interconnectivity is what the internet is all about. My dad and granddad used to share audio tapes of LP records. Sharing is just a part of business you could say a cost but most of those that share wouldn't go buy if they had to as they simply couldn't afford it. The internet is providing all new ways for many many more people to make money with music and videos. Besides I never thought the words "music" and "industry" should go together. Freedom is what life is all about Freedom will win in the end regardless of what the anything goes neo-fascists might otherwise hope. The flow of the river of Freedom can only be impeded for short periods of time.
I think a so-called desktop OS must also be a server except in the most simple of usages. Linux of today is such a powerful full featured desktop experience. Yet I am also able to easily share my internet connection, printers and files with other systems. I can not just play web video games but I can have my own server serving them. I don't understand why someone would say being "desktop only and not a server" is a good thing. Linux is now at least as novice user friendly as windows and Mac. And we can even run multiple OS's easily with server technology too. Linux desktop user experience and ongoing evolution is not at all reduced by it's server functionality.
I'm trying to hack Vista so it cannot possibly-ever under any circumstances- go onto my computers. Please God no!!
A British computer engineer, Gary McKinnon, allegedly crippled vital US defense systems in the wake of the September 11 attacks by carrying out the "biggest military hack of all time", a court heard yesterday. From his bedroom in North London, Gary McKinnon -- using the name Solo -- brought American government networks to their knees by infiltrating the Pentagon, the army and the navy, it was further alleged. There is a question as to whether or not the systems were ever sufficiently secure in the first place to have been so easily hacked. Systems, afterall, we are told, that are so vital to the nation's defense as to warrant such a stir. This so called "massive attack" was entirely waged from a home computer by a single computer tech. How many enemy nations might be successfully doing the very same thing only covering their tracks more carefully? One wonders. Did McKinnon's alleged crimes serve, albeit unintentionally, to help us be more secure by exposing terrible weaknesses in such vital systems?
The MPAA (over 50% owned my non-american Jap companies) is insane. The MPAA is working against technology and freedom which cannot be allowed. In the end they will lose. They(big monopolistic film) represents a very small tiny fraction of the US economy and yet they are asking for measures which will stop freedom for everyone else. We need to have digital theatres with digital projectors we need to stop allowing the MPAA companies to control film distribution. If it takes it we need to boycott their products entirely. Small filmmakers have taken the lions share of film awards because their product is better in every way. We need to break up news monopolies and cable monopolies too. We need to so we can have an explosion of choice in a low-priced super competitive free market.