Corporations are no democracies, at least they're not required to be so by law. So one "dictator", e.g. the CEO or the owner, decides "for everyone" to influence politics in a certain direction.
This destroys the "one man one vote" basic principle of democracy.
The Chinese or the NSA. I'm not so sure what is worse in my situation (located in Europe). The Chinese may know things about me, but I'm not within their reach nor sphere of interest. For European companies, e.g. swiss banks, the same might be true. They may have good reasons to fear the NSA more than the Chinese.
Usually only a fraction of available packages for a certain system (like CPAN for perl, or eclipse 'bundles') is available directly as OS-level package (such as deb or rpm). For the rest you're on your own, or you use CPAN etc. and now maybe feline-herd for emacs (though I've fared well without it for 25 years).
Sooner or later though, a truely democratic state will choose to loosen or abolish copyright (partially), e.g. by means of a referendum. This is quite well possible in Switzerland, for example.
Then the will of that people will clash with the US openly. I wonder if the US will then still talk about "supporting" democracy worldwide.
Using noscript with the option "temporarily allow top-level sites by default" for base 2nd level domains works pretty well most of the time. With this more lenient setting, you do not often have to whitelist anymore.
I tried to use bing for a while, out of concern that google may know too much of me (already using gmail and calendar, at least my searches should go elsewhere). But the search results are just too bad, alas.
Many large banks are moving from sparc to x64 right now. I know of one major bank that has waited since 5 years for the next generation of sparc, but decided to go to x64 commodity hardware 2 years ago. 50% of servers worldwide have already been migrated.
Tiny Tiny RSS is an open source aggregator that you can host yourself and offers an API and has two android clients (don't know about iphone). I use it and think it is a worthy replacement for google reader.
I switched from google reader to tiny tiny rss (on my home server) a while back. It is quite nice and, purely for reading rss feeds, up to par with google reader.
An extra advantage is that google no longer knows even more about your interests and preferences.
But if all non-"legacy" clients don't use X anymore, I loose network transparency for modern applications. Which is horrible. I hope all of this fails, and X survives as mainstream.
From other sources, directly and mostly indirectly. Most experts answering questions sooner or later had to go in depth and "resort" to full and complete vendor documentation. Using this, they are able to post on stackoverflow.
Without the documentation source, noone would ever be able to obtain the knowledge in the first place. Except for some simple and self documenting systems/API's.
Surely it is not to be hoped that software providers are going to rely on "user generated content" and neglect reference documentation. (No, I'm not a technical writer myself).
Hmm, I have an iMac 27' next to me, using windows 7 mainly. But I prefer sitting behind my ubuntu pc actually. It is completely hassle free, even more so than osx ever was for me. Especially after I switched from (c)twm i.e. old style bare bones X-window to just using unity and ubuntu as it is out of the obx. I resisted the temptation to tweak and change things (except for an agreeable theme) and after a few days actually was completely convinced. It is a wonderful, simple environment which sits as little in the way of actually running and switching between applications. Everything including 3rd party apps (integrated via ppa's ) is automatically kept up to date through a single mechanism (with multiple front-ends to your liking).
And having a truely native (as opposed to nearly native) unix-like environment and sw.dev toolchain underneath is a relief as well.
Using ubuntu server on my server, I doubted between ubuntu + cinnamon and mint itself. I didn't see much difference and liked to stay closer to the source (i.e. ubuntu + cinnamon). But after a while, trying unity once in a while, I think it is quite usable too. I was put off by the many negative comments, but try it a few days and I like it quite well.
This coming from ctwm + bare X for the last 15 years. I used to tweak the last keybinding and border color, but unity is good out of the box without any tweaking required (for me).
Same in Switzerland. We are obliged to take our minimum of 4 weeks, of which 2 weeks must be consecutive.
We're not even allowed to log in remotely or read work related e-mail, though the latter is not a national law but a company regulation to prevent fraud.
MSFT surely has the money to afford a false start, and in the past they have successfully recovered from initial weaknesses (xbox for example). But in todays computing market, fast changing and diversifying, I doubt if they have the time.
On the contrary: markets that have to be heavily regulated should be directly steered by the state (i.e. the people, hopefully). Oversight just is too hard, and influencing the pharmaceutical industry to invest r&d in those areas that are beneficial to society (e.g. new anti-biotics) instead of mainly beneficial to their share holders and top management is nearly impossible.
R&D for essential areas like health and drugs development should be modelled after international "big science" collaboration like CERN etc. The R&D could be perfectly funded this way, if it can be done for physics, surely it must be possible for health care.
The non-IP infested mere production of the drugs and machines could then be left to the market and free competition. Ethical standards such as field tests and honestly reporting their results would be better upheld in a less commercial r&d environment.
The money saved in (partially) state-funded health care systems alone would surely supass the expenses for state funded R&D by far.
And this can be done in any field where further development is very benificial to society. The rest can be left fully to commerce, without the need for any state protection, i.e. patents.
Samba might take over leading the standard from Microsoft, implicitly. Since as others have remarked samba is taken for granted and built into anything. Even an Ubuntu Desktop automatically shows "windows" network drives but nfs often is not by default enabled or scanned (either linux client side or server side, e.g. on by Synology NAS). Would be interesting to see how Microsoft would react to that.
It is not wicked but just practical: We all know what MSFT would do once they'd get a big smartphone market share: exactly the same and worse. So lets try to hinder windows phone.
I am glad if the system of advertising is being disrupted. Lets hope this is real and is the next step in an ongoing trend of advertisement avoidance (adblock, tivo, now this IPS)...
If people think advertisements pay for their services such as free TV, they are fooling themselves.
Budgets for advertisement, i.e. for subjective bad information wasting your time, is paid out of a part of the profits of sales by companies. I.e. every consumer, whether he uses the advertisement sponsored services or not, is paying a kind of tax upon most product prices to pay for themselves being misinformed and having to sit through irritating commercials, waste of bandwidth, time and resources.
It would be better if people directly pay for what they use (fair prices of course), and do not have to finance misinformation anymore.
When it comes to getting good and objective information about products: there are many non-profit organisations (sometimes state funded) around the world that test and review new products. If you want you can become a member and/or subscribe to their publications. And of course, the Internet itself is a great means of getting objective (at least less subjective) information if you know where to find it.
Don't worry. Every civilization comes and goes. Ours is not very sustainable. Soon the natural selection will be restored. Lets hope it won't take too long, so some of our race will survive the upcoming 'selection'.
I read the original article elsewhere: The man was divorcing his wife, he didn't know how to download anything himself and had terminated his ISP subscription just after the 2nd "strike".
I think this is an excellent case to demonstrate the idiocy of this law.
Since the new government was already critical and was planning to evaluate the law and maybe revert it, this is a good first case. It should help to get rid of it.
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Corporations are no democracies, at least they're not required to be so by law. So one "dictator", e.g. the CEO or the owner, decides "for everyone" to influence politics in a certain direction.
This destroys the "one man one vote" basic principle of democracy.
The Chinese or the NSA. I'm not so sure what is worse in my situation (located in Europe).
The Chinese may know things about me, but I'm not within their reach nor sphere of interest.
For European companies, e.g. swiss banks, the same might be true.
They may have good reasons to fear the NSA more than the Chinese.
Usually only a fraction of available packages for a certain system (like CPAN for perl, or eclipse 'bundles') is available directly as OS-level package (such as deb or rpm). For the rest you're on your own, or you use CPAN etc. and now maybe feline-herd for emacs (though I've fared well without it for 25 years).
Sooner or later though, a truely democratic state will choose to loosen or abolish copyright (partially), e.g. by means of a referendum. This is quite well possible in Switzerland, for example.
Then the will of that people will clash with the US openly.
I wonder if the US will then still talk about "supporting" democracy worldwide.
Using noscript with the option "temporarily allow top-level sites by default" for base 2nd level domains works pretty well most of the time. With this more lenient setting, you do not often have to whitelist anymore.
I tried to use bing for a while, out of concern that google may know too much of me (already using gmail and calendar, at least my searches should go elsewhere). But the search results are just too bad, alas.
Or ban children alltogether. It could replace many other prohibitions with a single one.
Many large banks are moving from sparc to x64 right now. I know of one major bank that has waited since 5 years for the next generation of sparc, but decided to go to x64 commodity hardware 2 years ago. 50% of servers worldwide have already been migrated.
Tiny Tiny RSS is an open source aggregator that you can host yourself and offers an API and has two android clients (don't know about iphone). I use it and think it is a worthy replacement for google reader.
I switched from google reader to tiny tiny rss (on my home server) a while back. It is quite nice and, purely for reading rss feeds, up to par with google reader.
An extra advantage is that google no longer knows even more about your interests and preferences.
But if all non-"legacy" clients don't use X anymore, I loose network transparency for modern applications. Which is horrible.
I hope all of this fails, and X survives as mainstream.
From other sources, directly and mostly indirectly. Most experts answering questions sooner or later had to go in depth and "resort" to full and complete vendor documentation. Using this, they are able to post on stackoverflow.
Without the documentation source, noone would ever be able to obtain the knowledge in the first place. Except for some simple and self documenting systems/API's.
Surely it is not to be hoped that software providers are going to rely on "user generated content" and neglect reference documentation.
(No, I'm not a technical writer myself).
Hmm, I have an iMac 27' next to me, using windows 7 mainly. But I prefer sitting behind my ubuntu pc actually. It is completely hassle free, even more so than osx ever was for me. Especially after I switched from (c)twm i.e. old style bare bones X-window to just using unity and ubuntu as it is out of the obx. I resisted the temptation to tweak and change things (except for an agreeable theme) and after a few days actually was completely convinced. It is a wonderful, simple environment which sits as little in the way of actually running and switching between applications. Everything including 3rd party apps (integrated via ppa's ) is automatically kept up to date through a single mechanism (with multiple front-ends to your liking).
And having a truely native (as opposed to nearly native) unix-like environment and sw.dev toolchain underneath is a relief as well.
Using ubuntu server on my server, I doubted between ubuntu + cinnamon and mint itself. I didn't see much difference and liked to stay closer to the source (i.e. ubuntu + cinnamon). But after a while, trying unity once in a while, I think it is quite usable too. I was put off by the many negative comments, but try it a few days and I like it quite well.
This coming from ctwm + bare X for the last 15 years. I used to tweak the last keybinding and border color, but unity is good out of the box without any tweaking required (for me).
In that case, I hope Firefox will strike back by not only masquerading as a different browser, but then providing false data to third party cookies.
Same in Switzerland. We are obliged to take our minimum of 4 weeks, of which 2 weeks must be consecutive.
We're not even allowed to log in remotely or read work related e-mail, though the latter is not a national law but a company regulation to prevent fraud.
MSFT surely has the money to afford a false start, and in the past they have successfully recovered from initial weaknesses (xbox for example). But in todays computing market, fast changing and diversifying, I doubt if they have the time.
On the contrary: markets that have to be heavily regulated should be directly steered by the state (i.e. the people, hopefully).
Oversight just is too hard, and influencing the pharmaceutical industry to invest r&d in those areas that are beneficial to society (e.g. new anti-biotics) instead of mainly beneficial to their share holders and top management is nearly impossible.
R&D for essential areas like health and drugs development should be modelled after international "big science" collaboration like CERN etc. The R&D could be perfectly funded this way, if it can be done for physics, surely it must be possible for health care.
The non-IP infested mere production of the drugs and machines could then be left to the market and free competition.
Ethical standards such as field tests and honestly reporting their results would be better upheld in a less commercial r&d environment.
The money saved in (partially) state-funded health care systems alone would surely supass the expenses for state funded R&D by far.
And this can be done in any field where further development is very benificial to society. The rest can be left fully to commerce, without the need for any state protection, i.e. patents.
Arrogance, the root of all evil.
Hmm, please ignore my post :). Reading some other comments I realize it is totally wrong...
Samba might take over leading the standard from Microsoft, implicitly. Since as others have remarked samba is taken for granted and built into anything. Even an Ubuntu Desktop automatically shows "windows" network drives but nfs often is not by default enabled or scanned (either linux client side or server side, e.g. on by Synology NAS). Would be interesting to see how Microsoft would react to that.
It is not wicked but just practical: We all know what MSFT would do once they'd get a big smartphone market share: exactly the same and worse. So lets try to hinder windows phone.
I am glad if the system of advertising is being disrupted. Lets hope this is real and is the next step in an ongoing trend of advertisement avoidance (adblock, tivo, now this IPS)...
If people think advertisements pay for their services such as free TV, they are fooling themselves.
Budgets for advertisement, i.e. for subjective bad information wasting your time, is paid out of a part of the profits of sales by companies.
I.e. every consumer, whether he uses the advertisement sponsored services or not, is paying a kind of tax upon most product prices to pay for themselves being misinformed and having to sit through irritating commercials, waste of bandwidth, time and resources.
It would be better if people directly pay for what they use (fair prices of course), and do not have to finance misinformation anymore.
When it comes to getting good and objective information about products: there are many non-profit organisations (sometimes state funded) around the world that test and review new products. If you want you can become a member and/or subscribe to their publications. And of course, the Internet itself is a great means of getting objective (at least less subjective) information if you know where to find it.
Don't worry. Every civilization comes and goes. Ours is not very sustainable. Soon the natural selection will be restored. Lets hope it won't take too long, so some of our race will survive the upcoming 'selection'.
I read the original article elsewhere: The man was divorcing his wife, he didn't know how to download anything himself and had terminated his ISP subscription just after the 2nd "strike".
I think this is an excellent case to demonstrate the idiocy of this law.
Since the new government was already critical and was planning to evaluate the law and maybe revert it, this is a good first case. It should help to get rid of it.