What would you think if some big company asked you to "licence" the right to talk English, or French, or Chineese ?
Well, this is what Microsoft is doing. You want to talk with Microsoft ? then you have to "licence".
Even better similarity. A Company creates a new language and slowly have half of the world speak it. For the other half of the world you have to "licence" the fact that you can talk that new language.
I got an email stating that an order had been placed with my name and it was being delivered.
Now, I have two choices:
Do nothing and mybe allow some delivery of goods that I do not want (I am in UK, not US) and then have to return them or anyway cancel the payment (can be difficult if made by debit card) even if the crook got the numbers from looking at you at the supermarket.
Have a look and see what it is about.
The ECommerce site was a troian installer, it didn't work since I user Opera and have activeX disabled (Quite interesting all the tecnique they used)
The point is that sometime it is quite difficult to know if something is legitimate or not and to me the only solution is to have less wizybang applications and more reliable ones.
No activex, plain HTML browsing.
Banks should NOT use funny addresses for part of their pages, just one clear address.
No magic jumping between applications, no magic installing, make it painful to install something taken from the network !
Microsoft is so rich that it can afford to buy what it cannot steal, but the border is somewhat very thin especially if we talk about ideas.
Microsoft bought the browser stealing it from Netscape idea (not even that, really, Mosaic was even before Netscape)
Microsoft "made" C# stealing the whole idea from Sun's Java (not even that, pseudocode was really available from pascal age)
Microsoft wants to "steal" market share for games and cellphones from established companies.
But the above, legally, are not stealing, but we all understand that there is something wrong. What is wrong is using the HUGE amount of money earned to force trough a market. Something that would have never been possible othervise.
So, what do we understand from the competition ?
If quite a few people go with Microsoft then we understand that quite a lot of people can be bought off with a tiny sum and they are "not smart enough" to understand that this is great marketing for Microsoft (Tecnically Microsoft is not stealing the competitors ideas).
If instead this is a flop, then possibly the level of understanding is not so low.
It is important to note that the above may not be a measure of "smartness", but on how little the average person know about the subject. In other words, if you have a chance to help a rich or a poor person who would you like to help ?
There is this mith that "you can get around it".
The reality is that if the "government" really wants to stop it, it can.
1) Stopping, can be done. Any phone conversation/communication can be stopped, any networking activity can be stopped. It is not a matter on how you can do it but are you willing to go about to actually implement an infrastructure that does it.
2) Crypted content can be outlawed and filtered out. Many will say stenogram, but even that can be traced and really, how many images of your children can you send out before the pattern becomes suspicious ?
3) Non encrypted content can be looked by automatic programs, you will say, codewords... oh yes, but to use codewords you need to agree on them, phisically. And how do you know the other person is on YOUR side and not on the government ?
The HUGE difference in supervising networking is that the government has instant control on any part of the infrastructure, sort of having a police at any place, any time AND the policing is not done by humans but by computers.
So, you have real 24/7 surveilance and no chance whatsoever to bypass it.
This is what can happen if a government gets serious in doing it.
This is going to be the problem in IT, too much legal messing about, both in forms of submarine patents and EULA with incredible conditions.
From the Blog
As I mentioned to him in an email, I am a legitimate member of the trade press and would never have agreed to an expensive trip to Seattle if I knew that Microsoft was, for the first time, mysteriously not letting people post photos of a publicly-released Windows build. This is information that would have been helpful weeks ago, not after the fact.
Honestly, how many of you read fully the EULA that comes with the SW you download ?
What if at some point a company tells you that you have violated their EULA and demands money ?
Sadly, the law, does not obey to "common sense" and "by law" you will be obliged to pay...
Solutions ?, maybe an EULA that is no longer than 25 lines (80 characters each long) ?
So, instead of Java we could use perl, pyton, php (remember that?).net and I am sure someone will come up with many more.
They all are simple, fast, exciting, new, wonderful... etc.
I am beginning to think that this is a plot of Microsoft to dilute the only alternative to.net (.net is a clone of java, but of course -SARCASM- much better, faster, newer, more portable etc. -/SARCASM- )
It was Caesar that used the method to conquer an empire, and it did work.
If it was enough to send a copy of the received email to a "legal system" that force the spammer to give you 100$ then spamming would die immediatly.
Bear in mind I am not considering as sender the machine that actually sent the Email, to me the sender is the one that "profit" from the Email.
Well, ok, not easy as it seems if the spammer is a company based in some remote island...
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I don't know if it will happen, but it does logically make sense.
If it does not happen is because of "politics", I mean, China locked out of hardware ? and forced to use windows ? naaaa
I guess that we will buy chinese computers..
What would you think if some big company asked you to "licence" the right to talk English, or French, or Chineese ?
Well, this is what Microsoft is doing. You want to talk with Microsoft ? then you have to "licence".
Even better similarity. A Company creates a new language and slowly have half of the world speak it. For the other half of the world you have to "licence" the fact that you can talk that new language.
Simple, they do not know how to design and implement a decent website. Basically they are incompetent.
I got an email stating that an order had been placed with my name and it was being delivered. Now, I have two choices:
Do nothing and mybe allow some delivery of goods that I do not want (I am in UK, not US) and then have to return them or anyway cancel the payment (can be difficult if made by debit card) even if the crook got the numbers from looking at you at the supermarket.
Have a look and see what it is about.
The ECommerce site was a troian installer, it didn't work since I user Opera and have activeX disabled (Quite interesting all the tecnique they used)
The point is that sometime it is quite difficult to know if something is legitimate or not and to me the only solution is to have less wizybang applications and more reliable ones.
No activex, plain HTML browsing.
Banks should NOT use funny addresses for part of their pages, just one clear address.
No magic jumping between applications, no magic installing, make it painful to install something taken from the network !
Maybe they want to put a power plant on the moon and beam the power down to earth ?
It really depends on what stealing means.
Microsoft is so rich that it can afford to buy what it cannot steal, but the border is somewhat very thin especially if we talk about ideas.
Microsoft bought the browser stealing it from Netscape idea (not even that, really, Mosaic was even before Netscape)
Microsoft "made" C# stealing the whole idea from Sun's Java (not even that, pseudocode was really available from pascal age)
Microsoft wants to "steal" market share for games and cellphones from established companies.
But the above, legally, are not stealing, but we all understand that there is something wrong. What is wrong is using the HUGE amount of money earned to force trough a market. Something that would have never been possible othervise.
So, what do we understand from the competition ?
If quite a few people go with Microsoft then we understand that quite a lot of people can be bought off with a tiny sum and they are "not smart enough" to understand that this is great marketing for Microsoft (Tecnically Microsoft is not stealing the competitors ideas).
If instead this is a flop, then possibly the level of understanding is not so low.
It is important to note that the above may not be a measure of "smartness", but on how little the average person know about the subject. In other words, if you have a chance to help a rich or a poor person who would you like to help ?
1) Stopping, can be done. Any phone conversation/communication can be stopped, any networking activity can be stopped. It is not a matter on how you can do it but are you willing to go about to actually implement an infrastructure that does it.
2) Crypted content can be outlawed and filtered out. Many will say stenogram, but even that can be traced and really, how many images of your children can you send out before the pattern becomes suspicious ?
3) Non encrypted content can be looked by automatic programs, you will say, codewords... oh yes, but to use codewords you need to agree on them, phisically. And how do you know the other person is on YOUR side and not on the government ?
The HUGE difference in supervising networking is that the government has instant control on any part of the infrastructure, sort of having a police at any place, any time AND the policing is not done by humans but by computers. So, you have real 24/7 surveilance and no chance whatsoever to bypass it.
This is what can happen if a government gets serious in doing it.
You may be one of the Longhorn zealots :-)
Nothing to do with Java Write Once Run Anywhere...
If you look at the stack trace, it is SWT, if it was swing then it would have run.
This is going to be the problem in IT, too much legal messing about, both in forms of submarine patents and EULA with incredible conditions.
From the Blog
Honestly, how many of you read fully the EULA that comes with the SW you download ?
What if at some point a company tells you that you have violated their EULA and demands money ?
Sadly, the law, does not obey to "common sense" and "by law" you will be obliged to pay...
Solutions ?, maybe an EULA that is no longer than 25 lines (80 characters each long) ?
So, instead of Java we could use perl, pyton, php (remember that?) .net and I am sure someone will come up with many more.
They all are simple, fast, exciting, new, wonderful... etc.
I am beginning to think that this is a plot of Microsoft to dilute the only alternative to .net (.net is a clone of java, but of course -SARCASM- much better, faster, newer, more portable etc. -/SARCASM- )
It was Caesar that used the method to conquer an empire, and it did work.
I wonder what will happen in five years when something break and you cannot find a spare compatible part...
Do you redo the house ?
Not to mention what happens if the electricity goes off, in the "old" days you at least where able to get into the house.
How the solution to crappy software si faster updates.
How the price of windows is pretty much dependent on how big you are (compare the retail price with the price paid by big companies)
So, screw the little and small, cuddle the big !
Yeah, great !
An if anybody try to complain, file a lawsuit for patent infringment..... surely there is a patent covering what you are doing now !
Big companies will have a cartel of patents, only the small fish will be left out. A pity that the "people" do not know/care about this.
If it was enough to send a copy of the received email to a "legal system" that force the spammer to give you 100$ then spamming would die immediatly. Bear in mind I am not considering as sender the machine that actually sent the Email, to me the sender is the one that "profit" from the Email. Well, ok, not easy as it seems if the spammer is a company based in some remote island...
Why not having a look at Nokia 9500 ? Maybe it is closer to what you need. Nokia 9500
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