consumers were very happy to embrace the DVD standard when it came about because it brought a huge jump in quality over VHS
Wrong again.
"Consumers" prefer DVD over tape because tape, the media and the player, is unreliable, bulky, slow (remember rewind?) and ultimately more expensive than DVD. If DVD quality were exactly the same as classic VCR media consumers would have still bought into it.
As far as this Blu-Ray vs. DVD survey result goes, I knew this and told you so some time ago. Consumers are not *philes. Where cheap meets "just works" you will find consumers; the rest is just *phile noise.
Anyhow, this whole debate is moot; tapes and spinning disks with die out for distributing commercial content as consumers figure out that "movies on demand" via download is cheaper and "just works" better than any other form of media.
They are operating within the letter of the law as they datamine through information insurance dependents have consensually released to insurance companies. As Wikipedia puts it, "A [HIPPA] covered entity may disclose... if the covered entity has obtained authorization from the individual." I guess you'll now be demanding another 10 years worth of legal wrangling to establish another regulation regime to "fix" this...
Keep throwing government at it. I would tell you that you won't be happy with the results of nationalizing a $2.1E12 per year industry, but you won't listen to that either.
It was my understanding that in EVE there really was no law
Eve players have "Security Status". This number is used by the game to enforce certain rules; players with low Security Status cannot enter systems with high security rating, for instance. Players with very low Security Status are not avenged by NPC security forces when they are attacked. Low Security Status is also indicated visually to all players, and bounties may be placed on the head of a player below a certain Security Status. Security Status is altered by certain acts of aggression.
Keep in mind that an Eve player may obtain as low a Security Status as he wishes and still play the game just fine. It's a choice, with consequences. The life of a dedicated "pirate" quite distinct from the common Eve player, yet there is a large, healthy population of them.
That the PvP was full-on and unrestricted
That is overly simplistic. The majority of space in Eve, called 0.0 ("zero zero"), is unrestricted PvP, except for political implications among players, which are not trivial in themselves. The rest is "empire" space where graduated levels of Security are enforced. Exceptions in "empire" also exist in the form of "kill rights", war declarations, faction warfare, criminal status, etc.
Eve is half a decade old now. It is complex. Very few generalizations hold.
I'd say it's rather far from a tie when you consider more than simply power consuption.
As the story points out Intel is restraining board designers from using desirable technology on the Atom platform. No PCI Express, no DVI, no second memory slot. Theory is "Intel appears to fear Atom will cannibalize its Celeron sales". Perhaps. I'll bet VIA is more than willing to cannibalize those sales if Intel is going to let them.
The reference board in this review is nice. There are two ethernet phys, one of which must be gigabit. Compact Flash, mini-PCI and PCI Express. Damn. I like that board. That is the perfect board for the small, quiet home server.
It appears all they're doing is not hosting in their local NNTP cache the listed newsgroups
That's what I've gathered also. Cuomo's (D., NY State AG) people have lists of groups and sites they've identified according to some criteria and those groups and sites will be blocked and dehosted.
You have to click through link in this Slashdot story and the link in the first TechDirt story to another TechDirt story before you discover that specific usenet groups are being targetted. Characterizing this as "turn off Usenet access" is a lie and the referrers, including Slashdot, are lying.
The related story linked earlier today by Slashdot makes it clear that the websites being targetted (as opposed to newsgroups) are those actually hosted by the ISPs involved; no "firewall for the children". They are dehosting sites they host, not filtering. Right or wrong this is an enforcement of their existing "acceptable use policies", which Cuomo claims they have neglected.
The ISPs are being browbeat by a politician that is threatening fines. Don't like it? Vote the Fuck out of office. ISPs aren't at fault here.
Slashdot editors: I decline to assume the intended level of apoplexy based on your lies. Sorry to disappoint.
This morning I logged into a Gmail account that I use exclusively for certain Google alerts. The address has never been used otherwise. I found a bunch (20-30) of "new friend" notifications from Facebook.
Turns out someone tried to create a Facebook account for my Gmail address (the account name isn't terribly obscure.) Of course, they couldn't 'verify' the Facebook account for lack of access to the Gmail account. Nevertheless Facebook dutifully listed this new account such that random bozos could befriend it. So, you may go to Facebook and associate any public name with any email address you wish and Facebook will stick it out there for the world to see before any level verification has been performed.
I canceled the Facebook account (for some Facebook defined value of 'canceled') but nothing prevents someone from reestablishing it. I've had nothing to do with these dinks; they have no respect for your information or wishes. 'Eyeballs' is the only metric they measure and if exposing you and yours makes more eyeballs then you're getting put up.
into Google. No FOX News involved. And no, these aren't the NIMBY cases; I skipped those. These are enviro's killing wind development over "rare grasslands", various birds, etc.
The evidence for the intolerence of "all the greens" for basically any development at all, including so-called "renewable" energy is obvious. Pull your greeny head our of your ass and pay attention.
Difficult to imagine how someone with this much wealth, presumably obtained via business acumen, could be this naive. The enviros will not simply stand by and permit private interests to carpet the front range with propellers. No way, no how.
They will claim bird extinction. The will claim the composites necessary to build the props are destroying the planet. They'll get a consensus of government funded scientists to assert that large wind farms cause devastating Atmospheric Thermal Depletion*. They'll discover whatever "endangered" prairie critters they have too to prevent anything on this scale.
Er, no. The people with the pull to attempt to promulgate that work under a different name know full well who they are dealing with; one of the biggest pricks currently walking the Earth. Anyone tries it and Hans will be filing copyright suits from inside whatever cage CA puts him in. Right or wrong that's what WILL happen. Hans is that big a prick.
Recent Reiser quote:
I have a compulsive tendency to say things that I know are true that people don't want to be true
Good luck with that in prison, Hans. That alphageek social misfit stuff works fine when the stakes are low; among other geeks squabbling over geekery. You will now receive the socialization someone neglected when you were 12.
So if you deploy a half dozen around a virtual table, the net loses and gains of each would be equal? Otherwise, the net money supply would have to grow?
First, dear NASA: Permitting whatever mission creep that has led to this embiggining of Ares V is a fatal mistake. Driving up the cost only provides a larger surface on which to paint a bullseye.
Ares V is a pipe dream. Learn why by reading this.
US citizens generally elect the young shiny guy in any given election. McJowls doesn't stand a chance against Obama by that criteria. That means Ares V will whither on the vine after it's defunded to pay off Obama's NEA campaign support (a.k.a 'education').
Yes, I know Obama's current (dramatically revised) position only threatens 'later stages' of the Constellation program. Ares V is the later stage, because no Moon and no Mars means no need for heavy lift. He'll let NASA build Ares I to replace some fraction of the Shuttle's capability and send the rest of the money off to whichever interest group will deliver the most votes in 2012.
No. Instead, address the relevant question; how much time is necessary to convert a signal leaving a flop into an optical signal using conventional methods as opposed to this supposedly new technique?
As the submission states, this is...
an attempt to speed up the interaction between computing and communications signals
and as the linked story, poor as it is, points out...
While exciton-based computation may not be faster than electron-based circuits, the scientists expect to produce speed advantages in communications
...I can only assume you have reading comprehension issues.
I won't bother with your anecdotes; the whole matter of "harassment" is so ambiguous as to obviate any rational analysis.
Yes, yelling "fire!" in a theater to cause a stampede is a prosecutable crime. If I believed this legislation was based on the same thoughtful and just legal firmament as that age-old example I'd have no issue with it.
However, I know better. I know this is simply nanny-state politicians making bank with their hair-brained soccer mom constituents AND the legal industry simultaneously (lawyers love ambiguous laws.) This is a no-brainer because it secures votes and funding for zero budget line items.
How do I know all this? Follow the money. Note the topmost "industry" on that list. Click the link to see who gets the bulk of that cash by a 4-to-1 margin. I don't have to name names because you can read.
CPUs, GPUs... in the end they're all ICs. Bets against integration inevitably lose. The history of computation is marked by integration.
NVidia already makes good GPUs and tolerable chipsets. They should expand to make CPUs and build their own integrated platform. AMD has already proven there is room in the market for entirely non-Intel platforms.
It's that or wait till the competition puts out cheap, low power integrated equivalents that annihilate NVidia's market share. I think they have the credibility and could leverage the necessary capital. The question is whether NVidia has the vision to act. Probably not; they've been very successful for a long period and may have weeded out any risky leadership.
They'll probably just get bought by HP, long after their relevance has faded.
The rest of it just sounds so bizarre it's unreal. The exopologic theorem of Flammeus Fortuitus states that civilizations that pursue the Higgs boson eventually produce destructive monopoles, usually just below their own troposphere, which immediately annihilates their planet/moon and nearby planets and/or suns. Each gamma ray burst detected in the universe is, in fact, another such conversion. Fortunately, interstellar space lacks sufficient matter to sustain the conversion and the process stops.
This theory provides a compelling explanation for why, despite the inevitability provided by immense timescales, we have yet to observe alien visitors; the physics of our universe tends to eliminate those species that investigate the sort of physics that lead to interstellar spacecraft. Thus, the only long-lived species one may expect to discover in the universe are those that do not employ high energy physics which, naturally, precludes all efforts at detection.
It is also possible that I've been working on makefiles for too many hours and no longer merit your attention. You are to be forgiven; you didn't know that when you started reading.
I largely agree, I like McCain and he's the candidate that will most likely receive my vote in November While McCain is the least strident nominee to appear among the Republicans is some time, my hope lies with Obama.
Obama offers real hope for the future. A future with Obama will change the politics of Washington and provide hope for America. The future needs more hope and this will only happen if we have real change, because the future is ahead of us and it needs a lot more hope. Change will provide the hope we need and the future, guided by the past, will be changed for the better.
Change is what America needs. Otherwise hope will wain and the future will be like the past, only with even less hope. The future will provide real hope when Obama brings the needed change. That is why I think the change Obama offers is what we need for a more hopeful future.
Anyhow, I hope you will change your mind in the future and vote for Obama.
The Russians do not want to use it in a weapon The parent didn't claim they did. The assertion was "a weapon." Please return your fur to its normal non-puffy configuration; no one is suggesting Russia would use the plutonium to attack, if not for the fact that they sold it.
People with the ability think beyond the end of their highly sensitive and reactionary nose observe that neglected, valueless plutonium will likely end up being smuggled/sold by some corruptible low/unpaid caretaker to an aggressor. The US insures the best price is a lucrative above board transaction instead of some wealthy madrasah educated atavist's best offer.
At least, this is the general framework that occurred to most of us when we encountered the phrase "a weapon."
SCO is a penny stock now. Somewhere between $0.17 and $0.20 a share. Market cap is $4.3 million.
How many of you would contribute $50 to take a controlling interest in this festering pimple of an "IP" company? If the next ~80,000/. regulars that read this were willing the company could be taken over and put down, permanently.
Create a non-profit (name it SLASHX, perhaps) or some other legal entity, raise funds and buy shares. The percent of ownership remaining appears on a sidebar with a link to some collection agency. Make Stallman or some other credible figure chairman and just keep buying shares till "we" hold 51%.
I'm no financial guru. Perhaps the idea is naive. However, you can damn well bet I'd contribute.
and you don't have to add any additional services on the host. Critical thinking isn't something you employ while earning your wage is it? Shared Folders IS AN ADDITIONAL SERVICE. A badly implemented one as well. You would know that if you actually observed the warnings that chronically appear among the system messages on Windows boxes that have this enabled.
On one hand you have robust, OS vendor provided mechanisms for sharing files. On the other you have some highly vertical third party hack with obvious chronic issues and now public exploits. Just what sort of a ****ing moron must you be to choose the latter?
Anyone using Shared Folders is just asking for trouble anyway I second that. Shared Folders is a bad idea and shouldn't exist. I suspect some "big customer" has VMware convinced the sky will fall should they not provide f<bleep/>ing Shared Folders. I hope that customer gets badly owned by this nonsense. You deserve it. This is purely self-inflicted and you should be laughed at and fired. With any luck the PHB you work for cracks his own jaw with the predictable knee jerk reaction and makes you put in a several weekends disabling every "Shared Folders" install you have and adapting your system to do without that stupid cop-out, as you should have done on day one. Enjoy.
Operating systems by definition provide one or more robust means of serving and consuming file systems and block devices. Why the f<bleep/>ck anyone thinks there must be a buggy, vulnerable and half-baked Shared Folders "feature" is beyond me. The fact that, among other bad ideas, I must explicitly hunt down and disable m<bleep/>r f<bleep/>ing Shared Folders (which is pathetically inflicted BY DEFAULT) on each and every Windows guest I deploy ensures my opinion of this species remains low.
first know whether that measure will actually fix the problem in question The problem in question isn't the real problem. Start by discovering the real problem. The real problem is liability. The question will be answered by the massive judgment handed down by some judge and/or jury, forming a precedent mandating a fix, regardless of whether it impacts 'injury' rates. Since almost anyone's life can be valuated into the millions (for the purpose of calculating legal commission or whatever Latin they wrap it in,) by any one of millions of lawyers, the preceding is inevitable.
It's not enough to look like you're doing something Actually it is, once you understand the real problem. Placing a barely legible sticker on the back corner of some dangerous machine with amps and spinning bits of metal is sufficient to preclude most liability. The appearance of doing something, while actually doing nothing at all is sufficient.
After that it's just you and Darwin, stuck together by a mass of warning labels. Enjoy!
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consumers were very happy to embrace the DVD standard when it came about because it brought a huge jump in quality over VHS
Wrong again.
"Consumers" prefer DVD over tape because tape, the media and the player, is unreliable, bulky, slow (remember rewind?) and ultimately more expensive than DVD. If DVD quality were exactly the same as classic VCR media consumers would have still bought into it.
As far as this Blu-Ray vs. DVD survey result goes, I knew this and told you so some time ago. Consumers are not *philes. Where cheap meets "just works" you will find consumers; the rest is just *phile noise.
Anyhow, this whole debate is moot; tapes and spinning disks with die out for distributing commercial content as consumers figure out that "movies on demand" via download is cheaper and "just works" better than any other form of media.
They are operating within the letter of the law as they datamine through information insurance dependents have consensually released to insurance companies. As Wikipedia puts it, "A [HIPPA] covered entity may disclose... if the covered entity has obtained authorization from the individual." I guess you'll now be demanding another 10 years worth of legal wrangling to establish another regulation regime to "fix" this...
Keep throwing government at it. I would tell you that you won't be happy with the results of nationalizing a $2.1E12 per year industry, but you won't listen to that either.
It was my understanding that in EVE there really was no law
Eve players have "Security Status". This number is used by the game to enforce certain rules; players with low Security Status cannot enter systems with high security rating, for instance. Players with very low Security Status are not avenged by NPC security forces when they are attacked. Low Security Status is also indicated visually to all players, and bounties may be placed on the head of a player below a certain Security Status. Security Status is altered by certain acts of aggression.
Keep in mind that an Eve player may obtain as low a Security Status as he wishes and still play the game just fine. It's a choice, with consequences. The life of a dedicated "pirate" quite distinct from the common Eve player, yet there is a large, healthy population of them.
That the PvP was full-on and unrestricted
That is overly simplistic. The majority of space in Eve, called 0.0 ("zero zero"), is unrestricted PvP, except for political implications among players, which are not trivial in themselves. The rest is "empire" space where graduated levels of Security are enforced. Exceptions in "empire" also exist in the form of "kill rights", war declarations, faction warfare, criminal status, etc.
Eve is half a decade old now. It is complex. Very few generalizations hold.
Government just doesn't really work.
Government is a reflection of civilization. I don't like this at all.
Landlines, radios, tv signals, cars; no one is getting cut off from the world.
An ugly glitch that needs fixing. They don't deserve your business, and the can't keep you off the net.
Happy Friday
I'd say it's rather far from a tie when you consider more than simply power consuption.
As the story points out Intel is restraining board designers from using desirable technology on the Atom platform. No PCI Express, no DVI, no second memory slot. Theory is "Intel appears to fear Atom will cannibalize its Celeron sales". Perhaps. I'll bet VIA is more than willing to cannibalize those sales if Intel is going to let them.
The reference board in this review is nice. There are two ethernet phys, one of which must be gigabit. Compact Flash, mini-PCI and PCI Express. Damn. I like that board. That is the perfect board for the small, quiet home server.
It appears all they're doing is not hosting in their local NNTP cache the listed newsgroups
That's what I've gathered also. Cuomo's (D., NY State AG) people have lists of groups and sites they've identified according to some criteria and those groups and sites will be blocked and dehosted.
You have to click through link in this Slashdot story and the link in the first TechDirt story to another TechDirt story before you discover that specific usenet groups are being targetted. Characterizing this as "turn off Usenet access" is a lie and the referrers, including Slashdot, are lying.
The related story linked earlier today by Slashdot makes it clear that the websites being targetted (as opposed to newsgroups) are those actually hosted by the ISPs involved; no "firewall for the children". They are dehosting sites they host, not filtering. Right or wrong this is an enforcement of their existing "acceptable use policies", which Cuomo claims they have neglected.
The ISPs are being browbeat by a politician that is threatening fines. Don't like it? Vote the Fuck out of office. ISPs aren't at fault here.
Slashdot editors: I decline to assume the intended level of apoplexy based on your lies. Sorry to disappoint.
This morning I logged into a Gmail account that I use exclusively for certain Google alerts. The address has never been used otherwise. I found a bunch (20-30) of "new friend" notifications from Facebook.
Turns out someone tried to create a Facebook account for my Gmail address (the account name isn't terribly obscure.) Of course, they couldn't 'verify' the Facebook account for lack of access to the Gmail account. Nevertheless Facebook dutifully listed this new account such that random bozos could befriend it. So, you may go to Facebook and associate any public name with any email address you wish and Facebook will stick it out there for the world to see before any level verification has been performed.
I canceled the Facebook account (for some Facebook defined value of 'canceled') but nothing prevents someone from reestablishing it. I've had nothing to do with these dinks; they have no respect for your information or wishes. 'Eyeballs' is the only metric they measure and if exposing you and yours makes more eyeballs then you're getting put up.
and the line of blather you're pushing is pretty damn far off the mark
Is it?
http://www.exyoung.com/Journalism/WindFarm.htm
http://www.timesargus.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080710/NEWS02/807100355/1003/NEWS02
http://www.redorbit.com/news/business/1434788/wind_farm_project_could_double_in_size_developers_expect_to/
http://www.renewableenergyworld.com/rea/news/story?id=48596
http://www.iberianature.com/spainblog/2008/06/wind-farm-construction-in-capercaillie-habitat-paralysed-by-judge/
http://www.heartland.org/Article.cfm?artId=16203
http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2007/12/31/wind-farm-plans-pose-big-threat-to-harbour-porpoise/
http://renewableenergylaw.blogspot.com/2005/02/kansas-wind-farm-faces-another-lawsuit.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2008/apr/22/windpower.greenpolitics?gusrc=rss&feed=uknews
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6875711/
I'm not even trying hard. Just put
court halt "wind farm"
into Google. No FOX News involved. And no, these aren't the NIMBY cases; I skipped those. These are enviro's killing wind development over "rare grasslands", various birds, etc.
The evidence for the intolerence of "all the greens" for basically any development at all, including so-called "renewable" energy is obvious. Pull your greeny head our of your ass and pay attention.
Difficult to imagine how someone with this much wealth, presumably obtained via business acumen, could be this naive. The enviros will not simply stand by and permit private interests to carpet the front range with propellers. No way, no how.
They will claim bird extinction. The will claim the composites necessary to build the props are destroying the planet. They'll get a consensus of government funded scientists to assert that large wind farms cause devastating Atmospheric Thermal Depletion*. They'll discover whatever "endangered" prairie critters they have too to prevent anything on this scale.
Forget it.
*should copyright that
They should rename it PRONTO
Er, no. The people with the pull to attempt to promulgate that work under a different name know full well who they are dealing with; one of the biggest pricks currently walking the Earth. Anyone tries it and Hans will be filing copyright suits from inside whatever cage CA puts him in. Right or wrong that's what WILL happen. Hans is that big a prick.
Recent Reiser quote:
I have a compulsive tendency to say things that I know are true that people don't want to be true
Good luck with that in prison, Hans. That alphageek social misfit stuff works fine when the stakes are low; among other geeks squabbling over geekery. You will now receive the socialization someone neglected when you were 12.
So if you deploy a half dozen around a virtual table, the net loses and gains of each would be equal? Otherwise, the net money supply would have to grow?
First, dear NASA: Permitting whatever mission creep that has led to this embiggining of Ares V is a fatal mistake. Driving up the cost only provides a larger surface on which to paint a bullseye.
Ares V is a pipe dream. Learn why by reading this.
US citizens generally elect the young shiny guy in any given election. McJowls doesn't stand a chance against Obama by that criteria. That means Ares V will whither on the vine after it's defunded to pay off Obama's NEA campaign support (a.k.a 'education').
Yes, I know Obama's current (dramatically revised) position only threatens 'later stages' of the Constellation program. Ares V is the later stage, because no Moon and no Mars means no need for heavy lift. He'll let NASA build Ares I to replace some fraction of the Shuttle's capability and send the rest of the money off to whichever interest group will deliver the most votes in 2012.
You won this story.
Happy Friday.
No. Instead, address the relevant question; how much time is necessary to convert a signal leaving a flop into an optical signal using conventional methods as opposed to this supposedly new technique?
As the submission states, this is...
an attempt to speed up the interaction between computing and communications signalsand as the linked story, poor as it is, points out...
While exciton-based computation may not be faster than electron-based circuits, the scientists expect to produce speed advantages in communications...I can only assume you have reading comprehension issues.
I won't bother with your anecdotes; the whole matter of "harassment" is so ambiguous as to obviate any rational analysis.
Yes, yelling "fire!" in a theater to cause a stampede is a prosecutable crime. If I believed this legislation was based on the same thoughtful and just legal firmament as that age-old example I'd have no issue with it.
However, I know better. I know this is simply nanny-state politicians making bank with their hair-brained soccer mom constituents AND the legal industry simultaneously (lawyers love ambiguous laws.) This is a no-brainer because it secures votes and funding for zero budget line items.
How do I know all this? Follow the money. Note the topmost "industry" on that list. Click the link to see who gets the bulk of that cash by a 4-to-1 margin. I don't have to name names because you can read.
CPUs, GPUs... in the end they're all ICs. Bets against integration inevitably lose. The history of computation is marked by integration.
NVidia already makes good GPUs and tolerable chipsets. They should expand to make CPUs and build their own integrated platform. AMD has already proven there is room in the market for entirely non-Intel platforms.
It's that or wait till the competition puts out cheap, low power integrated equivalents that annihilate NVidia's market share. I think they have the credibility and could leverage the necessary capital. The question is whether NVidia has the vision to act. Probably not; they've been very successful for a long period and may have weeded out any risky leadership.
They'll probably just get bought by HP, long after their relevance has faded.
scandle
a list of scandles
Keep drinking the Kool-Aid.
This theory provides a compelling explanation for why, despite the inevitability provided by immense timescales, we have yet to observe alien visitors; the physics of our universe tends to eliminate those species that investigate the sort of physics that lead to interstellar spacecraft. Thus, the only long-lived species one may expect to discover in the universe are those that do not employ high energy physics which, naturally, precludes all efforts at detection.
It is also possible that I've been working on makefiles for too many hours and no longer merit your attention. You are to be forgiven; you didn't know that when you started reading.
Obama offers real hope for the future. A future with Obama will change the politics of Washington and provide hope for America. The future needs more hope and this will only happen if we have real change, because the future is ahead of us and it needs a lot more hope. Change will provide the hope we need and the future, guided by the past, will be changed for the better.
Change is what America needs. Otherwise hope will wain and the future will be like the past, only with even less hope. The future will provide real hope when Obama brings the needed change. That is why I think the change Obama offers is what we need for a more hopeful future.
Anyhow, I hope you will change your mind in the future and vote for Obama.
People with the ability think beyond the end of their highly sensitive and reactionary nose observe that neglected, valueless plutonium will likely end up being smuggled/sold by some corruptible low/unpaid caretaker to an aggressor. The US insures the best price is a lucrative above board transaction instead of some wealthy madrasah educated atavist's best offer.
At least, this is the general framework that occurred to most of us when we encountered the phrase "a weapon."
SCO is a penny stock now. Somewhere between $0.17 and $0.20 a share. Market cap is $4.3 million.
/. regulars that read this were willing the company could be taken over and put down, permanently.
How many of you would contribute $50 to take a controlling interest in this festering pimple of an "IP" company? If the next ~80,000
Create a non-profit (name it SLASHX, perhaps) or some other legal entity, raise funds and buy shares. The percent of ownership remaining appears on a sidebar with a link to some collection agency. Make Stallman or some other credible figure chairman and just keep buying shares till "we" hold 51%.
I'm no financial guru. Perhaps the idea is naive. However, you can damn well bet I'd contribute.
On one hand you have robust, OS vendor provided mechanisms for sharing files. On the other you have some highly vertical third party hack with obvious chronic issues and now public exploits. Just what sort of a ****ing moron must you be to choose the latter?
Operating systems by definition provide one or more robust means of serving and consuming file systems and block devices. Why the f<bleep/>ck anyone thinks there must be a buggy, vulnerable and half-baked Shared Folders "feature" is beyond me. The fact that, among other bad ideas, I must explicitly hunt down and disable m<bleep/>r f<bleep/>ing Shared Folders (which is pathetically inflicted BY DEFAULT) on each and every Windows guest I deploy ensures my opinion of this species remains low.
After that it's just you and Darwin, stuck together by a mass of warning labels. Enjoy!