This problem has been solved years ago and the average mobile phone is more than capable of working as an electronic purse. A mobile phone needs no centralized network to process transactions and most certainly is more efficient and trackable than paper currency and Visa/MC association payments.
A tangentially related way to see how abusive things are in the association world is Walmart wants to open a "bank" so they can keep a piece of the Visa/MC Association rent.
The way this will be implemented will be the same old very inefficient way of processing payments with each company in the "chain" demanding their pound of flesh along the way.
If only most applications could run properly with user-level permissions.
I admin a tiny number of desktops and not one of them worked with user-level permissions. -Mysterious errors -Application functions that simply did not work.
These are *very* generic XPSP2/Win2k desktops with Office 2K/2003.
Initially, I was not deterred. With every hurdle crossed with ugly hacks, there was yet another error with no documented solution.
Someone posted a link to NIST(?) documentation that I eventually used. It's by far the best way to do a job that the OS was never designed to perform.
It's very disheartening to see righteous indignation like this consistently modded up. No mention of action, ever. It's okay to complain. But for dog's sake don't ever do anything that would label you a nut case.
go here: www.eff.org and give them some money, or figure out a way to volunteer some time.
They want to make unauthorized copying just hard enough and socially unacceptable that few will do it. Ex. bittorrent is "bad." Buying itunes music "good."
Let's see, company wants to avoid at all possible costs associations with the phrase "insecure" deliberately hides supposed insecurity. Hmmm...
Nothing new here.
I'll also add that this behavior will (if it hasn't already) find its way into more well-regarded systems (linux-based kernel OS's anyone?) given enough wealth is at risk.
It is "unregulated" because there probably are no meaningful consequences to gaming the system. Today's lesson:
1. It's only wrong if someone gets caught. 2. If they get caught, then so what? They've got more domain names than the next guy so they win. 3. The person with most gold rules.
This highlights one of the consequences of a capitalist society. Now, you may say, "So what! At least I get a chance in a capitalist society because there's more opportunity"
But competition is not welcome in a capitalist system. Mature markets evolve to a duopoly/monopoly because the market winners actively supress competition and thereby foster inefficient markets. Thus inspiring regulations to prevent the formation of monopolies.
I urge you to challenge your own assumptions about "free markets." There's lots of meaningful opinions on both sides. You need to know both.
1. Identify the employees generating the most health insurance liability. Something tells me it will end up as an undocumented factor in a performance review. 2. Accelerate shifting the burden of medical care to the individual.
Most Americans are quite happy to assume this burden with no benefit to them at all. They assume a huge liability in exchange for absolutely nothing.
Socialized medicine might work some places, but the "S" word is derogatory in the U.S. and I don't see a good solution in either privatized or public health plans.
This is a big bonus for more open standards, but what is not mentioned is the reality of landing the PO/contract for all of those potential Microsoft licenses will still strongly favor incumbents because they can come up with a triple-special licensing bundle for OS+Office Productivity that can't be beat.
Sadly enough, it puts the burden on WordPerfect to support ODF. Which isn't coming real soon. http://www.linux-watch.com/news/NS7758948461.html I think Wordperfect is the preferred word processor in the legal industry. They'd be wise to start now, but I have a feeling they won't.
1. I can tell you from personal experience, working for a company that has licensed Microsoft IP you do not have a single clue how much MS disapproves of the OSS movement and makes a point of it in distributing their IP.
2. I've never bought his arguments. Which is the point of your entire post. Why pick on one thing?
He needs Sun and Java and Torvalds and ESR and Red Hat and everyone else
No. Emphatically no. It's the other way around. The corps desperately need him. Most of them tried it the proprietary way for years and lost to Microsoft.
The best analogy I can give regarding a future with RMS serving the corps is an Animal Farm reference. The animals are running the humans off the farm right now. The animals are excited, no animals go into the house on pride. But pretty soon, the Pigs (red hat, et al) will be moving into the house. (I would argue they've already started) After that, they'll declare, "two legs good, 4 legs bad."
A corporation is imbued with extra freedoms beyond what individuals get in the U.S. in order to return a profit to its shareholders. Distorting RMS's message to serve that end is approved by shareholders.
Even an amateur social researcher will tell you that you can't get to "real" unedited personal opinions about most topics. The average highly functioning person filters *everything* they say through what's acceptable before they utter a single word.
In the U.S. where "sexuality" is mostly equivalant to titilation, consider it impossible.
OT story: My mom was on morphine a strong dose of morphine once after some surgery. It dropped that "filter" that everyone has. It was the most enjoyable, fact-filled 30 minute conversation about my extended family I've ever had. Thank you morphine!
The distinctions you make are quaint, but old-fashioned.
Republicans have their constituents to support with projects and legislation, Dems have theirs. PAC's don't care too much who is running the show because it's pay to play all the way.
The other thing to understand is if American's really wanted fiscal spending, then it would happen. Ideally the candidates running on fiscal conservativism would win. There's been a whole bunch of fiscally conservative legislation that gets gutted every time the budget ceiling is hit.
Finally, so far there have been no consequences to running the government this way. Until either enough voters have some consequences and/or the wealthiest 2% have some consequences, then nothing will be done.
reach a gentleman's agreement to collectively tell Wally World to agree to their terms or fuck off.
It's very easy to tell a retailer to find another supplier. Simply command a price higher than they are willing to pay and the retailer will find someone else willing to play the game. No collusion necessary.
Walmart is here to stay for the forseeable future. Just like Sears before it.
The "revolution" in telecom requires viable alternatives.
Telco competitors have not yet recieved their special "volume bandwidth service package" fee schedule the telcos will be providing to telco alternatives.
Ditto for every other thing mentioned.
Let's concentrate on allowing innovation to surface in the States without being litigated/legislated to death first.
*If* they make Q4, they'll be able to set the terms and conditions of selling their console to any retailer that matters. The retailers will hate it, but can't say no.
They may sell the console below their BOM cost, but I'm sure they will save 10's of millions by setting the terms of sales with the retailers.
Note, most retailers make substantial money simply charging slot, promotional fees, and any other fee they can dream up. That's why nearly all single products from a single vendor tend to vanish after a few months on the shelf. If it's a really good product, the larger brand with many products already on the shelf simply copies it and forces them out.
The h.323 standard allows for some desktop interactivity, whiteboarding and a few other things in a conferencing mode.
SIP on the other hand, is pretty narrowly defined to voice/video communication. From recollection, conferencing can be done, but it has something to do with number of lines your SIP phone can handle and the number of "lines" your SIP provider allows.
I'm not an expert, but the wind is blowing towards TLS encryption of the call.
I'm not aware of any softphones that have TLS features. Not to mention anyone providing TLS capable SIP service. But, it's been a while since I've looked it over.
Depends on what you want it to do versus what speakeasy would allow you to do.
If you have some access to the url's of your speakeasy voip account, you can probably use the same url's to do an SIP call on your linux desktop. I'm making a very generous assumption speakeasy would "play nice" with their sip setup and keep it relatively open.
The h.323 features are a whole other bag though. The average company would see h.323 as an "additional feature" and demand a hefty premium payment.
How much would the voip cost you on top of your regular ISP bill?
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This problem has been solved years ago and the average mobile phone is more than capable of working as an electronic purse. A mobile phone needs no centralized network to process transactions and most certainly is more efficient and trackable than paper currency and Visa/MC association payments.
A tangentially related way to see how abusive things are in the association world is Walmart wants to open a "bank" so they can keep a piece of the Visa/MC Association rent.
The way this will be implemented will be the same old very inefficient way of processing payments with each company in the "chain" demanding their pound of flesh along the way.
This idea is DOA.
Just before the time RIM got going from an Asian company that had something similar working somehow using a pager network.
I told my superiors they should get involved because it was insanely handy. To this day, I wonder if that's where the basic tech came from those guys.
I once heard some kind of pop star say, "more money. more problems." I think that sums it up pretty good.
If only most applications could run properly with user-level permissions.
I admin a tiny number of desktops and not one of them worked with user-level permissions.
-Mysterious errors
-Application functions that simply did not work.
These are *very* generic XPSP2/Win2k desktops with Office 2K/2003.
Initially, I was not deterred. With every hurdle crossed with ugly hacks, there was yet another error with no documented solution.
Someone posted a link to NIST(?) documentation that I eventually used. It's by far the best way to do a job that the OS was never designed to perform.
Mod parent way down
The "ownership society!"
It's very disheartening to see righteous indignation like this consistently modded up. No mention of action, ever. It's okay to complain. But for dog's sake don't ever do anything that would label you a nut case.
go here: www.eff.org and give them some money, or figure out a way to volunteer some time.
They want to make unauthorized copying just hard enough and socially unacceptable that few will do it. Ex. bittorrent is "bad." Buying itunes music "good."
Is now.
Let's see, company wants to avoid at all possible costs associations with the phrase "insecure" deliberately hides supposed insecurity. Hmmm...
Nothing new here.
I'll also add that this behavior will (if it hasn't already) find its way into more well-regarded systems (linux-based kernel OS's anyone?) given enough wealth is at risk.
Markets NEED to be unregulated
It is "unregulated" because there probably are no meaningful consequences to gaming the system. Today's lesson:
1. It's only wrong if someone gets caught.
2. If they get caught, then so what? They've got more domain names than the next guy so they win.
3. The person with most gold rules.
This highlights one of the consequences of a capitalist society. Now, you may say, "So what! At least I get a chance in a capitalist society because there's more opportunity"
But competition is not welcome in a capitalist system. Mature markets evolve to a duopoly/monopoly because the market winners actively supress competition and thereby foster inefficient markets. Thus inspiring regulations to prevent the formation of monopolies.
I urge you to challenge your own assumptions about "free markets." There's lots of meaningful opinions on both sides. You need to know both.
1. Identify the employees generating the most health insurance liability. Something tells me it will end up as an undocumented factor in a performance review.
2. Accelerate shifting the burden of medical care to the individual.
Most Americans are quite happy to assume this burden with no benefit to them at all. They assume a huge liability in exchange for absolutely nothing.
Socialized medicine might work some places, but the "S" word is derogatory in the U.S. and I don't see a good solution in either privatized or public health plans.
This is a big bonus for more open standards, but what is not mentioned is the reality of landing the PO/contract for all of those potential Microsoft licenses will still strongly favor incumbents because they can come up with a triple-special licensing bundle for OS+Office Productivity that can't be beat.
Sadly enough, it puts the burden on WordPerfect to support ODF. Which isn't coming real soon. http://www.linux-watch.com/news/NS7758948461.html I think Wordperfect is the preferred word processor in the legal industry. They'd be wise to start now, but I have a feeling they won't.
At least!
Synergized partners who realize new markets delivering revolutionary technology with ground breaking service.
Seriously, I hope this is successful "service and support" that every corporate IT media pundit claims Linux is missing.
1. I can tell you from personal experience, working for a company that has licensed Microsoft IP you do not have a single clue how much MS disapproves of the OSS movement and makes a point of it in distributing their IP.
2. I've never bought his arguments. Which is the point of your entire post. Why pick on one thing?
He needs Sun and Java and Torvalds and ESR and Red Hat and everyone else
No. Emphatically no. It's the other way around. The corps desperately need him. Most of them tried it the proprietary way for years and lost to Microsoft.
The best analogy I can give regarding a future with RMS serving the corps is an Animal Farm reference. The animals are running the humans off the farm right now. The animals are excited, no animals go into the house on pride. But pretty soon, the Pigs (red hat, et al) will be moving into the house. (I would argue they've already started) After that, they'll declare, "two legs good, 4 legs bad."
A corporation is imbued with extra freedoms beyond what individuals get in the U.S. in order to return a profit to its shareholders. Distorting RMS's message to serve that end is approved by shareholders.
RMS needs no corporation.
Even an amateur social researcher will tell you that you can't get to "real" unedited personal opinions about most topics. The average highly functioning person filters *everything* they say through what's acceptable before they utter a single word.
In the U.S. where "sexuality" is mostly equivalant to titilation, consider it impossible.
OT story:
My mom was on morphine a strong dose of morphine once after some surgery. It dropped that "filter" that everyone has. It was the most enjoyable, fact-filled 30 minute conversation about my extended family I've ever had. Thank you morphine!
Typical ./ reaction, hands wringing, Oh dear, Oh my!
i ndex.html
Well, let me be the first then to suggest:
http://www.taxpayer.net/
http://www.taxfoundation.org/
http://www.concordcoalition.org/issues/scorecard/
Each spin a different way and I'm sure there's a few dozen more groups out there. One of which is bound to have a message that you agree with.
Ah Fear, what ever happened to Lee Ving anyway?
The distinctions you make are quaint, but old-fashioned.
Republicans have their constituents to support with projects and legislation, Dems have theirs. PAC's don't care too much who is running the show because it's pay to play all the way.
The other thing to understand is if American's really wanted fiscal spending, then it would happen. Ideally the candidates running on fiscal conservativism would win. There's been a whole bunch of fiscally conservative legislation that gets gutted every time the budget ceiling is hit.
Finally, so far there have been no consequences to running the government this way. Until either enough voters have some consequences and/or the wealthiest 2% have some consequences, then nothing will be done.
reach a gentleman's agreement to collectively tell Wally World to agree to their terms or fuck off.
It's very easy to tell a retailer to find another supplier. Simply command a price higher than they are willing to pay and the retailer will find someone else willing to play the game. No collusion necessary.
Walmart is here to stay for the forseeable future. Just like Sears before it.
The "revolution" in telecom requires viable alternatives.
Telco competitors have not yet recieved their special "volume bandwidth service package" fee schedule the telcos will be providing to telco alternatives.
Ditto for every other thing mentioned.
Let's concentrate on allowing innovation to surface in the States without being litigated/legislated to death first.
*If* they make Q4, they'll be able to set the terms and conditions of selling their console to any retailer that matters. The retailers will hate it, but can't say no.
They may sell the console below their BOM cost, but I'm sure they will save 10's of millions by setting the terms of sales with the retailers.
Note, most retailers make substantial money simply charging slot, promotional fees, and any other fee they can dream up. That's why nearly all single products from a single vendor tend to vanish after a few months on the shelf. If it's a really good product, the larger brand with many products already on the shelf simply copies it and forces them out.
I've got a patent on that.
Muuuhahahaaha!
The h.323 standard allows for some desktop interactivity, whiteboarding and a few other things in a conferencing mode.
SIP on the other hand, is pretty narrowly defined to voice/video communication. From recollection, conferencing can be done, but it has something to do with number of lines your SIP phone can handle and the number of "lines" your SIP provider allows.
I'm not an expert, but the wind is blowing towards TLS encryption of the call.
I'm not aware of any softphones that have TLS features. Not to mention anyone providing TLS capable SIP service. But, it's been a while since I've looked it over.
Depends on what you want it to do versus what speakeasy would allow you to do.
If you have some access to the url's of your speakeasy voip account, you can probably use the same url's to do an SIP call on your linux desktop. I'm making a very generous assumption speakeasy would "play nice" with their sip setup and keep it relatively open.
The h.323 features are a whole other bag though. The average company would see h.323 as an "additional feature" and demand a hefty premium payment.
How much would the voip cost you on top of your regular ISP bill?
I don't even have to RTFA to see that one.
At what point does what the RIAA is doing constitute breaking some kind of law? Anti-trust maybe? Anyone have some insight into this?