What about The Computer Virus? It's true that they usually need some kind of human interaction, but they do replicate without humans doing something to intentionally make it happen
If the gene causing infertility is transmitted via pollen, then farmers that try to produce an heirloom seed crop near a field planted with a Monsanto variety would be screwed since their seed crop could end up infertile.
This is exactly why GM seeds are illegal here in Europe (Except Spain who allow them for some reason): Fields near fields with GM crops get polluted. Sometimes people buy seeds they think are not GM but turn out to be GM and farmers are in those cases ordered to destroy their entire fields (and sometimes nearby fields) just to make sure we keep GM-genes away. Look to Europe, we have a very simple solution to this mess: Just outlaw GM and you're done.
I suspect that the US will be forced to import natural seeds from Europe if they want/need them in the near future, everything in North-America will be infected with GM seeds pretty soon if you irresponsible people in the USA keep this up.
Anyone with a web-server will tell you that they are seeing dozens of penetration attempts daily, even right now. I also see this on my home ADSL line. I'm not saying the government there is doing it, but I do know that there is no other country which is attacking everything everywhere this aggressively. I don't have any web pages in Chinese and I wonder if I would be better off just using one of those iptables -j DROP lists who list all IPs in China.
We need more alternatives for tablets and mobile phones, Google has way to much control since Android has a near-monopoly on mobile devices these days. It does not say if they also plan to keep the development truly open, I hope they do. Android pretends to be free software but it doesn't have much in common with actual free software projects.
I've been using "Ã-yvind SjÃlvklart" ("SjÃlvklart" is Swedish for obviously) since someone registered on Facebook using my e-mail address sometime in the middle of last year and they haven't closed my account yet. And they didn't mind that I changed my name to that (the person who registered with my e-mail used another surname). It may be that you only get into trouble when someone reports you and a human at facebook actually looks your account. I personally do not mind if they close my account, though, they can let me use only my first real name or I won't mind not having an account there.
and voluntarily pipes all of it to various 3 letter agencies in the U.S
Bull. Fucking. Shit. Google only hands over data when legally required to and documents complied requests publicly
Oh, really? How do you know? It is very easy for me to say "I never let anyone look at my web server logs ever" and have a hourly cronjob which scp's them all to "3 letter agencies". I have no evidence that Google actually does this, but I also have no evidence that they don't. We just don't know and there really isn't any way anyone outside Google can know for sure.
Just avoid the Google Play store.
1. Install the free software only app-store http://f-droid.org/
2. Root your phone
3. Install Android SDK, cd adt-bundle-linux-x86_64/sdk/platform-tools
4../adb shell
5. mount -o remount,rw -t yaffs2/dev/block/mtdblk3/system
6. Perhaps backup with./adb pull fileonphone localfile and delete some files:
rm/system/app/Gmail.apk
rm/system/app/GoogleBackupTransport.apk
rm/system/app/GoogleCalendarSyncAdapter.apk
rm/system/app/GoogleContactsSyncAdapter.apk
rm/system/app/GoogleFeedback.apk
rm/system/app/GooglePartnerSetup.apk
rm/system/app/GoogleQuickSearchBox.apk
rm/system/app/MarketUpdater.apk
rm/system/app/GoogleServicesFramework.apk
rm/system/app/Talk.apk
You may want to keep GoogleServicesFramework.apk if you plan to ever use some kind of Google services again. You do not _need_ to use the Google Play appstore or any Google services at all just because you happened to buy a $95 Android phone at the local grocery store (that's what my Samsung GIO set be back a week ago).
Did you even read the whole article? Do you even read? Quotes from the article:
Monsanto GM infecting farms in Germany:
2010: Monsanto's GM corn was discovered across 3,000 hectares (7,400 acres) in seven German states. Since Germany doesn't allow GM corn to be planted, the farmers had to destroy their crops. These farmers had to "eat" their losses, as the seed companies refused to accept liability for the contamination.
Monsanto GM infecting farms in Spain:
2007: Pollen drift from GM maize (MON810) fields were found to have contaminated hundreds of conventional and organic farmers in Spain, the only country in the EU that allows GM maize to be cultivated.
Most if not all of the EU doesn't want Monsanto GM but it somehow manages to infect EU farms anyway.
It's been years and years since I first saw a documentary about the criminal Monsanto which numerous examples, interviews, etc. This isn't news and I find it amazing that you are actually trying to dispute Monsantos criminal activity.
I'm not. If it grew on my land, it's mine... Case closed
Sadly, no, not in the USA. Search and you'll find plenty of cases where farmers planted their own seeds and got their fields infected with GMO from the farm next to it or something like that. These are farmers who did not kill everything but GMO in their fields with Roundup.
If I was growing natural seeds and my land got infected by Monsanto then I would assume that Monsanto owed me for damages. But not in the USA
So the US is ending their occupation of Afghanistan again? Like they did the last few times they announced a "full withdraw"? The only thing I find more amazing than official US propaganda is that most people seem to believe it.
It would never be completed, because: 1. Most of the code in Windows are the device drivers. MSFT has literally thousands developers writing and maintaining the drivers.
What do you mean by "completed"? ReactOS aims to be binary compatible with Windows drivers, so ReactOS will be as "complete" as Windows in this regard. But version Windows versions are not "complete" if your requirement for "complete" is to have drivers for everything. There are a lot of older devices who are drivers for XP but not newer Wintendo versions like Bista or 7 or 8. There are also a lot of newer devices who only have just for 7 or 8. Yes, this will present a problem since ReactOS will not be able to support the latest hardware without someone specifically writing "XP" drivers for them.
Good for Yandex that they are "taking forth place", but the truth is that they might as well not exist. Anyone who have a website with 10k+ daily visitors will confirm that absoltely nobody is visiting with a referer string from Yandex or Bing. Nobody. They might as well not exist. Another side to this is that Yandex and Bing and other worthless things like 360spider and JikeSpider and Sogou all waste a whole lot of bandwidth, way more bandwidth than users account for on smaller sites. All this bandwidth and CPU wasted on spiders and absolutely no results to show for it (except spam-bots from China and Russia). It's tempting just to put -j DROP on Yandex and Bing and the trest of them. I don't do it, but I am very tempted.
Patents drive innovation. Ordinary citizens benefit from the release from drudgery as a result. It only took about a century to relieve about 80% of the population involved in hard physical farm work down to 5% of the population in farm work, supported mostly by farm machinery inventions.
Now you're saying that it was Patents, not Cheap Energy, that drove the mayor changes we've had the last 200 years. Truth is that with No Patents and Cheap Energy the result would be pretty much the same, with Patents and No Cheap Energy we'd still have 80% in hard physical farm work.
This would and could not have happened if the site in question was hosted anywhere but in the United States of Fascism. The DMCA is a stupid US thing. I used to have servers in the US myself way back when. Many years have passed since I decided to avoid having anything to do with that dictatorship with an illusion of freedom at all cost.
This story makes me think that people in the United States of Fascism should learn how to install a capable SIP client on their phones. SIP plans are dirt cheap and calling is really cheap, and you don't even have to pay to call other people with SIP. And SMS is not required if you install a IM program. This obviously limites you to calling/getting called when you are connected to a WIFI, but WIFI is free everywhere anyway (atleast here). Those pay-per-month plans seem outdated at this point. If you really need to be able to get calls everywhere then get a prepaid SIM card, kiosks here sell them for 50 SEK (like $10) with no questions asked (you give cash, you get SIM card, that's it).
It is good that GNU/Linux users have numerous choices. I use XFCE4 myself. KDE is a great alternative for those who like more bloat. And some even claim to like Gnome3 and it may be that they are in fact happy Gnome3 users and not just Gnome3 developers desperately trying to defend their mobile phone desktop.
There is Global Warming(tm) and if we do not give the United Nations more power to apply Global Taxes then The World Is Going To End. Make no doubt about it, folks: The whole "global warming" scam as nothing to do with global warming and everything to do with a grab for power and taxes. I realize that many people are so propagandized that they are unable to contemplate this information. To those of you who believe in the "global warming" propaganda, please consider this: Do we have to give the United Nations the power to tax the world in order to solve this "problem"?
There is a simple solutions: Do not allow orders to be pulled before it's been on the exchange for 10 seconds. Right now ordres are placed and pulled dozens of times every millisecond. I do not consider an "order" which is pulled within a millisecond anything but noise and market manipulation.
I have long argued that stockmarkets should have a 10 second order freeze. That would mean that if you place an order to buy a stock at a given price then you can't remove that order for a whole 10 seconds, you have to stand by your order for that amount of time.
Thousands of orders are placed and pulled every second, even every millisecond. There is a steady flow of orders being placed and pulled.
Consider this: Is an order to buy or sell a stock which is pulled within a millisecond a real order, or is it just market manipulation?
I've been using IPv6 for 8 years or so and I really don't care what other people do. The main value for me is that all boxen on the LAN have their own IPv6 IPs so I can ssh to them and scp stuff around. My websites all have IPv6 availability, but nobody uses that, so I see why people don't bother. But I personally think the benefits of having IPv6 on your own stuff makes learning and using it worth while.
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Software isn't self replicating
What about The Computer Virus? It's true that they usually need some kind of human interaction, but they do replicate without humans doing something to intentionally make it happen
If the gene causing infertility is transmitted via pollen, then farmers that try to produce an heirloom seed crop near a field planted with a Monsanto variety would be screwed since their seed crop could end up infertile.
This is exactly why GM seeds are illegal here in Europe (Except Spain who allow them for some reason): Fields near fields with GM crops get polluted. Sometimes people buy seeds they think are not GM but turn out to be GM and farmers are in those cases ordered to destroy their entire fields (and sometimes nearby fields) just to make sure we keep GM-genes away. Look to Europe, we have a very simple solution to this mess: Just outlaw GM and you're done.
I suspect that the US will be forced to import natural seeds from Europe if they want/need them in the near future, everything in North-America will be infected with GM seeds pretty soon if you irresponsible people in the USA keep this up.
Anyone with a web-server will tell you that they are seeing dozens of penetration attempts daily, even right now. I also see this on my home ADSL line. I'm not saying the government there is doing it, but I do know that there is no other country which is attacking everything everywhere this aggressively. I don't have any web pages in Chinese and I wonder if I would be better off just using one of those iptables -j DROP lists who list all IPs in China.
We need more alternatives for tablets and mobile phones, Google has way to much control since Android has a near-monopoly on mobile devices these days. It does not say if they also plan to keep the development truly open, I hope they do. Android pretends to be free software but it doesn't have much in common with actual free software projects.
I've been using "Ã-yvind SjÃlvklart" ("SjÃlvklart" is Swedish for obviously) since someone registered on Facebook using my e-mail address sometime in the middle of last year and they haven't closed my account yet. And they didn't mind that I changed my name to that (the person who registered with my e-mail used another surname). It may be that you only get into trouble when someone reports you and a human at facebook actually looks your account. I personally do not mind if they close my account, though, they can let me use only my first real name or I won't mind not having an account there.
and voluntarily pipes all of it to various 3 letter agencies in the U.S
Bull. Fucking. Shit. Google only hands over data when legally required to and documents complied requests publicly
Oh, really? How do you know? It is very easy for me to say "I never let anyone look at my web server logs ever" and have a hourly cronjob which scp's them all to "3 letter agencies". I have no evidence that Google actually does this, but I also have no evidence that they don't. We just don't know and there really isn't any way anyone outside Google can know for sure.
Just avoid the Google Play store. ./adb shell /dev/block/mtdblk3 /system ./adb pull fileonphone localfile and delete some files: /system/app/Gmail.apk /system/app/GoogleBackupTransport.apk /system/app/GoogleCalendarSyncAdapter.apk /system/app/GoogleContactsSyncAdapter.apk /system/app/GoogleFeedback.apk /system/app/GooglePartnerSetup.apk /system/app/GoogleQuickSearchBox.apk /system/app/MarketUpdater.apk /system/app/GoogleServicesFramework.apk /system/app/Talk.apk
1. Install the free software only app-store http://f-droid.org/
2. Root your phone
3. Install Android SDK, cd adt-bundle-linux-x86_64/sdk/platform-tools
4.
5. mount -o remount,rw -t yaffs2
6. Perhaps backup with
rm
rm
rm
rm
rm
rm
rm
rm
rm
rm
You may want to keep GoogleServicesFramework.apk if you plan to ever use some kind of Google services again. You do not _need_ to use the Google Play appstore or any Google services at all just because you happened to buy a $95 Android phone at the local grocery store (that's what my Samsung GIO set be back a week ago).
Monsanto GM infecting farms in Germany:
2010: Monsanto's GM corn was discovered across 3,000 hectares (7,400 acres) in seven German states. Since Germany doesn't allow GM corn to be planted, the farmers had to destroy their crops. These farmers had to "eat" their losses, as the seed companies refused to accept liability for the contamination.
Monsanto GM infecting farms in Spain:
2007: Pollen drift from GM maize (MON810) fields were found to have contaminated hundreds of conventional and organic farmers in Spain, the only country in the EU that allows GM maize to be cultivated.
Most if not all of the EU doesn't want Monsanto GM but it somehow manages to infect EU farms anyway.
So I'd be interested if you have a concrete example.
Since you can't use a search engine or look in other posts in this thread.. here is a cut and paste for you:
http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2011/12/25/percy-schmeiser-farmer-who-beat-monsanto.aspx
It's been years and years since I first saw a documentary about the criminal Monsanto which numerous examples, interviews, etc. This isn't news and I find it amazing that you are actually trying to dispute Monsantos criminal activity.
I'm not. If it grew on my land, it's mine... Case closed
Sadly, no, not in the USA. Search and you'll find plenty of cases where farmers planted their own seeds and got their fields infected with GMO from the farm next to it or something like that. These are farmers who did not kill everything but GMO in their fields with Roundup.
If I was growing natural seeds and my land got infected by Monsanto then I would assume that Monsanto owed me for damages. But not in the USA
So the US is ending their occupation of Afghanistan again? Like they did the last few times they announced a "full withdraw"? The only thing I find more amazing than official US propaganda is that most people seem to believe it.
Try https://www.torproject.org/ it'll get you to there even if the site is blocked by your ISP.
It would never be completed, because: 1. Most of the code in Windows are the device drivers. MSFT has literally thousands developers writing and maintaining the drivers.
What do you mean by "completed"? ReactOS aims to be binary compatible with Windows drivers, so ReactOS will be as "complete" as Windows in this regard. But version Windows versions are not "complete" if your requirement for "complete" is to have drivers for everything. There are a lot of older devices who are drivers for XP but not newer Wintendo versions like Bista or 7 or 8. There are also a lot of newer devices who only have just for 7 or 8. Yes, this will present a problem since ReactOS will not be able to support the latest hardware without someone specifically writing "XP" drivers for them.
Good for Yandex that they are "taking forth place", but the truth is that they might as well not exist. Anyone who have a website with 10k+ daily visitors will confirm that absoltely nobody is visiting with a referer string from Yandex or Bing. Nobody. They might as well not exist. Another side to this is that Yandex and Bing and other worthless things like 360spider and JikeSpider and Sogou all waste a whole lot of bandwidth, way more bandwidth than users account for on smaller sites. All this bandwidth and CPU wasted on spiders and absolutely no results to show for it (except spam-bots from China and Russia). It's tempting just to put -j DROP on Yandex and Bing and the trest of them. I don't do it, but I am very tempted.
Patents drive innovation. Ordinary citizens benefit from the release from drudgery as a result. It only took about a century to relieve about 80% of the population involved in hard physical farm work down to 5% of the population in farm work, supported mostly by farm machinery inventions.
Now you're saying that it was Patents, not Cheap Energy, that drove the mayor changes we've had the last 200 years. Truth is that with No Patents and Cheap Energy the result would be pretty much the same, with Patents and No Cheap Energy we'd still have 80% in hard physical farm work.
None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free. -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
This would and could not have happened if the site in question was hosted anywhere but in the United States of Fascism. The DMCA is a stupid US thing. I used to have servers in the US myself way back when. Many years have passed since I decided to avoid having anything to do with that dictatorship with an illusion of freedom at all cost.
This story makes me think that people in the United States of Fascism should learn how to install a capable SIP client on their phones. SIP plans are dirt cheap and calling is really cheap, and you don't even have to pay to call other people with SIP. And SMS is not required if you install a IM program. This obviously limites you to calling/getting called when you are connected to a WIFI, but WIFI is free everywhere anyway (atleast here). Those pay-per-month plans seem outdated at this point. If you really need to be able to get calls everywhere then get a prepaid SIM card, kiosks here sell them for 50 SEK (like $10) with no questions asked (you give cash, you get SIM card, that's it).
What do they mena by "active" users, anyway? Does anyone know?
Unity and Gnome3.
It is good that GNU/Linux users have numerous choices. I use XFCE4 myself. KDE is a great alternative for those who like more bloat. And some even claim to like Gnome3 and it may be that they are in fact happy Gnome3 users and not just Gnome3 developers desperately trying to defend their mobile phone desktop.
There is Global Warming(tm) and if we do not give the United Nations more power to apply Global Taxes then The World Is Going To End. Make no doubt about it, folks: The whole "global warming" scam as nothing to do with global warming and everything to do with a grab for power and taxes. I realize that many people are so propagandized that they are unable to contemplate this information. To those of you who believe in the "global warming" propaganda, please consider this: Do we have to give the United Nations the power to tax the world in order to solve this "problem"?
There is a simple solutions: Do not allow orders to be pulled before it's been on the exchange for 10 seconds. Right now ordres are placed and pulled dozens of times every millisecond. I do not consider an "order" which is pulled within a millisecond anything but noise and market manipulation.
I have long argued that stockmarkets should have a 10 second order freeze. That would mean that if you place an order to buy a stock at a given price then you can't remove that order for a whole 10 seconds, you have to stand by your order for that amount of time.
Thousands of orders are placed and pulled every second, even every millisecond. There is a steady flow of orders being placed and pulled.
Consider this: Is an order to buy or sell a stock which is pulled within a millisecond a real order, or is it just market manipulation?
yeah so civilized people didn't invent the internet resulting in the civilized part of the world not having large ipv4 blocks. so what? deal with it
I've been using IPv6 for 8 years or so and I really don't care what other people do. The main value for me is that all boxen on the LAN have their own IPv6 IPs so I can ssh to them and scp stuff around. My websites all have IPv6 availability, but nobody uses that, so I see why people don't bother. But I personally think the benefits of having IPv6 on your own stuff makes learning and using it worth while.