Lots of countries claim to be democracies without having free speech. Norway claims to be one yet the government covertly tortures people who say anything critical about the government, NATO and a range of other issues. Most "democracies" don't work. Regimes claim to be a "democracy" because None are so hopelessly enslaved as those who falsely believe they are free. (Goethe)
Gnome 2 is installed on desktop computers. That's the current user base. The Gnome developers made a mobile phone / tablet OS and call it Gnome 3. That's fine. But why present it like it's a desktop OS when the crappy Gnome 3 bullshit desktop don't work for 99% of the Gnome desktop user base? My opinion is that it would be better if they'd made different "Gnome Desktop" and "Gnome Tablet" versions. I've switched to XFCE and that works for me. Good luck to the Gnome people with their tablet pile of dunkey dung.
People also die from the very dangerous HPV vaccine. The parents of some of the HPV vaccines victims have put up web pages in memory of their dead children. Taking the HPV vaccine is a very bad idea, giving it to boys is an even worse idea.
I have a DV camera which stores the video on a tape. I have two tapes I'll use until they wear out (I have a few more spare tapes). I go out, videotape something, go home and dump the files to a harddrive. I use the next tape again next time. Why would someone want to store anything on film or tape? I don't see the point. Digital is better. Sure, harddrives fail, but you can always cp things around, make numerous backups and so on.
I used to own a Ericsson GH388. This phone came out in 1995. Those phones could be dropped 5 meters. You could hammer nails with them. The Sony Ericsson phones I have seen are all crappy plastic fantastic garbage that fails if you give them the wrong look. I really miss the _solid_ Ericsson phones, it is possible to make Android phones with metal not plastic.
Now, something different. A friend wanted me to configure SIP on a Sony Ericsson phone. The phone did support SIP, but ONLY "provider SIP". The phone was locked so you could NOT configure it to use a SIP provider. It had to be pre-configured by the SIM card provider. What a load of crap!! Sony==DRM, lock-down, garbage.
Why would a tinfoil hat be remotely relevant to the simple fact that he Russian Security Council ordered a HAARP earthquake early detection system put into place in 2006? And how is it relevant to the mentioned fact that this detection system reported the coming earthquake eight hours before it happened? Do you think imaginary tin foil hats somehow protect you against reality?
Natural earthquakes don't change the atmosphere, HAARP made do. It's interesting to note that Russia reported that they detected this attack against Japan 8 hours before the earthquake struck using their HAARP detection system a few days after it happened.
I checked the local prices a few days ago. SEKUSD is now at 6.8756. Huawei U8180 Ideos X1, no plan, 599 SEK, that works out to $87. Samsung GT-S5570 Galaxy Mini, no plan, 990 SEK, $144. The Android competitors are on a race to the bottom. You get them for free now if you sign up for a plan. It is too late for Nokia. They ruled the "damn cheap" price range the last decade. That price range is now seeing competition from cheap Android phones and I would rather have one those if I were to spend less than $100 on a mobile phone.
I learned touch on a typewriter in grade-school and I have benefited me immensely ever since. That's one of the basics they don't but really should teach kids. Some basic bash commands would probably also be very helpful, but that requires them to switch from Wintendo in the educational systems. I never once had need for the meaningless Word lessons I was forced to take. Teaching the programming would be great, but I don't quite get why they would want to teach C or Java or something like that to _all_ children. Giving them useful basic computer skills sounds more meaningful.
We are at the end of the age of cheap oil and cheap energy. The robots will go away once it becomes cheaper to hire humans than it is to make and power robots. It's really that simple.
1 MHz on one CPU is not equal to 1 MHz on another CPU. You can not say "AMD chip X is 3.0 GHz and Intel chip Y is 2.9 GHz so chip X is faster". Intel chips generally give you more clock for clock. Real-world benchmarks of a CPU running 8.429 GHz would be interesting.
Those who track inflation based on how it was done before all the tricks used to generate the number today became standard find that real inflation is much higher than what is stated. shadowstats.com is one site which does this. A difference between real inflation and stated inflation of atleast 4 percent makes a huge difference for USPS and others who recieve income based on stated inflation. Their income is limited to government stated inflation, their expences are based on actual inflation. The difference piles up and grows bigger every year. This is not the only reason they are having problems, but it is likely a huge part of it.
A government fining websites that -link- to facebook would be a pretty scary step.
I agree. But this story is NOT about linking to websites. I can add a a href= link to facebook and nobody gets tracked. The like buttons are not pure links. If you add a img src link to an image hotlinked at my server or more disturbing, include javascript hosted on my server on your site then we are talking about something completely different. I can not track a simple a href= link to my site. I CAN track hotlinked images and javascript. See the huge difference now?
I know bookstores have few customers these days, but I like them and need them. I like to relax in the bathtub with a good book. I prefer paper books over "ebooks", reading a webpage on the screen is fine, reading a whole book is not.
I have a laptop and a mini laptop with Windows license stickers on them. I obviously removed the Windows infection as soon as I got these computers. Piracy of the Windows OS does not seem to be a problem, you basically can't buy a computer without being forced to accept their garbage. A real problem is the reverse: I "own" two "Windows licenses" I did not want or need.
Apple makes huge money on the hardware and selling a few extra gigs of RAM or hard drive space at 500% markup. OS X updates are just cream on top. MS has no such luxury.
Apple is a hardware company, Microsoft is also sort-of by proxy. They don't sell hardware directly for some reason, but you basically can't buy a pre-built computer or laptop without being forced a Windows copy up your ass. I don't think Microsoft even cares that much about their end-user Windows sales. They are about how many hardware vendors force people to use their products. Therefore.. The price _will_ start falling from about $50 to $10 soon. Not because a larger portion of laptops have begun to come with Ubuntu or some other GNU+Linux flavor, this has not and will not happen. But tablets.. are rapidly gaining market share and Android and Apple's already taken that market. Windows got stuck on the train station after the train left. Microsoft doesn't have much alternative to basically giving away Windows if they want Windows to have a piece of the tablet pie. And Android / "Google OS" for laptops and desktop PCs will happen. This is why I think the price of a Windows "license" will drop along with Microsofts profits.
There are still situations where I boot my computer without it being connected to the great Internet. You bring your laptop to your cabin in the woods and now you can't download the boot sequence and you're stuck. Sounds... great. This will also apply to those Windows phones too, poor Nokia, which may be great for cell phone providers since they get extra data traffic which they can overcharge for. This sounds... stupid. I am glad I doesn't affect me as I've been using GNU+Linux variants for 10+ years.
I actually read the whole interview and it explains why GNOME 3 turned out to be such a big pile of donkey dung. Yes, I tried it, I actually decided that I had to try it a whole week since it's apparently the future of GNOME. I switched to XFCE, I do not think I will switch back ever. As for the future of GNOME, I seriously do not think it has any and the interview made that much more clear. What this guy said indicates, to me, that GNOME 3 will only get worse. "Let's listen to those users who are not voicing their opinion because they DON'T EXIST, NOBODY LIKES GNOME3, EVERYBODY HATES IT, and just ignore 99.8% of the GNOME 2 users who hate GNOME 3 completely.". Sure, good luck with that.
Slashdot should do a pull: Do you a) hate or b) like GNOME3. Really. I'll be amazed if more than a few percent prefer GNOME3 over GNOME2.
I choose to leave my wireless open. I view wireless "security" like this: 1) Write a secret message on a plain postcard. 2) Put it in to a safe. 3) Drive the safe to the post office. 4) Take the postcard out of the safe, give the post office people the postcard. 5) Postcard is now sent through the postal service. Now, the postcard transport to the post office IS secure, it's in a safe, nobody can read it, it's all good and super secure. The security breaks somewhat when the postcard is delivered to the post office, just like your "secure" wireless data connection is somewhat broken when it reaches the Internet, but.. people seem to like this kind of security. If you really want security then you need end-to-end encryption like SSL and https. My view is that thinking wireless "security" gives you much real security is just dump. It does prevent people from using your wireless, and that's about it. I don't mind, fetching a web page used close to zero percent of my bandwidth anyway.
All my websites have been IPv6 ready for many years now and I have never noticed any problems with having them available over both IPv4 and IPv6, but that does not mean there are none. I have read than less than one percent of the users will have IPv6 configured without actually having IPv6 connectivity and I probably loose that traffic. This is what the IPv6 testing day is all about: to see just how much traffic you loose because of badly configured clients. Less than one percent traffic loss may be acceptable to me, but it's not acceptable when you're a huge profitable website. It's pretty obvious that nobody in their right minds will make their high-traffic website available over IPv6 only before 99.5% or so of all users have a IPv6 connection.
An attack based on "exploit security vulnerabilities in the graphics card driver" seems less likely using the FOSS graphics drivers. I'm not saying they can not be exploited, I'm just saying that this makes me feel somewhat safer than I would feel if I were using the closed Binary Blob drivers.
..yay, let's have a global proxy setting for everything and force that on everything. KDE & Gnome developers both seem to thing that's brilliant. Except.. configure konqueror to use say privoxy and poff, kopete doesn't work anymore. this has been an open bug for several years and I guess pr. proxy app support will be added.. never. great.
the panel auto-hide feature actually hides the panel since 4.6.2, so some things are improving. I don't like plasma much, switched to xfce due to that, but the KDE apps I use are mostly nice and stable. except the whole kdepim mess, who got the great idea to release that on a different schedule?
I used to run one of those what is my IP sites. Now it's IPv6 only because various botnets started (ab)using it. I get a few thousand hits by "Apache-HttpClient/UNAVAILABLE (java 1.4)" pr. hour. Other AV vendors have known for a while, searching for my sites lists several (not mcafee) who lists my site as something the bots use.
Install FF 4, browse a while, close all but one _blank_ tab and guess what? Firefox uses 7-800 MB _active_ memory. Doing what? Who knows. And it becomes slow and unresponsive after using it a while. Again, close all tabs but one - and it's STILL slow and crappy. The only way to make it "ok" again is to close it and start it up again. This is on Linux. FF4 is imho the worst ever, and they are talking about FF5 and 6 now... how about making a working FF4 first? maby ff4.1, ff4.2, etc. FF3 didn't become anything near accepable until 3.5/3.6.
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Lots of countries claim to be democracies without having free speech. Norway claims to be one yet the government covertly tortures people who say anything critical about the government, NATO and a range of other issues. Most "democracies" don't work. Regimes claim to be a "democracy" because None are so hopelessly enslaved as those who falsely believe they are free. (Goethe)
Gnome 2 is installed on desktop computers. That's the current user base. The Gnome developers made a mobile phone / tablet OS and call it Gnome 3. That's fine. But why present it like it's a desktop OS when the crappy Gnome 3 bullshit desktop don't work for 99% of the Gnome desktop user base? My opinion is that it would be better if they'd made different "Gnome Desktop" and "Gnome Tablet" versions. I've switched to XFCE and that works for me. Good luck to the Gnome people with their tablet pile of dunkey dung.
People also die from the very dangerous HPV vaccine. The parents of some of the HPV vaccines victims have put up web pages in memory of their dead children. Taking the HPV vaccine is a very bad idea, giving it to boys is an even worse idea.
I have a DV camera which stores the video on a tape. I have two tapes I'll use until they wear out (I have a few more spare tapes). I go out, videotape something, go home and dump the files to a harddrive. I use the next tape again next time. Why would someone want to store anything on film or tape? I don't see the point. Digital is better. Sure, harddrives fail, but you can always cp things around, make numerous backups and so on.
I used to own a Ericsson GH388. This phone came out in 1995. Those phones could be dropped 5 meters. You could hammer nails with them. The Sony Ericsson phones I have seen are all crappy plastic fantastic garbage that fails if you give them the wrong look. I really miss the _solid_ Ericsson phones, it is possible to make Android phones with metal not plastic.
Now, something different. A friend wanted me to configure SIP on a Sony Ericsson phone. The phone did support SIP, but ONLY "provider SIP". The phone was locked so you could NOT configure it to use a SIP provider. It had to be pre-configured by the SIM card provider. What a load of crap!! Sony==DRM, lock-down, garbage.
Why would a tinfoil hat be remotely relevant to the simple fact that he Russian Security Council ordered a HAARP earthquake early detection system put into place in 2006? And how is it relevant to the mentioned fact that this detection system reported the coming earthquake eight hours before it happened? Do you think imaginary tin foil hats somehow protect you against reality?
Natural earthquakes don't change the atmosphere, HAARP made do. It's interesting to note that Russia reported that they detected this attack against Japan 8 hours before the earthquake struck using their HAARP detection system a few days after it happened.
I checked the local prices a few days ago. SEKUSD is now at 6.8756. Huawei U8180 Ideos X1, no plan, 599 SEK, that works out to $87. Samsung GT-S5570 Galaxy Mini, no plan, 990 SEK, $144. The Android competitors are on a race to the bottom. You get them for free now if you sign up for a plan. It is too late for Nokia. They ruled the "damn cheap" price range the last decade. That price range is now seeing competition from cheap Android phones and I would rather have one those if I were to spend less than $100 on a mobile phone.
I learned touch on a typewriter in grade-school and I have benefited me immensely ever since. That's one of the basics they don't but really should teach kids. Some basic bash commands would probably also be very helpful, but that requires them to switch from Wintendo in the educational systems. I never once had need for the meaningless Word lessons I was forced to take. Teaching the programming would be great, but I don't quite get why they would want to teach C or Java or something like that to _all_ children. Giving them useful basic computer skills sounds more meaningful.
We are at the end of the age of cheap oil and cheap energy. The robots will go away once it becomes cheaper to hire humans than it is to make and power robots. It's really that simple.
1 MHz on one CPU is not equal to 1 MHz on another CPU. You can not say "AMD chip X is 3.0 GHz and Intel chip Y is 2.9 GHz so chip X is faster". Intel chips generally give you more clock for clock. Real-world benchmarks of a CPU running 8.429 GHz would be interesting.
Those who track inflation based on how it was done before all the tricks used to generate the number today became standard find that real inflation is much higher than what is stated. shadowstats.com is one site which does this. A difference between real inflation and stated inflation of atleast 4 percent makes a huge difference for USPS and others who recieve income based on stated inflation. Their income is limited to government stated inflation, their expences are based on actual inflation. The difference piles up and grows bigger every year. This is not the only reason they are having problems, but it is likely a huge part of it.
A government fining websites that -link- to facebook would be a pretty scary step.
I agree. But this story is NOT about linking to websites. I can add a a href= link to facebook and nobody gets tracked. The like buttons are not pure links. If you add a img src link to an image hotlinked at my server or more disturbing, include javascript hosted on my server on your site then we are talking about something completely different. I can not track a simple a href= link to my site. I CAN track hotlinked images and javascript. See the huge difference now?
I know bookstores have few customers these days, but I like them and need them. I like to relax in the bathtub with a good book. I prefer paper books over "ebooks", reading a webpage on the screen is fine, reading a whole book is not.
I have a laptop and a mini laptop with Windows license stickers on them. I obviously removed the Windows infection as soon as I got these computers. Piracy of the Windows OS does not seem to be a problem, you basically can't buy a computer without being forced to accept their garbage. A real problem is the reverse: I "own" two "Windows licenses" I did not want or need.
Apple makes huge money on the hardware and selling a few extra gigs of RAM or hard drive space at 500% markup. OS X updates are just cream on top. MS has no such luxury.
Apple is a hardware company, Microsoft is also sort-of by proxy. They don't sell hardware directly for some reason, but you basically can't buy a pre-built computer or laptop without being forced a Windows copy up your ass. I don't think Microsoft even cares that much about their end-user Windows sales. They are about how many hardware vendors force people to use their products. Therefore.. The price _will_ start falling from about $50 to $10 soon. Not because a larger portion of laptops have begun to come with Ubuntu or some other GNU+Linux flavor, this has not and will not happen. But tablets.. are rapidly gaining market share and Android and Apple's already taken that market. Windows got stuck on the train station after the train left. Microsoft doesn't have much alternative to basically giving away Windows if they want Windows to have a piece of the tablet pie. And Android / "Google OS" for laptops and desktop PCs will happen. This is why I think the price of a Windows "license" will drop along with Microsofts profits.
There are still situations where I boot my computer without it being connected to the great Internet. You bring your laptop to your cabin in the woods and now you can't download the boot sequence and you're stuck. Sounds... great. This will also apply to those Windows phones too, poor Nokia, which may be great for cell phone providers since they get extra data traffic which they can overcharge for. This sounds ... stupid. I am glad I doesn't affect me as I've been using GNU+Linux variants for 10+ years.
I actually read the whole interview and it explains why GNOME 3 turned out to be such a big pile of donkey dung. Yes, I tried it, I actually decided that I had to try it a whole week since it's apparently the future of GNOME. I switched to XFCE, I do not think I will switch back ever. As for the future of GNOME, I seriously do not think it has any and the interview made that much more clear. What this guy said indicates, to me, that GNOME 3 will only get worse. "Let's listen to those users who are not voicing their opinion because they DON'T EXIST, NOBODY LIKES GNOME3, EVERYBODY HATES IT, and just ignore 99.8% of the GNOME 2 users who hate GNOME 3 completely.". Sure, good luck with that. Slashdot should do a pull: Do you a) hate or b) like GNOME3. Really. I'll be amazed if more than a few percent prefer GNOME3 over GNOME2.
I choose to leave my wireless open. I view wireless "security" like this: 1) Write a secret message on a plain postcard. 2) Put it in to a safe. 3) Drive the safe to the post office. 4) Take the postcard out of the safe, give the post office people the postcard. 5) Postcard is now sent through the postal service. Now, the postcard transport to the post office IS secure, it's in a safe, nobody can read it, it's all good and super secure. The security breaks somewhat when the postcard is delivered to the post office, just like your "secure" wireless data connection is somewhat broken when it reaches the Internet, but.. people seem to like this kind of security. If you really want security then you need end-to-end encryption like SSL and https. My view is that thinking wireless "security" gives you much real security is just dump. It does prevent people from using your wireless, and that's about it. I don't mind, fetching a web page used close to zero percent of my bandwidth anyway.
I'd also like an invite. oyvinds@gmail.com kthnx
All my websites have been IPv6 ready for many years now and I have never noticed any problems with having them available over both IPv4 and IPv6, but that does not mean there are none. I have read than less than one percent of the users will have IPv6 configured without actually having IPv6 connectivity and I probably loose that traffic. This is what the IPv6 testing day is all about: to see just how much traffic you loose because of badly configured clients. Less than one percent traffic loss may be acceptable to me, but it's not acceptable when you're a huge profitable website. It's pretty obvious that nobody in their right minds will make their high-traffic website available over IPv6 only before 99.5% or so of all users have a IPv6 connection.
An attack based on "exploit security vulnerabilities in the graphics card driver" seems less likely using the FOSS graphics drivers. I'm not saying they can not be exploited, I'm just saying that this makes me feel somewhat safer than I would feel if I were using the closed Binary Blob drivers.
..yay, let's have a global proxy setting for everything and force that on everything. KDE & Gnome developers both seem to thing that's brilliant. Except.. configure konqueror to use say privoxy and poff, kopete doesn't work anymore. this has been an open bug for several years and I guess pr. proxy app support will be added.. never. great. the panel auto-hide feature actually hides the panel since 4.6.2, so some things are improving. I don't like plasma much, switched to xfce due to that, but the KDE apps I use are mostly nice and stable. except the whole kdepim mess, who got the great idea to release that on a different schedule?
I used to run one of those what is my IP sites. Now it's IPv6 only because various botnets started (ab)using it. I get a few thousand hits by "Apache-HttpClient/UNAVAILABLE (java 1.4)" pr. hour. Other AV vendors have known for a while, searching for my sites lists several (not mcafee) who lists my site as something the bots use.
Install FF 4, browse a while, close all but one _blank_ tab and guess what? Firefox uses 7-800 MB _active_ memory. Doing what? Who knows. And it becomes slow and unresponsive after using it a while. Again, close all tabs but one - and it's STILL slow and crappy. The only way to make it "ok" again is to close it and start it up again. This is on Linux. FF4 is imho the worst ever, and they are talking about FF5 and 6 now... how about making a working FF4 first? maby ff4.1, ff4.2, etc. FF3 didn't become anything near accepable until 3.5/3.6.