As also mentioned above, if you wish to keep your words absolutely secure, PGP (or the open alternative, GPG) is easily available to encrypt your potentially damning script.
GPG is not a solution to anything. I have been using it since the 90s, I encourage others to use it and I explain why encrypting e-mail is important the best way I can. It's been years and less than one percent of those I communicate with use it. The reality today is that the majority of people would vote for a law which requires everyone to have a camera in all rooms in their home and they would have no problem having such cameras in their own homes.
I'm fine with the government giving me a e-mail address which is only and specifically used to communicate with the government. I wouldn't use it for anything else, though.
Once upon a time there was a browser named Mozilla, also known as Mozilla Application Suite, which grew and grew. It became a huge pile of bloat. A few developers refused the bloat started an experimental branch at Mozilla which eventually evolved into Firefox. Their goal was to create a mean lean browser without the bloat. This path was good. The new "let's throw in as much bloat as possible" path is a total scandal. I really hope some clever people take firefox 3.6.x and use that as a basis for development of their own without-the-bloat branch. I've used the Firefox browser since it was named Phoenix, and I do think it's gone downwards since a while ago. evince or okular or whatever read PDF files just fine. Having a PDF reader and a pile of dunkey dung built into my browser is not required or desired.
First, in 2006 Google acquired YouTube—and since then it has put in place a growing number of technical measures to restrict competing search engines from properly accessing it for their search results. Without proper access to YouTube, Bing and other search engines cannot stand with Google on an equal footing in returning search results with links to YouTube videos and that, of course, drives more users away from competitors and to Google.
YouTube does have a robots file http://www.youtube.com/robots.txt which asks not to index some parts of the website. This should be allowed. I have a robots.txt file on my websites. If you send a spider loose on my servers and ignore it then I may -j DROP you. If you send a spider to my sites and disobey it then I'll also -j DROP you. If you visit the hidden-linked/spider-trap/ then PHP scripts will begin to die('gfy') from your IP. I think this should be allowed, and I am strongly against anyone who wants to dictate who and what I allow on my server.
If Microsoft just thinks YouTube's robots.txt is too restrictive then they can go fsck themselves.
Now, on the other hand, IF Google is serving different pages or denying pages based on Microsoft's spiders user-agent then that is something completely different. That's EVIL. EU and others should strike down upon them with great vengeance and furious anger if they are doing exactly what Microsoft was exposed doing to Opera on their Hotmail service a few years back (yes, they really did serve broken pages to Opera-users based on User-agent).
I would very much like to see Microsoft give out actual technical details on what they believe Google is doing that's so bad and unacceptable. Loose blah blah "google bad" text is not at all helpful, they should show us the technical details behind their claims. It's not that hard. Opera did this when Microsoft intentionally sent Opera-users broken pages when visiting Hotmail, it's actually quite easy to do.
Telling you want protocol you can and can not use is like telling you what sites you can and can't visit. Are they going to block YouTube next because that causes a lof of downstream traffic? I also think it is worth mentioning that there are a whole lot of other legal BitTorrent uses besides WOW. You make a movie, you want to distribute your movie for free, you put it on BitTorrent and now your movie is censored in Canada.
There's a big, big gap between the spec of a base-level WP7 smartphone and the highest-spec Series 40 "dumbphone". Symbian is nicely filling a gap in the midrange market that Nokia don't have a replacement for.
There IS NO MIDRANGE MARKET. Period. Yes, there was a midrange market. It's GONE. I am screaming this because I find it strange that something this obvious still illudes people. Consider this: The cheapest Android phone costs 1 SEK with a provider plan and 999 SEK without one. I would have to get paid cash in addition to getting a free phone when signing up for a provider plan if I where to consider one of yesterdays midrange market phones. They are dead. Smartphones are so cheap now that there is no market for anything less, you would have to sell the phone without a plan for less than 999 SEK, much less, to make them attractive in todays market. Perhaps the people at Nokia realize that the future has no room for anything but smartphones.
I own a AMD chip which I use. I also own a useless Nvidia chip. I use GNU/Linux and I use the free r600g driver with KMS. I really don't care how the cards are doing in the Windows world. I also don't care about their closed source binary blob Linux drivers. What I do care about is the support and performance of the free drivers.
The only thing I would like to see is a free software/free driver challenge between the two. Everything else does not matter. I never tried how any of them are doing in the Windows world, but my impression from what I have read is that it comes down to drivers there too and Nvidia seems to be doing better than AMD in the windows world.
Hardware really doesn't matter if there's not software to utilize it.
In order for IPv6 to be rolled out, I fear the FCC will need to get involved (as with HDTV). And that's just for the US.
I have no doubt the US will be among the last countries to get widespread IPv6 adoptation. Most major Swedish ISPs (Telia, etc) say they will start giving everyone both IPv4 and IPv6 in 2013, and drop IPv4 by 2015. They may delay, the IPv4 drop will depend on how the rest of the world are doing, but still: There will be no local market for IPv4 by 2014. Maby you can still sell address space to poor people like those in the US, who knows, all I'm saying is that the local market, and probably the whole EU market, for IPv4 will be dead soon.
SSL-certs are also not supported by all browsers. It's only slightly better than using a self-signed cert. also, people don't care. I put a very big "click here to enable ssl" button in a box saying INSECURE CONNECTION in big red letters for a year. maby 0.2% actually switched to https. nobody cares.
No GSM carriers with decent SIM only plans? That's another story but illustrates, even in my own country, what a cartel the entire phone industry is. i.e. where it's often cheaper to buy a phone on an expensive contract than prepaid + own phone.
You can get a Android phone for $160 (999 SEK) if you just buy the phone and get some SIM card for it on your own. You can get the same phone with a 1-year binded plan for 1 SEK. Yes. 1 SEK, that's giving them away to make you sign up with their stupid plan.
Android phones + free SIP software like LinPhone make them excellent home phones, though (they all have wifi). You don't even ned a SIM card as long as you accept that people can only call you on a SIP number when you are at home or some other place with a WIFI..
Microsoft will probably claim they've patended phone calls and try to stop this , though.
..and I tell you, the advertisements on the site where the torrents can be downloaded make no money worth mentioning. It doesn't even fully cover the server cost, seeding does cost money. And that's limiting the content to public domain and creative commons, advertisements make nothing close to what is requred in order to buy quality content. Keep in mind that this is a site where torrents can be downloaded which also does seeding of those torrents, I really do not see how those who just upload some file to some torrent site and seed it make any money at all. If I owned TPB and I uploaded files to TPB and seeded them then that would generate profit, but that's different than random strangers uploading some file.
This is nothing new (the part about no user intervention), its called C2DM. Your google account would need to be compromised for an attacker to remotely install software on your phone.
The "account" part is less important. What really matters is that Google can remotely install software on your phone. Google itself may be compromised in one way or another. It should simply not be possible to install anything on any device without notifying the user on that device.
I've seen claims like this from Microsoft numerous times and I have to wonder: Where do they get their numbers? Does Windows dial-back and report if it is pirated or not? Or do they just guess how many computers are sold and compare that to the number of Windows licenses sold? Am I a Windows-pirate because I do not have Windows on any of my computers? How do we know that these people who are supposedly using pirated versions of Windows even have computers?
You also need to have a torrent that doesn't disable DHT and peer exchange. This has to be the most irritating "feature" of BitTorrent; the torrent file controls whether they're allowed.
It is true that there is a flag in.torrent files which can kindly asks the client to disable peer exchange. Some BitTorrent clients will disable peer exchange is this flag is set, many do not care at all and exchange peer information anyway. It is in any case the client software you are using, not the torrent file, which actually disables DHT...
The Nvidia corporation are not about to allow you or your familiy to have access to any kind of documentation, code or anything else for that matter. You can use their cards on free software systems, but you have to submit to their Binary Blob world order to do so and if you are willing to do that then you might as well run Windows. I've heard it's improved somewhat since 3.1, and people seem to like it. AMD are, on the other hand, barely making an effort to help free software driver development by publishing documentation and they also have some worker-drones submitting to mesa git on a regular basis. The free drivers are very slow compared to their binary blob, which they also would like you to submit to, but atleast they are doing more good than nvidia at this point.
You'll have to wait for Samba4 to get something fully featured which will rock your boat if you need a directory server, and it's still in alpha status. You can do some things with Samba 3.x, you may even (ab)use it as a replacement -- and RHEL includes it -- but it takes some time to setup and it lacks some important features that you may want.
So how good is the AMD open source driver? How much luck have you had running 3d games under Wine with it?
Both the AMD r600c and the new r600g free software drivers are slow and phoronix benchmark story is that their evil binary blob is faster than both of those. Still, there is a very big difference between AMD and Nvidia; AMD worker-drones regularly work on the driver and the OpenGL support through MESA and they are making documentation available as fast as they can write it. As for Wine: I do not have the license for any 3d games or other Windows software for that matter, so I haven't tried running anything at all under Wine. If you know any good free software Windows games then I could download and try them. I do know you can play the Linux version of World of Padman using the free AMD drivers, and it's quite fun.
..never as long as Nvidia refuses to release even a hint of documentation and insists that GNU/Linux users accept their Binary Blob World Order. I don't really care if this new card is faster than the fastest AMD card, atleast I can (ab)use those for something. I still have a Nvidia PCI (not PCIe) card on some shelf which does NOT work with the Binary Blob under GNU/Linux, nor does it work with nouveau joke of a free driver.
I don't know much about WIndows, I've heard it has improved since Windows 3.1 and that's about it. I am used to GNU/Linux distributions giving me all the latest software when I apt-get update or emerge sync;emerge -uv world or yum update or whatever. I never go to some website to get or update some piece of software, the OS has some feature which lets me do that. If Windows Update would be able to do something like that then it sounds to me as if it's a very good thing. Perhaps not so good as long as it only lets you grab Microsoft software, and it would likely be hard for them to add too much other software being that Windows typically means non-free software, but still.. this sounds to me like a step in the right direction. But as said, I don't really know that much about the Windows world.
The problem here is that the Adobe editing software allows those non-tech educated "artist" (who create that graphics) to do such a mess with the resources, clogged rendering pipeline and a total misuse of every feature imaginable
Most flash on the web are advertisements who show a very short animation. You seriously expect me to believe that it's their fault that these 3 second long "buy our shit" animations require 100% CPU?
...in no time, with 300+ variations. This is what I hate about OSS. The moment someone isn`t too happy, they get the fork off and duplicate the work and dilute any chance of completing the damn thing, rather than working things out.
It is possible for those doing two or more forks to cooperate and share common code while having different goals. I am not sure if this would work or be a good thing for an office suite, though. As for GNU/Linux distributions: I prefer Gentoo on my desktop since it offers ebuilds for the latest packages and even ebuilds for git. I prefer CentOS on my servers (=RHEL) since that's rock solid stable and offers no suprises. I install Ubuntu on n00b peoples desktops since it requires basically no command line maintainance. I prefer Pendrivelinux on my usbstick. I really like that there are so many different distributions to choose from, some are great for this and some are great for that. I would hate to see all the different distributions "working things out" and leaving us with The/Linux and that's the only choice and if you don't like it then go fork yourself
I will not submit. Period. This, sadly, means I can't fly anymore. I haven't done so since the rise of modern facism using numerous false-flag terror operations early this century. These new full-body scanners are another step in the wrong direction.
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As also mentioned above, if you wish to keep your words absolutely secure, PGP (or the open alternative, GPG) is easily available to encrypt your potentially damning script.
GPG is not a solution to anything. I have been using it since the 90s, I encourage others to use it and I explain why encrypting e-mail is important the best way I can. It's been years and less than one percent of those I communicate with use it. The reality today is that the majority of people would vote for a law which requires everyone to have a camera in all rooms in their home and they would have no problem having such cameras in their own homes.
I'm fine with the government giving me a e-mail address which is only and specifically used to communicate with the government. I wouldn't use it for anything else, though.
Once upon a time there was a browser named Mozilla, also known as Mozilla Application Suite, which grew and grew. It became a huge pile of bloat. A few developers refused the bloat started an experimental branch at Mozilla which eventually evolved into Firefox. Their goal was to create a mean lean browser without the bloat. This path was good. The new "let's throw in as much bloat as possible" path is a total scandal. I really hope some clever people take firefox 3.6.x and use that as a basis for development of their own without-the-bloat branch. I've used the Firefox browser since it was named Phoenix, and I do think it's gone downwards since a while ago. evince or okular or whatever read PDF files just fine. Having a PDF reader and a pile of dunkey dung built into my browser is not required or desired.
First, in 2006 Google acquired YouTube—and since then it has put in place a growing number of technical measures to restrict competing search engines from properly accessing it for their search results. Without proper access to YouTube, Bing and other search engines cannot stand with Google on an equal footing in returning search results with links to YouTube videos and that, of course, drives more users away from competitors and to Google.
YouTube does have a robots file http://www.youtube.com/robots.txt which asks not to index some parts of the website. This should be allowed. I have a robots.txt file on my websites. If you send a spider loose on my servers and ignore it then I may -j DROP you. If you send a spider to my sites and disobey it then I'll also -j DROP you. If you visit the hidden-linked /spider-trap/ then PHP scripts will begin to die('gfy') from your IP. I think this should be allowed, and I am strongly against anyone who wants to dictate who and what I allow on my server.
If Microsoft just thinks YouTube's robots.txt is too restrictive then they can go fsck themselves.
Now, on the other hand, IF Google is serving different pages or denying pages based on Microsoft's spiders user-agent then that is something completely different. That's EVIL. EU and others should strike down upon them with great vengeance and furious anger if they are doing exactly what Microsoft was exposed doing to Opera on their Hotmail service a few years back (yes, they really did serve broken pages to Opera-users based on User-agent).
I would very much like to see Microsoft give out actual technical details on what they believe Google is doing that's so bad and unacceptable. Loose blah blah "google bad" text is not at all helpful, they should show us the technical details behind their claims. It's not that hard. Opera did this when Microsoft intentionally sent Opera-users broken pages when visiting Hotmail, it's actually quite easy to do.
Telling you want protocol you can and can not use is like telling you what sites you can and can't visit. Are they going to block YouTube next because that causes a lof of downstream traffic? I also think it is worth mentioning that there are a whole lot of other legal BitTorrent uses besides WOW. You make a movie, you want to distribute your movie for free, you put it on BitTorrent and now your movie is censored in Canada.
There's a big, big gap between the spec of a base-level WP7 smartphone and the highest-spec Series 40 "dumbphone". Symbian is nicely filling a gap in the midrange market that Nokia don't have a replacement for.
There IS NO MIDRANGE MARKET. Period. Yes, there was a midrange market. It's GONE. I am screaming this because I find it strange that something this obvious still illudes people. Consider this: The cheapest Android phone costs 1 SEK with a provider plan and 999 SEK without one. I would have to get paid cash in addition to getting a free phone when signing up for a provider plan if I where to consider one of yesterdays midrange market phones. They are dead. Smartphones are so cheap now that there is no market for anything less, you would have to sell the phone without a plan for less than 999 SEK, much less, to make them attractive in todays market. Perhaps the people at Nokia realize that the future has no room for anything but smartphones.
I own a AMD chip which I use. I also own a useless Nvidia chip. I use GNU/Linux and I use the free r600g driver with KMS. I really don't care how the cards are doing in the Windows world. I also don't care about their closed source binary blob Linux drivers. What I do care about is the support and performance of the free drivers.
The only thing I would like to see is a free software/free driver challenge between the two. Everything else does not matter. I never tried how any of them are doing in the Windows world, but my impression from what I have read is that it comes down to drivers there too and Nvidia seems to be doing better than AMD in the windows world.
Hardware really doesn't matter if there's not software to utilize it.
In order for IPv6 to be rolled out, I fear the FCC will need to get involved (as with HDTV). And that's just for the US.
I have no doubt the US will be among the last countries to get widespread IPv6 adoptation. Most major Swedish ISPs (Telia, etc) say they will start giving everyone both IPv4 and IPv6 in 2013, and drop IPv4 by 2015. They may delay, the IPv4 drop will depend on how the rest of the world are doing, but still: There will be no local market for IPv4 by 2014. Maby you can still sell address space to poor people like those in the US, who knows, all I'm saying is that the local market, and probably the whole EU market, for IPv4 will be dead soon.
SSL-certs are also not supported by all browsers. It's only slightly better than using a self-signed cert. also, people don't care. I put a very big "click here to enable ssl" button in a box saying INSECURE CONNECTION in big red letters for a year. maby 0.2% actually switched to https. nobody cares.
No GSM carriers with decent SIM only plans? That's another story but illustrates, even in my own country, what a cartel the entire phone industry is. i.e. where it's often cheaper to buy a phone on an expensive contract than prepaid + own phone.
You can get a Android phone for $160 (999 SEK) if you just buy the phone and get some SIM card for it on your own. You can get the same phone with a 1-year binded plan for 1 SEK. Yes. 1 SEK, that's giving them away to make you sign up with their stupid plan. Android phones + free SIP software like LinPhone make them excellent home phones, though (they all have wifi). You don't even ned a SIM card as long as you accept that people can only call you on a SIP number when you are at home or some other place with a WIFI.. Microsoft will probably claim they've patended phone calls and try to stop this , though.
Access to all the worlds information, self-driving cars.. just imagine if it were to become self-aware.
..and I tell you, the advertisements on the site where the torrents can be downloaded make no money worth mentioning. It doesn't even fully cover the server cost, seeding does cost money. And that's limiting the content to public domain and creative commons, advertisements make nothing close to what is requred in order to buy quality content. Keep in mind that this is a site where torrents can be downloaded which also does seeding of those torrents, I really do not see how those who just upload some file to some torrent site and seed it make any money at all. If I owned TPB and I uploaded files to TPB and seeded them then that would generate profit, but that's different than random strangers uploading some file.
This is nothing new (the part about no user intervention), its called C2DM. Your google account would need to be compromised for an attacker to remotely install software on your phone.
The "account" part is less important. What really matters is that Google can remotely install software on your phone. Google itself may be compromised in one way or another. It should simply not be possible to install anything on any device without notifying the user on that device.
I've seen claims like this from Microsoft numerous times and I have to wonder: Where do they get their numbers? Does Windows dial-back and report if it is pirated or not? Or do they just guess how many computers are sold and compare that to the number of Windows licenses sold? Am I a Windows-pirate because I do not have Windows on any of my computers? How do we know that these people who are supposedly using pirated versions of Windows even have computers?
You also need to have a torrent that doesn't disable DHT and peer exchange. This has to be the most irritating "feature" of BitTorrent; the torrent file controls whether they're allowed.
It is true that there is a flag in .torrent files which can kindly asks the client to disable peer exchange. Some BitTorrent clients will disable peer exchange is this flag is set, many do not care at all and exchange peer information anyway. It is in any case the client software you are using, not the torrent file, which actually disables DHT...
The Nvidia corporation are not about to allow you or your familiy to have access to any kind of documentation, code or anything else for that matter. You can use their cards on free software systems, but you have to submit to their Binary Blob world order to do so and if you are willing to do that then you might as well run Windows. I've heard it's improved somewhat since 3.1, and people seem to like it. AMD are, on the other hand, barely making an effort to help free software driver development by publishing documentation and they also have some worker-drones submitting to mesa git on a regular basis. The free drivers are very slow compared to their binary blob, which they also would like you to submit to, but atleast they are doing more good than nvidia at this point.
Fedora is a really bad choice for enterprise environments. Fedora provides updates for 13 months. RHEL has a 7 year lifecycle. Enough said.
You'll have to wait for Samba4 to get something fully featured which will rock your boat if you need a directory server, and it's still in alpha status. You can do some things with Samba 3.x, you may even (ab)use it as a replacement -- and RHEL includes it -- but it takes some time to setup and it lacks some important features that you may want.
Mailing list story is that "I believe that a beta will be available some time after the RHEL 6 production release.", http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-devel/2010-November/006005.html
So how good is the AMD open source driver? How much luck have you had running 3d games under Wine with it?
Both the AMD r600c and the new r600g free software drivers are slow and phoronix benchmark story is that their evil binary blob is faster than both of those. Still, there is a very big difference between AMD and Nvidia; AMD worker-drones regularly work on the driver and the OpenGL support through MESA and they are making documentation available as fast as they can write it. As for Wine: I do not have the license for any 3d games or other Windows software for that matter, so I haven't tried running anything at all under Wine. If you know any good free software Windows games then I could download and try them. I do know you can play the Linux version of World of Padman using the free AMD drivers, and it's quite fun.
..never as long as Nvidia refuses to release even a hint of documentation and insists that GNU/Linux users accept their Binary Blob World Order. I don't really care if this new card is faster than the fastest AMD card, atleast I can (ab)use those for something. I still have a Nvidia PCI (not PCIe) card on some shelf which does NOT work with the Binary Blob under GNU/Linux, nor does it work with nouveau joke of a free driver.
I don't know much about WIndows, I've heard it has improved since Windows 3.1 and that's about it. I am used to GNU/Linux distributions giving me all the latest software when I apt-get update or emerge sync;emerge -uv world or yum update or whatever. I never go to some website to get or update some piece of software, the OS has some feature which lets me do that. If Windows Update would be able to do something like that then it sounds to me as if it's a very good thing. Perhaps not so good as long as it only lets you grab Microsoft software, and it would likely be hard for them to add too much other software being that Windows typically means non-free software, but still.. this sounds to me like a step in the right direction. But as said, I don't really know that much about the Windows world.
The problem here is that the Adobe editing software allows those non-tech educated "artist" (who create that graphics) to do such a mess with the resources, clogged rendering pipeline and a total misuse of every feature imaginable
Most flash on the web are advertisements who show a very short animation. You seriously expect me to believe that it's their fault that these 3 second long "buy our shit" animations require 100% CPU?
...in no time, with 300+ variations. This is what I hate about OSS. The moment someone isn`t too happy, they get the fork off and duplicate the work and dilute any chance of completing the damn thing, rather than working things out.
It is possible for those doing two or more forks to cooperate and share common code while having different goals. I am not sure if this would work or be a good thing for an office suite, though. As for GNU/Linux distributions: I prefer Gentoo on my desktop since it offers ebuilds for the latest packages and even ebuilds for git. I prefer CentOS on my servers (=RHEL) since that's rock solid stable and offers no suprises. I install Ubuntu on n00b peoples desktops since it requires basically no command line maintainance. I prefer Pendrivelinux on my usbstick. I really like that there are so many different distributions to choose from, some are great for this and some are great for that. I would hate to see all the different distributions "working things out" and leaving us with The/Linux and that's the only choice and if you don't like it then go fork yourself
I will not submit. Period. This, sadly, means I can't fly anymore. I haven't done so since the rise of modern facism using numerous false-flag terror operations early this century. These new full-body scanners are another step in the wrong direction.