>Are you even familiar with the Unites States versus Microsoft.
I am. And David Boies was famous for prosecuting it. a
But then what actually happened?
The went under "observation."
Big deal. They should have been broken up. It would have been better for the company and for the investors as the pieces of Microsoft were worth more than the whole.
... that actually gets it. He was one of the 5 or so congresscritters that "stood in the way" of SOPA during the House Judiciary Committee hearings. He even understands the seedy underbelly of the net without going apeshit with wild claims. Someone this "net literate" in Congress is a rare thing indeed. There are a few with Rs next to their names that also get it, but they are rare as hen's teeth also.
>Google is a monopoly
The market is that way because every other competitor's product sucks more. Yahoo somehow keeps finding ways to suck more as time goes on, even though it seems like it can't possibly suck more. Google Maps is unparalleled, for example. Nobody else has the equivalent of Google Earth. There is Google search and then there is "everyone else" - mirroring "IBM and the seven dwarfs." They may as well be Cuil. And after, what, a decade of Hotmail being a laughingstock, I'm not motivated to use And unlike other companies that "maintain monopolies," Google doesn't go out of its way to "cut off the oxygen" of its competitors or partners - they don't have to.
I don't like big corporations and Google's size makes me uneasy. But I have problems finding serious fault with how they got to where they are today.
And when the FTC actually ever takes Microsoft seriously, then maybe I'll give them the benefit of the doubt going after Google. But they didn't and won't so I won't.
>There was never any proven link between the AMPs and trafficking, it just was the strawman they used to set up the bill.
That doesn't surprise me in the least. It was my suspicion from the start.
I think the bill was a disservice to the community. The surest way to get organized crime involved with something or to exacerbate a situation with organized crime is to drive it underground.
>Liberal 'friend': "Sorry, Alexander, but I don't want to discuss about anything political with you anymore. I don't want to talk to someone who defines himself as a libertarian."
Here in Rhode Island, consensual prostitution was legal until someone decided to conflate it with human trafficking, and got it an anti-prostitution bill passed that way.
Sure, a lot of the "asian spas" were human trafficked, but it also makes the "craigslist escort" illegal too.
Jamming is basically having a bigger signal than the other guy in relation to the location of the receiver. It's deliberate interference, or what hams call QRM.
Having a bigger signal than the other guy is how a sat relay got hijacked in the 80s to transmit a foul mouthed Max Headroom.
They still haven't found him, in spite of the fact that only a few places had uplinks powerful enough to hijack a bird. It had to be commercial broadcast or military. My bet is military.
Taking over someone's AM radio is trivial.
Just transmit at any AM radio at 455KHz.
It's the IF frequency. Any and all tuning gets converted to that frequency and then the signal is stripped of its carrier and amplified.
For FM, the IF is 10.7Mhz. The antenna is smaller and easier to build. The same thing still applies. Overwhelm the IF and you can say anything to the listener no matter where he tunes.
Back in the cold war, Voice of America would get jammed by Soviet bloc nations. VOA still gets jammed in N. Korea and other places. It's doubtful you'd be allowed a tunable shortwave reciever in N. Korea these days, though.
"Despite billions of dollars in advanced electronics, radar, and sonar it seems the Navy needs to install backup cameras on their boats. '
The point of a submarine is to be undetectable. Apparenly it worked.
My speculation, knowing submariners, is that the sub's captain was playing grab-ass with the surface ships, as they are wont to do during these kinds of exercises, due to the utter disdain for the surface fleet.
There are two kinds of seagoing vessels. Submarines and targets.
Homosexuality, including same-sex marriage, is not an enlightened idea. The Romans practised homosexuality. Surely, after 2000 years, our level of intelligence should have evolved somewhat, so that we can truly pride ourselves of being cleverer than our forebears
If homosexuality spreads, it can cause human evolution to come to a standstill. It could threaten the human position on the evolutionary ladder, and say, ducks, could take over the world. Ducks always nest in pairs and if we allow same-sex marriage, then ducks will have evolved further than we have. We will be in danger of all being equal, with ducks more equal than us.
We should learn from history and not be stuck with copying ancient behaviour. The government has no right to bring us back to the stone age. I don't want my children to have to compete with ducks. I wan them to evolve further than I have. Any self-respecting human would aim for that too.
None of this really bears any weight for me, because I do not believe in evolution. However the powers that be believe in evolution, and have made many decisions based on it. They should be consistent: If you believe in evolution, you can't be in favour of homosexuality, or the ducks will get you in the end.
If one makes the presumption that the modern IT is all about the internets, then you have to ask yourself 'Does the Linux even have a choice in this matter ?'
A modern computing system is not one that is run from the DOS command line - it is a system that is tied in with the internet instead. Just have a look at Vista with Aero for an example of this done right.
You need the outlook to connect in with the mass of email flowing around us every day. And then there is document collaboration - the sharing of Wordfiles and Excels between users across state boundries ! Voice over IP, internet enabled 'surface' computing, and voice command interfaces - all tied together with.NET and the Aero interface.
The driving force behind this internet is the Microsoft Sharepoint Server - a central peice of systems software which connects all these end points together, in a synergistic kaleidoscope that achieves both balance and symmetry.
The smart Vendors know that in order to get ahead in the future IT, that means integrating with the internet.
And so, we will see more and vendors of the Linux remit their legal obligations to Microsoft, and then benefit by getting onboard the.NET revolution.
Windows 8 is far more powerful than windows 7, and runs twice as fast. It is also much harder to pirate, and this point more than anything else has the Linux crowd in a panic.
It wont be long until Windows 7 is no longer supported, and when that happens, what is Linux going to do ?
Linux will have to find a way to work under Windows 8 from here on, since it wont be able to rely on Windows 7 being readily available anymore.
Linux may seem like a good alternative to Office, but all that is happening in linux is that the windows interface is cleverly hidden away. It still needs the drivers and software services in order to run, and in most cases - that happens WITHOUT a valid windows licence.
This is just plain piracy.
Windows 8 will finally put an end to this blatant abuse of intellectual property, and linux should decline, taking the pirates with it.
Anyone that supports the continuation of Windows 7 in place of Windows 8 surely has a hidden agenda.. and you will surely be caught out.
>new account >similar to other Pie based accounts like PieDode and PieLala - used and then abandoned. >used to shill Microsoft >first post in thread >buzzword bingo
There is a difference between a remote administration tool and a remote administration trojan. While the difference may seem technical, it matters. The summary confuses the two and the article doesn't seem to differentiate the two well enough.
Secondly, remote admin trojans are "good enough" and don't need to be perfect. Taking into account savvy users is not productive with so many dumb users out there. And in some cases, as we've seen in the past, simply calling someone up on the phone and talking them into installing a legitimate product like GoToMyPC or Teamviewer or any of the dozens of similar tools is good enough.
The people who are victims of remote admin trojans and "Hello $DUMBASS, please install Teamviewer" aren't exactly the ones who are running an active defense against malware anyway. They're not going to be "fighting back" until it is far too late, if at all.
Getting into the meat of the article, there is a lot of bloviating about how weak RATs are. This is only a temporary state. But the funniest thing in the article is this phrase: "some of the tools included cut-and-pasted code from various sources, he says." Duh. That's how most programmers work, in a broad sense. What the fuck does the author think a library is?
>. Libertarians don't even think marriage should be something the government has anything to do with.
It's this idea and others that make the Libertarians look like loonies.
Marriage has been, and is always, a public statement of contract. It is basically civil in nature. Whatever religiosity that is thrown around it is mere window dressing. With this idea that the government should not be involved in validating marriages, you alienate *both* the religious nutjobs, and people like me who think one of the functions of government is to make things like contracts enforceable.
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Really?
In 2012?
copy data from police computers and work on it away from the department.
Really? Aren't there such things as encryption and networks and the data staying on the bloody server?
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We've taken the optical electronics out of an optical mouse and stuck it on a velcro strap?
And you *still* need wires?
This is what passes for innovation?
I think... no.
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Oh look.
Yaknow, I had a prof who was an EE and Mason.
Clearly he was planning to take over the world with MOSFETs and NAND gates.
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>Are you even familiar with the Unites States versus Microsoft.
I am. And David Boies was famous for prosecuting it. a
But then what actually happened?
The went under "observation."
Big deal. They should have been broken up. It would have been better for the company and for the investors as the pieces of Microsoft were worth more than the whole.
They weren't taken seriously. QED.
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>You don't have to get a license from a government official to enter into other civil contracts, why marriage?
Because there are laws against marrying your sister, laws against concealing blood borne illnesses, etc.
This shit is obvious, man.
Unless you *like* having more people with recessive genes.
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... that actually gets it. He was one of the 5 or so congresscritters that "stood in the way" of SOPA during the House Judiciary Committee hearings. He even understands the seedy underbelly of the net without going apeshit with wild claims. Someone this "net literate" in Congress is a rare thing indeed. There are a few with Rs next to their names that also get it, but they are rare as hen's teeth also.
>Google is a monopoly
The market is that way because every other competitor's product sucks more. Yahoo somehow keeps finding ways to suck more as time goes on, even though it seems like it can't possibly suck more. Google Maps is unparalleled, for example. Nobody else has the equivalent of Google Earth. There is Google search and then there is "everyone else" - mirroring "IBM and the seven dwarfs." They may as well be Cuil. And after, what, a decade of Hotmail being a laughingstock, I'm not motivated to use And unlike other companies that "maintain monopolies," Google doesn't go out of its way to "cut off the oxygen" of its competitors or partners - they don't have to.
I don't like big corporations and Google's size makes me uneasy. But I have problems finding serious fault with how they got to where they are today.
And when the FTC actually ever takes Microsoft seriously, then maybe I'll give them the benefit of the doubt going after Google. But they didn't and won't so I won't.
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>The sequel was worse.
Oh dear god, I have to watch it now, just out of really morbid curiosity.
"How bad can it be?" as I slipped the VHS tape in that said "Troll 3" on the sticker.
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> an outgrowth of the Philadelphia Experiment
That was a silly movie.
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>There was never any proven link between the AMPs and trafficking, it just was the strawman they used to set up the bill.
That doesn't surprise me in the least. It was my suspicion from the start.
I think the bill was a disservice to the community. The surest way to get organized crime involved with something or to exacerbate a situation with organized crime is to drive it underground.
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>In the eyes of God, yes, it is invalid.
Who's god?
The Christian God?
Marriage predates Christianity. Marriage is independent of religious preference.
>.I mean, I don't think they should get "Married",
The church I grew up in, the Episcopal Church, aka C of E, American Version recognizes gay marriages.
Grow up.
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>Liberal 'friend': "Sorry, Alexander, but I don't want to discuss about anything political with you anymore. I don't want to talk to someone who defines himself as a libertarian."
That's just being smart and that's not bigotry.
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Here in Rhode Island, consensual prostitution was legal until someone decided to conflate it with human trafficking, and got it an anti-prostitution bill passed that way.
Sure, a lot of the "asian spas" were human trafficked, but it also makes the "craigslist escort" illegal too.
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Jamming is basically having a bigger signal than the other guy in relation to the location of the receiver. It's deliberate interference, or what hams call QRM.
Having a bigger signal than the other guy is how a sat relay got hijacked in the 80s to transmit a foul mouthed Max Headroom.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pj1mUk04_ho
They still haven't found him, in spite of the fact that only a few places had uplinks powerful enough to hijack a bird. It had to be commercial broadcast or military. My bet is military.
Taking over someone's AM radio is trivial.
Just transmit at any AM radio at 455KHz.
It's the IF frequency. Any and all tuning gets converted to that frequency and then the signal is stripped of its carrier and amplified.
For FM, the IF is 10.7Mhz. The antenna is smaller and easier to build. The same thing still applies. Overwhelm the IF and you can say anything to the listener no matter where he tunes.
Back in the cold war, Voice of America would get jammed by Soviet bloc nations. VOA still gets jammed in N. Korea and other places. It's doubtful you'd be allowed a tunable shortwave reciever in N. Korea these days, though.
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"Despite billions of dollars in advanced electronics, radar, and sonar it seems the Navy needs to install backup cameras on their boats. '
The point of a submarine is to be undetectable. Apparenly it worked.
My speculation, knowing submariners, is that the sub's captain was playing grab-ass with the surface ships, as they are wont to do during these kinds of exercises, due to the utter disdain for the surface fleet.
There are two kinds of seagoing vessels. Submarines and targets.
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Just to let you know... ... it was the latest thing on Pharyngula.
http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2012/10/13/the-ducks-are-gonna-get-you/ ;-D
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Cleverer.
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Homosexuality, including same-sex marriage, is not an enlightened idea. The Romans practised homosexuality. Surely, after 2000 years, our level of intelligence should have evolved somewhat, so that we can truly pride ourselves of being cleverer than our forebears
If homosexuality spreads, it can cause human evolution to come to a standstill. It could threaten the human position on the evolutionary ladder, and say, ducks, could take over the world. Ducks always nest in pairs and if we allow same-sex marriage, then ducks will have evolved further than we have. We will be in danger of all being equal, with ducks more equal than us.
We should learn from history and not be stuck with copying ancient behaviour. The government has no right to bring us back to the stone age. I don't want my children to have to compete with ducks. I wan them to evolve further than I have. Any self-respecting human would aim for that too.
None of this really bears any weight for me, because I do not believe in evolution. However the powers that be believe in evolution, and have made many decisions based on it. They should be consistent: If you believe in evolution, you can't be in favour of homosexuality, or the ducks will get you in the end.
> Marriage's are religious by definition,
No, they're not. Atheists get married all the time. Are you now saying that all Atheist marriages are now invalid?
> but do NOT have to be government sanctioned.
The religious ceremony is already not sanctioned by the government. A marriage only counts if you've signed a marriage license.
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>incorporation
But without government to make sure everybody honors that incorporation, then the incorporation is worth as much as you can put a gun behind it.
You have substituted one contract for another, and you have done nothing but make things more complicated.
The libertarian universe is nothing but a gedankenexperiment based on fantasy.
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If one makes the presumption that the modern IT is all about the internets, then you have to ask yourself 'Does the Linux even have a choice in this matter ?'
A modern computing system is not one that is run from the DOS command line - it is a system that is tied in with the internet instead. Just have a look at Vista with Aero for an example of this done right.
You need the outlook to connect in with the mass of email flowing around us every day. And then there is document collaboration - the sharing of Wordfiles and Excels between users across state boundries ! Voice over IP, internet enabled 'surface' computing, and voice command interfaces - all tied together with .NET and the Aero interface.
The driving force behind this internet is the Microsoft Sharepoint Server - a central peice of systems software which connects all these end points together, in a synergistic kaleidoscope that achieves both balance and symmetry.
The smart Vendors know that in order to get ahead in the future IT, that means integrating with the internet.
And so, we will see more and vendors of the Linux remit their legal obligations to Microsoft, and then benefit by getting onboard the .NET revolution.
Windows 8 is far more powerful than windows 7, and runs twice as fast. It is also much harder to pirate, and this point more than anything else has the Linux crowd in a panic.
It wont be long until Windows 7 is no longer supported, and when that happens, what is Linux going to do ?
Linux will have to find a way to work under Windows 8 from here on, since it wont be able to rely on Windows 7 being readily available anymore.
Linux may seem like a good alternative to Office, but all that is happening in linux is that the windows interface is cleverly hidden away. It still needs the drivers and software services in order to run, and in most cases - that happens WITHOUT a valid windows licence.
This is just plain piracy.
Windows 8 will finally put an end to this blatant abuse of intellectual property, and linux should decline, taking the pirates with it.
Anyone that supports the continuation of Windows 7 in place of Windows 8 surely has a hidden agenda .. and you will surely be caught out.
Just how many sock puppets do you have, Pie?
>new account
>similar to other Pie based accounts like PieDode and PieLala - used and then abandoned.
>used to shill Microsoft
>first post in thread
>buzzword bingo
PieMasters (2751119) is all alone in the world.
Indeed.
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So you "nip in the bud" antitrust problems on x86, but create them on ARM?
Just more of the same for Microsoft.
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There is a difference between a remote administration tool and a remote administration trojan. While the difference may seem technical, it matters. The summary confuses the two and the article doesn't seem to differentiate the two well enough.
Secondly, remote admin trojans are "good enough" and don't need to be perfect. Taking into account savvy users is not productive with so many dumb users out there. And in some cases, as we've seen in the past, simply calling someone up on the phone and talking them into installing a legitimate product like GoToMyPC or Teamviewer or any of the dozens of similar tools is good enough.
The people who are victims of remote admin trojans and "Hello $DUMBASS, please install Teamviewer" aren't exactly the ones who are running an active defense against malware anyway. They're not going to be "fighting back" until it is far too late, if at all.
Getting into the meat of the article, there is a lot of bloviating about how weak RATs are. This is only a temporary state. But the funniest thing in the article is this phrase: "some of the tools included cut-and-pasted code from various sources, he says." Duh. That's how most programmers work, in a broad sense. What the fuck does the author think a library is?
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>. Libertarians don't even think marriage should be something the government has anything to do with.
It's this idea and others that make the Libertarians look like loonies.
Marriage has been, and is always, a public statement of contract. It is basically civil in nature. Whatever religiosity that is thrown around it is mere window dressing. With this idea that the government should not be involved in validating marriages, you alienate *both* the religious nutjobs, and people like me who think one of the functions of government is to make things like contracts enforceable.
For glub's sake.
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