What makes you think Scientology is weak and fang-less? They kill people. They broke into a federal agency and stole documents without repercussion. They blackmailed the IRS into granting them a tax exemption.
Compare the help and favors Scientology will get from various government agencies if they ask for something, with the help VISA will get. Compare what some angry Scientology executives can actually do to you personally, versus what VISA can get the FBI to do.
So, no, don't take it for granted that indie developers have moved on or are just raking in the dough. The good ones got that way because their developers loved them, and many still do. So go halfies on a nice meal for them, ok? They're busting their butts for you.
I got the Humble Bundle 2 at the regular price they posted. I just want the funding concept to work out.
I have a business, helped my wife open hers, and had others before. A business has a monthly ongoing cost, generally salaries and bills. A project has a one-time cost. A software project can be developed as a one-time project, then consume no more financing, just eventually some additional support. So eventually that becomes another project.
The one-time cost for developing a small game project, say X dollars for developers for Y months, could find initial funding, which would be a calculated capital risk, then "humble bundle", "auction", or "sell" the program source code, with the promise to release the source if the original funding, plus X for the initial capital risk-taker, becomes available.
So if I have a small software company, our monthly costs are 100, and we can do a game in 12 months, developing the game will cost 1200. Some investor could come up with that for us to do no other profitable work for twelve months, or we can take that risk ourselves if we can find some time+money. That could all be recouped later though a sale. The risk is that we could fail to complete the project, plus it could fail to sell successfully. Somewhat difficult risks, but which can be calculated.
For smaller projects, or for doing them with more time, developers themselves can take the risk and capital costs, doing it in some fraction of their time they decide to do risk-projects, and not doing actually-paid-work to pay for their fixed monthly costs. Then releasing it as closed source, and advertising release of the source once reaching the sales amount equivalent to their time+labor+risk they invested. This would convert their risks, the potentially-earning-work-time into actually-earned-work-time, plus would release the source. Plus, they have their regular daily work, such as developing corporate databases, or whatever regular work is available. In fact, it can be done by a group of friends. Keeping in mind, of course, that potentially-earning-work is not actually-paid-work, so there is +risk, that must be always kept in account, and in mind. People always ignore the risks, justifying it with "be optimist", or "don't be negative". Risk is not a monster, it just has to be taken into account, otherwise people fight later on and there are problems. Risk is, well, risky. The risk can be reduced and become small, if there is available time, hard work, intelligence, experience, dedication, teamwork, creativity, etc.
First, I wish there were more people in organizing, coordination, mediating disputes. Like any human activity, too much time is wasted due to disputes and/or insuficcient coordination. Projects are abandoned, good people get frustrated, tired, upset, split, and end up duplicating efforts. I don't know of any group coordinating growth strategies, recommending methods to talk to new enthusiasts, how to *better* explain the ideas to new people, how to help people with common questions effectively, not just supplying a convincing answer, but actually resolving, or if not possible, taking note of the issues, and where to take them for proper addressing.
Second, I wish there were more encouraging, funding, advocacy, promoting and educating strategies. Funding, especially, seems to suffer from old models. The Humble Indie Bundle strategy, Summer of Code, and bounties seem like innovative ideas that are working.
For example, the main competition for open-source actually seems to be pirate-ware. People always consider open-source when faced with actually paying for software. What strategy should open-source take with this? None? Open standards, as well as standards in general, seem to greatly help open source. How can projects better incorporate them? I guess I'm saying more studies of strategies, and recommended guidelines for developers and users, seem like they could help a great deal.
Well I respect anyone's aspiration to a better society, to organize and rebel. We do have too passive citizens. Learning to organize is critical. Whatever the actual ideas motivtating it, organizing involves the same basic skills. I would suggest 4chan, or anyone, study better methods, better organizing. You can join Indymedia/IMC, full of great people, read up on the US vietnam antiwar organizers, the US african american equal rights organizers. If into Wikileaks, join and help Wikileaks. If you want to learn real, hard core organizing and social ideas and skills, join a real social-revolution organizing group, like anarchists, socialists, or humanists. Go help Critical Mass. If you just want to have some fun, but organize, do a Flash Mob. Always look for the organizers, and offer real hard core help, do the real hard work, and you'll learn. Don't just hang around, you will learn nothing. http://critical-mass.info/ http://www.wikileaksforum.net/ http://www.indymedia.org/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opposition_to_the_U.S._involvement_in_the_Vietnam_War http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African-American_Civil_Rights_Movement http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socialism http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flash_mob
4chan has to learn more. Their old tactics were for Scientology, a rather weak, fang-less, unpopular group of weirdoes. Not for dealing with corporate and government groups, which have support of networks within government, lawyers, detectives, spies, police, FBI, etc.
I'll bet the Chinese are now laughing so hard it hurts.
America is finished with nonsense like this.
Not really, the Chinese are not laughing, no. They are too busy copying everything America does to become exactly like it. Especially the waste. For example, getting rid of all their bicycles, and putting everyone to produce, buy and sell cars for themselves and everyone. Producing many more accidents. But they have no hospitals, and nobody cares. Too busy making money with cars. Sounds familiar, doesn't it.
Dunno, but I'm sure those redundant, pointless jobs will be added under someone's "and he created X jobs in 2011..." political campaign slogans. After all jobs with no purpose outside the job itself is the whole point of government, unlike economic efficiency where the jobs actually have to contribute something society deems as worthwhile.
Now to find jobs that completely undo what little these new jobs do, hmmm maybe on the environmental side of things...
Umm let's go easy on the private-sector-is-nirvana please. Companies produce profit, yes. That requires being "efficient", at least with time and money, yes. Contributions to society? Not helpful to profitability. To public-relations, perhaps, so companies run ads saying "we are totally eco-everything!", true or not, and they're done with social-contribution-PR. Profitability, more often than not, leads to intense studies of how to sell the least expensive things, for the most money, as an illusion of a most amazing thing. So in food, for example, that results in lots products based on low cost ingredients - water, sugar, fat, salt, wheat, corn, soybean, and various chemicals. Because they are low cost, don't spoil, give huge taste rewards to anything they are mixed with. Fresh fruits and vegetables are not as profitable, there's just no way to do it, so they are not promoted, marketed, researched, etc. Therefore, junk food national diet, international now, heavily promoted. It's a profitable, possible sector. So, private sector has efficiency - for profit, not health.
Whose "profit interests" would be served by good health, that could counter all this? Perhaps the insurance companies. Or temp-labor. But still they do almost nothing to promote health. Why? Well, good salesmen, complex contracts and good lawyers results in much better profits than healthy insurance buyers.
And yes, I have a company, started several over the years - was last an employee in '97 - and it is very hard, almost impossible, to create a company producing "social contributions", plus income to pay for costs plus profit, plus manage all operations, all at the same time. That's why almost nobody does it, it's not so much because company owners are cruel and greedy. Companies with more greed produce more profit and grow faster, they are financially, socially rewarded, that's what happens. What's profitable? Not good social-services. That's a myth. Selling drugs, alcohol, prostitution, power, weapons, false dreams, and useless junk, now that's efficient, that's good profit.
Government is not nirvana, neither was socialism, and capitalism isn't much more than self-promotion and marketing either. So start looking for something new, because we need it badly.
Myself, I'm rooting that someday we reach humanism. No, it's not simple and easy, nothing is, and not a product for sale. And I could give a damn if capitalism just finished and became obsolete, humanity can do better than this.
Wifi broke on my iphone 3G. I believe it was heat-related. It stopped working in front of me, when I was making a large file transfer over wifi. It was sitting on top of a laptop, which was a bit hot, and with a common cover around it, which holds heat in a bit more than usual.
Well , ok it uses technology - admittedly from 1991 - but I don't think thats quite what you meant.
And , what exactly is "open source thinking"?
The posting is not the technology part, it's the social impact part. The technology part is exercised by whoever acquired the documents, and the technical ability to keep the site free of attacks and running.
Open source thinking stands for giving everyone access to all information, for full transparency, whether that's inside the box, under the hood, under the table, behind the curtain, behind the firewall, but most especially, inside the secret dealings of corrupt, powerful, monopolist, abusive and violent entities, such as many sections of goverenments and corporations.
But it appears you stand for their rights to abuse human beings, laws and ethics codes of all lands, in complete secrecy. So I understand why you don't agree.
Let's deny you all credit cards, bank accounts, airline flights, all major store purchases, all corporate relations, because, well, just because the government said so, no arguments given, and see if you still call that a right any company has, and not a restriction of your freedoms, based on discrimination of some sort. Nobody has yet even accuse wikileaks of breaking any law. The data they publish was not acquired by them, and could have been published anywhere, in zillions of methods, including leaflets on street light poles, involving no computer or network of any kind.
Can we stop posting every bit wikileaks minutiae and get back to real news for nerds?
wikileaks almost has nothing to do with tech anyways, and this tidbit is almost certainly not stuff that matters.
Can we report on more ways to help Wikileaks please? It is arguably the most influence technology, hacking and open-source thinking has had this year, and for a while, and I'd like to see it gather much more support.
Shut down the coal mines. Yes, coal, gas and oil have to go - basically carbon from underground that people burn. Limited resources, causing dispute, war, monopolies, smoke, soot, noise. Nuclear and hydroelectric works just fine, most of NYC trasportation runs on electric power. Millions of people get to work and back every day, fast with no traffic - on electric power. Get PRT and it'll be faster than any car-based system can ever be.
Simple. "God works in subtle, mysterious ways. Who is to say that He did not create the universe in such a way that the precise results He wished to occur would occur, like an intricate, universe-wide set of dominoes? Could not evolution be the means by which He created man?"
If they continue to argue, hit them with a crowbar.
Crowbars are old-fashioned. Now you just publish their accounting records, evidence of millions in people's "donated" properties, under threats of punishment from above and below if they refuse.
40% of US residents believe in creationism. What are you going to say to them, huh?
1) Go ahead and believe what you want.
2) Stay away from me.
3) Stay away from my school.
4) Stay away from my newspaper, website, street, neighborhood, job, and city.
5) You are free to go set up your own of those. Don't invite me.
Let's get rid of all that oxygen! Take all the stuff that came out of the atmosphere over billions of years and solidified underground, and burn it to combine it with the oxygen, convert all that breathable O to CO2. Let's give every human on earth machines to convert large amounts of O into unbreathable CO and CO2.
We here have a law just for cybercafes, supposedly to "reduce Internet crime". Basically it says no minors or alcohol, and recording the ID and keeping records on all users, there's a bunch of other articles but not so important.
So we have cops shaking down establishments that don't follow the laws. We have lawsuits demanding damages on cafe's that were used for sending anonymous emails to someone. We have potential customers (rightly) angry that they just want to use a computer for five minutes, and don't want to leave a dozen pieces of information on them for that. We have the constant concern that the police is coming by to check if everything is according to the laws. We have the concern that some disgruntled client or employee will start looking for some legal clauses not followed 100% (there are always some) and call the inspectors on us. We have the labor of creating, for each and every client, username, password, recording name, date of birth, ID, address, phone. Then people forgetting passwords, and resetting it for them, dozens of times a day. All labor we earn nothing for.
And no, this is not Iran or North Korea, it's Brazil. I understand people want to catch criminals and reduce crime and violence. That's fine, even commendable. What people fail to do is properly study where crime and violence originates, and how to prevent or reduce it. If you put controls and checks everywhere, all the time, you'll reduce crime, yes, and make society and life terrible. Just like the Internet, if you want to prevent crime on the streets, you can install machines that check fingerprints, license plates, records a face on video, on every bridge, subway, bus, major avenue, and street corner. It's certain to reduce some crime, even a lot of it. You can install devices to check fingerprints and ID on the phones, to record all phone calls, to record conversations on every table in society. It will reduce crime, too. You can make all financial transactions analyzed by computers and requiring a description as to a purpose, to check for corruption, and theft, and so on. You can eliminate paper money, to force people to create electronic records of all purchases and expenses. Everything can be tracked and checked. That will reduce crime, too. But none of that will eliminate the intention and motivation for crime. People have ignorance and violence in their heart and mind, motivated from anger from other past violence, ignorance, or bodily pain. Controlling people's actions does nothing to control what they feel, want, wish, think. That, we will only get with more, better education, education to think of others, of society, and not just oneself, which is exactly what our society does NOT encourage. It requires a a society that people don't feel they need to commit crime to advance in, that rewards intelligent and useful work, and not legalized psychological manipulation to sabotage people's brains into wanting and buying things that will do nothing they actually need. In short, if we want to reduce crime and violence, great, let's. It's built in to, and requires deep change to, the legal, financial, commerce, government, the moral values, the education system. It's not in the freaking Internet. Crime and violence does not run over wires. Crime and violence is not stored on hard drives, or transmitted over telecommunications systems. Crime and violence can be committed everywhere and with any means when someone is decided for it, just study any prison or war situations, and see if any "laws" or "enforcement" apply there, when violence has set in, when it's the order of the day. Crime and violence is born, lives and dies, grows and shrinks, every day, in the heart and mind of each and every citizen, neighbor, voter, employee and family member. If you want to reduce crime and violence you need a massive education campaign, teaching respect for all human beings, above all other principles, there is no other way. As it stands, it is taught that everything is more important than human beings. Tr
If you try to run a Terminal Server without your own license, it won't be anywhere near as easy as running Windows or Office. It shows they know how to lock down software when they want to.
http://blogs.computerworld.com/node/2803
WSJ: But those were stolen, correct?
Gates: Stolen's a strong word. It's copyrighted content that the owner wasn't paid for. So yes.
Hey, Steve, just because you broke into Xerox’s store before I did and took the TV doesn’t mean I can’t go in later and steal the stereo.”
–Bill Gates
“In my case, I went to the garbage cans at the Computer Science Center and I fished out listings of their operating systems.”
–Bill Gates
Bill Gates on Piracy: "They'll get addicted, and then we'll collect"
This is nice! Someone can develop a closed-source project, sell it for a while, recoup costs and some profit, then make a big sale to launch it open source!
I believe the Chinese government would love Facebook: all those people offering up the intimate details
Perhaps what they'll like most is to get access to some data that is *not* from Chinese citizens. Anyway I don't see how things with China and the West will end well, with both having contradicting rigged rules of the same rigged game, and mountains of weapons and no good intentions. Most companies, and slowly countries, just end up as controlled suppliers of skills, technology, a few parts, all the customers, and a lot of money. "Open markets" were always a rigged game, and just became a fool's game when China plays with their rules.
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What makes you think Scientology is weak and fang-less? They kill people. They broke into a federal agency and stole documents without repercussion. They blackmailed the IRS into granting them a tax exemption.
Compare the help and favors Scientology will get from various government agencies if they ask for something, with the help VISA will get. Compare what some angry Scientology executives can actually do to you personally, versus what VISA can get the FBI to do.
So, no, don't take it for granted that indie developers have moved on or are just raking in the dough. The good ones got that way because their developers loved them, and many still do. So go halfies on a nice meal for them, ok? They're busting their butts for you.
I got the Humble Bundle 2 at the regular price they posted. I just want the funding concept to work out.
I have a business, helped my wife open hers, and had others before. A business has a monthly ongoing cost, generally salaries and bills. A project has a one-time cost. A software project can be developed as a one-time project, then consume no more financing, just eventually some additional support. So eventually that becomes another project.
The one-time cost for developing a small game project, say X dollars for developers for Y months, could find initial funding, which would be a calculated capital risk, then "humble bundle", "auction", or "sell" the program source code, with the promise to release the source if the original funding, plus X for the initial capital risk-taker, becomes available.
So if I have a small software company, our monthly costs are 100, and we can do a game in 12 months, developing the game will cost 1200. Some investor could come up with that for us to do no other profitable work for twelve months, or we can take that risk ourselves if we can find some time+money. That could all be recouped later though a sale. The risk is that we could fail to complete the project, plus it could fail to sell successfully. Somewhat difficult risks, but which can be calculated.
For smaller projects, or for doing them with more time, developers themselves can take the risk and capital costs, doing it in some fraction of their time they decide to do risk-projects, and not doing actually-paid-work to pay for their fixed monthly costs. Then releasing it as closed source, and advertising release of the source once reaching the sales amount equivalent to their time+labor+risk they invested. This would convert their risks, the potentially-earning-work-time into actually-earned-work-time, plus would release the source. Plus, they have their regular daily work, such as developing corporate databases, or whatever regular work is available. In fact, it can be done by a group of friends. Keeping in mind, of course, that potentially-earning-work is not actually-paid-work, so there is +risk, that must be always kept in account, and in mind. People always ignore the risks, justifying it with "be optimist", or "don't be negative". Risk is not a monster, it just has to be taken into account, otherwise people fight later on and there are problems. Risk is, well, risky. The risk can be reduced and become small, if there is available time, hard work, intelligence, experience, dedication, teamwork, creativity, etc.
First, I wish there were more people in organizing, coordination, mediating disputes. Like any human activity, too much time is wasted due to disputes and/or insuficcient coordination. Projects are abandoned, good people get frustrated, tired, upset, split, and end up duplicating efforts. I don't know of any group coordinating growth strategies, recommending methods to talk to new enthusiasts, how to *better* explain the ideas to new people, how to help people with common questions effectively, not just supplying a convincing answer, but actually resolving, or if not possible, taking note of the issues, and where to take them for proper addressing.
Second, I wish there were more encouraging, funding, advocacy, promoting and educating strategies. Funding, especially, seems to suffer from old models. The Humble Indie Bundle strategy, Summer of Code, and bounties seem like innovative ideas that are working.
For example, the main competition for open-source actually seems to be pirate-ware. People always consider open-source when faced with actually paying for software. What strategy should open-source take with this? None? Open standards, as well as standards in general, seem to greatly help open source. How can projects better incorporate them? I guess I'm saying more studies of strategies, and recommended guidelines for developers and users, seem like they could help a great deal.
Well I respect anyone's aspiration to a better society, to organize and rebel. We do have too passive citizens. Learning to organize is critical. Whatever the actual ideas motivtating it, organizing involves the same basic skills.
I would suggest 4chan, or anyone, study better methods, better organizing. You can join Indymedia/IMC, full of great people, read up on the US vietnam antiwar organizers, the US african american equal rights organizers. If into Wikileaks, join and help Wikileaks. If you want to learn real, hard core organizing and social ideas and skills, join a real social-revolution organizing group, like anarchists, socialists, or humanists. Go help Critical Mass. If you just want to have some fun, but organize, do a Flash Mob. Always look for the organizers, and offer real hard core help, do the real hard work, and you'll learn. Don't just hang around, you will learn nothing.
http://critical-mass.info/
http://www.wikileaksforum.net/
http://www.indymedia.org/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opposition_to_the_U.S._involvement_in_the_Vietnam_War
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African-American_Civil_Rights_Movement
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socialism
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flash_mob
4chan has to learn more. Their old tactics were for Scientology, a rather weak, fang-less, unpopular group of weirdoes. Not for dealing with corporate and government groups, which have support of networks within government, lawyers, detectives, spies, police, FBI, etc.
I'll bet the Chinese are now laughing so hard it hurts.
America is finished with nonsense like this.
Not really, the Chinese are not laughing, no. They are too busy copying everything America does to become exactly like it. Especially the waste. For example, getting rid of all their bicycles, and putting everyone to produce, buy and sell cars for themselves and everyone. Producing many more accidents. But they have no hospitals, and nobody cares. Too busy making money with cars. Sounds familiar, doesn't it.
Dunno, but I'm sure those redundant, pointless jobs will be added under someone's "and he created X jobs in 2011..." political campaign slogans. After all jobs with no purpose outside the job itself is the whole point of government, unlike economic efficiency where the jobs actually have to contribute something society deems as worthwhile.
Now to find jobs that completely undo what little these new jobs do, hmmm maybe on the environmental side of things...
Umm let's go easy on the private-sector-is-nirvana please. Companies produce profit, yes. That requires being "efficient", at least with time and money, yes. Contributions to society? Not helpful to profitability. To public-relations, perhaps, so companies run ads saying "we are totally eco-everything!", true or not, and they're done with social-contribution-PR. Profitability, more often than not, leads to intense studies of how to sell the least expensive things, for the most money, as an illusion of a most amazing thing. So in food, for example, that results in lots products based on low cost ingredients - water, sugar, fat, salt, wheat, corn, soybean, and various chemicals. Because they are low cost, don't spoil, give huge taste rewards to anything they are mixed with. Fresh fruits and vegetables are not as profitable, there's just no way to do it, so they are not promoted, marketed, researched, etc. Therefore, junk food national diet, international now, heavily promoted. It's a profitable, possible sector. So, private sector has efficiency - for profit, not health.
Whose "profit interests" would be served by good health, that could counter all this? Perhaps the insurance companies. Or temp-labor. But still they do almost nothing to promote health. Why? Well, good salesmen, complex contracts and good lawyers results in much better profits than healthy insurance buyers.
And yes, I have a company, started several over the years - was last an employee in '97 - and it is very hard, almost impossible, to create a company producing "social contributions", plus income to pay for costs plus profit, plus manage all operations, all at the same time. That's why almost nobody does it, it's not so much because company owners are cruel and greedy. Companies with more greed produce more profit and grow faster, they are financially, socially rewarded, that's what happens. What's profitable? Not good social-services. That's a myth. Selling drugs, alcohol, prostitution, power, weapons, false dreams, and useless junk, now that's efficient, that's good profit.
Government is not nirvana, neither was socialism, and capitalism isn't much more than self-promotion and marketing either. So start looking for something new, because we need it badly.
Myself, I'm rooting that someday we reach humanism. No, it's not simple and easy, nothing is, and not a product for sale. And I could give a damn if capitalism just finished and became obsolete, humanity can do better than this.
I wonder how long they store the video of all these thousands of cameras. It must be a massive amount of data.
Perhaps eyeglass-mounted cameras and a video-in connector on the cellphones.
Wifi broke on my iphone 3G. I believe it was heat-related. It stopped working in front of me, when I was making a large file transfer over wifi. It was sitting on top of a laptop, which was a bit hot, and with a common cover around it, which holds heat in a bit more than usual.
Well , ok it uses technology - admittedly from 1991 - but I don't think thats quite what you meant.
And , what exactly is "open source thinking"?
The posting is not the technology part, it's the social impact part. The technology part is exercised by whoever acquired the documents, and the technical ability to keep the site free of attacks and running.
Open source thinking stands for giving everyone access to all information, for full transparency, whether that's inside the box, under the hood, under the table, behind the curtain, behind the firewall, but most especially, inside the secret dealings of corrupt, powerful, monopolist, abusive and violent entities, such as many sections of goverenments and corporations.
But it appears you stand for their rights to abuse human beings, laws and ethics codes of all lands, in complete secrecy. So I understand why you don't agree.
Let's deny you all credit cards, bank accounts, airline flights, all major store purchases, all corporate relations, because, well, just because the government said so, no arguments given, and see if you still call that a right any company has, and not a restriction of your freedoms, based on discrimination of some sort. Nobody has yet even accuse wikileaks of breaking any law. The data they publish was not acquired by them, and could have been published anywhere, in zillions of methods, including leaflets on street light poles, involving no computer or network of any kind.
Can we stop posting every bit wikileaks minutiae and get back to real news for nerds?
wikileaks almost has nothing to do with tech anyways, and this tidbit is almost certainly not stuff that matters.
Can we report on more ways to help Wikileaks please? It is arguably the most influence technology, hacking and open-source thinking has had this year, and for a while, and I'd like to see it gather much more support.
Shut down the coal mines. Yes, coal, gas and oil have to go - basically carbon from underground that people burn. Limited resources, causing dispute, war, monopolies, smoke, soot, noise. Nuclear and hydroelectric works just fine, most of NYC trasportation runs on electric power. Millions of people get to work and back every day, fast with no traffic - on electric power. Get PRT and it'll be faster than any car-based system can ever be.
Simple. "God works in subtle, mysterious ways. Who is to say that He did not create the universe in such a way that the precise results He wished to occur would occur, like an intricate, universe-wide set of dominoes? Could not evolution be the means by which He created man?" If they continue to argue, hit them with a crowbar.
Crowbars are old-fashioned. Now you just publish their accounting records, evidence of millions in people's "donated" properties, under threats of punishment from above and below if they refuse.
40% of US residents believe in creationism. What are you going to say to them, huh?
1) Go ahead and believe what you want.
2) Stay away from me.
3) Stay away from my school.
4) Stay away from my newspaper, website, street, neighborhood, job, and city.
5) You are free to go set up your own of those. Don't invite me.
how do you discuss geologic events when people seem so driven to think in terms of their own lifespans?
You have to look for and find interested people first. That's what language skills are for, without communicating well we can't get very much done.
Let's get rid of all that oxygen! Take all the stuff that came out of the atmosphere over billions of years and solidified underground, and burn it to combine it with the oxygen, convert all that breathable O to CO2. Let's give every human on earth machines to convert large amounts of O into unbreathable CO and CO2.
We here have a law just for cybercafes, supposedly to "reduce Internet crime". Basically it says no minors or alcohol, and recording the ID and keeping records on all users, there's a bunch of other articles but not so important.
So we have cops shaking down establishments that don't follow the laws. We have lawsuits demanding damages on cafe's that were used for sending anonymous emails to someone. We have potential customers (rightly) angry that they just want to use a computer for five minutes, and don't want to leave a dozen pieces of information on them for that. We have the constant concern that the police is coming by to check if everything is according to the laws. We have the concern that some disgruntled client or employee will start looking for some legal clauses not followed 100% (there are always some) and call the inspectors on us. We have the labor of creating, for each and every client, username, password, recording name, date of birth, ID, address, phone. Then people forgetting passwords, and resetting it for them, dozens of times a day. All labor we earn nothing for.
And no, this is not Iran or North Korea, it's Brazil.
I understand people want to catch criminals and reduce crime and violence. That's fine, even commendable. What people fail to do is properly study where crime and violence originates, and how to prevent or reduce it. If you put controls and checks everywhere, all the time, you'll reduce crime, yes, and make society and life terrible. Just like the Internet, if you want to prevent crime on the streets, you can install machines that check fingerprints, license plates, records a face on video, on every bridge, subway, bus, major avenue, and street corner. It's certain to reduce some crime, even a lot of it. You can install devices to check fingerprints and ID on the phones, to record all phone calls, to record conversations on every table in society. It will reduce crime, too. You can make all financial transactions analyzed by computers and requiring a description as to a purpose, to check for corruption, and theft, and so on. You can eliminate paper money, to force people to create electronic records of all purchases and expenses. Everything can be tracked and checked. That will reduce crime, too.
But none of that will eliminate the intention and motivation for crime. People have ignorance and violence in their heart and mind, motivated from anger from other past violence, ignorance, or bodily pain. Controlling people's actions does nothing to control what they feel, want, wish, think. That, we will only get with more, better education, education to think of others, of society, and not just oneself, which is exactly what our society does NOT encourage. It requires a a society that people don't feel they need to commit crime to advance in, that rewards intelligent and useful work, and not legalized psychological manipulation to sabotage people's brains into wanting and buying things that will do nothing they actually need. In short, if we want to reduce crime and violence, great, let's. It's built in to, and requires deep change to, the legal, financial, commerce, government, the moral values, the education system. It's not in the freaking Internet. Crime and violence does not run over wires. Crime and violence is not stored on hard drives, or transmitted over telecommunications systems. Crime and violence can be committed everywhere and with any means when someone is decided for it, just study any prison or war situations, and see if any "laws" or "enforcement" apply there, when violence has set in, when it's the order of the day. Crime and violence is born, lives and dies, grows and shrinks, every day, in the heart and mind of each and every citizen, neighbor, voter, employee and family member. If you want to reduce crime and violence you need a massive education campaign, teaching respect for all human beings, above all other principles, there is no other way. As it stands, it is taught that everything is more important than human beings. Tr
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If you try to run a Terminal Server without your own license, it won't be anywhere near as easy as running Windows or Office. It shows they know how to lock down software when they want to.
That's not really true. Microsoft has always been strongly against piracy.
http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/industry_sectors/technology/article2098235.ece "It's easier for our software to compete with Linux when there's piracy than when there's not," the Microsoft co-founder and chairman told Fortune magazine.
http://blogs.computerworld.com/node/2803
WSJ: But those were stolen, correct?
Gates: Stolen's a strong word. It's copyrighted content that the owner wasn't paid for. So yes.
Hey, Steve, just because you broke into Xerox’s store before I did and took the TV doesn’t mean I can’t go in later and steal the stereo.”
–Bill Gates
“In my case, I went to the garbage cans at the Computer Science Center and I fished out listings of their operating systems.” –Bill Gates
Bill Gates on Piracy: "They'll get addicted, and then we'll collect"
This is nice! Someone can develop a closed-source project, sell it for a while, recoup costs and some profit, then make a big sale to launch it open source!
I believe the Chinese government would love Facebook: all those people offering up the intimate details
Perhaps what they'll like most is to get access to some data that is *not* from Chinese citizens. Anyway I don't see how things with China and the West will end well, with both having contradicting rigged rules of the same rigged game, and mountains of weapons and no good intentions. Most companies, and slowly countries, just end up as controlled suppliers of skills, technology, a few parts, all the customers, and a lot of money. "Open markets" were always a rigged game, and just became a fool's game when China plays with their rules.
I wish there was a hell :-(
There is, it's called "defeatism".