Re:I finally could tell my friend to go to hell
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Windows 95 Turns 15
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Many OS's were better and died or got very vew users. OS/2 and many others. It's necessary to study what makes an OS popular to gather some more share from Microsoft. I'd like to see a study of where all the MacOS users are coming from.
You'd likely just set off the tampering or unidentified-person alerts.
Is there a future for privacy? Or just Wikileaks?
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Skeletal Identification
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· Score: 2, Insightful
Myriads of automated, interconnected tracking and identification systems available to all, implemented in any storefront and doorway for security and insurance purposes. Full identification on visual contact. Privacy will become a right on paper only, requiring a vast security team to implement in practice, perhaps even breaking some laws. What should hackers do? Help dying privacy rights, with arcane tools nobody can use? Expose the tracking systems is pointless, everyone knows about them and has one. Leak their data? Leak the identities and actions of those hidden entities, who are abusing the law with it? Eliminating the last of all privacy-capable individuals? Looks to me like Wikileaks is the future for privacy activism. Come to think of it, in any small town in the world, privacy basically doesn`t exist, everyone knows who everyone is by sight, and it's not the end of the world. Expanding information and knowledge is, in a way, eliminating privacy.
Releasing these exploits mostly helps who is best equipped to use them. Malware-biz and Microsoft. Should just write some stuff to share all data files in p2p networks and let it run.
Nevermind the legal outcome, just think of the PR campaign. Keeping it in the press means Nokia and oppression lose every day, and the public and journalists win. Not to mention the pressure on Iran and any country using these tactics.
Slashdotters post 10,000 photos of trashed Nokias. Does that influence "The Law"?. "The Law" can be seen as the final rulings, and a composition of many factors. PR, Written law, precedents, lawyer and client skills, judge, jury, place and time, social acceptance or tolerance at that social-political moment, media influence, public and lobby actions, and many other factors influence decisions. Piracy, for example, clearly illegal and punishable by written law, but it's socially accepted within many contexts by most of the public, in most countries. A tortured journalist does have a great social-political moment in the US, and Iran does not. Had he been tortured by a Western power, he'd have no chance. Nokia, as a Western, non-US corporation, has some factors favoring, some against it. Written law and social moment are generally against torture in the US, but he might have had better chances at the ICC, which has jurisdiction, and is not in a country in wars, which generally uses torture and makes more of the public accept it. Even if he doesn't win, he'll have great influence on the social-legal debate. It could lead to greater isolation of torture-supporting entities, just for PR reasons. Especially if we publish those tortured-Nokia photos.
I'm sure western politicians and weapons are portrayed similar by 'the orientals', as the were described by experts - flaunting power, arrogance, and foolish statements, all under an expert twist of 'objective', fact based journalism, with no bias. Everyone believes only what is true, on both sides. I'm glad to say I know the truth.
I don't care if something is open source or not unless that gives me a benefit.
Open source gives intellectual property to your community, city, country, people, and open economy, instead of just one company. Perhaps you care about them.
No, it's not easy to see the "community", but you see those big corporate buildings? That *was* your money.
... soldiers never rape, kill, or pillage anyone. Perfect model citizens, even the thousands of ex convicts and self-described mercenaries are fully law-abiding, high-morals examples. The printed truth is wonderful. Are we in Disney yet?
I think it does start to lead many developers away from win32, and take from the 99% share of windows users. Along with all smartphones. But back on the desktops-only dispute--- I'm not sure what influence those factors have on the long run. Desktop-linux needs reasons to encourage people to switch, and keep Linux. A users-study might show the majority are concentrated on few things-- but Linux isn't better at them. Facebook & general browsing, IM/chat, games, email, word procesing, downloading & playback problably represents a huge percentage of user needs. In many of those categories, the "best" software they select will be a Windows app, for whatever reason, features, familiarity, or recognition. I've been in a cybercafe with skill-level-zero users for a few years. They don't know what Linux or Windows are, but I see they gravitate towards Windows for those reasons. It has "the Internet" - a little blue 'e' icon. It has 'the real messenger'. OpenOffice will often content them. Sometimes their friends told them to use Windows. Or they can't get any games to run on Linux. Sometimes they tried to install Skype, couldn't, and decide to install Windows, which they are familiar with. In case after case, simple needs, which they know how to solve with Windows - but not with Linux. It seems that Linux distros are often planned for business or tech users, but not for home or younger users, which seem to be the majority now.
No, calling the user various names is not the best development planning.
Well if that's the case maybe that's the strategy. They got a government that just calls everything rape and basically convicts in all cases, and that's plenty for character assassination. The media won't write about the details of rape laws and politics in Sweden. All that would be needed would be to handsomely pay off and/or blackmail some unscrupulous girl, and make sure she keeps her mouth shut for a while.
The software and legal infrastructure may not be too hard to implement. The reviewers to separate true documents from false is harder. Perhaps the review process could be made more open and acessible, with some review-the-reviewer features.
That man loses the custody, and future victims of *real* rape lose credibility, and available detectives to properly investigate, as they're very busy documenting faked-rape cases.
The media and us spies can't control what we decide to believe or say and write. Faces hidden behind their desks, they only control whatever truths or lies newspapers print, not the rest of us.
I smell a rat and call it BS. The original story is from a tabloid, who have no reputation or scruples. Easily corrupted. The other papers just repeat the tabloid, risking none of their reputation.
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Many OS's were better and died or got very vew users. OS/2 and many others. It's necessary to study what makes an OS popular to gather some more share from Microsoft. I'd like to see a study of where all the MacOS users are coming from.
You'd likely just set off the tampering or unidentified-person alerts.
Myriads of automated, interconnected tracking and identification systems available to all, implemented in any storefront and doorway for security and insurance purposes. Full identification on visual contact. Privacy will become a right on paper only, requiring a vast security team to implement in practice, perhaps even breaking some laws. What should hackers do? Help dying privacy rights, with arcane tools nobody can use? Expose the tracking systems is pointless, everyone knows about them and has one. Leak their data? Leak the identities and actions of those hidden entities, who are abusing the law with it? Eliminating the last of all privacy-capable individuals? Looks to me like Wikileaks is the future for privacy activism. Come to think of it, in any small town in the world, privacy basically doesn`t exist, everyone knows who everyone is by sight, and it's not the end of the world. Expanding information and knowledge is, in a way, eliminating privacy.
Releasing these exploits mostly helps who is best equipped to use them. Malware-biz and Microsoft. Should just write some stuff to share all data files in p2p networks and let it run.
Nevermind the legal outcome, just think of the PR campaign. Keeping it in the press means Nokia and oppression lose every day, and the public and journalists win. Not to mention the pressure on Iran and any country using these tactics.
Slashdotters post 10,000 photos of trashed Nokias. Does that influence "The Law"?. "The Law" can be seen as the final rulings, and a composition of many factors. PR, Written law, precedents, lawyer and client skills, judge, jury, place and time, social acceptance or tolerance at that social-political moment, media influence, public and lobby actions, and many other factors influence decisions. Piracy, for example, clearly illegal and punishable by written law, but it's socially accepted within many contexts by most of the public, in most countries. A tortured journalist does have a great social-political moment in the US, and Iran does not. Had he been tortured by a Western power, he'd have no chance. Nokia, as a Western, non-US corporation, has some factors favoring, some against it. Written law and social moment are generally against torture in the US, but he might have had better chances at the ICC, which has jurisdiction, and is not in a country in wars, which generally uses torture and makes more of the public accept it. Even if he doesn't win, he'll have great influence on the social-legal debate. It could lead to greater isolation of torture-supporting entities, just for PR reasons. Especially if we publish those tortured-Nokia photos.
There's two items to discuss. More developers and more users. The rest is a waste of time. Preaching "Microsoft sucks" hasn't worked.
The indie humble bundle was an interstig experiment.
I won't buy anything. I just download and play. Arkanoid and my 2005 P4 are gteat.
I'm sure western politicians and weapons are portrayed similar by 'the orientals', as the were described by experts - flaunting power, arrogance, and foolish statements, all under an expert twist of 'objective', fact based journalism, with no bias. Everyone believes only what is true, on both sides. I'm glad to say I know the truth.
I now sometimes think Tor should come built into modems and routers.
I support capitalism, not communism, pinko.
Heh. Fight your own ghosts if you wish. They died in 1989. Good luck!
I don't care if something is open source or not unless that gives me a benefit.
Open source gives intellectual property to your community, city, country, people, and open economy, instead of just one company. Perhaps you care about them.
No, it's not easy to see the "community", but you see those big corporate buildings? That *was* your money.
Linux needs more programmers and coordintors. Propose how to, with what incentives.
This 'rape' accusation was designed to keep people thinking that The Powers That Be are out to get him, and that Wikileaks is fighting the good fight.
Wikileaks is controlled opposition.
where is the real opposition?
... soldiers never rape, kill, or pillage anyone. Perfect model citizens, even the thousands of ex convicts and self-described mercenaries are fully law-abiding, high-morals examples. The printed truth is wonderful. Are we in Disney yet?
Sometimes it feels like Wikileaks is playing Napster, the US is playing the RIAA, and something like Tor is going to become the next p2p technology.
The evolution of character assassination and politics
Armies and soldiers don't kill. Websites do. Right?
I think it does start to lead many developers away from win32, and take from the 99% share of windows users. Along with all smartphones.
But back on the desktops-only dispute--- I'm not sure what influence those factors have on the long run.
Desktop-linux needs reasons to encourage people to switch, and keep Linux. A users-study might show the majority are concentrated on few things-- but Linux isn't better at them. Facebook & general browsing, IM/chat, games, email, word procesing, downloading & playback problably represents a huge percentage of user needs. In many of those categories, the "best" software they select will be a Windows app, for whatever reason, features, familiarity, or recognition. I've been in a cybercafe with skill-level-zero users for a few years. They don't know what Linux or Windows are, but I see they gravitate towards Windows for those reasons. It has "the Internet" - a little blue 'e' icon. It has 'the real messenger'. OpenOffice will often content them. Sometimes their friends told them to use Windows. Or they can't get any games to run on Linux. Sometimes they tried to install Skype, couldn't, and decide to install Windows, which they are familiar with. In case after case, simple needs, which they know how to solve with Windows - but not with Linux.
It seems that Linux distros are often planned for business or tech users, but not for home or younger users, which seem to be the majority now.
No, calling the user various names is not the best development planning.
Well if that's the case maybe that's the strategy. They got a government that just calls everything rape and basically convicts in all cases, and that's plenty for character assassination. The media won't write about the details of rape laws and politics in Sweden. All that would be needed would be to handsomely pay off and/or blackmail some unscrupulous girl, and make sure she keeps her mouth shut for a while.
The software and legal infrastructure may not be too hard to implement. The reviewers to separate true documents from false is harder. Perhaps the review process could be made more open and acessible, with some review-the-reviewer features.
That man loses the custody, and future victims of *real* rape lose credibility, and available detectives to properly investigate, as they're very busy documenting faked-rape cases.
The media and us spies can't control what we decide to believe or say and write. Faces hidden behind their desks, they only control whatever truths or lies newspapers print, not the rest of us.
I smell a rat and call it BS. The original story is from a tabloid, who have no reputation or scruples. Easily corrupted.
The other papers just repeat the tabloid, risking none of their reputation.
Sorry I forgot what I was going to say