I'd say cyber war means the making of human-killing machines, and that I have no plans to design or buy game machines with approval from the war dept, thank you very much. I'm not into being fooled, my money isn't going to DOD research and equipment, and if you want safety, security, you just don't go around showing off how well your "toys" kill, looking for enemies, then worry about how secure your gates are, that always works temporarily, not forever. See Rome, Greece, Spain, USSR, England, Germany, Japan, etc.
"Migration" is in Microsoft's interest, not yours.
It would be a golden moment for any os that provided a smooth migration path, while fixing some xp problems. Unfortunately vmware etc still dont really allow for a simple 'os compatibility layer', but perhaps it will come.
XP is like that faint smell of piss - it's there
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... and it won't go away so easy, and keeps coming back. You forgot to explain how to migrate all the apps from windows. Thats all people do, run apps, they don't really need any OS. All the apps, not a few. And all the divers and data. The computers aren't all for the techs, the users get to use them too... If someone could convert an xp cd into some sort of low-resource plugin for other OS's, or browsers...
linux vs windows, the users reasoning
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Studying the reasons users have for/against Linux etc... There just aren't enough arguments _for_ Linux, unless you add in the open-source arguments, which have no immediate, concrete impact on pc usability. The main arguments are: a) it won't run a few apps -- b) ignorance & fear -- c) tech guys salaries & availability d) training users, apps that are harder to use. e) windows warez are free, so the licenses cost the same. Techs opinions are included- the apps and training. Compared to macOSX, issues are almost the same, except it's easier to use and OSX cost is usually higher, unless some osx86, warez version is used. OSX however has gained more users share than linux it seems, at 5%, vs linux 1%. So I'd conclude linux desktop adoption rates are related to usability, primarily. The clearest indicator to me came when desktops started being sold with Linux preinstalled and working, with warranties covering Linux use only. People go out of their way to get Windows on their PC. They want Windows, they are pleading for it, *paying* me to intall it -- without even knowing what it is, and knowingly voiding the warranty. In many cases they will do no more than Facebook and msn messenger, they really would be better off with Linux. Others tried Linux, but couldn't run one app, or figure out how to do something they always did. Many quit Linux simply because they prefer msn messenger to emesene, amsn, or gaim/pidgin.
And all that to run a browser and a word processor. The problems come with the newer websites, with so much scripting they jack up cpu to 100% just to render. Slashdot today is doing that...
XP launched, and in 17 days, the WTC collapses.
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And: Windows XP Release date was August 24, 2001
We are launching an inquiry into what role did Windows XP have in the 9-11 WTC terrorist attack that killed thousands of Americans. We're going to smoke 'em out and increase their stock prices. We're not into nation-building, just corporate buildings.
We really are going to need some kind of federated shared login. The net is fragmenting into lots of smaller feuds like face***k and forums, all separate logins, formats, no more shared standards. that died when "netiquette" died, killed by lots of "gimme" spammers, trolls, warez, porn, etc. Anarchism and an etiquette of behavior were the rules, and they worked until too many came at once with a greedy free-for-all ignorance. No login was necessary for lots of things.
The Chinese aren't the only spies in the international game, every country, police force, and big corporation, etc has them. They usually don't kill, torture, etc, just gather and take secret information from one secret vault to another, so it's, erm, somewhat peaceful, really.
I wonder if they'll be distributing a CD full of peer to peer software and complete printed manuals, with faq's on fake files, distributed hash tables, port forwarding, etc, as their political platform.
Would it have killed you to include the slightest mention of what "the key to unpick defunct digital formats" is in an article discussing how the Europeans have stashed one away?
Can't be mentioned, it's a stash of software, much of it copyrighted, abandonware with no clear owners, old versions of software with no proper redistribution licence, etc. Emulators for old platforms, with copyright and patent issues. And a bunch of old equipment, with as much specifications and manuals as possible. So in order to provide information to future generations, this generation's laws had to be somewhat ignored.
What if you had to apply for the copyrights to your work but in doing so you have to turn over a master to the copyright office and when the copyright expires the copyright office turns the master over into public domain,
they could decide to refuse works, in fact would have to, unless they decide to keep a copy of anything anyone sends them, no matter how irrelevant. They are forced to censor some things therefore. They could lose things, shut down, get shut down, who knows.
Copyright law should jut categorize the making and distributing copies of any ideas in any format as freedom of expression.
Unlike most political statements, I believe this one might be true. While this might be a political statement, what makes it any more or less official than other political statements?
If political statements are measured in audience hearing, listening, paying attention and agreeing, it's pretty darn good. It's been copied around, so it seems people like it.
But it does lots of good PR for TPB to keep getting brought down, then popping up a couple hours later. Makes the authorities pursuing them look utterly incompetent.
The main benefit seems to be millions of people seeing that free circulation of information is inevitable, as well as safe and healthy, despite some confusing obsolete laws yammering on about some old dead concepts.
Weekly Friday DVD swap meets before-movie-time in public squares would be nice. In fact, the DVD's could be legit, they can be watched hundreds of times just fine.
The basic rules of economic and political interests, abuse, and gaming of the system are the same everywhere, in Zambia, the US, China or Sweden, but the social percentage of honesty or corruption, and the laws, are different. It accounts for the difference. There are stats and comparisons of levels of corruption in different countries on Wikipedia somewhere.
Most money for political campaigns is spent on media. It's feasible they could manage their own online campaign well enough to compete with expensive TV media ads. In fact, they could use volunteers from anyone in the world in their internet political campaign.
You have to take into account the fact that the Swedish party pirate came into being because of a single event : TPB being chased out of Sweden without any debate about copyright laws in the internet era. This is a way to force the door. As I understand it, the PP position could be : "What TPB is doing is clearly problematic, just as is the fact to just try to shut it down without debate. Let's talk about this now."
Assumed, public piracy seems to be successful copyright civil disobedience.
And the ACTA treaty would make that illegal. Btw. MEP Christian Engström is protected by parliamentarian immunity.
Wow that's really interesting. Surely the copyright industry is going to be studying the limits of that immunity, anyone know how far that could protect TPB? Maybe it will protect only him personally, not all the people, connections, servers, etc involved in keeping it running. In that case he could perhaps host the thing on his cellphone, or personal laptop, but not more than that, using that particular protection.
The pirate bay is down/up so often is it worth reporting everytime? If it was going to go down for an extended period then yes, but its barely been 24hrs.
One of the hot battles, firefights, front lines, of this copyright war, are the success or failure to keep any large, visible, wide-distribution information-sharing center up, be it a website, p2p technology, or DVD swap meet on a street corner. So I believe we're actually discussing the legal push and pull of our society's copyright law battle, The Pirate Bay is simply a symbolic, and perhaps strategic terrain, a battleground to be won or lost by each side. The particular battle that's lost or won is not important, it's the long term fight to conquer the public mind-share, in favor or against intellectual-property law.
From the point of view of money, the math of the fight is simple. They will keep fighting only as long as they see lots of money down the line. When they believe there is no possibility of making enough money on it anymore, they will start to give up. P2P is taking money out of the business, but not all of it at once. So it's a threat if it grows numerous, not if it simply exists in small numbers. If it stays in small numbers, they use written law, legal means. When it starts growing, they start getting tempted to use force, the abuse of power, any means at all. Just watch http://www.stealthisfilm.com/
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I'd say cyber war means the making of human-killing machines, and that I have no plans to design or buy game machines with approval from the war dept, thank you very much. I'm not into being fooled, my money isn't going to DOD research and equipment, and if you want safety, security, you just don't go around showing off how well your "toys" kill, looking for enemies, then worry about how secure your gates are, that always works temporarily, not forever. See Rome, Greece, Spain, USSR, England, Germany, Japan, etc.
We want your money. Yes, a lot, and yes, again. Hurry up too.
saving up for a forklift upgrade next year...
We are borg. Resistance is futile.
We are Borg. Resistance is futile.
Why upgrade if it still works?
to spend money - buy new - toss old - increase demand - generate profits - create jobs - stimulate the economy -
"Migration" is in Microsoft's interest, not yours.
It would be a golden moment for any os that provided a smooth migration path, while fixing some xp problems. Unfortunately vmware etc still dont really allow for a simple 'os compatibility layer', but perhaps it will come.
... and it won't go away so easy, and keeps coming back. You forgot to explain how to migrate all the apps from windows. Thats all people do, run apps, they don't really need any OS. All the apps, not a few. And all the divers and data. The computers aren't all for the techs, the users get to use them too... If someone could convert an xp cd into some sort of low-resource plugin for other OS's, or browsers...
Studying the reasons users have for/against Linux etc ... There just aren't enough arguments _for_ Linux, unless you add in the open-source arguments, which have no immediate, concrete impact on pc usability. The main arguments are: a) it won't run a few apps -- b) ignorance & fear -- c) tech guys salaries & availability d) training users, apps that are harder to use. e) windows warez are free, so the licenses cost the same. Techs opinions are included- the apps and training. Compared to macOSX, issues are almost the same, except it's easier to use and OSX cost is usually higher, unless some osx86, warez version is used. OSX however has gained more users share than linux it seems, at 5%, vs linux 1%. So I'd conclude linux desktop adoption rates are related to usability, primarily. The clearest indicator to me came when desktops started being sold with Linux preinstalled and working, with warranties covering Linux use only. People go out of their way to get Windows on their PC. They want Windows, they are pleading for it, *paying* me to intall it -- without even knowing what it is, and knowingly voiding the warranty. In many cases they will do no more than Facebook and msn messenger, they really would be better off with Linux. Others tried Linux, but couldn't run one app, or figure out how to do something they always did. Many quit Linux simply because they prefer msn messenger to emesene, amsn, or gaim/pidgin.
And all that to run a browser and a word processor. The problems come with the newer websites, with so much scripting they jack up cpu to 100% just to render. Slashdot today is doing that...
And: Windows XP Release date was August 24, 2001
We are launching an inquiry into what role did Windows XP have in the 9-11 WTC terrorist attack that killed thousands of Americans. We're going to smoke 'em out and increase their stock prices. We're not into nation-building, just corporate buildings.
We really are going to need some kind of federated shared login. The net is fragmenting into lots of smaller feuds like face***k and forums, all separate logins, formats, no more shared standards. that died when "netiquette" died, killed by lots of "gimme" spammers, trolls, warez, porn, etc. Anarchism and an etiquette of behavior were the rules, and they worked until too many came at once with a greedy free-for-all ignorance. No login was necessary for lots of things.
The Chinese aren't the only spies in the international game, every country, police force, and big corporation, etc has them. They usually don't kill, torture, etc, just gather and take secret information from one secret vault to another, so it's, erm, somewhat peaceful, really.
I wonder if they'll be distributing a CD full of peer to peer software and complete printed manuals, with faq's on fake files, distributed hash tables, port forwarding, etc, as their political platform.
Would it have killed you to include the slightest mention of what "the key to unpick defunct digital formats" is in an article discussing how the Europeans have stashed one away?
Can't be mentioned, it's a stash of software, much of it copyrighted, abandonware with no clear owners, old versions of software with no proper redistribution licence, etc. Emulators for old platforms, with copyright and patent issues. And a bunch of old equipment, with as much specifications and manuals as possible. So in order to provide information to future generations, this generation's laws had to be somewhat ignored.
What if you had to apply for the copyrights to your work but in doing so you have to turn over a master to the copyright office and when the copyright expires the copyright office turns the master over into public domain,
they could decide to refuse works, in fact would have to, unless they decide to keep a copy of anything anyone sends them, no matter how irrelevant. They are forced to censor some things therefore. They could lose things, shut down, get shut down, who knows.
Copyright law should jut categorize the making and distributing copies of any ideas in any format as freedom of expression.
Unlike most political statements, I believe this one might be true. While this might be a political statement, what makes it any more or less official than other political statements?
If political statements are measured in audience hearing, listening, paying attention and agreeing, it's pretty darn good. It's been copied around, so it seems people like it.
But it does lots of good PR for TPB to keep getting brought down, then popping up a couple hours later. Makes the authorities pursuing them look utterly incompetent.
The main benefit seems to be millions of people seeing that free circulation of information is inevitable, as well as safe and healthy, despite some confusing obsolete laws yammering on about some old dead concepts.
Best we can do without pipes is sneakernet
Weekly Friday DVD swap meets before-movie-time in public squares would be nice. In fact, the DVD's could be legit, they can be watched hundreds of times just fine.
The basic rules of economic and political interests, abuse, and gaming of the system are the same everywhere, in Zambia, the US, China or Sweden, but the social percentage of honesty or corruption, and the laws, are different. It accounts for the difference. There are stats and comparisons of levels of corruption in different countries on Wikipedia somewhere.
Most money for political campaigns is spent on media. It's feasible they could manage their own online campaign well enough to compete with expensive TV media ads. In fact, they could use volunteers from anyone in the world in their internet political campaign.
I suspect they could raise more organizing music events than online donations.
You have to take into account the fact that the Swedish party pirate came into being because of a single event : TPB being chased out of Sweden without any debate about copyright laws in the internet era. This is a way to force the door. As I understand it, the PP position could be : "What TPB is doing is clearly problematic, just as is the fact to just try to shut it down without debate. Let's talk about this now."
Assumed, public piracy seems to be successful copyright civil disobedience.
I don't always download torrents, but when I do, I reach for Demonoid.
Stay downloading, my friends.
I'm sorry sir, what did you say? You load up terrorists while invoking demons? With other conspirators?
And the ACTA treaty would make that illegal. Btw. MEP Christian Engström is protected by parliamentarian immunity.
Wow that's really interesting. Surely the copyright industry is going to be studying the limits of that immunity, anyone know how far that could protect TPB? Maybe it will protect only him personally, not all the people, connections, servers, etc involved in keeping it running. In that case he could perhaps host the thing on his cellphone, or personal laptop, but not more than that, using that particular protection.
The pirate bay is down/up so often is it worth reporting everytime? If it was going to go down for an extended period then yes, but its barely been 24hrs.
One of the hot battles, firefights, front lines, of this copyright war, are the success or failure to keep any large, visible, wide-distribution information-sharing center up, be it a website, p2p technology, or DVD swap meet on a street corner. So I believe we're actually discussing the legal push and pull of our society's copyright law battle, The Pirate Bay is simply a symbolic, and perhaps strategic terrain, a battleground to be won or lost by each side. The particular battle that's lost or won is not important, it's the long term fight to conquer the public mind-share, in favor or against intellectual-property law.
From the point of view of money, the math of the fight is simple. They will keep fighting only as long as they see lots of money down the line. When they believe there is no possibility of making enough money on it anymore, they will start to give up. P2P is taking money out of the business, but not all of it at once. So it's a threat if it grows numerous, not if it simply exists in small numbers. If it stays in small numbers, they use written law, legal means. When it starts growing, they start getting tempted to use force, the abuse of power, any means at all. Just watch http://www.stealthisfilm.com/