They can publish content, and ads. We can read or ignore or modify or block content, and ads. They can modify or block the content or ads for adblockers, or anyone they want. We can republish their content elsewhere. They can continue publishing if they want. All is good. Dead and injured count: zero.
We should filter all the ads from TV and force them to make programs we like and charge for them or ask for donations. I don't care for ads at all, they fool and mislead people, somehow people pay anyway, with crappy products that don't work, eventually. The ads are profitable because people buy crap from the advertisers rather than researching what's a good product.
Ban all the ads. Problem is with time the ads become the priority, and the content is there just to keep people at the site, it doesn't really matter to the publisher what the content is so long as people see the ads. Therefore, stupid tv programs, spam, domain squatters, pages with stolen, duplicate, software-generated content, pointless content of all types becomes the rule. Advertisers should band up and create a common index of all services organized with some coherence, so people just search and find when they need something.
Yep the best sites are often those with no ads. Yes paying the bills is a problem for everyone too, but if it's solved in ways which involve less money and forcing things etc it's much better. Plus often paying the bills is no longer the problem at all, just increasing profits.
On the other hand, Slashdot has a right to grouse about it on their own site if they want! Everyone's got rights all around.;-)
I second that, everyone do what they want so long as it doesn't come to threats destruction fists and bullets. In fact I would make that the one-line constitution and we'd be better off.
Come to think of it -- NO. I don't see how the fact that someone has bills to pay legitimizes any sort of activity. So if I have children to feed and a house to pay for, suddenly any sort of activity I do for that is honorable and moral. Yes, making huge profits is legal, but is quite often arrived at through immoral ways -- and sometimes very illegal too, but it will take a lawsuit or investigation to reach some sort of conviction. I'm not saying it applies in the case of Oracle, but that argument is just not sufficient in every case.
People don't have much free time. Some alternatives encouraging people to put time into open source are needed. Paying is one option, but there are others - events, schools, competitions, awards, pledges, etc.
I think a virtual computer lab, run by the university, is the only way to go, not only for the CS students but many other classes too. Other university labs are surely the best place to find an example, every university is full of competent geeks. If the virtual machines shouldn't access outside data, a firewall should be able to do that. Barring that, I think I would recommend something like wubi for students with slower home computers, vmware or virtual box for those with faster computers. I can't figure out why wubi is ubuntu-only
Well I meant much beyond that. Something like mesh networking, roofnet, on a massive scale would be nice. No ISP company whatsoever, all infrastructure owned by the public.
Virtual Bridges / Win4lin seem to have some sort of windows plugin for linux, but I can't quite remember how it works. IBM seems to have liked it and partnered with them. Anyway, that would be a nice product, some sort super-stripped down windows-compatibility-library, that runs windows legacy apps, and end of story, no more giving windows any partitions or hardware control.
In xp, basically it seems you have to get the HAL model adjusted for each machine, then the individual drivers. I haven't found my solution yet, but I did find these. -- UIU - Universal Imaging Utility - www.uiu4you.com -- acronis universal restore -- sysprep - driverpacks.net/
Sidewalks, streets, and phones are used freely by criminals to practice their crime! Anonymously! Nobody can trace who went to and left the crime scene! Let's put checkpoints on every intersection and require ID to use every phone, and presto! We'll catch all the criminals!
I don't understand why neighbors don't run their own cables and routers. Every home spends 200-300 per month on phone, cable, and internet services. If people would run their own cables and routers, that could all go away, in exchange for calling a cable or router maintenance guy sporadically, when stuff breaks.
I'd say both. Ignorance plays a large part in the general confusion, but also puppet masters. Fools just tell their truth, liars insist on their truth. Then there's the liar good enough to fool the wise.
Indeed the most efficient thing to do in our society is just think a little and coordinate a lot. Taking the billions paid to ball-tossers and advertising on an international level and giving to scientists and students, for example. I would say about 99% or more of everything produced is wasted. A few really tough and effective laws on false or misleading ads and statements in the advertising industry would completely transform the information-distributing-media landscape, impacting media, mass-media's role in "education", distribution, design, manufacturing, etc, on and on down the social, work and production chain. Just about everything in the media is false or misleading, and large numbers of lives are guided by it's values and dreams.
Unknown Chinese operatives steal password-check code to major US corporation. Political leverage for anyone to say cyberwar is ON. Since the are no real bodies or injured, it's all at the espionage level, and the media and public doesn't even have to know what happens. Secret wars are funny. On the same wire there's Warcraft, IRC, and unknown hand-crafted spy packets, in the real world, in one apt there's a quiet dinner, in the next some enemy asset is being administered a natural-heart-attack.
I wonder if they have a good way to setup an internal p2p cache server. Hmm it might be actually easy, if unofficial word is let out to run a particular program, just setup an internal server for it, and have it host the most popular files. Updating those files automatically would be the only challenge.
Instant gratification is even more instant with drugs. And a gun, or even electronic crime, can provide very fast enrichment too. No need to bother with study, degree, job, career, etc.
Microsoft stuff has always been free. For students now, it's free with official approval and marketing. For others it still requires finding a serial number or patch and shrugging at the law. Not a lot actually changed, besides the marketing.
I know a few people who have been turned away from Linux whenever seeking help online from linux users. The whole "you're stupid if you can't figure it out" attitude by some users is really off-putting.
I see that in numerous groups, not just Linux, and indeed it doesn't seem to be very good for newcomers. Some encouragement usually helps new people stick around longer and get to know things better. Yes talking to newcomers takes patience, but it pays - if you can't do it at least don't make things worse for them, just say you're busy, or nothing.
Too many lies and too many dead trees. Their own doing -- publishing distorted "facts", servicing minorities in control, misleading the population. Newspapers were always un-elected powers. Rest in peace, let everyone say what they think, and let the trees live on.
Starting and accelerating from a complete stop is something every single driver of every unit tested lots and lots of times, you can't drive a car at all in a city without doing that dozens of times. So the functionality and parts for that action have always been very thoroughly tested. It is indeed odd that a bunch of uninformed users have decided it doesn't work and no engineers can reproduce the problem. I wouldn't be surprised if the cause of the problem is found to be users who hate computers and decided to blame computers for their own poor driving mistakes. There is a possibility of a real problem existing of course, but the user bias against a solution has been known to cause problems too. I had a user who had lots of technical problems all the time, and the more attention I gave her, the more problems she caused. The solution was to stop helping, and she eventually stopped calling. I never did find out what a lot of the problems were, but decided it was mostly imaginary or sheer ignorance of the user.
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They can publish content, and ads. We can read or ignore or modify or block content, and ads. They can modify or block the content or ads for adblockers, or anyone they want. We can republish their content elsewhere. They can continue publishing if they want. All is good. Dead and injured count: zero.
We should filter all the ads from TV and force them to make programs we like and charge for them or ask for donations. I don't care for ads at all, they fool and mislead people, somehow people pay anyway, with crappy products that don't work, eventually. The ads are profitable because people buy crap from the advertisers rather than researching what's a good product.
Ban all the ads. Problem is with time the ads become the priority, and the content is there just to keep people at the site, it doesn't really matter to the publisher what the content is so long as people see the ads. Therefore, stupid tv programs, spam, domain squatters, pages with stolen, duplicate, software-generated content, pointless content of all types becomes the rule. Advertisers should band up and create a common index of all services organized with some coherence, so people just search and find when they need something.
Yep the best sites are often those with no ads. Yes paying the bills is a problem for everyone too, but if it's solved in ways which involve less money and forcing things etc it's much better. Plus often paying the bills is no longer the problem at all, just increasing profits.
On the other hand, Slashdot has a right to grouse about it on their own site if they want! Everyone's got rights all around. ;-)
I second that, everyone do what they want so long as it doesn't come to threats destruction fists and bullets. In fact I would make that the one-line constitution and we'd be better off.
Come to think of it -- NO. I don't see how the fact that someone has bills to pay legitimizes any sort of activity. So if I have children to feed and a house to pay for, suddenly any sort of activity I do for that is honorable and moral. Yes, making huge profits is legal, but is quite often arrived at through immoral ways -- and sometimes very illegal too, but it will take a lawsuit or investigation to reach some sort of conviction. I'm not saying it applies in the case of Oracle, but that argument is just not sufficient in every case.
People don't have much free time. Some alternatives encouraging people to put time into open source are needed. Paying is one option, but there are others - events, schools, competitions, awards, pledges, etc.
I think a virtual computer lab, run by the university, is the only way to go, not only for the CS students but many other classes too. Other university labs are surely the best place to find an example, every university is full of competent geeks. If the virtual machines shouldn't access outside data, a firewall should be able to do that. Barring that, I think I would recommend something like wubi for students with slower home computers, vmware or virtual box for those with faster computers. I can't figure out why wubi is ubuntu-only
Well I meant much beyond that. Something like mesh networking, roofnet, on a massive scale would be nice. No ISP company whatsoever, all infrastructure owned by the public.
Virtual Bridges / Win4lin seem to have some sort of windows plugin for linux, but I can't quite remember how it works. IBM seems to have liked it and partnered with them. Anyway, that would be a nice product, some sort super-stripped down windows-compatibility-library, that runs windows legacy apps, and end of story, no more giving windows any partitions or hardware control.
In xp, basically it seems you have to get the HAL model adjusted for each machine, then the individual drivers. I haven't found my solution yet, but I did find these. -- UIU - Universal Imaging Utility - www.uiu4you.com -- acronis universal restore -- sysprep - driverpacks.net/
Sidewalks, streets, and phones are used freely by criminals to practice their crime! Anonymously! Nobody can trace who went to and left the crime scene! Let's put checkpoints on every intersection and require ID to use every phone, and presto! We'll catch all the criminals!
I don't understand why neighbors don't run their own cables and routers. Every home spends 200-300 per month on phone, cable, and internet services. If people would run their own cables and routers, that could all go away, in exchange for calling a cable or router maintenance guy sporadically, when stuff breaks.
I'd say both. Ignorance plays a large part in the general confusion, but also puppet masters. Fools just tell their truth, liars insist on their truth. Then there's the liar good enough to fool the wise.
I would never imagine that was the reason fast-food chains tend to be featured in movies like falling down
Indeed the most efficient thing to do in our society is just think a little and coordinate a lot. Taking the billions paid to ball-tossers and advertising on an international level and giving to scientists and students, for example. I would say about 99% or more of everything produced is wasted. A few really tough and effective laws on false or misleading ads and statements in the advertising industry would completely transform the information-distributing-media landscape, impacting media, mass-media's role in "education", distribution, design, manufacturing, etc, on and on down the social, work and production chain. Just about everything in the media is false or misleading, and large numbers of lives are guided by it's values and dreams.
Unknown Chinese operatives steal password-check code to major US corporation. Political leverage for anyone to say cyberwar is ON. Since the are no real bodies or injured, it's all at the espionage level, and the media and public doesn't even have to know what happens. Secret wars are funny. On the same wire there's Warcraft, IRC, and unknown hand-crafted spy packets, in the real world, in one apt there's a quiet dinner, in the next some enemy asset is being administered a natural-heart-attack.
I wonder if they have a good way to setup an internal p2p cache server. Hmm it might be actually easy, if unofficial word is let out to run a particular program, just setup an internal server for it, and have it host the most popular files. Updating those files automatically would be the only challenge.
Instant gratification is even more instant with drugs. And a gun, or even electronic crime, can provide very fast enrichment too. No need to bother with study, degree, job, career, etc.
Microsoft stuff has always been free. For students now, it's free with official approval and marketing. For others it still requires finding a serial number or patch and shrugging at the law. Not a lot actually changed, besides the marketing.
I know a few people who have been turned away from Linux whenever seeking help online from linux users. The whole "you're stupid if you can't figure it out" attitude by some users is really off-putting.
I see that in numerous groups, not just Linux, and indeed it doesn't seem to be very good for newcomers. Some encouragement usually helps new people stick around longer and get to know things better. Yes talking to newcomers takes patience, but it pays - if you can't do it at least don't make things worse for them, just say you're busy, or nothing.
Too many lies and too many dead trees. Their own doing -- publishing distorted "facts", servicing minorities in control, misleading the population. Newspapers were always un-elected powers. Rest in peace, let everyone say what they think, and let the trees live on.
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If Iraq is over, who won? If there's no clear answer to that question, I would say it's not over.
Starting and accelerating from a complete stop is something every single driver of every unit tested lots and lots of times, you can't drive a car at all in a city without doing that dozens of times. So the functionality and parts for that action have always been very thoroughly tested. It is indeed odd that a bunch of uninformed users have decided it doesn't work and no engineers can reproduce the problem. I wouldn't be surprised if the cause of the problem is found to be users who hate computers and decided to blame computers for their own poor driving mistakes. There is a possibility of a real problem existing of course, but the user bias against a solution has been known to cause problems too. I had a user who had lots of technical problems all the time, and the more attention I gave her, the more problems she caused. The solution was to stop helping, and she eventually stopped calling. I never did find out what a lot of the problems were, but decided it was mostly imaginary or sheer ignorance of the user.