Me, defending linux, once made that argument to a windows defending colleague at work. He asked me if I could be sure that ALL of linux, every single piece of every project, could be reviewed before inclusion on an install CD. Well, I can't review all source to every program running on my linux box. Who's to say some spy agengy hasn't managed to penetrate a project with a 'volunteer', and insert some bit of obfuscated code into some project, which nobody has yet reviewed and caught?
You could argue It's acually a bit more organized than the rest of society around --- just look around a bit at the worlds of politics, economics, transportation, urban planning, medicine... problems everywhere else too.
How can you be sure your computer is 100% secure, and not infiltrated? Even in a fresh-installed, never-connected OS (any OS), how to be sure all executables on the CD don't have some hidden code in them, even when first released, that was somehow slipped in?
What OS do they use in embassies, military, etc? What security measures, products, procedures?
The historical archives would be quite one-sided documenting only the neat and legal aspects, without including the surrounging context thrills of the game technology, including fumbling with config.sys, autoexec.bat, system.ini, winecfg, video drivers, directx, opengl, drm cracking, keygens, patched binares, virtual-to-real money scams, cheats, hacks, etc.
I used LTSP in a cybercafe, worked great. userful.org has an interesting distribution. one computer, ten monitors+keyboards+mouse, ten users on one computer. Ndiyo has an interesting alternative, but it's not a product yet.
It doesn't take much talking about relevant issues to figure out there's a lot of people these days who feel angry, frustrated, upset, distraught, confused, and sometimes even feeling violent. That doesn't automatically mean they are going to do a single thing beyond feeling it. Since merely expressing these feelings now leads to concern about whether "someone is listening" and potential prosecution, more frustration and anger build into people, rather than capacity to get together and organize some coherent and intelligent response to the underlaying problems. Therefore, occasional violent incoherent explosions. Occasional powerful coherent explosions are possible as well, but less likely, as coherence usually requires calm and more thinking time.
This is the result of crony-ism in the contracting.
The crime isn't so much of Diebold's, it's of who hires them. There's been numerous stories in the news about their incompetence, over and over, about what proper procedures should be, and whoever hires them after all that is simply doing it under pressure, orders or favoritism.
If Sun is into development and building its brand on it, they should make an open-source video card.
For Sun and pc platforms, solaris and linux of course. And most likely a professional and gaming version.
Is privacy available to anyone without a staff to effectively enforce it?
If anyone with enough money wants to break your privacy completely, it's pretty easy. Hire a lawyer - done.
Lawyers charge a lot for a reason - they do the dirty work. Hire detectives. Pick the doorlocks, install some gadgets, pay off some people to hand over data. It's easy.
Landlords and lawyers in New York hire detectives to help evict their tenants.
Now try to pick the doorlocks or fool with the mail or phones of someone with doormen, receptionists, bodyguards, drivers, personal assitants, and lawyers. It's harder - more expensive. More money - more privacy.
Only the rich have real, effective, privacy and secrecy or their activities. Others mostly have laws stating a right to those things. What we need are more laws breaking the privacy/secrecy o of criminals with a lot of money and influence.
I wonder if this is in any way related to choosing The Borg to represent Microsoft in the illustration above...
What is this called?
EEdE, Embrace and Extend, deny and Exterminate?
Destroy the old computers, and it's a lot more likely people will buy new ones instead of using an old one if they can.
This is marketing doublespeak. What they are doing is removing the reused-computer, the used market.
They grind the machine, recycle only the plastic and copper. As an LTSP or Citrix terminal or older word-processing box, it could be used for a long time - 100% recycled.
I live in Brazil nowadays, and people _still_ pay US$200 for a used pentium 3 in used-pc stores - monitor not included. Why? Because it's still $200 less than a new P4. And there are very few used machines on the market, so the used price is high. I myself *BUY* old P2 machines to use as LTSP terminals here, no hard disk or cdrom, for about $50. No monitor.
There are stores full of techies who repair old Pentium motherboards, old CDRom drives, all kinds of old junk I used to pick up from the street in New York.
And this is Sao Paulo, Brazil - rather developed actually - not even Africa, or Bangladesh.
You can *still* export all these old, used machines to a whole lot of poorer countries - and sell at destination at a small profit, too.
Why not?
Because regulations of some old international commerce agreement don't allow exporting old junk from first-world countries to poor countries, converting "old garbage" parts into "used market" parts which compete with new parts.
So old cars, motorcycles, computers, farm equipment, etc from US-Japan-Europe junkyards can't be exported, to provide parts for low-labor-cost areas where these things can be repaired and reused.
The Army is needs of lots of violent, nay, "energetic", young people to kill people overseas, nay, "defend america". They pay salaries, promise bonuses, honors, and train assassins.
They shut up a lot of scientists, one spoke up, and now millions of people know.
We know, but we need to do something.
Without coordination and among lots of people to press for what they see is right, nothing will get better.
One naked guy goes protest his rights, he's a nutcase.
Thirty naked people protest their rights, it's a political group.
One million naked protesters keep it going for ninety days, it's a movement.
There is nothing left to believe in, no purpose left to continue working, and so it is all quickly falling apart. Religions, companies, governments, none have credibility left, apart from fanatics, in numerous factions, many of them increasingly violent.
Humanity has changed progressed a lot, very fast, and the old solutions to the old problems no longer work, they simply make them worse.
Rather than the violent, cowardly and ignorant speaking up, it is now the time where people with knowledge, bright reasoning, courage and who care for their fellow human beings to speak up.
The world has irreversibly changed, much deeper than is visible, everything has changed, and we all must reorganize and rethink, and change.
They're now making diesel hybrids, anyway.
As well as plug-in hybrids, allowing you to plug in and charge the battery overnight, which is not a big modification, and results in a car which can run almost always run on electric-only, for city use.
Diesel hybrids can by modified to run on used kitchen grease, like the Google bus, so you'll get a used-kitchen-grease-hybrid-electric, which runs for nearly $0/mile, nearly no pollutants, and gets high mileage per gallon, to boot.
I never had a car, at 38. At first for principle, but I really do prefer walking now, when possible.
Living in in New York, or San Francisco, I used walk out of the subway and past the grocery anyway, and just buy whatever I wanted. Or just walk a block back and get it. Easier than driving, in fact!
Here in Brazil, I do the same, but it's two blocks.
Americans are going to have to wait for some big shock to "get" their real news.
The critical confusion, which corporations love, is that people equate "US Corporate interests" with "American public interests".
"We're all americans", they keep telling us.
The reality is, corporate profit is loyal to no nation, no name, and nobody - except their own profits. And gladly sell off the US public more every day, as seen with exporting jobs, bankrupting people with misleading loans and insurances, and clogging up people's brains with distractions and worthless products. Then psychiatric "medicines" if they're start losing it.
Believe a corporation's word or agenda and accept their salary, information, or product, at your own peril, and that of your community, city, and people. Loyal to you, or humanity they aren't. When profits are threatened, they'll change stories and pay nicely to willing corrupt politicians, Feds and Marines to ruin anyone's life much before we realize what our "bad luck" is all about.
Think I'm paranoid? Go seriously investigate what really goes on in Washington. Talk to some lawyers or secretaries and translators who worked there. Never mind the lobbyists. Look for the police files, murders, child prostitution, sex favors, drugs, etc. See who is profiting. See your board members, directors, and CXO's. See our big corporate employers.
There ain't no "government" - it's an illusion, we're all on our own, and we ain't talking.
I don't think planting a computer will do, but planting and growing a house certainly seems feasible, at least at far as foundation, shading, and some help on the windproofing and insulation is concerned.
some extra work will be required - perhaps alleviated further with some extra genetical engineering, though...
Why wasn't the smartcar, and many other small cars, motorcycles, mopeds, bicycles, electric cars, trains, or anything else that saves OIL sold mass-market in the US?
Because two thirds of US dollars are abroad. Oil is traded in dollars. If oil demand goes down too much, dollar demand goes down with it.
Heck, then the financiers would have to worry about actually hiring and paying someBODY and financing and building someTHING to export, rather than financing paper-politics-and-war-games, which have rather amazing profit margins.
I simply got sick of all the people talking of hating these and those people, everyone talking of wanting war and death for so-and-so people, of all the gummint "privacy abuse" carnivore-like business following everyone, the paranoia associated with not knowing who's after you or not, and simply got on a plane and left.
i found there's a lot of countries where people appreciate my skills, presence, opinions and tax monies much more.
this all brings to question: how many closed source companies live only from ripping off open source? hiding the traces, adding some stuff, releasing wondrously written self-serving press releases, where they denigrate open source and claim their own 'ingenuity and briliiance'?
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Me, defending linux, once made that argument to a windows defending colleague at work. He asked me if I could be sure that ALL of linux, every single piece of every project, could be reviewed before inclusion on an install CD. Well, I can't review all source to every program running on my linux box. Who's to say some spy agengy hasn't managed to penetrate a project with a 'volunteer', and insert some bit of obfuscated code into some project, which nobody has yet reviewed and caught?
You could argue It's acually a bit more organized than the rest of society around --- just look around a bit at the worlds of politics, economics, transportation, urban planning, medicine... problems everywhere else too.
How can you be sure your computer is 100% secure, and not infiltrated? Even in a fresh-installed, never-connected OS (any OS), how to be sure all executables on the CD don't have some hidden code in them, even when first released, that was somehow slipped in? What OS do they use in embassies, military, etc? What security measures, products, procedures?
The historical archives would be quite one-sided documenting only the neat and legal aspects, without including the surrounging context thrills of the game technology, including fumbling with config.sys, autoexec.bat, system.ini, winecfg, video drivers, directx, opengl, drm cracking, keygens, patched binares, virtual-to-real money scams, cheats, hacks, etc.
I agree fully, I'm against a national ID.
I want to see state ID be gone, as well.
In fact I think the only form of ID should be the one we use daily - references from other people. Sort of like Ebay.
"I know him" - positive IDentification
I used LTSP in a cybercafe, worked great. userful.org has an interesting distribution. one computer, ten monitors+keyboards+mouse, ten users on one computer. Ndiyo has an interesting alternative, but it's not a product yet.
It doesn't take much talking about relevant issues to figure out there's a lot of people these days who feel angry, frustrated, upset, distraught, confused, and sometimes even feeling violent. That doesn't automatically mean they are going to do a single thing beyond feeling it. Since merely expressing these feelings now leads to concern about whether "someone is listening" and potential prosecution, more frustration and anger build into people, rather than capacity to get together and organize some coherent and intelligent response to the underlaying problems. Therefore, occasional violent incoherent explosions. Occasional powerful coherent explosions are possible as well, but less likely, as coherence usually requires calm and more thinking time.
This is the result of crony-ism in the contracting. The crime isn't so much of Diebold's, it's of who hires them. There's been numerous stories in the news about their incompetence, over and over, about what proper procedures should be, and whoever hires them after all that is simply doing it under pressure, orders or favoritism.
If Sun is into development and building its brand on it, they should make an open-source video card. For Sun and pc platforms, solaris and linux of course. And most likely a professional and gaming version.
Is privacy available to anyone without a staff to effectively enforce it? If anyone with enough money wants to break your privacy completely, it's pretty easy. Hire a lawyer - done. Lawyers charge a lot for a reason - they do the dirty work. Hire detectives. Pick the doorlocks, install some gadgets, pay off some people to hand over data. It's easy. Landlords and lawyers in New York hire detectives to help evict their tenants. Now try to pick the doorlocks or fool with the mail or phones of someone with doormen, receptionists, bodyguards, drivers, personal assitants, and lawyers. It's harder - more expensive. More money - more privacy. Only the rich have real, effective, privacy and secrecy or their activities. Others mostly have laws stating a right to those things. What we need are more laws breaking the privacy/secrecy o of criminals with a lot of money and influence.
I wonder if this is in any way related to choosing The Borg to represent Microsoft in the illustration above... What is this called? EEdE, Embrace and Extend, deny and Exterminate?
Destroy the old computers, and it's a lot more likely people will buy new ones instead of using an old one if they can.
This is marketing doublespeak. What they are doing is removing the reused-computer, the used market.
They grind the machine, recycle only the plastic and copper. As an LTSP or Citrix terminal or older word-processing box, it could be used for a long time - 100% recycled.
I live in Brazil nowadays, and people _still_ pay US$200 for a used pentium 3 in used-pc stores - monitor not included. Why? Because it's still $200 less than a new P4. And there are very few used machines on the market, so the used price is high. I myself *BUY* old P2 machines to use as LTSP terminals here, no hard disk or cdrom, for about $50. No monitor.
There are stores full of techies who repair old Pentium motherboards, old CDRom drives, all kinds of old junk I used to pick up from the street in New York.
And this is Sao Paulo, Brazil - rather developed actually - not even Africa, or Bangladesh.
You can *still* export all these old, used machines to a whole lot of poorer countries - and sell at destination at a small profit, too.
Why not?
Because regulations of some old international commerce agreement don't allow exporting old junk from first-world countries to poor countries, converting "old garbage" parts into "used market" parts which compete with new parts.
So old cars, motorcycles, computers, farm equipment, etc from US-Japan-Europe junkyards can't be exported, to provide parts for low-labor-cost areas where these things can be repaired and reused.
Videogames are indirectly teaching young people "violent" behaviour?!?!?
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Army officials have recommended a court-martial for a Purple Heart recipient accused of stabbing his young wife 71 times with knives and a meat cleaver.
The primary activity of the Army is train young people to kill. Give them lots of hard experience with and remove all reservations about killing.
Not to mention torture, nay, "interrogate".
http://www.goarmy.com/JobDetail.do?id=152
Human Intelligence Collector (97E)
Some of your duties as a Human Intelligence Collector may include:
Conducting debriefings and interrogations of HUMINT sources in English and -foreign languages-
Performing difficult interrogations
Do the millions of ex-military people suddenly forget all their violence when coming back home? Doesn't look like it.
http://www.courttv.com/news/2005/0210/armydoctor_
Army doctor who killed wife and daughters delays parole hearing
http://www.courttv.com/news/2005/0805/soldier_ap.
A soldier who returned from Iraq nine days earlier apparently shot and killed his wife and then himself
http://www.military.com/NewsContent/0,13319,89236
The Army is needs of lots of violent, nay, "energetic", young people to kill people overseas, nay, "defend america". They pay salaries, promise bonuses, honors, and train assassins.
http://www.goarmy.com/
And they have their own videogame - America's Army. http://www.americasarmy.com/
They shut up a lot of scientists, one spoke up, and now millions of people know. We know, but we need to do something. Without coordination and among lots of people to press for what they see is right, nothing will get better. One naked guy goes protest his rights, he's a nutcase. Thirty naked people protest their rights, it's a political group. One million naked protesters keep it going for ninety days, it's a movement. There is nothing left to believe in, no purpose left to continue working, and so it is all quickly falling apart. Religions, companies, governments, none have credibility left, apart from fanatics, in numerous factions, many of them increasingly violent. Humanity has changed progressed a lot, very fast, and the old solutions to the old problems no longer work, they simply make them worse. Rather than the violent, cowardly and ignorant speaking up, it is now the time where people with knowledge, bright reasoning, courage and who care for their fellow human beings to speak up. The world has irreversibly changed, much deeper than is visible, everything has changed, and we all must reorganize and rethink, and change.
They're now making diesel hybrids, anyway. As well as plug-in hybrids, allowing you to plug in and charge the battery overnight, which is not a big modification, and results in a car which can run almost always run on electric-only, for city use. Diesel hybrids can by modified to run on used kitchen grease, like the Google bus, so you'll get a used-kitchen-grease-hybrid-electric, which runs for nearly $0/mile, nearly no pollutants, and gets high mileage per gallon, to boot. I never had a car, at 38. At first for principle, but I really do prefer walking now, when possible. Living in in New York, or San Francisco, I used walk out of the subway and past the grocery anyway, and just buy whatever I wanted. Or just walk a block back and get it. Easier than driving, in fact! Here in Brazil, I do the same, but it's two blocks.
The Humanist Movement, an international umbrella of groups and organizations, distributes its materials in many ways, one of which is p2p.
It's a great way of making available a large amount of information, like long videos, audio, and archived information.
To see it, install winMX, find channel "LUNA", open a server, and there's the largest store of their videos, audio, text, and archives.
Many languages, but mostly Spanish, French, Italian, and English.
winMX was chosen because it supports many languages.
Global warming is old, small news.
Americans are going to have to wait for some big shock to "get" their real news.
The critical confusion, which corporations love, is that people equate "US Corporate interests" with "American public interests".
"We're all americans", they keep telling us.
The reality is, corporate profit is loyal to no nation, no name, and nobody - except their own profits. And gladly sell off the US public more every day, as seen with exporting jobs, bankrupting people with misleading loans and insurances, and clogging up people's brains with distractions and worthless products. Then psychiatric "medicines" if they're start losing it.
Believe a corporation's word or agenda and accept their salary, information, or product, at your own peril, and that of your community, city, and people. Loyal to you, or humanity they aren't. When profits are threatened, they'll change stories and pay nicely to willing corrupt politicians, Feds and Marines to ruin anyone's life much before we realize what our "bad luck" is all about.
Think I'm paranoid? Go seriously investigate what really goes on in Washington. Talk to some lawyers or secretaries and translators who worked there. Never mind the lobbyists. Look for the police files, murders, child prostitution, sex favors, drugs, etc. See who is profiting. See your board members, directors, and CXO's. See our big corporate employers.
There ain't no "government" - it's an illusion, we're all on our own, and we ain't talking.
I don't think planting a computer will do, but planting and growing a house certainly seems feasible, at least at far as foundation, shading, and some help on the windproofing and insulation is concerned.
some extra work will be required - perhaps alleviated further with some extra genetical engineering, though...
hmm google tree house genes
I'm all for setting up a national map of weekly DVD trade meets.
Bring a DVD. Trade. Whatever you want.
Why wasn't the smartcar, and many other small cars, motorcycles, mopeds, bicycles, electric cars, trains, or anything else that saves OIL sold mass-market in the US?
Because two thirds of US dollars are abroad. Oil is traded in dollars. If oil demand goes down too much, dollar demand goes down with it.
Heck, then the financiers would have to worry about actually hiring and paying someBODY and financing and building someTHING to export, rather than financing paper-politics-and-war-games, which have rather amazing profit margins.
I thought a bunch of cars following each other automatically with a high degree of safety at high speed was a train.
The train cabs can't move off the rails. But PRT - private rapid transit - can.
I simply got sick of all the people talking of hating these and those people, everyone talking of wanting war and death for so-and-so people, of all the gummint "privacy abuse" carnivore-like business following everyone, the paranoia associated with not knowing who's after you or not, and simply got on a plane and left.
i found there's a lot of countries where people appreciate my skills, presence, opinions and tax monies much more.
America: forget it.
i was looking for this
this all brings to question: how many closed source companies live only from ripping off open source? hiding the traces, adding some stuff, releasing wondrously written self-serving press releases, where they denigrate open source and claim their own 'ingenuity and briliiance'?
who's really checking on them?
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What about a Nov 2 hacking contest?
Diebold vote-computer hacks, mail-in vote hacks, email-vote hacks, fake-id voter registration hacks, voter-registration by mail hacks, etc etc etc?
I'm surprised the elections are still considered fair at all.