Amusing, but fairly pointless unless the thundering herd of sheeple that live their lives by what's hot/popular go for it - at which time it'll become profitable in a limited way for a limited number of people.
Absolutely correct. We have NO right to tell them how to run their country.
Then again, if they're doing something we find egregious or offensive, we're under no obligation to simply accept it, either. We can (and should) be using our wallets to express our unhappiness with Chinese policies like forced abortion, Tiananmen Square, forced repatriation of North Korean refugees, pirating of movies/CDs/whatever ("Redberry"? Come ON!), and so on. Why the hell we keep selling them technology that they'll just turn around and use against us --- militarily or economically --- baffles me.
When the story about the Chinese "Redberry" (Blackberry clone) came out, one of the articles I read about it mentioned that all email, IMs, or pretty much anything else transiting phone or network lines is subject to review and/or monitoring. While trying to keep up with a billion Chinese all IMing their fingers raw might seem impossible, once the authorities hear about someone that doesn't fit in (through the civilian spy network they're known to employ), they can really focus their efforts. Not a chance I'd willingly take.
MS' idea of 'interoperate' is 'works when such functionality suits us, and not a moment before or after'. Personally, I hope the EU does what the U.S. Gummit should have done in the first place...
That would serve as an example that hits those companies where it'll get their attention: in their wallets.
All of them claim they're in China because they have to be 'responsible' to their shareholders and make a profit; if the bad press from giving up names of 'dissidents' or other 'troublemakers' doesn't bother them, then the lost cash that results from lawsuits may convince them that morals and ethics aren't just abstract concepts.
All any of Google, Microsoft, or Yahoo! had to do was get creative about having trouble finding/retrieving the info the Chinese government was after, and delay it for as long as possible; surely they have some experience with that in dealing with the Chinese officials?
Let's see... Dell makes how much money reselling Win-dose versus how much providing free Linux? How many of their support staff are qualified to provide Linux support for the dipsticks that have trouble with email, but want to jump on the Linux bandwagon without troubling themselves to learn anything about the machine and how it works?
Nah, better they should keep making it not-easy to buy one of their machines with Linux; keeps prices down for the rest of us:-)
I mean, when you consider how long it takes them to put the flaws in their products in the first place, it's only reasonable that it would take them longer to get the flaws back out again, right?
Even if the device was running Linux (it doesn't), PalmOne buggered the potential user base by continuing to tie it to Windows.
Is Palm ever going to get a clue that they might actually improve their user base if they'd offer Linux (or even platform-independent, i.e. Java) variants of their desktop apps? Yeah, I know, there's KPilot and JPilot (I use KPilot with my Tungsten E), but it's not the same, by a long shot. If/when somebody comes up with a PDA-like device that I can plug "natively" into my Linux box, I'll be on it in a heartbeat.
What the article is saying is that the drive (or sometimes the RAID card and/or OS) is lying (with fsync) when it answers that it wrote the data: it didn't; so when you lose power, the data that was in cache (and should have been written) gets lost. It isn't a question of whether caching is turned on or not, but the drive truthfully saying whether or not the data was actually written.
An MS-generated document format. Does anyone here seriously believe that there'll be a Linux version of it? If you do, I want some of whatever chemical you're altering your reality with.
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Amusing, but fairly pointless unless the thundering herd of sheeple that live their lives by what's hot/popular go for it - at which time it'll become profitable in a limited way for a limited number of people.
Otherwise? yawn
Absolutely correct. We have NO right to tell them how to run their country.
Then again, if they're doing something we find egregious or offensive, we're under no obligation to simply accept it, either. We can (and should) be using our wallets to express our unhappiness with Chinese policies like forced abortion, Tiananmen Square, forced repatriation of North Korean refugees, pirating of movies/CDs/whatever ("Redberry"? Come ON!), and so on. Why the hell we keep selling them technology that they'll just turn around and use against us --- militarily or economically --- baffles me.
When the story about the Chinese "Redberry" (Blackberry clone) came out, one of the articles I read about it mentioned that all email, IMs, or pretty much anything else transiting phone or network lines is subject to review and/or monitoring. While trying to keep up with a billion Chinese all IMing their fingers raw might seem impossible, once the authorities hear about someone that doesn't fit in (through the civilian spy network they're known to employ), they can really focus their efforts. Not a chance I'd willingly take.
MS' idea of 'interoperate' is 'works when such functionality suits us, and not a moment before or after'. Personally, I hope the EU does what the U.S. Gummit should have done in the first place...
answer "D" - All of the Above.
That would serve as an example that hits those companies where it'll get their attention: in their wallets.
All of them claim they're in China because they have to be 'responsible' to their shareholders and make a profit; if the bad press from giving up names of 'dissidents' or other 'troublemakers' doesn't bother them, then the lost cash that results from lawsuits may convince them that morals and ethics aren't just abstract concepts.
All any of Google, Microsoft, or Yahoo! had to do was get creative about having trouble finding/retrieving the info the Chinese government was after, and delay it for as long as possible; surely they have some experience with that in dealing with the Chinese officials?
the Food and Drug Administration reports that small amounts of saliva, swallowed over an extended period of time, MAY cause cancer - or even death.
[courtesy of George Carlin]
Let's see... Dell makes how much money reselling Win-dose versus how much providing free Linux? How many of their support staff are qualified to provide Linux support for the dipsticks that have trouble with email, but want to jump on the Linux bandwagon without troubling themselves to learn anything about the machine and how it works?
Nah, better they should keep making it not-easy to buy one of their machines with Linux; keeps prices down for the rest of us :-)
I mean, when you consider how long it takes them to put the flaws in their products in the first place, it's only reasonable that it would take them longer to get the flaws back out again, right?
Hmmmm... MSSE Specification to be pronounced "Messy" Spec, and MSLES to pronounced MS Less. Works for me.
why aren't the DoD, DHC, and other security-sensitive agencies firewalling all of China in the first place?
I think she's particularly appropriate in this project. If Paris Hilton isn't "open source", who is? :-)
will it have Paris Hilton in it?
into 10.4 kJ UV laser with remaining eyeball.
A boatload of jobs are going to get cut, so a bunch of idiots decide to go on strike.
Even if the device was running Linux (it doesn't), PalmOne buggered the potential user base by continuing to tie it to Windows.
Is Palm ever going to get a clue that they might actually improve their user base if they'd offer Linux (or even platform-independent, i.e. Java) variants of their desktop apps? Yeah, I know, there's KPilot and JPilot (I use KPilot with my Tungsten E), but it's not the same, by a long shot. If/when somebody comes up with a PDA-like device that I can plug "natively" into my Linux box, I'll be on it in a heartbeat.
What the article is saying is that the drive (or sometimes the RAID card and/or OS) is lying (with fsync) when it answers that it wrote the data: it didn't; so when you lose power, the data that was in cache (and should have been written) gets lost. It isn't a question of whether caching is turned on or not, but the drive truthfully saying whether or not the data was actually written.
CSN is still displaying the full article.
This link looks to still be good. LinuxBusinessNews seems to have pulled the offending article (it's coming up 404 :-)
An MS-generated document format. Does anyone here seriously believe that there'll be a Linux version of it? If you do, I want some of whatever chemical you're altering your reality with.
Your second paragraph reinforces my original comment, the first paragraph notwithstanding.
lose sales (and their reputations) because of this, the problem will die out.
an illuminating article...
What you think you're seeing is just an artifact of the imaging system. Nothing is really there.
Under the USA PATRIOT act, you are hereby ordered to the nearest Federal Reporting Station for re-education.
It's not like Google is launching their own satellites, tasked exclusively to them...