First: they almost admit in the EULA that is a spyware product. Who the fuck else would put such an idiot line in the EULA.
Second: the antispyware company might have used some sort of heuristics. No install required.
I would really like to see this go in court: isn't there a limit on the kind of shit people put in that EULA ?
They are basically saying that their proposal should be usefull since
there is an unneven distribution of cost in developing countries -- why not offer development grants and support the infrastructure
they fix internet stabilty, spam -- each country should make their own laws
intelectual property protection -- figures.
they will help developing countries with a "forum" -- no way to do this now, is it ?
Basically their proposal is ok as long as there won't be a single country in charge. But I do fear the expansion of this "governance" into other areas.
I really don't think that a single person will ever be able to harness the "power" of such a distributed mass of people.
Frankly because (most of the) geeks have a strong (healthy) anti-leadership attitude. We don't generally like to be controled for the same reason we don't like proprietary software. We don't like to be told what to do because most think they are too smart for that.
OTOH an ideology could come out (see GPL) and convince most of the people of the "proper software values" (let's say... no closed-source, etc). Given enough convinced people, this could lead to some interesting results.
But I don't think that there will be a single person in charge (although most of the ideas could come from one single source).
That's why people will end up thinking that Trusted Computing is a Good Thing(TM) -- the whole x86 Architecture is flawed, that's why we have viri and stuff.
I wonder if the fundraising will get a huge increase in donations due to slashdot or just plain bandwidth loss. A graph with donation / visitors would be nice for today.
M: Quick! Give me something "cool" I can use. P: Well, what about euler's constant. M: That sounds great! Let's do a whole campaign about it. After all, here at google we get only the top google-ish people. P: That's another work for proactive no? Seesh
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First: they almost admit in the EULA that is a spyware product. Who the fuck else would put such an idiot line in the EULA. Second: the antispyware company might have used some sort of heuristics. No install required. I would really like to see this go in court: isn't there a limit on the kind of shit people put in that EULA ?
Maybe they just want to give a helping hand with Linux (ala Ubuntu) distribution. Some firefox/open office CDs would be nice for major releases.
- there is an unneven distribution of cost in developing countries -- why not offer development grants and support the infrastructure
- they fix internet stabilty, spam -- each country should make their own laws
- intelectual property protection -- figures.
- they will help developing countries with a "forum" -- no way to do this now, is it ?
Basically their proposal is ok as long as there won't be a single country in charge. But I do fear the expansion of this "governance" into other areas.I really don't think that a single person will ever be able to harness the "power" of such a distributed mass of people. Frankly because (most of the) geeks have a strong (healthy) anti-leadership attitude. We don't generally like to be controled for the same reason we don't like proprietary software. We don't like to be told what to do because most think they are too smart for that. OTOH an ideology could come out (see GPL) and convince most of the people of the "proper software values" (let's say... no closed-source, etc). Given enough convinced people, this could lead to some interesting results. But I don't think that there will be a single person in charge (although most of the ideas could come from one single source).
I for one would like a 300 episode based upon the looong life of Yoda :)
check out http://www.robert-tolksdorf.de/vmlanguages.html i don't have more info about many of the languages there but at least jython seems to be able to generate java bytecode.
so the .net is really a java ripoff.
the bytecode maps amazingly well.
+1 obvious
That's why people will end up thinking that Trusted Computing is a Good Thing(TM) -- the whole x86 Architecture is flawed, that's why we have viri and stuff.
huge lists of music to listen till the end of your natural life :))
I wonder if the fundraising will get a huge increase in donations due to slashdot or just plain bandwidth loss. A graph with donation / visitors would be nice for today.
M: Quick! Give me something "cool" I can use.
P: Well, what about euler's constant.
M: That sounds great! Let's do a whole campaign about it. After all, here at google we get only the top google-ish people.
P: That's another work for proactive no? Seesh
... and not romainian ? just google check it ;)