Now the companies providing said hardware are in effect forced to open source the drivers of their products. This might very well result in linux support from manufacturers which previously refused to support it.
On another note: Microsoft hates this, simply because Microsoft's control over the market gets damaged by this (Something China wants to happen).
In my experience these guys don't put any DRM whatsoever in their games, they have a very good customer support and their games are generally of high quality (gameplay). That being said, the stability of their games sometimes leaves to be desired, but are still worth their money. Take a look at this thread if you don't believe me.
You can find them here. Please respect these guys when you're interested in their games, and actually buy them, instead of downloading from some p2p network.
Lots of small businesses and groups used shared hosting where sometimes hundreds of domains are all hosted on a single server. If one domain with some files it shouldn't have is going to result in the entire server being seized the value of shared hosting is going to go down the tubes.
Personally I'd love to join the protests but I seriously fear for my freedom and my life.
Ok, you're afraid of your own country's justice system on political grounds (oppression of freedom of speech). This is a sign of an oppressive (instead of a supportive) government, may I suggest you flee to a West/North European country? You'll feel a lot safer here.
Standard procedure?!?! For such a freedom loving country? Seems to me U.S. justice system has crossed the line.
These are actions I expect from China or North Korea, not from the U.S.
If the potential *cough* troublemakers *cough* have any sense, they file harasment complaints against the officers involved. They might be able to make a corruption case against higher-up officers. This should not be happening, and the fact that it is possible in the U.S. indicates that the justice system suffers from severe corruption and too little splitting of powers.
think of it: 1) Since it's vacuum, pressure will most probably keep it shut for the coming years. 2) Since it's a vacuum, the deteriation rate of the storage material is a lot lower, since you minimized the environmental impact on the storage material.
Add to this the fact that you'd probably want worm memory which has no power needs and doesn't store by means of magnetism (to decrease the possible loss of data even further), you'd probably end up with either CDs or... paper (in one form or the other). I'd go for paper, but make sure it's high quality paper which is made to last and plot your data on it in a compressed format. A gold disk might also be useful, but those things are imho only useful when you're dealing with temperature fluctuations.
Microsoft knows ISO/IEC is a big hurdle to get complete control over the software market, with this Microsoft has succeeded in corrupting ISO/IEC. Exactly the thing Microsoft wants to happen. Even worse, Microsoft managed to do this with a lot of attention from the community... which was exactly the plan of Microsoft. The community conviniently went out of its way and made a *lot* of noise about this.
OOXML was intended to damage ISO/IEC, nothing more. And we took the bait, hook and sinker.
Questions remaining: who managed to manipulate the board into doing this? When is this corruption going to be investigated by some justice departments? What will Microsoft's next move be?
Ok, so they want to block information on a tool that is designed to make sure information gets distributed (the internet)? GOOD LUCK!
If they want to make sure information doesn't get distributed, better make sure the people don't have access to the tools to do so (in other words: forbid access to the internet altogether).
Granted, you'll need to live relatively close to work, but you'll burn more calories then with cycling. Need to do groceries? Walk to the shop,if possible.
Go for a swim once in a while, you use a lot of muscles while swimming and it can be fun.
Pick up gardening as a hobby (I'm sure you have a nice slab of concrete as a garden:P, but that can be fixed), as it can be very heavy labor to maintain a garden.
Instead of taking the elevator, try climbing the stairs instead (if possible/feasible).
What type of information is in those huge documents?
If it's code: split the code up in multiple files and put them under revision control.
If it's a legal document: a decent word processor (no, not MS Word) is more appropriate, while splitting the document up in multiple pieces (if possible) might also help.
If it's some sort of list, store it in a database.
The list goes on, and on. Give us some more information, so we can give you some useful feedback.
If it can be proven, both Microsoft and Foxconn are in big trouble. It would seem to me Microsoft is directly sabotaging one of it's product's competitors. If only the reward to Foxconn could traced back.
Since there are quite some commercial distributions of Linux, they could complain with the EU over Microsoft's continued monopoly abuse and even blatant sabotage of competitors. The EU will very likely investigate it and start taking measures against Microsoft (and in a lesser degree Foxconn).
Some positive results might come out of this (Microsoft getting an even worse fine, or even better: getting barred from the Eurepean market, and Foxconn being told to avoid bribes in the future).
1) The patch was made to certified machines, thus making them non-certified.
That tampering has to be discovered first.
2) It was only applied in 2 counties. (*cough*Democratic counties*cough*) Why not the whole state?
1) to reduce the chance of discovery. 2) in the event of discovered tampering, excuses are a lot more plausible.
3) I'm fairly certain that if *I* merely open the ballot box or machine during the election, that satisfies the requirement for "tampering" regardless of me touching ballots or flipping bits, and I'd be making an extra stop at the local police precinct before going home.
You're fairly naive, fraud relies on not being discovered. Now, that CEO of Diebold will get concequences over this. If it's not from the justice department, it'll be from the company he's working for, once the fraud is discovered.
We want to stop piracy, but instead of investing energy in sales, we invest energy in piracy (or actually, moving it further and deeper underground).
Next thing we know we'll have a piracy mob, prepared to kill to make sure they are not exposed! How nice.
Does the music industry even care? Of course not! All they care about is their falling profits. Well, they'll keep falling, because they're making sure the people will hate them (and thus avoid buying their products or working for them).
The bible, in its current state, is one big lie (sorry, christians). Just start reading, keep notes and you'll discover that it'll start contradicting itself. Sure, there are those who would twist their minds in all kinds of bends, simply to make it true to themselves (in other words, they want to believe a lie, so they can continue to live a lie).
Don't believe me? There are about 250 Christian faiths in the world, they all believe they are "the one true faith." Some of them even go as far as ignoring certain parts of the bible (they are unimportant), or even altering it in vital pieces. Interestingly enough, all of them have some part they disagree with.
That being said, personally I believe there is more between heaven and earth, and that it helps evolution along, but doesn't actually create major events. In my opinion the last major event caused by a... deity (to keep it easy for the Christians and Muslims in here) was the big bang or whatever event caused the creation of the universe. In my opinion "divine" intervention in evolution consists of minor manipulations (like causing bird A to like bird B more then bird C, thus bird A and B mate, instead of bird A and C), not massive manipulations (like creating a complete species from scratch).
This doesn't mark evolution as incorrect, and doesn't rule out... errr... "god" as an influence.
Gosh... this is a bit too obvious, but who cares? It's the U.S.A. the land where money can get you everything, including politicians.
The people don't seem to care about what the government does until it hits their wallet or their freedom, there where it hurts. Oh well, it's too late already. Democracy has failed you. Choose Democrats and you'll get the same as Republicans only with another face.
It appears to me the U.S. could best be dissolved... it has failed as a democracy and it will keep failing as one until something happens to change the severely broken election system (which won't happen until a revolt happens, or the U.S. starts falling apart).
While you're at it, maybe a good idea to fix that broken justice system of yours (trial by jury isn't righteous, it's prone to abuse). Also, those ridiculous penalties need to be revised as they're quite over the top.
Go ahead, mod me down to -1 flamebait... for telling the truth.
Google is an avid supporter of open source software and google uses open source software, google motivates development of open source software. Microsoft is all too aware of this, and the big issue they are facing is a well entrenched google. They can't even afford to break google, because than Microsoft would face a severe penalty (monopoly abuse). Are you guys in here all blind or something? Just connect the dots and it's all too obvious. There is a corporate war going on, and Microsoft is on the losing side. The open source community is just a weapon of everyone opposite to the "Microsoft" camp, as is SCO a weapon on the "Microsoft" camp. But who's more on the side where Microsoft is on? And more importantly; who are the good guys, and who are the bad guys?
This is military equipment, which might very well contain confidential information.
In a correct situation the soldiers shouldn't be allowed to modify their computers altogether. There's a reason they get a computer in the field (otherwise they don't need to get one).
Another option (more secure): do not put windows on those boxes and do not allow modification of the computer. Modification should be done by people authorized to do so, this will help prevent security breaches.
The U.S. military should impose harsh penalties on unauthorized modification of computers which deal with information of tactical and/or strategical importance (direct or indirect). Situations like this can have dire consequences.
He's running windows, his luck will run in about a year.
Windows tends to mysteriously collect cruft over time. Most of the time that results in decreased stability and performance (in every way imaginable), even if you clean windows up once in a while. This will happens to every windows user in about a year of daily use.
That's why you've got the second amendment, to be able to pick up arms and protect yourselves against your (now corrupt) government.
If this bill passes (and I assure you, it will, as it'll come back again and again until it passes), any resistance from the citizens can, and will, be broken swiftly (after all, they will start tracking vocal individuals/organizations). I think the time has come for the U.S. citizens to pick up arms against their own government, as it doesn't represent them anymore.
The U.S. is slowly turning into another China, and this bill is another vital step for that to happen.
Freedom requires eternal vigilance... Guess a lot of U.S. citizens took freedom for granted and weren't vigilant, now here's the price.
Final checkpoint, after this. You might want to consider what you're saying on the web or over the phone, as somebody just might decide to suspect you of terrorism.
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Now the companies providing said hardware are in effect forced to open source the drivers of their products. This might very well result in linux support from manufacturers which previously refused to support it. On another note: Microsoft hates this, simply because Microsoft's control over the market gets damaged by this (Something China wants to happen).
They provide a really good source of variable names. After that you could use town names... you're bound not to run out of variable names that way.
In my experience these guys don't put any DRM whatsoever in their games, they have a very good customer support and their games are generally of high quality (gameplay). That being said, the stability of their games sometimes leaves to be desired, but are still worth their money. Take a look at this thread if you don't believe me.
You can find them here. Please respect these guys when you're interested in their games, and actually buy them, instead of downloading from some p2p network.
This is obviously a lawsuit filed to sabotage competition. If the town can prove this, the company is in for a world of hurt.
Lots of small businesses and groups used shared hosting where sometimes hundreds of domains are all hosted on a single server. If one domain with some files it shouldn't have is going to result in the entire server being seized the value of shared hosting is going to go down the tubes.
in the U.S.A., that is.
Maybe it's a good moment to point people to Richard Stallman's story the right to read and scream "this guy warned you, did you listen?"
Mind you, the majority of the lemmings will ignore this and cheerfully follow the leader into the ocean.
and I prefer my meat well done.
They filter out all light and suddenly discover there's a gigantic EULA on the surface of the sun?
Personally I'd love to join the protests but I seriously fear for my freedom and my life.
Ok, you're afraid of your own country's justice system on political grounds (oppression of freedom of speech). This is a sign of an oppressive (instead of a supportive) government, may I suggest you flee to a West/North European country? You'll feel a lot safer here.
Standard procedure?!?! For such a freedom loving country? Seems to me U.S. justice system has crossed the line.
These are actions I expect from China or North Korea, not from the U.S.
If the potential *cough* troublemakers *cough* have any sense, they file harasment complaints against the officers involved. They might be able to make a corruption case against higher-up officers. This should not be happening, and the fact that it is possible in the U.S. indicates that the justice system suffers from severe corruption and too little splitting of powers.
think of it:
1) Since it's vacuum, pressure will most probably keep it shut for the coming years.
2) Since it's a vacuum, the deteriation rate of the storage material is a lot lower, since you minimized the environmental impact on the storage material.
Add to this the fact that you'd probably want worm memory which has no power needs and doesn't store by means of magnetism (to decrease the possible loss of data even further), you'd probably end up with either CDs or... paper (in one form or the other). I'd go for paper, but make sure it's high quality paper which is made to last and plot your data on it in a compressed format. A gold disk might also be useful, but those things are imho only useful when you're dealing with temperature fluctuations.
Microsoft knows ISO/IEC is a big hurdle to get complete control over the software market, with this Microsoft has succeeded in corrupting ISO/IEC. Exactly the thing Microsoft wants to happen. Even worse, Microsoft managed to do this with a lot of attention from the community... which was exactly the plan of Microsoft.
The community conviniently went out of its way and made a *lot* of noise about this.
OOXML was intended to damage ISO/IEC, nothing more. And we took the bait, hook and sinker.
Questions remaining: who managed to manipulate the board into doing this? When is this corruption going to be investigated by some justice departments? What will Microsoft's next move be?
Ok, so they want to block information on a tool that is designed to make sure information gets distributed (the internet)? GOOD LUCK!
If they want to make sure information doesn't get distributed, better make sure the people don't have access to the tools to do so (in other words: forbid access to the internet altogether).
Better yet: walk to/from work.
:P, but that can be fixed), as it can be very heavy labor to maintain a garden.
Granted, you'll need to live relatively close to work, but you'll burn more calories then with cycling.
Need to do groceries? Walk to the shop,if possible.
Go for a swim once in a while, you use a lot of muscles while swimming and it can be fun.
Pick up gardening as a hobby (I'm sure you have a nice slab of concrete as a garden
Instead of taking the elevator, try climbing the stairs instead (if possible/feasible).
What type of information is in those huge documents?
If it's code: split the code up in multiple files and put them under revision control.
If it's a legal document: a decent word processor (no, not MS Word) is more appropriate, while splitting the document up in multiple pieces (if possible) might also help.
If it's some sort of list, store it in a database.
The list goes on, and on. Give us some more information, so we can give you some useful feedback.
If it can be proven, both Microsoft and Foxconn are in big trouble. It would seem to me Microsoft is directly sabotaging one of it's product's competitors. If only the reward to Foxconn could traced back.
Since there are quite some commercial distributions of Linux, they could complain with the EU over Microsoft's continued monopoly abuse and even blatant sabotage of competitors. The EU will very likely investigate it and start taking measures against Microsoft (and in a lesser degree Foxconn).
Some positive results might come out of this (Microsoft getting an even worse fine, or even better: getting barred from the Eurepean market, and Foxconn being told to avoid bribes in the future).
Put slackware, gentoo or another advanced distro on it, but don't install a gui (the next step is games, which burn away a kid's time).
Let him figure things out by himself and make sure he's got easy access to the basic information, the rest he should be able to figure out himself.
Make sure he's got complete access to all information about his machine (so he can maintain it by himself).
1) The patch was made to certified machines, thus making them non-certified.
That tampering has to be discovered first.
2) It was only applied in 2 counties. (*cough*Democratic counties*cough*) Why not the whole state?
1) to reduce the chance of discovery.
2) in the event of discovered tampering, excuses are a lot more plausible.
3) I'm fairly certain that if *I* merely open the ballot box or machine during the election, that satisfies the requirement for "tampering" regardless of me touching ballots or flipping bits, and I'd be making an extra stop at the local police precinct before going home.
You're fairly naive, fraud relies on not being discovered. Now, that CEO of Diebold will get concequences over this. If it's not from the justice department, it'll be from the company he's working for, once the fraud is discovered.
We want to stop piracy, but instead of investing energy in sales, we invest energy in piracy (or actually, moving it further and deeper underground).
Next thing we know we'll have a piracy mob, prepared to kill to make sure they are not exposed! How nice.
Does the music industry even care? Of course not! All they care about is their falling profits. Well, they'll keep falling, because they're making sure the people will hate them (and thus avoid buying their products or working for them).
The bible, in its current state, is one big lie (sorry, christians). Just start reading, keep notes and you'll discover that it'll start contradicting itself. Sure, there are those who would twist their minds in all kinds of bends, simply to make it true to themselves (in other words, they want to believe a lie, so they can continue to live a lie).
Don't believe me? There are about 250 Christian faiths in the world, they all believe they are "the one true faith." Some of them even go as far as ignoring certain parts of the bible (they are unimportant), or even altering it in vital pieces. Interestingly enough, all of them have some part they disagree with.
That being said, personally I believe there is more between heaven and earth, and that it helps evolution along, but doesn't actually create major events. In my opinion the last major event caused by a... deity (to keep it easy for the Christians and Muslims in here) was the big bang or whatever event caused the creation of the universe. In my opinion "divine" intervention in evolution consists of minor manipulations (like causing bird A to like bird B more then bird C, thus bird A and B mate, instead of bird A and C), not massive manipulations (like creating a complete species from scratch).
This doesn't mark evolution as incorrect, and doesn't rule out... errr... "god" as an influence.
Gosh... this is a bit too obvious, but who cares? It's the U.S.A. the land where money can get you everything, including politicians.
The people don't seem to care about what the government does until it hits their wallet or their freedom, there where it hurts. Oh well, it's too late already. Democracy has failed you. Choose Democrats and you'll get the same as Republicans only with another face.
It appears to me the U.S. could best be dissolved... it has failed as a democracy and it will keep failing as one until something happens to change the severely broken election system (which won't happen until a revolt happens, or the U.S. starts falling apart).
While you're at it, maybe a good idea to fix that broken justice system of yours (trial by jury isn't righteous, it's prone to abuse). Also, those ridiculous penalties need to be revised as they're quite over the top.
Go ahead, mod me down to -1 flamebait... for telling the truth.
Google is an avid supporter of open source software and google uses open source software, google motivates development of open source software.
Microsoft is all too aware of this, and the big issue they are facing is a well entrenched google. They can't even afford to break google, because than Microsoft would face a severe penalty (monopoly abuse).
Are you guys in here all blind or something? Just connect the dots and it's all too obvious. There is a corporate war going on, and Microsoft is on the losing side.
The open source community is just a weapon of everyone opposite to the "Microsoft" camp, as is SCO a weapon on the "Microsoft" camp. But who's more on the side where Microsoft is on?
And more importantly; who are the good guys, and who are the bad guys?
This is military equipment, which might very well contain confidential information.
In a correct situation the soldiers shouldn't be allowed to modify their computers altogether. There's a reason they get a computer in the field (otherwise they don't need to get one).
Another option (more secure): do not put windows on those boxes and do not allow modification of the computer. Modification should be done by people authorized to do so, this will help prevent security breaches.
The U.S. military should impose harsh penalties on unauthorized modification of computers which deal with information of tactical and/or strategical importance (direct or indirect). Situations like this can have dire consequences.
He's running windows, his luck will run in about a year.
Windows tends to mysteriously collect cruft over time. Most of the time that results in decreased stability and performance (in every way imaginable), even if you clean windows up once in a while. This will happens to every windows user in about a year of daily use.
That's why you've got the second amendment, to be able to pick up arms and protect yourselves against your (now corrupt) government.
If this bill passes (and I assure you, it will, as it'll come back again and again until it passes), any resistance from the citizens can, and will, be broken swiftly (after all, they will start tracking vocal individuals/organizations). I think the time has come for the U.S. citizens to pick up arms against their own government, as it doesn't represent them anymore.
The U.S. is slowly turning into another China, and this bill is another vital step for that to happen.
Freedom requires eternal vigilance... Guess a lot of U.S. citizens took freedom for granted and weren't vigilant, now here's the price.
Final checkpoint, after this. You might want to consider what you're saying on the web or over the phone, as somebody just might decide to suspect you of terrorism.