Ireland and the UK share a free travel area, exclusive of the Schengen agreement.
It is a well accepted fact here in Ireland that if the UK introduces mandatory identity cards, the Republic of Ireland would have to follow suit in the interests of maintaining the privileged position we have with respect to travel to the UK. The British are by European standards quite paranoid about border control but, Irish and UK citizens can travel within the UK & Ireland sans passport. This free travel area with the UK is of enormous benefit to the Irish economy, clearly.
Thus if the Blair/Brown government does indeed start to place tough requirements on obtaining a UK passport this means that defacto such a system will be introduced in Ireland, in order to guarantee Ireland can maintain it's privileged access to the UK border
The Irish government would no doubt claim that they *have no choice* and that, of course it's not their fault... it's Tony Blair's fault.... if we, the Irish government don't spy on you to British standards... we might have difficulty traveling to London and Manchester for our stag parties, football games and occasional golfing sessions...
Solution: Grow your hair, buy a log cabin in the mountains and a shot-gun and go wait for *the day* the "Feds" come calling... trying to take your fingerprints for your "biometric" passport.
Gerhard Schroeder once called Vladimir Putin a flawless democrat. Indeed when Herr Schroede was booted out of the Chancellorship of Germany he was subsequently employed with the Russian state energy giant Gazprom.
All signals point toward Russia being admitted into the WTO. Oddly www.allofmp3.com was cited as a reason Russia wasn't admitted quite recently. Given that RUSSIA IS NOW USING A TYPE NUCLEAR WEAPON TO KILL BRITISH CITIZENS, can we really continue the pretence that Russia made the transition to a "nice" Democratic state, with "Statesmen" such as Vladimir Putin ("flawless democrat" and former head of the FSB)... USING NUCLEAR MATERIALS TO KILL BRITISH CITIZENS IN LONDON ?
It's not simply a matter of covering this up. This is very, very, very public and I believe it is encumbant on Tony Blair's government to block Russian Entry into the WTO as a consequence of this incident.
FYI : You can't just assassinate British subjects contaminating parts of LONDON with radioactive material and expect the "capitalist dogs" in the West to let you into their trade clubs, it just doesn't work that way... oddly.
Can we really maintain the pretense that Putin's regime is anything but, a thinly veiled totalitarian and highly repressive state ? Schroeder's notion of bringing Russia in from the cold, into the club of "Democracies" is clearly devoid of any truth once our "friends" in Russia start to use highly dangerous RADIOACTIVE materials to murder British citizens.
Do we really need Russian gas that bad ? What happens if Russia invades Georgia for example.... do we continue to look the other way... clap the Russians on the back... tell the world what a grand transition Russia has made to "Democracy" ? Do we say nothing... because we're scared of the Ukraine and Germany having a hard time finding natural gas ?
How far *exactly* do the Russians have to go, before Western Europe and the United States draws a line in the sand and takes some action ?
In my mind.... killing British subjects.... endangering British subjects with radiation demands some response... economic sanctions... blocking entry to the WTO... whatever.
Hell... a former Russian Prime Minister may have been poisoned in Dublin Ireland (where I live for any FSB people reading this post)... I certainly *DON'T* think that Ireland or the UK can possibly support Russia in any way, so long as Vladimir Putin and his ruthless regime continue to put our citizens, Russian citizens and the citizens of state's such as the Ukraine, Georgia and Chechnya lives at risk.
Perhaps... long before now.... we in the English speaking West, should have taken notice of Russia. Chechnya has been brutally repressed... and Russia didn't become a responsible Democracy... all that happened was Russia stopped being Communist.
The cold war may be over.... but, I don't think any of us can pretend that Russia should be accepted into the club of "Democracies" as Herr Schroeder would have liked. I think it's time to be realistic and acknowledge that Russia needs to be contained or transformed, before it is allowed to be come any stronger.
Can you imagine what would happen if the British had killed a French or German citizen in this fashion ? There would be an international crisis... The EU would be dead for all intents and purposes.
By that logic, the EU and the WTO must frustrate Russia's economic ambitions so long as Putin and/or a successor of his persue repressive and anti-Western policies.
1. Fantastic economy
2. Good prospects for 20-30 years of high economic growth
3. Easy to become a citizen if you are European/American
4. The only English speaking country in the Euro (a currency).
5. Good academic research funding http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg19225720.400 -the-lure-of-the-celtic-tiger.html [newscientist.com]
6. Investing large amounts of money (finally) in public train systems http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luas [wikipedia.org] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dublin_Metro [wikipedia.org]
7. Free travel area with the UK.
8. Right beside the UK, so we get all of the British TV stations.
9. Militarily neutral - constitutionally enshrined, virtually impossible to go to war.
10. Full employment, leading to massive migration to Ireland http://www.heritage.org/research/worldwidefreedom/ bg1945.cfm [heritage.org]
You could go to London and in fact I'd be quite tempted to do that myself but... I suppose being Irish... I'm required to say move here anyway. Until Dublin finishes building it's tram system though... the London tube is just too excellent to reasonably discount London as an amazing place to live.
Really though Dublin or London are ideal places to move to especially if you don't speak French/German/Italian/Spanish/(Norsk|Dansk|Svenska )
Laywers would never do anything so blatantly against the interests of patent laywers.
Same old, same old... become a judge and get very uptight about being *seen* to do the right thing.
Sell out your old buddies in the lawyer trade...
Take away legitimate patent-layer-bottom-feeder monies and make the domain of patents just/slightly/ less insane.
Yep, it's true what they say. You never remember your friends when you go to the top !
You foreget that the movie itself is rather tame.
The Constant Gardner should have totally swept the board at the Academy Awards.
The Constant Gardner unfortunately as a British movie couldn't break the Hollywood clique.
Free my British brothers from the grasp of the colonial oppresso... umm...
never mind.
This is a conflict which does not in fact exist... except in the context of us (the West) needing the oil in the middle East.
Hence all sorts of "Clash of Civilisation" nonesense must be fabricated to drum up pseudo-nationalist sentiments amongst Westerns in order to provide public support for the enivatable/required snatch-and-grab of the Middle-East's oil.
1001 ways to piss off Islamic people is most assuredly some misguided person's notion of expressing "freedom" but, is of course in fact, merely evidence that those "free" people showing the "poor/stupid/backwards" muslims just how "poor/stupid/not_like_us" they are, are themselves simply tools of the machine that "justifies" the non-civilisation conflict between "us and them"... since clearly the "conflict" is an economic.. not a cultural one.
Anyway... my Hummer is looking lonely without me + my blonde tart hogging the road./I'm off.
If humans start to replace fossil fuel with nuclear fuel, to meet ever increasing energy demands, it will be the case that sometime around 2100 AD, a replacement for Nuclear energy will have to be found, since all of the Nuclear fuel available will be spent !
Not a particularly far-sighted approach to addressing the basic fact, that our civilisation is founded on non-renewable sources of energy and is extremely wasteful of the energy it does produce.
A better solution is investment in Geo-Thermal, Hydro, Solar and the potential of Moon-based Helium-3.
I personally think that the vultures in the Nuclear Fuel game, see their opportunity with the demise of fossil fuel and that in the panic to replace fossil fuel, the public are being taken for fools... Nuclear energy produces *masses* of extremely hazardous waste, which must be safely stored for TENS and sometimes HUNDREDS of thousands of years.
I can gaurantee anybody reading this message, that people in the year 2150, will not thank people in 2006 for going the route of Nuclear... all those future generations will have as legacy from us is A) The on-going headache of storing Nuclear Waste and B) Belated development of alternative forms of energy... renewable forms... and energy generation research which should have been undertaken 50/100 years earlier... ie. today !
that a company called SAP has the audacity to castigate anyone
Here in Ireland, where I live.. sap is another word of fool/idot/moron
Something tells me I won't be running right out to buy anything from a company that describes itself as sap(s)
Fortunately for Open Source, today's put upon pro-Open Source techie, is tomorrow's pro-Open Source IT director
Good luck to the SAPs I say....
Space planes don't really make much sense and afaiui, the US and Sovient Union were hell bent on making space planes only to prove to one another that each side could.
It's good to see more practicle if less spectacular designs being proffered by NASA.
Plus I must say, despite the fact that it's makes more/sense/ for robots to explore space... the psychological factors, of human exploration are in many ways, just as important in terms of dare I say it, colonising beyond the constraints of the earth's biosphere.
We need to see more senseful decisions like this and ideally as much international collaberation as possible, as humans begin again, to push the frointers of space.
This was of course, *bound to happen... sort of like !Russia !USA gaining nuclear weapons
What's needed now in my opinion, is a patent ban treaty, between the major patent holders, ie, a means
to totally get rid of patents once and for all.
It's rather ironic that Microsoft, which is attempting to curry public favour by stating "Patent reform" whilst still attempting to patent things like a "text editor" interacting with XML http://blog.cfdl.auckland.ac.nz/archives/brent/0 00005.html will in fact be the most likely target of this insane patent.
The arguments against patents have been won, Europe will not implement patents and even the beast (Microsoft) admits that the patent system is broken, hardly surprising when one considers that Microsoft looks increasingly likely to have to fork over some $500 million to Eolas, http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/09/30/uspto_upho lds_eolas_patent/
In the final analysis, I think the only debate will be *how* patents will be reformed, and when... not if. It's enivatible I think that the largest patent holders, when stung often enough by the little guy will lead the drive to all but abolish software patents.
Indeed for Microsoft and IBM and companies of similar patent stockpiles.. patents will be useless.. IBM and Microsoft can't or won't *war* with each other over patents.. but, each is vulerable to some pipsqueak developer, who claims to have patented the latest trendiest "ungabunga" technology.
Waiting for Al Gore [1], to assert patent rights on the Internet.
[1] You remember Al Gore.. the guy who won the election in 2000 don't you? /somewhere an O.B.I.T. logs my defiance of our benavolent^^^^^elected leaders.
I personally like Linus and I recognise him as a great Software Engineer, one of the best probably.
Taken in context what he says probably makes sense, taken out of context al-la this thread, I think it's important to note what specifications try to bring about.
Specifications exist so that Engineers, Managers/End Users, can agree in as far as possible what our project is supposed to do. They are meant to keep away creeping featurism and ad hocism.
I do agree with what I believe was Linus' core point, that following a specification when it gets in the way of obvious sense in terms of software design, is in fact senseless.
I think you'll find you are freer living under American DNS dictatorship then you would be.. say if all those nasty Kofi Annan people controlled DNS citizen.
There is no real reason for the US to oppose internationalisation of DNS control save xenophobia, and of course nationalist vitriol.
In conclusion internet held ransom to Dick Cheney and Ronald McDonald Rumsfield = bad, Poor countries with the ability to control their own DNS = good.
It's not an case of "the rest of us" vs "good ol uncle sam"... though please feel free to buy guns... and wait in the basement for... the UN to take away your rights to monopolise the internet and drive Hummers.
Personally, I'd like to see much more collaboration between space agencies like this.
Pushing out into space should be something we humans do as a species and should be less and less about countries and stupid monkies banging their chests about just how much bigger and more impressive their stick is, then the other monkey's stick
It would be far more productive, if the ESA, JAXA, NASA and the RFSA, simply collaborated to pool resources and design the closest thing to a silver bullet that humans can come up with right now in terms of space flight, instead of continually re-inventing the wheel.
Scientists and smart people generally recognise this as being 'self evident'. Unfortunately, if life was that simple there'd be no war, or poverty.
If extradited, the whole (space aliens aspect) will be played up by the guy's lawyer and he'll probably be declard "unfit" to be locked away in Virginia prison and gang raped for 25 years.
Sigh.... those slimly liberal lawyers and their lawyer doublespeak, getting in the way of state-sanctioned ritual rape.
To the people whining about how "this vulnerability exists in Linux, OSX"... etc... clearly.
All the article claims is that some bad USB firmware writer makes his device pose as device(x), which on Windows has a known buggy driver.
So what ?
Windows is buggy.
Move along citizen... nothing to see here.
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Ireland and the UK share a free travel area, exclusive of the Schengen agreement.
It is a well accepted fact here in Ireland that if the UK introduces mandatory identity cards, the Republic of Ireland would have to follow suit in the interests of maintaining the privileged position we have with respect to travel to the UK. The British are by European standards quite paranoid about border control but, Irish and UK citizens can travel within the UK & Ireland sans passport. This free travel area with the UK is of enormous benefit to the Irish economy, clearly.
Thus if the Blair/Brown government does indeed start to place tough requirements on obtaining a UK passport this means that defacto such a system will be introduced in Ireland, in order to guarantee Ireland can maintain it's privileged access to the UK border
The Irish government would no doubt claim that they *have no choice* and that, of course it's not their fault... it's Tony Blair's fault.... if we, the Irish government don't spy on you to British standards... we might have difficulty traveling to London and Manchester for our stag parties, football games and occasional golfing sessions...
Solution: Grow your hair, buy a log cabin in the mountains and a shot-gun and go wait for *the day* the "Feds" come calling... trying to take your fingerprints for your "biometric" passport.
rehashed story makes collision attacks ^2 as bad ! doh !
huh .....
figures.
Gerhard Schroeder once called Vladimir Putin a flawless democrat.
... tell the world what a grand transition Russia has made to "Democracy" ? Do we say nothing ... because we're scared of the Ukraine and Germany having a hard time finding natural gas ?
... I certainly *DON'T* think that Ireland or the UK can possibly support Russia in any way, so long as Vladimir Putin and his ruthless regime continue to put our citizens, Russian citizens and the citizens of state's such as the Ukraine, Georgia and Chechnya lives at risk.
... long before now.... we in the English speaking West, should have taken notice of Russia. Chechnya has been brutally repressed... and Russia didn't become a responsible Democracy... all that happened was Russia stopped being Communist.
.... am I mad ?
Indeed when Herr Schroede was booted out of the Chancellorship of Germany he was subsequently employed with the Russian state energy giant Gazprom.
All signals point toward Russia being admitted into the WTO. Oddly www.allofmp3.com was cited as a reason Russia wasn't admitted quite recently.
Given that RUSSIA IS NOW USING A TYPE NUCLEAR WEAPON TO KILL BRITISH CITIZENS, can we really continue the pretence that Russia made the transition to a "nice" Democratic state, with "Statesmen" such as Vladimir Putin ("flawless democrat" and former head of the FSB)... USING NUCLEAR MATERIALS TO KILL BRITISH CITIZENS IN LONDON ?
It's not simply a matter of covering this up. This is very, very, very public and I believe it is encumbant on Tony Blair's government to block Russian Entry into the WTO as a consequence of this incident.
FYI : You can't just assassinate British subjects contaminating parts of LONDON with radioactive material and expect the "capitalist dogs" in the West to let you into their trade clubs, it just doesn't work that way... oddly.
Can we really maintain the pretense that Putin's regime is anything but, a thinly veiled totalitarian and highly repressive state ? Schroeder's notion of bringing Russia in from the cold, into the club of "Democracies" is clearly devoid of any truth once our "friends" in Russia start to use highly dangerous RADIOACTIVE materials to murder British citizens.
Do we really need Russian gas that bad ? What happens if Russia invades Georgia for example.... do we continue to look the other way... clap the Russians on the back
How far *exactly* do the Russians have to go, before Western Europe and the United States draws a line in the sand and takes some action ?
In my mind.... killing British subjects.... endangering British subjects with radiation demands some response... economic sanctions... blocking entry to the WTO... whatever.
Hell... a former Russian Prime Minister may have been poisoned in Dublin Ireland (where I live for any FSB people reading this post)
Perhaps
The cold war may be over.... but, I don't think any of us can pretend that Russia should be accepted into the club of "Democracies" as Herr Schroeder would have liked. I think it's time to be realistic and acknowledge that Russia needs to be contained or transformed, before it is allowed to be come any stronger.
Can you imagine what would happen if the British had killed a French or German citizen in this fashion ? There would be an international crisis... The EU would be dead for all intents and purposes.
By that logic, the EU and the WTO must frustrate Russia's economic ambitions so long as Putin and/or a successor of his persue repressive and anti-Western policies.
Or
Where a Military Junta suspended the constitution and democracy ?
l and#The_2006_Interim_Constitution
Or am I dreaming ?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constitution_of_Thai
I for one.... welcome the day our military overlords drown in a sea of zero-day exploits.
That day should be sometime around about patch Tuesday.
This cannot be allowed to happen.
Imagine a future where Christopher Lambert is humanity's only hope from absolute destruction !
shakes
Gah...
Guinness is piss !
You'd have to be an *extreme* nationalist to even pretend to like that.
Now Erdinger.... there's a real beer !
Fixing up previous post
0 -the-lure-of-the-celtic-tiger.html [newscientist.com]/ bg1945.cfm [heritage.org]
a )
Move to Ireland for the following reasons
1. Fantastic economy
2. Good prospects for 20-30 years of high economic growth
3. Easy to become a citizen if you are European/American
4. The only English speaking country in the Euro (a currency).
5. Good academic research funding http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg19225720.40
6. Investing large amounts of money (finally) in public train systems http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luas [wikipedia.org] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dublin_Metro [wikipedia.org]
7. Free travel area with the UK.
8. Right beside the UK, so we get all of the British TV stations.
9. Militarily neutral - constitutionally enshrined, virtually impossible to go to war.
10. Full employment, leading to massive migration to Ireland http://www.heritage.org/research/worldwidefreedom
You could go to London and in fact I'd be quite tempted to do that myself but... I suppose being Irish... I'm required to say move here anyway.
Until Dublin finishes building it's tram system though... the London tube is just too excellent to reasonably discount London as an amazing place to live.
Really though Dublin or London are ideal places to move to especially if you don't speak French/German/Italian/Spanish/(Norsk|Dansk|Svensk
Ride the tiger baby !
1. Fantastic economy 2. Good prospects for 20-30 years of high economic growth 3. Easy to become a citizen if you are European/American 4. The only English speaking country in the Euro (a currency). 5. Good academic research funding http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg19225720.400 -the-lure-of-the-celtic-tiger.html
6. Investing large amounts of money (finally) in public train systems
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luas
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dublin_Metro
7. Free travel area with the UK.
8. Right beside the UK, so we get all of the British TV stations.
9. Militarily neutral - constitutionally enshrined, virtually impossible to go to war.
10. Full employment, leading to massive migration to Ireland
http://www.heritage.org/research/worldwidefreedom/ bg1945.cfm
Ride the tiger baby !
Laywers would never do anything so blatantly against the interests of patent laywers. Same old, same old... become a judge and get very uptight about being *seen* to do the right thing. Sell out your old buddies in the lawyer trade... Take away legitimate patent-layer-bottom-feeder monies and make the domain of patents just /slightly/ less insane.
Yep, it's true what they say. You never remember your friends when you go to the top !
RE Bareback.
You foreget that the movie itself is rather tame.
The Constant Gardner should have totally swept the board at the Academy Awards.
The Constant Gardner unfortunately as a British movie couldn't break the Hollywood clique.
Free my British brothers from the grasp of the colonial oppresso... umm...
never mind.
As is clearly shown here... all who dare to defy Xenu shall be subsumed by a wave of his volcanic wrath.
s t.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xenu
Tom Cruise respects the power of Xenu.
John Travolta respects the power of Xenu.
Sonny Bono respects the power of Xenu.
http://www.adherents.com/largecom/fam_scientologi
Björk also shall join this venerated list....
It is only a matter of time.
This is a conflict which does not in fact exist... except in the context of us (the West) needing the oil in the middle East.
/I'm off.
Hence all sorts of "Clash of Civilisation" nonesense must be fabricated to drum up pseudo-nationalist sentiments amongst Westerns in order to provide public support for the enivatable/required snatch-and-grab of the Middle-East's oil.
1001 ways to piss off Islamic people is most assuredly some misguided person's notion of expressing "freedom" but, is of course in fact, merely evidence that those "free" people showing the "poor/stupid/backwards" muslims just how "poor/stupid/not_like_us" they are, are themselves simply tools of the machine that "justifies" the non-civilisation conflict between "us and them"... since clearly the "conflict" is an economic.. not a cultural one.
Anyway... my Hummer is looking lonely without me + my blonde tart hogging the road.
Who cares?
d zilla giving you a sense of regurgitated plot ?
This is the M-O-V-I-E-S. Hulk/Superman/Spiderman/Batman/X-Men/King-Kong/Go
Yeah, OK, umm, don't go to see them.
Move along netizen, nothing to see here...
All is well, consume !
Nuclear energy is a non-renewable.
If humans start to replace fossil fuel with nuclear fuel, to meet ever increasing energy demands, it will be the case that sometime around 2100 AD, a replacement for Nuclear energy will have to be found, since all of the Nuclear fuel available will be spent !
Not a particularly far-sighted approach to addressing the basic fact, that our civilisation is founded on non-renewable sources of energy and is extremely wasteful of the energy it does produce.
A better solution is investment in Geo-Thermal, Hydro, Solar and the potential of Moon-based Helium-3.
I personally think that the vultures in the Nuclear Fuel game, see their opportunity with the demise of fossil fuel and that in the panic to replace fossil fuel, the public are being taken for fools... Nuclear energy produces *masses* of extremely hazardous waste, which must be safely stored for TENS and sometimes HUNDREDS of thousands of years.
I can gaurantee anybody reading this message, that people in the year 2150, will not thank people in 2006 for going the route of Nuclear... all those future generations will have as legacy from us is A) The on-going headache of storing Nuclear Waste and B) Belated development of alternative forms of energy... renewable forms... and energy generation research which should have been undertaken 50/100 years earlier... ie. today !
that a company called SAP has the audacity to castigate anyone
Here in Ireland, where I live.. sap is another word of fool/idot/moron
Something tells me I won't be running right out to buy anything from a company that describes itself as sap(s)
Fortunately for Open Source, today's put upon pro-Open Source techie, is tomorrow's pro-Open Source IT director
Good luck to the SAPs I say....
Space planes don't really make much sense and afaiui, the US and Sovient Union were hell bent on making space planes
/sense/ for robots to explore space... the psychological factors, of human exploration are in many ways, just as important in terms of dare I say it, colonising beyond the constraints of the earth's biosphere.
only to prove to one another that each side could.
It's good to see more practicle if less spectacular designs being proffered by NASA.
Plus I must say, despite the fact that it's makes more
We need to see more senseful decisions like this and ideally as much international collaberation as possible, as humans begin again, to push the frointers of space.
Carpe diem !
This was of course, *bound to happen... sort of like !Russia !USA gaining nuclear weapons
0 00005.html
o lds_eolas_patent/
/somewhere an O.B.I.T. logs my defiance of our benavolent^^^^^elected leaders.
What's needed now in my opinion, is a patent ban treaty, between the major patent holders, ie, a means
to totally get rid of patents once and for all.
It's rather ironic that Microsoft, which is attempting to curry public favour by stating "Patent reform" whilst still
attempting to patent things like a "text editor" interacting with XML
http://blog.cfdl.auckland.ac.nz/archives/brent/
will in fact be the most likely target of this insane patent.
The arguments against patents have been won, Europe will not implement patents and even the beast (Microsoft) admits that the patent system is broken, hardly surprising when one considers that Microsoft looks increasingly likely to have to fork over some $500 million to Eolas, http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/09/30/uspto_uph
In the final analysis, I think the only debate will be *how* patents will be reformed, and when... not if.
It's enivatible I think that the largest patent holders, when stung often enough by the little guy will lead the drive to all but abolish software patents.
Indeed for Microsoft and IBM and companies of similar patent stockpiles.. patents will be useless.. IBM and Microsoft can't or won't *war* with each other over patents.. but, each is vulerable to some pipsqueak developer, who claims to have patented the latest trendiest "ungabunga" technology.
Waiting for Al Gore [1], to assert patent rights on the Internet.
[1] You remember Al Gore.. the guy who won the election in 2000 don't you?
I personally like Linus and I recognise him as a great Software Engineer, one of the best probably.
Taken in context what he says probably makes sense, taken out of context al-la this thread, I think it's important to note what specifications try to bring about.
Specifications exist so that Engineers, Managers/End Users, can agree in as far as possible what our project is supposed to do. They are meant to keep away creeping featurism and ad hocism.
I do agree with what I believe was Linus' core point, that following a specification when it gets in the way of obvious sense in terms of software design, is in fact senseless.
Be calm citizen... consume.
I think you'll find you are freer living under American DNS dictatorship then you would be.. say if all those nasty Kofi Annan people controlled DNS citizen.
Be calm... consume !
bad things happen.
v ernance/
There is no real reason for the US to oppose internationalisation of DNS control save xenophobia, and of course nationalist vitriol.
In conclusion internet held ransom to Dick Cheney and Ronald McDonald Rumsfield = bad, Poor countries with the ability to control their own DNS = good.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/09/30/eu_net_go
It's not an case of "the rest of us" vs "good ol uncle sam"... though please feel free to buy guns... and wait in the basement for... the UN to take away your rights to monopolise the internet and drive Hummers.
Doesn't RTLabs, claim to hold a "patent" on running the Linux Kernel as a 'task' under a 'real time' kernel?i cles/moglen.html
http://www.fsmlabs.com/openpatentlicense.html
http://www.aero.polimi.it/~rtai/documentation/art
Personally, I'd like to see much more collaboration between space agencies like this.
Pushing out into space should be something we humans do as a species and should be less and less about countries and stupid monkies banging their chests about just how much bigger and more impressive their stick is, then the other monkey's stick
It would be far more productive, if the ESA, JAXA, NASA and the RFSA, simply collaborated to pool resources and design the closest thing to a silver bullet that humans can come up with right now in terms of space flight, instead of continually re-inventing the wheel.
Scientists and smart people generally recognise this as being 'self evident'. Unfortunately, if life was that simple there'd be no war, or poverty.
My spider senses tell me
If extradited, the whole (space aliens aspect) will be played up by the guy's lawyer and he'll probably be declard "unfit" to be locked away in Virginia prison and gang raped for 25 years.
Sigh.... those slimly liberal lawyers and their lawyer doublespeak, getting in the way of state-sanctioned ritual rape.
God bless the penal (no pun) system.
To the people whining about how "this vulnerability exists in Linux, OSX"... etc... clearly. All the article claims is that some bad USB firmware writer makes his device pose as device(x), which on Windows has a known buggy driver. So what ? Windows is buggy. Move along citizen... nothing to see here.