Shouldn't one assume that the scammers and the cr|hackers are working hand in hand with the former providing technical services and entire networks of compromised computers to the latter who perform the commercial tasks?
Happy National Day Sweden 060606 (play some Slayer please)
Of all the gear lying around I chose this laptop as the spec, form-factor and the sheer utilarian wonder of being able to switch wifi connections very simply while following a street manifestation in the center of a city was the main criterion.
Yes, I could have lugged around my ùber-AMD gaming-desktop in a shopping cart with a massive ack while broadcasting but the MacBook was excellent för street-agitation in a good cause.
... in the Swedish political system the smallest political parties play the role of "the tail that wags the dog", as Vänsterpartiet and Miljöpartiet do whenever they ally with Socialdemokraterna. This makes them and their policies major in my opinion.
Like I said earlier, I'm taking part in the IRL demonstration in Stockholm so while walking aroung trying to keep the wifi up and I have to correct my post as this esteemed site does not allow editing.
It was representatives from CENTERPARTIET (not Folkpartiet) who have filed a formal complaint.
-apologies for any errors attributed to one-handed typing;-)
You are right, this scandal is getting serious media coverage in Sweden.
Here are short quotes translated from Swedish
Dagensindustri "it's like trying to eradicate dandelions"
Aftonbladet "The media conglomerates have no chance against the youth"
Dagens Nyheter "The Net-Pirates have won"
Svenska Dagbladet "Net-Pirates have won"
These are from our major newspapers and posted hurriedly from my MacBook while walking in a demonstration against this abuse of power by the police and **AA lackeys.
Representatives from two major political parties in Sweden, Folkpartiet and Vänsterpartiet have filed formal complaints against the Minister of Justice and members of his staff.
This has increased the general publics awareness of The Pirate Bay and probably increased the number of p2p users.
A very nice shot in the foot for the Swedish Justice Dept., the police and our very "customer friendly" **AA organisations.
Dicusses the use of Bluetooth as a mediator between the different UWB implementations.
Will the Belkin/Freescale units interoperate with future products using Intel Wimedia? Or is the proposal in the MacWorld article just what is needed for speedier and wireless USB connections?
Any info on the security implications of carrying your precious "data" around on a high-speed wireless usb key?
Other than that I'd be very pleased to diminish the rats nest of cables and be able to place things like scanners independent of the computers location.
-TFA- "McNealy added that he went to Steve Jobs' house to try to hammer out the user interface agreement. The Apple co-founder and CEO was "sitting under a tree, reading 'How to Make a Nuclear Bomb,'" with bare feet and wearing jeans with holes torn in the knees, McNealy said." ---
From just this one anecdote one does get the feeling that Steve might have taken over Sun eventually. The disappointment expressed by Bill Joy over the failed "close encounters" with Apple does indicate that they would have followed Steves leadership.
On a more serious note, the clash of the raging CEO egos would not have been beneficial for either company.
:: It is remarkable that Apple, with all this experience in spreadsheet development, has not yet released the logical companion to its Keynote and Pages applications, [Calculate]? (whatever they decide to name the spreadsheet app).
Curious, when when they were the first to release a good spreadsheet for the desktop, this is a gaping hole in the iWork suite IMHO.
:: What we are really witnessing is the takeover of humanity by the corporations:
The mega-corps dictate terms and conditions regarding employment and subsistence of the citizens to governments with impunity, if the local yokels, be it county, state or an entire nations governing body make waves, well... the source of employment can move to localities more malleable to the forces of "progress"
Truthfully, how many of us reflect on the fact that the very shiny, very cool, very indispensible objects we caress (talking to geeks here, normals please ignore), are tainted by being assembled by people working in what we ourselves would deem sub-human conditions regarding pay, working-hours and job-security? (... sorry to be such an insensitive clod to those working for outstanding game production outfits)
Let us name as examples predatory corporations of the present time such as Monsanto and Microsoft while keeping a clear head, realizing that such entities are hostage to their own success and must forge forward with ever-increasing vigour, swallowing and/or disrupting targets that can affect the bottom line.
While such virulent behaviour is acceptable to many, the history of human achievments does show a prevalance of individual invention over large-scale research.
As the workforce in other locations reach the lowest common corporate qualification so must the corporations migrate the actual jobs available in the enterprise...
The actual catch #22 is the fact that the established entities do their best to smother or assimilate anything new so by the mere fact of progressing any project must eventually become evil... or what??? please do tell::
From the article "Tesco's power is causing resentment. Most openings of big new stores are greeted by fears for local shops and a campaign to keep Tesco out. Tesco suppliers refuse to talk about their relations with a Goliath that is not frightened of using its bargaining power. There is even a pressure group, Tescopoly, dedicated to breaking the company up. Responding to popular pressure, the Office of Fair Trading (OFT), a government agency, has asked if Tesco is too big, and looked at its relations with suppliers. This week it concluded again that the grocery market is working.
There is an urgent need for stricter laws governing the behavior of the mega-corporations and a brave and uncorrupted judiciary to enforce them.
"Hackers are using the newest DRM technology in Microsoft's Windows Media Player to install spyware, adware, dialers and computer viruses on unsuspecting PC users"
perhaps they should remove DRM and WMP from LongVista as well.
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Shouldn't one assume that the scammers and the cr|hackers are working hand in hand with the former providing technical services and entire networks of compromised computers to the latter who perform the commercial tasks?
Happy National Day Sweden 060606 (play some Slayer please)
OK I'll bite the trollbait,
Of all the gear lying around I chose this laptop as the spec, form-factor and the sheer utilarian wonder of being able to switch wifi connections very simply while following a street manifestation in the center of a city was the main criterion.
Yes, I could have lugged around my ùber-AMD gaming-desktop in a shopping cart with a massive ack while broadcasting but the MacBook was excellent för street-agitation in a good cause.
... in the Swedish political system the smallest political parties play the role of "the tail that wags the dog", as Vänsterpartiet and Miljöpartiet do whenever they ally with Socialdemokraterna. This makes them and their policies major in my opinion.
Like I said earlier, I'm taking part in the IRL demonstration in Stockholm so while walking aroung trying to keep the wifi up and I have to correct my post as this esteemed site does not allow editing.
;-)
It was representatives from CENTERPARTIET (not Folkpartiet) who have filed a formal complaint.
-apologies for any errors attributed to one-handed typing
You are right, this scandal is getting serious media coverage in Sweden. Here are short quotes translated from Swedish Dagensindustri "it's like trying to eradicate dandelions" Aftonbladet "The media conglomerates have no chance against the youth" Dagens Nyheter "The Net-Pirates have won" Svenska Dagbladet "Net-Pirates have won" These are from our major newspapers and posted hurriedly from my MacBook while walking in a demonstration against this abuse of power by the police and **AA lackeys.
Representatives from two major political parties in Sweden, Folkpartiet and Vänsterpartiet have filed formal complaints against the Minister of Justice and members of his staff.
This has increased the general publics awareness of The Pirate Bay and probably increased the number of p2p users.
A very nice shot in the foot for the Swedish Justice Dept., the police and our very "customer friendly" **AA organisations.
The other face of the janus announces :
_ licensi.html
"MSFT: Our DRM licensing is there to eliminate hobbyists and little guys"
http://www.boingboing.net/2006/01/30/msft_our_drm
This articleo th/index.php
http://www.macworld.com/news/2005/05/09/uwbblueto
Dicusses the use of Bluetooth as a mediator between the different UWB implementations.
Will the Belkin/Freescale units interoperate with future products using Intel Wimedia? Or is the proposal in the MacWorld article just what is needed for speedier and wireless USB connections?
Any info on the security implications of carrying your precious "data" around on a high-speed wireless usb key?
Other than that I'd be very pleased to diminish the rats nest of cables and be able to place things like scanners independent of the computers location.
-TFA-
"McNealy added that he went to Steve Jobs' house to try to hammer out the user interface agreement. The Apple co-founder and CEO was "sitting under a tree, reading 'How to Make a Nuclear Bomb,'" with bare feet and wearing jeans with holes torn in the knees, McNealy said."
---
From just this one anecdote one does get the feeling that Steve might have taken over Sun eventually. The disappointment expressed by Bill Joy over the failed "close encounters" with Apple does indicate that they would have followed Steves leadership.
On a more serious note, the clash of the raging CEO egos would not have been beneficial for either company.
::
It is remarkable that Apple, with all this experience in spreadsheet development, has not yet released the logical companion to its Keynote and Pages applications, [Calculate]? (whatever they decide to name the spreadsheet app).
Curious, when when they were the first to release a good spreadsheet for the desktop, this is a gaping hole in the iWork suite IMHO.
::
::
What we are really witnessing is the takeover of humanity by the corporations:
The mega-corps dictate terms and conditions regarding employment and subsistence of the citizens to governments with impunity, if the local yokels, be it county, state or an entire nations governing body make waves, well... the source of employment can move to localities more malleable to the forces of "progress"
Truthfully, how many of us reflect on the fact that the very shiny, very cool, very indispensible objects we caress (talking to geeks here, normals please ignore), are tainted by being assembled by people working in what we ourselves would deem sub-human conditions regarding pay, working-hours and job-security?
(... sorry to be such an insensitive clod to those working for outstanding game production outfits)
Let us name as examples predatory corporations of the present time such as Monsanto and Microsoft while keeping a clear head, realizing that such entities are hostage to their own success and must forge forward with ever-increasing vigour, swallowing and/or disrupting targets that can affect the bottom line.
While such virulent behaviour is acceptable to many, the history of human achievments does show a prevalance of individual invention over large-scale research.
As the workforce in other locations reach the lowest common corporate qualification so must the corporations migrate the actual jobs available in the enterprise...
The actual catch #22 is the fact that the established entities do their best to smother or assimilate anything new so by the mere fact of progressing any project must eventually become evil... or what??? please do tell
From the article "Tesco's power is causing resentment. Most openings of big new stores are greeted by fears for local shops and a campaign to keep Tesco out. Tesco suppliers refuse to talk about their relations with a Goliath that is not frightened of using its bargaining power. There is even a pressure group, Tescopoly, dedicated to breaking the company up. Responding to popular pressure, the Office of Fair Trading (OFT), a government agency, has asked if Tesco is too big, and looked at its relations with suppliers. This week it concluded again that the grocery market is working.
There is an urgent need for stricter laws governing the behavior of the mega-corporations and a brave and uncorrupted judiciary to enforce them.
Judging from this quote from the Eweek article
"Hackers are using the newest DRM technology in Microsoft's Windows Media Player to install spyware, adware, dialers and computer viruses on unsuspecting PC users"
perhaps they should remove DRM and WMP from LongVista as well.
"A Flexbeta article covers the basics of WiF security.
Sorry but at a glance I read that as WTF security
As this article reveals http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=25169 MS-Vista will make your current high end PC hardware obsolete.
From the article
I hope we're all just loving Microsoft for this