I'm sorry, but that's a view only taken by people that think the government can't only do specific authorized acts. That's completely untrue. That's why there are constitutional amendments telling the government specifically what it can not do. Other's tell government what specific parts are responsible for what.
But if you are under the impression that it can't do something because it's not specifically told to do it... well, then you're living a libertarian fantasy. That is not reality. That is not how the world works. And it is never how any government on earth at any time in history has ever worked.
Sorry to bust your ideological bubble. And no, I really don't wanna see your Ron Paul conspiracy theory Youtube video.
obviously this is completely unconstitutional, not authorized to the federal government of USA under the Constitution, violates all sorts of rights, from freedom of speech to illegal searches and presumption of innocence just to throw in there as well.
That's why government needs to be cut.
Ron Paul 2012.
Yes, doing web searches, looking at your Twitter posts, Facebook updates, and blog posts... all that public data! How dare they look at publicly available data and put computers to use sorting it!
In other news,/. readers shocked to find out that the technology, known as a web crawler, has been around since the early 1990's and nobody told them.
Many places already do this, turning lights to flashing yellow/red on weekends. But, it's usually smaller towns, and the yellow flashes on the main road of the intersection so that traffic doesn't stop at all.
If by "push" you mean pushing out updates automatically, being quick and responsive, sand boxing tabs, and not being a pain in the ass to IT, then yes. I'm a Chrome advocate. Years ago, I was a Firefox advocate, passing around those little banners promoting the "new alternative to Internet Explorer". Those days are dead.
Firefox flipped IT the bird like we're nobodies. I'm not one user on one computer. I control hundreds of boxes, and none of them will ever run Firefox. IT flips the switch, and we can take any product from 100% usage to 0% usage throughout entire companies. Wrong people to piss off.
Piss off a couple thousand guys like me and tell us that you don't give a damn about Enterprise or IT. Boom! You just lost tens of thousands of installs instantly. And the "press" is guys like us telling people what to install on their home computers, and on social media sites and news sites like this.
So goes IT, so goes the world. And tech companies better learn that lesson here and now.
I'm surprised the shareholders of Google haven't done more to urge Google to spend their profits on supporting Samsung.
Samsung is a global industrial cartel with $172 billion in revenues in 2009.
Samsung can fight its own battles.
... and lose. I bet this deal came about quicker because Apple is destroying Samsung in courts around the world. Samsung claiming that Google should be taking care of all this is like claiming that Linus should be fighting for your right to mod an XBox to run the Linux kernel on it... Yeah, Google makes a tablet version, but they didn't go out of their way to force anyone to break a patent, or use someone else's design.
As of yet, Google has not been found in violation of any patents and they don't sell it commercially, it's free. Samsung, on the other hand, makes money for free off Android. So yeah, they have to defend it.
The moment Google has to make licensing deals on patents, Android will cease to be free... and by that, I don't mean to companies, but to small developers just wanting to use it on homebrew devices. It'll become the Unix of the mobile OS world. Open source, but huge license fees to use so as to pay for the lawyers to protect it.
The idea is to strike fear into people and nations, not cause significant damage. Running a model plane into a crowded air traffic control tower might kill only a couple people, but it would scare the shit out of a nation. What do all the planes do over LAX with no control tower, for instance?
It's all about fear, and with model planes, the terrorist just keeps going and going, instead of being a 1 off suicide bomber. Unlike the Middle East, life is too comfortable in the West to recruit many suicide bombers.
Discarding the moral teachings that have been handed down over thousands of years is equally ridiculous.
Selling your daughter into marriage, the fair price for a slave, how to properly cut your new born's penis, and stone all homosexuals.
I'm sorry, but your statement is ridiculous in that what was moral and immoral over thousands of years hasn't got a damn thing to do with religion. Anyone with a working mind can have morals without religion. The "moral" teachers from biblical texts are mostly homeless guys, Moses and Jesus. I can find plenty of those if I just head downtown and ignore all the bullshit teaches like those I listed above.
The ultra-rich don't make their money via Salary, but by Capital Gains. It is the Capital Gains tax, not income tax, which really affects what billionaires earn.
You could raise the income tax on billionaires to 99.9%, and they'll barely feel it come tax time.
As for your shops metaphor, everyone pays a % of tax, not an $$$ amount, as you call it. Flat tax is actually a % idea, but you didn't even get that part right.
Nobody wants to fart in space in a closed capsule, it taxes the air scrubbers too much. So, best give them beano and give them a fart app to enjoy the "comforts of home."
I keep downloading and trying Layar, then promptly uninstalling it. It's kinda cluttered, unattractive, and generally useless unless you are walking around Manhattan.
And the example they gave in the summary: "One of the most interesting apps that someone produced was a virtual tee-shirt shop"
Ok, let me get this straight. Rather than going to stupidteeshirtidea.com and looking around, you download Layar, then you download the stupidteeshirtidea app listed in Layar, then you walk around until you find the stupidteeshirtidea virtual store and click it to get redirected to stupidteeshirtidea.com.
Intel is planning on putting shit like this on ALL their chips as well using tech from the McAfee purchase. Just as you lose Internet freedoms in the name of copyright and child protection, we'll lose PC freedom in the name of anti-virus and malware.
And in both cases, the real bad guys will walk right around it, while we stand there in the virtual TSA line with a rubber gloved hand up our ass.
Just look at the Chromebook. I don't see why this wouldn't eventually translate. The problem is purchased apps. I can't imagine them letting you install a $20 app on a phone just because you borrowed it.
One mod does support Guests, from what I've read. MIUI. You have to root and flash to get it, just like CyanogenMod, but it's gotten great reviews.
I think the fact that they are breaking up parts of the system into Apps that are automatically updated by Google will be fantastic, such as the browser. The more they break out of the base system, the more control they have over updates, ironically.
Also, they should take the opportunity to unify the UI a bit more. I'm not saying go iPhone, but I think it could be done better.
Any time people leave the default, you're not doing it well enough, be it a dev or a user, such as leaving the default keyboard for Swype, TouchPal, or FlexT9.
If they had a killer UI, it would discourage fragmentation. There are some great UIs out there that they could purchase and integrate, such as Go Launcher or ADW Launcher. I think they should also be stricter on the hardware so that there is also better driver support between phones. Then again, that's the CyanogenMod talking for me, which probably is less important to mainstream users.
That guy just proved my point. I don't want to rehash, but read my response to him. It's all or nothing for some of these people. It's extremism, and it has no place for groups that don't want ridiculed like the other groups I mentioned. It makes FOSS community look like digital jihadists fighting a war of purity.
It's very very unproductive and only attacks moderates, not the real enemies of FOSS.
You said, "Google has done nothing to encourage Free Software."
You said nothing valid, nothing backed up by any evidence. So, very hypocritical if you yourself can't make a valid rebuttal.
However, you perfectly gave me evidence. All or nothing. You say Google has done nothing to encourage free software.
You completely ignore code.google.com.
You completely ignore Chromium.
You completely ignore Android and the ecosystem of free and oss apps that have built around it.
I could go on. Fact is, you are the all or nothing person that I believe is the problem with FOSS. And quite frankly, while you response was flamebait, the entire all or nothing FOSS is flamebait to more moderate users with ridiculous claims, using your words, such as "Google has done nothing". That isn't just ridiculous, but a complete lie. Whereas, my point is perfectly proven by such lies.
FOSS adopting MS F.U.D. It's sad, pitiful, and more should be expected from supposedly smart individuals.
But give those individuals a fanatical cause, and you get PETA, Tea Party, or RMS. Thank you for proving my point.
Some in the FOSS community seem to have taken a page from the Tea Party handbook. Go all or nothing, and don't attack the closed, but rather that of those who are the most open... just not open enough for the all or nothing croud. Then again, what else do we expect from RMS?
How in the world can you talk about administration in a Windows environment and not mention SpiceWorks.com? It's an end-to-end, 100% free support system and help desk.
I totally agree with you. The whole patenting of a "business practice" (which is different from a real product or even software) is just silly. Did you know someone apparently patented the assembly line before Ford? Someone also patented a "road engine" and never even built an engine. Ford did not suffer in either case, but what a loss if he had!
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I'm sorry, but that's a view only taken by people that think the government can't only do specific authorized acts. That's completely untrue. That's why there are constitutional amendments telling the government specifically what it can not do. Other's tell government what specific parts are responsible for what.
But if you are under the impression that it can't do something because it's not specifically told to do it... well, then you're living a libertarian fantasy. That is not reality. That is not how the world works. And it is never how any government on earth at any time in history has ever worked.
Sorry to bust your ideological bubble. And no, I really don't wanna see your Ron Paul conspiracy theory Youtube video.
obviously this is completely unconstitutional, not authorized to the federal government of USA under the Constitution, violates all sorts of rights, from freedom of speech to illegal searches and presumption of innocence just to throw in there as well.
That's why government needs to be cut.
Ron Paul 2012.
Yes, doing web searches, looking at your Twitter posts, Facebook updates, and blog posts... all that public data! How dare they look at publicly available data and put computers to use sorting it!
In other news, /. readers shocked to find out that the technology, known as a web crawler, has been around since the early 1990's and nobody told them.
Many places already do this, turning lights to flashing yellow/red on weekends. But, it's usually smaller towns, and the yellow flashes on the main road of the intersection so that traffic doesn't stop at all.
Google uses their huge market share to push it.
If by "push" you mean pushing out updates automatically, being quick and responsive, sand boxing tabs, and not being a pain in the ass to IT, then yes. I'm a Chrome advocate. Years ago, I was a Firefox advocate, passing around those little banners promoting the "new alternative to Internet Explorer". Those days are dead.
Firefox flipped IT the bird like we're nobodies. I'm not one user on one computer. I control hundreds of boxes, and none of them will ever run Firefox. IT flips the switch, and we can take any product from 100% usage to 0% usage throughout entire companies. Wrong people to piss off.
Piss off a couple thousand guys like me and tell us that you don't give a damn about Enterprise or IT. Boom! You just lost tens of thousands of installs instantly. And the "press" is guys like us telling people what to install on their home computers, and on social media sites and news sites like this.
So goes IT, so goes the world. And tech companies better learn that lesson here and now.
I'm surprised the shareholders of Google haven't done more to urge Google to spend their profits on supporting Samsung.
Samsung is a global industrial cartel with $172 billion in revenues in 2009.
Samsung can fight its own battles.
... and lose. I bet this deal came about quicker because Apple is destroying Samsung in courts around the world. Samsung claiming that Google should be taking care of all this is like claiming that Linus should be fighting for your right to mod an XBox to run the Linux kernel on it... Yeah, Google makes a tablet version, but they didn't go out of their way to force anyone to break a patent, or use someone else's design.
As of yet, Google has not been found in violation of any patents and they don't sell it commercially, it's free. Samsung, on the other hand, makes money for free off Android. So yeah, they have to defend it.
The moment Google has to make licensing deals on patents, Android will cease to be free... and by that, I don't mean to companies, but to small developers just wanting to use it on homebrew devices. It'll become the Unix of the mobile OS world. Open source, but huge license fees to use so as to pay for the lawyers to protect it.
I have an article for Caldera Linux laying around here somewhere if you guys wanna go further in the WayBack machine.
The idea is to strike fear into people and nations, not cause significant damage. Running a model plane into a crowded air traffic control tower might kill only a couple people, but it would scare the shit out of a nation. What do all the planes do over LAX with no control tower, for instance?
It's all about fear, and with model planes, the terrorist just keeps going and going, instead of being a 1 off suicide bomber. Unlike the Middle East, life is too comfortable in the West to recruit many suicide bombers.
Discarding the moral teachings that have been handed down over thousands of years is equally ridiculous.
Selling your daughter into marriage, the fair price for a slave, how to properly cut your new born's penis, and stone all homosexuals.
I'm sorry, but your statement is ridiculous in that what was moral and immoral over thousands of years hasn't got a damn thing to do with religion. Anyone with a working mind can have morals without religion. The "moral" teachers from biblical texts are mostly homeless guys, Moses and Jesus. I can find plenty of those if I just head downtown and ignore all the bullshit teaches like those I listed above.
The ultra-rich don't make their money via Salary, but by Capital Gains. It is the Capital Gains tax, not income tax, which really affects what billionaires earn.
You could raise the income tax on billionaires to 99.9%, and they'll barely feel it come tax time.
As for your shops metaphor, everyone pays a % of tax, not an $$$ amount, as you call it. Flat tax is actually a % idea, but you didn't even get that part right.
Free or GTFO! Aw crap, we just lost access to Blurmany and TOSralia!
Nobody wants to fart in space in a closed capsule, it taxes the air scrubbers too much. So, best give them beano and give them a fart app to enjoy the "comforts of home."
I keep downloading and trying Layar, then promptly uninstalling it. It's kinda cluttered, unattractive, and generally useless unless you are walking around Manhattan.
And the example they gave in the summary: "One of the most interesting apps that someone produced was a virtual tee-shirt shop"
Ok, let me get this straight. Rather than going to stupidteeshirtidea.com and looking around, you download Layar, then you download the stupidteeshirtidea app listed in Layar, then you walk around until you find the stupidteeshirtidea virtual store and click it to get redirected to stupidteeshirtidea.com.
THAT'S F'ING STUPID.
Intel is planning on putting shit like this on ALL their chips as well using tech from the McAfee purchase. Just as you lose Internet freedoms in the name of copyright and child protection, we'll lose PC freedom in the name of anti-virus and malware.
And in both cases, the real bad guys will walk right around it, while we stand there in the virtual TSA line with a rubber gloved hand up our ass.
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Just look at the Chromebook. I don't see why this wouldn't eventually translate. The problem is purchased apps. I can't imagine them letting you install a $20 app on a phone just because you borrowed it.
One mod does support Guests, from what I've read. MIUI. You have to root and flash to get it, just like CyanogenMod, but it's gotten great reviews.
I think the fact that they are breaking up parts of the system into Apps that are automatically updated by Google will be fantastic, such as the browser. The more they break out of the base system, the more control they have over updates, ironically.
Also, they should take the opportunity to unify the UI a bit more. I'm not saying go iPhone, but I think it could be done better.
Any time people leave the default, you're not doing it well enough, be it a dev or a user, such as leaving the default keyboard for Swype, TouchPal, or FlexT9.
If they had a killer UI, it would discourage fragmentation. There are some great UIs out there that they could purchase and integrate, such as Go Launcher or ADW Launcher. I think they should also be stricter on the hardware so that there is also better driver support between phones. Then again, that's the CyanogenMod talking for me, which probably is less important to mainstream users.
That guy just proved my point. I don't want to rehash, but read my response to him. It's all or nothing for some of these people. It's extremism, and it has no place for groups that don't want ridiculed like the other groups I mentioned. It makes FOSS community look like digital jihadists fighting a war of purity.
It's very very unproductive and only attacks moderates, not the real enemies of FOSS.
Recent studies show the Tea Party is the most hated group in America. Hated more than Muslims and Atheists. http://stupidevilbastard.com/2011/08/theres-finally-a-group-thats-hated-more-than-atheists-the-tea-party/
In my response to someone else, I compared it to FOSS going the way of PETA. It's not fight the opposing side, it's fight and devour the moderates.
It's a push towards extremes, and I find it to be pathetic because we are supposed to be the intellects.
You said, "Google has done nothing to encourage Free Software."
You said nothing valid, nothing backed up by any evidence. So, very hypocritical if you yourself can't make a valid rebuttal.
However, you perfectly gave me evidence. All or nothing. You say Google has done nothing to encourage free software.
You completely ignore code.google.com.
You completely ignore Chromium.
You completely ignore Android and the ecosystem of free and oss apps that have built around it.
I could go on. Fact is, you are the all or nothing person that I believe is the problem with FOSS. And quite frankly, while you response was flamebait, the entire all or nothing FOSS is flamebait to more moderate users with ridiculous claims, using your words, such as "Google has done nothing". That isn't just ridiculous, but a complete lie. Whereas, my point is perfectly proven by such lies.
FOSS adopting MS F.U.D. It's sad, pitiful, and more should be expected from supposedly smart individuals.
But give those individuals a fanatical cause, and you get PETA, Tea Party, or RMS. Thank you for proving my point.
Fuck it, we're going full-on batshit.
...or illegal. I'm pretty sure this is very blurry line of smut, but I think they may be crossing a legal line.
Some in the FOSS community seem to have taken a page from the Tea Party handbook. Go all or nothing, and don't attack the closed, but rather that of those who are the most open... just not open enough for the all or nothing croud. Then again, what else do we expect from RMS?
That's sad because it's pretty damn easy to setup.
How in the world can you talk about administration in a Windows environment and not mention SpiceWorks.com? It's an end-to-end, 100% free support system and help desk.
HP is showing the world how to kill a successful company in under 2 years. Netflix is showing that they can top HP.
I totally agree with you. The whole patenting of a "business practice" (which is different from a real product or even software) is just silly. Did you know someone apparently patented the assembly line before Ford? Someone also patented a "road engine" and never even built an engine. Ford did not suffer in either case, but what a loss if he had!