I think the real lesson to be learned here is how dangerous the legal system really is. I do say legal system because it's not a justice system as there was no justice served here.
It's abhorrent how people can simply claim they had nothing to do with it when their actions or lack there of are the most critical aspect in this case. May the gravity of their [in]actions weigh upon those participating or complicit in this farce. This is not a penalty or punishment, this is your wage.
this great part is that the majority of software that is used for censorship is developed right here in the US. the truth is that it's raw capitalism that is helping oppress the chinese people which completely subverts the freedom of others that we so greatly cherish.
moral, ethical or even legal behavior with any foresight is not in the nature of true capitalism and yet we continue to allow these practices to continue. in true capitalism, snakes would continually eat their own tails with no thought of the repercussions if it made a buck. at the end, we get things like the massive economic collapse because banks "didn't see it coming".
i dont like the government messing with my affairs but there are sometimes when we need to prevent both our and others' destruction and oppression with some regulation. if there is a customer that wants a product to do evil, there will be some corporation willing to support them if it's profitable.
you seem to have confused ethics with legality and the status quo.
"everyone is doing it!" does not suddenly make something ethical.
- overpricing all their stuff
Well then their sales will suffer, right? Oh... wait...
selling well != ethical
- suing everyone making compatible hardware into bankruptcy
What is "compatible hardware" in this case? Are you talking about the 1990s clones?
no. try google.
- putting in a clause into OSX's license prohibiting using it on anything but official Apple hardware
This is a moot point now, as there is no distribution of the OS other than the Apple store. It's been an "upgrade" market for the OS rather than a "purchase" market for a long time.
incorrect. you can buy the full thing without needing a previous version to install it. check out this listing on amazon if you dont believe me.
any content providers that attempt to impose DRM on an audience unwilling to install Flash or Silverlight would find their subscriber base evaporating
you mean like Youtube(before html5), Netflix and Hulu that are all growing more popular by the minute? what counts is the hassle of making it work properly, not the requirements that you probably already have fulfilled.
as it stands now, html5 video is less likely to function properly than a simple flash video player.
It COULD be used to screen for undesirable traits (but that's eugenics)
if eugenics means eliminating debilitating genetic disorders then i'm in. when you get mutations in the standard code that defines us as humans, you get serious health problems.
it WILL be used to screen for 'desirable' traits - that's money.
unless you are choosing really simple traits like hair and eye color, you are going to have to wait until we figure out how our DNA really works. there are a ton of changes that occur just for things like height which we still dont fully understand. genetic testing for traits gives results in probability based on their pool of knowledge from other people that provide information.
if you are really interested in this topic, watch NOVA's Cracking Your Genetic Code which is on netflix, your local torrent site or on their website which doesnt work for me.
Show me where Apple have crossed the ethical lines ?
- using what practically amounts to slave labor at Foxconn - dodging taxes by claiming residence in ireland - suing everyone and their moms with bullshit claims and patents - false advertising (it should be named the Idiot Bar, not the Genius Bar) - overpricing all their stuff - suing everyone making compatible hardware into bankruptcy - putting in a clause into OSX's license prohibiting using it on anything but official Apple hardware
And Microsoft will now unleash the flying monkeys to try to refute any claims about lower TCO.
I'm sure there will be studies trotted out, and all sorts of attempts to discredit this.
they tried that with the "Get The Facts" campaign and it backfired so badly that they took down the page.
There's no way in hell they'll take this lying down, or without trying to get the government to intervene on their behalf -- perhaps as a trade issue and claim they're being unfairly excluded.
nah, in the EU, it's not so easy to manipulate governments and really this is small beans to get worked up about. far smaller than say, having the london stock exchange switch to linux.
Based on the assumption that the NSA didn't slip in anything funny when they were helping create SELinux.
no, based on peer review. with these revelations by the NSA, there has been an even higher level of scrutiny has been out on SELinux. a much more likely vector of attack would be through companies that only distribute binary blobs for their hardware.
XMir doesn't support colour profiles. XRandR properties aren't exposed, so there's no way to control TV output encoding or overscan. There's still no hardware cursor support. Switching to XMir now would reduce functionality without providing any user-visible gain.
no hardware cursor support? talk about a dealbreaker!
It could be worse, they could have spent that money to let creepy uncle sam rape you at the doctor's office. Thanks for doing what in the people's best interest! (People that don't donate to election campaigns aren't REAL people!)
Multi-junction cells are expensive to produce, using techniques similar to semiconductor device fabrication, usually metalorganic vapour phase epitaxy but on "chip" sizes on the order of centimeters. In cases where outright performance is the only consideration, these cells have become common, they are widely used in satellite applications for instance, where the power-to-weight ratio overwhelms practically every other cost.
I've really been wondering why a company doesn't just build something like litestep (basically a module loader and a large collection of modules) and continually beef each shell module's capability.
at my previous job, i was thrown into the deep end and told to make (windows explorer) shell integration for our application. much to my surprise, i found that Explorer is VERY modular. most shell extensions (like the one i was making) just add program X capabilities to the context menu but you can do some hardcore changes to the shell.
No everyone has not. There are a great many enterprise apps that companies rely on that need this. Normal users will not know to turn it on, nor to turn it off.
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I think the real lesson to be learned here is how dangerous the legal system really is. I do say legal system because it's not a justice system as there was no justice served here.
It's abhorrent how people can simply claim they had nothing to do with it when their actions or lack there of are the most critical aspect in this case.
May the gravity of their [in]actions weigh upon those participating or complicit in this farce. This is not a penalty or punishment, this is your wage.
this great part is that the majority of software that is used for censorship is developed right here in the US. the truth is that it's raw capitalism that is helping oppress the chinese people which completely subverts the freedom of others that we so greatly cherish.
moral, ethical or even legal behavior with any foresight is not in the nature of true capitalism and yet we continue to allow these practices to continue. in true capitalism, snakes would continually eat their own tails with no thought of the repercussions if it made a buck. at the end, we get things like the massive economic collapse because banks "didn't see it coming".
i dont like the government messing with my affairs but there are sometimes when we need to prevent both our and others' destruction and oppression with some regulation. if there is a customer that wants a product to do evil, there will be some corporation willing to support them if it's profitable.
this stupid stunt that politicians pulling by shutting down the federal government is foolish at best.
when can we hold elections to replace those that have caused this shutdown?
they keep calling it a metal object in the road but do they mean another car, a tanker truck or what?
what exactly did the car run into that caused the damage leading to the fire?
i can has wiki? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Space_Station#Purpose
the basic answer is that they do science experiments.
you seem to have confused ethics with legality and the status quo.
"everyone is doing it!" does not suddenly make something ethical.
- overpricing all their stuff
Well then their sales will suffer, right? Oh... wait...
selling well != ethical
- suing everyone making compatible hardware into bankruptcy
What is "compatible hardware" in this case? Are you talking about the 1990s clones?
no. try google.
- putting in a clause into OSX's license prohibiting using it on anything but official Apple hardware
This is a moot point now, as there is no distribution of the OS other than the Apple store. It's been an "upgrade" market for the OS rather than a "purchase" market for a long time.
incorrect. you can buy the full thing without needing a previous version to install it. check out this listing on amazon if you dont believe me.
Legal on all counts.
"Show me where Apple have crossed the ethical lines ?"
invest in either a dictionary or glasses.
any content providers that attempt to impose DRM on an audience unwilling to install Flash or Silverlight would find their subscriber base evaporating
you mean like Youtube(before html5), Netflix and Hulu that are all growing more popular by the minute? what counts is the hassle of making it work properly, not the requirements that you probably already have fulfilled.
as it stands now, html5 video is less likely to function properly than a simple flash video player.
It COULD be used to screen for undesirable traits (but that's eugenics)
if eugenics means eliminating debilitating genetic disorders then i'm in. when you get mutations in the standard code that defines us as humans, you get serious health problems.
it WILL be used to screen for 'desirable' traits - that's money.
unless you are choosing really simple traits like hair and eye color, you are going to have to wait until we figure out how our DNA really works. there are a ton of changes that occur just for things like height which we still dont fully understand. genetic testing for traits gives results in probability based on their pool of knowledge from other people that provide information.
if you are really interested in this topic, watch NOVA's Cracking Your Genetic Code which is on netflix, your local torrent site or on their website which doesnt work for me.
FUCK YEAH! :)
Show me where Apple have crossed the ethical lines ?
- using what practically amounts to slave labor at Foxconn
- dodging taxes by claiming residence in ireland
- suing everyone and their moms with bullshit claims and patents
- false advertising (it should be named the Idiot Bar, not the Genius Bar)
- overpricing all their stuff
- suing everyone making compatible hardware into bankruptcy
- putting in a clause into OSX's license prohibiting using it on anything but official Apple hardware
And Microsoft will now unleash the flying monkeys to try to refute any claims about lower TCO.
I'm sure there will be studies trotted out, and all sorts of attempts to discredit this.
they tried that with the "Get The Facts" campaign and it backfired so badly that they took down the page.
There's no way in hell they'll take this lying down, or without trying to get the government to intervene on their behalf -- perhaps as a trade issue and claim they're being unfairly excluded.
nah, in the EU, it's not so easy to manipulate governments and really this is small beans to get worked up about. far smaller than say, having the london stock exchange switch to linux.
Based on the assumption that the NSA didn't slip in anything funny when they were helping create SELinux.
no, based on peer review. with these revelations by the NSA, there has been an even higher level of scrutiny has been out on SELinux. a much more likely vector of attack would be through companies that only distribute binary blobs for their hardware.
BTW, the while he may not work for Red Hat, he's still on the fedora advisory board. Can somebody say "conflict of interest"?
conflict of interest
are you happy now?
It's still missing features
XMir doesn't support colour profiles. XRandR properties aren't exposed, so there's no way to control TV output encoding or overscan. There's still no hardware cursor support. Switching to XMir now would reduce functionality without providing any user-visible gain.
no hardware cursor support? talk about a dealbreaker!
what has the NSA done to earn back our trust? NOTHING!
there is only one logical conclusion: stay outside of their reach and only expose information that you dont mind being public.
the internet has become toxic so where will we go now?
that's got to sting.
What's the read/write time?!
It could be worse, they could have spent that money to let creepy uncle sam rape you at the doctor's office. Thanks for doing what in the people's best interest! (People that don't donate to election campaigns aren't REAL people!)
I don't want to live on this planet anymore.
Multi-junction cells are expensive to produce, using techniques similar to semiconductor device fabrication, usually metalorganic vapour phase epitaxy but on "chip" sizes on the order of centimeters. In cases where outright performance is the only consideration, these cells have become common, they are widely used in satellite applications for instance, where the power-to-weight ratio overwhelms practically every other cost.
Here is a graph of solar cell efficiency showing the different kinds of materials used to make them. The typical solar cell is silicon (blue on the graph) and maxes out at 27.6% efficiency.
- have your OS scan executables/libs before they are loaded
- disable GPGPU
- STAY OFF THE FUCKING INTERNET
I've really been wondering why a company doesn't just build something like litestep (basically a module loader and a large collection of modules) and continually beef each shell module's capability.
at my previous job, i was thrown into the deep end and told to make (windows explorer) shell integration for our application. much to my surprise, i found that Explorer is VERY modular. most shell extensions (like the one i was making) just add program X capabilities to the context menu but you can do some hardcore changes to the shell.
seriously, how is this even a question?
No everyone has not. There are a great many enterprise apps that companies rely on that need this. Normal users will not know to turn it on, nor to turn it off.
i wouldn't go so far as to call them great. ;)