Somehow I never read about the companies getting questioned for their appearance in spam, even when the company's product is the biggest percentage of all spam sent. Do they all decline involvement?
Indeed,
Lots of Linux users, at least a lot Ubuntu users, are running XP Home on Ubuntu through VMWare.
It is one of the most successful ways to get people to use Linux when they have 2 or 3 essential Windows programs.
== We are glad it has been acknowledged that voting machines could have security problems. We have been thanked by the government for our actions. The only strange things is that it looks like the goverment doesn't want us to analyse the other voting machine before election day. They probably already know the outcome of such an investigation.
We think that replacing the EPROM's with PROM's is not an adequate solution. Nothing will help, no locks or security seals. The only solution is to dump these machines / destroy / ban them.
We are disappointed that the government still holds the opinion that the software should be secret/closed source and that they don't want to guarantee the possibility that electionresults will be checkable by a third party in the future. Also the government doesn't seem to be willing to discuss the very big role companies play in the election process. These problems are the fundamental questions that we are concerned about. The problems with security are much less a problem for us.
We will talk with the government again and based on that we will decide whether we continue with our court process against the State. ==
Sorry for the bad English. I think it is interesting to see that they are more concerned with the closed source voting process and the influence of companies on the election then the minor problems of security. I'll hope they will indeed change these points!
"you can also install your own apps into it so that your Vista install becomes a full system image install."
I am afraid that companies like Dell will be delivering a custom made Vista Install CD with all their crap on it, so it won't be possible to install a clean Vista anymore.
I for one hope that these apps will be optional during an installation, otherwise I think a lot of people are going to be stuck with all that crap.
Since Xara has been opensourced and is freely available on Linux, the question arises: which is better? Is there really a big difference between them in terms of speed, features etc? Which one do you recommend?
This reminds me of something I saw on the UbuntuForum.
It was a simple start of an Linux app in wich you could manipulate photo's very much like this app.
Here we finally see the big move happening that's the real mark between Web 1.0 and Web 2.0!
No more individual sites, where your data resides, but interchangebility between websites without all the hassles.
I think lots of other services will follow this example because the resulting freedom will definately be missed when has been tasted somewhere. In the next few weeks I expect to see a lot of other companies open up their API's to allow the same kind of data sharing.
Yes, I am very excited!
Next step will be the availabilty of this extended API for every normal user, so they have real freedom. But that will probably take a year or even longer.
I'm getting quite sick of all people here bashing this browser and the whole web 2.0 thing.
Did you even TRIED the damn thing??
I probably will be modded down, but anyway, I just want to say this.
I really don't understand why a lot of the Slashdotters are reacting very VERY negative about anything that has to do with Web 2.0. I too hate the way marketing people are using this term, but we are definately experiencing a transition from the single sites based web to a web environment that is based on social interaction and sharing. Internet is just not the same as it was a couple of years ago. Or am I talking bullshit here?? Doesn't everything starts to become connected to everything?
Why does it irritate you when people start to see that big changes and name it Web 2.0? People are really over reacting here. Why??
There always have been the option to specify the content of the ads appearing on your site.
You can choose between graphical ads en text ads. I'm quite confident they will add another option for this video ads.
Lovely. I can only imagine the crap we will hear the coming days:
We are assured that this data will only be used for the war on terrorism... Nothing to worry fellow EU citizens.
I for one hope that people will massively start to complain about this. But seeing the public reaction to the NSA spying, they probably won't.
I guess it's time for us, EU people, to start complaining and let them know this is NOT acceptable.
of 'The Seven Day Weekend' from Ricardo Semmler. The CEO of SemCo with revolutionary ideas about business. A lot of his ideas are mentioned in TFA. Really great book if you're interested in the ideas behind firms like Google.
They give you very little rights to do anything than just play with the game... You accept that they collect information about you, your system, how you use your system etc. Something I really wouldn't allow if I knew this.
I really think that making the EULA's human readable, will shock more people because it will make them realise that the software limits them a lot in their personal freedom. Something they didn't knew before.
Could it be that such a project would motivate users to go to linux/opensource?
What if a manager read the human readable EULA for let's say microsoft office?
An excellent way to confront non-tech users with the implications of non-free software
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1000+ seeds for the i386 iso at the moment, I downloaded it with >1mib/s
Somehow I never read about the companies getting questioned for their appearance in spam, even when the company's product is the biggest percentage of all spam sent. Do they all decline involvement?
Indeed, Lots of Linux users, at least a lot Ubuntu users, are running XP Home on Ubuntu through VMWare. It is one of the most successful ways to get people to use Linux when they have 2 or 3 essential Windows programs.
we = We dont trust voting machines group
==
We are glad it has been acknowledged that voting machines could have security problems.
We have been thanked by the government for our actions.
The only strange things is that it looks like the goverment doesn't want us to analyse the other voting machine before election day. They probably already know the outcome of such an investigation.
We think that replacing the EPROM's with PROM's is not an adequate solution. Nothing will help, no locks or security seals. The only solution is to dump these machines / destroy / ban them.
We are disappointed that the government still holds the opinion that the software should be secret/closed source and that they don't want to guarantee the possibility that electionresults will be checkable by a third party in the future. Also the government doesn't seem to be willing to discuss the very big role companies play in the election process.
These problems are the fundamental questions that we are concerned about. The problems with security are much less a problem for us.
We will talk with the government again and based on that we will decide whether we continue with our court process against the State.
==
Sorry for the bad English. I think it is interesting to see that they are more concerned with the closed source voting process and the influence of companies on the election then the minor problems of security. I'll hope they will indeed change these points!
"you can also install your own apps into it so that your Vista install becomes a full system image install." I am afraid that companies like Dell will be delivering a custom made Vista Install CD with all their crap on it, so it won't be possible to install a clean Vista anymore. I for one hope that these apps will be optional during an installation, otherwise I think a lot of people are going to be stuck with all that crap.
Since Xara has been opensourced and is freely available on Linux, the question arises: which is better? Is there really a big difference between them in terms of speed, features etc? Which one do you recommend?
This reminds me of something I saw on the UbuntuForum.
It was a simple start of an Linux app in wich you could manipulate photo's very much like this app.
Found it! => Lowfat
Great!
Here we finally see the big move happening that's the real mark between Web 1.0 and Web 2.0!
No more individual sites, where your data resides, but interchangebility between websites without all the hassles.
I think lots of other services will follow this example because the resulting freedom will definately be missed when has been tasted somewhere. In the next few weeks I expect to see a lot of other companies open up their API's to allow the same kind of data sharing.
Yes, I am very excited!
Next step will be the availabilty of this extended API for every normal user, so they have real freedom. But that will probably take a year or even longer.
I'm getting quite sick of all people here bashing this browser and the whole web 2.0 thing.
Did you even TRIED the damn thing??
I probably will be modded down, but anyway, I just want to say this.
I really don't understand why a lot of the Slashdotters are reacting very VERY negative about anything that has to do with Web 2.0. I too hate the way marketing people are using this term, but we are definately experiencing a transition from the single sites based web to a web environment that is based on social interaction and sharing. Internet is just not the same as it was a couple of years ago. Or am I talking bullshit here?? Doesn't everything starts to become connected to everything?
Why does it irritate you when people start to see that big changes and name it Web 2.0? People are really over reacting here. Why??
Having looked briefly on Kimbaba, I think it's the user interface that sets picasa apart. The slickness of it is attractive.
There always have been the option to specify the content of the ads appearing on your site.
You can choose between graphical ads en text ads. I'm quite confident they will add another option for this video ads.
I think he is refering to the closed format of the Apple music platform.
They use a closed format to keep the customers bound to their devices. That's the Microsoft way, and Apple clearly isn't doing anything else here.
I really think that he has a point here: Apple is just as 'evil' as microsoft, they only hide it very well with their attractive style/design.
Lovely. I can only imagine the crap we will hear the coming days:
We are assured that this data will only be used for the war on terrorism... Nothing to worry fellow EU citizens.
I for one hope that people will massively start to complain about this. But seeing the public reaction to the NSA spying, they probably won't.
I guess it's time for us, EU people, to start complaining and let them know this is NOT acceptable.
of 'The Seven Day Weekend' from Ricardo Semmler. The CEO of SemCo with revolutionary ideas about business. A lot of his ideas are mentioned in TFA.
Really great book if you're interested in the ideas behind firms like Google.
I just had a look on the human readable version of the EULA for world of warcraft. It shocked me... !!
They give you very little rights to do anything than just play with the game... You accept that they collect information about you, your system, how you use your system etc. Something I really wouldn't allow if I knew this.
I really think that making the EULA's human readable, will shock more people because it will make them realise that the software limits them a lot in their personal freedom. Something they didn't knew before.
Could it be that such a project would motivate users to go to linux/opensource? What if a manager read the human readable EULA for let's say microsoft office?
An excellent way to confront non-tech users with the implications of non-free software
http://news.com.com/2100-1024_3-6002395.html (uses New York Times as source)