Yeah its alright, it has some problems disconnecting and reconnecting on my wireless card (intel2200) but its like mint without the ubuntu issues. I just tried the mint 11 cd and it dosent work well with audacious. (a winamp style music player). Definitely my fav so far but still not ideal.
I am a person who has had numerous difficulties with the american banking system. I emphasize this because i went to england for a year and had NO problems AT ALL!. As a result, it will be a little longer before i can have a bank account without paying out a couple of hundred dollars for fees i never should have incured. How is a person without a checking account supposed to easily purchase bitcoins, the only solution i have come up with is a prepaid visa card but they cost $5 and the transaction fees are insane and dont allow me to purchase bitcoins at a rate near the market one. Any ideas, It would be handy if i could get a retailers gift card and purchase bitcoins with that.
Another question i have is, It appears some members of the US and German governments are upset about bitcoin thanks to a darknet web site called silk road. How secure is it, really. I have read that bitcoin uses elliptic curve crypto. I found the following article which has me very concerned. I wonder if a government decided to nationally filter bitcoin traffic, how successful would they be? If the bitcoin protocol always uses the same port it strikes me as being fairly easy, as some of the ISPs in the US alone are rather big. Think comcast, Qwest etc.
Its Obvious you have no concept of whats makes a platform responsive, it is true that there is about 4 times the processor power at 4GHZ vs 1GHZ but its the operating systems kernel that affects how responsive the device is to your input while the processor is busy doing a intensive task, not the speed of the actual processor itself.
Your words speak of a troll like behavior, Learn some engineering and feel free to comment when u understand what u are talking about.
And by the way 4 cores running a 1GHZ will probably use a lot less power than a core running at 4GHZ. I say probably because it depends on the design of the processor. But it does take a lot more power when you cross a certain threshold with any processor. For example the first OLPC machine ran at around 500mhz because that was the most efficient battery life vs CPU performance trade-off. That was a design decision. I'm almost positive that todays processors sweet spot as far as individual speed (Megahertz) is a bit higher as transistors are smaller, designs more efficient etc.
Think before you speak, Be Truthful when you speak, and dont talk of things you have no real comprehension of unless you like demonstrating that you a full of s**t. Because you will look like a fool, a idiot and no one will listen to you except idiots.
Sorry, I hate people who talk of things they dont understand. You seem to be one of those people.
Sometime working with embedded products like single board computers, mobile phones etc with some software development (or just some real research) could do you wonders and give you the respect you seem to be speaking.
Yes, You need the ability to write a series of operations that interact with each other. Those operations are instructions and a bunch of instructions and data is what software is. However you don't need Calculus to be a good programmer. It possibly helps with certain areas but for the most part if you can write a sequence of instructions and have the desired result, is that not computer science. Where does the knowledge of advanced maths really fit here? Sure you need to understand Bresenham's_line_algorithm you need to understand integer addition, subtraction and bit shifting, I don't see any Calculus or any other advanced knowledge really needed there. If you can do read a word problem and write code to solve it you can write code, That in effect is computer science. Is it not?????
Computer Science is about the implementation of the many complex details that go into computing. You dont need advanced math skills to be a security researcher for example. It helps to understand crypto algorithms but at the end of the day having a full understanding of what is secure and not secure and why is what matters most. You cant get that kind of security from just the maths alone. The maths involved is a important part of it but the real world results and being able to interpret them and understand them matters most. I doubt strongly that for example sandboxing a badly written app (think adobe flash here) involves a lot of maths. However such a action is a part of computer science is it not????
Seems like you are not in touch with reality here. I don't know the last time you were on Mint's Web site but they have a build based on....wait for it....... DEBIAN, thats right, I downloaded it, It looks very nice but does not run on my strange desktop (its has no expansion slots and a touch sensor (used to eject the DVD disc) that refuses to work in Linux even with ndiswrapper or wine. Debian is a neat product and the Debian folks have been at it since at least 1994. In fact they got a award presented by Linus himself for their hard work (with a nice big fat check. They have remained completely committed to open source and have never diverted from their "manifesto". However as they do so much work, Debian of course does not have enough resources to be perfect. A lot of the most popular distro projects are based on Debian for a reason (its takes a lot of work out of building a distro for one),(two, they have years of experience, they don't think the x86 platform is the only shining light in the sky (which Microsoft have truly failed to realize for years, though they tried with nt4) and have demonstrated competency). Think Ubuntu and knoppix here. Knoppix is a fantastic product. It was the first popular live CD. Its sad how Canonical releases a product that while being number one because a bunch of idiot fanboys who don't actually use it and talk about it endlessly is buggier than shit and cant even install a graphics card driver properly. If i was a windows user thinking of detaching myself from the Microsoft conjob and i used Ubuntu, I would go back to windows immediately. I was lucky enough to have used the amiga before I fell to the windows camp. I was lucky enough to use Ubuntu when Linux or Ubuntu wasnt as mature and didn't have the clout it does now and before Ubuntu was number one. I stuck with linux because dealing with viruses was a impossible battle, because helping people use windows was never going to fix what is wrong with windows. Ever had your registry get corrupted, Ever tried to shut down a run away task. Ever had to REINSTALL EVERYTHING because windows somehow went into self-destruct mode and system restore didnt work and just got stuck in a endless loop. I Have and i never want to deal with any of those situations EVER AGAIN. However if i was in the same situation and i download ubuntu and it was my first impression of linux, i still be using WINDOZE (why is it called WINDOZE) i tell you, because i could fall asleep telling you the mountain of stories i have trying to get something simple accomplished and how a microsoft product (usually IE or WINDOWS) got in the way. Linux was supposed to be a revolution and Canconcial is going to ruin that and i dont believe Canconcial really cares, its just another faceless non-profit after money, theirs no more morals with this company. They will ruin linux if they are not dealt with. Heres the post i was going to send before I read Yours.
Canonical is leeching here. It seems the entire business model of this company has been about leeching since they found a crowd of poser fanboys to repeat their brand name "Ubuntu" everytime someone mentions Linux. They make very little contribution to the linux kernel. They have made (as far as i am aware) zero contribution to Debian (which the entire distro is based on). They are also diverting money from mozilla via the amazon search feature in firefox. Ever since Ubuntu somehow became the number one linux distro the quailty of releases has plummeted and it makes Linux feel more like windows then Linux. Screw these guys, I am tired of the bad rep and now bad practices that Canonical is using in the name of linux here. Linux is almost like a religon for some of us. As a whole to succeed, we need Linux to be free of cheap con games by shady executives. Linux is supposed to be about transparency and to quote Linus, "The best operating system on the planet". Its not going to get their if businesses who behave in that manner use it to fill their own pockets while de
Screw all this talk, lets look at the page source code and go from there. I booted Knoppix, and pulled up Iceweasel and copy and pasted the page source from wikileaks.info. My html and Javascript skills are not the sharpest. My skills are best in other areas. However, I noticed there is too much talk and not enough transparency here so I posted the page source so hopefully someone would analyze it and talk about the contents rather than jumping on sides of the arguments like some deranged trolls.
Lets have a discussion that not owned by a bunch of drama queens, True geeks work with logic, not Drama.
End of anti-troll rant..
Heres the pastebin link.
http://pastebin.com/dyMkdZEG
Wow, so let me get this straight, i need windows os or a mac and not only that i need to buy the product so i can receive and transmit data on the internet via my cell phone, so no i cant use linux (very stupid), i need to spend 10 dollars on this software (for something to move my data from my computer to the cell phone network via my cell) (really stupid), oh and this simple peice of sofware needs how much memory (really stupid)
I going to put this in my mental box labeled (tech articles written by people with more money than brains) and my other box (hey this is one of those people that like paying for everything little thing they want to do with my equipment they have already paid for).
REALLY, I already purchased the device to communicate on the cell phone network, I already purchased a cable to move data from my computer to my cell phone, Why the hell would i want to run a 17 megabyte application to move packets from my computer to my cell phone providers network when in reality my os has all the code required to move data between my computer and cell phone). How annoying, it was so annoying i felt i needed to spend 10 minutes writing this instead of reading more useful stuff (REALLY, so i dont have to read more crap like it).
Heres a quote from the article.
"I’m always wary of new installations bogging down Windows, but PdaNetPC.exe is only 17M of memory and 0% of CPU when not in use, so I’m fine with that running in the background."
The very idea of having to run windows or mac os x to network another computer and paying for it is the exact time of moron i dont want to help do anything in this world. He promotes the use of software which causes more problems that it solves. In short, Hes the kind of guy that would buy anything to solve a problem no matter how silly the solution is.
I hope his other posts aren't as stupid.
um the commodore 64's screen memory (the character one), was located at 1024-2023 decimal, so code would be.
poke 1024,80
poke 1025,87
poke 1026,78
poke 1027,68
if you want to 6510 assembly version, i can provide that too.
btw if i remember correctly, if you have paint shop, you could design a screen in it, reset your c64 and if you went into hires mode (320x200), and set the framebuffer to 32768, the screen you were composing in print shop, will be there.
oh yeah, make your you are not on the bottom line of the screen otherwise the results will scroll away.
Thought i add my 8-bit 2 cents.
Tell That to my wireless card which for some reason refuses to stay associated in Ubuntu when i connect via iwconfig , but in debian seems to just fine using of course iwconfig.
Hmmmm......
oh, btw , its a broadcom 4306. (i had to use the firmware)
I cant think of one cell phone or mp3 player that all features worked as they should. Included in this list is brands such as sony, sansa, ericsson, nokia, samsung. Sometimes it borders on ridiculous, such as a clock that cant keep time over a period of a couple of weeks (sony mp3 player), mp3 players with fm radio recording functions that dont record without skipping (sansa), and every phone I have ever owned has some feature that does not work as it should.
Ha ha very funny!
The interesting thing is when I submitted all my paragraphs were split by line-breaks but for some reason all my text must look like a endless one-paragraph rant
This should be a Wake up call to the US patent office and others like it. Patents need to be reviewed by experts in the respective fields to which they belong. (it is obvious that they are not due to these patents). Its another patent that should have NEVER been approved!!!
How much money does the US goverment make from this process , any clue, because at the point when 20+ companies are being sued over patents which should have never been issued then in my view the only people actually profiting heavily are the winners of the lawsuits and the lawyers.
I am sick of this, I have rather interesting views of what socialism is about (I was born in the UK and lived a dual-culture life (between the US and UK) for many years and at this grand age of my late thrifty I am becoming of the possibly immature view that governments seem to spending more time screwing things up with their wonderful ideas (good examples, the national health system mess in the UK (partially due to Microsoft contractors), The inability for mothers trying to collect child support in the UK (another microsoft contractor cock-up), the absolutely silly and arcane laws which get passed limiting our online freedoms, and finally the stupid patents). Is this where our hard-earned tax dollars are going????? Are people working hard so that Mr. Dumbarse MP or Senator retard can pass dumb laws. Are people working hard on legimate technologies only to be used for things that they never should have to be worried about in the first place. And finally how much is it costing the taxpayer, Its enough to make you want to demand that you get to allocate where your taxes get spent instead of writing your respective government a blank check.
Enough is Enough, USPTO, Get a ******* clue!
I've had enough myself, its frustrating to read about. In a time of global economic crisis it seems the goverments involved are doing a poor job at not only protecting the everyday citizen but also the larger businesses as well. I am not advocating Anarchy, but something huge needs to change here. How and why I am sure is going to hopefully spawn many comments and insults!
Years ago, I edited the Kraftwerk entry on wikipedia to correct a mistake regarding the german and english names of their albums. I qouted the correct sources only to find that weeks later the credit for the change had been removed from wikipedia. Yet my changes to the respective entry were still intact. If you run a site when everybody contributes, but only select members get credit, the "unselect" members will leave. As far as I am concerned, I now have no time to waste on wikipedia's project as they show no respect for their contributors. Wikipedia needs to wake up or get out of the game.
You know, i am starting to get the idea that a lot of these stories regarding insane laws are really just someone making a lot of noise......even if there is such a law going through the house of commons, maybe it just not worth paying attention to anymore. There is no way such a law could pass and to waste time on it is well just fruitless (anything over 5 minutes is just nutz). write a new encrypted proctocol instead. make a difference through action... not words..
Agreed. bittorrent accounts for 2/3 of all internet traffic, if i remember correctly, on the other hand
the isps need to stop whining and implentment multicast through their entire networks reducing the load by a amazing amount. if mulitcast was standard, bittorrent would have been designed far differently.
baz
Wikipeida is your friend
I am from the uk and was there last year and had a thought
Well they say you were on your way to the pub(bar) for a few drinks with the lads (male company)
and you ran into mr. smith who you owe some money due to the fact you needed a small loan until your next
paycheque (paycheck). So you reach into your pocket and pull out a few pieces of paper and your wallet and
had mr smith your case. mr. smith shakes your hand and says bye and you continue on your way to the pub.
Meanwhile, your arch enemy, Mrs. old cow who dosent like you for what ever reason (maybe you are just young and full of your own opinions of the world) sees you on the telly (TV) and decides to call the cops and tell them you are dealing drugs. Problem is once in a dead while you might smoke a little pot and quite now possibly mrs. cow has be given the power to cause you problems. Of course the chances of you being on that camera at that moment are well 1 in 400 at least but the opporunity exists. With a little video editing and just making it look live you could achieve of sorts of wondering scenarios.
Think about it!!!
Cheerz
baz
Slashdot Mirror
Slashdotted..... 509 Bandwidth No more error
I had problem with its repositorys... i prefer Debian mint, though its not perfect, the mint menu is really nice (very vista like)
Yeah its alright, it has some problems disconnecting and reconnecting on my wireless card (intel2200) but its like mint without the ubuntu issues. I just tried the mint 11 cd and it dosent work well with audacious. (a winamp style music player). Definitely my fav so far but still not ideal.
I am a person who has had numerous difficulties with the american banking system. I emphasize this because i went to england for a year and had NO problems AT ALL!. As a result, it will be a little longer before i can have a bank account without paying out a couple of hundred dollars for fees i never should have incured. How is a person without a checking account supposed to easily purchase bitcoins, the only solution i have come up with is a prepaid visa card but they cost $5 and the transaction fees are insane and dont allow me to purchase bitcoins at a rate near the market one. Any ideas, It would be handy if i could get a retailers gift card and purchase bitcoins with that.
Another question i have is, It appears some members of the US and German governments are upset about bitcoin thanks to a darknet web site called silk road. How secure is it, really. I have read that bitcoin uses elliptic curve crypto. I found the following article which has me very concerned. I wonder if a government decided to nationally filter bitcoin traffic, how successful would they be? If the bitcoin protocol always uses the same port it strikes me as being fairly easy, as some of the ISPs in the US alone are rather big. Think comcast, Qwest etc.
http://www.h-online.com/security/news/item/Successful-timing-attacks-on-elliptic-curve-cryptography-1247772.html
That said, I really like bitcoin, I am just worried that its not as secure as we would like it to be.
Cheers
Not only does your towel allow you to escape the gaze of the Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal but its now a identity mechanism. Nifty!!!!
speaking= seeking. Sorry Caffeine hasnt boosted my clock rate yet this morning and according to science, Our brains have many, many, many cores.
Its Obvious you have no concept of whats makes a platform responsive, it is true that there is about 4 times the processor power at 4GHZ vs 1GHZ but its the operating systems kernel that affects how responsive the device is to your input while the processor is busy doing a intensive task, not the speed of the actual processor itself.
Your words speak of a troll like behavior, Learn some engineering and feel free to comment when u understand what u are talking about.
And by the way 4 cores running a 1GHZ will probably use a lot less power than a core running at 4GHZ. I say probably because it depends on the design of the processor. But it does take a lot more power when you cross a certain threshold with any processor. For example the first OLPC machine ran at around 500mhz because that was the most efficient battery life vs CPU performance trade-off. That was a design decision. I'm almost positive that todays processors sweet spot as far as individual speed (Megahertz) is a bit higher as transistors are smaller, designs more efficient etc.
Think before you speak, Be Truthful when you speak, and dont talk of things you have no real comprehension of unless you like demonstrating that you a full of s**t.
Because you will look like a fool, a idiot and no one will listen to you except idiots.
Sorry, I hate people who talk of things they dont understand. You seem to be one of those people.
Sometime working with embedded products like single board computers, mobile phones etc with some software development (or just some real research) could do you wonders and give you the respect you seem to be speaking.
Yes, You need the ability to write a series of operations that interact with each other. Those operations are instructions and a bunch of instructions and data is what software is. However you don't need Calculus to be a good programmer. It possibly helps with certain areas but for the most part if you can write a sequence of instructions and have the desired result, is that not computer science. Where does the knowledge of advanced maths really fit here? Sure you need to understand Bresenham's_line_algorithm you need to understand integer addition, subtraction and bit shifting, I don't see any Calculus or any other advanced knowledge really needed there. If you can do read a word problem and write code to solve it you can write code, That in effect is computer science. Is it not?????
Computer Science is about the implementation of the many complex details that go into computing. You dont need advanced math skills to be a security researcher for example. It helps to understand crypto algorithms but at the end of the day having a full understanding of what is secure and not secure and why is what matters most. You cant get that kind of security from just the maths alone. The maths involved is a important part of it but the real world results and being able to interpret them and understand them matters most. I doubt strongly that for example sandboxing a badly written app (think adobe flash here) involves a lot of maths. However such a action is a part of computer science is it not????
Seems like you are not in touch with reality here. I don't know the last time you were on Mint's Web site but they have a build based on ....wait for it....... DEBIAN, thats right, I downloaded it, It looks very nice but does not run on my strange desktop (its has no expansion slots and a touch sensor (used to eject the DVD disc) that refuses to work in Linux even with ndiswrapper or wine. Debian is a neat product and the Debian folks have been at it since at least 1994. In fact they got a award presented by Linus himself for their hard work (with a nice big fat check. They have remained completely committed to open source and have never diverted from their "manifesto". However as they do so much work, Debian of course does not have enough resources to be perfect. A lot of the most popular distro projects are based on Debian for a reason (its takes a lot of work out of building a distro for one),(two, they have years of experience, they don't think the x86 platform is the only shining light in the sky (which Microsoft have truly failed to realize for years, though they tried with nt4) and have demonstrated competency). Think Ubuntu and knoppix here. Knoppix is a fantastic product. It was the first popular live CD. Its sad how Canonical releases a product that while being number one because a bunch of idiot fanboys who don't actually use it and talk about it endlessly is buggier than shit and cant even install a graphics card driver properly. If i was a windows user thinking of detaching myself from the Microsoft conjob and i used Ubuntu, I would go back to windows immediately. I was lucky enough to have used the amiga before I fell to the windows camp. I was lucky enough to use Ubuntu when Linux or Ubuntu wasnt as mature and didn't have the clout it does now and before Ubuntu was number one. I stuck with linux because dealing with viruses was a impossible battle, because helping people use windows was never going to fix what is wrong with windows. Ever had your registry get corrupted, Ever tried to shut down a run away task. Ever had to REINSTALL EVERYTHING because windows somehow went into self-destruct mode and system restore didnt work and just got stuck in a endless loop. I Have and i never want to deal with any of those situations EVER AGAIN. However if i was in the same situation and i download ubuntu and it was my first impression of linux, i still be using WINDOZE (why is it called WINDOZE) i tell you, because i could fall asleep telling you the mountain of stories i have trying to get something simple accomplished and how a microsoft product (usually IE or WINDOWS) got in the way. Linux was supposed to be a revolution and Canconcial is going to ruin that and i dont believe Canconcial really cares, its just another faceless non-profit after money, theirs no more morals with this company. They will ruin linux if they are not dealt with. Heres the post i was going to send before I read Yours.
Canonical is leeching here. It seems the entire business model of this company has been about leeching since they found a crowd of poser fanboys to repeat their brand name "Ubuntu" everytime someone mentions Linux. They make very little contribution to the linux kernel. They have made (as far as i am aware) zero contribution to Debian (which the entire distro is based on). They are also diverting money from mozilla via the amazon search feature in firefox. Ever since Ubuntu somehow became the number one linux distro the quailty of releases has plummeted and it makes Linux feel more like windows then Linux. Screw these guys, I am tired of the bad rep and now bad practices that Canonical is using in the name of linux here. Linux is almost like a religon for some of us. As a whole to succeed, we need Linux to be free of cheap con games by shady executives. Linux is supposed to be about transparency and to quote Linus, "The best operating system on the planet". Its not going to get their if businesses who behave in that manner use it to fill their own pockets while de
Screw all this talk, lets look at the page source code and go from there. I booted Knoppix, and pulled up Iceweasel and copy and pasted the page source from wikileaks.info. My html and Javascript skills are not the sharpest. My skills are best in other areas. However, I noticed there is too much talk and not enough transparency here so I posted the page source so hopefully someone would analyze it and talk about the contents rather than jumping on sides of the arguments like some deranged trolls. Lets have a discussion that not owned by a bunch of drama queens, True geeks work with logic, not Drama. End of anti-troll rant.. Heres the pastebin link. http://pastebin.com/dyMkdZEG
Wow, so let me get this straight, i need windows os or a mac and not only that i need to buy the product so i can receive and transmit data on the internet via my cell phone, so no i cant use linux (very stupid), i need to spend 10 dollars on this software (for something to move my data from my computer to the cell phone network via my cell) (really stupid), oh and this simple peice of sofware needs how much memory (really stupid) I going to put this in my mental box labeled (tech articles written by people with more money than brains) and my other box (hey this is one of those people that like paying for everything little thing they want to do with my equipment they have already paid for). REALLY, I already purchased the device to communicate on the cell phone network, I already purchased a cable to move data from my computer to my cell phone, Why the hell would i want to run a 17 megabyte application to move packets from my computer to my cell phone providers network when in reality my os has all the code required to move data between my computer and cell phone). How annoying, it was so annoying i felt i needed to spend 10 minutes writing this instead of reading more useful stuff (REALLY, so i dont have to read more crap like it). Heres a quote from the article. "I’m always wary of new installations bogging down Windows, but PdaNetPC.exe is only 17M of memory and 0% of CPU when not in use, so I’m fine with that running in the background." The very idea of having to run windows or mac os x to network another computer and paying for it is the exact time of moron i dont want to help do anything in this world. He promotes the use of software which causes more problems that it solves. In short, Hes the kind of guy that would buy anything to solve a problem no matter how silly the solution is. I hope his other posts aren't as stupid.
oh yeah, it's obivious you dont know ASCII either. can't spare another 2 cents for ya.
um the commodore 64's screen memory (the character one), was located at 1024-2023 decimal, so code would be. poke 1024,80 poke 1025,87 poke 1026,78 poke 1027,68 if you want to 6510 assembly version, i can provide that too. btw if i remember correctly, if you have paint shop, you could design a screen in it, reset your c64 and if you went into hires mode (320x200), and set the framebuffer to 32768, the screen you were composing in print shop, will be there. oh yeah, make your you are not on the bottom line of the screen otherwise the results will scroll away. Thought i add my 8-bit 2 cents.
Tell That to my wireless card which for some reason refuses to stay associated in Ubuntu when i connect via iwconfig , but in debian seems to just fine using of course iwconfig. Hmmmm...... oh, btw , its a broadcom 4306. (i had to use the firmware)
I cant think of one cell phone or mp3 player that all features worked as they should. Included in this list is brands such as sony, sansa, ericsson, nokia, samsung. Sometimes it borders on ridiculous, such as a clock that cant keep time over a period of a couple of weeks (sony mp3 player), mp3 players with fm radio recording functions that dont record without skipping (sansa), and every phone I have ever owned has some feature that does not work as it should.
Ha ha very funny! The interesting thing is when I submitted all my paragraphs were split by line-breaks but for some reason all my text must look like a endless one-paragraph rant
This should be a Wake up call to the US patent office and others like it. Patents need to be reviewed by experts in the respective fields to which they belong. (it is obvious that they are not due to these patents). Its another patent that should have NEVER been approved!!! How much money does the US goverment make from this process , any clue, because at the point when 20+ companies are being sued over patents which should have never been issued then in my view the only people actually profiting heavily are the winners of the lawsuits and the lawyers. I am sick of this, I have rather interesting views of what socialism is about (I was born in the UK and lived a dual-culture life (between the US and UK) for many years and at this grand age of my late thrifty I am becoming of the possibly immature view that governments seem to spending more time screwing things up with their wonderful ideas (good examples, the national health system mess in the UK (partially due to Microsoft contractors), The inability for mothers trying to collect child support in the UK (another microsoft contractor cock-up), the absolutely silly and arcane laws which get passed limiting our online freedoms, and finally the stupid patents). Is this where our hard-earned tax dollars are going????? Are people working hard so that Mr. Dumbarse MP or Senator retard can pass dumb laws. Are people working hard on legimate technologies only to be used for things that they never should have to be worried about in the first place. And finally how much is it costing the taxpayer, Its enough to make you want to demand that you get to allocate where your taxes get spent instead of writing your respective government a blank check. Enough is Enough, USPTO, Get a ******* clue! I've had enough myself, its frustrating to read about. In a time of global economic crisis it seems the goverments involved are doing a poor job at not only protecting the everyday citizen but also the larger businesses as well. I am not advocating Anarchy, but something huge needs to change here. How and why I am sure is going to hopefully spawn many comments and insults!
Years ago, I edited the Kraftwerk entry on wikipedia to correct a mistake regarding the german and english names of their albums. I qouted the correct sources only to find that weeks later the credit for the change had been removed from wikipedia. Yet my changes to the respective entry were still intact. If you run a site when everybody contributes, but only select members get credit, the "unselect" members will leave. As far as I am concerned, I now have no time to waste on wikipedia's project as they show no respect for their contributors. Wikipedia needs to wake up or get out of the game.
You know, i am starting to get the idea that a lot of these stories regarding insane laws are really just someone making a lot of noise......even if there is such a law going through the house of commons, maybe it just not worth paying attention to anymore. There is no way such a law could pass and to waste time on it is well just fruitless (anything over 5 minutes is just nutz). write a new encrypted proctocol instead. make a difference through action... not words..
Agreed. bittorrent accounts for 2/3 of all internet traffic, if i remember correctly, on the other hand the isps need to stop whining and implentment multicast through their entire networks reducing the load by a amazing amount. if mulitcast was standard, bittorrent would have been designed far differently. baz Wikipeida is your friend
I am from the uk and was there last year and had a thought Well they say you were on your way to the pub(bar) for a few drinks with the lads (male company) and you ran into mr. smith who you owe some money due to the fact you needed a small loan until your next paycheque (paycheck). So you reach into your pocket and pull out a few pieces of paper and your wallet and had mr smith your case. mr. smith shakes your hand and says bye and you continue on your way to the pub. Meanwhile, your arch enemy, Mrs. old cow who dosent like you for what ever reason (maybe you are just young and full of your own opinions of the world) sees you on the telly (TV) and decides to call the cops and tell them you are dealing drugs. Problem is once in a dead while you might smoke a little pot and quite now possibly mrs. cow has be given the power to cause you problems. Of course the chances of you being on that camera at that moment are well 1 in 400 at least but the opporunity exists. With a little video editing and just making it look live you could achieve of sorts of wondering scenarios. Think about it!!! Cheerz baz