Given the Google has absolutely no shortage of capital and brain power as noted before, I am surprised Google didn't just build its own routers, wireless access points, etc. Linux and BSD have come along way in their routing capabilities. Heck, Vyatta sells an open source router that probably competes very favorably. If I were Google, I would have opted for the open source methodology and contributed back to the community. You pay a vendor and expect quality, you don't beg them to improve their product. They should be jumping through hoops to help you.
I am reading this as I watch the movie Mad Max. This is kind of bitterly ironic because it is a sign of bad things to come! I am waiting for the apocalypse believers to come out of the wood work. This website is basically soliciting work at wages so ridiculously low it is sad. The wealthy 1% own everything and have left the remaining the 99% to fight for the scraps. This website is evident of it!
I guess that means don't even bother innovating or building anything. I hate the patent system - it has become so broken as to be sorry. I thought patents should protect truly innovative ideas not commonly thought up things such as shapes. What next, someone will try and patent the tri-angle (hyphenated on purpose.)
I could also see the potential for non-profit, community-based internet access that would seriously undermine the efforts of the big boys. Already there are efforts in play (albeit planning stages) to create community-owned, networks with no ties to government whatsoever so that they cannot be sued out of existence. One such example is theconnective but I don't know how far along they are. Communities could build their own without government involvment. These community-based networks would be after some of the best traditions of the amateur radio operators. You are right to advise Big Telco to back off. The American people have had enough of corporate greed.
The same can be said for the so-called "Green economy." The green economy is also going to be highly automated. Obama is doing disservice by preaching job creation through green jobs. In fact, I'd wager much of the manufacturing behind green products will eventually go overseas to save money. My guess is we will never really see low unemployment again. The US population is too large for the economy and resources to really handle. As more and more industries automate, the baseline unemployment figures will continue to rise.
I am sorry to say have to say this but it should be tough for foreign entrepreneurs to make inroads into the United States. It should be a policy of US citizens first. Americans do not have a shortfall of talent that we need to import entrepreneurs. I have to beg to differ on this one.
Really!? I hate the office! Working from home is the best of both worlds between being your own businessman and a guaranteed paycheck that working as an employee of a company provides.
I honestly think "visibility" becomes a moot point when you work from home. If you have the good fortune to be able to work from home, I think you are doing it precisely because invisibility from the office scene is what you seek. I wouldn't really care about promotion or getting all the credit if I had that wonderful perk available to me. I have a friend that works from home and he continues to get recognition for what he does but he doesn't care. The reward is in the ability to work from home.
The story leaked and PC manufacturers became concerned over public outcry and lost sales. I am not naive enough to believe that the thoughts of a locked down boot loader never was given any serious consideration by MS and the hardware manufacturers.
Due to active synch, there is little or no reason for the BlackBerry proprietary network. RIM still makes a good quality handset that is reliable but, from a technology stand point it is obsolete. Active synch provides admins the security features needed. If RIM can adopt newer technology and maybe scrap it's OS in favor of a highly modified and customized android flavor, perhaps it can be a force to be reckoned with.
There are arguments for using CentOS because you don't necessarily have to wait for the CentOS team to release a bug fix. You may be able to rebuild the software from source and just install it in either/opt or/usr/local. There are also companies that use CentOS on public facing servers. For example, host gator uses CentOS successfully. It isn't like there is not a precedence for using CentOS in the enterprise.
+1 - But, I am really anti-cloud and I realise that this would put me in the minority because the cloud is convenient. I like to retain my own data and the rights to it on my own PC.
Also, while I understand the stupidity of the stated reasons for going to an all OSS platform for Portugal's school system, in a very small way it makes sense. Linux will run well on older hardware and generally needs less of the niggling day to day hands on monitoring than Microsoft. If one could scrounge up spare parts for these older systems, it might be feasible especially because these spares might be able to be obtained free of charge from enterprise wishing to scrap their old hardware. Just because it is feasible, doesn't mean that it is a good idea though, I understand this.
If enough spare parts could be obtained and you have some competent Linux gurus, I could see this succeeding but a failure would even be a worse blow for the OSS community. It won't fail because of Linux but because of poor planning and my fear is that Linux will unfairly shoulder all of the blame.
So lets see you just publicly threatened the police in Texas, with an illegal weapon, on one of the most visited web sites and most likely with your home IP.
Please close your mouth so that you will suffocate.
Take your tin-foil hat off, move out of your parent's basement, and realize that I am making a joke.
I would wager that the protests beginning with Arab Spring have emboldened the 99%ers world-wide to take action against class oppression and start class warfare. Since Occupy Wall Street has gained steam, people are feeling bolder about speaking out and taking non-violent action to make their demands heard. If this means bringing the 1% to its economic knees, so be it. I am a member of the 99% and I have had it with the 1% not only telling me how to live my life economically but with their power to pass ridiculous criminal/civil laws to ensure that they stay in power. I support the 99%ers everywhere.
I really hope all this is a troll because my entire reason for using Android is the very openness of the platform. If Google is no longer going to keep their platform open source, I no longer have a compelling reason to continue using Android.
Bitcoin is kind of an interesting experiment in economics. Its founders started out with a relatively simple premise by asking the quintessential question: Why is a central clearing house or central regulation is necessary? Unfortunately, they ended up (re-)learning a valuable reason as to why our forefathers realized a need for some centralization and regulation. Our forefathers realized that monetary centralization provides currency stabilization. When the United States was young with newly won independence from Britain, each state minted its own currency and this was a debacle. How would one determine how much New Jersey dollars would one get in trade for, say, Connecticut dollars? Bitcoin's founders also re-learned the difficult concept of valuation. Last summer, Bitcoin essentially bubbled because, for a short time, its followers had a strong, collective emotional belief that bitcoins have real value. The moment this emotional belief foundation is placed into doubt or shattered, the value comes down. With the storm of server, desktop, and web application intrusions resulting in the theft of Bitcoins, the latent problems with the currency model were suddenly propelled into the main stream. Its users became frightened and distrustful. It is more than just supply and demand economics but believing that the medium that you are using for trade is intrinsically worth something (when, in actuality it has no real value.) Finally, centralization helps mitigate criminality and makes it easier for a victim to recover stolen funds.
The DHS is still dicking around with anti-terrorism techniques when our country's economy is being flushed down the toilet at a good rate. Soon, the US will be worthless and no terrorist in their right mind would have any interest in us. It would be akin to stepping on a mole hill.
In the future this will be looked back on as being as stupid as McCarthyism. Looking for terrorists under every bed and around every corner, monitoring people's bodies for signs of terrorist intent...the terrorists have won beyond their wildest dreams. And if we examine Pearl Harbor as precedent, none of us will live to see the damage undone.
It used to be that you were innocent until proven guilty, then you were guilty until proven innoven, and now you are still guilty even when proven innocent. So much for democracy in action.
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Given the Google has absolutely no shortage of capital and brain power as noted before, I am surprised Google didn't just build its own routers, wireless access points, etc. Linux and BSD have come along way in their routing capabilities. Heck, Vyatta sells an open source router that probably competes very favorably. If I were Google, I would have opted for the open source methodology and contributed back to the community. You pay a vendor and expect quality, you don't beg them to improve their product. They should be jumping through hoops to help you.
I am reading this as I watch the movie Mad Max. This is kind of bitterly ironic because it is a sign of bad things to come! I am waiting for the apocalypse believers to come out of the wood work. This website is basically soliciting work at wages so ridiculously low it is sad. The wealthy 1% own everything and have left the remaining the 99% to fight for the scraps. This website is evident of it!
I know, right. This guy is pretty badass!
I guess that means don't even bother innovating or building anything. I hate the patent system - it has become so broken as to be sorry. I thought patents should protect truly innovative ideas not commonly thought up things such as shapes. What next, someone will try and patent the tri-angle (hyphenated on purpose.)
Does ICANN offer any assistance with this matter? Can't they just yank the domain back?
I could also see the potential for non-profit, community-based internet access that would seriously undermine the efforts of the big boys. Already there are efforts in play (albeit planning stages) to create community-owned, networks with no ties to government whatsoever so that they cannot be sued out of existence. One such example is theconnective but I don't know how far along they are. Communities could build their own without government involvment. These community-based networks would be after some of the best traditions of the amateur radio operators. You are right to advise Big Telco to back off. The American people have had enough of corporate greed.
The same can be said for the so-called "Green economy." The green economy is also going to be highly automated. Obama is doing disservice by preaching job creation through green jobs. In fact, I'd wager much of the manufacturing behind green products will eventually go overseas to save money. My guess is we will never really see low unemployment again. The US population is too large for the economy and resources to really handle. As more and more industries automate, the baseline unemployment figures will continue to rise.
I am sorry to say have to say this but it should be tough for foreign entrepreneurs to make inroads into the United States. It should be a policy of US citizens first. Americans do not have a shortfall of talent that we need to import entrepreneurs. I have to beg to differ on this one.
It was urban legend and featured on the Discovery Channel's Urban Legend show.
Really!? I hate the office! Working from home is the best of both worlds between being your own businessman and a guaranteed paycheck that working as an employee of a company provides.
I honestly think "visibility" becomes a moot point when you work from home. If you have the good fortune to be able to work from home, I think you are doing it precisely because invisibility from the office scene is what you seek. I wouldn't really care about promotion or getting all the credit if I had that wonderful perk available to me. I have a friend that works from home and he continues to get recognition for what he does but he doesn't care. The reward is in the ability to work from home.
The story leaked and PC manufacturers became concerned over public outcry and lost sales. I am not naive enough to believe that the thoughts of a locked down boot loader never was given any serious consideration by MS and the hardware manufacturers.
Due to active synch, there is little or no reason for the BlackBerry proprietary network. RIM still makes a good quality handset that is reliable but, from a technology stand point it is obsolete. Active synch provides admins the security features needed. If RIM can adopt newer technology and maybe scrap it's OS in favor of a highly modified and customized android flavor, perhaps it can be a force to be reckoned with.
There are arguments for using CentOS because you don't necessarily have to wait for the CentOS team to release a bug fix. You may be able to rebuild the software from source and just install it in either /opt or /usr/local. There are also companies that use CentOS on public facing servers. For example, host gator uses CentOS successfully. It isn't like there is not a precedence for using CentOS in the enterprise.
+1 - But, I am really anti-cloud and I realise that this would put me in the minority because the cloud is convenient. I like to retain my own data and the rights to it on my own PC. Also, while I understand the stupidity of the stated reasons for going to an all OSS platform for Portugal's school system, in a very small way it makes sense. Linux will run well on older hardware and generally needs less of the niggling day to day hands on monitoring than Microsoft. If one could scrounge up spare parts for these older systems, it might be feasible especially because these spares might be able to be obtained free of charge from enterprise wishing to scrap their old hardware. Just because it is feasible, doesn't mean that it is a good idea though, I understand this. If enough spare parts could be obtained and you have some competent Linux gurus, I could see this succeeding but a failure would even be a worse blow for the OSS community. It won't fail because of Linux but because of poor planning and my fear is that Linux will unfairly shoulder all of the blame.
And you're still living with mom.
So lets see you just publicly threatened the police in Texas, with an illegal weapon, on one of the most visited web sites and most likely with your home IP.
Please close your mouth so that you will suffocate.
Take your tin-foil hat off, move out of your parent's basement, and realize that I am making a joke.
If they want to go that route, I'll find a way to shoot the bitch down and laugh. Montgomery County UAV vs. RPG!
I would wager that the protests beginning with Arab Spring have emboldened the 99%ers world-wide to take action against class oppression and start class warfare. Since Occupy Wall Street has gained steam, people are feeling bolder about speaking out and taking non-violent action to make their demands heard. If this means bringing the 1% to its economic knees, so be it. I am a member of the 99% and I have had it with the 1% not only telling me how to live my life economically but with their power to pass ridiculous criminal/civil laws to ensure that they stay in power. I support the 99%ers everywhere.
I really hope all this is a troll because my entire reason for using Android is the very openness of the platform. If Google is no longer going to keep their platform open source, I no longer have a compelling reason to continue using Android.
Bitcoin is kind of an interesting experiment in economics. Its founders started out with a relatively simple premise by asking the quintessential question: Why is a central clearing house or central regulation is necessary? Unfortunately, they ended up (re-)learning a valuable reason as to why our forefathers realized a need for some centralization and regulation. Our forefathers realized that monetary centralization provides currency stabilization. When the United States was young with newly won independence from Britain, each state minted its own currency and this was a debacle. How would one determine how much New Jersey dollars would one get in trade for, say, Connecticut dollars? Bitcoin's founders also re-learned the difficult concept of valuation. Last summer, Bitcoin essentially bubbled because, for a short time, its followers had a strong, collective emotional belief that bitcoins have real value. The moment this emotional belief foundation is placed into doubt or shattered, the value comes down. With the storm of server, desktop, and web application intrusions resulting in the theft of Bitcoins, the latent problems with the currency model were suddenly propelled into the main stream. Its users became frightened and distrustful. It is more than just supply and demand economics but believing that the medium that you are using for trade is intrinsically worth something (when, in actuality it has no real value.) Finally, centralization helps mitigate criminality and makes it easier for a victim to recover stolen funds.
The DHS is still dicking around with anti-terrorism techniques when our country's economy is being flushed down the toilet at a good rate. Soon, the US will be worthless and no terrorist in their right mind would have any interest in us. It would be akin to stepping on a mole hill.
In the future this will be looked back on as being as stupid as McCarthyism. Looking for terrorists under every bed and around every corner, monitoring people's bodies for signs of terrorist intent...the terrorists have won beyond their wildest dreams. And if we examine Pearl Harbor as precedent, none of us will live to see the damage undone.
Guess we should call it Neo-McCarthyism
Check out http://www.tunnelr.com./ Tunnelr uses Open VPN or SSH tunnels. It is lean and efficient. I use our and it works well.
It used to be that you were innocent until proven guilty, then you were guilty until proven innoven, and now you are still guilty even when proven innocent. So much for democracy in action.