before when microsoft decided it would be a really swell idea to have C#, jscript, mono and a host of other shitty analog lock-ins that solve a problem no one has. I guess its never too early to reinvent the wheel.
"superstorm" crap. its a junk term coined by news outlets to either gin up ratings or avoid brining up climate change by calling it an unusually destructive hurricane..
or does slashdot seem to be picking sides in this pissing contest? the rockets? all shot down by the worlds best missile defence system. the hackers? all shut out by the worlds best Information Systems collective.
Israels regime seems content to keep producing elegant tactical responses to what amounts to a sustained strategic threat. Is this really even about recognizing the "jewish state of israel" anymore?
was not determined by the number of pirates it supported. Megaupload failed because it did not have a system in place to hand kickbacks to the cartels (the RIAA and MPAA respectively.)
rapidshare needs to create a system by which they pay the protection racket. if not, expect a few busted windows and broken signs.
kims model differs substantially in that not only does he refuse to pay blood money, he has decided to flat-out intrude on the cartels stamping ground with his own digital content distribution system. If you want a war, kim has a war. if you just want content sharing and upload sites, try EC3 or dreamhost objects. and if you want to see rapidshare step face-first into the same bear trap kim just extricated himself from, just wait.
he and his 17 year old girlfriend are being chased around town by the cops for unlicensed drug manufacture, posession of an unlicensed firearm and suspicion of making crystal meth. Hes also wanted for questioning in the death of an american ex-patriot. hes not answering routine police questions and hes rambling on about secret plots to decapitate dead animals and collect his friends. John McAfee is a textbook example of drug-induced psychopathy.
in 2003 WIPO would move to have open source stricken from the books as it were. We were relishing the much famed third stage of Ghandis "first they ignore you" speech. Ironically enough, "intellectual property" was also a consideration when british colonialists slaughtered en-masse many on the indian subcontinent for daring to make their own salt, tax free mind you, from sea water.
Coffee is a globally traded commodity, and many blends are in fact copy written. try to grind your own Folgers, BlueBottle or Stumptown analogue, and you'll likely find an armada of lawyers jackbooted at your doorstep. men will fight as dogs will bark for money so long as American capitalism(c) is touted abroad as some panacea for the malady of the third world; much of which, wrought by first world hands to begin with. Intellectual property is just another system by which the stratification of social classes is enforced. Much as knowledge was the privy of lords and kings in the middle ages, such is the knowledge today the privy of a christened few who hold the 'intellectual' rights.
only when enough people, and perhaps they already have, realize this model to be corrupt to the core, will there be much interest in combating it. a MjÃlnir of sorts was forged in 1989 by a man named Richard Stallman which has to date been the only effective weapon against "intellectual property." I would predict a GPLv3 coffee would elicit no less than cringing terror in the body WIPO. I smile to think it might be considered as an alternative in places like Malawi and Columbia, but am resigned to conclude it will be smeared into taboo and counter-culture.
faced with a budget surplus and a terrorism deficit, the Oakland Airport TSA spring into action and arrest the most suspicious thing they can come up with after 3 red bulls and a half dozen cruellers: a 50 year old white man with a nice watch and a pair of comfy shoes.
freedom has been preserved once more thanks to the watchful eye of a handful of overweight highschool drop-outs in cheap polyester slacks and clip-on ties....but for how long?
tune in for an exciting conclusion to next weeks "Security theatre." Will the man in the comfy shoes buy a new, even more dastardly ornate watch with his lawsuit payout? What devious new orthopaedics will our nemesis equip himself with next? All this and more will be revealed in, "episode 25: I elected obama twice, this shits not funny anymore"
basically admitted it could do one of two things:
1. increase training and awareness of the openoffice suite and ensure operating procedures and support is available during its use.
2. switch to libreoffice with the well established and functional upgrade path.
the third option, "fold like a chair after microsoft cuts you a closed-door deal" is not a real option unless you're lazy.
Bimbo Bakery, a 10 billion dollar Mexican multinational conglomerate baking company, is looking to purchase them (for the second time.) in fact, Bimbo could have easily purchased the entire thing while hostess was on the ropes, as hostess is only worth 2.7 billion in revenue, but hostess (headquartered in texas) declined to do so.
http://hellothereracists.tumblr.com/ salon just made a decent argument lambasting them for outing kids in a manner that could permanently stigmatize them as racists. Granted I think arresting the penchant for racism at a young age is a good idea, perhaps it would be more fruitful if the parents of the children were outed instead?
additionally, many of the posts come from regions of America that you would anticipate racism to emanate from. at very least it helps to dispel the often heralded myth by of the GOP that racism happened a long time ago and we don't need to talk about it, as they did during the Treyvon Martin murder. The south, as a touchstone example, while forced to integrate has never been forced to accept it socially.
attorney: "the RIAA is threatening serious litigation if we dont crack down on piracy" exec: "ok, we've been there before. what do they want" attorney: "they want us to crack down" exec: "done. tell them we will warn pirates and throttle their internet connection:" engineer: "thats not really feasible or possible given our resources and the nature of the internet as a self healing..." exec: "its a completely feasible way to solve this problem, i have complete confidence in its ability." engineer: "how would you know??" exec: "because the problem is a lobbying group, not a pirate." engineer: "how do they verify it works?" exec: "tell them to test from their phone."
a republican clutches the constitution and screams bloody murder, kindly ask them to stop wiping their jackboots on it. The postal service is in the constitution as well. Lets go back to bush junior, or as i like to call him, the acid reflux republicans just cant keep down:
H.R. 6407; The Postal Accountability and Enhancement Act was passed in the Republican-controlled Senate two days after it was introduced in the Republican-controlled House. It was subsequently signed into law by Republican George W. Bush. One of the provisions in this hastily passed law requires the USPS to prefund ALL of it's retirees health benefits 75 years into the future. That's right. The USPS is supposed to set aside money for the future health benefits for people that haven't even been born yet.
if the results arent strictly scientific from a statisticians observation. The overarching point is to draw attention to this kind of behavior and place it in contexts such as the "you lie" incident during healthcare reform, the birther rhetoric and even the tea party itself. This was more an exercise in the patterns and processes of social inequality than it was a mathematical endeavor of quantification in my opinion, and it deserves further research into questions like what are the causes and solutions.
that is basically willing to blame anything and anyone for their failure to secure a presidential victory. it is to politics as a petulant spoiled child is to a classroom.
because customers rarely care about this sort of thing and generally just click "yes."
if youre a religious economist youll grant the invisible hand time to offer an alternative market of "unlocked" mice, much like cellphones. they will probably still be tracked by your operating system (microsoft or apple, possibly ubuntu these days under crazy shuttleworth) but youll get to use them as you wish on any OS of your choice or against the original constructs of the walled garden it seems this peripheral maker is trying to grow.
theyll be called developer mice, or IDE mice, or some other wretched name implying only the nerdiest would ever want such a thing. youll pay a premium for it, it wont be supported by the game you want to play when its registered during startup and the OS will probably require hefty drivers or partially functioning ones for it to work.
the bottom line is there is very little money in peripherals. there is a fucking boat-load of cash in services because as we evolve through the 21st century our technology has increasingly grown to coddle us as though we were children. give up your freedom and the corporation will relieve the burden on your weary mind of having to think about computers or networks or any of that nonsense youve been heralding about the latest iDevice but loathe to discuss on a deeply technical level greater than a few buzzwords picked up at the bus stop billboard.
and nerds geeks and slashdotters will grumble as dogs will bark. we will adapt as we always have technology to suit our needs. windows keys will be co-opted into our operating systems as a pivotal extension of our will through tools like AwesomeWM, to never again be considered anything more than a simple stroke or clack on the way to greatness. ACPI will kneel to our demands as our resources are governed by our inherent lust for knowledge and achievement. and this "device" that so rudely begged a pittance of our precious bandwidth in the service of its master will its back have been broken, its mighty spirit crushed under the inexorable weight of our technological expertise as we have so pulverized most any attempt by a salesman with a greasegun to convince us otherwise that the PC is not personal. It will kneel, as VRRP, DVD, Blu-Ray, SCSI RAID, wireless cards, and a sea of countless E and I prefixed devices have in the service of their true master, the Nerd.
The court will consider whether this is a permissible plea.
the court will consider whether this prostration suits the requirement of its mission objectives to enact justice in such a fashion as to maintain the narrative of a freedom seeking patriotic democratic nation whos foreign interests are peaceful and to the benefit of all mankind.
The fact that manning even has to consider a guilty plea is evidence that innocent human life has less inherent value in the eyes of the government than the actions of an american soldier in a war on terror with no purpose and no end.
Observers say a number of authoritarian states will back the move, and that the major Western nations will oppose it, meaning the developing world could make a difference.
the US is an authoritarian state, hence its reluctance to submit to shared governance of an open system they exploit for propaganda and surveillance at the expense of other nations.
Terry Kramer, the special US envoy for the talks, has expressed Washington's position opposing proposals by Russia, China and others to expand the ITU's authority to regulate the Internet.
yes, terry is right to hold this position because hes seen european attempts to charge service providers to send content to customers. The internet without several plugins is mostly just an ad-mill that funds itself at the expense of its users. changing this model, to empower users further, is unacceptable for american capitalism.
Kramer also said that the US strongly opposed proposals from some "non-democratic nations" for the tracking and monitoring of data routing, which he cautioned "makes it very easy for nations to monitor traffic," including content and customer information.
it can be argued the US is no longer a democratic nation and has used and abused monitoring tactics in the past. Terry's basically hoarding what he sees as a tactical advantage.
basically snored through lycos and yahoo while they presided over the supremacy of search, totally disregarded the fact that microsofts bing engine routinely omits and enhances results in its favor, and quietly turned a blind eye to the fact that the Apple App store wont allow competing services it already provides. Yet google, nearly 10 years after achieving search dominance, is an unacceptable demon to the marketplace that must be stopped at all cost. makes total sense if you're a pork sucking kickback crook looking to be auctioned to the highest bidder.
my advice is dont. Google would have to do very little arm twisting to convince your "coalition" to essentially stop what theyre doing. they can blacklist any advertiser they like, for any reason. im actually rather surprised thomas barnett's lawfirm still shows up in the search results.
America exports the worlds supply of helium, hasnt produced a millilitre more for over 2 decades, and keeps the price artificially low.
OPEC sets quotas and prices for global oil supplies, and can suspend or restrict production whenever they feel the need.
American agricultural conglomerates like ADM and General Mills collude to set the price at which they will accept corn from farmers. too much corn does not drive the price of it down, instead its maintained by dumping cheap corn as an export, or siloing it for next year.
how has china in any way changed how capitalism has worked for the past 270 years? The only thing thats generated outrage is chinas willingness to take an aggressively competitive position in the global economy, instead of a subservient one. If you dont like it, consider pushing for more organized labor.
most major multinational corporations preserve the tradition of arbitration as your only means of recourse as theyve found the courts rule far too often in the favour of the users. Court time is reserved strictly for corporations to battle other corporations for control of consumers but once that control is entrenched? your arbitrator should you elect to meet with one will likely be from a limited pool of closely guarded individuals with close ties to the corporations for whom they arbitrate. Your ruling, statements, and even the case itself will remain entirely confidential with rarely any record of it transpiring. Most importantly, Arbitration allows a corporation to remain blameless. Never having admitted fault, they secure their public image and in turn their investors confidence as arbitration amounts to nothing more than a kangaroo court.
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before when microsoft decided it would be a really swell idea to have C#, jscript, mono and a host of other shitty analog lock-ins that solve a problem no one has. I guess its never too early to reinvent the wheel.
"superstorm" crap. its a junk term coined by news outlets to either gin up ratings or avoid brining up climate change by calling it an unusually destructive hurricane..
when walking into a bath and body works, or yankee candle store.
or does slashdot seem to be picking sides in this pissing contest? the rockets? all shot down by the worlds best missile defence system. the hackers? all shut out by the worlds best Information Systems collective.
Israels regime seems content to keep producing elegant tactical responses to what amounts to a sustained strategic threat. Is this really even about recognizing the "jewish state of israel" anymore?
run it on whatever powered the zune.
was not determined by the number of pirates it supported. Megaupload failed because it did not have a system in place to hand kickbacks to the cartels (the RIAA and MPAA respectively.)
rapidshare needs to create a system by which they pay the protection racket. if not, expect a few busted windows and broken signs.
kims model differs substantially in that not only does he refuse to pay blood money, he has decided to flat-out intrude on the cartels stamping ground with his own digital content distribution system. If you want a war, kim has a war. if you just want content sharing and upload sites, try EC3 or dreamhost objects. and if you want to see rapidshare step face-first into the same bear trap kim just extricated himself from, just wait.
he and his 17 year old girlfriend are being chased around town by the cops for unlicensed drug manufacture, posession of an unlicensed firearm and suspicion of making crystal meth. Hes also wanted for questioning in the death of an american ex-patriot. hes not answering routine police questions and hes rambling on about secret plots to decapitate dead animals and collect his friends. John McAfee is a textbook example of drug-induced psychopathy.
of course, for those of us who doubled-up on our tinfoil this morning, belize isnt known as the most textbook of democratic states
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corruption_Perceptions_Index
in 2003 WIPO would move to have open source stricken from the books as it were. We were relishing the much famed third stage of Ghandis "first they ignore you" speech. Ironically enough, "intellectual property" was also a consideration when british colonialists slaughtered en-masse many on the indian subcontinent for daring to make their own salt, tax free mind you, from sea water.
Coffee is a globally traded commodity, and many blends are in fact copy written. try to grind your own Folgers, BlueBottle or Stumptown analogue, and you'll likely find an armada of lawyers jackbooted at your doorstep. men will fight as dogs will bark for money so long as American capitalism(c) is touted abroad as some panacea for the malady of the third world; much of which, wrought by first world hands to begin with. Intellectual property is just another system by which the stratification of social classes is enforced. Much as knowledge was the privy of lords and kings in the middle ages, such is the knowledge today the privy of a christened few who hold the 'intellectual' rights.
only when enough people, and perhaps they already have, realize this model to be corrupt to the core, will there be much interest in combating it. a MjÃlnir of sorts was forged in 1989 by a man named Richard Stallman which has to date been the only effective weapon against "intellectual property." I would predict a GPLv3 coffee would elicit no less than cringing terror in the body WIPO. I smile to think it might be considered as an alternative in places like Malawi and Columbia, but am resigned to conclude it will be smeared into taboo and counter-culture.
faced with a budget surplus and a terrorism deficit, the Oakland Airport TSA spring into action and arrest the most suspicious thing they can come up with after 3 red bulls and a half dozen cruellers: a 50 year old white man with a nice watch and a pair of comfy shoes.
freedom has been preserved once more thanks to the watchful eye of a handful of overweight highschool drop-outs in cheap polyester slacks and clip-on ties....but for how long?
tune in for an exciting conclusion to next weeks "Security theatre." Will the man in the comfy shoes buy a new, even more dastardly ornate watch with his lawsuit payout? What devious new orthopaedics will our nemesis equip himself with next? All this and more will be revealed in, "episode 25: I elected obama twice, this shits not funny anymore"
basically admitted it could do one of two things:
1. increase training and awareness of the openoffice suite and ensure operating procedures and support is available during its use.
2. switch to libreoffice with the well established and functional upgrade path.
the third option, "fold like a chair after microsoft cuts you a closed-door deal" is not a real option unless you're lazy.
Bimbo Bakery, a 10 billion dollar Mexican multinational conglomerate baking company, is looking to purchase them (for the second time.) in fact, Bimbo could have easily purchased the entire thing while hostess was on the ropes, as hostess is only worth 2.7 billion in revenue, but hostess (headquartered in texas) declined to do so.
http://hellothereracists.tumblr.com/
salon just made a decent argument lambasting them for outing kids in a manner that could permanently stigmatize them as racists. Granted I think arresting the penchant for racism at a young age is a good idea, perhaps it would be more fruitful if the parents of the children were outed instead?
additionally, many of the posts come from regions of America that you would anticipate racism to emanate from. at very least it helps to dispel the often heralded myth by of the GOP that racism happened a long time ago and we don't need to talk about it, as they did during the Treyvon Martin murder. The south, as a touchstone example, while forced to integrate has never been forced to accept it socially.
attorney: "the RIAA is threatening serious litigation if we dont crack down on piracy"
exec: "ok, we've been there before. what do they want"
attorney: "they want us to crack down"
exec: "done. tell them we will warn pirates and throttle their internet connection:"
engineer: "thats not really feasible or possible given our resources and the nature of the internet as a self healing..."
exec: "its a completely feasible way to solve this problem, i have complete confidence in its ability."
engineer: "how would you know??"
exec: "because the problem is a lobbying group, not a pirate."
engineer: "how do they verify it works?"
exec: "tell them to test from their phone."
a republican clutches the constitution and screams bloody murder, kindly ask them to stop wiping their jackboots on it. The postal service is in the constitution as well. Lets go back to bush junior, or as i like to call him, the acid reflux republicans just cant keep down:
H.R. 6407; The Postal Accountability and Enhancement Act was passed in the Republican-controlled Senate two days after it was introduced in the Republican-controlled House. It was subsequently signed into law by Republican George W. Bush. One of the provisions in this hastily passed law requires the USPS to prefund ALL of it's retirees health benefits 75 years into the future. That's right. The USPS is supposed to set aside money for the future health benefits for people that haven't even been born yet.
as alligators often times take up residence in unexpected places.
the real concern is the alligator mount for an Nd:YAG laser being developed by Google Labs while the lead is on vacation.
and certainly open source alternative to this is cronometer, http://www.cronometer.com/
if the results arent strictly scientific from a statisticians observation. The overarching point is to draw attention to this kind of behavior and place it in contexts such as the "you lie" incident during healthcare reform, the birther rhetoric and even the tea party itself. This was more an exercise in the patterns and processes of social inequality than it was a mathematical endeavor of quantification in my opinion, and it deserves further research into questions like what are the causes and solutions.
that is basically willing to blame anything and anyone for their failure to secure a presidential victory. it is to politics as a petulant spoiled child is to a classroom.
because customers rarely care about this sort of thing and generally just click "yes."
if youre a religious economist youll grant the invisible hand time to offer an alternative market of "unlocked" mice, much like cellphones. they will probably still be tracked by your operating system (microsoft or apple, possibly ubuntu these days under crazy shuttleworth) but youll get to use them as you wish on any OS of your choice or against the original constructs of the walled garden it seems this peripheral maker is trying to grow.
theyll be called developer mice, or IDE mice, or some other wretched name implying only the nerdiest would ever want such a thing. youll pay a premium for it, it wont be supported by the game you want to play when its registered during startup and the OS will probably require hefty drivers or partially functioning ones for it to work.
the bottom line is there is very little money in peripherals. there is a fucking boat-load of cash in services because as we evolve through the 21st century our technology has increasingly grown to coddle us as though we were children. give up your freedom and the corporation will relieve the burden on your weary mind of having to think about computers or networks or any of that nonsense youve been heralding about the latest iDevice but loathe to discuss on a deeply technical level greater than a few buzzwords picked up at the bus stop billboard.
and nerds geeks and slashdotters will grumble as dogs will bark. we will adapt as we always have technology to suit our needs. windows keys will be co-opted into our operating systems as a pivotal extension of our will through tools like AwesomeWM, to never again be considered anything more than a simple stroke or clack on the way to greatness. ACPI will kneel to our demands as our resources are governed by our inherent lust for knowledge and achievement. and this "device" that so rudely begged a pittance of our precious bandwidth in the service of its master will its back have been broken, its mighty spirit crushed under the inexorable weight of our technological expertise as we have so pulverized most any attempt by a salesman with a greasegun to convince us otherwise that the PC is not personal. It will kneel, as VRRP, DVD, Blu-Ray, SCSI RAID, wireless cards, and a sea of countless E and I prefixed devices have in the service of their true master, the Nerd.
The court will consider whether this is a permissible plea.
the court will consider whether this prostration suits the requirement of its mission objectives to enact justice in such a fashion as to maintain the narrative of a freedom seeking patriotic democratic nation whos foreign interests are peaceful and to the benefit of all mankind.
The fact that manning even has to consider a guilty plea is evidence that innocent human life has less inherent value in the eyes of the government than the actions of an american soldier in a war on terror with no purpose and no end.
state sponsored torture prisons? it was hollywoods job to normalize and flavor it for consumption by the american public using shows like 24.
now we're getting to the point where "cyber" is the new war, and so it must be sold accordingly.
Observers say a number of authoritarian states will back the move, and that the major Western nations will oppose it, meaning the developing world could make a difference.
the US is an authoritarian state, hence its reluctance to submit to shared governance of an open system they exploit for propaganda and surveillance at the expense of other nations.
Terry Kramer, the special US envoy for the talks, has expressed Washington's position opposing proposals by Russia, China and others to expand the ITU's authority to regulate the Internet.
yes, terry is right to hold this position because hes seen european attempts to charge service providers to send content to customers. The internet without several plugins is mostly just an ad-mill that funds itself at the expense of its users. changing this model, to empower users further, is unacceptable for american capitalism.
Kramer also said that the US strongly opposed proposals from some "non-democratic nations" for the tracking and monitoring of data routing, which he cautioned "makes it very easy for nations to monitor traffic," including content and customer information.
it can be argued the US is no longer a democratic nation and has used and abused monitoring tactics in the past. Terry's basically hoarding what he sees as a tactical advantage.
basically snored through lycos and yahoo while they presided over the supremacy of search, totally disregarded the fact that microsofts bing engine routinely omits and enhances results in its favor, and quietly turned a blind eye to the fact that the Apple App store wont allow competing services it already provides. Yet google, nearly 10 years after achieving search dominance, is an unacceptable demon to the marketplace that must be stopped at all cost. makes total sense if you're a pork sucking kickback crook looking to be auctioned to the highest bidder.
my advice is dont. Google would have to do very little arm twisting to convince your "coalition" to essentially stop what theyre doing. they can blacklist any advertiser they like, for any reason. im actually rather surprised thomas barnett's lawfirm still shows up in the search results.
America exports the worlds supply of helium, hasnt produced a millilitre more for over 2 decades, and keeps the price artificially low.
OPEC sets quotas and prices for global oil supplies, and can suspend or restrict production whenever they feel the need.
American agricultural conglomerates like ADM and General Mills collude to set the price at which they will accept corn from farmers. too much corn does not drive the price of it down, instead its maintained by dumping cheap corn as an export, or siloing it for next year.
how has china in any way changed how capitalism has worked for the past 270 years? The only thing thats generated outrage is chinas willingness to take an aggressively competitive position in the global economy, instead of a subservient one. If you dont like it, consider pushing for more organized labor.
most major multinational corporations preserve the tradition of arbitration as your only means of recourse as theyve found the courts rule far too often in the favour of the users. Court time is reserved strictly for corporations to battle other corporations for control of consumers but once that control is entrenched? your arbitrator should you elect to meet with one will likely be from a limited pool of closely guarded individuals with close ties to the corporations for whom they arbitrate. Your ruling, statements, and even the case itself will remain entirely confidential with rarely any record of it transpiring. Most importantly, Arbitration allows a corporation to remain blameless. Never having admitted fault, they secure their public image and in turn their investors confidence as arbitration amounts to nothing more than a kangaroo court.