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Comment just foolish (Score 0) 219

by TwinGears on Tuesday December 20, 2011 @12:40PM (#38436068) Attached to: IBM's Five Predictions For the Next Five Years

As long as there is a monetary system, you can't have people power, nor biometrics for passwords. With a monetary system live the question arrises, what kind of government would want to listen in on the poorest of the people? No money system = no poor or rich or advertisements for that matter! I can't help but think IBM must assume the rest of us live in a world as dummies to buy that shit.

Comment busy corrupt concervatives (Score 0) 77

by TwinGears on Friday August 19, 2011 @12:31AM (#37138250) Attached to: Canadian Government Seeking New Net Snooping Powers

Well since the conservatives have managed to grind the medical greens to the point of uselessness, trust me - no paper work will ever get done any more. They don't follow up with any thing they put in print, nor do they encrypt any thing. Now the expansion of prisons and soon the mandatory minimum will be in place, and so I guess the rich decided the pharmaceuticals are worth protecting aggressively rather than giving a shit about us normal Canadians. Lets face it, how many times have you seen the full page 'cops for cancer' bull in your newspaper, lets face the facts here people. Cancer was cured in 1974-75! and this breaking down of the monetary system is really making those in power behave rather poorly towards the rest of us. Also the watching over our Internet use doesn't surprise me any more than most of you people. So what's next for social camouflage? Parading around on our bikes with pink shits stating we are just as stupid as the normal clowns. I guess it's a little late to finally read 1984 as it just would not be as fun as the real thing.

48% of Americans Reject Evolution 1856

Posted by Zonk on Saturday March 31, 2007 @04:32PM from the we-need-just-a-touch-stronger-educational-standards- dept.

MSNBC has up an article discussing the results of a Newsweek poll on faith and religion among members of the US populace. Given the straightforward question, 'Is evolution well-supported by evidence and widely accepted within the scientific community?', some 48% of Americans said 'No'. Furthermore, 34% of college graduates said they accept the Biblical story of creation as fact. An alarmingly high number of individuals responded that they believe the earth is only 10,000 years old, and that a deity created our species in its present form at the start of that period.

Killer NIC K1 and Custom BitTorrent Client Tested 106

Posted by CowboyNeal on Saturday March 24, 2007 @09:35AM from the frags-and-files dept.

NetworkingNed writes "The new Killer NIC K1 is the successor to the much debated original Killer NIC card that offers the same features at a lower price: this time for about $170 or so. Not cheap, that's for sure. But in this review at PC Perspective, not only is the new card tested under the drastically updated Vista networking stack with improved results, but the free BitTorrent client that runs on the Killer NIC is reviewed as well; with it you should be able to download torrents without affecting online gaming performance. Enough to warrant a $175 network card?"

MS Security Guy Wants Vista Bugs Rated Down 167

Posted by CmdrTaco on Sunday March 18, 2007 @09:07AM from the grass-is-greener-on-his-side dept.

jcatcw writes "Gregg Keizer reports that Michael Howard, an MS senior security program manager, says that the Microsoft Security Response Center (MSRC) is being too conservative in its Vista vulnerability rating plans. Microsoft's own bug hunters should cut Windows Vista some slack and rate its vulnerabilities differently because of the operating system's new, baked-in defenses."

Novell Assents To "Windows Is Cheaper Than Linux" 351

Posted by kdawson on Thursday March 15, 2007 @12:04PM from the whose-side-you-on-anyway dept.

dyous87 points out a ZDNet article reporting that Novell has endorsed a customer's comment claiming that the total cost of ownership of Linux is higher then that of Windows. Novell and Microsoft jointly issued a press release quoting an IT guy for a UK-based bank, HSBC: "Some will be surprised to learn that our Windows environment has a lower total cost of ownership than our current Linux environment." The context of the comment makes it clear that HSBC's Linux environment has a mix of distros, and that a move to centralize around one distro — Novell's — will save money. Nevertheless, Novell's connection to this assertion is not likely to improve their reputation in the open source community.

$25M Bounty Offered for Global Warming Fix 766

Posted by Zonk on Friday February 09, 2007 @05:39PM from the bring-me-the-head-of-global-warming dept.

SaDan writes "Richard Branson is offering $25M as a bounty for a fix to global warming. The person or organization that can devise a method to remove at least a billion tons of carbon dioxide a year from the atmosphere will be able to claim the bounty. There are a few catches, of course. There can't be any negative impact on the environment, and the payment will come in chunks. A 5 million dollar payout will be paid when the system is put into place with the remainder of the bounty to be paid after 10 years of continuous use."

Comment Re:and so, then Lucy says to Charlie Brown (Score 0, Redundant) 245

by TwinGears on Tuesday January 23, 2007 @07:22PM (#17730340) Attached to: Microsoft Sells Linux To Wal-Mart

I think your correct, it's a great way for M$ to yet again try to kill Linux off. I hope I am wrong but SUSE does look to be in the cross hairs, and it's likely that M$ would like to kill many birds with one stone. Good thing I can emerge -e world around that stone...

HP's Windows Bundle Trouble 697

Posted by Zonk on Friday December 15, 2006 @08:21PM from the i'm-sorry-please-enter-your-option-again dept.

narramissic writes "A French consumer group has filed 3 lawsuits against HP, saying the company's practice of selling consumer PCs with Windows pre-installed violates a French law that 'prohibits linking the functionality of a product to another product' — not to mention that consumers wind up paying for an unwanted OS. For its part, HP contends that it is not in violation of the law because the OS is integral to the PC. 'The PC without an OS is not a product because it doesn't work,' said Alain Spitzmuller, legal affairs director for HP France. 'We believe the market is for products that work.'"

Why Do Computers Take So Long to Boot Up? 975

Posted by Zonk on Sunday December 10, 2006 @09:48PM from the tired-hampsters dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Computers take too long to boot up, and it doesn't make sense to me. Mine takes around 30 seconds; it is double or triple that for some of my friends' computers that I have used. Why can't a computer turn on and off in an instant just like a TV? 99% of boots, my computer is doing the exact same thing. Then I get to Windows XP with maybe 50 to 75 megs of stuff in memory. My computer should be smart enough to just load that junk into memory and go with it. You could put this data right at the very start of the hard drive. Whenever you do something with the computer that actually changes what happens during boot, it could go through the real booting process and save the results. Doing this would also give you instant restarts. You just hit your restart button, the computer reloads the memory image, and you can be working again. Or am I wrong? Why haven't companies made it a priority to have 'instant on' desktops and laptops?"

Vista the End of An Era? 446

Posted by Zonk on Sunday December 10, 2006 @07:25PM from the dinosaurs-die-out dept.

mikesd81 writes "The Times Online has an article about the uncertain future of Windows. Even Microsoft, it seems is admitting that Vista will be the last OS of its kind. With the push towards a constant presence on the internet, and the churn that entails, the company has admitted that even with a two year delay 'it is not really ready'." From the article: "Security experts are acknowledging that Vista is the most secure of Windows to date. However, 'The bad guys will always target the most popular systems,' Mikko Hypponen, of F-Secure, the security group, said. 'Vista's vulnerability to phishing attacks, hackers, viruses and other malicious software will increase quickly.' But the current fear is that the Internet will kill Windows, with Google being Public Enemy No. 1: 'Microsoft is way behind Google when it comes to the internet,' Rupert Godwins, the technology editor at ZDNet, the industry website, said. 'Building Vista, Microsoft is still doing things the old way at the same time as it undergoes a big shift to catch up.'"

Moglen on Social Justice and OSS 336

Posted by CmdrTaco on Sunday December 10, 2006 @12:22PM from the something-weighty-with-your-sunday-morning dept.

NewsCloud writes "What does Firefox have to do with social justice? How will the one laptop per child project discourage genocide? How soon will Microsoft collapse? Watch Eben Moglen's inspiring keynote from the 2006 Plone Conference (Archive.org: mp3 or qt; or YouTube). The video presentation is ordinary, so the mp3 is an equally good format. 'If we know that what we are trying to accomplish is the spread of justice and social equality through the universalization of access to knowledge; If we know that what we are trying to do is build an economy of sharing which will rival the economies of ownership at every point where they directly compete; If we know that we are doing this as an alternative to coercive redistribution, that we have a third way in our hands for dealing with long and deep problems of human injustice; If we are conscious of what we have and know what we are trying to accomplish, when this is the moment for the first time in lifetimes, we can get it done.'"

Microsoft Wins Industry Standard Status for Office 281

Posted by Zonk on Friday December 08, 2006 @04:24PM from the bully-for-them dept.

everphilski writes "The International Herald-Tribune reports that Microsoft has won industry standard status for Office. EMCA International, a group of hardware and software makers based in Geneva, approved the MS file formats with only one dissenting vote - IBM. IBM backs the OpenDocument standard, which was approved by the ISO in May of this year." From the article: "Bob Sutor, IBM's vice president for open source and standards, called Microsoft's Office formats technically unwieldy - requiring software developers to absorb 6,000 pages of specifications, compared with 700 pages for OpenDocument. 'The practical effect is the only people who are going to be in a position to implement Microsoft's specifications are Microsoft,' Sutor said."

Get on the 'Gates for President' Bandwagon 654

Posted by Zonk on Thursday November 30, 2006 @05:24PM from the jobs-for-vice-president dept.

netbuzz writes "Dilbert's Scott Adams kicked off the idea in his November 19th blog post, saying there isn't anything wrong with this country that President Bill Gates couldn't cure in less time than it takes to get a new operating system out the door. Today, the idea is moving forward with a brand-new 'Bill Gates for President' Web site. Adams is also back on the campaign trail, flogging the site and Gates' candidacy." A blog post at Network World includes a lot of eye-rolling about this idea, but neither Adams nor the folks at the 'Gates for President' website seem to be taking this lightly.

So What If Linux Infringes On Microsoft IP? 394

Posted by Zonk on Saturday November 25, 2006 @07:26AM from the yeah-that's-right-wait-what dept.

Mr Men writes to mention a ZDNet blog entry by Adrian Kingsley-Hughes wondering aloud if maybe, just maybe, Microsoft isn't lying about having patents that are part of Linux. "Come on, no matter how much of a Linux fan you are, you have to admit that there's at least a chance that Linux does indeed infringe on Microsoft's patents. After all, Microsoft does hold a lot of patents and while Linux is open source and we can all take a look at the source code, only Microsoft has access to most of its source code so it isn't all that difficult for it to prove — to itself at any rate — that there are IP infringements contained in Linux. After all, before IBM handed over some 500 patents to the open source community, it's pretty clear that Linux was infringing some of them. Given that, why is it so hard to believe that the same isn't going on with Microsoft?" Even then, he goes on to say, so what if they do? It's not like they're going to go after us with a 'Linux tax.' Kingsley-Hughes imagines that, for the most part, Microsoft is just going to sit on this info and use it to form more and more profitable deals. Better than the alternative, I guess.

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