(CNN) - In kindergarten, Owen Kellogg came home sobbing one day because another boy at school had told him that he had a peanut, and that he was going to force Owen to eat it.
CNN was never a good news source - but the combination of Piers Morgan pontificating on the superiority of the British system of non-freedom and now this? Yep, CNN is down the shitter. Read more: http://www.
“[The agreement] recognizes the shift to mobility,” said David G. Simpson, DISA’s vice director and senior procurement executive. “Microsoft is committed to making sure that the technology within the agreement has a mobile-first focus, and we expect to begin to take advantage of Microsoft’s mobile offerings as part of our enterprise mobility ecosystem.”
Make no mistake - there can be no shift to mobility. You cannot productively work with a computer unless you are sitting down and focusing on the task at hand.
Striking piece by Michael Moore on the hypocrisy of saying “I support our troops”. I don’t yet know what the stats are for Canadian troops, though it’s common knowledge that we participate in the same cash/land/resource grabbing operations to our own ethical detriment.
I don’t “support the troops” or any of those other hollow and hypocritical platitudes uttered by Republicans and frightened Democrats. Here’s what I do support: I support them coming home.
When consumers buy a smartphone they expect that there will be a suite of online services run by its vendor - they’ll be told to use these services, and they’ll happily obey. If you ask people to buy a phone and choose their own services and products they’ll freak. No one likes freedom - when they’re beset by it they throw off its shackles with all due haste. Linux also lacks any semblance of a good CalDAV/CardDAV or ActiveSync implementation, which is the foundation of a smartphone’s usefulness as a synchronized e-mail, calendar and contact manager.
The main contention with the deal, the activists say, is that Microsoft products bought by the government are imported, expensive and their code source is usually closed and protected by rigid copyright rules which do not allow for knowledge sharing and generation. Meanwhile, an alternative lies with locally conceived, less expensive software, whose open code source enables copying, sharing and building more software.
I spent a good deal of my time off trying to generate some enthusiasm and appreciation for Windows 8 - surely there had to be wisdom of some kind behind its radical, schizoid redesign.
OH: “No, I’m not a pessimist. The world shits on everybody. Pretending it ain’t shit makes you an idiot, not an optimist.”
I’m firmly in the men’s rights camp at this point, especially because I’ve seen the way women can profit immensely from crying rape, or winning a man’s hard earned money in a divorce settlement forcing him to work until death or flee to a non-treaty country, simply because she has to leave the marriage to find herself yet can’t bear the thought of pulling her socks up and getting a job.
The new technology allows Samsung’s Smart TVs — including Series 7 and Series 8 sets — to display IPTV services provided by Elion (part of the TeliaSonera group) in Estonia. The solution comes with full support for key linear, recording, catch-up and on-demand features.
From a technical point of view this is stupid. Swearing off set top boxes without a standard way to deliver to an IPTV means vendor lock-in at a time when competition is key.
I’ve noted that while a lot of the talk of the UN “taking over the Internet” is American business interest hyperbole, international telcos have been using the upcoming talks about Internet governance to push the international telco dream of forcing content companies to subsidize network builds. It’s a cash grab by government-pampered monopolists, plain and simple.
Right now a secretive organization is meeting in private to make this and other decisions that could have a disastrous impact on the economic potential of the Internet and your freedom to use it.
“If Mr. Ford had shown some contrition before the the judge – some minimal respect for due process and the law – he might well have gotten off. But he did not. The judge, by all accounts a man of probity, was scathing and blunt. He condemned the mayor’s “stubborn sense of entitlement,” and he was exactly right. Mr. Ford’s serial abuses of power were trivial, but they were also relentless and profoundly stupid.
