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Confirmed: Developer of software stolen for Green Dam is under attack

Confirmed: Developer of software stolen for Green Dam is under attackGreen dam removal.It seems that if Green Dam is a stolen program then the programs owner should be able to disable it. Why not Bomb all of the Chinese Green dam programs and solve the problem once and for...

Tags: SECURITY, Spyware, adware & malware, Communist, NOW IT, Green Dam, attack, USSR, software

Discussion threads 2009-06-29

Gmail translation = pen pals on steroids for students

Gmail translation = pen pals on steroids for studentsPen pals.....I remember those... As a student, I once had a pen pal in communist Czechoslovakia.The Czech guy always had to be very careful what he wrote, because the communist Secret Service would monitor everything. I once sent him a couple of...

Tags: E-mail providers, communist, Google Gmail

Discussion threads 2009-05-20

Did Vietnam take open source too far?

Did Vietnam take open source too far?Communist or not......it's up to governments to determine what sort of computer software they want to use on their own systems, like any other institution does. It's not like they're forcing private individuals and businesses (I'm told that there are such things in...

Tags: Tools & Techniques, UNIX, software, open source, Communist, Linux, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2009-01-08

China: bent on mass suicide?

China: bent on mass suicide?Tragic. Very sad.But if you consider the overpopulation and their failed attempts at population control, could some of all that be deliberate? :(TypicalThe Communist infatuation with rapid industrialization dates back to at least the 1920s Stalin was a big booster. Combined with the...

Tags: Communist

Discussion threads 2007-08-26

iPhones stolen from Apple store: I think I know how they'll be sold

iPhones stolen from Apple store: I think I know how they'll be soldiphones stolen"communists" - when will you learn...I would try CraigslistPerhaps that is equally obvious, but a little more discreteIs it true...that one of the perps seen leaving the scene was a big sweaty bald guy running down the...

Tags: Apple Store, Apple Inc., Apple iPhone, Communist, developer, phone

Discussion threads 2007-08-23

Linux, Microsoft, and the $3 desktop

As most of you know Mr. Gates went to China last week to announce a $3 license package. Heres the bullet as reported by cnets Ina Fried: Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates is using a speech in Beijing to unveil a new low-cost...

Tags: Vistabulations, Linux, General

Blog posts 2007-04-27

The commie smear against open source

The commie smear against open sourceDo you blame them?The reaction is based on fear. Open Source is a challenge to the current echo system. Many of the old school developers and programmers aren't sure how or if they can make a living in this new world. People get scared when...

Tags: Government, communist, commie, open source, GPL, Dana, software, GNU

Discussion threads 2007-02-20

Craigslist CEO Jim Buckmaster: Delightfully communist

Craigslist CEO Jim Buckmaster: Delightfully communistWhy?Why should Craigslist force ads on people when there are more than enough ads in the world already. Justifying it by saying it could be given to charity is stupid - let people donate to the charities they like rather than have someone else...

Tags: eBay Inc., Anarchy, Jim Buckmaster, Craigslist, Communist, Communism, communist, capitalist, capitalism

Discussion threads 2006-12-07

Linux kernel 'getting buggier,' leader says

Linux kernel 'getting buggier,' leader saysMessage has been deleted.Stupid commentDonnieBoy:Your comment about MS being a communist model is borderline idiotic. To then add a rhetoric statement like "all discussions and news are closely controlled by those in power" is even more absurd. I seriously doubt that you have...

Tags: OPEN SOURCE, Leadership, leader, communist, Microsoft Corp., Linux, sauce, Linux kernel

Discussion threads 2006-05-05

Yahoo accused of helping jail another Chinese writer

Yahoo accused of helping jail another Chinese writerWow, those darn companiesdon't you hate them all that have done similar and such? Equally.Another case ...Al-Jazeera's website was hosted on a US server and had a mirror site in Australia. During the Iraq war, both the companies refused to host Al-Jazeera's website....

Tags: Government, Vertical industries, Yahoo! Inc., Chinese writer, communist, Chinese Government, Google Inc., Al-Jazeera

Discussion threads 2006-04-19

111 mln Internet users in China in 2005

111 mln Internet users in China in 2005No there is isn't111 mln people get access to what the Chineese dictatorship govt allows them to see. Zero people have access to the real internet unless they want to take a chance ending up in a prison labor camp.Don't be too ideological...

Tags: Internet, communist

Discussion threads 2006-01-18

Is open source communist?

Is open source communist?Awesome.Let's move away from the assumption that communism is inherently evil or wrong. If open source is communist, more power to it. The communist methodology seems to be producing pretty high quality software. Pointing to archetypal "evils" is always a sign of a desperate argument.

Tags: communist, IS open source, open source

Discussion threads 2005-09-23

Microsoft, Google duke it out for China

Microsoft, Google duke it out for ChinaCapitalistic greed versus ethicsIt will be interesting to see just how far Microsoft and Google and Yahoo will be prepared to go in assisting the Chinese government to suppress free speech and human rights, in order to make money. American MSN users subject to...

Tags: Government, Vertical industries, Communist, Microsoft Corp., Google Inc., Chinese Government, rep

Discussion threads 2005-07-21

Is open source communist?

Is open source communist?Korea loves LinusThat's South Korea http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/03/29/0322248 The anti-Communist one.Can this get ANY more ridiculous?Only in a GW run administration could such BS even be considered.Let's analyse this a little furtherThe central tenet of Marxism is that capitalists accumulate capital by charging more for products than the actual...

Tags: Marx, Central Control, open source, communist, communism, labour, GPL, capitalist

Discussion threads 2005-03-29

Bill Gates and other communists

Bill Gates and other communistsGates communist, Stallman capitalisthe, he, he!Richard Stallman is so right!Bill Gates is a convicted criminal who deserves LIFE without parole !There is no doubt that Dollar Bill and his MICROSUCKS cronies have been found to have violated any number of laws including anti-trust, yet this SOB...

Tags: Bill Gates, patent, communist

Discussion threads 2005-02-16

Bill Gates: Chairman of the couch

Bill Gates: Chairman of the couchCant't wait - chairman of the bathroomThere is a spot there for entertainment. After all some even read magazines... and some do something else I guess.Good thing he's always wrong... and he's pretty delusional.Nice blue screen and hang during the presentation, Billy!Bill Gates: Chairman of...

Tags: Media Center PCs, Consumer electronics, Desktops, Microsoft Corp., couch, Bill Gates, PC, communist, DVD, Bill G, capitalism

Discussion threads 2005-01-06

Additional Resources

I'm in a nanny state state of mind

Business can help ...if employees who smoke during the workday are not allowed "smoking breaks" to do so. Alternatively, if non-smoking employees demanded equal breaks with smokers, business might get the drift.Some businesses do helpThere are businesses that offer smoking cessation programs on their own dime, knowing the money they'll...

Tags: Taxes, Financial Planning, Free trade, Vertical industries, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, insurance, TFB, agony, smoker, tax

Discussion threads 2009-11-13

Could be a trend--million Energy Star homes

Out of work peopleWith more people out of work, I am sure thisis going to go great, since the banks are notlending money and now they need more 'free'money from the Gov.More pipe dreams of a failed government.Ok, off-topic but.... Africa - we want your Money!So, now that I have...

Tags: Recruitment & Selection, Toyota Motor Corp., job

Discussion threads 2009-11-12

Scary study on how lack of IPOs is harming US economy

The cart before the horse?With low skilled/educated labor and low negative savings rate, I don't think the ingredients for a fundamental rebound exist in the US. I guess Wall Street would like to continue to be able to fleece us, but hopefully, being taken once is enough for most investors....

Tags: Sarbanes-Oxley, Regulatory compliance, Regulations, Sarbanes-Oxley Act, economic destruction, same policy, IPO, carbon tax, USSR, socialist

Discussion threads 2009-11-06

Wal-mart preempts Black Friday with HDTV specials this Saturday

China made productsYES all we need is more 'Made In China' to get the economy churning....Bring it home to 'China' no longer USA because we are like Rome we manufacture nothing, we import everything and borrowing TRILLIONS from China.How long will this last I would say as long as they...

Tags: TVs, TV & Home Theater, HDTV, manufacturing, Wal-Mart Stores Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-11-05