Re: Gnome 3 ~ Windows 8?

[Roelof 'Ben' Kusters]

While agreeing with your rant in many ways, I would like to strike a  
slightly different note; it is the destruction of the status quo of  
western society. Absolutely. But that is nothing but change. Change always  
hurts - sometimes many, sometimes a few. But change is also always  
necessary; without it there's no possibility for survival. And you can  
rant at it, and yell and scream how bad it is, or try to steer it, and  
come up with ways of change that would - on your humble opinion - be  
beneficial. Change is gonna happen. And it's gonna destroy the status quo.  
If you ask me, it's very urgent that that happens, because - next to a  
whole new - perhaps Matrix like - approach to social interaction, it will  
make room for other technologies too.

Just one question I want to really comment on:

>  What about the privacy of those "clouds" ? 
Privacy
has been dead since the (in)famous 9/11. Anyone with any influence  
anywhere in the world can know just about anything about you at the  
moment. Particularly if you happen to have either a facebook-related or  
Google-related account. And I know very few people who have neither.

-- 
Greetz,

Roelof Kusters
aka Ben

The internet isn't a highway, it's a swamp: the more you surf, the more it  
draws you in.

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Gnome 3 ~ Windows 8?

[James McKenzie]

On 7/16/11 1:25 PM, JB wrote:
>  Roelof 'Ben' Kusters<web<at>  bentrein.com> 
> writes:
>
> > Change is gonna happen. And it's gonna destroy the status quo.
> > If you ask me, it's very urgent that that happens, because - next to a
> > whole new - perhaps Matrix like - approach to social interaction, it will
> > make room for other technologies too.
> > ...
>  Regarding the social interaction that the "change" will bless us with ...
>
>  Fedora users after SELinux, GNOME 3, and systemd treatment.
>
>
> http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2015034/Owling-new-planking-New-c...
They don't like it.  That is, again, their problem.  The days when Linux 
was inherently secure by obsurity are coming to an end.  What do you 
want do when that happens?  I, for one, want things to remain secure.  
SELinux is the ONLY approved method that I know of that can make an 
entire system secure as possible.

> > ...
> >> What about the privacy of those "clouds" ?
> > ...
>  R. Stallman, "clouds", security, privacy, law.
>
>  http://www.searchenginejournal.com/stallmans-cloud-concerns-fight-for-laws-
>  or-against-technology/26503/ 
Until the United States Congress revokes the U.S.A.
P.A.T.R.I.O.T. act 
your information that leaves your computer is just about public 
knowledge to the U.S. Justice Department.  They have a 'secret' court 
system and can ask for a warrant for just about any reason at any time.  
Interesting how Constitutional lawyers have not brought challenges of 
all types against this overarching and power grabbing law.  In any case, 
we are the ones that have to remember what we say on the Internet is now 
a matter of public record and can be used against us by those who should 
be there to protect us.

James

Gnome 3 ~ Windows 8?

[JB]

Roelof 'Ben' Kusters <web <at> bentrein.com> writes:

>  
>  Change is gonna happen. And it's gonna destroy the status quo.  
>  If you ask me, it's very urgent that that happens, because - next to a  
>  whole new - perhaps Matrix like - approach to social interaction, it will  
>  make room for other technologies too.
>  ... 
Regarding the social interaction that the "change" will bless us with ...

Fedora users after SELinux, GNOME 3, and systemd treatment.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2015034/Owling-new-planking-New-c...

>  ... 
>  > What about the privacy of those "clouds" ?
>  ... 
R. Stallman, "clouds", security, privacy, law.

http://www.searchenginejournal.com/stallmans-cloud-concerns-fight-for-laws-
or-against-technology/26503/

JB