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Green Eggs and Tons of SPAM

I am ashamed to actually say that I am from the state of Illinois, in the United States. Why? Because people in the United States currently live in a society where child predators roam the land freely, yet a company whose number one job is to prevent all of us from receiving SPAM is ordered by our court system to shutdown its domain. It seems that going after a company, for one that doesn’t even reside in the United States, because it did its job, is more important than defending our children. As it seems to me as well, I think our government puts in more work alienating other countries, then it does actually providing their own citizens the services they promised to carry on. I have an idea you dumb arse government of mine, why don’t you go after crooked politicians. Oh, I am sorry, this would take up all of the court systems time and you wouldn’t be able to go after some other country.

“Judge Kocoras is in his 70s and probably signed whatever was put in front of him” – Steve Linford, CEO The Spamhaus Project

Spamhaus, a company from the UK, blacklisted e360 Insight LLC. e360 Insight is a mass-mailing-marketing agency. In other words they are a SPAMMER. The great state of Illinois, in Chicago at that, actually went against Spamhaus and slapped them with a $11,715,000 punitive damages suit. Spamhaus pretty much told the court to piss off and didn’t pay up. I don’t blame them, how could a US court tell a company that isn’t even in the US what to do? I am sick of this “we are the leaders of the free world” crap, it has to stop at a certain point, and we need to realize we don’t have to own everything and rule everything.

Right now, the big things going on in the United States is of course ex-Rep. Foley and his sexually charged emails to his male teenage Pages. The other big story is closing the border to Mexico. You know what, if I was the congress, instead of spending all of that money to build a fence, how about setting up schools at the border and teaching the people crossing just how stupid we really are. Maybe they will go, “no way Jose,” and turn around in a hurry!I wonder if the stupidity of our judicial system and our government have to do anything with our GDP falling? I mean, maybe we can piss off more countries, and then just maybe, they will stop purchasing from us. I can’t wait for the day other countries tell Walmart, McDonalds, and others to piss off and kick rocks! The US is a hypocrisy not a democracy.

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I Ran So Far Away

<- That should definitely be the logo:”Flock(For all you young hipsters, that is the hairdo of Mike Score from the Flock of Seagulls)”:http://www.flock.com! I am posting this right now from the Flock web browser. I have been playing with Flock for a few days right now, and I think it is pretty darn cool. Now, it all depends on if this post works or not of course, so this is a test.

If you download and install flock, you can definitely see the close resemblance to Firefox. Artwork and layout are just a tad bit different, but the included little scripts are pretty neat. If you aren’t aware of this just yet, Flock calls itself the “Social Web Browser,” as it allows you to post to many different social sites right from the browser itself. Here are just a few of the sites:

  • WordPress
  • MySpace (I know you Ubuntu developers hide on MySpace)
  • Flickr

There is of course a lot more to it, but I am trying to learn some of the stuff. I enjoy the fact it is of course OSS, and it seems pretty darn stable and responsive. I even notice it load quicker than Firefox and operate quicker as well.

Blogged with Flock

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Africanized Killer Bee?

Is Ubuntu an Africanized Killer Bee? Inquiring minds want to know!

It seems as if C|net’s News.com thinks there is a great chance of Ubuntu becoming as mainstream in the enterprise market as Red Hat and Novell are. In a recent article, “Canonical seeks profit from free Ubuntu,” the plans for Ubuntu to not only become profitable, but very successful in a new market is something the entire community deserves. Mark Shuttleworth worked hard to go from a dream to reality, and with the community support that has been going on for two years now, there just might be another dream to reality story.

“If I were Red Hat or Novell, I would be watching Canonical’s moves very closely,” said The 451 Group analyst Raven Zachary. “It has the BUZZ in the open-source community that Red Hat had in the late 1990s.”

I think this is awesome. On a side note, I ran across a post that linked to this story, and became annoyed by a comment. I am going to chop this comment, but I think you get the idea behind it:

“I think one of the reasons “desktop linux” hasn’t taken off like predicted is because there is too much with it……see all the software you get for FREE that you’d have to pay for on Windows!”……..The problem comes when you have to SUPPORT all that junk. It is a nightmare because of the complexity………Good luck to Canonical. Personally, I think the players are going to be either Red Hat or Novell unless someone like IBM decides to get in the business.”

Linux has to much, and Microsoft has to little, and you refer to “FREE” in a monetary environment. Linux is “Free” as in the matter of liberty, not cost. All that “junk” as you put it, isn’t just supported by one company, it is supported by millions of developers and users. Plus in most cases, one person’s junk, is another person’s treasure. Also, I thought IBM was already in the business with Red Hat and Novell? And with the recent issues facing Novell, I would think this would create a greater chance of a higher success rate. Maybe you forgot about another major player in that market known as Sun Microsystems? I highly doubt that Sun will be the last to work along side Canonical and Ubuntu as well.

I say continue on Canonical and Ubuntu, do what you have to do to fix Bug #1 (I know this bug gets under you non-open source marketer’s skin).

EDIT: Sorry, but HERE IS A LINK that I forgot to add, showing Ubuntu as an IBM Partner.

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