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Is population growth, a Ponzi-scheme? | 59 comments | Create New Account
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Is population growth, a Ponzi-scheme?
Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, August 17 2012 @ 03:51 AM EDT
I read a remark "population shrinking is a deadly threat for the
Ponzi-scheme" at
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/financialcrisis/9480990/Finland-prepares-for-
break-up-of-eurozone.html#disqus_thread

Is the perpetual population growth a necessity for continued financial growth? I
recall having read somewhere that US continued financial growth was in part made
possible thanks to two centuries of immigration.

Still, I haven't thought of it along the lines of a Ponzi-scheme. Could there be
anything to that idea? That as soon as a country's population stagnates the
economy collapses? Could Japan be an example of this? I have no idea how viable
the image is but thought it was a thought provoking idea, and name.

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Helios needs money for medical help
Authored by: David Gerard on Friday, August 17 2012 @ 04:23 AM EDT
Ken Starks, the author of the Helios blog, about putting Linux on cheap computers for poor kids, hasn't been very active on line lately, because he's fighting cancer. His Social Security is too high to get Medicare, so he needs money for medical expenses (medicines and surgery). See also here. They don't have a target dollar amount listed.

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Windows 8 review: Yes, it's that bad
Authored by: Gringo_ on Friday, August 17 2012 @ 08:10 AM EDT

Woody Leonhard at InfoWorld writes about the final Release to Manufacturer version of Windows 8 and concludes you are not going to like it.

In RTM, the transfer from the Vista-era Aero interface to the boxy, opaque, shadowless, glowless, and shine-free flatland style pioneered in Windows 3.1 seems complete.

I can confirm after months in the trenches and talking with many hundreds of testers that anyone who defines "real work" as typing and mousing won't like Windows 8 one little bit.

Now that Windows 8 has arrived (today for MSDN and TechNet subscribers, and tomorrow for Microsoft Partner Network members and Volume Licensees), the harsh analogies - - "Windows Frankenstein," "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde operating system" -- may be applied conclusively. While Windows 8 inherits many of the advantages of Windows 7 -- the manageability, the security (plus integrated antivirus), and the broad compatibility with existing hardware and software -- it takes an axe to usability. The lagging, limited, often hamstrung Metro apps don't help.

Some people think that Windows 8 and Windows 8 Pro tablets will hit the market by storm. Having used Windows 8 on desktops, a laptop, and on a tablet for almost a year now, I'm considerably more skeptical. Although Win8 running on an Intel tablet will undoubtedly solve some specific corporate (and personal) requirements, I certainly don't expect a massive move to Windows 8, either in the office or at home.

One thing is for sure: There's going to be significant demand for Windows 7 laptops and desktops for the foreseeable future.

About that last line: I have been seeing some heavy advertising on my local TV station for HP UltraBooks. The ads begin with the Windows 7 logo forming up as seen on Windows 7 desktops. This heavy promotion of Windows 7 seemed strange to me, coinciding as it does with the launch of Windows 8. My first thought was it is capitalizing on widespread Windows 8 aversion.

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Debian Community celebrated its 19th birthday
Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, August 17 2012 @ 09:52 AM EDT
August 16th, 2012
The Debian community is pleased to celebrate its 19th birthday since Ian Murdock's original founding announcement. Quoting from the official project history: The Debian Project was officially founded by Ian Murdock on August 16th, 1993. At that time, the whole concept of a 'distribution' of Linux was new. Ian intended Debian to be a distribution which would be made openly, in the spirit of Linux and GNU.

A lot has happened to the project and its community in the past nineteen years.

http://www.debian.org/News/2012/20120816

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Samsung shuts the naysayers up once and for all as its Galaxy Note hits the 10 million sale mark
Authored by: SilverWave on Friday, August 17 2012 @ 09:53 AM EDT
Samsung Galaxy Note sales hit 10 million

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RMS: The 4 Freedoms
0 run the program for any purpose
1 study the source code and change it
2 make copies and distribute them
3 publish modified versions

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Germany - File-sharers' details can be handed over for smallest of infringements
Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, August 17 2012 @ 10:45 AM EDT
Germany's top court has ruled that ISPs must hand over the names and addresses of file sharers if rights holders ask for them – regardless of how much music has been shared.
Germany's Federal Court of Law, the Bundesgerichtshof (BGH), has ruled that users of file-sharing sites have no right to remain anonymous, regardless of how much – or little – music they share.

The ruling comes in the case of Naidoo Records vs Deutsche Telekom. Naidoo Records had requested that the German ISP hand over the names and addresses of users of an IP address behind the illegal file-sharing of a piece of music, a new album by German song writer Xavier Naidoo.

The local courts in Cologne - first the Landgericht Köln then the superior court Oberlandesgericht Köln - refused Naidoo Records' request, saying that the breach of copyright would need to be on a commercial scale before the ISP could share the identity of the IP address owner.

The BGH has now overturned the local courts' decisions, ruling that Naidoo Records' request should be granted. Jakob Jung, ZDNet

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Graphing every idea in history
Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, August 17 2012 @ 10:59 AM EDT
Brendan Griffen created a giant network of people, using every profile on
Wikipedia that had an "influenced by" or "influences"
field.

Each node represents a person and is sized by the number of links going in and
is colored by genre.

http://flowingdata.com/2012/07/16/graphing-every-idea-in-history/

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Google Files New Patent Lawsuit Against Apple, Seeks To Block iPhone, iPad & Mac Imports To U.S.
Authored by: kh on Saturday, August 18 2012 @ 01:17 AM EDT
article here

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