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  1. Re:Parallels to the Union movement last century by mikael · · Score: 2, Interesting · on Foxconn May Close Factories In China

    The Lima Declaration of 1975"

    A promise to hand over 30% of manufacturing capacity of developed countries to developing countries with no regard to the financial consequences of their own citizens. The only action taken was to maintain the benefits system.

  2. They had a HUGE disparity then as well. by krell · · Score: 1 · on Proposal to Update the Electoral College

    " don't think they anticipated our disparity in state populations. I think the ratio between California and Wyoming is close to 100:1."

    This sort of thing is easy to check. Look at this page of population stats:

    http://merrill.olm.net/mdocs/pop/colonies/colonies .htm

    Compare the population of Virginia to Tennessee in 1770. The disparity was 447:1: significantly greater than that between modern California and Wyoming. (I know they didn't count slaves or likely Indians either. But these was the population picture they were looking at at the time: this is what they considered for voting and representation).

  3. Free hosting is a bad bargain by Frank+T.+Lofaro+Jr. · · Score: 4, Insightful · on Using Google to Calculate Web Decay

    Why do so many people use crap like Angelfire, Tripod, Homestead with all their bandwidth limits, restrictions, ads and blocking of remote image loads?

    Not to mention that well over 50% of the time any search engine result that points to Angelfire in particular points to a 404 Not Found. This is much more than what I experience with other sites. Do their users get kicked off often, or just go away, or what? I don't even bother clicking on those results unless it looks like the content is truly compelling. And thank God for Google's cache.

    I can understand if some truly can't afford hosting, but even for these people, even Geocities is much better!

    Somehow I doubt the majority of those people using Angelfire, Tripod, etc can't afford hosting.

    Well, after the dot-com world gets a little more squeezed, those sites may no longer exist. Too bad that many people won't bother rehosting their content and will just drop off the web.

    olm.net offers Linux based hosting for under $9/month. No I don't work for them, but I am a (satisfied) customer.

    $9 a month - and you won't piss off your users.

    (Yes I know their other packages are more - but the $9 a month package is better than any of the free services)

    Don't EVEN get me started on organizations and commercial BUSINESSES (ack!) that use free hosting - that is so unprofessional. I don't think I'd want to do business with a company (even a local store) that wouldn't/couldn't pay $9 a month to have a less annoying and more reliable website.

    Of course, some of the content out on the Web isn't even worth $9/month, heck some of it has NEGATIVE worth. ;) Of course, then it isn't worth looking at, so who cares if it is even hosted.

  4. Re:Klingons love excellent device by Radish03 · · Score: 2 · on Wearable Translators

    That reminded me of this. Not the greatest, but kinda neat.

  5. Linux in a box? by Segfault+11 · · Score: 4 · on Linux In A Box
    Woohoo! I've always wanted to have Linux in a box. Up until now, it has been stuck inside a bottle on my desktop.

    Oh wait -- does anyone remember this Linux server in a box? You also might be able to get Linux in a box at this site.

    Be sure to check out:

    There are simply not enough things that come in boxes. Just think how shameful it is for all that fruit to be sitting out there naked in the produce section at the grocery store...

  6. CI Host Billing Warning! by TheAlchemist · · Score: 1 · on The CIHost Saga Continues
    After experiencing many of the same problems with CI Host that others have been having (check out alt.www.webmaster), I decided to move to a new hosting company, OLM.Net. Yesterday I faxed in my cancellation request to CI Host (1-888-242-7554), and I also emailed them with the same information (my name, domain to be cancelled as well as reason for cancellation). This morning I received an email from the billing department saying I would have to fax in my request, which fortunately I had already done.

    However, this morning I checked my credit card balance only to discover that CI Host today charged me for another 3 months ofservice, even though I was paid through (around) January 15th. I would know the exact date if I could actually view my invoice online, but as with cisupport.com, this part of CI Host is still not operational. However, I signed up on October 15th and paid for three months in advance.

    Needless to say, I was pissed and immediately called my credit card company to dispute the charge. I am also attempting to call CI Host, but I'm only getting busy signals when I dial their 1-888-868-9931 number. I highly suggest that anyone who cancelled accounts with CI Host to make sure they didn't charge you for another billing period.

  7. Re:What does it mean for the community? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on Red Hat Buying Cygnus?
    Yes! You are correct, sir. With each and every shrink wrapped box of Red Hat Linux you will receive a Little Orphant Annie decoder ring. Then if you are a good lad and drink your Ovaltine, you can use your decoder ring to unleash the power of Red Hat's secret Cygnus compiler..

    An' the Gobble-uns'll git you --Ef you Don't Watch Out!