I'm sorry, but I am not going to waste my resources storing every email every one of my customers has received from now until kingdom come. Unlike Google, I don't have the spare cash sitting around for that kind of storage space. Make it a law and I bet you see a surge of ISPs basing their servers offshore to protect their investment (customer privacy mainly).
Secondly, the privacy concern
So the FBI reading my sarcastic emails to friends and family is going to help us catch a bunch of terrorists who, last I heard, had one webmaster who was stupid enough to get himself arrested in Germany? I've got news for you guys: Teenagers, CEOs, and computer enthusiasts coordinate things through the internet. I imagine terrorists prefer suicide bombing training camps or mountain hideaways for their secret conferences. Besides, we haven't heard anything of Al Qaeda declaring Jihad on Microsoft over Netmeeting or even MSN Messenger, so it is highly doubtful that they have tried to use them.:p
As far as 'terrorist websites' go, the FBI just needs to get some of their buds at the CIA to break into the server and plant a basic hit reporter. Figure out who is logging in and making changes, and you've got your man.
I don't think they're too concerned about star systems, it's the "rebel smuggling scum" they seem to be trying to stop...
Am I the only one who thinks this is ridiculous? If people are pirating things, it's likely that they can not afford it or wouldn't afford it if they had to buy it through normal channels. Therefore a company working to prevent piracy is spending money on a venture that is not profitable for them in the end (that is, unless they turn to suing the socks off people who are found guilty) and that generally pisses off the genuine customers attempting to use the product they paid for. Why bother?
Sitting your child in front of a talking box all day instead of having a real human taking care of them impairs their ability to communicate? Who would have thunk it?
Though I am no expert in child behavior or learning styles, from what I have heard/seem most all children learn by observing. If most of their attention is devoted to passive entertainment (Television), they are observing a system in which they do not get to interact or communicate within.
Though I don't want to pull a Jack Thompson here and blame the tech for all of today's problems, I also think television is at least partially responsible for many of the behavioral "conditions" faced by today's children (mainly ADD). I don't deny the existence of ADD as a valid condition, however it is my belief that it's a learned trait rather than a naturally occuring condition and that television helps it along quite a bit. Maybe I am way off base here (Dammit Jim, I'm an engineer not a Children's psychologist!) however I think that reducing the amount of time kids spend in front of the bewb tube can only be a good thing, even if it only means they have to spend more time with their folks.:)
I think Cisco just should have labeled their patent 'The Internet' and been done with it.
Fortunately for Ted Stephens I didn't see any mention of tubes in there, so his fictional reality is outside the bounds of this patent and thus safe from the likes of Cisco.:)
Given the average intelligence of the people assosiated with Jack Thompson and his anti-videogame 'movement', I doubt any of them are smart enough to actualy get the computer game installed and running, much less have the skill to get past even the first stages of the game.
And what good is him having an advance copy going to do anyone, other than the fact that he will have a few extra words to the rants he's been making about the game from day 1. Heck, I didn't even know about the game until I heard him blabbing about it. Maybe he should realize that he's just turned into free advertising for the game and shut up?
Nahh, that would be too mature a move for him. He's content to make a fool out of himself, again.
We should add a few letters to ICANN's name, therefore making it "ICANNOT." They literally supervise domain names and the IP space, however that's about it.
Now if Spamhaus registered the domain with GoDaddy, all 'e360' needs to do is say the site contains some severely questionable content and down the domain will go. GoDaddy has a good history with that...
The Internet is the only place where:
Men are really Women
Women are really Men
And the children are really the FBI
I doubt that figure is anywhere close to an accurate representation of the "real numbers" if the number of female gamers I know is any indicator.:(
If you're suggesting switching to an alternate operating system, I do run Linux for my small webhosting company (http://www.offbeathosting.com) as well as on several boxes that serve various tasks at home (including my Linksys router). In my opinion Linux is far superior to Windows in the server field, and I take advantage of this as often as I can.
My college runs Windows exclusively, all the machines at my dayjob run Windows, the majority (if not all) of my webhosting customers run Windows, and so on. In addition, game support for Linux exists but is pretty weak in comparison to the support for Windows.:(
The thing with Windows is it has become the market standard for desktop operating systems, using anything else as my primary desktop OS may give me moral high-ground over those who fork over $$$ to Microsoft (or who don an eye patch, raise the Jolly Roger, and set off to sail the tubes), however in the end it would cost me a good deal of extra time. What I have found is that on Windows, things tend to either work or not work. On Linux, things tend to either work or could work, depending on how much time you spend on it. While I consider myself to have an absolutist personality (could you tell?), I have found that I need to make compromises so that I can get work done at the end of the day (or have fun at the end of the day!). For the moment, Windows is one of those compromises.
If you're suggesting the method to do with eye patches and peg legs, I don't subscribe to that train of thought.:)
Maybe I'm just cynical, but somehow I am expecting to hear reports of these giving off false positives. For example: The T-Mobile rep who sold me my phone fat-fingered the number while getting everything set up, which resulted in screwing up both my service and the service of the person who owned the "new" number the rep had generated (more proof that typos are not reliable random number generators). Imagine that applied to these Cellphone alarms.
I imagine car alarms sounded just as great on paper, but the number of false positives they generate is incredible (disclaimer: I think car alarms are a great deterrent and use one). If the misfire rate on these cellphone alarms was even a small issue it could face consumer rejection due to the fear of their Cellphone being a proverbial timebomb waiting to embarrass them in public, at work, or (in my case) in class. At least with a car alarm you don't carry your car with you (if you do please reply and explain how you accomplish this feat), so it generally won't be interrupting your board meeting or examinations if it goes off. I'm all about screwing people who steal my stuff, but not at the expense of me facing the same treatment for just owning the darn thing.:)
Make sure you don't buy any DVDs either, what with region codes and encryption and such. Laserdiscs are where it's at, anyway.;-)
Good point, however by the time I started getting picky about it the encryption had already been cracked for quite some time and it has slipped under my radar. The fact that the companies producing the "protected" media decided to continue using the cracked encryption rather than risk disrupting the consumer market (and therefore their cash flow) by releasing a new ecryption standard has also helped a bit. I guess I should add DVDs as an exception, even though I think I can count the number of DVDs I have purchased on one hand (the rest have come as gifts). You can surmise that I do not have many DVDs.:)
Upon a little thought I have realised that I also failed to list compuer games, which represent yet another potential grey line in my personal vendetta against DRM. Starforce is evil (on my black list), yet Safedisc and whatnot are so easy to circumvent that I hardly count them as DRM. I guess it's a result of computer games requiring the CD/Floppy to play since I was a wee lad. Perhaps it is a bit hypocritical, however the alternative (an eye patch and peg-leg) is less appealing than paying for a game I have to work on a little to play.:)
I can see some of their point, however I think they're trying to err on the side of the content creator/publisher.
I still maintain that I should have the right to keep copies of ebooks and music I own on as many of my own digital devices as I please. I can not use it all at once (I can multitask, just not that well), and would have to lend my digital device to a friend in order to break the intent of fair-use (and how many times have you loaned a book or CD to a friend?).
I think I'll just stick with my personal DRM-Ban and leave it at that. I won't buy anything that employs any form of DRM (with the only exception being Windows, which I purchased then removed WPA and WGA). This includes eBooks, which thanks to Microsoft I have $100 worth or so of ebooks which are locked to an account that I have been locked out of (apparently upgrading one's computer or portable device a couple times each within a 6 year period is abnormal and breaks some sort of fair-use law). It also includes purchasing music downloads and CDs that contain DRM. I don't care if I can remove it, I will not give money to a company that employs those methods of "protecting their copyrights."
The only way the companies will learn is if you speak with your wallet, the Dollar (or Euro/Pound for you blokes on the other side of the pond) truely is the most basic and effective form of communication.:)
Actually, the Killer NIC's CPU is a relatively puny little embedded chip. I doubt it could provide much in the way of folding power.:(
Additionally, I am impressed by the speed increase but am left waiting for an nVidia gfx card client. I don't buy ATI cards due to their incredible suck quotient*.
* The suck quotient is a very complex number derived from the number of hours swearing at their drivers and then their tech support after my card died.
When you allow companies to save mass amounts of information, mass amounts of information, about the searches performed on the tubes, the tubes could get clogged with all this information. Therefore, instead of allowing this information to accumulate on the walls of the tubes, we are putting forth a mandate that all search engines clean their tubes on a yearly basis. To protect privacy. To protect the tubes. To save the internets!
Comcast has been nothing but crappy to me since they aquired AT&T's broadband division several years ago. They had absolutely no competition in the area, and therefore no reason to bother being decent to their customers. They lied about service problems, sent techs out who knew absolutely nothing about what they were doing, and then tried over-billing for their 'services.'
This has changed with Verizon's major FIOS push in my area. The day FIOS became avalible I dropped comcast broadband like a rock and switched over. Part of the FIOS installation also involves converting the phone landline over to verizon's digital network, and it didn't require me to do anything! Now if only FIOS TV will come out I will be completely free of comcast.:)
I agree. In my opinion, the democratic party has been dying due to the large number of 'independant' style canidates they have been accepting into their ranks for the past several years. They now represent an extreme liberal point of view, which quite frankly can be downright frightening at times.
I'm pretty annoyed with both major parties at the moment, nearly every election I have the chance to vote in both canidates are complete morons and I am compelled to vote for the one who I think is going to make the fewest screwups rather than the person who I think will be a better leader.:(
If they are still running on Windows 98/ME with original hardware, it's rather likely that these are unsavvy users who still insist that they should feed their mouse on a regular basis and use their CD-ROM drive as a cup-holder.
As such, I doubt that they care that Microsoft no longer supports their operating system of choice (if they have even heard about it in the first place). If they have heard about it and care, my best guess is that this demographic would go out and buy a new computer or decide that they can live with their current one.
That being said, even the last of my less-than-savvy relatives converted away from Win 9x over a year ago (purchased a new computer). I doubt there are any serious computer users left running such an archaic operating system.
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"Less is more!"
:)
"It isn't the size that counts, it's how you use it."
And you could go on...
First, the practical:
:p
I'm sorry, but I am not going to waste my resources storing every email every one of my customers has received from now until kingdom come. Unlike Google, I don't have the spare cash sitting around for that kind of storage space. Make it a law and I bet you see a surge of ISPs basing their servers offshore to protect their investment (customer privacy mainly).
Secondly, the privacy concern
So the FBI reading my sarcastic emails to friends and family is going to help us catch a bunch of terrorists who, last I heard, had one webmaster who was stupid enough to get himself arrested in Germany? I've got news for you guys: Teenagers, CEOs, and computer enthusiasts coordinate things through the internet. I imagine terrorists prefer suicide bombing training camps or mountain hideaways for their secret conferences. Besides, we haven't heard anything of Al Qaeda declaring Jihad on Microsoft over Netmeeting or even MSN Messenger, so it is highly doubtful that they have tried to use them.
As far as 'terrorist websites' go, the FBI just needs to get some of their buds at the CIA to break into the server and plant a basic hit reporter. Figure out who is logging in and making changes, and you've got your man.
I don't think they're too concerned about star systems, it's the "rebel smuggling scum" they seem to be trying to stop...
Am I the only one who thinks this is ridiculous? If people are pirating things, it's likely that they can not afford it or wouldn't afford it if they had to buy it through normal channels. Therefore a company working to prevent piracy is spending money on a venture that is not profitable for them in the end (that is, unless they turn to suing the socks off people who are found guilty) and that generally pisses off the genuine customers attempting to use the product they paid for. Why bother?
Great idea, you first... :)
Sitting your child in front of a talking box all day instead of having a real human taking care of them impairs their ability to communicate? Who would have thunk it?
:)
Though I am no expert in child behavior or learning styles, from what I have heard/seem most all children learn by observing. If most of their attention is devoted to passive entertainment (Television), they are observing a system in which they do not get to interact or communicate within.
Though I don't want to pull a Jack Thompson here and blame the tech for all of today's problems, I also think television is at least partially responsible for many of the behavioral "conditions" faced by today's children (mainly ADD). I don't deny the existence of ADD as a valid condition, however it is my belief that it's a learned trait rather than a naturally occuring condition and that television helps it along quite a bit. Maybe I am way off base here (Dammit Jim, I'm an engineer not a Children's psychologist!) however I think that reducing the amount of time kids spend in front of the bewb tube can only be a good thing, even if it only means they have to spend more time with their folks.
I think Cisco just should have labeled their patent 'The Internet' and been done with it.
:)
Fortunately for Ted Stephens I didn't see any mention of tubes in there, so his fictional reality is outside the bounds of this patent and thus safe from the likes of Cisco.
Too bad he doesn't have a bunch of trucks to go with them, tubes don't just carry themselves places now do they?
Given the average intelligence of the people assosiated with Jack Thompson and his anti-videogame 'movement', I doubt any of them are smart enough to actualy get the computer game installed and running, much less have the skill to get past even the first stages of the game.
And what good is him having an advance copy going to do anyone, other than the fact that he will have a few extra words to the rants he's been making about the game from day 1. Heck, I didn't even know about the game until I heard him blabbing about it. Maybe he should realize that he's just turned into free advertising for the game and shut up?
Nahh, that would be too mature a move for him. He's content to make a fool out of himself, again.
Intel should just purchase Transmeta outright, between their engineering crew and patents it would be a smart move.
:)
Deffo would make more sense to me than the rumored purchase of nVidia.
We should add a few letters to ICANN's name, therefore making it "ICANNOT." They literally supervise domain names and the IP space, however that's about it.
Now if Spamhaus registered the domain with GoDaddy, all 'e360' needs to do is say the site contains some severely questionable content and down the domain will go. GoDaddy has a good history with that...
The Internet is the only place where: Men are really Women Women are really Men And the children are really the FBI I doubt that figure is anywhere close to an accurate representation of the "real numbers" if the number of female gamers I know is any indicator. :(
I for one welcome our new laser-armed lego overlords!
I'd rather hang on to my conventional leather wallet, those metal ones don't look like they would make sitting a whole lot of fun. :(
If you're suggesting switching to an alternate operating system, I do run Linux for my small webhosting company (http://www.offbeathosting.com) as well as on several boxes that serve various tasks at home (including my Linksys router). In my opinion Linux is far superior to Windows in the server field, and I take advantage of this as often as I can.
:(
:)
My college runs Windows exclusively, all the machines at my dayjob run Windows, the majority (if not all) of my webhosting customers run Windows, and so on. In addition, game support for Linux exists but is pretty weak in comparison to the support for Windows.
The thing with Windows is it has become the market standard for desktop operating systems, using anything else as my primary desktop OS may give me moral high-ground over those who fork over $$$ to Microsoft (or who don an eye patch, raise the Jolly Roger, and set off to sail the tubes), however in the end it would cost me a good deal of extra time. What I have found is that on Windows, things tend to either work or not work. On Linux, things tend to either work or could work, depending on how much time you spend on it. While I consider myself to have an absolutist personality (could you tell?), I have found that I need to make compromises so that I can get work done at the end of the day (or have fun at the end of the day!). For the moment, Windows is one of those compromises.
If you're suggesting the method to do with eye patches and peg legs, I don't subscribe to that train of thought.
Maybe I'm just cynical, but somehow I am expecting to hear reports of these giving off false positives. For example: The T-Mobile rep who sold me my phone fat-fingered the number while getting everything set up, which resulted in screwing up both my service and the service of the person who owned the "new" number the rep had generated (more proof that typos are not reliable random number generators). Imagine that applied to these Cellphone alarms.
:)
I imagine car alarms sounded just as great on paper, but the number of false positives they generate is incredible (disclaimer: I think car alarms are a great deterrent and use one). If the misfire rate on these cellphone alarms was even a small issue it could face consumer rejection due to the fear of their Cellphone being a proverbial timebomb waiting to embarrass them in public, at work, or (in my case) in class. At least with a car alarm you don't carry your car with you (if you do please reply and explain how you accomplish this feat), so it generally won't be interrupting your board meeting or examinations if it goes off. I'm all about screwing people who steal my stuff, but not at the expense of me facing the same treatment for just owning the darn thing.
Make sure you don't buy any DVDs either, what with region codes and encryption and such. Laserdiscs are where it's at, anyway. ;-)
:)
:)
Good point, however by the time I started getting picky about it the encryption had already been cracked for quite some time and it has slipped under my radar. The fact that the companies producing the "protected" media decided to continue using the cracked encryption rather than risk disrupting the consumer market (and therefore their cash flow) by releasing a new ecryption standard has also helped a bit. I guess I should add DVDs as an exception, even though I think I can count the number of DVDs I have purchased on one hand (the rest have come as gifts). You can surmise that I do not have many DVDs.
Upon a little thought I have realised that I also failed to list compuer games, which represent yet another potential grey line in my personal vendetta against DRM. Starforce is evil (on my black list), yet Safedisc and whatnot are so easy to circumvent that I hardly count them as DRM. I guess it's a result of computer games requiring the CD/Floppy to play since I was a wee lad. Perhaps it is a bit hypocritical, however the alternative (an eye patch and peg-leg) is less appealing than paying for a game I have to work on a little to play.
I can see some of their point, however I think they're trying to err on the side of the content creator/publisher.
:)
I still maintain that I should have the right to keep copies of ebooks and music I own on as many of my own digital devices as I please. I can not use it all at once (I can multitask, just not that well), and would have to lend my digital device to a friend in order to break the intent of fair-use (and how many times have you loaned a book or CD to a friend?).
I think I'll just stick with my personal DRM-Ban and leave it at that. I won't buy anything that employs any form of DRM (with the only exception being Windows, which I purchased then removed WPA and WGA). This includes eBooks, which thanks to Microsoft I have $100 worth or so of ebooks which are locked to an account that I have been locked out of (apparently upgrading one's computer or portable device a couple times each within a 6 year period is abnormal and breaks some sort of fair-use law). It also includes purchasing music downloads and CDs that contain DRM. I don't care if I can remove it, I will not give money to a company that employs those methods of "protecting their copyrights."
The only way the companies will learn is if you speak with your wallet, the Dollar (or Euro/Pound for you blokes on the other side of the pond) truely is the most basic and effective form of communication.
Actually, the Killer NIC's CPU is a relatively puny little embedded chip. I doubt it could provide much in the way of folding power. :(
Additionally, I am impressed by the speed increase but am left waiting for an nVidia gfx card client. I don't buy ATI cards due to their incredible suck quotient*.
* The suck quotient is a very complex number derived from the number of hours swearing at their drivers and then their tech support after my card died.
When you allow companies to save mass amounts of information, mass amounts of information, about the searches performed on the tubes, the tubes could get clogged with all this information. Therefore, instead of allowing this information to accumulate on the walls of the tubes, we are putting forth a mandate that all search engines clean their tubes on a yearly basis. To protect privacy. To protect the tubes. To save the internets!
Comcast has been nothing but crappy to me since they aquired AT&T's broadband division several years ago. They had absolutely no competition in the area, and therefore no reason to bother being decent to their customers. They lied about service problems, sent techs out who knew absolutely nothing about what they were doing, and then tried over-billing for their 'services.' This has changed with Verizon's major FIOS push in my area. The day FIOS became avalible I dropped comcast broadband like a rock and switched over. Part of the FIOS installation also involves converting the phone landline over to verizon's digital network, and it didn't require me to do anything! Now if only FIOS TV will come out I will be completely free of comcast. :)
I agree. In my opinion, the democratic party has been dying due to the large number of 'independant' style canidates they have been accepting into their ranks for the past several years. They now represent an extreme liberal point of view, which quite frankly can be downright frightening at times.
:(
:)
I'm pretty annoyed with both major parties at the moment, nearly every election I have the chance to vote in both canidates are complete morons and I am compelled to vote for the one who I think is going to make the fewest screwups rather than the person who I think will be a better leader.
Next election, vote Pirate Party!
So, the real question is: Will these episodes be aired on our planet? :)
If they are still running on Windows 98/ME with original hardware, it's rather likely that these are unsavvy users who still insist that they should feed their mouse on a regular basis and use their CD-ROM drive as a cup-holder. As such, I doubt that they care that Microsoft no longer supports their operating system of choice (if they have even heard about it in the first place). If they have heard about it and care, my best guess is that this demographic would go out and buy a new computer or decide that they can live with their current one. That being said, even the last of my less-than-savvy relatives converted away from Win 9x over a year ago (purchased a new computer). I doubt there are any serious computer users left running such an archaic operating system.
I for one welcome our new pirate-speaking overlords... Yarr!
I for one welcome the return of our, erm, dead Tolkin overlord!