Amen. The US tax payer paid for and built the infrastructure, the corps should have to abide by their rules if they don't want to then let them build their own infrastructure.
"Market Forces" you mean let the ISPs charge whatever they want for poor service and very poor speed and uptime? Market forces only work when there is competition, in my area I got once choice. Besides how long does one have to live in this "Market Economy" to realize that big corps will do whatever they can to make a dollar. It is in their best interest to not upgrade their networks and charge out the nose. Change on this magnitude will only come to the masses if the government mandates it, its always been like that it always will.
Come to Tennessee, I have neighbors who think the world is 6000 years old and made in 6, 24 hour days. Concepts like science are too complicated for people that closed minded.
kjb
I do not do company work on a personal computer. Thank your boss for offering to pay for the laptop but tell him if he wishes for you to continue working at home either let you remote in to your work PC or use that 1200 to buy you a work laptop, that way if you do happen to do something great its on your laptop not theirs and they will have no claim. Many of my employers have forbidden employees to do company work on personal computers, for just this reason.
Regards,
KJB
There are a couple things I've learned in my short time on earth about getting help when those who should help don't/won't.
1) Call the media. The power of some investigative journalist shoving a microphone in the face of the big guys at the phone company will do wonders.
2) Call your Congressman and find out why the Authorities will not do their job. Congressmen have lackeys who do nothing but call people and exert pressure on those who need to be pressured.
3) If all else fails, Go in person and raise all holy hell. I will guarantee if you sit outside of the phone company headquarters throwing a shit fit, that will get someone's attention in upper management.
I have personally done 2 and 3 and They worked rather well, my situations were resolved in less than a day.
--kjb
I installed the RC1 and the check box is rather obvious. Not to mention IE will throw a fit if its not the default browser next time its opened. As for immoral Nah. Bad practice maybe, but presumably if you are downloading the browser then you are doing so with the intention of making it your default browser, seeing as I don't download random browsers just for the hell of it.
kjb
I went to a midsized Uni in TN(aprox 18,000-22,000 students) no real censorship but they would start blocking protocols that they felt chewed up too much BW irc, BT, and other p2p things. Of course there is a very large Recording industry college at this uni and being about 30 min from nashville and the Music industry the IT people tend to cater to them since they would pull all funding(Blackmailing a Uni good job RIAA). So in my experience this is a common practice. The other problem I saw at this UNI and probably most others is that there were easily 12,000 computers on campus(not counting personal PC in the dorms) and a grand total of 8 IT people. Thats right each IT person was responsible for ~1500 computers. So when problems arise BW or otherwise they tend to go overboard.
All in all they are probably doing the best they can with little to no resources and little to no competence.
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Amen. The US tax payer paid for and built the infrastructure, the corps should have to abide by their rules if they don't want to then let them build their own infrastructure.
"Market Forces" you mean let the ISPs charge whatever they want for poor service and very poor speed and uptime? Market forces only work when there is competition, in my area I got once choice. Besides how long does one have to live in this "Market Economy" to realize that big corps will do whatever they can to make a dollar. It is in their best interest to not upgrade their networks and charge out the nose. Change on this magnitude will only come to the masses if the government mandates it, its always been like that it always will.
Come to Tennessee, I have neighbors who think the world is 6000 years old and made in 6, 24 hour days. Concepts like science are too complicated for people that closed minded. kjb
I do not do company work on a personal computer. Thank your boss for offering to pay for the laptop but tell him if he wishes for you to continue working at home either let you remote in to your work PC or use that 1200 to buy you a work laptop, that way if you do happen to do something great its on your laptop not theirs and they will have no claim. Many of my employers have forbidden employees to do company work on personal computers, for just this reason. Regards, KJB
There are a couple things I've learned in my short time on earth about getting help when those who should help don't/won't.
1) Call the media. The power of some investigative journalist shoving a microphone in the face of the big guys at the phone company will do wonders.
2) Call your Congressman and find out why the Authorities will not do their job. Congressmen have lackeys who do nothing but call people and exert pressure on those who need to be pressured.
3) If all else fails, Go in person and raise all holy hell. I will guarantee if you sit outside of the phone company headquarters throwing a shit fit, that will get someone's attention in upper management.
I have personally done 2 and 3 and They worked rather well, my situations were resolved in less than a day.
--kjb
I installed the RC1 and the check box is rather obvious. Not to mention IE will throw a fit if its not the default browser next time its opened. As for immoral Nah. Bad practice maybe, but presumably if you are downloading the browser then you are doing so with the intention of making it your default browser, seeing as I don't download random browsers just for the hell of it. kjb
I went to a midsized Uni in TN(aprox 18,000-22,000 students) no real censorship but they would start blocking protocols that they felt chewed up too much BW irc, BT, and other p2p things. Of course there is a very large Recording industry college at this uni and being about 30 min from nashville and the Music industry the IT people tend to cater to them since they would pull all funding(Blackmailing a Uni good job RIAA). So in my experience this is a common practice. The other problem I saw at this UNI and probably most others is that there were easily 12,000 computers on campus(not counting personal PC in the dorms) and a grand total of 8 IT people. Thats right each IT person was responsible for ~1500 computers. So when problems arise BW or otherwise they tend to go overboard.
All in all they are probably doing the best they can with little to no resources and little to no competence.