Our taxes will pay for it instead of the users. Considering only people with enough money to buy a computer really benifet, it isn't fair to use everyones taxes.
Not to mention that a lot of WiFi's popularity has been helped by commercial hot spots. What incentive do companies have if they know the government will put them out of business?
Disclaimer: I own pre ipo stock at a major hot spot provider.
I hate replying to my post, but I wanted to clear up that I think this court ruling is absurd for all the reasons pointed out in the Article. It seriously threatens grass roots politics, so hopefully it will be overturned.
I still stand by my opinion that if US citizens are regulated in our elections, that foreigners MUST be, although I don't know how this would be enforced
FCC? No, FEC, the Election commision, and they will only regulate as it regards the US Elections. Sticky territory, because there will be plenty of US trails to follow even if a foreign server is involved. And if there are no US citizens involved, you have no business with our campaigns.
It seems many times that they scan the reciept checking that the items exist instead of the other way around. It could be to keep people from being able to say they bought something and left it at the counter.
I of course doubt it and think the door checkers that have dones this probably just didn't care.
Not to mention that CallerID isn't any more secure than the from line of an email address. Sure it takes a little more knowledge and more epensive access (or certain VoIP), but there is no verification.
You really want the state to influence the markup that retailers can charge? If you think it is this bad, open a small store near them, and sell stuff for the markup you think it should be. If your prices are better, and you can make the presense of your store known, you will get the business.
Good luck making enough money to pay the rent, employees, and advertising bills and stay in business though. Competition sets the prices, and thats how it should be. If the local stores loose too much money to online vendors, they will have to lower their prices or stop carrying the items all together.
The problem here is that the per minute costs are still very expensive, and VoIP wouldn't be.
The latency isn't the end of the world, it is jitter that is really a concern. Geo satelites have been used for voice for a long time, and while somewhat anoying, are perfectly usable.
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Someone doesn't know the definition of Coax. By the way, RG6 cable (used by most cable companies) can run component video quote a long ways with decent quality if you solder RCA connectors onto it.
I am sure there are many "conservatives" who want less government that would jump all over this. 1984 isn't far away at this rate. Hopefully Libertarians will take power before all is lost.
I am not opposed to the automated attendance and student tracking within the schools. I am sorry but this could speed things up.
The problem is that it leaves too much room for the students to abuse the system, as another poster said it wouldn't be hard for a student to carry anothers ID in their pocket.
This makes a lot of sense, but if you were in an area served by DSL you could have fled from the cable company's "service". Even if DSL were more expensive, you would have the option of deciding what priority you placed on cost and reliability.
Do you honestly think the Internet service would be at the top of the priority list during an election? It is all going to be about crime, traffic, zoning, etc. The chances of anyone getting voted out over the municipal network are very, very slim.
Depending on how they bill this could be very usefull for chip simulation as well. I setup a 12 node cluster at a previous job and we had jobs that took 10-15 hours. Although I have to admit that a major factor in the size of the cluster were the simulation software licenses.
You failed introductory logic, didn't you? At my college it was a weed-out class, but I found it quite easy.
To say all ants are bugs is not to say all bugs are ants.
The first statement the poster made meant that if you had an iPod you were cool. It didn't mean that there weren't other ways to be cool.
The second statement said you had to have an iPoD to be cool, it didn't state that the iPod made you cool. Now what makes you cool has returned to whatever it used to be (I have no idea, I am too much of a geek). The only difference is that now you MUST have an iPOD, or you end up uncool.
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If the goverment doesn't over regulate VoIP, there should still be enough competition to make up for the monopoly. It might even help push things like ENUM to allow us to start to truely break free.
I like that idea. I might just have to do it. Only catch is all I have is VoIP trunks. I am not sure want to dedicate the bandwidth to run a call in and back out (my unlimited local only supports G.711, which requires about 85kbits).
As it is, my outgoing instate calls are a flat $12.00/mo, and my out of state and incoming toll free are $0.02/minute with International running around $.05/minute. I wouldn't save much with this.
In the FAQ it talks briefly of privacy, saying there isn't any.
I have an Asterisk PBX at home, and it is very easy to set the system up to log and record every call. Imagine if I joined Bellster (which I don't plan to, my VoIP services are already insanely cheap) what type of privacy violations I could commit? Granted it would be illeagal to listen to or record a conversation without either parties concent, who would know?
My overclocked TI-85 (I think about 8 years ago..) was wonderfull. I frequently did complex calculations that it vastly sped up, and the battery drain didn't seem too bad.
Too bad I damaged the calculator on my 2nd attempt with a slip of the soldering iron. $100 isn't the end of the world now, but it sucked then.
Well, I wasn't saying it was hard to use the others, just what the default settings and the regulatory bodys said.
I would imagine there are regulations limiting which channel you use. Of course, with 2.4ghz spread spectrum, you aren't likely to cause much interferenc, so go right ahead.
I know Canada has adpoted the US FCC regs, but I have no idea where you are.
Ah, but the question talked about a lot of low end type servers at client locations, so using remote management ports may not be an option. Heck, some of my less critical servers don't have full remote management if the network interface is offline.
Being able to use a laptop as in place of a "crash cart" would save many admins many headaches.
It would also need to support connecting as a USB keyboard for my use though.
Sounds like a perfect application for a specialized PC Card or external USB 2.0 device, capture and digitize the VGA, and emulate a keyboard. I guess the closest product currently availible would be to use some of the IP KVM equipment.
While not cheap, a few of the entry level 1 port IP KVM swiches listed here would probably do the trick, but they still require power.
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Our taxes will pay for it instead of the users. Considering only people with enough money to buy a computer really benifet, it isn't fair to use everyones taxes.
Not to mention that a lot of WiFi's popularity has been helped by commercial hot spots. What incentive do companies have if they know the government will put them out of business?
Disclaimer: I own pre ipo stock at a major hot spot provider.
Given the retoric from the 2000 election, it is hard to know if you two are even on the same page.
The 2004 election was fortunately much more clear. Sure, there are theories, but even Kerry conceded gracefully.
The NRA has been fighting the McCain Feignhold act for quite a while for similar reasons. It is a mess and infringes on speach rights everywhere.
I hate replying to my post, but I wanted to clear up that I think this court ruling is absurd for all the reasons pointed out in the Article. It seriously threatens grass roots politics, so hopefully it will be overturned.
I still stand by my opinion that if US citizens are regulated in our elections, that foreigners MUST be, although I don't know how this would be enforced
You don't pay our taxes, so don't screw with our politics. Your option is for your government to work with ours diplomatically.
Grow your ecomomy and military might to ours, then we won't have the most powerful president in the world.
If you want to influence our politics, you should at lease do so within our legal framework.
FCC? No, FEC, the Election commision, and they will only regulate as it regards the US Elections. Sticky territory, because there will be plenty of US trails to follow even if a foreign server is involved. And if there are no US citizens involved, you have no business with our campaigns.
It seems many times that they scan the reciept checking that the items exist instead of the other way around. It could be to keep people from being able to say they bought something and left it at the counter.
I of course doubt it and think the door checkers that have dones this probably just didn't care.
Not to mention that CallerID isn't any more secure than the from line of an email address. Sure it takes a little more knowledge and more epensive access (or certain VoIP), but there is no verification.
It is a matter of the lower internal resistance. If you can rapidly charge a battery, it can be rapidly discharged as well.
Typo on the model? I am pretty sure (meant as sarcasm, I am actually positive) my Thinkpad A30 is a PIII machine.
My first tivo is 5 years old. I just gave it to my dad since I now have 2 DirecTivo's.
I expect them all to last a long time.
You really want the state to influence the markup that retailers can charge? If you think it is this bad, open a small store near them, and sell stuff for the markup you think it should be. If your prices are better, and you can make the presense of your store known, you will get the business.
Good luck making enough money to pay the rent, employees, and advertising bills and stay in business though. Competition sets the prices, and thats how it should be. If the local stores loose too much money to online vendors, they will have to lower their prices or stop carrying the items all together.
The problem here is that the per minute costs are still very expensive, and VoIP wouldn't be.
The latency isn't the end of the world, it is jitter that is really a concern. Geo satelites have been used for voice for a long time, and while somewhat anoying, are perfectly usable.
Someone doesn't know the definition of Coax. By the way, RG6 cable (used by most cable companies) can run component video quote a long ways with decent quality if you solder RCA connectors onto it.
I am sure there are many "conservatives" who want less government that would jump all over this. 1984 isn't far away at this rate. Hopefully Libertarians will take power before all is lost.
I am not opposed to the automated attendance and student tracking within the schools. I am sorry but this could speed things up.
The problem is that it leaves too much room for the students to abuse the system, as another poster said it wouldn't be hard for a student to carry anothers ID in their pocket.
You didn't read carefully enough, the possibility of a year in jail is still there for infringement.
As it is in law, the criminal penalty apears to be about the same, but the infringement comes with the possibility of a huge civil penalty.
Since you can recieve both penalties, the penalty for infringement is much higher.
This makes a lot of sense, but if you were in an area served by DSL you could have fled from the cable company's "service". Even if DSL were more expensive, you would have the option of deciding what priority you placed on cost and reliability.
Do you honestly think the Internet service would be at the top of the priority list during an election? It is all going to be about crime, traffic, zoning, etc. The chances of anyone getting voted out over the municipal network are very, very slim.
Depending on how they bill this could be very usefull for chip simulation as well. I setup a 12 node cluster at a previous job and we had jobs that took 10-15 hours. Although I have to admit that a major factor in the size of the cluster were the simulation software licenses.
You failed introductory logic, didn't you? At my college it was a weed-out class, but I found it quite easy.
To say all ants are bugs is not to say all bugs are ants.
The first statement the poster made meant that if you had an iPod you were cool. It didn't mean that there weren't other ways to be cool.
The second statement said you had to have an iPoD to be cool, it didn't state that the iPod made you cool. Now what makes you cool has returned to whatever it used to be (I have no idea, I am too much of a geek). The only difference is that now you MUST have an iPOD, or you end up uncool.
If the goverment doesn't over regulate VoIP, there should still be enough competition to make up for the monopoly. It might even help push things like ENUM to allow us to start to truely break free.
I like that idea. I might just have to do it. Only catch is all I have is VoIP trunks. I am not sure want to dedicate the bandwidth to run a call in and back out (my unlimited local only supports G.711, which requires about 85kbits).
As it is, my outgoing instate calls are a flat $12.00/mo, and my out of state and incoming toll free are $0.02/minute with International running around $.05/minute. I wouldn't save much with this.
In the FAQ it talks briefly of privacy, saying there isn't any.
I have an Asterisk PBX at home, and it is very easy to set the system up to log and record every call. Imagine if I joined Bellster (which I don't plan to, my VoIP services are already insanely cheap) what type of privacy violations I could commit? Granted it would be illeagal to listen to or record a conversation without either parties concent, who would know?
TV shows go to competing networks all the time. The studios are usually run as seperate business units.
My overclocked TI-85 (I think about 8 years ago..) was wonderfull. I frequently did complex calculations that it vastly sped up, and the battery drain didn't seem too bad.
Too bad I damaged the calculator on my 2nd attempt with a slip of the soldering iron. $100 isn't the end of the world now, but it sucked then.
Well, I wasn't saying it was hard to use the others, just what the default settings and the regulatory bodys said.
I would imagine there are regulations limiting which channel you use. Of course, with 2.4ghz spread spectrum, you aren't likely to cause much interferenc, so go right ahead.
I know Canada has adpoted the US FCC regs, but I have no idea where you are.
Ah, but the question talked about a lot of low end type servers at client locations, so using remote management ports may not be an option. Heck, some of my less critical servers don't have full remote management if the network interface is offline.
Being able to use a laptop as in place of a "crash cart" would save many admins many headaches.
It would also need to support connecting as a USB keyboard for my use though.
Sounds like a perfect application for a specialized PC Card or external USB 2.0 device, capture and digitize the VGA, and emulate a keyboard. I guess the closest product currently availible would be to use some of the IP KVM equipment.
While not cheap, a few of the entry level 1 port IP KVM swiches listed here would probably do the trick, but they still require power.