DRM only keeps an honest man from using what he has paid for.
I just had a very unhappy SecuRom experience after upgrading my DVD Burner. I got the problem solved (there was actually a patch from SecuRom so they know they fouled up and had to admit it). Still, I'm not pleased to say the least.
As long as it is non-invasive, I ought to be able to decide for myself what tests I want. If you need consumer protection then that's up to the FDA to get unsafe and ineffective products off of the market. If anything. being able to self-test will get a person who otherwise wouldn't have gone to the doctor to go if something bad is detected.
I live in CA and I do want a safety net, but not a nanny state.
"Free markets a) promote innovation and better health care and b) drive costs down. People who are against socialized medicine understand this and we have better arguments than saying that everyone who isnt on our side hates poor people."
Driving costs down? Now, that's working well, isn't it?
I have a Palm TX and many Palm OS apps. However the Foleo is too big to be a Palm and too small to be a laptop. I like my Palm because it is very small and light and fits in my palm! I like my laptop because it is full featured and when I'm at a desk or table where I can take it out and plug it in I use it instead of my Palm which is nice but less capable -- especially the browser. Palm OS apps are nice but there is no draw for me to this large form factor. BTW when I want a keyboard for my Palm I have one of those folding ones. Both together are half the size and weight of this thing.
I heard this guy on a interview this evening. He is a frickin' jerk trying to make a name for himself, his bookstore and his publishing company. So people are reading less. That's the only measure of intellect? Give me a break!
Have you actually listened to shortwave lately? If you enjoy listening to religious stuff or the guys in the tinfoil hats, then it's for you.
I've been an XM subscriber since 2003. I see little to nothing good to come out of this merger for subscribers. I definitely see "a la carte" as "tiered" and it will definitely cost me more money to get what I have now. One thing that I've loved about the single, low, monthly price is that it was all there. If I choose to try something I don't normally listen to, it is there and I don't have to pay extra for so-called "premium" content. If the FCC approves of this, and that is a large "if", they stand to lose many of their current subscribers if they are not very careful with content, pricing, and any needed equipment swaps.
The old-timers won't think anything. They are dying off. Sorry to be so blunt, but it is true. The code has been irrelevant for years now. Nothing is stopping anyone who still wants to from learning the code. Code lovers can keep on loving it.
I'm a "no-code" technician. After this goes into effect I'm going to upgrade.
I went to their Web site. It is a bad joke designed to intimidate the uninformed. Their symbol is a big embroidered copyright (C).
This is nothing but a shakedown of grannies. Sending a letter to let folks know they have been victimized by counterfeiters and asking them to destroy the CD is fine. Threatening them with a $300 fine is nothing but a racket.
I also looked at the Great Notions web site. They sure don't give these designs away. Maybe if they made them a little more affordable people wouldn't be looking for designs on eBay. I hope that the ESPC victims can band together and sue the pants of this outfit for their heavy handed ways.
Not only that, not having crumbs readily available, I just set a whole tube of Arctic Silver 5 on my touchpad, and guess what? No problem. Both touchpad and mouse still worked, though the Arctic Silver tube did get in the way. I tried serveral other objects that would fit on the touchpad with with similar negative results. That must be one funky touchpad he has.
Where are my mod points when I need them to mod you up?
I noticed that too and searched before I redundantly posted that little fact about the article being a year old. The article made no sense in the current context and was discussing things that were old. Then I looked at the date.
Trying IE7 created problems for me because it breaks some IE dependent sites. I use Firefox for everything that doesn't require IE.
I know for a fact that XM works very well in Anchorage as long as it is stationary. I don't know about mobile, but I would guess that the low angle to the Sats would cause freguent drop-outs when passing anything that blocks the view to the south. There are no terrestrial repeaters there to take up the slack, either.
This is really sticky and said that RIAA think they can get away with this. XM isn't even the maker of the portable receivers that allow you to record the songs form their service, that is who the RIAA should try to go after in the first place, but again, this would go back to the VCR rulings because they are 'device' manf. and not content providers.
But XM is the designer of the units. Think of it as a reference design for a graphics card. It is just like the XM2go units of which there are three -- different manufacturers, different external form factors, and functionally identical. So it is with the Inno and soon to be with the Helix.
Therefore, I don't think you can argue them on that point, not that I think the RIAA should do anything but rot in hell, mind you.
My understanding is that Sirius caved and ponied up to the RIAA when they brought out the S50. The RIAA is suing XM to try to get them to do the same. XM isn't caving as easily to the extortion. Not for this nor for the addtional money the RIAA is trying to extract in general as licensing renegotiation goes on.
Some Inno ownwers think that XM should borrow language from this suit for it's advertising campaign -- it is that good.
A few facts I've gleaned from Inno owners:
The Inno's music can't be downloaded to your computers so it can't be shared -- it stays with the unit.
If you cancel your XM subscription, you can no longer play the stored music.
IANAL, but the Inno's record function appears to be totally in compliance with the Home Recording Act. Many believe that weighs heavily in favor of XM being able to win the case.
For the record, I don't own the Inno, I have an AirWare, which can also store but not download the stored content to the computer.
I don't know why the RIAA doesn't force everyone in the US to have little meters surgically implanted in their ears that will automatically send off whatever amount the RIAA decides the listner should be dinged each time he or she hears a piece of music. I hope they come in coordinating colors to the meters the MPAA wants to implant on our eyes.
I was thinking the same thing. As a tech aware woman, I'd like to see things like that that engage young girls in technology. Some would say that the is dumbing it down for girls, but if it helps them feel comfortable with and enjoy computers, as well as make them feel that they belong in technological pursuits, I'm all for it.
"Here's a silly question - what is wrong with simply providing Internet access at places like the public library, and allowing all citizens (and gasp! even non-citizens) to use that?
That way, even people who have no fixed address (from the homeless to full-time RVers) can also find the local public library."
That's fine for occasional use, but it is not the same as having broadband at your home or place of business. You know that. You try doing your work all day at the library, oh, and be sure to bring your sack lunch that you can go eat that the picnic bench outside when it is below freezing.
And just who says that the government has to pay for it? Besides you Repubs like corporate welfare. How about we offer tax incentives and rebates to the private companies to encourage them to build the infrastructure? Oh right, we tried that and they pocketed the money to acquire other companies. We now have the "new" AT&T. Private companies do use their money soooooo wisely.
If you think $600 for a dish and $70 a month for low speed broadband is affordable you make a far better living than I. Good for you. It is not affordable to me. Especially when people 25 miles away can get faster broadband for $14.95 a month. If this were truly a free market, I could choose to buy that 414.95 per month broadband, but I can't. They won't sell it to me even if I call up and demand it -- something about my phone lines and the central office.
I'm in the same position as you and you said it very well. At least my phone line is a bit less crappy. I have a 45.2 connection right now, but it is not unusual for my top speed to be 31.2.
Let some of these posters whining about their taxes possibly going up to implement this, be without their affordable broadband because they live on the wrong streat. Let's see how soon they would be clamoring for government intervetion.
Besides, as the Bush administration has taught us, you don't need to spend tax dollars on it either. Just mandate that it be done. So the "new" ATT that doesn't care to build broadband out to its rural customers would have to take some of that consolidation and aquisition profit and actually serve more paying customers. What a novel idea!
And Jeanna Yeager was Dick's co-pilot. She piloted Voyager while Dick slept and vice-versa. Nice of all you fellows to completly forget about a woman who was as integral to the team as Burt and Dick.
To expand on it a bit, it may not just the list of pilots, but it may be all the current FAA airman certificates that included the SSN. It's difficult to determine exactly which database or portion therof from what he said. The 600,000 figure sounds right for active pilots (generally the ones with current medical certificates and a few special others without current medicals).
Only the very old and the very new airmen certificates do not include the social, unless you've gone and had it changed to another number this past year. So that fits, too.
In any case, I have have almost no doubt that he is referring to the FAA as the US government agency.
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And don't forget this:
Help! my Belkin router is spamming me
Nagware promotes censorware
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2003/11/07/help_my_belkin_router/
DRM only keeps an honest man from using what he has paid for.
I just had a very unhappy SecuRom experience after upgrading my DVD Burner. I got the problem solved (there was actually a patch from SecuRom so they know they fouled up and had to admit it). Still, I'm not pleased to say the least.
As long as it is non-invasive, I ought to be able to decide for myself what tests I want. If you need consumer protection then that's up to the FDA to get unsafe and ineffective products off of the market. If anything. being able to self-test will get a person who otherwise wouldn't have gone to the doctor to go if something bad is detected.
I live in CA and I do want a safety net, but not a nanny state.
"Free markets a) promote innovation and better health care and b) drive costs down. People who are against socialized medicine understand this and we have better arguments than saying that everyone who isnt on our side hates poor people."
Driving costs down? Now, that's working well, isn't it?
(tongue planted in cheek)
Paper industry lobbyists reduced donations to Republicans.
I have a Palm TX and many Palm OS apps. However the Foleo is too big to be a Palm and too small to be a laptop. I like my Palm because it is very small and light and fits in my palm! I like my laptop because it is full featured and when I'm at a desk or table where I can take it out and plug it in I use it instead of my Palm which is nice but less capable -- especially the browser. Palm OS apps are nice but there is no draw for me to this large form factor. BTW when I want a keyboard for my Palm I have one of those folding ones. Both together are half the size and weight of this thing.
I heard this guy on a interview this evening. He is a frickin' jerk trying to make a name for himself, his bookstore and his publishing company. So people are reading less. That's the only measure of intellect? Give me a break!
Have you actually listened to shortwave lately? If you enjoy listening to religious stuff or the guys in the tinfoil hats, then it's for you.
I've been an XM subscriber since 2003. I see little to nothing good to come out of this merger for subscribers. I definitely see "a la carte" as "tiered" and it will definitely cost me more money to get what I have now. One thing that I've loved about the single, low, monthly price is that it was all there. If I choose to try something I don't normally listen to, it is there and I don't have to pay extra for so-called "premium" content. If the FCC approves of this, and that is a large "if", they stand to lose many of their current subscribers if they are not very careful with content, pricing, and any needed equipment swaps.
This book does exist. And so does an article in it written by Pamela Jones.
17. Extending Open Source Principles Beyond Software Development
Pamela Jones
The old-timers won't think anything. They are dying off. Sorry to be so blunt, but it is true. The code has been irrelevant for years now. Nothing is stopping anyone who still wants to from learning the code. Code lovers can keep on loving it.
I'm a "no-code" technician. After this goes into effect I'm going to upgrade.
I went to their Web site. It is a bad joke designed to intimidate the uninformed. Their symbol is a big embroidered copyright (C).
This is nothing but a shakedown of grannies. Sending a letter to let folks know they have been victimized by counterfeiters and asking them to destroy the CD is fine. Threatening them with a $300 fine is nothing but a racket.
I also looked at the Great Notions web site. They sure don't give these designs away. Maybe if they made them a little more affordable people wouldn't be looking for designs on eBay. I hope that the ESPC victims can band together and sue the pants of this outfit for their heavy handed ways.
Yes, really.
Not only that, not having crumbs readily available, I just set a whole tube of Arctic Silver 5 on my touchpad, and guess what? No problem. Both touchpad and mouse still worked, though the Arctic Silver tube did get in the way. I tried serveral other objects that would fit on the touchpad with with similar negative results. That must be one funky touchpad he has.
Where are my mod points when I need them to mod you up?
I noticed that too and searched before I redundantly posted that little fact about the article being a year old. The article made no sense in the current context and was discussing things that were old. Then I looked at the date.
Trying IE7 created problems for me because it breaks some IE dependent sites. I use Firefox for everything that doesn't require IE.
I know for a fact that XM works very well in Anchorage as long as it is stationary. I don't know about mobile, but I would guess that the low angle to the Sats would cause freguent drop-outs when passing anything that blocks the view to the south. There are no terrestrial repeaters there to take up the slack, either.
But XM is the designer of the units. Think of it as a reference design for a graphics card. It is just like the XM2go units of which there are three -- different manufacturers, different external form factors, and functionally identical. So it is with the Inno and soon to be with the Helix.
Therefore, I don't think you can argue them on that point, not that I think the RIAA should do anything but rot in hell, mind you.
My understanding is that Sirius caved and ponied up to the RIAA when they brought out the S50. The RIAA is suing XM to try to get them to do the same. XM isn't caving as easily to the extortion. Not for this nor for the addtional money the RIAA is trying to extract in general as licensing renegotiation goes on.
Some Inno ownwers think that XM should borrow language from this suit for it's advertising campaign -- it is that good.
A few facts I've gleaned from Inno owners:
The Inno's music can't be downloaded to your computers so it can't be shared -- it stays with the unit.
If you cancel your XM subscription, you can no longer play the stored music.
IANAL, but the Inno's record function appears to be totally in compliance with the Home Recording Act. Many believe that weighs heavily in favor of XM being able to win the case.
For the record, I don't own the Inno, I have an AirWare, which can also store but not download the stored content to the computer.
I don't know why the RIAA doesn't force everyone in the US to have little meters surgically implanted in their ears that will automatically send off whatever amount the RIAA decides the listner should be dinged each time he or she hears a piece of music. I hope they come in coordinating colors to the meters the MPAA wants to implant on our eyes.
I was thinking the same thing. As a tech aware woman, I'd like to see things like that that engage young girls in technology. Some would say that the is dumbing it down for girls, but if it helps them feel comfortable with and enjoy computers, as well as make them feel that they belong in technological pursuits, I'm all for it.
Woo hoo!
"Here's a silly question - what is wrong with simply providing Internet access at places like the public library, and allowing all citizens (and gasp! even non-citizens) to use that?
That way, even people who have no fixed address (from the homeless to full-time RVers) can also find the local public library."
That's fine for occasional use, but it is not the same as having broadband at your home or place of business. You know that. You try doing your work all day at the library, oh, and be sure to bring your sack lunch that you can go eat that the picnic bench outside when it is below freezing.
And just who says that the government has to pay for it? Besides you Repubs like corporate welfare. How about we offer tax incentives and rebates to the private companies to encourage them to build the infrastructure? Oh right, we tried that and they pocketed the money to acquire other companies. We now have the "new" AT&T. Private companies do use their money soooooo wisely.
$14.95, not 414.95 -- unfortunate typo that I missed
If you think $600 for a dish and $70 a month for low speed broadband is affordable you make a far better living than I. Good for you. It is not affordable to me. Especially when people 25 miles away can get faster broadband for $14.95 a month. If this were truly a free market, I could choose to buy that 414.95 per month broadband, but I can't. They won't sell it to me even if I call up and demand it -- something about my phone lines and the central office.
I'm in the same position as you and you said it very well. At least my phone line is a bit less crappy. I have a 45.2 connection right now, but it is not unusual for my top speed to be 31.2.
Let some of these posters whining about their taxes possibly going up to implement this, be without their affordable broadband because they live on the wrong streat. Let's see how soon they would be clamoring for government intervetion.
Besides, as the Bush administration has taught us, you don't need to spend tax dollars on it either. Just mandate that it be done. So the "new" ATT that doesn't care to build broadband out to its rural customers would have to take some of that consolidation and aquisition profit and actually serve more paying customers. What a novel idea!
And Jeanna Yeager was Dick's co-pilot. She piloted Voyager while Dick slept and vice-versa. Nice of all you fellows to completly forget about a woman who was as integral to the team as Burt and Dick.
To expand on it a bit, it may not just the list of pilots, but it may be all the current FAA airman certificates that included the SSN. It's difficult to determine exactly which database or portion therof from what he said. The 600,000 figure sounds right for active pilots (generally the ones with current medical certificates and a few special others without current medicals).
Only the very old and the very new airmen certificates do not include the social, unless you've gone and had it changed to another number this past year. So that fits, too.
In any case, I have have almost no doubt that he is referring to the FAA as the US government agency.
The FAA.