Not to mention that I think that it really sucks that I couldn't run an SMTP server from home because most people aren't knowledgeable enough to secure their computer...
I can guarantee that if I got into my car and drove into a wall causing thousands of dollars worth in damage, and my excuse was "I didn't know where the break pedal was", my ass would be going to jail.
But if I don't protect my computer and cause millions of dollars of damage to a company because my computer was part of a DDoS attack, then everything is hunky-dory!
Which is my point, it shouldn't be that way. If I start a pirate radio station that is relatively powerful, you can bet your ass that the CRTC will be knocking at my door. Why is it different for the internet? It shouldn't be. (That's not to say that all contributors on the Internet should be blocked, just the ones who cause harm.)
...Will the customer whose PC got infected and got shutdown or rate-limited be able to take the matter to the CRTC and recieve renumeration, while fining the ISP for protecting the quality of service for their other subscribers?
It shouldn't up to the ISPs to decide what is and/or to take care of DDoS attacks or spam bots.
When I was on Rogers, my server would send me email updates quite frequently, and suddenly it stopped working, because Rogers assumed my server and any other residential computer that was sending out emails was sending spam.
In fact, sendmail doesn't work at all if you are on a Rogers residential network, and that's just wrong. I should be able to send email from my machine without using someone else's SMTP server.
Basicly what you just said it's ok for Rogers, Bell, Telus, etc. to be judge, jury, and executioner.
That's the CRTCs job, a job that they don't seem to want to do, because, hell, they have no problem with Rogers, Bell and the others being in control, raking the citizens of Canada over the coals, while making heaps of money.
Rogers, Bell and the rest, should simply provide a connection to the internet. No more, no less. Any filtering, blocking, or traffic shaping should be done by the government. (Which we, in theory, have control of)
On another somewhat related topic: Here's a good idea: ISPs should either drop bandwidth caps completely, or drop tiered connection speeds. I think the best solution for bandwidth usage is to give the customer the fastest connection their hardware will support at no extra cost, and just charge them per GB for every GB.
eg. I go with Rogers, and get a basic connection for $5 a month, the speed is the fastest that the network and my modem will allow regardless of how much a pay a month (lets say 30Mbps). If at the end of the month I end up using 30GB I will get charged at the rate of $1 per GB, If I end up using 60, I'll get charged $0.75 per GB, if I use 150 GB I end up paying $0.50 per GB
Why you ask? Well, there is no real point is limiting people's connection speed. It's the same technology, and same connection, your link speed is just an arbitrary cap in software (as far as residential internet is concerned anyway). Giving me a faster connection doesn't cost Rogers anything extra, all it does is insure that I am using the networks resources for a longer period of time then is necessary. What does cost money is the throughput. If I have a 5Mbps connection and am transferring 200 GB per month, I'm costing Rogers more than someone who has an 18Mbps connection and only transfers 20GB per month. Since their costs come from the throughput, why don't they just charge for that, and drop all this speed cap crap? It would be much more profitable in the long run.
I don't think they know how to change with the times, because they did initially fight digital photography, however they did lean from their mistakes much faster than other industries *cough* MPAA, RIAA *cough*
This is pretty sad news, however. Although it does make sense... But I'm still sad to see it go.
And they said that Tesla was nuts. Jeez, just because he spent all his time at dinner calculating the volume of food on his plate, It doesn't mean he's crazy... Although that is pretty crazy...
Man, take it to the head office! Make them look like crap! Bitch and moan until they take responsibility for their actions.
It's plain and simple, If you break something of someone's, you pay to get it replaced or repaired. That is not negotiable. It's not honorable to do otherwise.
[rant] Why does everyone have this attitude that everything is not their responsibility nowadays? "Oh I hit your kid with my car, but he wouldn't have died if the car companies designed the car right." (Did you ever notice how car hoods are becoming more rounded in the last few years? That's why.) "Oh I spilled hot coffee on myself, and you didn't warn me that my hot coffee was hot, pay for my medical bills"
What the crap, seriously? It's like we're going backwards as a society... [/rant]
Isn't the whole point of Copyright and IP to protect the people? And if big corporations are using Copyright and IP against us to keep their "competitive edge" then doesn't that hurt the people?
It's funny, everyone wants fair competition until they have the advantage. If there was no IP or Copyright law, then the moment something was made, it would be reverse engineered and made better by someone else, therefor creating competition, forcing you to stay ahead of your self, and hence, ahead of everyone else. But no! I have a leg up, and instead of trying to keep doing better, I'll just sit at this position as long as I can - milking the product, keeping human progress stagnant - until someone works their way around, or comes up with a better idea...
Man, I've dropped my MBP many times and it's still good. Not necessarily from 4 feet, maybe 2-3 but still.
I think Dell is trying to get into a market that requires quality manufacturing which is something that they don't have. Look at the Panasonic Toughbooks for an example of good quality. Those are usually what people picture when you think rugged laptop.
The only way Dell will succeed in this market is if they undercut the competition. But even then, usually in this market, reliability is the main concern so...
Basically what I'm trying to say is that Dells of all make and model are crap. For my money, it's either Apple, IBM (Lenovo), or Panasonic.
When the iTMS first came into existence, I was so eager to use it that I borrowed my aunt's credit card (who lives in the states) and bought music in Canada through her and her credit card! Aaahh... those were the days...
every Mac application is an MDI application, only the outer "application" window is always maximized and always transparent, with its menu always at the top of the screen.
Thats actually not true. The file menu at the top of the screen is all handled by the SystemUIServer daemon. It's not that the application opens a full screen window and makes it transparent.
My understanding is that the Mac OS UI has (more or less) 3 basic parts: loginwindow (sorta like x server), SystemUIServer, and Dock. Each of these are a separate daemon process.
The application then uses APIs to populate the menu items that SystemUIServer handles.
Those three elements are essentially what make up the Mac OS UI from what I understand.
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Slight misrepresentation?! It's more like kicking a kid in the balls while simultaneously telling him there's no santa right at christmas morning.
At least that's how I felt. It's not a train unless its on tracks.
Does it really matter? All illegal downloads are moving to direct private HTTP servers or FTP servers.
Not to mention that I think that it really sucks that I couldn't run an SMTP server from home because most people aren't knowledgeable enough to secure their computer...
I can guarantee that if I got into my car and drove into a wall causing thousands of dollars worth in damage, and my excuse was "I didn't know where the break pedal was", my ass would be going to jail.
But if I don't protect my computer and cause millions of dollars of damage to a company because my computer was part of a DDoS attack, then everything is hunky-dory!
Yet Rogers has the time to send you a letter if it sees your computer is infected with a botnet.
Why can't the CRTC just do the same?
And regardless of how difficult the job is, at the end of the day, that is their job. That is what part of my taxes goes to...
Which is my point, it shouldn't be that way. If I start a pirate radio station that is relatively powerful, you can bet your ass that the CRTC will be knocking at my door. Why is it different for the internet? It shouldn't be. (That's not to say that all contributors on the Internet should be blocked, just the ones who cause harm.)
Man, it's much more than that, most of the people who are in the CRTC used to actually work for those companies.
It shouldn't up to the ISPs to decide what is and/or to take care of DDoS attacks or spam bots.
When I was on Rogers, my server would send me email updates quite frequently, and suddenly it stopped working, because Rogers assumed my server and any other residential computer that was sending out emails was sending spam.
In fact, sendmail doesn't work at all if you are on a Rogers residential network, and that's just wrong. I should be able to send email from my machine without using someone else's SMTP server.
Basicly what you just said it's ok for Rogers, Bell, Telus, etc. to be judge, jury, and executioner.
That's the CRTCs job, a job that they don't seem to want to do, because, hell, they have no problem with Rogers, Bell and the others being in control, raking the citizens of Canada over the coals, while making heaps of money.
Rogers, Bell and the rest, should simply provide a connection to the internet. No more, no less. Any filtering, blocking, or traffic shaping should be done by the government. (Which we, in theory, have control of)
On another somewhat related topic:
Here's a good idea:
ISPs should either drop bandwidth caps completely, or drop tiered connection speeds.
I think the best solution for bandwidth usage is to give the customer the fastest connection their hardware will support at no extra cost, and just charge them per GB for every GB.
eg. I go with Rogers, and get a basic connection for $5 a month, the speed is the fastest that the network and my modem will allow regardless of how much a pay a month (lets say 30Mbps). If at the end of the month I end up using 30GB I will get charged at the rate of $1 per GB, If I end up using 60, I'll get charged $0.75 per GB, if I use 150 GB I end up paying $0.50 per GB
Why you ask? Well, there is no real point is limiting people's connection speed. It's the same technology, and same connection, your link speed is just an arbitrary cap in software (as far as residential internet is concerned anyway). Giving me a faster connection doesn't cost Rogers anything extra, all it does is insure that I am using the networks resources for a longer period of time then is necessary. What does cost money is the throughput. If I have a 5Mbps connection and am transferring 200 GB per month, I'm costing Rogers more than someone who has an 18Mbps connection and only transfers 20GB per month. Since their costs come from the throughput, why don't they just charge for that, and drop all this speed cap crap? It would be much more profitable in the long run.
I don't think they know how to change with the times, because they did initially fight digital photography, however they did lean from their mistakes much faster than other industries *cough* MPAA, RIAA *cough*
This is pretty sad news, however. Although it does make sense... But I'm still sad to see it go.
And they said that Tesla was nuts. Jeez, just because he spent all his time at dinner calculating the volume of food on his plate, It doesn't mean he's crazy... Although that is pretty crazy...
Meh, to be quite honest, YouTube was more convenient at the time.
You make it sound like excessive choice is a good thing. I personally am fine with Apples limited product line that is all integrated.
I suggest you watch this TED video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VO6XEQIsCoM
The reason people like Apple products is because you take it home and it all works together without any effort on your part.
Man, take it to the head office! Make them look like crap! Bitch and moan until they take responsibility for their actions.
It's plain and simple, If you break something of someone's, you pay to get it replaced or repaired. That is not negotiable.
It's not honorable to do otherwise.
[rant]
Why does everyone have this attitude that everything is not their responsibility nowadays? "Oh I hit your kid with my car, but he wouldn't have died if the car companies designed the car right." (Did you ever notice how car hoods are becoming more rounded in the last few years? That's why.) "Oh I spilled hot coffee on myself, and you didn't warn me that my hot coffee was hot, pay for my medical bills"
What the crap, seriously? It's like we're going backwards as a society...
[/rant]
Wow, that actually is really really cool.
Isn't the whole point of Copyright and IP to protect the people? And if big corporations are using Copyright and IP against us to keep their "competitive edge" then doesn't that hurt the people?
It's funny, everyone wants fair competition until they have the advantage. If there was no IP or Copyright law, then the moment something was made, it would be reverse engineered and made better by someone else, therefor creating competition, forcing you to stay ahead of your self, and hence, ahead of everyone else. But no! I have a leg up, and instead of trying to keep doing better, I'll just sit at this position as long as I can - milking the product, keeping human progress stagnant - until someone works their way around, or comes up with a better idea...
The whole thing just pisses me off...
Man, I've dropped my MBP many times and it's still good. Not necessarily from 4 feet, maybe 2-3 but still.
I think Dell is trying to get into a market that requires quality manufacturing which is something that they don't have.
Look at the Panasonic Toughbooks for an example of good quality. Those are usually what people picture when you think rugged laptop.
The only way Dell will succeed in this market is if they undercut the competition. But even then, usually in this market, reliability is the main concern so...
Basically what I'm trying to say is that Dells of all make and model are crap. For my money, it's either Apple, IBM (Lenovo), or Panasonic.
So you assume that aliens might be hostile because humans are hostile to each other? That's depressing...
I've always wanted to travel to other worlds... Unfortunately it would take hundreds of years at near light speed...
In refrence to your sig: I'm in Canada, so I can decrypt it all I want! :P
Fgvpx gung va lbhe cvcr naq fzbxr vg!
Why thank you for that sir. Now I have an alternative to mashing the "New Idenity" button in Tor/Vidalia and hoping I get someone in the US.
When the iTMS first came into existence, I was so eager to use it that I borrowed my aunt's credit card (who lives in the states) and bought music in Canada through her and her credit card! Aaahh... those were the days...
Holy jeez i think the sky is falling... And wasn't that a pig that flew by just a few minutes go...
True.
Don't forget to target poor single mothers!
Wow it really is a sudden outbreak of common sense... I am shocked. Then again, it would be 10x more amazing if it were the US dropping the DMCA...
every Mac application is an MDI application, only the outer "application" window is always maximized and always transparent, with its menu always at the top of the screen.
Thats actually not true. The file menu at the top of the screen is all handled by the SystemUIServer daemon. It's not that the application opens a full screen window and makes it transparent.
My understanding is that the Mac OS UI has (more or less) 3 basic parts: loginwindow (sorta like x server), SystemUIServer, and Dock. Each of these are a separate daemon process.
The application then uses APIs to populate the menu items that SystemUIServer handles.
Those three elements are essentially what make up the Mac OS UI from what I understand.