You know, like the 1996 telecomuncations act that required the baby bells to open up their equipment to competition? Rember that? Competition making things better? Oh, I see, you work for Microsoft, never mind.
Furthermore, bandwidth is a matter of supply and demand, and as long as demand isn't increasing, increasing supply will force down prices and make your business less profitable. Let's say everybody started needing DS-3 speeds into their home. Somebody would come in and offer that speed for a hefty premium, but as demand for that service built up, people would come into lower the prices to get into that market. Eventually you end up paying the same amount for your DS-3 as you did for your DSL and you've got a few more of those fibers on the coast glowing.
Are you being paid by the turkey that said no one needed more than 640k of RAM?
Supply and demand don't happen in a regulated monopoly environment. Tell me, how many "broadband" providers do you have to chose from? How many sets of wires come to your house? I've got all of one choice, the local cable serviceless ISP. No servers, DHCP, upload caps, the whole crapy works. DSL is something the local Bell is using their "availability" list to strangle and is simply not available, despite my being in a well populated Unversity town. Yep, I've got dial up and I realize what I can't have. I can't serve pictures to my family, I can't do voice over IP, I can't do web cams. The network is there, I was willing to pay $45/month to use it. The local telco and cable company made it so I could not have one and the other one was not worth the money. They can go bankrupt for all I care. My communications needs will be met by a dial up, but I resent the extra effort I'm forced into and I resent the people who thought it would be better for them.
Strangley enough, I agree with you on one point. No one should be giving their money to any of the abusive providers of "broadband". Folks like canadaisp earn their service fees and don't ask much for it.
Of course DSL is unavailable, it's a copper only connection between you and the colo
That's insightful? It misses the point that the freaking fiber is everywhere and that's the expensive part of the network, duh! A little extra equipment could have DSL or better in that whole neighborhood, and you know that it would pay off if only some greedy company like BellSouth were not sitting on it and waiting for all of the DSL companies to die. BellSouth wants nothing to do with the next generation of technology. They want to sell you long distance voice service and have been applying to get it for years. Now, despite proven anti-competitive practices, they will be granted that. The fiber will rot before BellSouth uses it, and I have to question if they actually laid it.
I know the damand for DSL exists in Baton Rouge because I've been waiting for more than a year for a slot to open in my neighborhood. I had it but moved less than a mile away - did not change equipment area. When I got to my house I was told by BellSouth that there was no DSL. So I started to cancel my service with Telocity. Two weeks later, suprise suprise, a BellSouth employee calls me to offer me DSL! I told him I'd have to get back to him on that one, and immediatly called Telocity to see what I could do. They informed me that by agreement they could not just transfer my account from one location to another - it must be formally killed and restarted. Needless to say, DSL was not available when the formal process was over and will not be. BellSouth keeps the "availibility" database and has obviously abused it. I can be sure that there's a little mark next to my name in that database that says, "wants alternate service, never offer."
Of course, it's also possible that the telcos have already run fiber to everyone's doorstep, but they're holding out on us because they want to "hold the man down" or for some other nefarious reason...
Oh, you mean like greed? Like they don't want to let go of their $/minute telcom monopoly and broadband everywhere would allow anyone anywhere to video conference for $40/month instead of the $250/month AOL claims they can rape you out of? You think ATT is going to give up their usual rape? With a combination of wifi and broadband everywhere, who would need a cell phone?
There is no way the people who laid that cable could forsee what happened to "broadband" and the 1996 tellecomunications act when they were planning thier networks. With a few abusive moves, the baby bells have killed their competitors. With a little malice, ATT killed excite@home. With no sense whatsoever, the Bush administration forgave them. Better to have a few companies you can rule than many that might constitute a free press. There's no technical reason for port blocks and DHCP over cable and DSL, in fact it costs extra money to deny you the abiltiy to serve. There's no reason for modem caps, but the FBI will come and get you for it. No, these stupid greedy tricks were unimaginable in 1996 and they came one stupid trick at a time. Could they have possbily seen that it would get so bad that someone like me, with five freaking computers up at all times, would move from cable modem back to dial up?
Out to get me? Nah, out to get everyone. Don't think for an instant that you will not be hurt by this. You and I will continue to pay absorbadent long distance fees or just not use the services as planned. More importantly, every other business that is not Ma Bell's bastard child will pay those fees too. Every business needs communications and they won't have them. That costs money and you will pay when thing just don't get done.
With the comming of the comercial rainbow of 802.11b, and open access point being declared terrorists, I have see that things are going to get much worse before they improve. The universities will fall last, but they will be controled too and that will be that. The whole promise of the internet as a peer operated imposible to control or destroy collection of computers sharing resources and information will be turned into the big corporate billboard you have to pay ma Bell to view. Call it TV++, Tee-Vee-double-plus.
You could show them a BSA or FBI raid on a Warez house. Warehouses full of confiscated PCs, or "obsolete" boxes. Nah, they get to see that at the local public school anyway.
Nobody should be required to pick up a manual and read through hundreds of pages before they're able to use something. That's the main difference between products that fail and products that succeed.
Twitter scanns his bookshelf and sees feet of useless M$ books, and a few inches of very useful Linux books and a foot or two that span both, C, FORTRAN, tcl refernce books. My oldest book on Emacs is still useful. Most stuff between that and my first Linux books refer to stuff that no longer works. That's the beauty of free code, new stuff is added and older tools just get better. Nothing seems to ever go away, despite the wonderful work to make new and very easy to use tools. The older and more powerful interfaces stay the same and are there for those who need or want them. Books are useful when you want to learn from the experiences and mistakes of others and not waste time running down misconceptions.
Best starting books for me were Linux Unleashed by Sams Publishing and Linux in a Nutshell by O`Reilly. Linux Unleashed tries to cover everything and gives good references. Older versions were Red Hat centric and gave more space to things like vi. Newer versions cover different distros and GUI stuff and may appeal to more general users for that reason. It also walks you through the install. Linux in a Nutshell is the reference I use most often. Both have common examples to help you out.
Best screen shot movies: Multi-layered Gimp image manipulation. Simple multitabed Mozilla browsing shot. Mail notification from multiple sources. Any big task started by X forwarding on another computer followed by clicking trough to another virtual machine where another big task move along on another computer, and so on. You don't need a beowulf cluster to get lots of work done with more than one machine, thanks to the beautiful X window system and OpenSSH.
Windows just works. To get a Linux install to my satisfaction took over 100 hours.
No Windows install will ever meet my expectation for what software should be ever again.
These "people" are pathetic. They are simply people with zero self-esteem, zero drive, and who are intrinsically lazy. They have the willpower of a doorknob. I know this is gonna be modded "flamebait", but it's very simple. It's not a physical "addition" and it's insulting to people with real additions. These are just lazy fucking slobs who use "addiction" as a crutch so as they don't have to get their fat asses off of the sofa. Any serious problems that strike these people and their families are brought on by themselves. It's that simple.
Hmmm, is that why you spent all day ranting on slashdot, Tuesday December 3? Your posts started before 9AM and end after 6:30 PM with the longest time between posts being less than three hours. Thirteen posts are still visible and there may have been more. At fifteen minutes per post, you do read the articles don't you, your Slashdot habbit cost you about four hours that day. That's a lot of time for a single day, even if you are just a "porn stuff" dude. All of that time could have been spent growing your collection.
Most of your posts are offensive, much like the one above. Do you get a little rush from acting that way? Or are you paid to troll this place?
I get 20 or 30 spams a day, and it's not worth the effort to complain.
Yet you complain when others say that it sucks to not be able to find their mail under a pile of shit. Hmmm, how much of your time do you waste dissing people?
You are telling me that you got "I love you" through hotmail? Give me a break. As buggy and easy to break as IE is and as much code as IE and Outlook share, I never heard of anything bad hapening through hotmail or Yahoo accounts.
Worse than that, blocking access to Yahoo will break your employee's access to some of their owner's groups. You know, that impartial third party publishing kind of thing that folks at different companies use to share experience and knowledge that benifits all?
Congratulations on decreasing your rate of virus infection. You might have done better by installing Mozilla and making that your default browser. Is there any bogus policy on that one? I just don't get why some big companies insist on the bug farm that is Outlook.
Who's been waiting? MP3.com has not been waiting and neither have many other pressers of fine CDs.
The big dumb publishers have finally gotten off their buts to do something, but do we really want it? The storyline, (e.g. that Big Record Label cannot support small acts as it must press x copies of the album), reminds me of my local cable operator. They would tell me, "We don't support that browser/OS/Whatever_non_M$," and I'd say, "Fine, my browser/OS/whatever_non_M$ works well without your support, what I need is your broken DNS/whatever fixed." Services those folks had were pathetic compared to running your own and in the end, that's what I'd do. Like the record companies, they tried to prevent me from running said sevices for myself - I don't give either them my money anymore.
He'll never get that far. You don't think the unistall will work, do you? It will leave some kind of register doo-doo behind, if not in the data itslelf.
First understand the goals of the people you are working with. You might have it right. The feds wish to protect the telcos and will use "terrorism" as an excuse to continue to promote obsolete technology and as a way to increase regulatory power that is no longer needed. The worst scenerio is that they force Hollings style hardware on everyone.
Now let's look at how they are getting there. This is what they have to say for themselves on their little page of horors. First You are not too small to matter. Good, the argument "no one is interested in the particulars of your mundane life so don't worry about security" is both false and misleading and is going to be killed. Lip service is given to user education but takes the form of consumer awareness of comercial products which won't work and will be filled with DRM.
What we need to do is take their message and run with it. Those parts that are true back free software. The government must be made aware that only free software is secure, that they must use it to protect themselves and should not stifle it. They have understood the scale of economic harm that can occur if things don't work right. You are aware of the raid the White House ordered on ptech and worried in part that ptech had put in backdoors?
The company's software code was checked by the government to determine if outsiders could read or steal any sensitive data from the government, or embed the code with something destructive, officials said. Those checks began months ago, when the probe of Ptech started.
I got sued once by someone that was stung by a bee at my front door.
If you treated them as well as you just treated me, I can understand why they pressed on. If you treated your atorney that way, I'll bet you were poorly represented. If you treated the court that way, I'll bet you lost lots of money. That's what happens when you assume everyone else is stupid and call them, "stupid nitwit", "naive idiot", "idiots." who push common sense aside.
You are right about one thing only, I've met technicians who know less than I do about what I called them for but they generally know something else that I don't and the combination gets things fixed. I'm not sure what that has to do with what such a technician would do with their off hours. Such technicians have a tendency to work at places that would impliment a dumb policy like this. Oh, that's it! If the technician makes mistakes off hours, they will make the same mistake at work. Err, that does not work either. Oh yeah, that's it, the company just wants to give these poor folks a script to read and tell them to keep their opinions to themselves. Got to tow the company line, right? That's what this is all about, thanks for noticing.
Because they will have to put you in jail if you try to explain how to crack an ebook? Because they will have to jail themselves if they know? When you outlaw the truth, only outlaws can be honest.
Remember the EULA for the new media player? Remember the XP EULA? Big Bill knows who's been naughty and who's been nice because the all agreed to let him look. Perhaps he sold the information and all those craced Ebooks from user's computers to Adobe. Just a wild freaking guese. I'm sure law enfocement officials who've been busting warez rings have plenty of cracked ebooks, but the Bill snoop could and will happen if all goes accoriding to Bill.
The DMCA only requires that the criminal defendant produced software aimed at circumventing copy protection.
Not to lend weight or support to the perposterous DMCA but I thought the wording was "primary function." If it can be shown that the primary function of the software was simply to give the user their fair use rights to read their own material, how can it be called a circumvention device? In other words, if all it's circumventing is something not recognized by US laws, I don't see what leg they have to stand on. The fact that people did not use the software to violate the contents copyright by distributing the content looks very important, if and only if the DMCA is designed to prevent copyright violation. We all know that the DMCA's primary purpose is to expand the power of and preserve the position of obsolete publishers. Bah, what a stupid law DMCA is.
Yet if the poster IDs him/herself as an employee of company X and that incorrect information causes damage the company could be liable.
A troll like you should know that people will still identify themselves as working for the company and will still post incorrect information and the company's reputation will still be harmed. What? You say that the company will point out that no one is alowed to tell anyone anything and can point to an official policy? Great, now I know not to trust the company ever again.
This kind of corporate censorship should outrage us all. There are laws against punishing whistle blowers, and that's what this ammounts to. These big dumb companies are worried that their employees will tell the truth and embarass them. Everyone whould know that it you want BellSouth's opinion, you should go to BellSouth's published information, that's why you think the policy will be effective against trolls, right? What the tech tells you is not a statement of company policy it's a statement of personal opinion. With a punishment policy like this in force, I know that none of those employees can give me a candid opinion, even when I meet them in person. These companies just themselves look like monolithic liars who punish people brave enough to tell you like it is. Way to go!
Tiny amounts of radiation in catshit in a landfill is too much, even though its probably full of smoke so detectors. So.... FLUSH it, so it ends up in the septic tank, runs out through the leach bed into the ditch, down to the creek and into Lake Ontario.
Well, not exactly. By the time it gets out of the septic tank it won't be there. The iodine isotope used decays away quickly and is then stable, that's why it gives an effective short term dose and is useful.
At the landfill, you want the detectors set low so that you can stop the line before said Americium Smoke detector and other stuff goes into the pile or worse, and incenerator. It's nice to sort your waste and deal with things the way they should be dealt with. A big heaping hunk of cat poop that took a one night ride to the dump might be hotter than you imagine. Fucking brilliant.
Oh my eyes and screen, such blinding language is burning the phosphor off my CRT. Make it stop!
my cable box comes with the ability to recieve all of the channels too Those other channels don't cover ten percent of your TV screen either, but these songs you can't listen to occupy 10% of your hard drive and must be deleted, if you can.
my car comes with the ability to do 150mph, but the chips lets me go to 120 and if you drive 120 MPH you endager me and others. No one will die if you listen to music shipped to you on your hard disk without paying some big stupid media company. Nor will anyone die if I make a program that can play that music for you, but unlike the speeder, I might go to jail for that.
As has been pointed out a million times before, the implications for free speech and publishing are grave. A big fat music publisher has made a format that only they may use to play music that limits your ability to use and share that music which is really someone else's work to begin with. You are not alowed to understand that format and will go to jail if you study it and publish the mechanism used to "protect" the content. You are told that it is immoral for you to read that content without the publisher's permission and that it's wrong to share it with your friends. RMS saw correctly what happens when all publishing goes this way, we all end up being slaves to the publishers. They can charge us more than we can afford to learn then use that debt to extort all our future work, which we will then have to pay to access. Imagine a format like this being used to publish your next paper. Now imagine that your children have to pay the publisher to read that paper. Sick.
If he hurries, he can have methanol spill into his unhealed lap. It's a disinfectant you know. Call it Norton Laptop. No smoking, please, wicked methonol is highly flamible.
When he says, "We do not want to live in the world DigitalConsumer.dot is trying to create for us, where we are all artist/waiters." He really means it. Phil Lelyveld would hate to have a real job and do things for people. He does not want to live in a wold that does not sustain his and a few select others ability to rape everyone else.
Boo-hoo! The once set asside for experimentation and microwave oven frequency is going to be Borged and clogged by abusers of other frequencies so that no one can offer free services over it. Boo-hoo! Your wireless network will be jammed by some dumb ass who's suckered into paying by the minute for the service just like ATT wanted. Boo-hoo! I paid for it to happen by subscribing to cell phone service. Boo-hoo! You are a slave, have a nice day and send your infrastructure tax to ATT today.
Yes, it sucks that only optical and ham radio will be left for free networks but that's the way current US law is rigged. Unless the entire specturm is freed, you are about to see an atrificial tradgedy of the commons. As changing those laws would "disrupt the economy" of a few large companies and create a real free elctronic press that can't be co-opted and influenced by the federal govenrment, expect no changes.
YOU ARE A SLAVE. RELIGION MAY NOT BE EXPRESSED IN PUBLIC PLACES. YOU HAVE NO RIGHT TO PUBLISH, BUT ARE FREE TO STAND AROUND ON STREET CORNERS WITH PAMPLETS AND BE IGNORED. YOU HAVE NO RIGHT TO BEAR ARMS. YOU MAY BE SEARCHED AT ANYTIME WITHOUT WARRANT. ALL YOUR EMAIL IS CARNIVORED. THIS IS A "TIME OF DANGER" SO YOU MAY BE KILLED BY UNMANNED CRAFT WITHOUT WARNING FOR ASSOCIATING WITH SUSPECTED TERRORISTS. ENUMERATION OF RIGHTS IN THE CONSTITUTION AND PUBLICLY SWORN OATHS TO UPHOLD THE CONSTITUTION ARE NO GARUNTEE OF RIGHTS. THE STATES HAVE NO POWER AND THE PEOPLE ARE SLAVES.
I think whenever spectrum like that used for 802.11b/a is assigned, the FCC should prohibit people from selling services based on it--users that sell services should buy their own spectrum. Otherwise, such companies will just take over what was supposed to be a public resource.
Why not just liberate the rest of the specturm? It's all fine and dandy that someone wants to build an infrastructure and charge for it, so long as the rest of us are free to offer service as well. Why would someone pay for rainbow when they could get free service? The most disturbing thing about all this is that the prime movers are large monopoly interests that have abused their position before. Let these turkeys have 2.4 GHz and give the rest of us 5 and above.
You know, the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow is only half the story. The other end of the thing collects quarters from gutters, under people's couches and places like that. With economic conditions the way they are, the rainbow has taken to mugging people. I was struck by one the other day and I'm afraid it will happen again.
Who could argue that a Vaio is a low end system? Seeing open source and free software on high end computers is nice. I get sick of seeing free software clasified as bargain and low cost while significant feature set improvements are ignored. Sony, IBM, Sun will help change that perception. Corel Office was premium software that, as long as M$ was dumping Office, you had to pay "extra" for and you did so to gain superior software. Everything else comes with a post script and portable document file output, does Star Office? That would be cool, and that is definatly an "extra" right now.
My wife used to run Star Office and liked it better than M$. M$ Office is an ugly beast that writes hideous propriatory formated files. Star Office read those files, dispelling the bizare perception that M$ programers were some kinds of wizards. Other than that, my wife simply enjoyed Star Office's easy to use layout.
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You know, like the 1996 telecomuncations act that required the baby bells to open up their equipment to competition? Rember that? Competition making things better? Oh, I see, you work for Microsoft, never mind.
Are you being paid by the turkey that said no one needed more than 640k of RAM?
Supply and demand don't happen in a regulated monopoly environment. Tell me, how many "broadband" providers do you have to chose from? How many sets of wires come to your house? I've got all of one choice, the local cable serviceless ISP. No servers, DHCP, upload caps, the whole crapy works. DSL is something the local Bell is using their "availability" list to strangle and is simply not available, despite my being in a well populated Unversity town. Yep, I've got dial up and I realize what I can't have. I can't serve pictures to my family, I can't do voice over IP, I can't do web cams. The network is there, I was willing to pay $45/month to use it. The local telco and cable company made it so I could not have one and the other one was not worth the money. They can go bankrupt for all I care. My communications needs will be met by a dial up, but I resent the extra effort I'm forced into and I resent the people who thought it would be better for them.
Strangley enough, I agree with you on one point. No one should be giving their money to any of the abusive providers of "broadband". Folks like canadaisp earn their service fees and don't ask much for it.
That's insightful? It misses the point that the freaking fiber is everywhere and that's the expensive part of the network, duh! A little extra equipment could have DSL or better in that whole neighborhood, and you know that it would pay off if only some greedy company like BellSouth were not sitting on it and waiting for all of the DSL companies to die. BellSouth wants nothing to do with the next generation of technology. They want to sell you long distance voice service and have been applying to get it for years. Now, despite proven anti-competitive practices, they will be granted that. The fiber will rot before BellSouth uses it, and I have to question if they actually laid it.
I know the damand for DSL exists in Baton Rouge because I've been waiting for more than a year for a slot to open in my neighborhood. I had it but moved less than a mile away - did not change equipment area. When I got to my house I was told by BellSouth that there was no DSL. So I started to cancel my service with Telocity. Two weeks later, suprise suprise, a BellSouth employee calls me to offer me DSL! I told him I'd have to get back to him on that one, and immediatly called Telocity to see what I could do. They informed me that by agreement they could not just transfer my account from one location to another - it must be formally killed and restarted. Needless to say, DSL was not available when the formal process was over and will not be. BellSouth keeps the "availibility" database and has obviously abused it. I can be sure that there's a little mark next to my name in that database that says, "wants alternate service, never offer."
Oh, you mean like greed? Like they don't want to let go of their $/minute telcom monopoly and broadband everywhere would allow anyone anywhere to video conference for $40/month instead of the $250/month AOL claims they can rape you out of? You think ATT is going to give up their usual rape? With a combination of wifi and broadband everywhere, who would need a cell phone?
There is no way the people who laid that cable could forsee what happened to "broadband" and the 1996 tellecomunications act when they were planning thier networks. With a few abusive moves, the baby bells have killed their competitors. With a little malice, ATT killed excite@home. With no sense whatsoever, the Bush administration forgave them. Better to have a few companies you can rule than many that might constitute a free press. There's no technical reason for port blocks and DHCP over cable and DSL, in fact it costs extra money to deny you the abiltiy to serve. There's no reason for modem caps, but the FBI will come and get you for it. No, these stupid greedy tricks were unimaginable in 1996 and they came one stupid trick at a time. Could they have possbily seen that it would get so bad that someone like me, with five freaking computers up at all times, would move from cable modem back to dial up?
Out to get me? Nah, out to get everyone. Don't think for an instant that you will not be hurt by this. You and I will continue to pay absorbadent long distance fees or just not use the services as planned. More importantly, every other business that is not Ma Bell's bastard child will pay those fees too. Every business needs communications and they won't have them. That costs money and you will pay when thing just don't get done.
With the comming of the comercial rainbow of 802.11b, and open access point being declared terrorists, I have see that things are going to get much worse before they improve. The universities will fall last, but they will be controled too and that will be that. The whole promise of the internet as a peer operated imposible to control or destroy collection of computers sharing resources and information will be turned into the big corporate billboard you have to pay ma Bell to view. Call it TV++, Tee-Vee-double-plus.
You could show them a BSA or FBI raid on a Warez house. Warehouses full of confiscated PCs, or "obsolete" boxes. Nah, they get to see that at the local public school anyway.
Twitter scanns his bookshelf and sees feet of useless M$ books, and a few inches of very useful Linux books and a foot or two that span both, C, FORTRAN, tcl refernce books. My oldest book on Emacs is still useful. Most stuff between that and my first Linux books refer to stuff that no longer works. That's the beauty of free code, new stuff is added and older tools just get better. Nothing seems to ever go away, despite the wonderful work to make new and very easy to use tools. The older and more powerful interfaces stay the same and are there for those who need or want them. Books are useful when you want to learn from the experiences and mistakes of others and not waste time running down misconceptions.
Best starting books for me were Linux Unleashed by Sams Publishing and Linux in a Nutshell by O`Reilly. Linux Unleashed tries to cover everything and gives good references. Older versions were Red Hat centric and gave more space to things like vi. Newer versions cover different distros and GUI stuff and may appeal to more general users for that reason. It also walks you through the install. Linux in a Nutshell is the reference I use most often. Both have common examples to help you out.
Best screen shot movies: Multi-layered Gimp image manipulation. Simple multitabed Mozilla browsing shot. Mail notification from multiple sources. Any big task started by X forwarding on another computer followed by clicking trough to another virtual machine where another big task move along on another computer, and so on. You don't need a beowulf cluster to get lots of work done with more than one machine, thanks to the beautiful X window system and OpenSSH.
Windows just works. To get a Linux install to my satisfaction took over 100 hours.
No Windows install will ever meet my expectation for what software should be ever again.
Hmmm, is that why you spent all day ranting on slashdot, Tuesday December 3? Your posts started before 9AM and end after 6:30 PM with the longest time between posts being less than three hours. Thirteen posts are still visible and there may have been more. At fifteen minutes per post, you do read the articles don't you, your Slashdot habbit cost you about four hours that day. That's a lot of time for a single day, even if you are just a "porn stuff" dude. All of that time could have been spent growing your collection.
Most of your posts are offensive, much like the one above. Do you get a little rush from acting that way? Or are you paid to troll this place?
Yet you complain when others say that it sucks to not be able to find their mail under a pile of shit. Hmmm, how much of your time do you waste dissing people?
Worse than that, blocking access to Yahoo will break your employee's access to some of their owner's groups. You know, that impartial third party publishing kind of thing that folks at different companies use to share experience and knowledge that benifits all?
Congratulations on decreasing your rate of virus infection. You might have done better by installing Mozilla and making that your default browser. Is there any bogus policy on that one? I just don't get why some big companies insist on the bug farm that is Outlook.
The big dumb publishers have finally gotten off their buts to do something, but do we really want it? The storyline, (e.g. that Big Record Label cannot support small acts as it must press x copies of the album), reminds me of my local cable operator. They would tell me, "We don't support that browser/OS/Whatever_non_M$," and I'd say, "Fine, my browser/OS/whatever_non_M$ works well without your support, what I need is your broken DNS/whatever fixed." Services those folks had were pathetic compared to running your own and in the end, that's what I'd do. Like the record companies, they tried to prevent me from running said sevices for myself - I don't give either them my money anymore.
He'll never get that far. You don't think the unistall will work, do you? It will leave some kind of register doo-doo behind, if not in the data itslelf.
Now let's look at how they are getting there. This is what they have to say for themselves on their little page of horors. First You are not too small to matter. Good, the argument "no one is interested in the particulars of your mundane life so don't worry about security" is both false and misleading and is going to be killed. Lip service is given to user education but takes the form of consumer awareness of comercial products which won't work and will be filled with DRM.
What we need to do is take their message and run with it. Those parts that are true back free software. The government must be made aware that only free software is secure, that they must use it to protect themselves and should not stifle it. They have understood the scale of economic harm that can occur if things don't work right. You are aware of the raid the White House ordered on ptech
and worried in part that ptech had put in backdoors?
The company's software code was checked by the government to determine if outsiders could read or steal any sensitive data from the government, or embed the code with something destructive, officials said. Those checks began months ago, when the probe of Ptech started.
If you treated them as well as you just treated me, I can understand why they pressed on. If you treated your atorney that way, I'll bet you were poorly represented. If you treated the court that way, I'll bet you lost lots of money. That's what happens when you assume everyone else is stupid and call them, "stupid nitwit", "naive idiot", "idiots." who push common sense aside.
You are right about one thing only, I've met technicians who know less than I do about what I called them for but they generally know something else that I don't and the combination gets things fixed. I'm not sure what that has to do with what such a technician would do with their off hours. Such technicians have a tendency to work at places that would impliment a dumb policy like this. Oh, that's it! If the technician makes mistakes off hours, they will make the same mistake at work. Err, that does not work either. Oh yeah, that's it, the company just wants to give these poor folks a script to read and tell them to keep their opinions to themselves. Got to tow the company line, right? That's what this is all about, thanks for noticing.
Because they will have to put you in jail if you try to explain how to crack an ebook? Because they will have to jail themselves if they know? When you outlaw the truth, only outlaws can be honest.
Remember the EULA for the new media player? Remember the XP EULA? Big Bill knows who's been naughty and who's been nice because the all agreed to let him look. Perhaps he sold the information and all those craced Ebooks from user's computers to Adobe. Just a wild freaking guese. I'm sure law enfocement officials who've been busting warez rings have plenty of cracked ebooks, but the Bill snoop could and will happen if all goes accoriding to Bill.
Not to lend weight or support to the perposterous DMCA but I thought the wording was "primary function." If it can be shown that the primary function of the software was simply to give the user their fair use rights to read their own material, how can it be called a circumvention device? In other words, if all it's circumventing is something not recognized by US laws, I don't see what leg they have to stand on. The fact that people did not use the software to violate the contents copyright by distributing the content looks very important, if and only if the DMCA is designed to prevent copyright violation. We all know that the DMCA's primary purpose is to expand the power of and preserve the position of obsolete publishers. Bah, what a stupid law DMCA is.
A troll like you should know that people will still identify themselves as working for the company and will still post incorrect information and the company's reputation will still be harmed. What? You say that the company will point out that no one is alowed to tell anyone anything and can point to an official policy? Great, now I know not to trust the company ever again.
This kind of corporate censorship should outrage us all. There are laws against punishing whistle blowers, and that's what this ammounts to. These big dumb companies are worried that their employees will tell the truth and embarass them. Everyone whould know that it you want BellSouth's opinion, you should go to BellSouth's published information, that's why you think the policy will be effective against trolls, right? What the tech tells you is not a statement of company policy it's a statement of personal opinion. With a punishment policy like this in force, I know that none of those employees can give me a candid opinion, even when I meet them in person. These companies just themselves look like monolithic liars who punish people brave enough to tell you like it is. Way to go!
Well, not exactly. By the time it gets out of the septic tank it won't be there. The iodine isotope used decays away quickly and is then stable, that's why it gives an effective short term dose and is useful.
At the landfill, you want the detectors set low so that you can stop the line before said Americium Smoke detector and other stuff goes into the pile or worse, and incenerator. It's nice to sort your waste and deal with things the way they should be dealt with. A big heaping hunk of cat poop that took a one night ride to the dump might be hotter than you imagine.
Fucking brilliant.
Oh my eyes and screen, such blinding language is burning the phosphor off my CRT. Make it stop!
my car comes with the ability to do 150mph, but the chips lets me go to 120 and if you drive 120 MPH you endager me and others. No one will die if you listen to music shipped to you on your hard disk without paying some big stupid media company. Nor will anyone die if I make a program that can play that music for you, but unlike the speeder, I might go to jail for that.
As has been pointed out a million times before, the implications for free speech and publishing are grave. A big fat music publisher has made a format that only they may use to play music that limits your ability to use and share that music which is really someone else's work to begin with. You are not alowed to understand that format and will go to jail if you study it and publish the mechanism used to "protect" the content. You are told that it is immoral for you to read that content without the publisher's permission and that it's wrong to share it with your friends. RMS saw correctly what happens when all publishing goes this way, we all end up being slaves to the publishers. They can charge us more than we can afford to learn then use that debt to extort all our future work, which we will then have to pay to access. Imagine a format like this being used to publish your next paper. Now imagine that your children have to pay the publisher to read that paper. Sick.
If he hurries, he can have methanol spill into his unhealed lap. It's a disinfectant you know. Call it Norton Laptop. No smoking, please, wicked methonol is highly flamible.
When he says, "We do not want to live in the world DigitalConsumer.dot is trying to create for us, where we are all artist/waiters." He really means it. Phil Lelyveld would hate to have a real job and do things for people. He does not want to live in a wold that does not sustain his and a few select others ability to rape everyone else.
Trust me, you don't want me to be an artist...
Unlike Philip Lelyveld, I have respect for artists and waiters. Both meanings of that statement are true:
P_L_respect = 0
aritst_respect = 1
waiter_respect = 1
If he and others did not use the law to protect racketers, your would be a little better.
Yes, it sucks that only optical and ham radio will be left for free networks but that's the way current US law is rigged. Unless the entire specturm is freed, you are about to see an atrificial tradgedy of the commons. As changing those laws would "disrupt the economy" of a few large companies and create a real free elctronic press that can't be co-opted and influenced by the federal govenrment, expect no changes.
YOU ARE A SLAVE. RELIGION MAY NOT BE EXPRESSED IN PUBLIC PLACES. YOU HAVE NO RIGHT TO PUBLISH, BUT ARE FREE TO STAND AROUND ON STREET CORNERS WITH PAMPLETS AND BE IGNORED. YOU HAVE NO RIGHT TO BEAR ARMS. YOU MAY BE SEARCHED AT ANYTIME WITHOUT WARRANT. ALL YOUR EMAIL IS CARNIVORED. THIS IS A "TIME OF DANGER" SO YOU MAY BE KILLED BY UNMANNED CRAFT WITHOUT WARNING FOR ASSOCIATING WITH SUSPECTED TERRORISTS. ENUMERATION OF RIGHTS IN THE CONSTITUTION AND PUBLICLY SWORN OATHS TO UPHOLD THE CONSTITUTION ARE NO GARUNTEE OF RIGHTS. THE STATES HAVE NO POWER AND THE PEOPLE ARE SLAVES.
I think whenever spectrum like that used for 802.11b/a is assigned, the FCC should prohibit people from selling services based on it--users that sell services should buy their own spectrum. Otherwise, such companies will just take over what was supposed to be a public resource.
Why not just liberate the rest of the specturm? It's all fine and dandy that someone wants to build an infrastructure and charge for it, so long as the rest of us are free to offer service as well. Why would someone pay for rainbow when they could get free service? The most disturbing thing about all this is that the prime movers are large monopoly interests that have abused their position before. Let these turkeys have 2.4 GHz and give the rest of us 5 and above.
You know, the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow is only half the story. The other end of the thing collects quarters from gutters, under people's couches and places like that. With economic conditions the way they are, the rainbow has taken to mugging people. I was struck by one the other day and I'm afraid it will happen again.
My wife used to run Star Office and liked it better than M$. M$ Office is an ugly beast that writes hideous propriatory formated files. Star Office read those files, dispelling the bizare perception that M$ programers were some kinds of wizards. Other than that, my wife simply enjoyed Star Office's easy to use layout.