The
Notice of Proposed Rulemaking says "Comments . . . can be sent as an electronic file via the Internet to [this site]. Generally, only one copy of an electronic submission must be filed.
OK, I think, why would they WANT more than one copy of an electronic submission?
Then there's this bit of doubletalk:
"If multiple docket or rulemaking numbers appear in the caption of this proceeding, however, commenters must transmit one electronic copy of the comments to each docket or rulemaking number referenced in the caption."
Um, THEY wrote it, don't THEY know whether "this proceeding" has multiple docket numbers?
Thre are pages and pages of this kind of doubletalk, such as I've never read in my life. And if you don't submit your comments correctly, I suppose they count for as much as, well, maybe as much as if you do submit them correctly.
How's this for a comment: fold that "electronic proposal" down to sharp pointy corners . . .
As a Minnesotan, I'm trying to figure the downside to global warming. Winters will continue to be a little warmer: yeah! Summers warmer: spend more time at the lake, or reading slashdot at my air-conditioned workplace. Icecap melts; oceans rise; Wash. D.C., New York and other coastal cities, as well as all of Florida is flooded: less gov't, faster election results, and NYC is like Venice. Cool!
Don't click on hatsofmeat.com while drinking something--it's bad for the keyboard. Seriously funny.
If god didn't want us to wear animal parts on our heads, he wouldn't have made them out of meat.
It sounds like these crackers are going to be only an advisory group to the Indian "Cyber Cop Force" talked about in this article, which itself is mostly advisory.
I don't see anything in the article that implies that these kids are going to be building firewalls. That, I agree, would not be a great security stategy.
But if they are, they're welcome to share their techniques with this kid from Minnesota who posts to slashdot. It's too cold up here to play outside.
I was looking through some old stuff of my childhood at my parents' house, and in a young person's astronomy book was the sentence "The Sun is a ball of incandescent gas, a gigantic nuclear furnace, where hydrogen is made into helium, at a temperature of millions of degrees." What other bands takes song lyrics from science books for kids? They truly do rock.
Here's NPR's press release about why they took the position they did.
Thing is, the FCC plan was already a compromise that was designed to respond to any actual interference with the services NPR was concerned about.
If you are unhappy about NPR's involement in this, here are some folks at NPR you could contact:
Kevin Klose, President and CEO --
KKlose@npr.org
Kenneth P. Stern, Executive Vice President --
KStern@npr.org
Neal Jackson, VP for Legal Affairs (including legislation) --
NJackson@npr.org
On the other hand, if the Cat in the Hat described the PC, perhaps he would say--- If a packet hits a pocket on a socket on a port, And the bus is interrupted as a very last resort, And the address of the memory makes your floppy disk abort, Then the socket packet pocket has an error to report! If your cursor finds a menu item followed by a dash, And the double-clicking icon puts your window in the trash, And your data is corrupted 'cause the index doesn't hash, Then your situation's hopeless, and your system's gonna crash! If the label on the cable on the table at your house, Says the network is connected to the button on your mouse, But your packets want to tunnel on another protocol, That's repeatedly rejected by the printer down the hall, And your screen is all distorted by the side effects of gauss So your icons in the window are as wavy as a souse, Then you may as well reboot and go out with a bang, 'Cause as sure as I'm a poet, the sucker's gonna hang! When the copy of your floppy's getting sloppy on the disk, And the microcode instructions cause unnecessary risc, Then you have to flash your memory and you'll want to RAM your ROM. Quickly turn off the computer and be sure to tell your mom!
I happen to be interested in the study of parliamentary procedure (you know, the Robert's Rules stuff). There's a web message board where anyone can post questions, and those who frequently answer have formed a community. I've never met any of them IRL, but I've participated in an expanded email list and other one-to-one exchanges enough that I feel I know some of these folks.
If you are really into something you naturally want to seek out others who are also. The net makes specialized communities of interest possible much more than they ever has been before.
It helps with the community I mentioned that our transmission media are moderated (and the expanded email list is invitation only). I've tried "chat rooms" and IRC channels, and I found most of them incredibly annoying, because of spam, but also because so few participants had anything interesting to say. But that isn't the whole of virtual communities, I think.
All the gas giants in this solar system have moons. Those moons can have atmospheres, geological activity, complex hydrocarbons, and water. If some of those extrasolar planets have fairly circular orbits "in the zone," any moons they have will be there too.
Perhaps Linux is attractive to the PRC for the same reasons it might attract many developing countries: its low cost, a source base to tailor a system for a non-english interface, freedom to modify without dealing with a (from their point of view) foreign concern in obtaining licenses, etc. If this article is true, it really shouldn't surprise us.
How about these marketing strategies: Co-branding with Starbucks for Sun Java drinks. with the Weather Channel-- partly Sunny(TM), Sunny(TM), etc. with Lucky Charms-- adding purple Suns to the mix, for the really young geeks.
I guess it's a sign Linux really is on the verge of mainstream--the Make Money Fast crowd has started to take interest. But since it would seem they are in violation of the GNU GPL, the responsible distributors are not without recourse.
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Thomas Schmidt, President and CEO of Amiga has admitted, in a recent "open letter to the community," on the www.Amiga.com site that they've dropped plans to build on the old Amiga line, but that doesn't seem to be related to this proposed settlement, which is focused on past practices, not future promises.
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The Notice of Proposed Rulemaking says "Comments . . . can be sent as an electronic file via the Internet to [this site]. Generally, only one copy of an electronic submission must be filed.
OK, I think, why would they WANT more than one copy of an electronic submission?
Then there's this bit of doubletalk:
"If multiple docket or rulemaking numbers appear in the caption of this proceeding, however, commenters must transmit one electronic copy of the comments to each docket or rulemaking number referenced in the caption."
Um, THEY wrote it, don't THEY know whether "this proceeding" has multiple docket numbers?
Thre are pages and pages of this kind of doubletalk, such as I've never read in my life. And if you don't submit your comments correctly, I suppose they count for as much as, well, maybe as much as if you do submit them correctly.
How's this for a comment: fold that "electronic proposal" down to sharp pointy corners . . .
As a Minnesotan, I'm trying to figure the downside to global warming. Winters will continue to be a little warmer: yeah! Summers warmer: spend more time at the lake, or reading slashdot at my air-conditioned workplace. Icecap melts; oceans rise; Wash. D.C., New York and other coastal cities, as well as all of Florida is flooded: less gov't, faster election results, and NYC is like Venice. Cool!
Don't click on hatsofmeat.com while drinking something--it's bad for the keyboard. Seriously funny.
If god didn't want us to wear animal parts on our heads, he wouldn't have made them out of meat.
It sounds like these crackers are going to be only an advisory group to the Indian "Cyber Cop Force" talked about in this article, which itself is mostly advisory.
I don't see anything in the article that implies that these kids are going to be building firewalls. That, I agree, would not be a great security stategy.
But if they are, they're welcome to share their techniques with this kid from Minnesota who posts to slashdot. It's too cold up here to play outside.
I was looking through some old stuff of my childhood at my parents' house, and in a young person's astronomy book was the sentence "The Sun is a ball of incandescent gas, a gigantic nuclear furnace, where hydrogen is made into helium, at a temperature of millions of degrees." What other bands takes song lyrics from science books for kids? They truly do rock.
Here's NPR's press release about why they took the position they did.
Thing is, the FCC plan was already a compromise that was designed to respond to any actual interference with the services NPR was concerned about.
If you are unhappy about NPR's involement in this, here are some folks at NPR you could contact:
Kevin Klose, President and CEO -- KKlose@npr.org
Kenneth P. Stern, Executive Vice President -- KStern@npr.org
Neal Jackson, VP for Legal Affairs (including legislation) -- NJackson@npr.org
On the other hand, if the Cat in the Hat described the PC, perhaps he would say--- If a packet hits a pocket on a socket on a port, And the bus is interrupted as a very last resort, And the address of the memory makes your floppy disk abort, Then the socket packet pocket has an error to report! If your cursor finds a menu item followed by a dash, And the double-clicking icon puts your window in the trash, And your data is corrupted 'cause the index doesn't hash, Then your situation's hopeless, and your system's gonna crash! If the label on the cable on the table at your house, Says the network is connected to the button on your mouse, But your packets want to tunnel on another protocol, That's repeatedly rejected by the printer down the hall, And your screen is all distorted by the side effects of gauss So your icons in the window are as wavy as a souse, Then you may as well reboot and go out with a bang, 'Cause as sure as I'm a poet, the sucker's gonna hang! When the copy of your floppy's getting sloppy on the disk, And the microcode instructions cause unnecessary risc, Then you have to flash your memory and you'll want to RAM your ROM. Quickly turn off the computer and be sure to tell your mom!
I got every one I've owed by dumpster diving. Is pizza genetically modified? I don't know, am I "one of those strange folks" the article talks about?
I happen to be interested in the study of parliamentary procedure (you know, the Robert's Rules stuff). There's a web message board where anyone can post questions, and those who frequently answer have formed a community. I've never met any of them IRL, but I've participated in an expanded email list and other one-to-one exchanges enough that I feel I know some of these folks. If you are really into something you naturally want to seek out others who are also. The net makes specialized communities of interest possible much more than they ever has been before. It helps with the community I mentioned that our transmission media are moderated (and the expanded email list is invitation only). I've tried "chat rooms" and IRC channels, and I found most of them incredibly annoying, because of spam, but also because so few participants had anything interesting to say. But that isn't the whole of virtual communities, I think.
All the gas giants in this solar system have moons. Those moons can have atmospheres, geological activity, complex hydrocarbons, and water. If some of those extrasolar planets have fairly circular orbits "in the zone," any moons they have will be there too.
Dune: House Atreides on Amazon.
Perhaps Linux is attractive to the PRC for the same reasons it might attract many developing countries: its low cost, a source base to tailor a system for a non-english interface, freedom to modify without dealing with a (from their point of view) foreign concern in obtaining licenses, etc. If this article is true, it really shouldn't surprise us.
How about these marketing strategies: Co-branding with Starbucks for Sun Java drinks. with the Weather Channel-- partly Sunny(TM), Sunny(TM), etc. with Lucky Charms-- adding purple Suns to the mix, for the really young geeks.
I guess it's a sign Linux really is on the verge of mainstream--the Make Money Fast crowd has started to take interest. But since it would seem they are in violation of the GNU GPL, the responsible distributors are not without recourse.
Not in print? amazon.com says the book usually ships within 24 hours
Thomas Schmidt, President and CEO of Amiga has admitted, in a recent "open letter to the community," on the www.Amiga.com site that they've dropped plans to build on the old Amiga line, but that doesn't seem to be related to this proposed settlement, which is focused on past practices, not future promises.