I have Verizon FIOS as well, and if the poster is referring to the modem/wifi router combo unit that comes with the service (and which has a default password of 'password1'), he in incorrect in believing that he owns the unit. The unit comes with FIOS service and is on loan from Verizon.
Further, they are changing the password to protect the owner from his own idiocy. I would have a problem with them keeping tabs on traffic or making changes to any other setting, but it looks like this change actually does benefit customers. The email notification email sent out with the password change made their intentions clear.
All in all, this seems to have been carried out properly.
You must have been to one of his talks regarding alternative fuels for automobiles specifically. Part of the "Pickens Plan" involves replacing gasoline cars with electric vehicles and replacing diesel 18-wheelers with trucks powered by natural gas. Large trucks need more power than can currently be provided by electrical systems and natural gas has less of an impact on the environment than does diesel fuel.
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My university has hundreds of computers in labs spread across campus, at least 1 printer in every dorm community, several printers in one centralized computer lab, printers in about every academic building, FREE* Residential Network Consultants ("Geek Squads") in every dorm, a FREE* help desk for students, network techs for faculty, campus-wide 802.11g wifi, and a vpn -- all on a New York State public university budget.
Also, they require that users download software at the start of every semester that forces the latest Windows and AV updates before allowing the machine to connect to the network. Exceptions are made for iPods, XBOXes and the like...
It really isn't that big of a deal to maintain a nice set of tech services for students.
(*A technology fee of about $150 per semester is included in tuition. Completely worth it, in my opinion.)
I remember reading about this several months ago when Hasbro first started looking into the issue. Hasbro long ago signed a contract with EA for an electronic version of Scrabble -- buying Scrabulous would violate this contract.
Configuring Windows still basically requires significant registry editing work.
That's absurd. Aside from driver and software installations, which are more-or-less straightforward, one does not need to modify the registry (through regedit) to configure Windows.
Truth be told, if we were all using the actual best available product, I would say that most of us would be using Macs.
Agreed. I was working in the constraints of the parent post, which was in regards to Windows/Ubuntu. My next laptop purchase will be from Apple.
I am a big fan of Ubuntu and have several servers and workstations running the OS, but it is far from being an operating system that "Just Works". Configuring Ubuntu still basically requires significant command line work. It may Just Work in a couple of years, but at this point Windows is still a safer bet for the average consumer... well, XP, anyway.
Media mail is for books/cds/videos only and runs off the assumption that this mail is not as urgent as first class mail. Shipping non-media mail as media is considered mail fraud. There price of media mail is lower due to it's decreased priority; however, the service was introduced to cater to the perceived non-urgency of media content, not simply to offer a third class for all mail.
The French, not the US, gave their nuclear processing technology to Israel in the early 1960s. Israel went on to develop its own nuclear weapons using those facilities.
Microsoft has been doing this for years through its Academic Alliance program. Here's the list of free MS software (with legit licenses) that I currently get through the alliance with my university:
.NET Component Update CD,.NET Framework 1.1 SDK,
Access 2003,
Access 2007,
Compute Cluster Pack,
Compute Cluster Pack SDK,
Exchange Server 2000 Enterprise Edition,
Exchange Server 2003 Enterprise Edition,
Exchange Server 2007 Enterprise Edition,
Exchange Server 2007 Standard Edition,
Expression Blend,
Expression Studio,
Expression Web,
InfoPath 2003,
InfoPath 2003 Toolkit for Visual Studio Tools for Office 2005,
InfoPath 2007,
ISA Server 2006 Enterprise Edition,
Macro Assembler 6.11,
MapPoint 2004 European - Run Disc (2/2),
MapPoint 2004 European - Setup Disc (1/2),
MapPoint 2004 North America - Run Disc (2/2),
MapPoint 2004 North America - Setup Disc (1/2),
MELL - Developer Edition for MSDNAA,
MSDN Library - April 2007 (DVD),
MSDN Library - December 2006 - (DVD),
MSDN Library - May 2006 - CD1,
MSDN Library - May 2006 - CD2,
MSDN Library - May 2006 - CD3,
MSDN Library (Visual Studio.NET) CD1 ISO (Jan 2004),
MSDN Library (Visual Studio.NET) CD2 ISO (Jan 2004),
MSDN Library (Visual Studio.NET) CD3 ISO (Jan 2004),
MSDN Library (Visual Studio.NET) Full (Jan 2004),
MSDN Library for Visual Studio 2005 - CD1,
MSDN Library for Visual Studio 2005 - CD2,
MSDN Library for Visual Studio 2005 - CD3,
MSDN Library for Visual Studio 2008 (x86 and x64 WoW) - DVD,
MSDN Subscriptions Library (Full),
MS-DOS 6.0,
Office Communications Server 2007 Enterprise Edition,
Office FrontPage 2003,
Office Groove 2007,
Office Groove Server 2007,
Office Project Server 2007,
Office SharePoint Server 2007 Enterprise,
Office SharePoint Server 2007 Standard,
OneNote 2003,
OneNote 2007,
Project Professional 2002 (Single-User),
Project Professional 2003,
Project Professional 2007,
Project Server 2003,
SharePoint Designer 2007,
SQL Server 2000 Developer Edition,
SQL Server 2000 Enterprise Edition,
SQL Server 2000 SP3a,
SQL Server 2005 Developer Edition - 32-bit - CD1,
SQL Server 2005 Developer Edition - 32-bit - CD2,
SQL Server 2005 Developer Edition - 64-bit Extended - CD1,
SQL Server 2005 Developer Edition - 64-bit Extended - CD2,
SQL Server 2005 Developer Edition - DVD,
SQL Server 2005 Express Edition,
SQL Server 2005 Standard Edition - 32-bit - CD1,
SQL Server 2005 Standard Edition - 32-bit - CD2,
SQL Server 2005 Standard Edition - 32-bit - DVD,
SQL Server 2005 Standard Edition - 64-bit Extended - CD1,
SQL Server 2005 Standard Edition - 64-bit Extended - CD2,
SQL Server 2005 Standard Edition - 64-bit Extended - DVD,
SQL Server 2005 Workgroup Edition - 32-bit - DVD,
System Center Essentials 2007 - DVD,
System Center Operations Manager 2007,
Virtual PC 2004,
Virtual PC 2007,
Virtual PC for Mac 7.0.2,
Visio for Enterprise Architects,
Visio Professional 2002 (Single User),
Visio Professional 2003,
Visio Professional 2007,
Visual Basic 2005 Express Edition,
Visual C# 2005 Express Edition,
Visual C++ 2005 Express Edition,
Visual J#.NET,
Visual J# 2005 Express Edition,
Visual SourceSafe 6.0d,
Visual Studio.NET 2003 Professional - Full Install,
Visual Studio.NET 2005 Professional - Full Install,
Visual Studio.NET Academic Student Tools 2003,
Visual Studio.NET Academic Teaching Tools 2003,
Visual Studio.NET Pro 2002 - ISO Image - CD1,
Visual Studio.NET Pro 2002 - ISO Image - CD2,
Visual Studio.NET Pro 2002 - ISO Image - CD3,
Visual Studio.NET Pro 2002 - ISO Image - CD4,
Visual Studio.NET Pro 2002 - ISO Image - CD5,
Visual Studio.NET Professional 2002 (Full),
Visual Studio.NET Professional 2003 - CD1,
Visual Studio.NET Professional 2003 - CD2,
Visual Studio.NET Professional 2003 CD1 ISO,
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Time Warner's biggest mistake was acquiring AOL and not integrating it into its Road Runner service. Why pick up a dial-up service when the company was already betting on broadband? Had AOL (w/o the software client) been made a broadband provider wherever Time Warner had contracts the company may have still been strong today.
I used to work tech at a SUNY (State University of NY) school. Our official policy was to not report pirated software/music/movies, but we were required by law to report child pornography. I am not sure if this also applied to non-government employees.
i was under the impression that this was already required. this came up back in 2003 when the entire northeast went dark for several hours. we did have cell service for the entire outage, although the system was overloaded with calls for most of it. does anyone know if new york state already has this type of law in place?
The facebook privacy settings are completely useless. This is the complete text from the "External Websites" page in my facebook privacy settings:
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Privacy Settings for External Websites
Show your friends what you like and what you're up to outside of Facebook. When you take actions on the sites listed below, you can choose to have those actions sent to your profile.
Please note that these settings only affect notifications on Facebook. You will still be notified on affiliate websites when they send stories to Facebook. You will be able to decline individual stories at that time.
No sites have tried sending stories to your profile
--------
I have to opt-out after the purchase is made. Also, keep in mind that I have my facebook privacy settings set to not publish any of my actions on other people's news feeds, but edits to my profile will still show up in my mini-feed and in my friends' news feeds. Even if Facebook did allow a blanket opt-out of beacon, I doubt that it will be any more effective than their current privacy settings.
Slashdot Mirror
This is textbook import substitution industrialization, just on a rapid time frame. Nothing new here. Move along...
I have Verizon FIOS as well, and if the poster is referring to the modem/wifi router combo unit that comes with the service (and which has a default password of 'password1'), he in incorrect in believing that he owns the unit. The unit comes with FIOS service and is on loan from Verizon.
Further, they are changing the password to protect the owner from his own idiocy. I would have a problem with them keeping tabs on traffic or making changes to any other setting, but it looks like this change actually does benefit customers. The email notification email sent out with the password change made their intentions clear.
All in all, this seems to have been carried out properly.
Step 1) Introduce tld .xxx
.xxx tld
.xxx domain
Step 2) Pass law that says, any site with porn must be in
Step 3) Block
Step 4) Totalitarianism
Step 5) Profit!
You must have been to one of his talks regarding alternative fuels for automobiles specifically. Part of the "Pickens Plan" involves replacing gasoline cars with electric vehicles and replacing diesel 18-wheelers with trucks powered by natural gas. Large trucks need more power than can currently be provided by electrical systems and natural gas has less of an impact on the environment than does diesel fuel.
http://www.google.com/apps/intl/en/group/index.html
My university has hundreds of computers in labs spread across campus, at least 1 printer in every dorm community, several printers in one centralized computer lab, printers in about every academic building, FREE* Residential Network Consultants ("Geek Squads") in every dorm, a FREE* help desk for students, network techs for faculty, campus-wide 802.11g wifi, and a vpn -- all on a New York State public university budget.
Also, they require that users download software at the start of every semester that forces the latest Windows and AV updates before allowing the machine to connect to the network. Exceptions are made for iPods, XBOXes and the like...
It really isn't that big of a deal to maintain a nice set of tech services for students.
(*A technology fee of about $150 per semester is included in tuition. Completely worth it, in my opinion.)
tricks involving mosquitoes do tend to generate a lot of buzz...
I remember reading about this several months ago when Hasbro first started looking into the issue. Hasbro long ago signed a contract with EA for an electronic version of Scrabble -- buying Scrabulous would violate this contract.
yeah, it was on the History Channel special "Little Ice Age: Big Chill". I remember this airing here in the states a couple of years ago.
Configuring Windows still basically requires significant registry editing work.
That's absurd. Aside from driver and software installations, which are more-or-less straightforward, one does not need to modify the registry (through regedit) to configure Windows.
Truth be told, if we were all using the actual best available product, I would say that most of us would be using Macs.
Agreed. I was working in the constraints of the parent post, which was in regards to Windows/Ubuntu. My next laptop purchase will be from Apple.
I am a big fan of Ubuntu and have several servers and workstations running the OS, but it is far from being an operating system that "Just Works". Configuring Ubuntu still basically requires significant command line work. It may Just Work in a couple of years, but at this point Windows is still a safer bet for the average consumer... well, XP, anyway.
Media mail is for books/cds/videos only and runs off the assumption that this mail is not as urgent as first class mail. Shipping non-media mail as media is considered mail fraud. There price of media mail is lower due to it's decreased priority; however, the service was introduced to cater to the perceived non-urgency of media content, not simply to offer a third class for all mail.
they already do... first class mail, media mail, magazines, etc. are shipped using different priorities based on their content.
NYTimes usually requires registration:
http://www.bugmenot.com/view/nytimes.com
user: bugbugbug7
password: bugbugbug
The French, not the US, gave their nuclear processing technology to Israel in the early 1960s. Israel went on to develop its own nuclear weapons using those facilities.
How positive?
Microsoft has been doing this for years through its Academic Alliance program. Here's the list of free MS software (with legit licenses) that I currently get through the alliance with my university:
.NET Component Update CD, .NET Framework 1.1 SDK,
Access 2003,
Access 2007,
Compute Cluster Pack,
Compute Cluster Pack SDK,
Exchange Server 2000 Enterprise Edition,
Exchange Server 2003 Enterprise Edition,
Exchange Server 2007 Enterprise Edition,
Exchange Server 2007 Standard Edition,
Expression Blend,
Expression Studio,
Expression Web,
InfoPath 2003,
InfoPath 2003 Toolkit for Visual Studio Tools for Office 2005,
InfoPath 2007,
ISA Server 2006 Enterprise Edition,
Macro Assembler 6.11,
MapPoint 2004 European - Run Disc (2/2),
MapPoint 2004 European - Setup Disc (1/2),
MapPoint 2004 North America - Run Disc (2/2),
MapPoint 2004 North America - Setup Disc (1/2),
MELL - Developer Edition for MSDNAA,
MSDN Library - April 2007 (DVD),
MSDN Library - December 2006 - (DVD),
MSDN Library - May 2006 - CD1,
MSDN Library - May 2006 - CD2,
MSDN Library - May 2006 - CD3,
MSDN Library (Visual Studio .NET) CD1 ISO (Jan 2004),
MSDN Library (Visual Studio .NET) CD2 ISO (Jan 2004),
MSDN Library (Visual Studio .NET) CD3 ISO (Jan 2004),
MSDN Library (Visual Studio .NET) Full (Jan 2004),
MSDN Library for Visual Studio 2005 - CD1,
MSDN Library for Visual Studio 2005 - CD2,
MSDN Library for Visual Studio 2005 - CD3,
MSDN Library for Visual Studio 2008 (x86 and x64 WoW) - DVD,
MSDN Subscriptions Library (Full),
MS-DOS 6.0,
Office Communications Server 2007 Enterprise Edition,
Office FrontPage 2003,
Office Groove 2007,
Office Groove Server 2007,
Office Project Server 2007,
Office SharePoint Server 2007 Enterprise,
Office SharePoint Server 2007 Standard,
OneNote 2003,
OneNote 2007,
Project Professional 2002 (Single-User),
Project Professional 2003,
Project Professional 2007,
Project Server 2003,
SharePoint Designer 2007,
SQL Server 2000 Developer Edition,
SQL Server 2000 Enterprise Edition,
SQL Server 2000 SP3a,
SQL Server 2005 Developer Edition - 32-bit - CD1,
SQL Server 2005 Developer Edition - 32-bit - CD2,
SQL Server 2005 Developer Edition - 64-bit Extended - CD1,
SQL Server 2005 Developer Edition - 64-bit Extended - CD2,
SQL Server 2005 Developer Edition - DVD,
SQL Server 2005 Express Edition,
SQL Server 2005 Standard Edition - 32-bit - CD1,
SQL Server 2005 Standard Edition - 32-bit - CD2,
SQL Server 2005 Standard Edition - 32-bit - DVD,
SQL Server 2005 Standard Edition - 64-bit Extended - CD1,
SQL Server 2005 Standard Edition - 64-bit Extended - CD2,
SQL Server 2005 Standard Edition - 64-bit Extended - DVD,
SQL Server 2005 Workgroup Edition - 32-bit - DVD,
System Center Essentials 2007 - DVD,
System Center Operations Manager 2007,
Virtual PC 2004,
Virtual PC 2007,
Virtual PC for Mac 7.0.2,
Visio for Enterprise Architects,
Visio Professional 2002 (Single User),
Visio Professional 2003,
Visio Professional 2007,
Visual Basic 2005 Express Edition,
Visual C# 2005 Express Edition,
Visual C++ 2005 Express Edition,
Visual J# .NET,
Visual J# 2005 Express Edition,
Visual SourceSafe 6.0d,
Visual Studio .NET 2003 Professional - Full Install,
Visual Studio .NET 2005 Professional - Full Install,
Visual Studio .NET Academic Student Tools 2003,
Visual Studio .NET Academic Teaching Tools 2003,
Visual Studio .NET Pro 2002 - ISO Image - CD1,
Visual Studio .NET Pro 2002 - ISO Image - CD2,
Visual Studio .NET Pro 2002 - ISO Image - CD3,
Visual Studio .NET Pro 2002 - ISO Image - CD4,
Visual Studio .NET Pro 2002 - ISO Image - CD5,
Visual Studio .NET Professional 2002 (Full),
Visual Studio .NET Professional 2003 - CD1,
Visual Studio .NET Professional 2003 - CD2,
Visual Studio .NET Professional 2003 CD1 ISO,
V
Kudos for linking to the printer version...
Time Warner's biggest mistake was acquiring AOL and not integrating it into its Road Runner service. Why pick up a dial-up service when the company was already betting on broadband? Had AOL (w/o the software client) been made a broadband provider wherever Time Warner had contracts the company may have still been strong today.
I used to work tech at a SUNY (State University of NY) school. Our official policy was to not report pirated software/music/movies, but we were required by law to report child pornography. I am not sure if this also applied to non-government employees.
israel is principally a jewish country, but its government is secular and democratically elected.
i was under the impression that this was already required. this came up back in 2003 when the entire northeast went dark for several hours. we did have cell service for the entire outage, although the system was overloaded with calls for most of it. does anyone know if new york state already has this type of law in place?
The facebook privacy settings are completely useless. This is the complete text from the "External Websites" page in my facebook privacy settings: -------- Privacy Settings for External Websites Show your friends what you like and what you're up to outside of Facebook. When you take actions on the sites listed below, you can choose to have those actions sent to your profile. Please note that these settings only affect notifications on Facebook. You will still be notified on affiliate websites when they send stories to Facebook. You will be able to decline individual stories at that time. No sites have tried sending stories to your profile -------- I have to opt-out after the purchase is made. Also, keep in mind that I have my facebook privacy settings set to not publish any of my actions on other people's news feeds, but edits to my profile will still show up in my mini-feed and in my friends' news feeds. Even if Facebook did allow a blanket opt-out of beacon, I doubt that it will be any more effective than their current privacy settings.
why increase capacity when you can just cap connections?