Because of all this shit over music I have stoped buying. I use to try out stuff on the old napster (tells you how long ago that was) and if I liked I would get the CD, but now that the RIAA (and co.) has made it clear they don't want my busness, I have stoped, stoped listening and stoped buying. And the radio music stations have way to many comercials to be enjoyable. I have moved on to talk radio, and I have to say I think I enjoy talk radio more, and there seams to be far less comercials then music radio. Good by music, hello talk.
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Give me a break, next it will be Global [something].
I am still wanting for the promise of Global Warming, I really hate snow.
Get over it, thr enviomentlests always will be screamming about something. They have screammed wolf to much for me.
The sky is falling, get on the anti-radiation suits.
You will find that unlimited has some very odd meannings, with sprintpcs has unlimeted 3g, but if you read the TOS you find that you are not alowed to use it unlimited, you are not alowed to use it as a modem. Here is the text "PCS Vision Packs are: (a) only available with a Vision capable PCS Phone or PCS smart phone device; and (b) not available with Connection Cards, Aircards, or any other device used in connection with a computer or PDA - including phones, smart phones or other devices used with connection kits or similar phone-to-computer/PDA accessories. PCS Vision Packs are also not available with Bluetooth Vision capable PCS Phones used as a modem in connection with other devices. Sprint reserves the right to deny or to terminate service without notice for any misuse."
on the other hand t-mobil does not have that in their contract, but I am not sure what the exact rules there are, I am sure to find out, I have been using it to stream internet radio stations to my laptop, then retransmit them to my car radio. But when I bought the service they said I could do it, and they have instructions on their site how to see your bluetooth phone up for use as a modem for a laptop. NOw if I can get a player for my palm that can do all the internet radio stream formats.
Lets turn your question around, why should any one care if the US gets attacked ( like in 9/11 )
The anser to my question is the same anser to your question, because we are in the same boat, what happens to other countrys will affect us, and also people might have famaily there, and would like to be able to know if they are safe (Hams do provided a free service of message passing, usefull to get a message to a place that might have phone service out, and no net connection, and a message can come back)
Now with what I said, think about this you have a sibling in a place that had a major disastor, all other forms of comunications are out, all that is left is one ham with a HF station, that ham now becomes the only link for that place to the outside world, would you not want the message from your famaly member to come in, or would you reather have BPL and never know that your sibling is safe or dead or what.
God forbid that anything like this would happen to you or any one, but we must reconize that it posable.
The interfernce is at the reciving end, so lets say there is a problem in the 3rd world, but the reciver is in a place that has BPL, the place with the BPL will not get the weak signal, even though the transmiter does not have BPL.
How do the people in one location know when to pull the plug? Also you have the local people mad when they loss their net access because of an emergncy, that they belive has no effect on them.
I could think about what people in a city in the US might say if they had their net access cut so that FEMA can take a call comming in from South America, the best solution is not to have people use something that would have to be pulled so that some one can recive a SOS.
The Bible does not give the year that Christ was born. And he died (and rose) at the age of 33, this comes from, (the Bible states) he started his ministry at the age of 30, and continued it for 3 years, and ended in the Passion, Death, Resurection, and assention.
What am I doing, I work at CMU, and I have one address I never gave to any one, here (my andrew account) and I get 30 spams a day, and I never told any one about this address ( it is to the point I don't check it)
What happend is it got listed on CMU's directory, and that what happend. My main work email ( @cs.cmu.edu ) is also listed is a directory too.
This spam problem is getting out of control, I am glad that some one is trying, but the problem is that the spammers will probably move out of the country.
I don't think the cdma people will even carry it. I reather have a 2.5G phone since the GSM carriers deliver, sprint has been promising for 7 months a bluetooth phone, so I don't think that eather sprint of verizon, the 2 cdma and therefor the only 3g networks in the us, will ever carrie it, I ditched sprint last week for a 2.5G company T-Mobil because they have the better phones, yes the theredical speed of the net is slower but the applided speed is faster because it is there. see this page I did http://slashdot.org/~mpost4/journal/53591
The reason I don't ship out side of the US is because, 1 it cost to much, and if I try to say a international shipping cost more, I get called an american asshole. so for me it is just easier not to ship outside of the US.
there is a plug-in that needs to be downloaded from the faq section from http://www.serveusa.gov/public/aca.aspx in the TECHNICAL QUESTIONS section the second to last question
Do I need to download special software or get a CD-ROM to use SERVE? All required software is downloaded automatically as needed when you access various parts of the SERVE website.
1) I was not stating what I believe I was just stating what Joe end user will believe, and the law makers more then likely will fall into the Joe end user level of computer knowledge. 2) I have written 2 network programs, they are not public available, they are only used here at cmu, in SCS operations. (for the networking part I just used the Socket++ toolkit, made the network part much easier, they also run on a DEC/3000 box)
Using Linux is a something you chose to do. Using Linux was not something you were born to do (though some people may claim that) When you chose to use Linux you should have know along with all the benefits it has, there were some draw back, i.e. there would not be as much software/hardware support from companies for it. (I do belive for the most part the benefits do out number the draw backs.)
You and I know that, but what about the lawmakers, do they know and/or understand that. How are you going to get them to understand that? We are not dealing with computer people here we are dealing with people who for the best part knows how to use Word, and the worse don't even know how to turn on a computer.
The reason just windows is because that as much as we hate it, we are in the minority of computer uses, they are not going to Bata test a new technology on a system that only a maximum of 5% of computer users will have (and yes I am being overly optimistic here) if this works for them the next platform will be Mac. Linux may never get it, unless more people use Linux, and I doubt that they would want to open up the code to the voting system that could create a large number of people trying to skew the results so that the results are not accurate.
""I think Internet voting is a good idea for this population if you can assure security, but I'm not confident that they can do that," said John Dunbar, a project manager at the Center for Public Integrity" -- this statement is what will not alone them to open up the source code, people will be just to afraid that people will mess with the results of the system.
They are already afraid that this could open up security problems for the results "Other computer security experts call the project an open invitation to election tampering."
I don't know if this will make voting secure, in fact I think it will open it up to attackers, but how are we going to convince the government of this, write to you legislator, and senator, I am sure there are some proactive Slashdot readers that know more about this issue that could try to enlighten the ruling parties. I don't know what the answer is, but at lest they are looking at moving the process forward.
I see a lot of anti-law posts here, but we need some good laws (I agree the DMCA is a bad law and should be removed). Any society that exists will need laws to keep the peace, and since the internet is not breaking down international barras it will need laws of some sort. Is the US government the group to pass them, NO. What we need for the internet is a group like the IARU (The International Amateur Radio Union). And the use of the internet can fall under a international treaty and then there could be local (read, governments of countries) informant of these laws, that all the countries agree to be bound to.
These images do not stop the spammers. I still get alot of spam from these services. All it is doing is keeping blind people out of them, the spammers are still getting in, I have about 100 hotmail acounts blocked, and 50 yahoo accounts block because they are spam accounts.
why do we care if blind people can access the net, well because they can have things to contribute to the ever growing base of knowledge on the net. Just because some one is blind and/or deaf and/or other, does not mean that they are not worthy to listen to. I know 2 blind people, and they have insights into things that I have never heard from any other sighted person.
Infact if any one knows of a good IM clint that works with Jaws, I would like to know so I can pass it to my friends.
I probably should say one other thing, I don't use the network during the services. I am there a lot of the time doing all kinds of work around the church. And I am responsible for the network also (which is fitting since I am the one that put it in.)
I love the fact that when I head out of the house, I can just put it in its bag, and if I need to do anything, or grab my e-mail I can as long as I can get a cell signal. Also with the 802.11b network card, I have fast access to the net at work, home, and at my church (yes you read that right).
I can not invision my life with out my little laptop, and I only have been using laptops since Dec of 2000.
I have a nice port replicator for my laptop, it plugs into one of the USB ports, and has 2 ps/2, 1 serial, 1 parallel port, and 2 more USB ports on it. It is nice to plug it in and have all the home devices connected to the laptop with on plug (I just need a usb 2.0 hub now.)
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Because of all this shit over music I have stoped buying. I use to try out stuff on the old napster (tells you how long ago that was) and if I liked I would get the CD, but now that the RIAA (and co.) has made it clear they don't want my busness, I have stoped, stoped listening and stoped buying. And the radio music stations have way to many comercials to be enjoyable. I have moved on to talk radio, and I have to say I think I enjoy talk radio more, and there seams to be far less comercials then music radio. Good by music, hello talk.
Give me a break, next it will be Global [something].
I am still wanting for the promise of Global Warming, I really hate snow.
Get over it, thr enviomentlests always will be screamming about something. They have screammed wolf to much for me.
The sky is falling, get on the anti-radiation suits.
You will find that unlimited has some very odd meannings, with sprintpcs has unlimeted 3g, but if you read the TOS you find that you are not alowed to use it unlimited, you are not alowed to use it as a modem. Here is the text "PCS Vision Packs are: (a) only available with a Vision capable PCS Phone or PCS smart phone device; and (b) not available with Connection Cards, Aircards, or any other device used in connection with a computer or PDA - including phones, smart phones or other devices used with connection kits or similar phone-to-computer/PDA accessories. PCS Vision Packs are also not available with Bluetooth Vision capable PCS Phones used as a modem in connection with other devices. Sprint reserves the right to deny or to terminate service without notice for any misuse."
on the other hand t-mobil does not have that in their contract, but I am not sure what the exact rules there are, I am sure to find out, I have been using it to stream internet radio stations to my laptop, then retransmit them to my car radio. But when I bought the service they said I could do it, and they have instructions on their site how to see your bluetooth phone up for use as a modem for a laptop. NOw if I can get a player for my palm that can do all the internet radio stream formats.
Lets turn your question around, why should any one care if the US gets attacked ( like in 9/11 )
The anser to my question is the same anser to your question, because we are in the same boat, what happens to other countrys will affect us, and also people might have famaily there, and would like to be able to know if they are safe (Hams do provided a free service of message passing, usefull to get a message to a place that might have phone service out, and no net connection, and a message can come back)
Now with what I said, think about this you have a sibling in a place that had a major disastor, all other forms of comunications are out, all that is left is one ham with a HF station, that ham now becomes the only link for that place to the outside world, would you not want the message from your famaly member to come in, or would you reather have BPL and never know that your sibling is safe or dead or what.
God forbid that anything like this would happen to you or any one, but we must reconize that it posable.
The interfernce is at the reciving end, so lets say there is a problem in the 3rd world, but the reciver is in a place that has BPL, the place with the BPL will not get the weak signal, even though the transmiter does not have BPL.
How do the people in one location know when to pull the plug? Also you have the local people mad when they loss their net access because of an emergncy, that they belive has no effect on them.
I could think about what people in a city in the US might say if they had their net access cut so that FEMA can take a call comming in from South America, the best solution is not to have people use something that would have to be pulled so that some one can recive a SOS.
Those who died in the service of their country are heros, be it the US or one of the colition contries, and deserver our respect.
The Bible does not give the year that Christ was born. And he died (and rose) at the age of 33, this comes from, (the Bible states) he started his ministry at the age of 30, and continued it for 3 years, and ended in the Passion, Death, Resurection, and assention.
What am I doing, I work at CMU, and I have one address I never gave to any one, here (my andrew account) and I get 30 spams a day, and I never told any one about this address ( it is to the point I don't check it)
What happend is it got listed on CMU's directory, and that what happend. My main work email ( @cs.cmu.edu ) is also listed is a directory too.
but there is not commity between all countries, so how do we deal with the spammers in the countries that don't have commity with us.
This spam problem is getting out of control, I am glad that some one is trying, but the problem is that the spammers will probably move out of the country.
I don't think the cdma people will even carry it. I reather have a 2.5G phone since the GSM carriers deliver, sprint has been promising for 7 months a bluetooth phone, so I don't think that eather sprint of verizon, the 2 cdma and therefor the only 3g networks in the us, will ever carrie it, I ditched sprint last week for a 2.5G company T-Mobil because they have the better phones, yes the theredical speed of the net is slower but the applided speed is faster because it is there. see this page I did http://slashdot.org/~mpost4/journal/53591
The reason I don't ship out side of the US is because, 1 it cost to much, and if I try to say a international shipping cost more, I get called an american asshole. so for me it is just easier not to ship outside of the US.
there is a plug-in that needs to be downloaded from the faq section from http://www.serveusa.gov/public/aca.aspx in the TECHNICAL QUESTIONS section the second to last question
Do I need to download special software or get a CD-ROM to use SERVE?
All required software is downloaded automatically as needed when you access various parts of the SERVE website.
1) I was not stating what I believe I was just stating what Joe end user will believe, and the law makers more then likely will fall into the Joe end user level of computer knowledge.
2) I have written 2 network programs, they are not public available, they are only used here at cmu, in SCS operations. (for the networking part I just used the Socket++ toolkit, made the network part much easier, they also run on a DEC/3000 box)
Using Linux is a something you chose to do. Using Linux was not something you were born to do (though some people may claim that)
When you chose to use Linux you should have know along with all the benefits it has, there were some draw back, i.e. there would not be as much software/hardware support from companies for it. (I do belive for the most part the benefits do out number the draw backs.)
Security through obsurity is worthless
You and I know that, but what about the lawmakers, do they know and/or understand that. How are you going to get them to understand that? We are not dealing with computer people here we are dealing with people who for the best part knows how to use Word, and the worse don't even know how to turn on a computer.
The reason just windows is because that as much as we hate it, we are in the minority of computer uses, they are not going to Bata test a new technology on a system that only a maximum of 5% of computer users will have (and yes I am being overly optimistic here) if this works for them the next platform will be Mac. Linux may never get it, unless more people use Linux, and I doubt that they would want to open up the code to the voting system that could create a large number of people trying to skew the results so that the results are not accurate.
""I think Internet voting is a good idea for this population if you can assure security, but I'm not confident that they can do that," said John Dunbar, a project manager at the Center for Public Integrity" -- this statement is what will not alone them to open up the source code, people will be just to afraid that people will mess with the results of the system.
They are already afraid that this could open up security problems for the results "Other computer security experts call the project an open invitation to election tampering."
I don't know if this will make voting secure, in fact I think it will open it up to attackers, but how are we going to convince the government of this, write to you legislator, and senator, I am sure there are some proactive Slashdot readers that know more about this issue that could try to enlighten the ruling parties. I don't know what the answer is, but at lest they are looking at moving the process forward.
I see a lot of anti-law posts here, but we need some good laws (I agree the DMCA is a bad law and should be removed). Any society that exists will need laws to keep the peace, and since the internet is not breaking down international barras it will need laws of some sort. Is the US government the group to pass them, NO. What we need for the internet is a group like the IARU (The International Amateur Radio Union). And the use of the internet can fall under a international treaty and then there could be local (read, governments of countries) informant of these laws, that all the countries agree to be bound to.
These images do not stop the spammers. I still get alot of spam from these services. All it is doing is keeping blind people out of them, the spammers are still getting in, I have about 100 hotmail acounts blocked, and 50 yahoo accounts block because they are spam accounts.
why do we care if blind people can access the net, well because they can have things to contribute to the ever growing base of knowledge on the net. Just because some one is blind and/or deaf and/or other, does not mean that they are not worthy to listen to. I know 2 blind people, and they have insights into things that I have never heard from any other sighted person.
Infact if any one knows of a good IM clint that works with Jaws, I would like to know so I can pass it to my friends.
I probably should say one other thing, I don't use the network during the services. I am there a lot of the time doing all kinds of work around the church. And I am responsible for the network also (which is fitting since I am the one that put it in.)
I love the fact that when I head out of the house, I can just put it in its bag, and if I need to do anything, or grab my e-mail I can as long as I can get a cell signal. Also with the 802.11b network card, I have fast access to the net at work, home, and at my church (yes you read that right).
I can not invision my life with out my little laptop, and I only have been using laptops since Dec of 2000.
I have a nice port replicator for my laptop, it plugs into one of the USB ports, and has 2 ps/2, 1 serial, 1 parallel port, and 2 more USB ports on it. It is nice to plug it in and have all the home devices connected to the laptop with on plug (I just need a usb 2.0 hub now.)