"Let me get this straight. Obama, the man of the people, has a Dept. of Justice"...
No. The President does not "have a" Department of Justice. They are two of three distinct autonomous branches of government. I'm not saying Obama is without influence but don't conflate the judicial and executive branches or assert that they are controlled by a single individual.
This fails the spam smell test on many grounds, but mostly she already had an existing business relationship with the institution for which the email recipients were destined for.
I realize this is more about University policy than anything else, but for them to call it spam doesn't seem factually correct.
I wonder if I'm the only one who's sick of seeing the "I'm a PC" ads on the BART stations here in SF?
It wouldn't be so bad if there were just a few posters or ads here and there, but at some of the stations (e.g., Montgomery) it seems Microsoft took a scorched earth approach with their advertising budget and went totally nuts plastering them at about every conceivable square inch eyeballs could possibly scan on the concourse level.
I am tempted to invest in a handful of Linux/TUX stickers and plaster them over the ads but I don't want to be arrested for vandalism either;-)
You live in a bad neighborhood. The local Dominos Pizza, their delivery drivers having been robbed numerous times when making deliveries in your area, have decided to effect a boycott of your neighborhood. They now refuse to drive down your street because your neighborhood is too dangerous.
Is it Dominos Pizza's fault that you share a neighborhood with scum and malevolent ilk?
It might not perfectly mirror the "sharing a network" analogy, but please don't complain about the poor widdle innocent third parties
These alleged innocents have chosen to NOT perform any diligence on the NSP that will be their upstream. These innocents have chosen to engage in business transactions with, and give money to organizations that finance or support criminal operations. Anyone helping the spammers are just as guilty as the spammers. Even more odd are the network providers that use their legit customers as human shields against the spammers. Obviously they have decided the income they make from the spam operations are more important than their legit customers.
Why does everyone insist on treating the internet like it's a public resource? The Internet is a collection of private networks (and private property). Peering operates through cooperation and agreements to play by the rules.
Place the blame exactly where it belongs with a caveat emptor to boot.
There has never been a time in my life when some person of supposed authority have made any attempt to force me to delete photographs from my digital camera. Perhaps I am just not taking photos of important things. But should that happen I might gleefully comply if I didn't want to make a big deal about it.
Many digital cameras use VFAT filesystems which means their contents can be recovered. The utility of my personal choice is photorec(1). The photorec utility runs quite well on Linux. Just use/bin/dd to make an image of the SCSI disk to your HDD, run photorec with the device file as the parameter.
Photorec is written by Christophe GRENIER (no, I am not he) and can be found at:
Google immediately responded to this by denying ingress TCP packets from all Italian netblocks and redirecting google.it and google.co.it to goatse.cx.
If there's one person in this industry who has been consistent over the years it's Richard Stallman. You may not agree with his views: that personal freedoms are more important than technical merit or convenience but you have to admit that he has never drifted from his what he believes in. He's also proven that he is willing to use real hard work (e.g., in the form of code) to promote the principles of his beliefs.
I think few people would realize how much different the computing world would be without the positive influence he's had on our industry.
Also, the record for many of his writings are pretty right on track. Just as an example: A decade ago the idea that you might need special "rights" in order to read a book might have been perceived as.. oh, what are the words people are using now? "raving" or "lunacy". Yet today Digital Restrictions Management embedded in eBooks, games and multi-media are a real thing -- and a real threat to personal freedoms.
Now, I'm just speaking for myself, but when RMS speaks, I will stop and read -- or listen (and be grateful I still have the freedoms to chose to do so):-)
One thing worth noting is whether the students were using their own computers or computers on loan from the department. It's worth noting because most people care what happens to their own personal systems (because they're the ones who will be stuck fixing them) but care less if a school computer is infected for instance.
I'm not sure if this makes them idiots or just uncaring, either way it could be relevant.
What I am about to say is not meant to play the "blame the consumer" game except this could be solved by the Comcast customers if they weren't so willing to act like sheep. There's only one way for the public to deal with Comcast, a mass boycott.
This anti-consumer behavior will only continue until their clientele start to leave en-masse. Only a large exodus from Comcast will force them to re-evaluate their bad attitude towards the very people who put bread on their tables.
I am speaking as someone who is practicing what they preach. When I moved into a Comcast area (the bay area) I decided to avoid them and switched to a local DSL provider. I will never be a Comcast customer, I just wish others would switch to alternate providers and give Comcast something to think about.
For those who live in areas where they're ostensibly forced to use Comcast consider satellite providers such as HughesNet.
There is a very basic concept in economics, also sometimes referred to as supply and demand, that states (in simple terms) that "things cost what people are willing to pay". This is why you'll pay $4.50 for a tub of popcorn at the movie theaters where you might not be willing to do so anywhere else.
Simply put, text messages prices are based on what people have been willing to pay up until now.
Don't forget about the scumbags that helped SCO
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Let the names of the "expert testimony" scumbags that aided and abetted the SCO scam; selling themselves for a few dollars at the expense of their good names. Two come to the top of the list: Marc Rochkind and Thomas Cargill.
The Consumerist is chock full of incidents and complaints reported by Comscat victims, I mean customers. The Consumerist recently had their "Worst company in America" contest to which Comscat is winning 2nd place.
Anyway, I read the Consumerist and I thank them. When I moved from Scottsdale Arizona to San Francisco 3 months ago Comscat was one of my choices for Internet service and cable. If it wasn't for the Consumerist I would've ended up using their crappy soul-sucking service.
I ended up going with DSL Extreme, which I'd just like to add are absolutely wonderful.
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That's fair, I mean everyone on the Internet doesn't think Sony was worth it either.
"Let me get this straight. Obama, the man of the people, has a Dept. of Justice"...
No. The President does not "have a" Department of Justice. They are two of three distinct autonomous branches of government. I'm not saying Obama is without influence but don't conflate the judicial and executive branches or assert that they are controlled by a single individual.
but is it as strong as transparent aluminum?
What happens if you try to purchase a new Blu-Ray player at Best Buy with cash?
That's a lot of 14 year olds...
This fails the spam smell test on many grounds, but mostly she already had an existing business relationship with the institution for which the email recipients were destined for.
I realize this is more about University policy than anything else, but for them to call it spam doesn't seem factually correct.
I refuse to purchase DRM-infected games, video or music. Period. Problem solved for me.
I wonder if I'm the only one who's sick of seeing the "I'm a PC" ads on the BART stations here in SF?
It wouldn't be so bad if there were just a few posters or ads here and there, but at some of the stations (e.g., Montgomery) it seems Microsoft took a scorched earth approach with their advertising budget and went totally nuts plastering them at about every conceivable square inch eyeballs could possibly scan on the concourse level.
I am tempted to invest in a handful of Linux/TUX stickers and plaster them over the ads but I don't want to be arrested for vandalism either ;-)
You live in a bad neighborhood. The local Dominos Pizza, their delivery drivers having been robbed numerous times when making deliveries in your area, have decided to effect a boycott of your neighborhood. They now refuse to drive down your street because your neighborhood is too dangerous.
Is it Dominos Pizza's fault that you share a neighborhood with scum and malevolent ilk?
It might not perfectly mirror the "sharing a network" analogy, but please don't complain about the poor widdle innocent third parties
These alleged innocents have chosen to NOT perform any diligence on the NSP that will be their upstream. These innocents have chosen to engage in business transactions with, and give money to organizations that finance or support criminal operations. Anyone helping the spammers are just as guilty as the spammers. Even more odd are the network providers that use their legit customers as human shields against the spammers. Obviously they have decided the income they make from the spam operations are more important than their legit customers.
Why does everyone insist on treating the internet like it's a public resource? The Internet is a collection of private networks (and private property). Peering operates through cooperation and agreements to play by the rules.
Place the blame exactly where it belongs with a caveat emptor to boot.
There has never been a time in my life when some person of supposed authority have made any attempt to force me to delete photographs from my digital camera. Perhaps I am just not taking photos of important things. But should that happen I might gleefully comply if I didn't want to make a big deal about it.
Many digital cameras use VFAT filesystems which means their contents can be recovered. The utility of my personal choice is photorec(1). The photorec utility runs quite well on Linux. Just use /bin/dd to make an image of the SCSI disk to your HDD, run photorec with the device file as the parameter.
Photorec is written by Christophe GRENIER (no, I am not he) and can be found at:
http://www.cgsecurity.org/
Google immediately responded to this by denying ingress TCP packets from all Italian netblocks and redirecting google.it and google.co.it to goatse.cx.
Just kidding, but it would be funny.
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I don't mean to sound disingenuous, but really, if you don't agree with their policy don't spend money on their games. It's that simple.
It's their product -- they're welcome to stuff it full of all kinds of copyright protections and DRM for all I care.
But it is my money and my purchasing decision. It's the last real power consumers have.
In the final analysis I don't buy products (games, anything really) that incorporate DRM -- so the problem is solved on my end.
There isn't a single piece of software or multi-media like product that exists which I feel is more important that my personal freedoms.
It's kind of simple when you look at it that way.
I hear Jack Thompson is looking for a new job...
If there's one person in this industry who has been consistent over the years it's Richard Stallman. You may not agree with his views: that personal freedoms are more important than technical merit or convenience but you have to admit that he has never drifted from his what he believes in. He's also proven that he is willing to use real hard work (e.g., in the form of code) to promote the principles of his beliefs.
I think few people would realize how much different the computing world would be without the positive influence he's had on our industry.
Also, the record for many of his writings are pretty right on track. Just as an example: A decade ago the idea that you might need special "rights" in order to read a book might have been perceived as .. oh, what are the words people are using now? "raving" or "lunacy". Yet today Digital Restrictions Management embedded in eBooks, games and multi-media are a real thing -- and a real threat to personal freedoms.
Now, I'm just speaking for myself, but when RMS speaks, I will stop and read -- or listen (and be grateful I still have the freedoms to chose to do so) :-)
One thing worth noting is whether the students were using their own computers or computers on loan from the department. It's worth noting because most people care what happens to their own personal systems (because they're the ones who will be stuck fixing them) but care less if a school computer is infected for instance.
I'm not sure if this makes them idiots or just uncaring, either way it could be relevant.
What I am about to say is not meant to play the "blame the consumer" game except this could be solved by the Comcast customers if they weren't so willing to act like sheep. There's only one way for the public to deal with Comcast, a mass boycott.
This anti-consumer behavior will only continue until their clientele start to leave en-masse. Only a large exodus from Comcast will force them to re-evaluate their bad attitude towards the very people who put bread on their tables.
I am speaking as someone who is practicing what they preach. When I moved into a Comcast area (the bay area) I decided to avoid them and switched to a local DSL provider. I will never be a Comcast customer, I just wish others would switch to alternate providers and give Comcast something to think about.
For those who live in areas where they're ostensibly forced to use Comcast consider satellite providers such as HughesNet.
There is a very basic concept in economics, also sometimes referred to as supply and demand, that states (in simple terms) that "things cost what people are willing to pay". This is why you'll pay $4.50 for a tub of popcorn at the movie theaters where you might not be willing to do so anywhere else.
Simply put, text messages prices are based on what people have been willing to pay up until now.
... who will attend the University of Nigeria?
Let the names of the "expert testimony" scumbags that aided and abetted the SCO scam; selling themselves for a few dollars at the expense of their good names. Two come to the top of the list: Marc Rochkind and Thomas Cargill.
May their names be soiled with SCO for all time.
Oooooo.. Burn(inated)!
We need a cool sound effect for this...
*DWAYNE*!
I was going to ask the same question about Marzipan and Homestar, except the question was "how do they type without them"?
It's a good thing this isn't software to help dyslexics.
The Consumerist is chock full of incidents and complaints reported by Comscat victims, I mean customers. The Consumerist recently had their "Worst company in America" contest to which Comscat is winning 2nd place.
Anyway, I read the Consumerist and I thank them. When I moved from Scottsdale Arizona to San Francisco 3 months ago Comscat was one of my choices for Internet service and cable. If it wasn't for the Consumerist I would've ended up using their crappy soul-sucking service.
I ended up going with DSL Extreme, which I'd just like to add are absolutely wonderful.