Yes they can. Utility companies are allowed in to work on their equipment with notice. If there is an emergency (gas or water leak, for example) they don't need a notice. Read your lease.
.. but you can't help but wonder how much of this is in response to
RIAA's subpoenas. Interestingly enough, there is no set limit, but just a
subjective limit of 'more than the average user.'
Lose the tinfoil hat, Sparky. Home broadband is dirt cheap for what
you get. It's subsidized by business accounts much like telephone service.
When cable and DSL first came out no one heard of Napster let alone Kazaa
or eMule. Those apps use up a huge amount of available bandwidth which we
get damn cheap.
Personally I'd rather them use bandwidth throttling
for P2P apps rather than dictating a certain amount of usage over the
course of a month. Most P2P users leave the thing running all day anyhow
(I do and check in to home via VNC through an SSH tunnel) so why not
throttle it back? A few K less incoming for P2P isn't much, but when you're
waiting for a website to load.. well that's where you want the real speed.
(Young Skywalker stares at the horizon, he has a look of discontent on his face.)
[coffee stains mar several paragraphs]
Skywalker: I sense the dark side..
Kenobi: Yes, you must resist it, young one.
[smeared pizza grease soaks and obscures many pages]
(Skywalker stands over JarJar's body) Skywalker: A-ha! Who's the master, *now*!
Kenobi: The dark side has taken hold, fight it!
R2D2: >click!< >beep!< >brappp!<
Kenobi: No, my droid friend, it is too late. He has been consumed.
R2D2: >booooooooop<
[Dried Pepsi ruined the ink for many more pages here]
Kenobi: We will meet again, dark one!
Skywalker: And then I shall show you that the dark side is stronger! Go! Go! Live in your cave on a desolate rock! HA ha ha! The dark side makes you live in fear!
Yoda: Evil you are, good you will not.
[Cheeseburger grease ruin most of the rest]
(The village of small furry bipeds rejoices, fireworks fill the sky. An image of JarJar appears among the light show. The furry bipeds wave. Roll Credits.]
I'm not enraged, I'm full of pity. Mind you, I live in Canada where a few grams of pot is not a criminal offense; you get a ticket much like a speeding ticket.
From the article:Under the new law, spammers could be fined 5,000
in a magistrates court or an unlimited penalty from
a jury.
and
Earlier this month Italy imposed tough regulations to fine spammers up to 90,000 euros (66,000)
and impose a maximum prison term of three years.
EU legislation banning unwanted e-mail is due to come into force on 31 October, but correspondents
say that, given the global nature of the internet, it may have little effect. Most spam comes from the United States and Asia, and will be outside its reach.
Couldn't the spammers be found guilty in abstentia? Remember how the US snapped up Dmitry Skylarov
when he entered that country.
from the link: "Infinium Labs is an industry-leading global entertainment and interactive game
company."
How on earth can you be an industry leader when you haven't shown anything yet? Hell,
I could claim "GrubCorp(tm) is an industry-leading global purveyor of anti-cancer drugs and massage oils."
without having gotten off my lazy ass to do anything.
Don't be suprised to hear that they're planning to get more investors in the near future..
Bill says: "This is a fabric for someone to do e-commerce that's independent of the operating systems
that are out there."
Interoperability at the server end? Wee. That's a small piece of the pie
compared to the stranglehold they have on the desktop market. This entire move is engineered to keep
Microsoft with some mindshare in the server-farm arena where Open Source is kicking their backside silly.
Certainly their services will work with IBM and Linux stuff but if you really want some
neat backend stuff (Embrace and Extend), then you'll have to buy Microsoft LongDong Server 2081
or whatever they name their crap now.
Bill Gates doesn't take a crap in the morning without having a plan for the cleanup.
Slashdot Mirror
It's a great idea but the heuristics need work:
"Your search for money grubbing scumbags near Lindon, UT did not match any documents within 15 miles."
Found it.
Using Voodoo Dolls to influence your PHB...
It sounds like a crypto module in KDE.
Yahoo's tech news has an open-letter reply from China's Minister of Information Technology to Craig Barrett.
Put your ear to the monitor, you can hear the ocean.
Yes they can. Utility companies are allowed in to work on their equipment with notice. If there is an emergency (gas or water leak, for example) they don't need a notice. Read your lease.
the Cox Communications limit in Wichita is 30GB/month or 2GB/day.
They have 15 day months in Wichita?
Lose the tinfoil hat, Sparky. Home broadband is dirt cheap for what you get. It's subsidized by business accounts much like telephone service. When cable and DSL first came out no one heard of Napster let alone Kazaa or eMule. Those apps use up a huge amount of available bandwidth which we get damn cheap.
Personally I'd rather them use bandwidth throttling for P2P apps rather than dictating a certain amount of usage over the course of a month. Most P2P users leave the thing running all day anyhow (I do and check in to home via VNC through an SSH tunnel) so why not throttle it back? A few K less incoming for P2P isn't much, but when you're waiting for a website to load.. well that's where you want the real speed.
why does every science experiment have to throw in buzzwords such as "may be use in quantum computers" or "may help a cure for cancer"
A 12 gauge shotgun could be used in cancer treatments. Of course making sure you only blast out the cancer cells is the really hard part.
"Anytime a camera is present, someone will stretch open their bottom."
Considering Cobain died in April of 1994 I would think that 1995 wouldn't be too happy with a rotting corpse smelling the place up.
Scanned script direct from George Lucas' desk:There, I've save you $8.00.
"They have tried to cut out the unnecessary rubbish that clutters up the typical PC."
but.. but.. the article says they're running Windows.. now I'm confused.
I'm not enraged, I'm full of pity. Mind you, I live in Canada where a few grams of pot is not a criminal offense; you get a ticket much like a speeding ticket.
Enough people will be prosecuted and then people will stop.
This approach has worked wonders for the "War on Drugs". How many people are "criminals" because they dared have a few grams of pot on them?
from the article: "What we're trying to drive for is an environment in which legitimate online music can flourish."
Read as: "We want online music to be hosted by our business partners, protected by DRM and for which we get get paid every nickel we think we're due."
..and why not? We have stories such as:
FreeBSD 5.x-alpha to be released for testing
FreeBSD 5.x-alpha released for testing
FreeBSD 5.x-alpha released
FreeBSD 5.x-beta to be released for testing
FreeBSD 5.x-beta released for testing
FreeBSD 5.x-beta released :)
et al
Hey dummy,
Quit with the "here's the text" karma-whoring. You did it here, here, here... and that's just in the past two days..
If you're going to post full text, do it anonymously.
A G5 PowerBook.. not bad for a company that has been dying for 20+ years according to the trolls.
Everyone will remember me as the 'First Post Man' of Thursday 18 September 2003
Dear Goatse.cx guy,
Thank you for your valuable input. Unfortunately your writing isn't up to the calibre that the highly focused slashdot readers demand.
Please go back to stretching open your bottom.
Thank you.
From the article:Under the new law, spammers could be fined 5,000 in a magistrates court or an unlimited penalty from a jury.
and
Earlier this month Italy imposed tough regulations to fine spammers up to 90,000 euros (66,000) and impose a maximum prison term of three years. EU legislation banning unwanted e-mail is due to come into force on 31 October, but correspondents say that, given the global nature of the internet, it may have little effect. Most spam comes from the United States and Asia, and will be outside its reach.
Couldn't the spammers be found guilty in abstentia? Remember how the US snapped up Dmitry Skylarov when he entered that country.
What is their symbol? which exchange?
SUCKR on Nasdaq.
from the link: "Infinium Labs is an industry-leading global entertainment and interactive game company."
How on earth can you be an industry leader when you haven't shown anything yet? Hell, I could claim "GrubCorp(tm) is an industry-leading global purveyor of anti-cancer drugs and massage oils." without having gotten off my lazy ass to do anything.
Don't be suprised to hear that they're planning to get more investors in the near future..
Bill says: "This is a fabric for someone to do e-commerce that's independent of the operating systems that are out there."
Interoperability at the server end? Wee. That's a small piece of the pie compared to the stranglehold they have on the desktop market. This entire move is engineered to keep Microsoft with some mindshare in the server-farm arena where Open Source is kicking their backside silly.
Certainly their services will work with IBM and Linux stuff but if you really want some neat backend stuff (Embrace and Extend), then you'll have to buy Microsoft LongDong Server 2081 or whatever they name their crap now.
Bill Gates doesn't take a crap in the morning without having a plan for the cleanup.