Perhaps the people who were bludgeoned into settling with the RIAA will bind together in a class action counter suit to recover what the protection money they paid.
"In most large cities, customers have only two choices. They can go with cable modem service from Some Big Cable Company or DSL service from Some Big Telecom Company."
Those are the two providers of physical access to your premis. Smaller ISPs have worked over that moat for years. Portland, Ore. is not that large a city. We have a dozen ISPs I can name off the top of my head. All provide service over DSL lines that go through Qwest or Verizon (depending on your location) physical infrastructure.
Check with the local geeks, Linux user group for instance, they'll be able to help you find customer respecting ISPs.
DNS? No listing for the software that allows us to type "www.pcworld.com" instead of "70.42.185.10"? Sendmail? Where is our email without the server software? Apache? Where's youre #1 pick without web servers to connect to? Not even a generic plumbing or infrastrcutre listing for these vital programs that make the Internet function. Shame on those guys.
The OP cites several drawbacks to full disk encryption. So? Protecting people's privacy is important.
My employer, US Bank, requires full disk encryption for all laptops. Even ones, like mine, that do not and never will contain a single bit of customer data.
I registered patch.com in March of 1994 - before there was much (any?) awareness that domain names could have economic value. Over the years I've received offers from people expressing an interest in buying the name. They have their reasons for wanting the domain name.
Mine is simple. It's my web home. I'm attached to it. I'm not holding out for some can't refuse financial offer or even one that's hefty enough to pop my eyes open. I'm hanging on to patch.com becuase it's the place on the web that I homesteaded way back when.
Senator Rick Santorum introduced thre National Weather Services Duties Act of 2005 with the purpose of restoring the NWS non-competition policy.
Please oppose this bill.
The NWS and NOAA provide a valuable service to everyday citizens. Their no cost to access weather forcasts - with unparralled granularity - and other weather data are wonderful resources. I use them on a weekly basis. I also subscribe to a commercial weather service, Weather Underground, for the value added services it provides. Both have their place in the world. It would be a loss to Americans if the services now provided by the NOAA web presence were legislated out of existance.
Still some implementation to do. You can get the population of Portugal, Spain or San Jose. Searches for San Francisco, Seattle or Portland Ore., don't get the top of page answer treatment.
A restaraunt was going into a building that used to be a fish market. Place smelled like fish in a big way. The owner stuffed the place with potatoes for a month. They absored all the ordors.
At last that's the story told about Hunans on Sansome when it opened in the early 80s.
We're having a naked midnight bike ride. When given the choice the Association of Brewers holds its annual conference here because the members consider Portland the best beer city in the US. local wireless group has hundreds of free hotspots scattered about. Highest per capita rates of bookstores, movies screens and coffee houses in the US. Snow only every other year at the most. Easy to get out into the countryside when you need to be away from urban living.
Bud also distributes Widmer and Redhook beers. These micros are familiar to people in the Pacific Northwest. Widmer is one of the three oldest Oregon Breweries.
OK, a large chunck of the world knows you for doing amazing things with cereal box toys. What would you like to be famous for doing? Actual or fantasy.
But behind that limited number of rods and cones is a brain that does constant image processing. The brain brings the highest resolution to the area of current interest, auto-color balances, auto-exposure adjusts, fills in for missing data and more.
This issue made me so mad I wrote my congressmen about it - all of whom also represent the areas with the Oregon schools.
In the Sunday Oregonian, April 21st, columnist Steve Duin writes about
Microsoft's marketing department threatening several Oregon School
districts with a software audit unless they adopt a costly Microsoft
systemwide licensing plan. Microsoft is giving the schools 60 days to
prove up or pay up.
The schools are being asked to prove their innocence of copyright
infringement on a Microsoft stipulated timetable to Microsoft stipulated
terms. The timetable and terms are not practical. There is nothing to
indicate that the employees of our school system have done anything wrong.
The only apparent motivation for Microsoft to make this request is to
twist the arms of the people who make the decision about adopting the
Microsoft School Agreement.
What can be done to combat this corporate blackmail and extortion?
X-Message: This could be an Outlook virus! Are you sure you want to continue using Outlook?
Wish I could take credit for it... A person who receives an email with that in the header will have a red flag displayed next to the item in the list of emails and the message itself will display at the top of the email display when the message is read.
I'm currently an "Infrastructure Engineer II" for a Fortune 500 company. In real life that translates to being a WAN and firewall administrator. In the past I've worked for a regional bank (US Bank prior to them being bought up by First Bank of Minn.), a high technology company (nCUBE, makers of the most scalable streaming video server available), a small company that developed software for management of flexible benefit plans, and a few other places.
Degree? Bachelor of Fine Arts, San Franciso Art Institute 1983.
I got from there to here by being really interested in computing and learning on my own.
Regrets? I find myself wanting to have more rigorous training in statistics and numerical proof systems. At the time I went to Art school I was recovering from treatment for Hodgkins Disease (cancer of the lymph system) and not believing in having a long life. It was the right thing to do.
Follow your interests. People who rise to the top are talented at what they do, work hard, and have an interest (passion) that fuels the talent and work. That brings success.
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Finally! A benefit to being over 50! Well, besides qualifying for AARP membership and discounts...
Should we be suspicious because the cut off date excludes all boomers?
We need the Mutt Telco. "All telcos suck, mutt telco sucks less."
Buy a used Thinkpad on eBay. There's a whole channel dedicated to inventory coming off of corporate leases.
For years my laptop buying method has been "the best T series Thinkpad I can get off of eBay for $500." It works great. I'm up to a T23 now.
Perhaps the people who were bludgeoned into settling with the RIAA will bind together in a class action counter suit to recover what the protection money they paid.
"In most large cities, customers have only two choices. They can go with cable modem service from Some Big Cable Company or DSL service from Some Big Telecom Company."
Those are the two providers of physical access to your premis. Smaller ISPs have worked over that moat for years. Portland, Ore. is not that large a city. We have a dozen ISPs I can name off the top of my head. All provide service over DSL lines that go through Qwest or Verizon (depending on your location) physical infrastructure.
Check with the local geeks, Linux user group for instance, they'll be able to help you find customer respecting ISPs.
The RIAA and MPAA will get lots of company from corporations protecting the "intellectual property" of their screws.
DNS? No listing for the software that allows us to type "www.pcworld.com" instead of "70.42.185.10"? Sendmail? Where is our email without the server software? Apache? Where's youre #1 pick without web servers to connect to? Not even a generic plumbing or infrastrcutre listing for these vital programs that make the Internet function. Shame on those guys.
The OP cites several drawbacks to full disk encryption. So? Protecting people's privacy is important.
My employer, US Bank, requires full disk encryption for all laptops. Even ones, like mine, that do not and never will contain a single bit of customer data.
the members of your LUG will still be there to help. The slick marketteers will be off marketing a new wave.
LUGs are the great Linux learning centers. They matter a lot. I may be biased because my LUG is a particularly good one.
The answer is "Hell No!" or "Fuck No!" or " No!" No cost Windows is still Windows.
I registered patch.com in March of 1994 - before there was much (any?) awareness that domain names could have economic value. Over the years I've received offers from people expressing an interest in buying the name. They have their reasons for wanting the domain name.
Mine is simple. It's my web home. I'm attached to it. I'm not holding out for some can't refuse financial offer or even one that's hefty enough to pop my eyes open. I'm hanging on to patch.com becuase it's the place on the web that I homesteaded way back when.
Googling for Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy does not get the same kind of link at the top.
Senator Rick Santorum introduced thre National Weather Services Duties Act of 2005 with the purpose of restoring the NWS non-competition policy.
Please oppose this bill.
The NWS and NOAA provide a valuable service to everyday citizens. Their no cost to access weather forcasts - with unparralled granularity - and other weather data are wonderful resources. I use them on a weekly basis. I also subscribe to a commercial weather service, Weather Underground, for the value added services it provides. Both have their place in the world. It would be a loss to Americans if the services now provided by the NOAA web presence were legislated out of existance.
Still some implementation to do. You can get the population of Portugal, Spain or San Jose. Searches for San Francisco, Seattle or Portland Ore., don't get the top of page answer treatment.
A restaraunt was going into a building that used to be a fish market. Place smelled like fish in a big way. The owner stuffed the place with potatoes for a month. They absored all the ordors. At last that's the story told about Hunans on Sansome when it opened in the early 80s.
We're having a naked midnight bike ride. When given the choice the Association of Brewers holds its annual conference here because the members consider Portland the best beer city in the US. local wireless group has hundreds of free hotspots scattered about. Highest per capita rates of bookstores, movies screens and coffee houses in the US. Snow only every other year at the most. Easy to get out into the countryside when you need to be away from urban living.
Bud also distributes Widmer and Redhook beers. These micros are familiar to people in the Pacific Northwest. Widmer is one of the three oldest Oregon Breweries.
They get way more practice.
OK, a large chunck of the world knows you for doing amazing things with cereal box toys. What would you like to be famous for doing? Actual or fantasy.
But behind that limited number of rods and cones is a brain that does constant image processing. The brain brings the highest resolution to the area of current interest, auto-color balances, auto-exposure adjusts, fills in for missing data and more.
Tell it to the author. He started out as a sports reporter, IIRC.
This issue made me so mad I wrote my congressmen about it - all of whom also represent the areas with the Oregon schools.
In the Sunday Oregonian, April 21st, columnist Steve Duin writes about Microsoft's marketing department threatening several Oregon School districts with a software audit unless they adopt a costly Microsoft systemwide licensing plan. Microsoft is giving the schools 60 days to prove up or pay up.
The schools are being asked to prove their innocence of copyright infringement on a Microsoft stipulated timetable to Microsoft stipulated terms. The timetable and terms are not practical. There is nothing to indicate that the employees of our school system have done anything wrong. The only apparent motivation for Microsoft to make this request is to twist the arms of the people who make the decision about adopting the Microsoft School Agreement.
What can be done to combat this corporate blackmail and extortion?
Musta been a tough wait. :) Congratulations!
X-Message: This could be an Outlook virus! Are you sure you want to continue using Outlook?
Wish I could take credit for it... A person who receives an email with that in the header will have a red flag displayed next to the item in the list of emails and the message itself will display at the top of the email display when the message is read.
Degree? Bachelor of Fine Arts, San Franciso Art Institute 1983.
I got from there to here by being really interested in computing and learning on my own.
Regrets? I find myself wanting to have more rigorous training in statistics and numerical proof systems. At the time I went to Art school I was recovering from treatment for Hodgkins Disease (cancer of the lymph system) and not believing in having a long life. It was the right thing to do.
Follow your interests. People who rise to the top are talented at what they do, work hard, and have an interest (passion) that fuels the talent and work. That brings success.