This happens at my home at least once a month, let me explain.
They offer to put a sign in your yard and give you a free system in hopes your neighbors see it and sign up. What they don't say is the free system is always free (and is of matching quality) and you will end up paying exactly the same as your neighbors soon enough.
The comment below mine illustrates why I never speak to these people. When I see them coming I sit my dog at the door and answer with 'I am not interested can't you read the sign'. I then snap my fingers slightly behind my back just as they start to talk signaling Shep to leap forward and growl, they NEVER stay.
but why exactly is the FCC telling companies what to do, or for that matter what we want? Perhaps this is why we have a 12 trillion deficit. Its not the FCC's job to make sure we all have internet. It's their job to make sure the internet we do have is fair. This is just another piece of job security masquerading as good intentions.
Come now that's the problem with affermative action and equal opportunity both. They are great ideas and as a white male in his late 20's I feel sort of bad when I look around and see 80% of the jails filled with minorities. But then I realize something. I did not put them there. I feel kind of bad when I see the black men panhandeling at the grocery store. Then I realize, I woke up early for the last 5 years took a shower put on some respectable cloths and went either to work or to find work. I did not create that 40 year old wino that keeps asking me for 'jus a lil change bro'. If you feel sorry for them you help them I am to busy keeping my house and food on my table to give a rats ass about anyone who wont help themselves.
Say what you want about slavery, it was horrible but don't ever blame me or my people. Every man in this great country is free and equal. Every man in this great country is also responsible for his own well being.
It is high time we as Americans realize we can't make reparations for every bad thing that happens to everyone. Kids will die, people will hate you whether your black brown or poke-a-dot, and the sun will rise again.
Well there sparky, two reasons off the top of my head. I would find it quite rude for you to take out your cell phone and interrupt with a 'shook-a-snap' every time I drew a graph or tried to explain plancs constant to 50 other snot nosed punks who want the easy way out. Also do you really think taking a 3mp picture of my whiteboard time-line of civil war battles is efficient? Maybe you should just _KEEP_UP_
As shutdown said below you don't start with the tanks. I wouldn't even start with armed forces. Go after politcal figures then when they board up behind the military you give them a choice, fire on their own unarmed countrymen or step aside.
Of course you will have mixed results but once the PRC issues orders to fire on unarmed civilians then it quickly becomes a human rights atrocity and other country will then have a reason to help.
I guess part of my point is if the majority of the citizens are unwilling to make a sacrifice now to change their own future why should anyone else roll that ball for them?
When we told the crown to F off most of us realized it wasn't going to happen without huge losses but we knew that we no longer wanted to be oppressed and we knew even if we didn't live to see it our children would.
It's like being only allowed to watch State-sponsored TV and government approved books in libraries, and then suddenly being allowed to experience the wealth of the world.
China by no means has access the 'The wealth of the world' just because google stops filtering on their side.
I hate being the one to play devils advocate, and I am by no means a fan of China or censorship but I want to pose a question to the class.
Why? I live in America. I hate seeing people held down because we have thus far been afforded great freedoms albeit at great personal costs. Can the 1.3billion Chinese not have there own revolution? Yes, yes I know they can't even legally read about ours but if the majority of them is still content why do we feel the need to exacerbate the situation.
Bonus question, definitely biased though: And if it is okay for us to do this is Hilary Clinton really the one we want rattling the chains?
In military parlance, "relatively harmless" means something different than what it does in the civilian world.
Reminds me of my favourite quotes, from Colonel David Perkins after the US's 'thunder run' into Baghdad: "We have destroyed all of his prepared organic defences, along with his equipment...we destroyed probably in excess of 1000 dismounted infantry"
So yeah 'relatively harmless' in military terms means pretty much it's not _for_sure_ going to kill you.
Napolitano said she doubts it will be necessary to fill all 1,000 of the authorized positions, but she is focused on making DHS a "world-class cyberorganization.""
Umm I thought the TSA was supposed to secure the American transit systems from terrorist and non terrorist threats alike. How does being a world class cyberorganization help achive that goal? Or more blatantly why does the TSA need to be 'world class' in anything?
I don't mean to rant but come on shouldn't Napolitano be saying that they are hiring these people so they can provide a better service to the American people. It is nice to have world class organizations at our national level but with world class comes world class cost and world class complication. Two things America could do without right now if you know what i mean.
first off the the obvious. if you go with this plan they will literally lynch your dick
secondly and more seriously who the hell (with a brain) thinks following the power companies pricing structure is a sound business practice unless you have the guys dick in a noose.
Honestly here everyone. It's a human error and its bound to happen. Hell why even waste time bitching just read on, use your brain to figure out that the 3 was an oversight and spend all the time you do bitching on a more productive task.
And I know we are all anal retentive nitpicks but by FAR/. has clearer more intelligible writing then any other news or new summary site.
I find typos, not just grammar errors, in almost ever major new story I read. Give the volunteers a break and go chew on someone that's actually getting paid to turn out this trash.
Educating consumers, I believe is a lost cause. Not for lack of effort mind you. In the words of the amazing Ron 'Tater Salad' White, "You can't fix stupid".
All we as a society can do is punish this guy (appropriately) and make sure we keep our laws up to date with technology.
Remember kids there is a sucker born every minute.
I suspect that successful open-source projects, generally, will increasingly look more like Microsoft as they grow. Simultaneously, Microsoft is slowly learning from open source, and I think it will capitulate, too.
I don't think we should be selling ourselves short by making statements like this. Sure KDE and GNOME and to a wider extent Linux in general looks a bit more like Windows these days, and some of the administrative tasks have been polished or changed to be familiar to the huge pool of Windows users. I think however on the whole saying 'It looks like Windows' is a terrible thing and to imagine FOSS becoming more like Microsoft is even worse.
Can't we say something like, 'Linux now has a much more user friendly GUI' or 'Now with 100% more ponies'. Why should we call ourselves copy cats when we came up with it first or improved it significantly.
Please note I use the term we interchangeably with linux's developers and its community, not myself and Frank the hamster I keep in my shirt pocket.
I know how you feel. last night my local news featured a story about the new mural painted at a local school. It features hands and arms holding up the letters of an encouraging message.
My wife and I joked that they left the black arm out because there is no black children at that school (may not be true but in this area it wouldn't be uncommon) then the reporter moved and we could see not only a black arm but a near yellow one and another shade of tan.
I know its off topic but i will pose the question anyway. If the tables were turned how many 'white' people would be offended by advertising featuring solely other ethnic groups. (Mcdonalds' new campaign 365black.com come to mind)
"Reading this magazine may cause weight loss, uncontrollable vomiting and a slim sexy body"
Really, serious? children doing hard drugs, parent beating their kids, corporate crime at an all time high and the world economy in the dump and the French come up with this? All I can say is please lets keep this law in France it's the only place I can think of wishing such junk legislation on.
Of course this is quality research headed up by a crack team of leading professionals. All of whom are tops in their fields I should add. So how did this not get turned down?
From the poster...
We further argue that the vast majority of fMRI studies should
be utilizing multiple comparisons correction as standard practice in the
computation of their statistics.
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I can't speak for every /.'er but I can do with 1 finger in one move. But seriously this is cool.
This happens at my home at least once a month, let me explain.
They offer to put a sign in your yard and give you a free system in hopes your neighbors see it and sign up. What they don't say is the free system is always free (and is of matching quality) and you will end up paying exactly the same as your neighbors soon enough.
The comment below mine illustrates why I never speak to these people. When I see them coming I sit my dog at the door and answer with 'I am not interested can't you read the sign'. I then snap my fingers slightly behind my back just as they start to talk signaling Shep to leap forward and growl, they NEVER stay.
One of my favorite copyright tutorials...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CJn_jC4FNDo
Or at worst 84.9%
Marketshare.Hitslink.com
Wait we have 10 major ISP's? Hold the phone. If we did we might actually have competitive broadband and make this whole 'net neutrality' issue moot.
but why exactly is the FCC telling companies what to do, or for that matter what we want? Perhaps this is why we have a 12 trillion deficit. Its not the FCC's job to make sure we all have internet. It's their job to make sure the internet we do have is fair. This is just another piece of job security masquerading as good intentions.
Come now that's the problem with affermative action and equal opportunity both. They are great ideas and as a white male in his late 20's I feel sort of bad when I look around and see 80% of the jails filled with minorities. But then I realize something. I did not put them there. I feel kind of bad when I see the black men panhandeling at the grocery store. Then I realize, I woke up early for the last 5 years took a shower put on some respectable cloths and went either to work or to find work. I did not create that 40 year old wino that keeps asking me for 'jus a lil change bro'. If you feel sorry for them you help them I am to busy keeping my house and food on my table to give a rats ass about anyone who wont help themselves.
Say what you want about slavery, it was horrible but don't ever blame me or my people. Every man in this great country is free and equal. Every man in this great country is also responsible for his own well being.
It is high time we as Americans realize we can't make reparations for every bad thing that happens to everyone. Kids will die, people will hate you whether your black brown or poke-a-dot, and the sun will rise again.
Wow seriously Microsoft fails again. As always lots of flashy advertisement and the product doesn't work.
Here is the rendering of worldwidetelescope.org I was just presented with http://bayimg.com/gakccaAcH
Well there sparky, two reasons off the top of my head. I would find it quite rude for you to take out your cell phone and interrupt with a 'shook-a-snap' every time I drew a graph or tried to explain plancs constant to 50 other snot nosed punks who want the easy way out. Also do you really think taking a 3mp picture of my whiteboard time-line of civil war battles is efficient? Maybe you should just _KEEP_UP_
As shutdown said below you don't start with the tanks. I wouldn't even start with armed forces. Go after politcal figures then when they board up behind the military you give them a choice, fire on their own unarmed countrymen or step aside.
Of course you will have mixed results but once the PRC issues orders to fire on unarmed civilians then it quickly becomes a human rights atrocity and other country will then have a reason to help.
I guess part of my point is if the majority of the citizens are unwilling to make a sacrifice now to change their own future why should anyone else roll that ball for them?
When we told the crown to F off most of us realized it wasn't going to happen without huge losses but we knew that we no longer wanted to be oppressed and we knew even if we didn't live to see it our children would.
It's like being only allowed to watch State-sponsored TV and government approved books in libraries, and then suddenly being allowed to experience the wealth of the world.
China by no means has access the 'The wealth of the world' just because google stops filtering on their side.
I hate being the one to play devils advocate, and I am by no means a fan of China or censorship but I want to pose a question to the class.
Why? I live in America. I hate seeing people held down because we have thus far been afforded great freedoms albeit at great personal costs. Can the 1.3billion Chinese not have there own revolution? Yes, yes I know they can't even legally read about ours but if the majority of them is still content why do we feel the need to exacerbate the situation.
Bonus question, definitely biased though: And if it is okay for us to do this is Hilary Clinton really the one we want rattling the chains?
MY rule of thumb, if it is based on a movie or toy keep walkin'.
and WTF is up with the spell checker in Firefox it doesn't know the word movie??? Damn it needs to be the afternoon already I need a drink.
Hah you had to bring it there.
I'd like to know if damage is more likely from a a weapon fired from someone standing next to you
Depends does he like you or not?
In military parlance, "relatively harmless" means something different than what it does in the civilian world.
Reminds me of my favourite quotes, from Colonel David Perkins after the US's 'thunder run' into Baghdad: "We have destroyed all of his prepared organic defences, along with his equipment...we destroyed probably in excess of 1000 dismounted infantry"
So yeah 'relatively harmless' in military terms means pretty much it's not _for_sure_ going to kill you.
Napolitano said she doubts it will be necessary to fill all 1,000 of the authorized positions, but she is focused on making DHS a "world-class cyberorganization.""
Umm I thought the TSA was supposed to secure the American transit systems from terrorist and non terrorist threats alike. How does being a world class cyberorganization help achive that goal? Or more blatantly why does the TSA need to be 'world class' in anything?
I don't mean to rant but come on shouldn't Napolitano be saying that they are hiring these people so they can provide a better service to the American people. It is nice to have world class organizations at our national level but with world class comes world class cost and world class complication. Two things America could do without right now if you know what i mean.
since Windows PCs threaten the entire Windows ecosystem.
The fixed it for yah :)
first off the the obvious. if you go with this plan they will literally lynch your dick
secondly and more seriously who the hell (with a brain) thinks following the power companies pricing structure is a sound business practice unless you have the guys dick in a noose.
Honestly here everyone. It's a human error and its bound to happen. Hell why even waste time bitching just read on, use your brain to figure out that the 3 was an oversight and spend all the time you do bitching on a more productive task.
And I know we are all anal retentive nitpicks but by FAR /. has clearer more intelligible writing then any other news or new summary site.
I find typos, not just grammar errors, in almost ever major new story I read. Give the volunteers a break and go chew on someone that's actually getting paid to turn out this trash.
Educating consumers, I believe is a lost cause. Not for lack of effort mind you. In the words of the amazing Ron 'Tater Salad' White, "You can't fix stupid".
All we as a society can do is punish this guy (appropriately) and make sure we keep our laws up to date with technology.
Remember kids there is a sucker born every minute.
From TFA:
I suspect that successful open-source projects, generally, will increasingly look more like Microsoft as they grow. Simultaneously, Microsoft is slowly learning from open source, and I think it will capitulate, too.
I don't think we should be selling ourselves short by making statements like this. Sure KDE and GNOME and to a wider extent Linux in general looks a bit more like Windows these days, and some of the administrative tasks have been polished or changed to be familiar to the huge pool of Windows users. I think however on the whole saying 'It looks like Windows' is a terrible thing and to imagine FOSS becoming more like Microsoft is even worse.
Can't we say something like, 'Linux now has a much more user friendly GUI' or 'Now with 100% more ponies'. Why should we call ourselves copy cats when we came up with it first or improved it significantly.
Please note I use the term we interchangeably with linux's developers and its community, not myself and Frank the hamster I keep in my shirt pocket.
I know how you feel. last night my local news featured a story about the new mural painted at a local school. It features hands and arms holding up the letters of an encouraging message.
My wife and I joked that they left the black arm out because there is no black children at that school (may not be true but in this area it wouldn't be uncommon) then the reporter moved and we could see not only a black arm but a near yellow one and another shade of tan.
I know its off topic but i will pose the question anyway. If the tables were turned how many 'white' people would be offended by advertising featuring solely other ethnic groups. (Mcdonalds' new campaign 365black.com come to mind)
"Reading this magazine may cause weight loss, uncontrollable vomiting and a slim sexy body" Really, serious? children doing hard drugs, parent beating their kids, corporate crime at an all time high and the world economy in the dump and the French come up with this? All I can say is please lets keep this law in France it's the only place I can think of wishing such junk legislation on.
We further argue that the vast majority of fMRI studies should be utilizing multiple comparisons correction as standard practice in the computation of their statistics.
Gee, I dunno...