Here in Australia we have these horrendously tight-arsed ISPs who charge us ridiculous amounts of money for bandwidth. For my $70/month, I get 40gb of downloads and that's separated into 20gb peak and 20gb off-peak, on a 1.5mbps ADSL connection.
I'd easily listen to far more than 20gb of music in any given month.
Not only a Rick Roll, but put an autoexec script on each one that changes their browser homepage to a Rick Roll, and a Rick Roll in their windows startup folder!
It's the answer to the question "hey man can I just check my mail" at a party when you don't really want everyone invading your bedroom to use your personal computer.
Wrong answer. The correct answer is "Sure, just give me your laptop's wireless card's MAC address and I'll add it to the filter, and here's the WPA2 key to connect. Oh, you didn't bring your laptop? Great, let's party!"
And no, I don't party with other slashdotters. It's my secret shame...
There were already a few contenders, most notably Nokia, that had been producing quality devices for quite a while.
Clearly your experiences with Nokia phones are nothing like mine. The last three Nokia's that I had were so fucking awful I swore I'd never use them again and go out of my way to make sure no one else does either.
Not that I'd use an iPhone either, but my wife just got one and she loves it. The reasons it's so cool are all the reasons I don't want one. Try explaining that to her though...
As for the NiN app being rejected, well, I have to wait till I go home to watch the youtube video and find out what is said by Trent. Whilst I've been a fan of NiN for many years, I do think his last few albums have been of significantly less quality than his early work. YMMV.
I dunno, a laptop to behave like the 4 previous laptops I'd had at different workplaces that hadn't cooked my nuts?!? It was the first (and only time) i will ever use an Acer laptop. Never had that problem with Dell, HP or IBM/Lenovo laptops.
That, and my laptop is currently acting as a rather nice heater for my lap.
I hope you don't wind up with a cyst developing in your testicle like I did... and that was only 2 hrs a day on the train using a laptop for 3 months. Admittedly this laptop was a piece of shit that should never have been released with the name laptop, and it got so hot i often would have to shut the bastard down half way through the train ride home as it was going to burn my legs.
HTH, HAND.
Any/.er on one of the ISPs involved in the filtering?
I doubt it. Anyone who has enough of a clue to be on/. would run screaming from the plans offered by the ISPs included in this trial. I don't actually know of anyone, let alone a/. member who is using these ISPs. The trial is a farce...
Your attitude will change significantly when she downsizes you due to the financial crisis and you get nothing but child support payments and a spot on the couch at your best mates house...
Actually, they are running a trial of it at the moment with a select group of ISPs. Some of the ISPs included in this trial are so small I'd never heard of them before.
Seriously, watch them try to send a 500MB powerpoint presentation as an e-mail attachment, or ask for tech support on their limewire install, and marvel at the risk to your company.
Too true. And then they wonder why they get a bounce message that their machine can't open...
I'm also reminded of the sales director who on his second day tore shreds off me because I couldn't convince HP to replace the cracked LCD screen on his new $3000 laptop... especially when he didn't even bother to wipe the shoe print off the top.
Yeah mine does that too, if the power light is orange it will still log on to the WAP. Press and hold the power button so the light is red, and it doesn't connect.
I love your signature, and agree wholeheartedly...;)
I use a very similar scheme at home. Current desktop is Loki, server is Hercules, laptop is Gabriel, the wii is Baccus. My wife named the SSID for the wireless network though - pus-sucking-spew-monkey.
The first IT job I had used Victorian (state of Australia) country town names... though one called "woop-woop" snuck in there!
The last naming scheme I implemented at a workplace was based on car manufacturers - we had BMW, Mercedes, and Audi which I setup, and Ford and Holden were the pieces of crap that I had to fix up and get limping along.
Personally I hate functional naming schemes - one place I worked had several companies under it's banner, so the naming scheme was . One of the companies started with the letter P, the site ID for head office was 000... the file servers therefore were p000f001 to p000f003. Lots of confused users unable (and unwilling) to map to a poof...;)
Yes, parents should monitor their childrens interweb usage. I do, and I don't want the government to railroad this through. My kids PC's are in an ACL which only gets access to approved sites - anything else that they try to access gives them a message telling them to ask Daddy to check if it's ok for them.
Whilst I did vote for the Rudd government, I did not hear so much as a whisper about this idea during the election campaign. What I did hear about were a bunch of other things, such as a faster national broadband network, which certainly did interest me in that my crappy ADSL1 connection at 1.5mbps (limited to 40gb of data transfer per month) is only barely above the level that the rest of the world considers to be broadband. Sadly, a string of monumental clusterfucks by the government means that a year in, we still have taken no significant steps towards faster broadband here in Australia.
There is talk that this filter will be implemented on Christmas Eve... I will be demonstrating, that's for sure.
Yup. I can get a massive 40gb a month on my 1.5mbps connection, for $79. And I'm with a smaller ISP than the one in TFA... iiNet's plans are a bit better but you can only get them in certain places, and my place is not one of them.
Gee. Don't I feel spoiled.
Try reading through an Australian ISP's Standard Form Of Agreement. Last time I looked, my ISP's one had grown to 112 pages. It was 32 pages when I joined them - god only knows what rights I don't have to use the net these days.
It's so long that they actually provide a summarized one for customers, which is only 10 pages long.
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Symantec have the reverse-midas-touch!
mine's doing the same thing. damnably annoying too... i never thought /. would join the conspiracy to force people to use IE!
Here in Australia we have these horrendously tight-arsed ISPs who charge us ridiculous amounts of money for bandwidth. For my $70/month, I get 40gb of downloads and that's separated into 20gb peak and 20gb off-peak, on a 1.5mbps ADSL connection. I'd easily listen to far more than 20gb of music in any given month.
... inquire as to whether or not they are familiar with the concept of self-fornication?
Anyone who really cares about BSG has already seen the ending... and if you claim you do care and haven't seen it, I call shenanigans.
Not only a Rick Roll, but put an autoexec script on each one that changes their browser homepage to a Rick Roll, and a Rick Roll in their windows startup folder!
Oh god. I can still quote my ICQ number and I haven't even logged in for something like 10 years!
Wrong answer. The correct answer is "Sure, just give me your laptop's wireless card's MAC address and I'll add it to the filter, and here's the WPA2 key to connect. Oh, you didn't bring your laptop? Great, let's party!"
And no, I don't party with other slashdotters. It's my secret shame...
Clearly your experiences with Nokia phones are nothing like mine. The last three Nokia's that I had were so fucking awful I swore I'd never use them again and go out of my way to make sure no one else does either.
Not that I'd use an iPhone either, but my wife just got one and she loves it. The reasons it's so cool are all the reasons I don't want one. Try explaining that to her though...
As for the NiN app being rejected, well, I have to wait till I go home to watch the youtube video and find out what is said by Trent. Whilst I've been a fan of NiN for many years, I do think his last few albums have been of significantly less quality than his early work. YMMV.
I dunno, a laptop to behave like the 4 previous laptops I'd had at different workplaces that hadn't cooked my nuts?!? It was the first (and only time) i will ever use an Acer laptop. Never had that problem with Dell, HP or IBM/Lenovo laptops.
I hope you don't wind up with a cyst developing in your testicle like I did... and that was only 2 hrs a day on the train using a laptop for 3 months. Admittedly this laptop was a piece of shit that should never have been released with the name laptop, and it got so hot i often would have to shut the bastard down half way through the train ride home as it was going to burn my legs. HTH, HAND.
I take it you haven't seen Dollhouse then? ;)
I doubt it. Anyone who has enough of a clue to be on /. would run screaming from the plans offered by the ISPs included in this trial. I don't actually know of anyone, let alone a /. member who is using these ISPs. The trial is a farce...
Your attitude will change significantly when she downsizes you due to the financial crisis and you get nothing but child support payments and a spot on the couch at your best mates house...
Actually, they are running a trial of it at the moment with a select group of ISPs. Some of the ISPs included in this trial are so small I'd never heard of them before.
Seriously, watch them try to send a 500MB powerpoint presentation as an e-mail attachment, or ask for tech support on their limewire install, and marvel at the risk to your company.
Too true. And then they wonder why they get a bounce message that their machine can't open... I'm also reminded of the sales director who on his second day tore shreds off me because I couldn't convince HP to replace the cracked LCD screen on his new $3000 laptop... especially when he didn't even bother to wipe the shoe print off the top.
Yeah mine does that too, if the power light is orange it will still log on to the WAP. Press and hold the power button so the light is red, and it doesn't connect. I love your signature, and agree wholeheartedly... ;)
I use a very similar scheme at home. Current desktop is Loki, server is Hercules, laptop is Gabriel, the wii is Baccus. My wife named the SSID for the wireless network though - pus-sucking-spew-monkey. The first IT job I had used Victorian (state of Australia) country town names... though one called "woop-woop" snuck in there! The last naming scheme I implemented at a workplace was based on car manufacturers - we had BMW, Mercedes, and Audi which I setup, and Ford and Holden were the pieces of crap that I had to fix up and get limping along. Personally I hate functional naming schemes - one place I worked had several companies under it's banner, so the naming scheme was . One of the companies started with the letter P, the site ID for head office was 000... the file servers therefore were p000f001 to p000f003. Lots of confused users unable (and unwilling) to map to a poof... ;)
I have Sexsomnia as well. It certainly beats waking up normally!
[citation needed] i haven't heard anywhere that what you describe happened - got a link?
Yes, parents should monitor their childrens interweb usage. I do, and I don't want the government to railroad this through. My kids PC's are in an ACL which only gets access to approved sites - anything else that they try to access gives them a message telling them to ask Daddy to check if it's ok for them. Whilst I did vote for the Rudd government, I did not hear so much as a whisper about this idea during the election campaign. What I did hear about were a bunch of other things, such as a faster national broadband network, which certainly did interest me in that my crappy ADSL1 connection at 1.5mbps (limited to 40gb of data transfer per month) is only barely above the level that the rest of the world considers to be broadband. Sadly, a string of monumental clusterfucks by the government means that a year in, we still have taken no significant steps towards faster broadband here in Australia. There is talk that this filter will be implemented on Christmas Eve... I will be demonstrating, that's for sure.
Yup. I can get a massive 40gb a month on my 1.5mbps connection, for $79. And I'm with a smaller ISP than the one in TFA... iiNet's plans are a bit better but you can only get them in certain places, and my place is not one of them. Gee. Don't I feel spoiled.
try putting some line breaks in there and they might actually read it...
Try reading through an Australian ISP's Standard Form Of Agreement. Last time I looked, my ISP's one had grown to 112 pages. It was 32 pages when I joined them - god only knows what rights I don't have to use the net these days. It's so long that they actually provide a summarized one for customers, which is only 10 pages long.
you guys are already previewing rock band 2, when they still haven't released rock band here in Australia! *grumble grumble stoopid tards*