I heard about this on the previous/. article, It sounded like a cool mag, but you can never be too sure. now that a real human has read it and told me about it, i am much more comfortable about shelling out my hard earned bux.
of course, now i'll have to suffer with h4x0r inferiority complex, but thats the price i'll pay....
> I suspect what you would see with an implementation of libertarianism would be a > return to things like child labor, wage slavery and the obliteration of the large middle class.
Where you said "libertarianism" did you mean to say "compassionate conservatism"?
we went up to vancouver where she had non-invasive laser prk surgery. same result, less cut-eye freakiness. she did it going on 3 years ago now, no problems, no hiccups. shes now 20/15, 20/20.
the best part: we got airfare, the surgery, 10 days in a downtown hotel and living large for the same price as it would have cost for just the surgery in los angeles.
As another poster mentioned, ham radio operators (of which i am one [not fat! not old!]) are not the only services that are licensed to use the HF bands.
The federal government is still a big user, as well as state and local services. Broadcasting is still done in the band - its one of the only media forms that can reliably reach en masse into third-world countries.
this interference causing technology isn't the best available. there'd be much more use gained by opening up more bandwidth for 802.11-type services. i'd rather see infrastructure capital go into the best technology possible.
I had a similar problem. Bought a new house recently, in the middle of a minor city. Before signing the papers i checked with both DSL carriers and digital cable to insure availabilty.
both assured me that all was well.
deal signed, place dsl order and discover that their confirmation of service was based on the zip code. sure, i'm in the same zip code as all those tall buildings, but i am 17,000 feet from the CO.
UGH! same story with cable.
so, thinking i was clever i signed up for dirctwav. ponied up about a grand in equipment and installation costs. and had it installed.
let the horror begin!
first off, you have to have a windows (and now mac, so i have heard) machine to act as your modem. you have to run a user-land appliction to enable access to the radio. it is less than stable software.
second, you have to use ICS to share it. i initially tried ISS, thinking it'd be nice to have a firewall on my gateway, but ISS would not consistently use the radio modem. so, i had all kinds of crap bridged into my network.
third, the data satellite view is narrow. i mean NARROW. nothing more frustrating than having no data connectivity while your directtv signal strength is 98+, just because of a light wind. no matter how often it happens (which was a lot!) you dont get used to it.
did i mention that it takes a good 2 minutes to re-aquire a signal lock?
after months of lost connections, low bandwidth, and a two solid week stint of downtime (which they wouldnt reimburse me for) i stumbled across the last straw.
there is a limit to the "unlimited" use. Hit their threshold (which is never quantitaivly defined by their contract or customer service) and they slap you down to 32K. yes. less than half of dialup. for up to 8 hours!
i found this out after my aformentioned 2week downtime was fixed and was retreiving all my mail to my local servers. too much data, and i was limited.
i used my modem, found a local wireless provider, they cam on site that day and set me up with 1.5down/768up (+ static IP space) for half the price.
i called and cancelled directv. and gave them a piece of my mind.
if i hadnt found the wireless, i probably would have set up a double dialout solution, 100K would have been faster than i was ever able to get from directwav.
Either way, it does raise an interesting question, and as someone who has been using the iTunes Music Store, I've never thought about it: Suppose that years from now, I want to sell all my downloaded music files to someone else. Is there a way to transfer the license? What if I left them in a will to my children later on - could Apple be required to ensure that they could use the files later?
i think you hit the nail on the head. you don't OWN the music. you have purchased a license to listen to it. (as long as its not in public)
its the same scam that has sustained ascap and bmi for years.
i'm sure apple and the riaa would be perfectly happy to have the files disappear and/or become obsolete within 5 years. then, you have to buy them again!
remember vinyl?
Of course they have no requirement to release any of their code as GPL, but it sure leaves a bad taste in my mouth to see them touting a "linux-based" pvr, without even unbundling the software, or acknowledging the contribution of specific people whose work they are selling.
Boy, getting a/. flame really is as easy as just mentioning the GPL!
Thanks for your participation in this social experiment.
btw: what evidence do you have that I am NOT a lawyer?
Q: Can I buy the Telly software separate from the hardware?
A: No. Currently Telly is sold as a complete unit. The software isn't sold separately. If you have a hardware platform that you would like to run EOS/Telly on, contact our dealer program.
this reminds me of when i was in high school and a friend of mine and i would get bored and drive. we determined our path by pulling cards, red for right, black for left and the card number determined the number of intersections before the next card. good fun on a saturday night. if you're _really_ bored.....
#2. Those 1/2 open connections on the server use resources. Any host has a limit to the # of connection it can maintain at which point it stops accepting new ones (Check out how syn-floods work!) that means if this were true IIS server would need to be restarted constantly to clear these buffers.
oh.
you've just described "system administration" of any IIS server under load.
hang->reboot->repeat.
i had over 160 of the damn things under me in a previous life. i literally had monkeys running up and down the aisles pressing reboot on hung servers.
glad to be away from that fucking hell-hole.
for 300$ US i can get an Icom PCR-1000. it does 60Hz-1295Mhz (stupid cell blocked, bah!), has windows, linux and even macos support, only needs a serial interface (works just fine on a USB->serial adapter, even), and i can place it as far as i want from my RF noisy computer shack.
did you look at the web site? looks like a "linux one" company to me. (what ever happened to those guys, anyway?)
i'd wager that the "threat to sue" is a letter from some lame-ass lawyer. thsoe are a dime a dozen, and not worth the paper they're printed on. a scare tactic, pure and simple. ignore it and get on with your life.
if they really haven't paid the developer, he should welcome the chance to go to court against them. countersue for defemation and get punitive damages.
aha! heres the problem, you and i both agree that freedom of speech is a fundamental human right. the us legal system interprets the constitution as valid only for us citizens. therefore, poor dmitri has no rights at all as far as the fbi is concerned.
he can be held indefintly without bail (and probably will be), he can be tried multiple times (including once by the immigration and naturalization service - which if he ever leaves, probably wont ever let him back in), and will have everything he brought with him seized and never returned.
the dcma is bad, granted. but the fact that we, as americans, dont afford basic human rights to people who aren't "american" is disgusting.
lets solve that problem.
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... free t-shirts? thats another.
Free T's to the first 1000 swag whores.
1: get free tshirt
2: wait 10 years
3: ebay or equivalent
4: ???
5: profit!
I heard about this on the previous /. article, It sounded like a cool mag, but you can never be too sure. now that a real human has read it and told me about it, i am much more comfortable about shelling out my hard earned bux.
of course, now i'll have to suffer with h4x0r inferiority complex, but thats the price i'll pay....
> I suspect what you would see with an implementation of libertarianism would be a
> return to things like child labor, wage slavery and the obliteration of the large middle class.
Where you said "libertarianism" did you mean to say "compassionate conservatism"?
actually, if you watch the datastream coming down, the song metadata changes at semi-random intervals either bofore or after the audio stream begins.
same effect, you lose either the first few or last few seconds of every song if you follow the metadata.
that being said, i think XM rocks!
... and she claims it has changed her life.
we went up to vancouver where she had non-invasive laser prk surgery. same result, less cut-eye freakiness. she did it going on 3 years ago now, no problems, no hiccups. shes now 20/15, 20/20.
the best part: we got airfare, the surgery, 10 days in a downtown hotel and living large for the same price as it would have cost for just the surgery in los angeles.
gotta love those canuck bucks!
i thought it was WWND?
"what would Neo Do?"
As another poster mentioned, ham radio operators (of which i am one [not fat! not old!]) are not the only services that are licensed to use the HF bands.
The federal government is still a big user, as well as state and local services. Broadcasting is still done in the band - its one of the only media forms that can reliably reach en masse into third-world countries.
this interference causing technology isn't the best available. there'd be much more use gained by opening up more bandwidth for 802.11-type services. i'd rather see infrastructure capital go into the best technology possible.
I had a similar problem. Bought a new house recently, in the middle of a minor city. Before signing the papers i checked with both DSL carriers and digital cable to insure availabilty.
both assured me that all was well.
deal signed, place dsl order and discover that their confirmation of service was based on the zip code. sure, i'm in the same zip code as all those tall buildings, but i am 17,000 feet from the CO.
UGH! same story with cable.
so, thinking i was clever i signed up for dirctwav. ponied up about a grand in equipment and installation costs. and had it installed.
let the horror begin!
first off, you have to have a windows (and now mac, so i have heard) machine to act as your modem. you have to run a user-land appliction to enable access to the radio. it is less than stable software.
second, you have to use ICS to share it. i initially tried ISS, thinking it'd be nice to have a firewall on my gateway, but ISS would not consistently use the radio modem. so, i had all kinds of crap bridged into my network.
third, the data satellite view is narrow. i mean NARROW. nothing more frustrating than having no data connectivity while your directtv signal strength is 98+, just because of a light wind. no matter how often it happens (which was a lot!) you dont get used to it.
did i mention that it takes a good 2 minutes to re-aquire a signal lock?
after months of lost connections, low bandwidth, and a two solid week stint of downtime (which they wouldnt reimburse me for) i stumbled across the last straw.
there is a limit to the "unlimited" use. Hit their threshold (which is never quantitaivly defined by their contract or customer service) and they slap you down to 32K. yes. less than half of dialup. for up to 8 hours!
i found this out after my aformentioned 2week downtime was fixed and was retreiving all my mail to my local servers. too much data, and i was limited.
i used my modem, found a local wireless provider, they cam on site that day and set me up with 1.5down/768up (+ static IP space) for half the price.
i called and cancelled directv. and gave them a piece of my mind.
if i hadnt found the wireless, i probably would have set up a double dialout solution, 100K would have been faster than i was ever able to get from directwav.
in short, its expensive and it sucks.
(i'll sell you the modem and dish, cheep!)
but you say i have to _pay_??
it'll do just fine as a fileserver and entropy generator. and you cant beat the price.
nor can you beat the amusement of seeing what was left on the drives... mind boggling!
Of course they have no requirement to release any of their code as GPL, but it sure leaves a bad taste in my mouth to see them touting a "linux-based" pvr, without even unbundling the software, or acknowledging the contribution of specific people whose work they are selling.
Boy, getting a /. flame really is as easy as just mentioning the GPL!
Thanks for your participation in this social experiment.
btw: what evidence do you have that I am NOT a lawyer?
from their FAQ: [http://interact-tv.com/faq.php]
Q: Can I buy the Telly software separate from the hardware?
A: No. Currently Telly is sold as a complete unit. The software isn't sold separately. If you have a hardware platform that you would like to run EOS/Telly on, contact our dealer program.
um...... dare i ask if i can download a tarball?
... and slashdot readers act suprised?
whee!
pixelon!
this reminds me of when i was in high school and a friend of mine and i would get bored and drive. we determined our path by pulling cards, red for right, black for left and the card number determined the number of intersections before the next card. good fun on a saturday night. if you're _really_ bored.....
#2. Those 1/2 open connections on the server use resources. Any host has a limit to the # of connection it can maintain at which point it stops accepting new ones (Check out how syn-floods work!) that means if this were true IIS server would need to be restarted constantly to clear these buffers.
oh. you've just described "system administration" of any IIS server under load.
hang->reboot->repeat.
i had over 160 of the damn things under me in a previous life. i literally had monkeys running up and down the aisles pressing reboot on hung servers.
glad to be away from that fucking hell-hole.
... an old hippy seperated from money!
this smacks of the type of eco-theist propaganda that will end up fueling bogus, misguided government policy in a few years.
ignore it! protest for the borg planet!
why would i even bother?
for 300$ US i can get an Icom PCR-1000. it does 60Hz-1295Mhz (stupid cell blocked, bah!), has windows, linux and even macos support, only needs a serial interface (works just fine on a USB->serial adapter, even), and i can place it as far as i want from my RF noisy computer shack.
and it uses 13.8vdc. get the picture?
did i mention it was 300$?
did you look at the web site? looks like a "linux one" company to me. (what ever happened to those guys, anyway?)
i'd wager that the "threat to sue" is a letter from some lame-ass lawyer. thsoe are a dime a dozen, and not worth the paper they're printed on. a scare tactic, pure and simple. ignore it and get on with your life.
if they really haven't paid the developer, he should welcome the chance to go to court against them. countersue for defemation and get punitive damages.
aha! heres the problem, you and i both agree that freedom of speech is a fundamental human right. the us legal system interprets the constitution as valid only for us citizens. therefore, poor dmitri has no rights at all as far as the fbi is concerned. he can be held indefintly without bail (and probably will be), he can be tried multiple times (including once by the immigration and naturalization service - which if he ever leaves, probably wont ever let him back in), and will have everything he brought with him seized and never returned. the dcma is bad, granted. but the fact that we, as americans, dont afford basic human rights to people who aren't "american" is disgusting.
lets solve that problem.
--- vote. vote libertarian. repeat.
... its about unfair business practices. one of which is deep linking into ticketmaster as a part of tickets.com business process.