I concede that this may be the weakest point to my argument, but if you look at the last fifty years or so, government control of freedom has really gotten out of hand, thanks to an apathetic populace and the seemingly perpetual increase in the size of government. This seems to me another step in that direction. Look at the DMCA, SSSCA, this proposition, and the like. Who would've thought in 1947 that the greatest enemy to freedom worldwide would change from the Communists to ourselves?
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1. Who decides what is hate speech? An argument made by a Palestinian against Jewish occupation, etc. could be easily mis-construed as being anti-semetic. Where's the council, the ruling body? What is defined as "hate speech?" Where's the rubric?
2: Who are you to decide what I can and can't view and decide upon for myself? What if I want to be offended? What if I'm a researcher for the NAACP trying to tear down the argument made by the KKK or some other racist organisation?
3. Shouldn't I be the one to ultimately decide what is hate speech? Laws like this don't just stifle free speech, they stifle my ability to be informed and my ability to make my own decision.
4. Laws like this also stifle personal responsibility. It's like the liberal argument to gun control. If somebody shoots somebody, go after the gun manufacturer. If people cannot control their violent nature and attack/kill somebody after they read something on a website, there's a far greater problem than the proliferation of "hate speech." 5. Allowing laws like this to come into play open's Pandora's box of similar regulations. What's next? Subversive/anti-government speech will be made illegal?
Voltaire said it best: "I may not agree with what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it."
I know there are hundreds of episodes I haven't seen... as a history buff I'm looking to see the anti-Nazi/Japanese propaganda WB cartoon made during the height of the second world war.
The Simpsons first episode is out on DVD, along with numerous other cartoons and television shows. Are the great works of Chuck Jones and company available on a format that I can watch over and over?
I also like the Razor: It's light, it folds up, I can go pretty fast on it, but after about two miles, my shins start to hurt from the pressure difference... You put all your weight on one leg and kick with the other one, and unless your dual footed (ambipedrous?) you should consider this.
Two miles should fill the gap in just about any regional public transit system--it does in car-friendly Phoenix.
I bought my Razor (a real Razor) when it was first coming out and cost me over a hundred bucks. There are MANY cheap knockoffs that cost a fifth of the price in some cases, but be careful: you don't want some shoddily manufactured part coming off when you're going top speed down the straightaway.
Just watch the terrain in front of you, watch out for holes in the concrete (those tend to gobble up front wheels) and stay on the smooth paved ground--riding on cobblestones is not fun.
Unix is pretty good. It could be better, but I must say, if you don't add the -a option, those files don't show up. Maybe I'm bordering on trolling, but I never run ls -a. I know what the file is I want to edit. Or maybe, like somebody said, I should leave the house more often.. nahhh.;)
I/like/ having daemons and programs having their own configuration file. I like having to be able to manually configure something and fix it myself, without having to fight with some meddling front-end. I like learning how configuration is done with each program. I like applying existing text editing and stream tools to work with configuration. This is the way it should be done, and this is why I like Unix far more than other OS's that aren't predominantly CLI-based.
Don't fix it. It's not broken. Things work great as they are now. It's not difficult if you want to learn how to do it. Your "Unix Configuration Nightmare" is actually an elegant symphony of applications, clients, daemons, sockets, and streams that is UNIX. Take it or leave it.
:)
And you know, when I was your age... wait, you get my point.
A google search on this comment reveals nothing. Perhaps it's some weird inside joke that people post in public everywhere, just to start inane discussions like this.
Excuse my lack of Windows CE knowledge, but don't the vast majority of CE applications run on StrongARM processors instead of SH's? I thought SH-x's for WinCE were somewhat obsolete?
My Nokia 5190 (issued by VoiceStream, a GSM network) attaches to a machine with a MBUS->RS232 cable that you can buy on ebay for $10. Once connected, the phone acts as a modem with a Hayes-compatible AT command set.
VoiceStream, despite their inherent evilness, (I'm still waiting for my deposit back 18 months later) has already one-upped this with GPRS. See a previous/. story.
You mean switch from GSM at 1900MHz to GSM at 1800 MHz? You can blame the FCC (or whatever organization is on 1800 MHz) before you blame false American technical ineptness.
The reason it's not available immediately (at least for the operable networks) is that I surmise network operators have to thoroughly evaluate the phone, decide whether they want to support it, then support it. Nokia doesn't sell directly to the public so their entire salesbase is happy providers.
Justsoyaknow... supporting a phone usually means training a vast number of mindless customer service representatives. I would also figure that providers might not like the idea of supporting such an 'advanced' phone--AT&T has a hard enough problem debugging my PocketNet service, let's see them handle a call from Joe AOL trying to use this thing. The sneak-preview is to drum up sales and give providers prep time.
But I'm still waiting for my AT&T-GSM powered Nokia 9290 Communicator. *drool* This thing's been available since like '99, but Nokia doesn't give a rat's ass about the US market outside of AT&T's desires.
More to the point, who is going to *want* to work in those buildings after what happened today?
Our strength lies in our ability to rebuild. And before you say "rebuilding another target", I have news for you.
Little to the terrorists realize, they've awaken a sleeping giant, the United States of America. The fire that will rain down on any country or organization that harbors terrorism or so much as scoffs at the American flag will be hundreds of times greater than that of what the Iraqis felt during Desert Storm.
If we do this right, and I know we will, Islamistic terrorism will have, well, died out.
I fucking liked the NYC skyline the way it was before those maniacs wrecked it. And I'll be goddamned if I'm going to let them take that away from me!
ahem...
When this is all over, we'll return to the vacant lot in which on one fateful day, thousands perished and America again lost its innocence.
We as a nation are weakened by 11th September, but, since we're America, we'll come back twice as strong.
The best way you can let a terrorist win is to let him know we're still limping from his actions. I hate to paraphrase from a movie, but The Siege said it best. Terrorist blow up the market, the next day, the market is bustling. The longer we lick our wounds, the longer we let chaos ensue, and the farther away from the day befor this happened ultimately translates to a longer terrorist victory party. And while it may seem insensitive, everytime a New Yorker walks by the site where the Towers once stood and shakes her head at a memorial site or a nondescript office building, we cede a small victory to terrorism.
The key word is terror, and we musn't let them win!
One of the irritating things about the 'jihad' agianst the USA is that the Arabs who are behind it are frequently called Muslims or Islamic.
This has got to stop. Islam, at least as far as I understand it, is a religion of peace and devotion . Just look at the tens of millions of the true Islamics, the decent American citizens who love this land and in times of crisis like this unfaitly bear the brunt of our typical narrow-minded hostilities. Our tendency to blame an entire culture for the actions of one nut indicates that we're still carrying Segrigationist-era prejudices.
Fanatics like Osama bin Laden and what I fear to be a growing proportion of the Arab world follow a bastardized and corrupt version of Islam that somehow justifies horrendous atrocities like September 11th--I think a New York Times columnist called it Islamism, the -ism to indicate it's juvenile delinquency.
Islamism, Islamist, Islamistic. Let's adopt this term and end an injustice against our fellow Americans.
Ironically, the question posed by the April Fool's story Slashdot During War? may be answered shortly given the sentiment on Capitol Hil.. We are at the verge of great change in America, and Slashdot may serve as a powerful catalyst of opinion in this Brave New World by culminating the most innovative and intelligent users of the Internet for development of United States 2.0.
Formally submitting my first diff patch, I fired this letter off to the Federal Aviation Administration, the overbearing bureaucracy whose oversights led to four plane crashes and thousands killed. The trip I took was to Defcon 9.
I took a trip to Las Vegas in July. My flight from Phoenix went normally except for one serious, disturbing mistake made by Phoenix security checkpoint staff. I thought it was funny at first that such as a glaring lapse of policy occured, but after the tragic events in New York and Washington, I revistited this story and I wonder whether four lapses in "Airport Security" caused the deaths of so many people today.
Suitcasenuke is the name of a computer I jerryrigged in an old Samsonite suitcase for portability. I have edited this account for clarity, the original is at http://telconnect.net/~sean/suitcasenuke/
Transporting: The finished product is rather heavy and bulky--65 pounds give or take. It barely fit as a carryon.
I took America West flight 113 from Phoenix Sky Harbor International to Las Vegas McCarran on a busy Thursday afternoon.
Approaching "SECURITY CHECKPOINT A," I cut in line by 10 people hollering out to the security staff that I could nto have suitcase nuke X-rayed as the machine is a very sensitive piece of electronic equipment.
Preparing for this, I had all the fixins to prove to them this frightening apparatus wasn't a bomb. Packed in there were my keyboard, mouse, power cord, vga cable so I could plug it into one of their terminals if need be. The screener blatantly ignores my request to pass it through and I'm eventually in front of the walk-through metal detector. This staffer does not understand English very will and I do not understand his natiove Swahili. Thankfully my brother had already gone through and was also trying to get through to the screener. Five minutes of this, and there are easily sixty people behind me in line.
Pressed with the queue, he grabbed the suitcase and fit it through the little gap between the metal detector and the X-ray machine and flailed his hand behind him, motioning me to 'go over there.'
I found myself staring at an unstaffed table with a plane to Vegas to catch, not blow out of the sky. My impatient brother didn't feel like further embattling the screeners and rigamorol. Off we went.
They didn't plug it in. They didn't swab it for explosive residue. They didn't even open it.
I smuggled--if that's the right word--a 70 pound suitcase right passed "Airport Security."
Makes me wish it were a suitcase nuke.
Now before you go out and arrest me, I beg of you to reconsider airport security policies. For example, arresting people who make bomb jokes at the gate is the embodiment of stupidity and maligned priorities. If I was really going to blow up the plane, would I be talking about it at the security checkpoint?
How hard would it be to smuggle an 18" polycarbonate machete onto a plane by maybe taping it to your thigh or sandwiching it in your suitcase between a lead plate? Even if I obviously brought contraband aboard, what's the chance the underpayed, undereducated, understaffed, and overly apathetic security screener overlook it or not know what it is? Or would he be too lazy and not even get up and make a fuss about it if he did recognize it? Don't say it's not possible. It happened to me. I did it at an airport with one of the best records in the industry. Phoenix Sky Harbor had two violations last year. Is this one Number 3? Which other violations do you not know about?
The FAA failed in its security measures four times the morning of 11th Septembenr and as a result, our nation mourns. Could that 18" polycarbonate machete worn by a survivalist or a law-abiding american concerned only with the defense of his legitimate fellow passengers ultimately ensure their safety? Barbara Olson's plane was taken down by two hijackers armed with cardboard cutters. Could a right to self-defense have saved United Flights 99 and 175 and American Airlines Flights 11 and 77 and prevented this atrocity?
Does the FAA honestly think it will stop a suicidal hijacker on a mission for Allah by having a ticket clerk ask "Have any unknown persons been in the possession of your baggage?"
Don't cast this off. Please. THe Administration's policies have failed America. I want to see them changed.
PCS is NOT GSM at 1900 MHz. PCS (Personal Communication Services) is the generic FCC term for digital wireless telecom services.
Sprint, uses CDMA, as do Verizon, Qwest, Cricket, etc, making it the #1 cell protocl in the USA by number of subscribers. Europe uses GSM, as do a few providers in the USA, and soon (not soon enough) AT&T.
SMS is cellular protocol dependent. Nextel uses the iDen protocol, VoiceStream, et. al. use the GSM protocol, AT&T uses TDMA.
Different cell protocols are one barrier, another is multiple systems provided by multiple companies.
So... SMS pretty much has to be delivered via email here. According to page 7 of this pdf, your phone's email is tendigits@messaging.nextel.com. On page 42 of this other i85-specific PDF this details sending email from a Nextel phone.
42. The answer to everything
Just ask your european counterparts what their phone's email addresses are. If their phones don't have the feature, the problem, for the very first time, is their technological inadequacies.
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I have never seen a better proxy advertisement for any company than this slurry of posts regarding the overall superiority of Cisco tech support. If getting their routers did not require the purchasing power of selling my soul or my firstborn child, I'd buy one.
p.s. would've applied (R), sm, and tm as needed, but <sup> isn't allowable HTML.:P
How about FTP'ing them, just like you do your precious Deb packages?
FTP? Who FTP's their software? apt-get install
Mandrake (which I haven't used since 7.1) is looking to be a really good distro--supports DrakFont, has a nifty installer, and Cooker is using.deb instead of EvilRPM.
BTW, don't use the ximian packages... took me a month to get those horridly broken software-versionximian.deb pacakages off this machine.
Y'know, I was gonna post some witty rejoinder about modification of nature to man's fitting... but I really have just one thing to say about this:
Dude, the fucking watermelon is squsre!
Rather cubic, but square watermelons sounds better. Thankfully not entirely off topic, anybody remember the Simpsons episode where Lisa genetically modified a tomato with Olympic-grade steroids to grow the thing to twice the size of a beachball?
And finally, with these parting words, I would like to proclaim my happiness that at last Agriscience has brought us modifications to food that are actually, in my opinion, just really damn cool. Who cares that the watermelon's seedless, or is resistant to bugs, or whatever marvel of agri-engineering that has until now been the norm... it's now cubic!
with a pair of scissors and a shovel. *snip* bye-bye internet connection.
Seriously tho, what's the point of this excess? A nuclear {war, blast} would take out their Internet providers or a good majority of the internet itself. heh, if I was itching to start a nuclear war, I'd drop a two-KT nuke on this bunker-turned-hosting-firm just to destroy whatever data some poor schmuck paid out the eye for.
This reminds me of a previous unfunny April Fool's post 'Slashdot During War?' or something to that effect.
Tho I do kind of whatever what would happen to the Internet (originally created to survive a nuclear war) if some largescale nuclear/no-nukes war were to strike... nevermind that if that did happen I'd be dead or have bigger/more important things on my mind than the state of the Internet.
Now that I think about this more, it suddenly occurs to me that this can have some really big implications.
I don't really give a rat's rear-end about the MS monopoly because I use Linux and FreeBSD (and soon Solaris) 100% of the time. I could really care less and would be affectedthe same if MS turned into a thundering titan or a miniscule mouse.
But what I do care about is how big and how bad AOL is--think about it. AOL runs cnn.com, my favorite news site, they're responsible for Netscape and Mozilla, my browsers, they run AIM and ICQ, my instant mesaging services (when I use them), and they're becoming a menacingly large ISP.
When I hear about AOL abusing their power, I sort of wonder about how far it could go. Their reach and eyeball-power is far beyond Microsoft's and includes just about everyone in the United States--whether they own a computer or not or actually care about what OS or what software it runs. This has far less, uh, "geekpoints" than MS's practices.
So when I'm advertising my DSL service and I talk to TimeWarner and get the parent-company-provides-a-competing-service-and-do esn't-like-the-competition
type of response, it's a helluva lot different and a order of magnitude bigger/more important/more anticompetitive than the Simpsons trying to advertise on NBC. Suddenly one company has selective power over which products advertise on an entire service--sort of like disallowing the Simpsons advertising anywhere, fe. I really dislike that.
BTW, this isn't too well known, but Colin Powell, father of FCC chairman Michael Powell, (the guy that more or less allowed the AOL/TW merger to take place) owns I think 1.2 million shares of TimeWarner stock and stood to profit handsomely from the AOL buyout...rather than declare a conflict of interest and abstain like any good FCC chairman would do, he went ahead and allowed it under the condition that AOL open their IM services--has this even happened yet?!
There's government for ya. See previous post for more anti-government views.:)
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These laws don't need to be extended.
I concede that this may be the weakest point to my argument, but if you look at the last fifty years or so, government control of freedom has really gotten out of hand, thanks to an apathetic populace and the seemingly perpetual increase in the size of government. This seems to me another step in that direction. Look at the DMCA, SSSCA, this proposition, and the like. Who would've thought in 1947 that the greatest enemy to freedom worldwide would change from the Communists to ourselves?
<plug type=shameless>This is why I'm a Libertarian. I may not agree with everything they say, but I believe that when I'm actually fighting with them on those points on some larger more relevant scale, society will be far better off indeed.</plug>
My $0.02.
There are multiple issues I take with this law:
1. Who decides what is hate speech? An argument made by a Palestinian against Jewish occupation, etc. could be easily mis-construed as being anti-semetic. Where's the council, the ruling body? What is defined as "hate speech?" Where's the rubric?
2: Who are you to decide what I can and can't view and decide upon for myself? What if I want to be offended? What if I'm a researcher for the NAACP trying to tear down the argument made by the KKK or some other racist organisation?
3. Shouldn't I be the one to ultimately decide what is hate speech? Laws like this don't just stifle free speech, they stifle my ability to be informed and my ability to make my own decision.
4. Laws like this also stifle personal responsibility. It's like the liberal argument to gun control. If somebody shoots somebody, go after the gun manufacturer. If people cannot control their violent nature and attack/kill somebody after they read something on a website, there's a far greater problem than the proliferation of "hate speech."
5. Allowing laws like this to come into play open's Pandora's box of similar regulations. What's next? Subversive/anti-government speech will be made illegal?
Voltaire said it best: "I may not agree with what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it."
I know there are hundreds of episodes I haven't seen ... as a history buff I'm looking to see the anti-Nazi/Japanese propaganda WB cartoon made during the height of the second world war.
The Simpsons first episode is out on DVD, along with numerous other cartoons and television shows. Are the great works of Chuck Jones and company available on a format that I can watch over and over?
I also like the Razor: It's light, it folds up, I can go pretty fast on it, but after about two miles, my shins start to hurt from the pressure difference... You put all your weight on one leg and kick with the other one, and unless your dual footed (ambipedrous?) you should consider this.
Two miles should fill the gap in just about any regional public transit system--it does in car-friendly Phoenix.
I bought my Razor (a real Razor) when it was first coming out and cost me over a hundred bucks. There are MANY cheap knockoffs that cost a fifth of the price in some cases, but be careful: you don't want some shoddily manufactured part coming off when you're going top speed down the straightaway.
Just watch the terrain in front of you, watch out for holes in the concrete (those tend to gobble up front wheels) and stay on the smooth paved ground--riding on cobblestones is not fun.
Unix is pretty good. It could be better, but I must say, if you don't add the -a option, those files don't show up. Maybe I'm bordering on trolling, but I never run ls -a. I know what the file is I want to edit. Or maybe, like somebody said, I should leave the house more often.. nahhh. ;)
Why fix it? It's good right where it is.
/like/ having daemons and programs having their own configuration file. I like having to be able to manually configure something and fix it myself, without having to fight with some meddling front-end. I like learning how configuration is done with each program. I like applying existing text editing and stream tools to work with configuration. This is the way it should be done, and this is why I like Unix far more than other OS's that aren't predominantly CLI-based.
I
Don't fix it. It's not broken. Things work great as they are now. It's not difficult if you want to learn how to do it. Your "Unix Configuration Nightmare" is actually an elegant symphony of applications, clients, daemons, sockets, and streams that is UNIX. Take it or leave it.
:)
And you know, when I was your age... wait, you get my point.
D'oh.
Excuse my lack of Windows CE knowledge, but don't the vast majority of CE applications run on StrongARM processors instead of SH's? I thought SH-x's for WinCE were somewhat obsolete?
Oh, and seeing as how it hasn't been asked yet...
<Slashdot> Can we put Linux on it?
VoiceStream, despite their inherent evilness, (I'm still waiting for my deposit back 18 months later) has already one-upped this with GPRS. See a previous
You mean switch from GSM at 1900MHz to GSM at 1800 MHz? You can blame the FCC (or whatever organization is on 1800 MHz) before you blame false American technical ineptness.
The reason it's not available immediately (at least for the operable networks) is that I surmise network operators have to thoroughly evaluate the phone, decide whether they want to support it, then support it. Nokia doesn't sell directly to the public so their entire salesbase is happy providers.
Justsoyaknow
But I'm still waiting for my AT&T-GSM powered Nokia 9290 Communicator. *drool* This thing's been available since like '99, but Nokia doesn't give a rat's ass about the US market outside of AT&T's desires.
Our strength lies in our ability to rebuild. And before you say "rebuilding another target", I have news for you.
Little to the terrorists realize, they've awaken a sleeping giant, the United States of America. The fire that will rain down on any country or organization that harbors terrorism or so much as scoffs at the American flag will be hundreds of times greater than that of what the Iraqis felt during Desert Storm.
If we do this right, and I know we will, Islamistic terrorism will have, well, died out.
ahem ...
When this is all over, we'll return to the vacant lot in which on one fateful day, thousands perished and America again lost its innocence.
We as a nation are weakened by 11th September, but, since we're America, we'll come back twice as strong.
The best way you can let a terrorist win is to let him know we're still limping from his actions. I hate to paraphrase from a movie, but The Siege said it best. Terrorist blow up the market, the next day, the market is bustling. The longer we lick our wounds, the longer we let chaos ensue, and the farther away from the day befor this happened ultimately translates to a longer terrorist victory party. And while it may seem insensitive, everytime a New Yorker walks by the site where the Towers once stood and shakes her head at a memorial site or a nondescript office building, we cede a small victory to terrorism.
The key word is terror, and we musn't let them win!
This has got to stop. Islam, at least as far as I understand it, is a religion of peace and devotion . Just look at the tens of millions of the true Islamics, the decent American citizens who love this land and in times of crisis like this unfaitly bear the brunt of our typical narrow-minded hostilities. Our tendency to blame an entire culture for the actions of one nut indicates that we're still carrying Segrigationist-era prejudices.
Fanatics like Osama bin Laden and what I fear to be a growing proportion of the Arab world follow a bastardized and corrupt version of Islam that somehow justifies horrendous atrocities like September 11th--I think a New York Times columnist called it Islamism, the -ism to indicate it's juvenile delinquency.
Islamism, Islamist, Islamistic. Let's adopt this term and end an injustice against our fellow Americans.
Formally submitting my first diff patch, I fired this letter off to the Federal Aviation Administration, the overbearing bureaucracy whose oversights led to four plane crashes and thousands killed. The trip I took was to Defcon 9.
I took a trip to Las Vegas in July. My flight from Phoenix went normally except for one serious, disturbing mistake made by Phoenix security checkpoint staff. I thought it was funny at first that such as a glaring lapse of policy occured, but after the tragic events in New York and Washington, I revistited this story and I wonder whether four lapses in "Airport Security" caused the deaths of so many people today.
Suitcasenuke is the name of a computer I jerryrigged in an old Samsonite suitcase for portability. I have edited this account for clarity, the original is at http://telconnect.net/~sean/suitcasenuke/
Transporting:
The finished product is rather heavy and bulky--65 pounds give or take. It barely fit as a carryon. I took America West flight 113 from Phoenix Sky Harbor International to Las Vegas McCarran on a busy Thursday afternoon.
Approaching "SECURITY CHECKPOINT A," I cut in line by 10 people hollering out to the security staff that I could nto have suitcase nuke X-rayed as the machine is a very sensitive piece of electronic equipment.
Preparing for this, I had all the fixins to prove to them this frightening apparatus wasn't a bomb. Packed in there were my keyboard, mouse, power cord, vga cable so I could plug it into one of their terminals if need be. The screener blatantly ignores my request to pass it through and I'm eventually in front of the walk-through metal detector. This staffer does not understand English very will and I do not understand his natiove Swahili. Thankfully my brother had already gone through and was also trying to get through to the screener. Five minutes of this, and there are easily sixty people behind me in line.
Pressed with the queue, he grabbed the suitcase and fit it through the little gap between the metal detector and the X-ray machine and flailed his hand behind him, motioning me to 'go over there.'
I found myself staring at an unstaffed table with a plane to Vegas to catch, not blow out of the sky. My impatient brother didn't feel like further embattling the screeners and rigamorol. Off we went.
They didn't plug it in. They didn't swab it for explosive residue. They didn't even open it.
I smuggled--if that's the right word--a 70 pound suitcase right passed "Airport Security."
Makes me wish it were a suitcase nuke.
Now before you go out and arrest me, I beg of you to reconsider airport security policies. For example, arresting people who make bomb jokes at the gate is the embodiment of stupidity and maligned priorities. If I was really going to blow up the plane, would I be talking about it at the security checkpoint?
How hard would it be to smuggle an 18" polycarbonate machete onto a plane by maybe taping it to your thigh or sandwiching it in your suitcase between a lead plate? Even if I obviously brought contraband aboard, what's the chance the underpayed, undereducated, understaffed, and overly apathetic security screener overlook it or not know what it is? Or would he be too lazy and not even get up and make a fuss about it if he did recognize it? Don't say it's not possible. It happened to me. I did it at an airport with one of the best records in the industry. Phoenix Sky Harbor had two violations last year. Is this one Number 3? Which other violations do you not know about?
The FAA failed in its security measures four times the morning of 11th Septembenr and as a result, our nation mourns. Could that 18" polycarbonate machete worn by a survivalist or a law-abiding american concerned only with the defense of his legitimate fellow passengers ultimately ensure their safety? Barbara Olson's plane was taken down by two hijackers armed with cardboard cutters. Could a right to self-defense have saved United Flights 99 and 175 and American Airlines Flights 11 and 77 and prevented this atrocity?
Does the FAA honestly think it will stop a suicidal hijacker on a mission for Allah by having a ticket clerk ask "Have any unknown persons been in the possession of your baggage?"
Don't cast this off. Please. THe Administration's policies have failed America. I want to see them changed.
I expect the amount of components like this from dead dotcoms will accumulate en masse on ebay within the next coming months. Woohoo!
Sprint, uses CDMA, as do Verizon, Qwest, Cricket, etc, making it the #1 cell protocl in the USA by number of subscribers. Europe uses GSM, as do a few providers in the USA, and soon (not soon enough) AT&T.
Heh, hope my friend doesn't find out he just got screwed out of $800
I think they came out with them in the US a few months ago. Before their release, this guy I knew spent $800 to ebay one from Hong Kong.
So ... SMS pretty much has to be delivered via email here. According to page 7 of this pdf, your phone's email is tendigits@messaging.nextel.com. On page 42 of this other i85-specific PDF this details sending email from a Nextel phone.
42. The answer to everything
Just ask your european counterparts what their phone's email addresses are. If their phones don't have the feature, the problem, for the very first time, is their technological inadequacies.
And I don't even have Nextel. I have AT&T!
I have never seen a better proxy advertisement for any company than this slurry of posts regarding the overall superiority of Cisco tech support. If getting their routers did not require the purchasing power of selling my soul or my firstborn child, I'd buy one.
p.s. would've applied (R), sm, and tm as needed, but <sup> isn't allowable HTML. :P
FTP? Who FTP's their software? apt-get install
Mandrake (which I haven't used since 7.1) is looking to be a really good distro--supports DrakFont, has a nifty installer, and Cooker is using .deb instead of EvilRPM.
BTW, don't use the ximian packages ... took me a month to get those horridly broken software-versionximian.deb pacakages off this machine.
Dude, the fucking watermelon is squsre!
Rather cubic, but square watermelons sounds better. Thankfully not entirely off topic, anybody remember the Simpsons episode where Lisa genetically modified a tomato with Olympic-grade steroids to grow the thing to twice the size of a beachball?
And finally, with these parting words, I would like to proclaim my happiness that at last Agriscience has brought us modifications to food that are actually, in my opinion, just really damn cool. Who cares that the watermelon's seedless, or is resistant to bugs, or whatever marvel of agri-engineering that has until now been the norm ... it's now cubic!
Seriously tho, what's the point of this excess? A nuclear {war, blast} would take out their Internet providers or a good majority of the internet itself. heh, if I was itching to start a nuclear war, I'd drop a two-KT nuke on this bunker-turned-hosting-firm just to destroy whatever data some poor schmuck paid out the eye for.
This reminds me of a previous unfunny April Fool's post 'Slashdot During War?' or something to that effect.
Tho I do kind of whatever what would happen to the Internet (originally created to survive a nuclear war) if some largescale nuclear/no-nukes war were to strike ... nevermind that if that did happen I'd be dead or have bigger/more important things on my mind than the state of the Internet.
I own stock in a few companies. Here's what I could've voted on for Cendant last year:
- A vote for ele ction of the following nominees: (4 names) for all/withold all/vote for individuals
- To ratify and approve the appointment of (some company) as the company's independent auditors. Yes/No
- To approve the amendment to the 1997 stock option plan. Yes/No
So, just clarify: As a stockholder, all you can do is sit there and buy and sell and hold the company's stock at your leisure. YOU CAN'T VOTE ON SHIT.Back on topic, decisions like AOL's are good for stockholders--eliminating the competition is a Good Thing if you're a company.
Thank you.
I don't really give a rat's rear-end about the MS monopoly because I use Linux and FreeBSD (and soon Solaris) 100% of the time. I could really care less and would be affectedthe same if MS turned into a thundering titan or a miniscule mouse.
But what I do care about is how big and how bad AOL is--think about it. AOL runs cnn.com, my favorite news site, they're responsible for Netscape and Mozilla, my browsers, they run AIM and ICQ, my instant mesaging services (when I use them), and they're becoming a menacingly large ISP.
When I hear about AOL abusing their power, I sort of wonder about how far it could go. Their reach and eyeball-power is far beyond Microsoft's and includes just about everyone in the United States--whether they own a computer or not or actually care about what OS or what software it runs. This has far less, uh, "geekpoints" than MS's practices.
So when I'm advertising my DSL service and I talk to TimeWarner and get the parent-company-provides-a-competing-service-and-do esn't-like-the-competition
type of response, it's a helluva lot different and a order of magnitude bigger/more important/more anticompetitive than the Simpsons trying to advertise on NBC. Suddenly one company has selective power over which products advertise on an entire service--sort of like disallowing the Simpsons advertising anywhere, fe. I really dislike that.
BTW, this isn't too well known, but Colin Powell, father of FCC chairman Michael Powell, (the guy that more or less allowed the AOL/TW merger to take place) owns I think 1.2 million shares of TimeWarner stock and stood to profit handsomely from the AOL buyout...rather than declare a conflict of interest and abstain like any good FCC chairman would do, he went ahead and allowed it under the condition that AOL open their IM services--has this even happened yet?!
There's government for ya. See previous post for more anti-government views. :)