I followed the advice there and flashed an ASUS RT-N16 ($70 when I bought it. Maybe less now.) with easytomato firmware. The name says it all. I especially love the wireless print server. I believe easytomato works on the expensive dual band ASUS routers as well but haven't tried it personally.
I'm shopping for parts now so I can replace my old machine with something that will support one of those $300 Korean 27" IPS 2560 x 1440 DVI only monitors. What if I could get 2560 x 1440 in a tiny eyepiece that consumed very little electricity?
To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries;
Section 8 of the U.S. Constitution. It seems likely that U.K. copyright and patent laws were formulated with similar intent. So Rowling is done producing "useful Arts" based on her characters. Let some else bring us some more "useful Arts" we can enjoy.
That's the whole point of copyright, and patents for that matter. This point got lost somewhere along the road to unrestricted corporatism.
is the source of some of my best and worst computing experiences.
The good: Having a 32-bit multitasking OS, no 640k memory mangager crap, plug and play (they didn't call it that though), on-board SCSI controller, and NTSC out while people at work awaited their new $4000 486 machines with Windows 3.1
The bad: Finding almost no one at work who cared how cool it was to have seamless multitasking (I mean real, useful mutlitasking - not a barely functional proof of concept) 3D rendering, and desktop music and video production. It sucks being ahead of the curve.
counts for more with Bushco than technical expertise does. Same thing happened at the CIA and just recently with a group of telecommunications experts sent to South America to represent the U.S. People who had made campaign contributions to Kerry were purged.
Intellectual property laws exist for reasons, one of which is that it may be costly to initially develop, but cheap to manufacture.
IP laws exist for one reason: "... to promote the progress of Science and Useful Arts..." That's from Section 8 of the U.S. Constitution.
Now that we have the best technology yet for promoting science and useful arts (digital copies and the internet), we should use it. Progress is fastest when ideas are shared and people work together.
Aids, Cancer, Tsunamis, Asteroids -- all are threats that humans throughout the world can collaborate on better if we allow free exchange of information. Books, music, graphic arts -- all will be richer and more abundant the more they are shared. Content creators can still earn a good living by selling originals, live performances etc.
"It is like if I knit a sweater. I can charge nothing for it(give it away), I can charge 5 bucks or I can charge 5,000 bucks. My choice. Your choice is to pay or not pay for it. If i see that people are not buying my sweaters I can either reduce the price or leave it as is. Again I have a choice to sell at the price that I want to sell, you have the choice to buy it or not. I can't see why this concept is so hard to grasp?"
It's like if you knit a sweater and people, because of new technology, are able to make perfect copies of it at little or no cost. That is good. That is why we developed technology. That's why the the Constitution seeks to "promote the progress of science and useful arts."
Now that we have this technology we should be allowed to use it. You have been deprived of nothing. You still have your sweater. And we all have sweaters too. You can still sell your sweater, and if it's any good you can probably get a good price for it as an "orignal" (kinda like getting good ticket prices for a live concert).
Wake up man! If groceries started growing on trees would you cry for the grocery stores that went out of business? No. They would find new ways to contribute to society and all of us would be the richer.
Also, pursuit of unlimited profits IS a right. It's capitalism
Sorry buddy. Free markets require some restraints on pursuit of profit. Like in the case of monopolies or Dick Cheney's abuse of his position.
The synergy between corporate profit and government service has grown to dangerous levels as should be obvious to anyone familiar with the Cheney-Halliburton connection. Competitive bidding for government contracts is a check on abuse of govenmental power and should not have been circumvented to put $7 billion in the hands of a Halliburton subsidiary. Corporate profit and government service have become incestuously tied and the two keep favoring each other at the expense of liberty and justice for all.
It is truly a sad day for those who support the Jeffersonian ideal of democracy when a regime that supports torture, http://www.nybooks.com/articles/17230 and ignores due process of law is supported by so many Americans.
By the way, I am an American who served for nearly six years as an officer in the USAF.
I think your faith is misplaced. The current administration is doing its utmost to cloak itself in secrecy and violate cherished principles of the U.S. Constitution -- things like reluctance to commit totuture (The DOJ has drafted a memo justifying torture) and the tradition of due process of law.
There is nothing more sacred to a republican than freedom. We are willing to kill to protect it, unlike other people.
The current administration certainly is willing to kill to bring its version of democracy to a country that may or may not want it. How many of the Iraqi civilians killed (around 14,000 at last count) posed any threat to U.S. forces? We'll never know because this administration won't keep track of collateral damage. These people, the widows, and orphans, and traumatized survivors are going to hate us for a long, long time.
We will also fight to lower taxes, reduce regulations, and to help people start their small businesses or own their own piece of land.
Looks like you've fallen hook, line, and sinker for the neo-conservative argument that what's good the wealthiest few is good for the rest of us. Bush does not care about non-millionaires. He cares about freedom for the wealthy and the large corps that support their lifestyle. You're watching too much Fox News. Expand your horizons a little. Check some alternative news sources and I don't mean CNN.
But all-in-all, Israel certainly has the moral high ground.
I think this is open to debate. Israel certainly does have F-16s and Apache gunships that allow them to attack Palestinian command and control targets. The Palestinians on the other hand have almost nothing. They use their own bodies and attack whatever targets they can get to. They're in a war for survival and they can't reach hardened military targets. They strike whatever they can. It's a horrible situation made worse by the U.S. turning a blind eye to the atrocities committed by one side and not the other.
You make it sound like this is a common situation in Iraq...
Sadly, it is. The war that has now seen the death of 1000 Americans like this one http://tinyurl.com/6gc9p/, has also seen the death of over 13,000 Iraqi men, women, and children http://tinyurl.com/524va/. If you'd like a second opinion try The Christian Science Monitor http://tinyurl.com/ci9a/, widely regarded as one of the least biased news sources available.
You're right of course about nuisances/malware increasing. I just got my first pop-up in Firefox 0.9.2. It was made to resemble a security alert for users of Mozilla Firefox and it took me to a Gator eWallet site.
Still, increased use of standards based browsers lessens the chance that MS could hijact the web. Paranoid? I really don't think so.
Slashdot Mirror
Other NYT stories tell a different side but you have your ideological blinders on I see.
Similar to but much less expensive than the F-35 project.
about this a year ago. http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2012/06/because-everyone-still-needs-a-router.html
I followed the advice there and flashed an ASUS RT-N16 ($70 when I bought it. Maybe less now.) with easytomato firmware. The name says it all. I especially love the wireless print server. I believe easytomato works on the expensive dual band ASUS routers as well but haven't tried it personally.
I'm shopping for parts now so I can replace my old machine with something that will support one of those $300 Korean 27" IPS 2560 x 1440 DVI only monitors. What if I could get 2560 x 1440 in a tiny eyepiece that consumed very little electricity?
Section 8 of the U.S. Constitution. It seems likely that U.K. copyright and patent laws were formulated with similar intent. So Rowling is done producing "useful Arts" based on her characters. Let some else bring us some more "useful Arts" we can enjoy.
That's the whole point of copyright, and patents for that matter. This point got lost somewhere along the road to unrestricted corporatism.
Plug and play, no drilling, no mess, no chip re-setting. About $130 from here:
http://www.echostore.com/coinksy.html
I haven't tried it yet but it looks pretty good.
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A Jetson's sound module that changes pitch with accel/decel.
If I could come up with an onomatopoeia for the Jetson's car noise, I'd put it here.
is the source of some of my best and worst computing experiences.
The good: Having a 32-bit multitasking OS, no 640k memory mangager crap, plug and play (they didn't call it that though), on-board SCSI controller, and NTSC out while people at work awaited their new $4000 486 machines with Windows 3.1
The bad: Finding almost no one at work who cared how cool it was to have seamless multitasking (I mean real, useful mutlitasking - not a barely functional proof of concept) 3D rendering, and desktop music and video production. It sucks being ahead of the curve.
counts for more with Bushco than technical expertise does. Same thing happened at the CIA and just recently with a group of telecommunications experts sent to South America to represent the U.S. People who had made campaign contributions to Kerry were purged.
IP laws exist for one reason: "... to promote the progress of Science and Useful Arts
Now that we have the best technology yet for promoting science and useful arts (digital copies and the internet), we should use it. Progress is fastest when ideas are shared and people work together.
Aids, Cancer, Tsunamis, Asteroids -- all are threats that humans throughout the world can collaborate on better if we allow free exchange of information. Books, music, graphic arts -- all will be richer and more abundant the more they are shared. Content creators can still earn a good living by selling originals, live performances etc.
It's like if you knit a sweater and people, because of new technology, are able to make perfect copies of it at little or no cost. That is good. That is why we developed technology. That's why the the Constitution seeks to "promote the progress of science and useful arts."
Now that we have this technology we should be allowed to use it. You have been deprived of nothing. You still have your sweater. And we all have sweaters too. You can still sell your sweater, and if it's any good you can probably get a good price for it as an "orignal" (kinda like getting good ticket prices for a live concert).
Wake up man! If groceries started growing on trees would you cry for the grocery stores that went out of business? No. They would find new ways to contribute to society and all of us would be the richer.
... is the thing that stands out me.
Sorry buddy. Free markets require some restraints on pursuit of profit. Like in the case of monopolies or Dick Cheney's abuse of his position.
The synergy between corporate profit and government service has grown to dangerous levels as should be obvious to anyone familiar with the Cheney-Halliburton connection. Competitive bidding for government contracts is a check on abuse of govenmental power and should not have been circumvented to put $7 billion in the hands of a Halliburton subsidiary. Corporate profit and government service have become incestuously tied and the two keep favoring each other at the expense of liberty and justice for all.
It is truly a sad day for those who support the Jeffersonian ideal of democracy when a regime that supports torture, http://www.nybooks.com/articles/17230 and ignores due process of law is supported by so many Americans.
By the way, I am an American who served for nearly six years as an officer in the USAF.
I think this is open to debate. Israel certainly does have F-16s and Apache gunships that allow them to attack Palestinian command and control targets. The Palestinians on the other hand have almost nothing. They use their own bodies and attack whatever targets they can get to. They're in a war for survival and they can't reach hardened military targets. They strike whatever they can. It's a horrible situation made worse by the U.S. turning a blind eye to the atrocities committed by one side and not the other.
Very concisely stated. Can you cite sources?
www.just6dollars.org looks promising to me.
And please don't answer, "We won't do anything illegal." We know the Justice Department drated a memo showing how torture could be legally justified.
Isn't this contrary to 228 years of being the world's guiding beacon in the struggle for human rights?
I'm wearing a Cue Cat instead.
You make it sound like this is a common situation in Iraq...
Sadly, it is. The war that has now seen the death of 1000 Americans like this one http://tinyurl.com/6gc9p/, has also seen the death of over 13,000 Iraqi men, women, and children http://tinyurl.com/524va/. If you'd like a second opinion try The Christian Science Monitor http://tinyurl.com/ci9a/, widely regarded as one of the least biased news sources available.
You're right of course about nuisances/malware increasing. I just got my first pop-up in Firefox 0.9.2. It was made to resemble a security alert for users of Mozilla Firefox and it took me to a Gator eWallet site.
Still, increased use of standards based browsers lessens the chance that MS could hijact the web. Paranoid? I really don't think so.