It's clever, but a switch seems like a lot of work, considering that you could just plug in headphones and use the phone as normal even with the regular speaker disabled. Just tell people you dropped the phone and the normal speaker stopped working after that, but you kept it since you always use a headphone anyway.
I would think this should have been unnecessary: don't terminate service, just route all user traffic so it doesn't leave the ISP network. Then you can direct them to an internal website that says what the probelm is when they try to get outside the network, and still send them notification email. Dam off external email until resolution, if necessary, along with all incoming traffic to the user's machine.
> $30 - 50 minutes of Tech support call time!
unless most of that is hold time, it should be unnecssary: the first person you speak to should see an account status flag and then transfer you to an agent prepared to deal with the situation.
> $20 - to deactivate and reactivate the service
this should also be unnecessary -- just flip a flag in the system as to whether or not the user is allowed access outside the ISP's network.
I'm hoping this isn't an oversimplification, but I would think that this situation could be less painful. No big loss, though: maybe the ISP could support a legal effort to oppose the law if they feel this would be more cost effective than more efficent internal policies. Many companies seem to believe legal action is the easier action to take.
Shut it down, and start it up again to let it boot into DOS mode. Rename the Windows and Program Files directories. CD into the folder with the CAB files and start the setup process.
slashdot's posting script inserts a space to prevent long lines from screwing up browser views. Some people have a lower resolution and can't take the long line without being forced to side-scroll.
On the other hand, if you post an actual link instead of just the link text, it'll display just fine, and be clickable.
It's basically a bit of javascript contained in a url. You add it to bookmarks/favorites, and it then does something to the page you're looking at --- background color to white, or window resize for example.
Any web browser that supports javascript can potentially make use of the feature --- but you have to leave javascript turned on.
Windows users might wish to use the proxomitron at the same time (freeware.)
You can use a slingshot. It's cheap, disposable, and easy to make. Find a way to launch gum or some other goo and you have a constructive new hobby that doesn't involve actually damaging the camera (like rocks would, if you were trying to take out the lens.)
You're right, I misspoke. I rarely encounter those myself, though --- I've only really seen them on ftp sites. I believe many/most people who actually create websites rename them to ensure links work ok, whereas native filenames are often the result of uploading a directory of files at random.
If you are likely to want the contents of a non-English URL, you're going to need a non-English viewer of some kind,
This isn't always true. I go to Japanese anime sites all the time, and they're not in English. The text doesn't display correctly, but I can download any pictures, videos, or sound files. Navigation is possible by looking at the actual urls for recognizable names --- they have to be in ascii, so I can generally guess what they point to. This is very useful, and if I did speak an uncommon language, would only require that I learn one second language, instead of a new language, alphabet, and specialized character entry format for each and every alphabet in the world that had sites worth visiting.
Thirdly, there would be terrible political consequences to forcing everyone to use ASCII. It would very quickly be perverted into an East versus West issue.
The current internet seems to be popular in many countries, and it's ascii based. I think perhaps it has already been accepted as a technical standard, just as html is the accepted standard markup language for web pages.
I'm not the Anonymous Coward who flamed your sites, but I don't think you realize that you're losing site visitors because of your design decisions. I went to your pages, since as a fan of anime I often spend time looking at such sites, but I wasn't able to get past the front page of one, or the second page of the other one (after choosing the 'netscape' option.)
> The typical age for people who visit my site range from 13 to 23 who run on fast connections and the newer browsers.
I have a cable modem, but I do admit I'm a little outside your target range. Do you realize that by limiting your page in this way, you are helping to ensure that the group of people who visit your site doesn't change? That is, when you turn people away when their web browser doesn't meet what you deem appropriate, you have changed things from 'people who happen to visit my page,' to 'people who I will allow to visit my page.'
> It's fine for them. In fact, if you go around and look at other sites that focus on the same genre of Japanese animation,
And that would be, what, shojo? I have to guess, since I'm not able to actually see enough of the sites to know what they're really about. The guy who does Anipike's Last Exit, found here,
has complained about this kind of thing in the past: while dedicated shojo sites are often very pretty, they drive him nuts with various javascript requirements and other problems put in the hands of your visitors.
I don't blame you, or expect you to change. They're your sites, and in the end the only one who needs to be happy with them is you. However, I won't be visiting your sites either, because you won't let me...
It's continued in some paperback books. Look for 'Robotech,' or 'Sentinels,' or the name Jack McKinney. Here's an Amazon link to the first few of them.
But you see, many people respect skill over brute force. I believe there are a few women, at least, that would like to have the chance to duel with some dolt, and focusing on skill instead of size and strength would allow them to do this. Additionally, this would definitely help those men who were not blessed by nature with big, hulking bodies. It puts everyone on the same playing field, allowing anyone to compete in the game . . . much as firearms do. Only a fool would refuse to respect a woman or small man who also has a gun. This is the point of using tools.
I kind of think the original poster was kidding, though. I would love to have 'dueling laws,' (I read a lot of Heinlein) but don't seriously think they would get a lot of respect these days.
I think that saying 'IANAL' is kind of pointless. Let's say someone says that they really are a lawyer. Are you going to use their comments as real legal advice? No, if you need to you'll get your own lawyer and listen to their advice and their advice only. This is why you pay them.
On the other hand, there's nothing wrong with talking about legal matters outside of that kind of client relationship, so long as you don't say anything that isn't true, and qualify your opinions as opinions. Whether or not they are a lawyer's opinions shouldn't matter except so much as they may present a more detailed argument.
Having everyone else go out of their way to say that they don't happen to be a lawyer is kind of annoying, especially if you happen to be tired of acronyms. Especially if you've engaged in multi-disciple study before and been forced to memorize several different meanings for the same damn acronym. Anyway...
I appreciate your position of disliking these 'can I/should I/how might I/etc' articles. The thing is, I suspect that in order to have wide appeal, Slashdot deliberately includes a wide range of topics, even knowing that most people will only like some of them. In this case, tossing an idea out for consideration is a way to see if everyone says, 'don't do it! Big mistake!' or 'well maybe...but do more research before going through with it.'
In cases like this, where the person asking the question is probably an academic who has to spend money very carefully, simply going to an expensive expert can't be the first option. The other two options may be to either do nothing, (not cool) or shop around a little to see if an obvious answer exists somewhere.
My position is mostly that if an article or even just the comments replying to it might help someone in some way, then it was ok to post it. I don't like all the articles, but maybe someone else found it interesting, and that's ok.
You're certainly right about the dangers of giving legal advice under some systems. I find this truth of current society to be rather troubling, though...
> Now, we just have to get the Slashdot crew to stop posting these things.
With respect, I believe that restricting what can be posted by Slashdot is not a good idea. Whatever view you might have of an idea, discussion of it does no harm. If it isn't good, this will become evident, and the case against it will gain strength. If it is good, then that is an idea that should be supported favorably.
As a side note, I find it troubling when people say 'this is a legal issue, only talk to lawyers about it.' The law is complicated, but information and thoughts regarding it should not be restricted to just 'the Sacred Priesthood.'
I seem to recall the whole meme thing disagreeing with this --- it would explain the hysteria of their position as the 'strict and moral' meme trying to survive over the 'free and unconventional' ones. If you go for that sort of thing, the spread of free information is something that the strict and moral crowd does have to fear, since their meme patron is threatened by people having the freedom to choose their own lifestyle. Service is it's own reward, for some.
Well, I saw a segment on Cartoon Network where the 'Y2K Bug' was going to attack the ship that Godzilla's friends were having a party on -- after they say "oh no! the Y2K bug!" he stops making angry bug noises for a moment to say, "Actually I prefer Millennium Bug..."
Then they try to summon Godzilla to deal with it, but there was a problem with the controller...
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It's clever, but a switch seems like a lot of work, considering that you could just plug in headphones and use the phone as normal even with the regular speaker disabled. Just tell people you dropped the phone and the normal speaker stopped working after that, but you kept it since you always use a headphone anyway.
My google search found a number of results, including Linux on the WRT54G and a result from broadband reports.
I would think this should have been unnecessary: don't terminate service, just route all user traffic so it doesn't leave the ISP network. Then you can direct them to an internal website that says what the probelm is when they try to get outside the network, and still send them notification email. Dam off external email until resolution, if necessary, along with all incoming traffic to the user's machine.
> $30 - 50 minutes of Tech support call time!
unless most of that is hold time, it should be unnecssary: the first person you speak to should see an account status flag and then transfer you to an agent prepared to deal with the situation.
> $20 - to deactivate and reactivate the service
this should also be unnecessary -- just flip a flag in the system as to whether or not the user is allowed access outside the ISP's network.
I'm hoping this isn't an oversimplification, but I would think that this situation could be less painful. No big loss, though: maybe the ISP could support a legal effort to oppose the law if they feel this would be more cost effective than more efficent internal policies. Many companies seem to believe legal action is the easier action to take.
msdos.sys
Shut it down, and start it up again to let it boot into DOS mode. Rename the Windows and Program Files directories. CD into the folder with the CAB files and start the setup process.
On the other hand, if you post an actual link instead of just the link text, it'll display just fine, and be clickable.
http://www.bookmarklets.com/
It's basically a bit of javascript contained in a url. You add it to bookmarks/favorites, and it then does something to the page you're looking at --- background color to white, or window resize for example.
Any web browser that supports javascript can potentially make use of the feature --- but you have to leave javascript turned on.
Windows users might wish to use the proxomitron at the same time (freeware.)
http://spywaresucks.org/prox/
You can use a slingshot. It's cheap, disposable, and easy to make. Find a way to launch gum or some other goo and you have a constructive new hobby that doesn't involve actually damaging the camera (like rocks would, if you were trying to take out the lens.)
You're right, I misspoke. I rarely encounter those myself, though --- I've only really seen them on ftp sites. I believe many/most people who actually create websites rename them to ensure links work ok, whereas native filenames are often the result of uploading a directory of files at random.
This isn't always true. I go to Japanese anime sites all the time, and they're not in English. The text doesn't display correctly, but I can download any pictures, videos, or sound files. Navigation is possible by looking at the actual urls for recognizable names --- they have to be in ascii, so I can generally guess what they point to. This is very useful, and if I did speak an uncommon language, would only require that I learn one second language, instead of a new language, alphabet, and specialized character entry format for each and every alphabet in the world that had sites worth visiting.
The current internet seems to be popular in many countries, and it's ascii based. I think perhaps it has already been accepted as a technical standard, just as html is the accepted standard markup language for web pages.
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> The typical age for people who visit my site range from 13 to 23 who run on fast connections and the newer browsers.
I have a cable modem, but I do admit I'm a little outside your target range. Do you realize that by limiting your page in this way, you are helping to ensure that the group of people who visit your site doesn't change? That is, when you turn people away when their web browser doesn't meet what you deem appropriate, you have changed things from 'people who happen to visit my page,' to 'people who I will allow to visit my page.'
> It's fine for them. In fact, if you go around and look at other sites that focus on the same genre of Japanese animation,
And that would be, what, shojo? I have to guess, since I'm not able to actually see enough of the sites to know what they're really about. The guy who does Anipike's Last Exit, found here,
http://www.anipike.com/lastexit/archive.html
has complained about this kind of thing in the past: while dedicated shojo sites are often very pretty, they drive him nuts with various javascript requirements and other problems put in the hands of your visitors.
I don't blame you, or expect you to change. They're your sites, and in the end the only one who needs to be happy with them is you. However, I won't be visiting your sites either, because you won't let me...
It's continued in some paperback books. Look for 'Robotech,' or 'Sentinels,' or the name Jack McKinney. Here's an Amazon link to the first few of them.
But you see, many people respect skill over brute force. I believe there are a few women, at least, that would like to have the chance to duel with some dolt, and focusing on skill instead of size and strength would allow them to do this. Additionally, this would definitely help those men who were not blessed by nature with big, hulking bodies. It puts everyone on the same playing field, allowing anyone to compete in the game . . . much as firearms do. Only a fool would refuse to respect a woman or small man who also has a gun. This is the point of using tools.
I kind of think the original poster was kidding, though. I would love to have 'dueling laws,' (I read a lot of Heinlein) but don't seriously think they would get a lot of respect these days.
I think that saying 'IANAL' is kind of pointless. Let's say someone says that they really are a lawyer. Are you going to use their comments as real legal advice? No, if you need to you'll get your own lawyer and listen to their advice and their advice only. This is why you pay them.
On the other hand, there's nothing wrong with talking about legal matters outside of that kind of client relationship, so long as you don't say anything that isn't true, and qualify your opinions as opinions. Whether or not they are a lawyer's opinions shouldn't matter except so much as they may present a more detailed argument.
Having everyone else go out of their way to say that they don't happen to be a lawyer is kind of annoying, especially if you happen to be tired of acronyms. Especially if you've engaged in multi-disciple study before and been forced to memorize several different meanings for the same damn acronym. Anyway...
In cases like this, where the person asking the question is probably an academic who has to spend money very carefully, simply going to an expensive expert can't be the first option. The other two options may be to either do nothing, (not cool) or shop around a little to see if an obvious answer exists somewhere.
My position is mostly that if an article or even just the comments replying to it might help someone in some way, then it was ok to post it. I don't like all the articles, but maybe someone else found it interesting, and that's ok.
You're certainly right about the dangers of giving legal advice under some systems. I find this truth of current society to be rather troubling, though...
With respect, I believe that restricting what can be posted by Slashdot is not a good idea. Whatever view you might have of an idea, discussion of it does no harm. If it isn't good, this will become evident, and the case against it will gain strength. If it is good, then that is an idea that should be supported favorably.
As a side note, I find it troubling when people say 'this is a legal issue, only talk to lawyers about it.' The law is complicated, but information and thoughts regarding it should not be restricted to just 'the Sacred Priesthood.'
I seem to recall the whole meme thing disagreeing with this --- it would explain the hysteria of their position as the 'strict and moral' meme trying to survive over the 'free and unconventional' ones. If you go for that sort of thing, the spread of free information is something that the strict and moral crowd does have to fear, since their meme patron is threatened by people having the freedom to choose their own lifestyle. Service is it's own reward, for some.
Well, I saw a segment on Cartoon Network where the 'Y2K Bug' was going to attack the ship that Godzilla's friends were having a party on -- after they say "oh no! the Y2K bug!" he stops making angry bug noises for a moment to say, "Actually I prefer Millennium Bug..."
Then they try to summon Godzilla to deal with it, but there was a problem with the controller...
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