Great! But will it do anything to speed up pages that refuse to display until the advertisements do? Even Slashdot takes longer to display because of some third-party ad server.
I ALMOST cancelled my Netflix account when the price for disc & streaming went up. Then I found Starz had a live stream of their network channel on Netflix. I really started to get into Torchwood Miracle Day and decided not to cancel Netflix. Now I'm pretty sure I will be closing my account, and go to a "friend" to get the show for me online for free.
I also remember a program called GOMF (Get Out'a My Face) that let an Amiga user abort a program after the dreaded Guru Meditation Error threatened to crash the entire system. Ah, good times!
Time Warner Cable in Green Bay, Wisconsin has been airing this advertisement. I agree with some of the other posters that we should look at both sides of the issue before calling the commercial a blatant lie. Being someone who has worked for a long time in the telecommunications industry, I feel that Net Neutrality is essential for freedom of speech, nothing more. Let's face it, the monopolies that currently "own" the bandwidth in the United States are going to, "raise the cost to consumers," with or without Net Neutrality in place. Why make it more difficult for unpopular ideas (ie, those without big corporate funders or lobbyists) to have a voice?
The thing that I found most disturbing about the advertising was its total lack of substance. Never once does it explain how or why costs would rise, etc. It felt really slimy, like a poorly done political mudslinging ad (which, some would say, it was). My gut reaction is that nothing in the advertisement was blatently illegal, just very very unethical simply due to what it does not say. Deceipt by omission of fact is still indeed a lie.
I don't think the "Little People" had anything to do with it. AOL, just like any other company, just cares about the bottom line. I can imagine the advertisers freaking out and calling AOL, saying, "You numbskulls! We don't want XYZ Book Club or ABC Mortgage company associated with loss of privacy!" AOL just did what they had to do to keep the money flowing in. And to the advertisers I say this: I would NEVER associate your products with loss of privacy, since I've already blocked the domains that AOL's ads come from at my firewall anyway!
...you'll want to buy another one an hour after you start using it! This could really be the thing to boost the global economy... addictive devices!
Re:The problem is for distances _under_ 1 km ?!
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How about good ol' walking ?!
Well, have you ever been in a public space with a large group of people? As simple as the concept is, many people can't seem to understand that there is a reason people go to airports, etc... they are trying to get somewhere! However, throw in a few shutter-bugs taking pictures of everything, or social butterflies that have to stop and talk to every third person they see, and you've got one large fleshy traffic jam. If I could bypass all of the slow, stupid and otherwise unmotivated people by stepping onto a rolling sidewalk, I'm there! At least there would be a minimum speed. Of course, I'd be one of the people still trying to speed-walk while on the thing, but even when stuck behind someone I'd still be moving.
Of course, I can see this invention starting a whole new type of road rage... perhaps I should go to France and try it out before they make laws against bumping someone out of the way "by accident."
It's getting to the point where selling drugs is less of a risk! Not that I would, but I suppose one could always market LSD as a modchip for your brain...
Your best bet is to look at the full headers of the message to see what IP address the virus came from. Next, use something like ARIN Whois (http://www.arin.net/whois/index.html) to find out what ISP that IP address belongs to. Then forward the original message to this ISP *as an attachment* (this preserves the headers with the IP address and timestamp) and ask that they contact their customer. Most ISPs can check to see what user was connected to a certain IP address at a specific time, thus telling them who is infected. Most ISPs won't actually tell you who the sender is (mostly for privacy reasons, but also to prevent people from getting in fistfights over a virus that probably wasn't sent on purpose to begin with!).
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What about people stuck doing tech support (myself included)? It's not any fun trying to figure out where the settings went every time a customer upgrades to a new version of something. Common settings should have common menus, regardless of what version you have. It's always a pain in the ass when a customer goes out and upgrades to the latest version of M$ Office and they can't figure out where the mail server settings went in Outlook. Since the company I work for prides itself in our customer service, we try to help customers out when they call, even though we don't officially support Outlook. Each version of Outlook has slightly different menus. I'm sure this is great for places that charge for support, but it's only a drain on the resources for ISPs and other places that provide free support.
I think M$ should change their slogan to, "Where did my menu settings go today?"
Say hi to Billy for me when you stop by to get your paycheck. Anyhow, back to the actual subject, and not people being hypocritical about not being on subject (hah!), I too would like to know more about Linux videoconferencing. I specifically bought a WinTV card awhile back because I heard that ATI wasn't being very helpful when it came to releasing their card's specifications. I see a couple of good web links here to check out, but can anyone tell me which programs they personally have gotten to work on a WinTV card? Thanks!
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I guess now I have a reason to buy a newer iPhone if this only works on the 4S and not the 4 I have. Thanks, Google!
Great! But will it do anything to speed up pages that refuse to display until the advertisements do? Even Slashdot takes longer to display because of some third-party ad server.
First OWWWW MY EYES!
Sounds like a lame excuse for incompetence to me.
I ALMOST cancelled my Netflix account when the price for disc & streaming went up. Then I found Starz had a live stream of their network channel on Netflix. I really started to get into Torchwood Miracle Day and decided not to cancel Netflix. Now I'm pretty sure I will be closing my account, and go to a "friend" to get the show for me online for free.
I also remember a program called GOMF (Get Out'a My Face) that let an Amiga user abort a program after the dreaded Guru Meditation Error threatened to crash the entire system. Ah, good times!
They say, "the Wii U controller is not as big or heavy as it looks." So... it looks bigger on the outside than it is on the... outside?
Wait, is this just an advertisement for Glasshouse? The voice in the video on Green Phosphor's website is exactly the same.
What gives?
Time Warner Cable in Green Bay, Wisconsin has been airing this advertisement. I agree with some of the other posters that we should look at both sides of the issue before calling the commercial a blatant lie. Being someone who has worked for a long time in the telecommunications industry, I feel that Net Neutrality is essential for freedom of speech, nothing more. Let's face it, the monopolies that currently "own" the bandwidth in the United States are going to, "raise the cost to consumers," with or without Net Neutrality in place. Why make it more difficult for unpopular ideas (ie, those without big corporate funders or lobbyists) to have a voice?
The thing that I found most disturbing about the advertising was its total lack of substance. Never once does it explain how or why costs would rise, etc. It felt really slimy, like a poorly done political mudslinging ad (which, some would say, it was). My gut reaction is that nothing in the advertisement was blatently illegal, just very very unethical simply due to what it does not say. Deceipt by omission of fact is still indeed a lie.
Looks like I'll be contributing to the growth of digg.com readership...
Steve Jobs, Green Bay
I don't think the "Little People" had anything to do with it. AOL, just like any other company, just cares about the bottom line. I can imagine the advertisers freaking out and calling AOL, saying, "You numbskulls! We don't want XYZ Book Club or ABC Mortgage company associated with loss of privacy!" AOL just did what they had to do to keep the money flowing in. And to the advertisers I say this: I would NEVER associate your products with loss of privacy, since I've already blocked the domains that AOL's ads come from at my firewall anyway!
When these things become mainstream, we can now have the user run a utility to see if they've got enough brainpower to be running a computer. Yay!
http://www.finnix.org/
Yes, it's outdated but I know the guy who created it and he's pretty cool.
...you'll want to buy another one an hour after you start using it! This could really be the thing to boost the global economy... addictive devices!
How about good ol' walking ?!
Well, have you ever been in a public space with a large group of people? As simple as the concept is, many people can't seem to understand that there is a reason people go to airports, etc... they are trying to get somewhere! However, throw in a few shutter-bugs taking pictures of everything, or social butterflies that have to stop and talk to every third person they see, and you've got one large fleshy traffic jam. If I could bypass all of the slow, stupid and otherwise unmotivated people by stepping onto a rolling sidewalk, I'm there! At least there would be a minimum speed. Of course, I'd be one of the people still trying to speed-walk while on the thing, but even when stuck behind someone I'd still be moving.
Of course, I can see this invention starting a whole new type of road rage... perhaps I should go to France and try it out before they make laws against bumping someone out of the way "by accident."
Isn't this what killed Maude Flanders on the Simpsons?
It's getting to the point where selling drugs is less of a risk! Not that I would, but I suppose one could always market LSD as a modchip for your brain...
Stupid people shall last forever!
Your best bet is to look at the full headers of the message to see what IP address the virus came from. Next, use something like ARIN Whois (http://www.arin.net/whois/index.html) to find out what ISP that IP address belongs to. Then forward the original message to this ISP *as an attachment* (this preserves the headers with the IP address and timestamp) and ask that they contact their customer. Most ISPs can check to see what user was connected to a certain IP address at a specific time, thus telling them who is infected. Most ISPs won't actually tell you who the sender is (mostly for privacy reasons, but also to prevent people from getting in fistfights over a virus that probably wasn't sent on purpose to begin with!).
What about people stuck doing tech support (myself included)? It's not any fun trying to figure out where the settings went every time a customer upgrades to a new version of something. Common settings should have common menus, regardless of what version you have. It's always a pain in the ass when a customer goes out and upgrades to the latest version of M$ Office and they can't figure out where the mail server settings went in Outlook. Since the company I work for prides itself in our customer service, we try to help customers out when they call, even though we don't officially support Outlook. Each version of Outlook has slightly different menus. I'm sure this is great for places that charge for support, but it's only a drain on the resources for ISPs and other places that provide free support.
I think M$ should change their slogan to, "Where did my menu settings go today?"
http://www.radiantnetworks.com/
owned by big business and greed. I'd type more but now my head AND my wrists are starting to ache.
I'd start tossing things out if I was forced to pay taxes to corporations. Didn't something like this happen in the 1700's?
Say hi to Billy for me when you stop by to get your paycheck. Anyhow, back to the actual subject, and not people being hypocritical about not being on subject (hah!), I too would like to know more about Linux videoconferencing. I specifically bought a WinTV card awhile back because I heard that ATI wasn't being very helpful when it came to releasing their card's specifications. I see a couple of good web links here to check out, but can anyone tell me which programs they personally have gotten to work on a WinTV card? Thanks!