It is related somehow. See, back in the day when the telecommunications act of '96 was passed, it linked the opening of local phone markets to competition to the baby bells ability to get into the long-distance game. Back then, the baby bells wanted to get in on the LD game as it was very profitable. Now it isn't and they could care less about.
This being the case, they aren't terribly concerned about playing nice with other providers and CLEC's who are in their local areas. This allows them to drive out people like Covad, Rhthmys (sp) and others with impunity.
this information would help operators "route" traffic around trouble spots. If an accident happens on a suburban street, it's possible. About a week ago we had a tar truck overturn on the D.C. beltway that completely closed all lanes in one direction. Where the hell are they going to send all of that traffic? Last I checked there wasn't a whole lot of unused 5 line highways in the area. Hell, during rush hour every flat surface is choked with cars. In addition, the idea that a message on a sign board is going to keep traffic flowing (left lane closed ahead) is laughable. Anyone who's driven in an urban area lately that the simple act of a cop pulling someone over for a ticket can and will cause a traffic jam.
Wow, that's quite the statement!! A quick search on the Guardian turns up quite a few corruption cases, including Scotland Yard and one (an editorial piece) about screwing around with election districts...(here
or here) There seem to be many more on the search page as well....As far as school shooting goes, you're right, for now it does seem to be an American problem but it's a matter of time until it happens over there.
This might start off a bit off-topic but the DMV here in good ol' VA was selling all of the drivers license information that they gathered. Officials claimed to be shocked! Shocked! that people objected to this attempt to painlessly raise money for the state. Just goes to show whether it's facial recognition or whatever I just don't think you can trust the gov't. Oh, and for all of those Euro's who are going to post "well, we've had them for a few years now..." Please, save it. You don't really know what's going on with all of that data that the gov't collects. Just wait until the next criminal outrage and you'll hear beaurecrats (sp): "well, we do have this pile of data...." This is one place where the slippery slope exists.
I wonder what the other side has to say about it? It sure doesn't seem very defensible. I'm pretty suprised about the Berkeley deal. I've always thought of that bunch as pretty independent and above such foolishness. Seems like a simple money-grab. disapointing to say the least.
with this is that it forces everyone to opt-out. It's almost the same as someone loosing a worm or other virus onto the net. What a model!! Depending on your point of view this technology is either a) the holy grail or b) a fucking nightmare. I chose b. I do however run a website so maybe I'll pick up the sdk or whatever developer stuff is available and make my own smart tags....:)
this hasn't happened in the states. I realize that this may be a bit offtopic but it does interest me. Do we just have the infrastructure to handle all of these spiffy new 1.5mb DSL lines or is there enough competition (until all of the smaller DSL companies go bankrupt) to keep things pretty much free and open? I know that the satellite folks (hughes) implemented a cap on downloads awhile ago - actually, they would just reduce your bandwidth and not tell you - but I haven't seen this with cable or DSL....
it both ways. When an article is posted about MS saying that giving away code is bad and likely not a sustainable business, everyone whines and bitches that MS and their ilk are a bunch of goons. When an article (such as this) is posted about how a free software corporation is looking for donations (user-requested or no), most everyone laughs and says "tough shit, that's their business model". It occurs to me that, as a matter of principle (sp), you should pick a side and stand behind it. Everyone here knows that it's going to be tough for companies like Redhat,et.al. to make money on services alone and with their primary product available for free, that's about the only revenue stream they have. After all if we, their advocates, won't even pick up the tab for a measly download, where are they going to be? Where are we going to be? I'll tell you where: we're going to have to sit in the middle and suck on it and the MS people, having been proven correct, *will* have the last laugh. They will have shown the world that the vast majority of the linux community is precisely what they said to begin with: a bunch of whining maggots who want everything for free. Go ahead, mod me down but you know I'm right.
that Palm is in trouble. They didn't change the product for what...5-6 years? The only cool thing that they've added (until the M50x series)was the wireless line. Other than that, they've added some really "hip" colors and maybe a few worthless apps. In the meantime, the evil empire launches WindowsCE devices, handspring clones the palm and sells them cheaper and Sony starts with the Clie'. In response to all of this, Palm dicks around for 2-3 years and finally launches a product that presents the same level of features as the competition.......
"Good luck regulating all of them" - too true I'm afraid but it's a good idea....:) Sure would make life easier for those who want to filter...actually, thinking about it a bit, I wonder if it isn't doable. In my view, the people who stand to benefit the most from easier filtering is corporate America. It isn't your corner library, although they would also benefit. Where I used to work, we had a call-center and our overnight agents would do nothing but browse porn sites. Strictly speaking it wasn't a big deal as there were only a couple of them. However, they shared PC's with the day-shift and from time to time someone would forget to close a browser with buttsex.com in it. We came very close to several lawsuits and had to fire the lot of them. Just by eliminating the possibility of a lawsuit (for that anyways) it would seem worthwhile. Your point is valid however. I don't know how you'd enforce it.
Voluntarily? No. However, the previous comment included some notion that there would be rules about who would be eligible for a.museum TLD. If there are rules, presumably there would be someone charged with enforcing said rules. Why not a rule (and attendant enforcers) about porn sites? It ain't like it's abrogating anyone's rights to free speech. Indeed, it reflects what most cities do to strip clubs and the like - they relegate them to certain places in the city by crafting rules about where they can or can't be. Wash. DC, for instance, has a rule about not having a strip club within 1500 feet (something along those lines anyways) of a church or school. Seems reasonable enough. And just like the online world, You can always find the strip clubs - just look for triple-parked police cars....:)
these TLD's? I mean ".aero" ? WTF is that supposed to be? ".Museum"? WHAT??? Are there so many Museums that they need their own TLD? I haven't noticed that the net is overrun by museums desperately seeking attention. Sounds like an attempt to make the Internet look and feel like they want it to instead of how it really does.
Not that I'm a raving GB supporter but I heard his explanation for that and it seemed reasonable to me. In short, he indicated that he had used email extensively in the past to communicate with family and friends but now that he was president, all of that email (private or no) winds up in the public record. Personally, with all the shit that goes on in Washington, I don't blame him. Anyways, he couldnt email that one daughter very often as she seems to be getting locked up alot of late....:)
my representative (state or federal) I always get a snail reply. Take that to mean whatever you like. In addition, I've chatted with my state representatives and I *know* that they don't really have an idea of what's going on. Of course, here in ol' Virginia one thing the politicians do know is that anything that keeps the tech companies (AOL, etc) happy must be good for the state....
That seems like an aweful lot. Crucial has 256MB sticks for around $100. I wouldn't think that a 512MB stick would cost 6 times that....Did you get screwed?
me, thanks. Seems to me that unions require traits that most IT workers just don't have. I'm suspcious of the motives behind the CWA and others when they try to round up IT people. It seems to me that they're trying to a)just add more people and b) add more influential and white collar people to their rolls. I don't think they care a whit about the people. Unions became self-sustaining entities long ago....much like some of the programs the gov't funds.....
How the hell are they going to do that? I'd like to see that boondoggle. Compaq: "Uh, we lost a lawsuit and now you have to send back the computer you just bought so we can destroy it" Me: "hello? you're breaking up, did you say computer? Send back? I, uh, sold it on ebay and shipped it to east timor. Sorry"
use Napster if it suddenly only supported the WMA format? Would it suddenly become one of those places where you can store your digitized files for retrieval anywhere? Who cares about that? Isn't there already someone doing that? you know what it really is? Bill G. getting his old squeeze Ann Winblad out of a jam, seeing as how her VC company is currently eating tons of shitty.com investments....:)
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More kidding than anything else but the last line is absolutely true. We came within a week of losing our house as she hadn't been paid in almost 3 months. Dreams are, unfortunately, subject to financial realities.
I thought your post on K5 was pretty cool but needed a bit more detail. I did like the description of your interactions with.com clients - it's why I avoid them like the plague.
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Are you using ATG for home access? I've talked to them and my impression was that it's a business only deal.
It is related somehow. See, back in the day when the telecommunications act of '96 was passed, it linked the opening of local phone markets to competition to the baby bells ability to get into the long-distance game. Back then, the baby bells wanted to get in on the LD game as it was very profitable. Now it isn't and they could care less about.
This being the case, they aren't terribly concerned about playing nice with other providers and CLEC's who are in their local areas. This allows them to drive out people like Covad, Rhthmys (sp) and others with impunity.
ever had a problem like this? Honest question, not a troll....
this information would help operators "route" traffic around trouble spots. If an accident happens on a suburban street, it's possible. About a week ago we had a tar truck overturn on the D.C. beltway that completely closed all lanes in one direction. Where the hell are they going to send all of that traffic? Last I checked there wasn't a whole lot of unused 5 line highways in the area. Hell, during rush hour every flat surface is choked with cars. In addition, the idea that a message on a sign board is going to keep traffic flowing (left lane closed ahead) is laughable. Anyone who's driven in an urban area lately that the simple act of a cop pulling someone over for a ticket can and will cause a traffic jam.
Wow, that's quite the statement!! A quick search on the Guardian turns up quite a few corruption cases, including Scotland Yard and one (an editorial piece) about screwing around with election districts...(here or here) There seem to be many more on the search page as well....As far as school shooting goes, you're right, for now it does seem to be an American problem but it's a matter of time until it happens over there.
This might start off a bit off-topic but the DMV here in good ol' VA was selling all of the drivers license information that they gathered. Officials claimed to be shocked! Shocked! that people objected to this attempt to painlessly raise money for the state.
Just goes to show whether it's facial recognition or whatever I just don't think you can trust the gov't. Oh, and for all of those Euro's who are going to post "well, we've had them for a few years now..." Please, save it. You don't really know what's going on with all of that data that the gov't collects. Just wait until the next criminal outrage and you'll hear beaurecrats (sp): "well, we do have this pile of data...." This is one place where the slippery slope exists.
I wonder what the other side has to say about it? It sure doesn't seem very defensible. I'm pretty suprised about the Berkeley deal. I've always thought of that bunch as pretty independent and above such foolishness. Seems like a simple money-grab. disapointing to say the least.
with this is that it forces everyone to opt-out. It's almost the same as someone loosing a worm or other virus onto the net. What a model!! Depending on your point of view this technology is either a) the holy grail or b) a fucking nightmare.
I chose b. I do however run a website so maybe I'll pick up the sdk or whatever developer stuff is available and make my own smart tags....:)
this hasn't happened in the states. I realize that this may be a bit offtopic but it does interest me. Do we just have the infrastructure to handle all of these spiffy new 1.5mb DSL lines or is there enough competition (until all of the smaller DSL companies go bankrupt) to keep things pretty much free and open? I know that the satellite folks (hughes) implemented a cap on downloads awhile ago - actually, they would just reduce your bandwidth and not tell you - but I haven't seen this with cable or DSL....
it both ways. When an article is posted about MS saying that giving away code is bad and likely not a sustainable business, everyone whines and bitches that MS and their ilk are a bunch of goons. When an article (such as this) is posted about how a free software corporation is looking for donations (user-requested or no), most everyone laughs and says "tough shit, that's their business model". It occurs to me that, as a matter of principle (sp), you should pick a side and stand behind it. Everyone here knows that it's going to be tough for companies like Redhat,et.al. to make money on services alone and with their primary product available for free, that's about the only revenue stream they have. After all if we, their advocates, won't even pick up the tab for a measly download, where are they going to be? Where are we going to be? I'll tell you where: we're going to have to sit in the middle and suck on it and the MS people, having been proven correct, *will* have the last laugh. They will have shown the world that the vast majority of the linux community is precisely what they said to begin with: a bunch of whining maggots who want everything for free. Go ahead, mod me down but you know I'm right.
that Palm is in trouble. They didn't change the product for what...5-6 years? The only cool thing that they've added (until the M50x series)was the wireless line. Other than that, they've added some really "hip" colors and maybe a few worthless apps. In the meantime, the evil empire launches WindowsCE devices, handspring clones the palm and sells them cheaper and Sony starts with the Clie'. In response to all of this, Palm dicks around for 2-3 years and finally launches a product that presents the same level of features as the competition.......
"Good luck regulating all of them" - too true I'm afraid but it's a good idea....:) Sure would make life easier for those who want to filter...actually, thinking about it a bit, I wonder if it isn't doable. In my view, the people who stand to benefit the most from easier filtering is corporate America. It isn't your corner library, although they would also benefit. Where I used to work, we had a call-center and our overnight agents would do nothing but browse porn sites. Strictly speaking it wasn't a big deal as there were only a couple of them. However, they shared PC's with the day-shift and from time to time someone would forget to close a browser with buttsex.com in it. We came very close to several lawsuits and had to fire the lot of them. Just by eliminating the possibility of a lawsuit (for that anyways) it would seem worthwhile. Your point is valid however. I don't know how you'd enforce it.
Voluntarily? No. However, the previous comment included some notion that there would be rules about who would be eligible for a .museum TLD. If there are rules, presumably there would be someone charged with enforcing said rules. Why not a rule (and attendant enforcers) about porn sites? It ain't like it's abrogating anyone's rights to free speech. Indeed, it reflects what most cities do to strip clubs and the like - they relegate them to certain places in the city by crafting rules about where they can or can't be. Wash. DC, for instance, has a rule about not having a strip club within 1500 feet (something along those lines anyways) of a church or school. Seems reasonable enough. And just like the online world, You can always find the strip clubs - just look for triple-parked police cars....:)
these TLD's? I mean ".aero" ? WTF is that supposed to be? ".Museum"? WHAT??? Are there so many Museums that they need their own TLD? I haven't noticed that the net is overrun by museums desperately seeking attention. Sounds like an attempt to make the Internet look and feel like they want it to instead of how it really does.
Not that I'm a raving GB supporter but I heard his explanation for that and it seemed reasonable to me. In short, he indicated that he had used email extensively in the past to communicate with family and friends but now that he was president, all of that email (private or no) winds up in the public record. Personally, with all the shit that goes on in Washington, I don't blame him. Anyways, he couldnt email that one daughter very often as she seems to be getting locked up alot of late....:)
my representative (state or federal) I always get a snail reply. Take that to mean whatever you like. In addition, I've chatted with my state representatives and I *know* that they don't really have an idea of what's going on. Of course, here in ol' Virginia one thing the politicians do know is that anything that keeps the tech companies (AOL, etc) happy must be good for the state....
That seems like an aweful lot. Crucial has 256MB sticks for around $100. I wouldn't think that a 512MB stick would cost 6 times that....Did you get screwed?
me, thanks. Seems to me that unions require traits that most IT workers just don't have. I'm suspcious of the motives behind the CWA and others when they try to round up IT people. It seems to me that they're trying to a)just add more people and b) add more influential and white collar people to their rolls. I don't think they care a whit about the people. Unions became self-sustaining entities long ago....much like some of the programs the gov't funds.....
How the hell are they going to do that? I'd like to see that boondoggle.
Compaq: "Uh, we lost a lawsuit and now you have to send back the computer you just bought so we can destroy it"
Me: "hello? you're breaking up, did you say computer? Send back? I, uh, sold it on ebay and shipped it to east timor. Sorry"
$2600 is cheap?
wow. fell a long way in a short time. Even the computers are making fun of linux, "tool" indeed.
not if you can't find the files you want.
use Napster if it suddenly only supported the WMA format? Would it suddenly become one of those places where you can store your digitized files for retrieval anywhere? Who cares about that? Isn't there already someone doing that? .com investments....:)
you know what it really is? Bill G. getting his old squeeze Ann Winblad out of a jam, seeing as how her VC company is currently eating tons of shitty
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More kidding than anything else but the last line is absolutely true. We came within a week of losing our house as she hadn't been paid in almost 3 months. Dreams are, unfortunately, subject to financial realities.
I thought your post on K5 was pretty cool but needed a bit more detail. I did like the description of your interactions with .com clients - it's why I avoid them like the plague.