Nothing personal, but you are an idiot. "competition come along and buy the lines off them cheap" ?? One cannot buy the phone companies lines. You can LEASE 'em for a sizable amount though... We are a small ISP in a semi-rural area and brought Wifi fixed access to it before the phone company brought in DSL. When they finally did a year ago, we evaluated getting into the DSL resale business; we would have had to buy a $20,000 DSLAM along with paying SBC ~$35 per month per customer. With a limited customer base here, how would we make money like that? We would have had to charge customers $60 each to make like $5 per customer per month.
You may want to check your foolish preconceived ideas at the door, OK.... thanks.
do you not understand that the "hydrogen economy" does not require the ultra centralized transport system that the fossil fuels do? It can be created at your house through solar/wind/geothermal/etc/...
My understanding is that they were not the illegal SCUDs, but a medium range weapon that would most likely be considered a defensive weapon. Sorry to butt into your pissing match of a thread.
The Icon itself has Copyright to protect it (-Diety- knows that Apple sure protects their little widgets and pictures fervently). The Patent on the concept of the "Trash Can" in an O.S. is what is ridiculous.
/rant/ *sigh* Instead of making flippant comments vaguely deriding the ACLU, look at the freedoms that they help defend. Am I to suppose you are against their supposedly left-wing agenda? Do you similarly deride the Heritage Foundation, the Pat Robertson backed (Lamely named) ACLJ, Bill Bennett's academic witch hunt group, etc. etc. etc?
My view on the ACLU is that they sometimes go on quixotic tangents on lesser-priority issues which tend to dilute their support, but if not the ACLU, who else? You need money to get your voice heard today./rant/
hey captain, 1)Do a search for daemon-tools. 2)Make a CloneCD image of your game disk, load it from the hard disk as a Virtual CD.... 3)and presto, no more need to load in the cds for every game. You will need several free GBs of space for several cds worth of games but storage is cheap!
>This includes Canada, Japan, and most of western Europe. Depends what your calling socialist. Where do you draw the line between a capitalist country and a >socialist country? I mean by comparison, these countries are more socialist than the US, but certainly aren't Cuba or North Korea, are they?
Cuba and North Korea are not socialist. They are classicly Communist. Not a too subtle difference, you know.
We are a small independent ISP in a semi-rural Southern California town and we have several customers running via 802.11b at DSL speeds. Check out our very minimalist web page at www.ojaiwireless.com for ideas as far as price, etc.
Our latest challenge has been finding ways to deal with the "hidden transmitter issue" which can cause serious packet loss. This stuff DOES work though, quite nicely if you you know what you are doing.
Also, most newer firmware\drivers bypass the known insecure part of the WEP. This means that the standard wireless sniffing techniques will not work easily. I must note however, with others, that a determined attacker is gonna get through whatever the transport. Firewalls and VPNs would be required for any kind of sensitive data. Have a Nice Day!
In order to reduce the "throw directly in the wastebasket" factor, move the information about how, when and where you met him at the end up to the beginning/top of the letter. Then there is no way it would be mistaken for a chain letter and immediately chucked.
Thanks for getting of your ass and doing something proactive.
Really.
Put yourself in the place of your average politician. Can you realistically go back to your constituents at re-election time and say "Well I did nothing, cause nothing needed doing." Probably not. Politics is not about "working for the people" or any such nonsense. It's about keeping your job by appealing to the majority in the least odious way. People hate evil hackers, flag desecrators, pedophiles, homos, or whatever fringe group that can be easily demonized, so it is often a no-lose situation to vote to legislate against these "abnormals."
I don't see this situation changing soon, no matter who controls the senate or the house; nor when _insert your political group dogma here_ gets in power. And people wonder why I am a cynic....
"I am an American, or a "citizen of the United States of America." Please do not use the term "USian" (or the new, misspelled term "USAian") to describe citizens of the United States of America."
Amen. I furrow my brow everytime I see this anti-American *USian* bullshit. The name of the country and the name of the continent are segregated. If you are referring to the people who reside in the whole of North America then the term North Americans would be appropriate. When referring to the people of "The United States of America" you would say Americans. When you refer to people of other nations it is customary to use their respective names. Thank you.
>>Another reason for dropping the second bomb was that Stalin declared war on Japan just after the Hiroshima bombing, and immediately attacked Japanese positions on mainland Asia.
Yes, this is probably one of the least mentioned reasons that the Imperial Japanese actually did surrender; fear of the Russian invasion. Many generals would have fought to the death, even after the bombs, but they feared being totally conquered by the Soviets. AFAIK there was only one large battle between the Japanese and the Soviets, (in China?) and the Japanese overwhelmingly lost. After that they were very intimidated and preferred the Americans as enemies.
If Germany and Japan had truly committed to conquering the Soviet Union, who knows how the world would be now? Would all of Asia and Europe be one big Axis empire?
Wow...mod this up. I find myself acting exactly as Courageous describes. So much passionate indignation, and yet I can barely be bothered to vote, or volunteer my time to any defenders of the ideals that I hold dear. Unfortunately, that is how most of us geeks work. Damnit....being a spoiled American kinda sucks in a resigned desparation sort of way.
Incidentally, there is an interesting document at the gross-out site Rotten.com about Lisa McPherson who died due to Scientologist mistreatment.
Also Slashdot ran an article a while back about how the CoS sued to remove e-meters (which are little boxes with antennae purported to sense bad "engrams" in you while being asked questions)from EBay.
Slashdot Mirror
Nothing personal, but you are an idiot. "competition come along and buy the lines off them cheap" ?? One cannot buy the phone companies lines. You can LEASE 'em for a sizable amount though... We are a small ISP in a semi-rural area and brought Wifi fixed access to it before the phone company brought in DSL. When they finally did a year ago, we evaluated getting into the DSL resale business; we would have had to buy a $20,000 DSLAM along with paying SBC ~$35 per month per customer. With a limited customer base here, how would we make money like that? We would have had to charge customers $60 each to make like $5 per customer per month.
You may want to check your foolish preconceived ideas at the door, OK.... thanks.
do you not understand that the "hydrogen economy" does not require the ultra centralized transport system that the fossil fuels do? It can be created at your house through solar/wind/geothermal/etc/ ...
My understanding is that they were not the illegal SCUDs, but a medium range weapon that would most likely be considered a defensive weapon. Sorry to butt into your pissing match of a thread.
The Icon itself has Copyright to protect it (-Diety- knows that Apple sure protects their little widgets and pictures fervently).
The Patent on the concept of the "Trash Can" in an O.S. is what is ridiculous.
/rant/
/rant/
*sigh*
Instead of making flippant comments vaguely deriding the ACLU, look at the freedoms that they help defend.
Am I to suppose you are against their supposedly left-wing agenda? Do you similarly deride the Heritage Foundation, the Pat Robertson backed (Lamely named) ACLJ, Bill Bennett's academic witch hunt group, etc. etc. etc?
My view on the ACLU is that they sometimes go on quixotic tangents on lesser-priority issues which tend to dilute their support, but if not the ACLU, who else? You need money to get your voice heard today.
Because this is an Intel discussion, I feel that it is necessary that I post reference to this article:
0 5/020521_Intel _Subverts/020521_Intel_Subverts.htm
"How Intel subverts journalists"
www.vanshardware.com/articles/2002/
One name.... Josef Mengele
LOL! Sorry, no mod points PD. Otherwise +1funny ;)
hey captain,
1)Do a search for daemon-tools.
2)Make a CloneCD image of your game disk, load it from the hard disk as a Virtual CD....
3)and presto, no more need to load in the cds for every game. You will need several free GBs of space for several cds worth of games but storage is cheap!
>This includes Canada, Japan, and most of western Europe. Depends what your calling socialist. Where do you draw the line between a capitalist country and a >socialist country? I mean by comparison, these countries are more socialist than the US, but certainly aren't Cuba or North Korea, are they?
Cuba and North Korea are not socialist. They are classicly Communist. Not a too subtle difference, you know.
Damn, as much as I lve Mt. Dew, it gives me canker sores :(
Anyone else?
>Let's all go to the lobby,
>Let's all got to the lobby,
>Let's all go to the lobby...
>To get ourselves a drink!
wasn't it "...to have ourselves a snack"?
Moot, not mute buddy...
Being pedantic since 1974!
We are a small independent ISP in a semi-rural Southern California town and we have several customers running via 802.11b at DSL speeds. Check out our very minimalist web page at www.ojaiwireless.com for ideas as far as price, etc.
Our latest challenge has been finding ways to deal with the "hidden transmitter issue" which can cause serious packet loss. This stuff DOES work though, quite nicely if you you know what you are doing.
Also, most newer firmware\drivers bypass the known insecure part of the WEP. This means that the standard wireless sniffing techniques will not work easily. I must note however, with others, that a determined attacker is gonna get through whatever the transport. Firewalls and VPNs would be required for any kind of sensitive data.
Have a Nice Day!
Just for fun....
What was the original IF I EVER MEET YOU... post?
I liked that one a lot. Better than grits or Natalie or beowulf clusters....
In order to reduce the "throw directly in the wastebasket" factor, move the information about how, when and where you met him at the end up to the beginning/top of the letter. Then there is no way it would be mistaken for a chain letter and immediately chucked.
Thanks for getting of your ass and doing something proactive.
Really.
Well....
Put yourself in the place of your average politician. Can you realistically go back to your constituents at re-election time and say "Well I did nothing, cause nothing needed doing." Probably not. Politics is not about "working for the people" or any such nonsense. It's about keeping your job by appealing to the majority in the least odious way. People hate evil hackers, flag desecrators, pedophiles, homos, or whatever fringe group that can be easily demonized, so it is often a no-lose situation to vote to legislate against these "abnormals."
I don't see this situation changing soon, no matter who controls the senate or the house; nor when _insert your political group dogma here_ gets in power. And people wonder why I am a cynic....
You, sir are a fraud!
*Removes gloves*
SMACK!
*Puts gloves back on*
Thank you.
;^)
"I am an American, or a "citizen of the United States of America." Please do not use the term "USian" (or the new, misspelled term "USAian") to describe citizens of the United States of America."
Amen. I furrow my brow everytime I see this anti-American *USian* bullshit. The name of the country and the name of the continent are segregated. If you are referring to the people who reside in the whole of North America then the term North Americans would be appropriate. When referring to the people of "The United States of America" you would say Americans. When you refer to people of other nations it is customary to use their respective names. Thank you.
An American Bitchazz
You are welcome!
>>Another reason for dropping the second bomb was that Stalin declared war on Japan just after the Hiroshima bombing, and immediately attacked Japanese positions on mainland Asia.
Yes, this is probably one of the least mentioned reasons that the Imperial Japanese actually did surrender; fear of the Russian invasion. Many generals would have fought to the death, even after the bombs, but they feared being totally conquered by the Soviets. AFAIK there was only one large battle between the Japanese and the Soviets, (in China?) and the Japanese overwhelmingly lost. After that they were very intimidated and preferred the Americans as enemies.
If Germany and Japan had truly committed to conquering the Soviet Union, who knows how the world would be now? Would all of Asia and Europe be one big Axis empire?
Wow...mod this up. I find myself acting exactly as Courageous describes. So much passionate indignation, and yet I can barely be bothered to vote, or volunteer my time to any defenders of the ideals that I hold dear. Unfortunately, that is how most of us geeks work. Damnit....being a spoiled American kinda sucks in a resigned desparation sort of way.
Car batteries are already recycled easily...try Pep Boys. You DO recycle your car battery don't you?
Incidentally, there is an interesting document at the gross-out site Rotten.com about Lisa McPherson who died due to Scientologist mistreatment.
Also Slashdot ran an article a while back about how the CoS sued to remove e-meters (which are little boxes with antennae purported to sense bad "engrams" in you while being asked questions)from EBay.
"Data access time is around 100 Mb/sec"
from the university link mentioned above...