Fuel Cell is the only way to go...... Honda Insight coming in spring and promised fuel-cell for it shortly after ON THE CHEAP.
No batteries. Makes Hydrogen and Oxygen in tanks for itself from water and electricity plugin then just like a gas gauge can let it set or drive til the tanks are dry before plugging in again.
Now a small nuclear reactor for each township and life becomes cheap again OTHERWISE its the ELECTRIC COMPANIES' TURN to overcharge us instead of the OIL COMPANIES.
... governs what happens here, its not how long Google keeps its logs that matters.
Pelosi led 105 republi-Crats on the "important business" last June that she waived her hand and took impeachment of Bush "off the table".
Obama followed her lead on July 9 and now SPYING ON AMERICANS is LEGAL here in the US with retention periods (we don't need no steenking retention periods... thanks Obama). McCain did not vote for this and Hillary voted against it.
My point is that corporations can get the skinny on what and who you are and where you go online from the Big Cheese US Gov't now... they don't need the little fish Google's help anymore.
Abuse possible. Naw, trust us soon the presidency will be in the same hands as the congress that got us this spy law passed.
My big telco keeps bugging me to get rid of my DSL ($19/month for life plus a landline so about $41/month total I need to landline til Feb for my analog 2000-era TiVo). My rabbit ears are working fine for all the major networks since I am near a major city. Look forward to converter box for digital over the air, too.
I would love to go to fibre after they open the network so that other ISPs can sell data services and only honest competition is what keeps prices low.
Can you believe some dummies are shelling out $104/month for STARTERS for basic fibre cable TV + internet when you can get TV for free over the air here (lots more choices with the converter box for over the air, too) and internet for less than half that?
Without competition, I see telco starting to charge fibre disconnect/reconnect charges to discourage people from flipping back to the cable tv vendor for price.
The phone company doesn't offer any guarantee on price for fibre beyond basic bait-and-switch after you are wired up they intend to up the charges forever just like my original cable was $6.95/month in 1986 stayed until when I left in 2005 it had inflated to $90/month with no change in content.
I have four identical computers (all dual-Xeon workstations) to keep two running (a primary and a spare).
Retro junk is all I buy.
Fully depreciated junk beats todays wonder-crap everytime. If it was a quality peripheral device it will last for 8-10 years and silly corporate out with the old in with the new is what birthed the VISTA DEBACLE.
Eighteen months ago I filmed a school talent show when my kid won first place solo-guitar (yeah, its still possible in a Guitar Hero world to accomplish real talent in your room at night rather than surfing pr0n).
I posted the show on myspace with ALL THE KIDS VIDEOS for each act so my kid winning wouldn't look so braggart. I got thousands of views for almost a year til his 18-th birthday I decided to remove them all (for sentimental reasons - I marked them all PRIVATE on youtube).
Saturday I got a DMCA notice from Universal Music Group trhu YOUTUBE.
Seems that during intermission one of the hosts played "we are the champions" over the loudspeaker (I never noticed) while he and another kid --layered in 50 T-shirts-- stripped them off to raise money selling them later to pay for the student organization that paid for the show.
On my private video UMG said it knows I infringed their content but was "allowing it to continue".
I deleted the show saving just my kid as I should have done (only sentiment had left it there as private since his 18th birthday and my kid never infringed anyone he won with his own original talent).
Lawyers going after private videos of kids high school talent shows. Disgusting.
Both parties have merged to form republi-Crats under Pelosi's lead the "opposition" gave Bush a present of a nice spying-on-its-own-citizens-without-a-warrant on July 9 (thanks Obama).
Ordinary people are flat broke or heading that way fast. Even those who saved their pennies for that rainy day will soon see those pennies devalued to a tenth in buying power.
Since around 1998 the corporations are the only ones who get laws for their benefit here in the USA.
Now (see Google antitrush and DOJ) the gov't is preying on the corporations that have money since lawyers must feed somewhere.
A small bag of apples is 4-dollars heading to 8-dollars fast.
eBay economy is picking thru our national trash for treasure and have ya noticed the quality of sellers there is WAY DOWN (an evangelical pleaded with me bout the biblical floods last spring why he couldnt ship a lousy hard drive... until I convinced him I would buy in quantity and then they came f-a-s-t.
Everyone is hurting unless they had rich parents like Obama who worked for an oil company or married wealth like John McCain.
I have teens, so I'm virtualized with a twenty second revert to baseline wiping everything and bringing us to a fresh Firefox 3.01 (for me) or IE7 (wife) every time.
The embedded units besides TiVo are on NetBeui only for the TV and another for iTunes library (that one read-only) with a frequently wiped netbeui file server for the TV content. How ya gonna route that spy data over Netbeui?
Anyone keeping a real machine for surfing should realize its just a bathroom rug accumulating gunk that anyone who sat in front of the screen ever visited (even by accident).
The host under the virtual doesn't even have network connectivity.
The only real machine left in the house is my gamer and sheer theory of potential botnets are why INSIDE THE HOUSE I make damn sure the gamer IN THE LIVING ROOM is HIBERNATED before doing anything.
The PBS piece with Click and Clack months ago and Tesla brought to light the major role IT folks had in that startup electric car.
Seems that all the magic is in the software that makes the batteries motor and charger do its best.
I think next year's Honda fuel cell Insight is a better idea (brew and tank your own HYDROGEN and OXYGEN from water + electricity when plugged in, then run all day with a "gas gauge" and no heavy batteries.
If Google would change its homepage to black it would save an incredible amount of energy on all those monitors displaying that ubiquitous screen.
... in the USA when the money runs dry for big government will have to turn on those who have it (corporations) for a change.
The original Microsoft anti-trust was brought by a Democratic President who got distracted by Monica-Gate and eager to please all in the aftermath... the EU went on to actually pursue and reform Microsoft.
Should our government pursue cases on behalf of other corporations envious of other corporations?
Reminds me of that day... when Britain tried to "float" the pound sterling and it dropped and dropped and dropped til US bailed its ally out with a big Fed cash infusion.
The EU spirits are high from Bush bashing, so easy any child can do it. Now the US is about to undertake the massive bailouts of its mortgage industry no one will come to Britain's aid if they stumble right now.
No one will come to Polands, Czeck, Slovacks, Estonians, Lithuanians, and Latvians, just like no one came to aide Georgians.
A very dark winder will fall. The Russians are back and cash rich, and the Americans are no longer in a financial place to help anyone.
But there is light ahead... its morning again in America if McCain comes in -- its back to America speaks softly and carry a big stick (to replace bush speaks loudly and carries no stick at all). But the light might be an on-coming trainwreck if Obama and the Pelosi republi-Crats who just legalized spying on their own citizens get in power (McCain did not vote for this) then its socialism for America and continued waning influence anywhere (even here).
Europe step up and help us stabilize Iraq. Stop Bush-bashing and help us save the world from the real threat... a re-emerging Russia under Putin.
After I virtualized way back in 2003 I discovered... that if I built my own "sky" each "cloud" I deployed in its own virtual machine was very simple and easy to understand and maintain.
Just like Unix itself, which takes small working units and connects them together to make a complex whole, the "sky" is complex but each "cloud" is simple.
And makes it easy to deploy and move "clouds" to super-centers like the New Zealand data-center as it makes sense (speed, location, power, price) to do so.
Today Fedora Core + VMware's GNU solution (aka Vmware Server 1.x, formerly VMware GSX). Both are free. Virtual machines can run anything. No connectivity to the host, even put the firewall in a v.m. Runs fine on a dual Xeon P3 / 1.2GB ram and easy disk management using LVM. A backup (duplicate machine) gives me twelve clouds in my current sky playground.
Now that the spying bill is in place... (thanks Obama and Pelosi and the republi-Crats she leads) its time to start using all the knowledge gained from recording and sifting thru what each and everyone of us is doing online.
First up, MICRO-PAYMENTS would relieve the world of DRM once and for all.
If the gov't (and corporations because we live in a fascist state since July 9) knows what you are doing why cannot they just pass along a bill for what "content" you have (now legally) "consumed".
Make it fair, say penny a song, nickel a movie, split over all the peers offering downloads on a per-download basis, and even a Comcast "hog" using his whole 250 gigabytes would have only a modest $10 tacked onto his bill for "file sharing".
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Park a gun-boat off the shore of Venezuela.
Instant cheap gas again. Al Gore's head explodes in a puff of smoke from my Vortech Supercharger.
Remember folks, its an election year. Expensive gas makes for great FEAR UNCERTAINTY and DOUBT.
Think that our president is an OIL MAN. He is not doing what our country wants. He is doing his best to protect the US OIL COMPANIES since he will shortly go back and be one of them again.
Fear is a great tool. It makes people risk their lives (a friend just had his new motorcycle fall over on him breaking his toe to save gasoline).
The fuel cell Honda Insight next spring looks very promising. Charge from plug-in at night makes Hydrogen and Oxygen, runs all day using it up. Batteries are expensive, heavy, and toxic.
Fascist gov'ts drool... maybe this will finally be the chip that goes into our necks?
IT folks designing stuff that cannot be defeated remind me of the Nazi scientists and all those experiments Germany was so interested in that filled our nightmares in the 63 years since.
... from a "linux rescue" prompt after booting and recent Linux CD or DVD will clear that pesky drive D: followed by a reboot to Windows and reformat to NTFS does just fine.
Make sure you create a dummy partition between your boot C: drive and what later becomes D: because Linux and Windows are notorious for arguing over where that partition boundary is, hence "hda3" gets the third partition and its "sda3" if its a scsi hard drive.
And... don't save that pr0n forever. Whatareya a pre-vert?
And replace "Russia[or US]" with "Israel" and replace "Georgia[or Iraq]" with "Lebanon".
[ Looks back on Prague-smashed-by-Russian tanks-in-1968. ]
But the US left Iraq democratic and free (to do it wants after 2010. The US got no benefit from Iraq and a massive black eye. The Russians have a post-WW-II history of destroying everything they touch that makes Bush pale by comparison. Why give them a free pass in Georgia?
Back on July 9, Obama followed Pelosi's lead and legalized spying on Americans (which Bush had been doing since shortly after 9-11.
They aren't parking a van outside your house, folks, they are recording EVERYONE's web traffic and keeping it... forever???? Maybe.
The Narus suite of deep packet inspection spy gear (covert spying in Iraq... oh my!) is now legal for telecom (thanks Obama) to use inside the USA so politicians need cover by making sure you think everyone else wants to SPY to know what you are up to, too. Great political cover. We attack the Phorms and NebuAds and ignore the ENABLERs Pelosi & the republi-Crats she leads.
The game is called SELLING ADs. You know the do-not-call list? We need a do-not-spy list.
This is called HTTPS:// which makes it VERY CPU INTENSIVE for spy gear to decipher all our ramblings. Know it. Use it. Implement it so your web sites don't get tampered with on their way to the customer's browser.
Keep the NebuAds and Phorms of the world from recording your business is your own damn business and we need to use the tools and our heads.
If we wise up, the gov't will force us to give them (GOV'T, CIA, FBI) our encrpytion keys but that is the equivalent of a search warrant and we can keep changing them to keep them on their toes... at least then we know they are watching us (and likely not ALL of us LIKE THEY ARE DOING RIGHT NOW).
Don't stay un-encrypted at the web server level or the browser we need to stop the SPYING now.
Sarah Palin ain't no Joe Biden. Side-show Joe I know very well from his 36 years in the Senate.
Joe Biden was arrogant and dismissive and went all "PHB" on a proud black woman with something to say in 1991 when Joe Biden chaired the committee in the Senate that got Clarence Thomas confirmed (as a favor to a Republican president, GeoHWBush.).
Thomas, after Biden voted for him, went on to decide the Florida 2000 Election that got the world Bush-II. Biden also got labeled (falsely?) as a woman-hater as the Thomas confirmation was the most contentious in Supreme Court history.
IT folks are people first. Joe fails that test. Sarah seems to be human, so she exceeds Joe Biden in that test, too.
I realize Slashdot ain't politcal but...... naked aggression in Georgia sickens me as a human being and an IT professional.
As a 3rd-generation Czech in America I fear that appeasing the Russian's will only bring disaster upon the heads. I hate Bush and Cheyney as much as the next American but Russia needs a response here.
Might label you a terrorist but pay-as-you-go (PAYG) cell phone is all I use now.
Switched in early 2006 to T-mobile and an indestructible nearly functionless Nokia 6010 available for free (no charge) so I "bought" four of them (one for my Dad when he was alive, my sister who dropped Verizon the moment her farm life realized she didn't need Verizon for anything anymore she loved it.
T-mobile's simple 1000 minutes for 100-dollars good for a year is all I use now. No fees and charges (what a joke all those monthly bills cause you to be someone's CASH COW).
You can give your phone away if you see someone needs it more than you do (this has happened to me) and for 100-bucks you have a new one back in your pocket.
No more worries about MY CELLPHONE IS LOST... who cares?
Synopsis: I bought Verizon wireless's Aircard to get on their 3G network in February 2003.
I stuck it in an old Thinkpad 600 running Linux and it was a DREAM at work I locked it in the overhead bin and stuck it on the network as my own private proxy. I could surf any web site without going thru the watchful eyes of the corporate firewall.
And I could connect to my home computer running Windows and leave all my stock market analysis tools at home for easy use from work.
Everything worked perfectly and I had a ping running 24/7 every 3 seconds to keep the Aircard connected. That worked fine until 2006 when I think someone must have out-sourced their billing to India because they sent me a $3600 bill for my wireless unlimited.
When I called they said I needed to upgrade the software on Windows. WHen I explained I wasn't using Windows they said that they would remove the charge but by then I grew bored with being online all the time and had figured out how to work from home anyway and was using it only to get back INTO the corporate network rather than out INTO home so I dropped it and laughed at the $80/month back in my wallet was THEIR LOSS.
Moral: I would still have it and be mindlessly paying $80/month and I am very glad this "billing error" made me realize I did not need to keep this nor did I need to be anywhere but home.
The job after 12 years went to Singapore later in 2006 and looking back I think people need to decide where they want to lead their lives and stay there and quit thinking somewhere else is more important. Wireless is great for latch-key kids to stay in touch with Mom, but Dad needed to be at home with the kids anyway.
THanks for the reply. I have been programming since assembler language on IBM 360 mainframes in 1981 and networking since I got the mainframe to drive little desktop PC printers in 1985. You know I hope that P2P lives forever : microTorrent is the smallest, fastest, most reliable program I have ever seen and it makes content distribution completely decentralized reliable and FAST and this is the best invention since Gutenberg and the invention of moveable type printing press.
When the law changes to allow micro-payments then we can all use micro-torrent to share anything. That day is so far in the future because much political cash can be wrought from the broken system we have now based on everyone stealing from everyone else from the politicians on down to the file sharers.
Its like pot smokers. Occasional use is expected and tolerated among teens but anyone who lives to smoke pot becomes a pot head and the rest of their life dries up as their other interests disappear one by one.
THanks for the reply. I am a late-comer to P2P getting here after Andrew Cuomo (yes the same one whose father Mario Cuomo decided in 1992 that Bush-I was un-beatable and did not run for president... opening the door for Bill Clinton) as New York Attorney General shutdown nntp:// in June getting my ISP to drop it all together rather than police it.
P2P gets the ISP out of the middle. The gov't can now go directly after the file sharer. The only need for the ISP is to get the name after you have the IP address (see my original post, "Game Set Match").
Illegal content cannot hide behind anonymity much longer. THose days are past as USENET died the job of policing the newsgroup server left the ISP who never wanted it anyway and fell to each and every person who pays their ISP bill to get an IP address. If you are lucky enough not to pay the bill you can just get someone else in trouble.
The law only cares who is responsible is the name of the person paying the Internet bill for that IP address. So kiddies will indeed get Mom, Dad, and GrandMa in trouble. Its just a fact of life and will get you kicked out on your own trying to find Internet (or using the library) if you go up against authority... (Mellencamp) authority always wins.
Thanks for replying. The DMCA passed years ago and it gives any content owner all the legal basis they need for a warrant. Its all going to be automated shortly and you will receive your "illegal file sharing" bill in the mail each month just like any other.
Or just give it up, the law in the US was changed on July 9 when Pelosi got Obama to hand Bush a "compromise" of an approved spying on Americans bill Bush was drooling over. McCain and Hillary did not approve and Hillary went so far as to vote against legal spying.
Who are they spying on? All of us in the US on major ISPs (see Narus suite, etc) dating back to 2005. Then they just comb back thru the logs from the past to see what they are interested in later. Fish in a barrel. Game Set Match.
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Fuel Cell is the only way to go... ... Honda Insight coming in spring and promised fuel-cell for it shortly after ON THE CHEAP.
No batteries. Makes Hydrogen and Oxygen in tanks for itself from water and electricity plugin then just like a gas gauge can let it set or drive til the tanks are dry before plugging in again.
Now a small nuclear reactor for each township and life becomes cheap again OTHERWISE its the ELECTRIC COMPANIES' TURN to overcharge us instead of the OIL COMPANIES.
But since the new US SPY ON AMERICANS law...
... governs what happens here, its not how long Google keeps its logs that matters.
... thanks Obama). McCain did not vote for this and Hillary voted against it.
... they don't need the little fish Google's help anymore.
Pelosi led 105 republi-Crats on the "important business" last June that she waived her hand and took impeachment of Bush "off the table".
Obama followed her lead on July 9 and now SPYING ON AMERICANS is LEGAL here in the US with retention periods (we don't need no steenking retention periods
My point is that corporations can get the skinny on what and who you are and where you go online from the Big Cheese US Gov't now
Abuse possible. Naw, trust us soon the presidency will be in the same hands as the congress that got us this spy law passed.
My big telco keeps bugging me to get rid of my DSL ($19/month for life plus a landline so about $41/month total I need to landline til Feb for my analog 2000-era TiVo). My rabbit ears are working fine for all the major networks since I am near a major city. Look forward to converter box for digital over the air, too.
I would love to go to fibre after they open the network so that other ISPs can sell data services and only honest competition is what keeps prices low.
Can you believe some dummies are shelling out $104/month for STARTERS for basic fibre cable TV + internet when you can get TV for free over the air here (lots more choices with the converter box for over the air, too) and internet for less than half that?
Without competition, I see telco starting to charge fibre disconnect/reconnect charges to discourage people from flipping back to the cable tv vendor for price.
The phone company doesn't offer any guarantee on price for fibre beyond basic bait-and-switch after you are wired up they intend to up the charges forever just like my original cable was $6.95/month in 1986 stayed until when I left in 2005 it had inflated to $90/month with no change in content.
eBay ... only ... eBay ...
... if it isn't junk I cannot afford it.
I have four identical computers (all dual-Xeon workstations) to keep two running (a primary and a spare).
Retro junk is all I buy.
Fully depreciated junk beats todays wonder-crap everytime. If it was a quality peripheral device it will last for 8-10 years and silly corporate out with the old in with the new is what birthed the VISTA DEBACLE.
Eighteen months ago I filmed a school talent show when my kid won first place solo-guitar (yeah, its still possible in a Guitar Hero world to accomplish real talent in your room at night rather than surfing pr0n).
I posted the show on myspace with ALL THE KIDS VIDEOS for each act so my kid winning wouldn't look so braggart. I got thousands of views for almost a year til his 18-th birthday I decided to remove them all (for sentimental reasons - I marked them all PRIVATE on youtube).
Saturday I got a DMCA notice from Universal Music Group trhu YOUTUBE.
Seems that during intermission one of the hosts played "we are the champions" over the loudspeaker (I never noticed) while he and another kid --layered in 50 T-shirts-- stripped them off to raise money selling them later to pay for the student organization that paid for the show.
On my private video UMG said it knows I infringed their content but was "allowing it to continue".
I deleted the show saving just my kid as I should have done (only sentiment had left it there as private since his 18th birthday and my kid never infringed anyone he won with his own original talent).
Lawyers going after private videos of kids high school talent shows. Disgusting.
Both parties have merged to form republi-Crats under Pelosi's lead the "opposition" gave Bush a present of a nice spying-on-its-own-citizens-without-a-warrant on July 9 (thanks Obama).
... until I convinced him I would buy in quantity and then they came f-a-s-t.
Ordinary people are flat broke or heading that way fast. Even those who saved their pennies for that rainy day will soon see those pennies devalued to a tenth in buying power.
Since around 1998 the corporations are the only ones who get laws for their benefit here in the USA.
Now (see Google antitrush and DOJ) the gov't is preying on the corporations that have money since lawyers must feed somewhere.
A small bag of apples is 4-dollars heading to 8-dollars fast.
eBay economy is picking thru our national trash for treasure and have ya noticed the quality of sellers there is WAY DOWN (an evangelical pleaded with me bout the biblical floods last spring why he couldnt ship a lousy hard drive
Everyone is hurting unless they had rich parents like Obama who worked for an oil company or married wealth like John McCain.
Voting. Vote for what? Both are more of the same.
I have teens, so I'm virtualized with a twenty second revert to baseline wiping everything and bringing us to a fresh Firefox 3.01 (for me) or IE7 (wife) every time.
The embedded units besides TiVo are on NetBeui only for the TV and another for iTunes library (that one read-only) with a frequently wiped netbeui file server for the TV content. How ya gonna route that spy data over Netbeui?
Anyone keeping a real machine for surfing should realize its just a bathroom rug accumulating gunk that anyone who sat in front of the screen ever visited (even by accident).
The host under the virtual doesn't even have network connectivity.
The only real machine left in the house is my gamer and sheer theory of potential botnets are why INSIDE THE HOUSE I make damn sure the gamer IN THE LIVING ROOM is HIBERNATED before doing anything.
The PBS piece with Click and Clack months ago and Tesla brought to light the major role IT folks had in that startup electric car.
Seems that all the magic is in the software that makes the batteries motor and charger do its best.
I think next year's Honda fuel cell Insight is a better idea (brew and tank your own HYDROGEN and OXYGEN from water + electricity when plugged in, then run all day with a "gas gauge" and no heavy batteries.
If Google would change its homepage to black it would save an incredible amount of energy on all those monitors displaying that ubiquitous screen.
Some really wierd things are going to happen...
... in the USA when the money runs dry for big government will have to turn on those who have it (corporations) for a change.
... the EU went on to actually pursue and reform Microsoft.
The original Microsoft anti-trust was brought by a Democratic President who got distracted by Monica-Gate and eager to please all in the aftermath
Should our government pursue cases on behalf of other corporations envious of other corporations?
Well, the lawyers are just following the money.
Reminds me of that day... when Britain tried to "float" the pound sterling and it dropped and dropped and dropped til US bailed its ally out with a big Fed cash infusion.
... its morning again in America if McCain comes in -- its back to America speaks softly and carry a big stick (to replace bush speaks loudly and carries no stick at all). But the light might be an on-coming trainwreck if Obama and the Pelosi republi-Crats who just legalized spying on their own citizens get in power (McCain did not vote for this) then its socialism for America and continued waning influence anywhere (even here).
... a re-emerging Russia under Putin.
The EU spirits are high from Bush bashing, so easy any child can do it. Now the US is about to undertake the massive bailouts of its mortgage industry no one will come to Britain's aid if they stumble right now.
No one will come to Polands, Czeck, Slovacks, Estonians, Lithuanians, and Latvians, just like no one came to aide Georgians.
A very dark winder will fall. The Russians are back and cash rich, and the Americans are no longer in a financial place to help anyone.
But there is light ahead
Europe step up and help us stabilize Iraq. Stop Bush-bashing and help us save the world from the real threat
After I virtualized way back in 2003 I discovered ... that if I built my own "sky" each "cloud" I deployed in its own virtual machine was very simple and easy to understand and maintain.
Just like Unix itself, which takes small working units and connects them together to make a complex whole, the "sky" is complex but each "cloud" is simple.
And makes it easy to deploy and move "clouds" to super-centers like the New Zealand data-center as it makes sense (speed, location, power, price) to do so.
Today Fedora Core + VMware's GNU solution (aka Vmware Server 1.x, formerly VMware GSX). Both are free. Virtual machines can run anything. No connectivity to the host, even put the firewall in a v.m. Runs fine on a dual Xeon P3 / 1.2GB ram and easy disk management using LVM. A backup (duplicate machine) gives me twelve clouds in my current sky playground.
Now that the spying bill is in place ... (thanks Obama and Pelosi and the republi-Crats she leads) its time to start using all the knowledge gained from recording and sifting thru what each and everyone of us is doing online.
First up, MICRO-PAYMENTS would relieve the world of DRM once and for all.
If the gov't (and corporations because we live in a fascist state since July 9) knows what you are doing why cannot they just pass along a bill for what "content" you have (now legally) "consumed".
Make it fair, say penny a song, nickel a movie, split over all the peers offering downloads on a per-download basis, and even a Comcast "hog" using his whole 250 gigabytes would have only a modest $10 tacked onto his bill for "file sharing".
Park a gun-boat off the shore of Venezuela.
Instant cheap gas again. Al Gore's head explodes in a puff of smoke from my Vortech Supercharger.
Remember folks, its an election year. Expensive gas makes for great FEAR UNCERTAINTY and DOUBT.
Think that our president is an OIL MAN. He is not doing what our country wants. He is doing his best to protect the US OIL COMPANIES since he will shortly go back and be one of them again.
Fear is a great tool. It makes people risk their lives (a friend just had his new motorcycle fall over on him breaking his toe to save gasoline).
The fuel cell Honda Insight next spring looks very promising. Charge from plug-in at night makes Hydrogen and Oxygen, runs all day using it up. Batteries are expensive, heavy, and toxic.
Fascist gov'ts drool... maybe this will finally be the chip that goes into our necks?
IT folks designing stuff that cannot be defeated remind me of the Nazi scientists and all those experiments Germany was so interested in that filled our nightmares in the 63 years since.
Why are they (maybe you?) helping them, hmmm?
... too lazy to RTFA but a simple:
... from a "linux rescue" prompt after booting and recent Linux CD or DVD will clear that pesky drive D: followed by a reboot to Windows and reformat to NTFS does just fine.
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda3 bs=512
Make sure you create a dummy partition between your boot C: drive and what later becomes D: because Linux and Windows are notorious for arguing over where that partition boundary is, hence "hda3" gets the third partition and its "sda3" if its a scsi hard drive.
And... don't save that pr0n forever. Whatareya a pre-vert?
And replace "Russia[or US]" with "Israel" and replace "Georgia[or Iraq]" with "Lebanon".
[ Looks back on Prague-smashed-by-Russian tanks-in-1968. ]
But the US left Iraq democratic and free (to do it wants after 2010. The US got no benefit from Iraq and a massive black eye. The Russians have a post-WW-II history of destroying everything they touch that makes Bush pale by comparison. Why give them a free pass in Georgia?
Time for HTTPS:// everywhere.
... forever???? Maybe.
... oh my!) is now legal for telecom (thanks Obama) to use inside the USA so politicians need cover by making sure you think everyone else wants to SPY to know what you are up to, too. Great political cover. We attack the Phorms and NebuAds and ignore the ENABLERs Pelosi & the republi-Crats she leads.
... at least then we know they are watching us (and likely not ALL of us LIKE THEY ARE DOING RIGHT NOW).
Back on July 9, Obama followed Pelosi's lead and legalized spying on Americans (which Bush had been doing since shortly after 9-11.
They aren't parking a van outside your house, folks, they are recording EVERYONE's web traffic and keeping it
The Narus suite of deep packet inspection spy gear (covert spying in Iraq
The game is called SELLING ADs. You know the do-not-call list? We need a do-not-spy list.
This is called HTTPS:// which makes it VERY CPU INTENSIVE for spy gear to decipher all our ramblings. Know it. Use it. Implement it so your web sites don't get tampered with on their way to the customer's browser.
Keep the NebuAds and Phorms of the world from recording your business is your own damn business and we need to use the tools and our heads.
If we wise up, the gov't will force us to give them (GOV'T, CIA, FBI) our encrpytion keys but that is the equivalent of a search warrant and we can keep changing them to keep them on their toes
Don't stay un-encrypted at the web server level or the browser we need to stop the SPYING now.
Sarah Palin ain't no Joe Biden. Side-show Joe I know very well from his 36 years in the Senate.
Joe Biden was arrogant and dismissive and went all "PHB" on a proud black woman with something to say in 1991 when Joe Biden chaired the committee in the Senate that got Clarence Thomas confirmed (as a favor to a Republican president, GeoHWBush.).
Thomas, after Biden voted for him, went on to decide the Florida 2000 Election that got the world Bush-II. Biden also got labeled (falsely?) as a woman-hater as the Thomas confirmation was the most contentious in Supreme Court history.
IT folks are people first. Joe fails that test. Sarah seems to be human, so she exceeds Joe Biden in that test, too.
I realize Slashdot ain't politcal but...... naked aggression in Georgia sickens me as a human being and an IT professional.
As a 3rd-generation Czech in America I fear that appeasing the Russian's will only bring disaster upon the heads. I hate Bush and Cheyney as much as the next American but Russia needs a response here.
Might label you a terrorist but pay-as-you-go (PAYG) cell phone is all I use now.
Switched in early 2006 to T-mobile and an indestructible nearly functionless Nokia 6010 available for free (no charge) so I "bought" four of them (one for my Dad when he was alive, my sister who dropped Verizon the moment her farm life realized she didn't need Verizon for anything anymore she loved it.
T-mobile's simple 1000 minutes for 100-dollars good for a year is all I use now. No fees and charges (what a joke all those monthly bills cause you to be someone's CASH COW).
You can give your phone away if you see someone needs it more than you do (this has happened to me) and for 100-bucks you have a new one back in your pocket.
No more worries about MY CELLPHONE IS LOST... who cares?
I received a $3600 bill from Verizon in 2005.
Synopsis: I bought Verizon wireless's Aircard to get on their 3G network in February 2003.
I stuck it in an old Thinkpad 600 running Linux and it was a DREAM at work I locked it in the overhead bin and stuck it on the network as my own private proxy. I could surf any web site without going thru the watchful eyes of the corporate firewall.
And I could connect to my home computer running Windows and leave all my stock market analysis tools at home for easy use from work.
Everything worked perfectly and I had a ping running 24/7 every 3 seconds to keep the Aircard connected. That worked fine until 2006 when I think someone must have out-sourced their billing to India because they sent me a $3600 bill for my wireless unlimited.
When I called they said I needed to upgrade the software on Windows. WHen I explained I wasn't using Windows they said that they would remove the charge but by then I grew bored with being online all the time and had figured out how to work from home anyway and was using it only to get back INTO the corporate network rather than out INTO home so I dropped it and laughed at the $80/month back in my wallet was THEIR LOSS.
Moral: I would still have it and be mindlessly paying $80/month and I am very glad this "billing error" made me realize I did not need to keep this nor did I need to be anywhere but home.
The job after 12 years went to Singapore later in 2006 and looking back I think people need to decide where they want to lead their lives and stay there and quit thinking somewhere else is more important. Wireless is great for latch-key kids to stay in touch with Mom, but Dad needed to be at home with the kids anyway.
THanks for the reply. I have been programming since assembler language on IBM 360 mainframes in 1981 and networking since I got the mainframe to drive little desktop PC printers in 1985. You know I hope that P2P lives forever : microTorrent is the smallest, fastest, most reliable program I have ever seen and it makes content distribution completely decentralized reliable and FAST and this is the best invention since Gutenberg and the invention of moveable type printing press.
When the law changes to allow micro-payments then we can all use micro-torrent to share anything. That day is so far in the future because much political cash can be wrought from the broken system we have now based on everyone stealing from everyone else from the politicians on down to the file sharers.
Its like pot smokers. Occasional use is expected and tolerated among teens but anyone who lives to smoke pot becomes a pot head and the rest of their life dries up as their other interests disappear one by one.
THanks for the reply. I am a late-comer to P2P getting here after Andrew Cuomo (yes the same one whose father Mario Cuomo decided in 1992 that Bush-I was un-beatable and did not run for president ... opening the door for Bill Clinton) as New York Attorney General shutdown nntp:// in June getting my ISP to drop it all together rather than police it.
P2P gets the ISP out of the middle. The gov't can now go directly after the file sharer. The only need for the ISP is to get the name after you have the IP address (see my original post, "Game Set Match").
Illegal content cannot hide behind anonymity much longer. THose days are past as USENET died the job of policing the newsgroup server left the ISP who never wanted it anyway and fell to each and every person who pays their ISP bill to get an IP address. If you are lucky enough not to pay the bill you can just get someone else in trouble.
The law only cares who is responsible is the name of the person paying the Internet bill for that IP address. So kiddies will indeed get Mom, Dad, and GrandMa in trouble. Its just a fact of life and will get you kicked out on your own trying to find Internet (or using the library) if you go up against authority ... (Mellencamp) authority always wins.
Thanks for replying. The DMCA passed years ago and it gives any content owner all the legal basis they need for a warrant. Its all going to be automated shortly and you will receive your "illegal file sharing" bill in the mail each month just like any other.
Or just give it up, the law in the US was changed on July 9 when Pelosi got Obama to hand Bush a "compromise" of an approved spying on Americans bill Bush was drooling over. McCain and Hillary did not approve and Hillary went so far as to vote against legal spying.
Who are they spying on? All of us in the US on major ISPs (see Narus suite, etc) dating back to 2005. Then they just comb back thru the logs from the past to see what they are interested in later. Fish in a barrel. Game Set Match.