BA has a history of obstructing ISPs becuase they view the ISP business as rightfully theirs. ISPs have seen obstruction in getting lines, poor quality lines and obstacles to getting problems fixed and even creating problems from scratch.
If you give in and buy DSL from BA, you reward them for the dastardly tactics they've used in the past.
It's unfortunate that you live in a BA service area as I do. My DSL installation is scheduled for Friday. Wish me luck.
Hmmm. I hope BA dosn't read this post before then. Anomalous: inconsistent with or deviating from what is usual, normal, or expected
This would work from a database POV (point of view), but not from a human communication point of view.
I think it's much less intrusive to have the ability to delete one's posts with the replies possibly lacking context than to give someone the power to delete an entire thread by removing all replies to their post.
If a few trolls drop a flame, garner replies and then yank their post, perhaps people will learn not to reply to trolls.
Anomalous: inconsistent with or deviating from what is usual, normal, or expected
Certainly home-buyers, especially us internet-savvy post-IPO-vested nouveau-riche, will decide which housing estate to look at based on positive reports about good connectivity. Housing developments that only offer AOL will soon find the money goes somewhere else.
Unless you're buying down at Geek Estates, you'll always be subject to what the homeowners association decides is best for the community. As soon as Sammy Spammer moves in next door and the community finds itself RBLed, there will be some action taken and you probably won't like the results.
I assume that the collective intelligence of a group is in inverse proportion to the size of the group. Thus it is practically guaranteed that the association will do something stupid in the future.
Anomalous: inconsistent with or deviating from what is usual, normal, or expected
This story shows a construction company that gets it. They are laying 2 conduits for fibre directly to each home in their estate, just like they now add connections for all the other utilities like electricity, gas, water and telephone. All that an internet provider has to do is lay a line out to this development, and tie into hundreds of waiting customers.
And then the homeowners association votes to accept the bid from AOL to provide Internet Services. Doh!
Anomalous: inconsistent with or deviating from what is usual, normal, or expected
Don't be silly. A means for someone to replace their post with a [This post has been deleted] notice would allow what has been requested without violating "referential integrity".
Anomalous: inconsistent with or deviating from what is usual, normal, or expected
I think that the check box should be used to get your' +1, i.e. the default is the normal posting level and, furthermore, that your karma should go down by 1 for each +1 bonus you give yourself.
Anomalous: inconsistent with or deviating from what is usual, normal, or expected
It's apparently fixed because I could not meta-moderate as of last week, but it didn't invite me to meta-mod (Have you M2ed today? -- does it still do that?). I had to go to metamod.pl myself.
Anomalous: inconsistent with or deviating from what is usual, normal, or expected
I'm sorry, I already have filed for the smell of my old undershirts as a trademark for my Eau de Love Long Day line of designer scents. You'll be hearing from my lawyers.
Anomalous: inconsistent with or deviating from what is usual, normal, or expected
More on point, you can be held responsible for yelling "Fire!" in a crowded theatre, but you can not be prevented from yelling it in the first place. Prior restraint is greatly discouraged by the Supreme Court.
Anomalous: inconsistent with or deviating from what is usual, normal, or expected
Patents are intellectual property, and the government has to pay whoever owns it if they take it away.
You are confusing intellectual property with real property. Patents and copyright are government granted licenses. They don't exist unless the government grants them. Like with any license, what the government can grant, the government can deny. The government grants licenses for people to extract ores from government property. The government can and does revoke those licenses (for cause). Governments license drivers, the courts routinely revoke drivers licenses for even minor transgressions.
Copyright and patent are monopolies granted and guaranteed by federal law. A federal court *clearly and certainly* has authority to to strip these monopolies or to declare them void. Courts invalidate patents all of the time.
Anomalous: inconsistent with or deviating from what is usual, normal, or expected
Somebody please mdoerate this piece of drive down as overrated?
This is a major firewall product. This major firewall product comes with trial software that creates a hole in the one feature which is the only reason to buy the product. It is a major gaffe and is newsworthy. The fact that it involves Censorware is merely additional irony.
Anomalous: inconsistent with or deviating from what is usual, normal, or expected
While many of the libertarians on/. (including myself) may see the merit of the "code is free speech" defense, the fact is that it has little legal merit.
I'm not a libertarian, but the code==speech has a great deal of legal merit. It has precedent in two different circuit courts (though not the circuit that the DeCSS case was filed in).
Free Speech dosn't shield you from the effects your speech has ergo the "Fire in a theatre" canonical example. But it should shield you from prior restraint of speech in all but the most extreme situations. The judge realizes the speech implications of the case and has moved up the trial date from December to June or July. The preliminary injunction should also be lifted for this very reason. That motion has not been heard yet.
Anomalous: inconsistent with or deviating from what is usual, normal, or expected
He's right, but in an intuitive and not a rigorous way. You're right in a more rigorous way (Where are the epsilons and deltas, man?!? That's how to "do" limits! Or Cauchy sequences, even!!;^)
Recognize the same fundamental truth underlying your two different expressions of it.
Anomalous: inconsistent with or deviating from what is usual, normal, or expected
for ordinary users to compile kernels and install new releases.
It's a magnificent pain in the ass. Get the right compiler and new version of the utilities and make sure all of them are built and properly installed just to find that, say the VM system is still being balanced and the kernel can't be used for useful work right now.
It's necessary if you want to contribute to testing the new kernel. It's necessary if you have hardware thiat is wither not or poorly supported in stable releases of the kernel.
But the vast majority of people can get along with their old kernels (perhaps with minor version upgrades i.e. 2.2.5->2.2.15) and wait until the distribution maintainers release a new kernel version to upgrade.
Anomalous: inconsistent with or deviating from what is usual, normal, or expected
Good, now we can keep that Blue Sky Mars kook^H^H^H^Hguy busy reprocessing all of the images to show how Mars is the Solar System's best vacation spot.
Anomalous: inconsistent with or deviating from what is usual, normal, or expected
Slashdot Mirror
Corporate ethics and "maximizing shareholder value" being the what they are, I recommend against it.
Anomalous: inconsistent with or deviating from what is usual, normal, or expected
Because they study!
On Bell Atlantic's purchase cirle at amazon.com:
#5. TCP/IP for Dummies and
#6. DSL for Dummies
Anomalous: inconsistent with or deviating from what is usual, normal, or expected
Oh, and not to mention the brain-dead PPPoE setup they make you use.
My Northpoint-provisioned xDSL will have a static IP, no PPPoE foolishness, my ISP also includes PPP backup for the $65/mo charge.
Anomalous: inconsistent with or deviating from what is usual, normal, or expected
BA has a history of obstructing ISPs becuase they view the ISP business as rightfully theirs. ISPs have seen obstruction in getting lines, poor quality lines and obstacles to getting problems fixed and even creating problems from scratch.
If you give in and buy DSL from BA, you reward them for the dastardly tactics they've used in the past.
It's unfortunate that you live in a BA service area as I do. My DSL installation is scheduled for Friday. Wish me luck.
Hmmm. I hope BA dosn't read this post before then.
Anomalous: inconsistent with or deviating from what is usual, normal, or expected
This system belongs to Roy Murphy. If found, please call (xxx)xxx-xxxx. Reward offered.
Anomalous: inconsistent with or deviating from what is usual, normal, or expected
This would work from a database POV (point of view), but not from a human communication point of view.
I think it's much less intrusive to have the ability to delete one's posts with the replies possibly lacking context than to give someone the power to delete an entire thread by removing all replies to their post.
If a few trolls drop a flame, garner replies and then yank their post, perhaps people will learn not to reply to trolls.
Anomalous: inconsistent with or deviating from what is usual, normal, or expected
Certainly home-buyers, especially us internet-savvy post-IPO-vested nouveau-riche, will decide which housing estate to look at based on positive reports about good connectivity. Housing developments that only offer AOL will soon find the money goes somewhere else.
Unless you're buying down at Geek Estates, you'll
always be subject to what the homeowners association decides is best for the community. As soon as Sammy Spammer moves in next door and the community finds itself RBLed, there will be some action taken and you probably won't like the results.
I assume that the collective intelligence of a group is in inverse proportion to the size of the group. Thus it is practically guaranteed that the association will do something stupid in the future.
Anomalous: inconsistent with or deviating from what is usual, normal, or expected
This story shows a construction company that gets it. They are laying 2 conduits for fibre directly to each home in their estate, just like they now add connections for all the other utilities like electricity, gas, water and telephone. All that an internet provider has to do is lay a line out to this development, and tie into hundreds of waiting customers.
And then the homeowners association votes to accept the bid from AOL to provide Internet Services. Doh!
Anomalous: inconsistent with or deviating from what is usual, normal, or expected
Don't bother putting up a page unless you can do better than Ars Technica's Physical Home Networking Guide.
Anomalous: inconsistent with or deviating from what is usual, normal, or expected
Don't be silly. A means for someone to replace their post with a [This post has been deleted] notice would allow what has been requested without violating "referential integrity".
Anomalous: inconsistent with or deviating from what is usual, normal, or expected
I think that the check box should be used to get your' +1, i.e. the default is the normal posting level and, furthermore, that your karma should go down by 1 for each +1 bonus you give yourself.
Anomalous: inconsistent with or deviating from what is usual, normal, or expected
It's apparently fixed because I could not meta-moderate as of last week, but it didn't invite me to meta-mod (Have you M2ed today? -- does it still do that?). I had to go to metamod.pl myself.
Anomalous: inconsistent with or deviating from what is usual, normal, or expected
I note your email domain (netscape.net)
t .com
netscape.net:netscape.com::hotmail.com:microsof
i.e. it's a webmail service. He's not speaking as a Netscape employee just as a hotmail.com address dosn't speak for Microsoft.
Anomalous: inconsistent with or deviating from what is usual, normal, or expected
I'm sorry, I already have filed for the smell of my old undershirts as a trademark for my Eau de Love Long Day line of designer scents. You'll be hearing from my lawyers.
Anomalous: inconsistent with or deviating from what is usual, normal, or expected
More on point, you can be held responsible for yelling "Fire!" in a crowded theatre, but you can not be prevented from yelling it in the first place. Prior restraint is greatly discouraged by the Supreme Court.
Anomalous: inconsistent with or deviating from what is usual, normal, or expected
Patents are intellectual property, and the government has to pay whoever owns it if they take it away.
You are confusing intellectual property with real property. Patents and copyright are government granted licenses. They don't exist unless the government grants them. Like with any license, what the government can grant, the government can deny. The government grants licenses for people to extract ores from government property. The government can and does revoke those licenses (for cause). Governments license drivers, the courts routinely revoke drivers licenses for even minor transgressions.
Copyright and patent are monopolies granted and guaranteed by federal law. A federal court *clearly and certainly* has authority to to strip these monopolies or to declare them void. Courts invalidate patents all of the time.
Anomalous: inconsistent with or deviating from what is usual, normal, or expected
Yes, the meta-mod bug looks like it's fixed.
If you have never meta-moderated, go to http://slashdot.org/metamod.pl and get in on the fun.
Anomalous: inconsistent with or deviating from what is usual, normal, or expected
Somebody please mdoerate this piece of drive down
as overrated?
This is a major firewall product. This major firewall product comes with trial software that creates a hole in the one feature which is the only reason to buy the product. It is a major gaffe and is newsworthy. The fact that it involves Censorware is merely additional irony.
Anomalous: inconsistent with or deviating from what is usual, normal, or expected
While many of the libertarians on /. (including myself) may see the merit of the "code is free speech" defense, the fact is that it has little legal merit.
I'm not a libertarian, but the code==speech has a great deal of legal merit. It has precedent in two different circuit courts (though not the circuit that the DeCSS case was filed in).
Free Speech dosn't shield you from the effects your speech has ergo the "Fire in a theatre" canonical example. But it should shield you from prior restraint of speech in all but the most extreme situations. The judge realizes the speech implications of the case and has moved up the trial date from December to June or July. The preliminary injunction should also be lifted for this very reason. That motion has not been heard yet.
Anomalous: inconsistent with or deviating from what is usual, normal, or expected
He's right, but in an intuitive and not a rigorous way. You're right in a more rigorous way (Where are the epsilons and deltas, man?!? That's how to "do" limits! Or Cauchy sequences, even!! ;^)
Recognize the same fundamental truth underlying your two different expressions of it.
Anomalous: inconsistent with or deviating from what is usual, normal, or expected
--- 2.2/include/linux/vesion.h Thu Apr 27 11:27:26 2000
+++ 2.4/include/linux/version.h Thu May 25 10:08:04 2000
-#define UTS_RELEASE "2.2.16"
+#define UTS_RELEASE "2.4.0"
+/*Woo hoo!*/
Anomalous: inconsistent with or deviating from what is usual, normal, or expected
for ordinary users to compile kernels and install new releases.
It's a magnificent pain in the ass. Get the right compiler and new version of the utilities and make sure all of them are built and properly installed just to find that, say the VM system is still being balanced and the kernel can't be used for useful work right now.
It's necessary if you want to contribute to testing the new kernel. It's necessary if you have hardware thiat is wither not or poorly supported in stable releases of the kernel.
But the vast majority of people can get along with their old kernels (perhaps with minor version upgrades i.e. 2.2.5->2.2.15) and wait until the distribution maintainers release a new kernel version to upgrade.
Anomalous: inconsistent with or deviating from what is usual, normal, or expected
The patent falls under the laws for eminent domain, so the government would have to pay Microsoft to take thier patent away.
Bullshit. Patent and copyright are government granted monopolies. What the government can grant, the government can take away with due process.
The US government can not revoke their corporate charter. That is granted by the state of Washington (probably).
Anomalous: inconsistent with or deviating from what is usual, normal, or expected
Aureal management:I'm not dead *yet*!
Oh, but you will be soon.
Aureal management:I'm feeling better!
Anomalous: inconsistent with or deviating from what is usual, normal, or expected
Good, now we can keep that Blue Sky Mars kook^H^H^H^Hguy busy reprocessing all of the images to show how Mars is the Solar System's best vacation spot.
Anomalous: inconsistent with or deviating from what is usual, normal, or expected