My SprintPCS phone has an option to disallow roaming. If I ever leave a spint service area, I'll know it.
If I really feel the need, I can then enable roaming.
Yeah, it means the call I was on would be dropped, but I would prefer that instead of a bunch of unexpected roaming charges.
Two people talking face-to-face usually do so in a reasonable voice. If they get too loud, people around tell them to quiet down.
People talking on a phone tend to speak a lot louder that normal and disturb everyone around. For some reason, it is considered very rude to ask someone on the phone to quiet down.
People talking on the phone in a reasonable voice do not bother me at all. I hardly even notice them. Generally, when someone bothers me by talking really loudly, sometimes they have a hearing aid, but almost always anymore it is someone talking on a cell phone.
And don't even get me started on the damned annoying ringing all the time, especially when people won't answer their phone AND won't turn the damned thing off.
I recall a cartoon of "Alice in Wonderland" with a caterpillar sitting on a mushroom smoking something, and when he asked Alice "Who are you?" the smoke formed "Who R U".
Don't blame IRC or IM for this kind of word shortening. This practice is older than computers.
I have no idea how "l33t sp33k" came about, but I've always thought it was, at least partly, to get around the automatic filters on a lot of mail/IM/IRC sites. If the computer can't match it with a disallowed word, then it can get through, and people can still figure out what you meant.
I don't think *any* corporation has a problem with fan sites that are put together as a resource or community for their subject matter. Most of them are even generous about letting them use their IP.
Maybe you should go read
Taubman Sucks! about a fansite for a local shoping mall in Texas.
In the United States,
sugar isn't used much in soda anymore.
It's all made with corn syrup, which
is even cheaper than sugar.
I don't know when the soda makers
switched to corn syrup, but I think
I recall hearing it was sometime in
the 70's.
When I lived in Dallas a couple
years ago, there was a restaurant that
imported Dr. Pepper from Mexico because
it is made with sugar instead of corn syrup.
I was very surprised at the difference in taste.
The sugar version is ten times better.
Y^eah, I was just out there last week. That drove me crazy, always having to shift over a lane because the lane I was in turned into a right turn only lane with NO warning, not even a sign on the side saying "Right lane must turn right". All the warning you get are a bunch of arrows painted on the street just before the turn; the only way you can see those from any distance is if nobody is in front of you. It wasn't long before I just started avoiding the right lane altogether. The speeders had to pass me on the right, but I was no longer swerving left every time the right lane wanted to turn without reasonable warning.
Since I'm on a roll right now, I'll just throw in my complaint that FCC regulation and sale of the EM spectrum does not appear to go
into the visible. Wouldn't you rather that lighted billboards pay for the privilege of radiating into the environment?
Oooh, I want to buy the section of the EM spectrum commonly known as "red". I will not license that out to anybody. Finally, no more red neon bars, no more red anywhere in any advertising. Hmm, maybe this will mean no more red lights even (or at least I will make a hefty chunk of change for traffic lights).:)
That's not the point. The point is there Kali did no more to prevent pirate players than bnetd does. In fact, just from how it worked, Kali could NOT do anything to prevent pirate players from playing. At least bnetd CAN, IF Blizzard would provide a method for authenticating the CD-KEY. Of course, people could still disable that part when they download the source code, but it would still be more than Kali could even attempt to do.
www.kali.net allows IPX LAN games over the internet. It works. That's how my friends and I played WarCraft I and II. That's how we played StarCraft for a while after Blizzard's BattleNet server went to crap and before we discovered bnetd. There is no BattleNet authentication performed there. bnetd is NOT the only way for pirates to play, it is just an easier way. Just as it is an easier way for legitimate players to play.
If there were a Linux client - and to my knowledge there are no Linux version of any Blizzard games - they would have no problem playing on Blizzard's main server, assuming they had a valid CD key.
Yes, they would, for the very same reason I have problems playing on Blizzard's BattleNet servers with a windows client. Their BattleNet servers are overloaded, full of spamming jerks, and are completely unusable for any group of people trying to play a game together.
That is why my friends and I setup our own bnetd server.
When we login to our own server, we can actually find each other. We can all join the game that someone creates. We don't get incessant messages while we are playing: to join a clan, visit a site, or make money fast.
We all have legitimate copies of the game. Blizzard made their money from us. Let us play the game.
I've been looking (when not otherwise distracted) for a good search engine for my documents on my home network, on a linux server. So far, I haven't found anything I've liked (or that even seemed to work very well).
I would like to find a search engine that will index:
text files
html files
PDF files
names of binary files
Unfortunately, I am not able to spend much to purchase such a search engine (say $20, not $20K). This would be for my personal use, not for any kind of commercial use, and would not be funded except by my anemic hobby budget.
The Declaration of Independence goes something like "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights" and so on.
Between that and the U.S. Constitution, these supposedly "natural" and "unalienable" rights are specified. These are rights that the people ordered the government to grant to the people. These are the rights the government was created to protect for the people.
The only things preventing the government from taking these rights away are a few pieces of paper, the morals of the people in government, and an armed populace. (Though I strongly doubt the ability of the armed populace to successfully prevent the government from doing anything, considering how much better the military is armed.)
In other words, the only things special about those rights are that we have a document stating that they are special rights. The government is doing a very good job at severely limiting many of these rights, one tiny step at a time, and most of the people don't seem to notice or care.
There are other rights I think should be a special as these, but because they are not listed in a couple of ancient documents, they will never be held to be as special.
From the license terms of the CD: You may not authorize, encourage or allow the Player or any Content to be reproduced, modified, displayed, distributed or otherwise used by any other party
This sounds to be like you are not allowed to
let anyone other than yourself use the CD in any
way. If you are playing the CD yourself, and
someone else walks into the room and hears it,
does that count?
From their tech support page:
To listen to the CD on your PC, use the media player included in the CD.
None of the CDs I currently own have media
player software included on the CD. Are the copy-
protected CDs shipping with software on them?
If so, can I really trust their software?
What if I want to use my own media player, such as winamp?
3.Can I listen to the songs from this CD on my MP3 player?
As with all computer software there may be incompatibilities with some computer systems.
The CD is designed to play on PCs.
The current version of the copy-protection technology does not allow you to copy files from the CD into MP3 format.
UMG is currently making every effort possible to upgrade our available technology to add new features and increase playability.
If they're are working to make it possible to
rip the songs to MP3 to be copied onto an MP3
player, what's the point of the copy-protection in the first place? First, they add copy-protection, then they plan to add even more features to work around the copy-protection.
Of course, their answer didn't really say this is what they are working toward,
but it sure seems to be trying to imply it.
Yes, with your freedom of speech you have the right to utter it. You then have the
responsibility to "suffer the consequences" of
your speech.
Just as you are not banned from yelling "fire!"
in a crowded theater. There is no law saying you are not allowed to do so. What you'll get arrested for is something like "inciting a riot" or "reckless endangerment" or something. Unless of course there really was a fire. You are not prohibited from speaking the words, but you will have to suffer any consequences of doing so.
An IP number is a 32-bit binary number.
It can be represented in the familiar
dotted-decimal format.
It can be represented as a hex number.
It can even be represented as a huge decimal
number. Take your pick. If you convert the
dotted decimal to a regular decimal number
(and that isn't just taking out the dots
and stringing the numbers together), and type
that into your browser, you will get to the
same destination as the dotted-decimal number.
I don't know if the browsers will behave the
same if you enter it in hex, though.
Maybe if the universities actually concentrated on
teaching the students, more people would see them
as useful and worth spending taxes on. As it is,
I see most universities as sports & research
machines with the idea of actually teaching
students being a necessary evil.
I did actually have a few teachers who were
interested in teaching, but the majority seemed
to view teaching as an interruption of their
real job. And sports, especially football, seemed
to be the center of the world, with every other
concern taking second place to it.
If my current ISPs name servers worked reliably and regularly, I would never
have bothered to setup my own. If my current ISPs news
servers worked (over half the articles were corrupted, and the rest expired after only a day or two), I wouldn't be paying for a
subscription to a commercial news feed.
As for email, I setup my own server
(and bought my own domain)
because I got tired of announcing email address
changes every 6 months as ISPs went out of
business or were bought out.
I went for over a year trying to get my ISP to
fix their services before I gave up and setup
my own.
Talking to support over email or web forms
only resulted in form letters which usually
had no relevance to the questions or problems
I submitted. Talking to support over the phone
only confirmed that my settings were correct
and prompted a lot of unnecessary reboots
which didn't resolve anything. It's really
hard to get them to fix a problem when they
won't even admit there is a problem.
Since I have to provide my own services in order
to get working and reliables services, why should
my rates reflect the fact that they are (supposedly) providing these services?
It may be easier, but Southwestern Bell
Internet Services needs to find someone
who knows what they're doing to run it
for them. SBIS's news server is a joke.
There are plenty of open and/or for-pay
news servers/feeds out there. I don't
use my ISP's news server (because it's
worthless); why should my rates stay
high for them to be able to say they are
providing a news server? If they would
do it right, and allocates the resources
needed to do it right (such as more drive
space), then maybe it would be worth it.
All I want is the connection
on
Broadband Obstacles
·
· Score: 5, Interesting
I wish the big bells (and all the other DSL
providers and ISPs) could get it through
their heads that all I want is the connectivity,
not all the extra services.
Give me the wire and a static IP address,
and no blocking of services.
Give me the basics and throw out the fluff.
I don't need them to provide DNS, mail, spam,
news, a web portal, etc. I can provide or find
all of that I want on my own.
Offer me just that and for a reasonably low
price, and I'll be happy. This would negate much
of their costs, including tech support.
Are there any laws forcing the site to follow its stated policy?
Truth-in-advertising types of laws, implied contracts,...
If so, are those laws enforcible?
If you have deep-enough pockets, then there's
a good chance they're enforcable. Otherwise
they can run roughshod over you, and there's
nothing you can (afford to) do about it.
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My SprintPCS phone has an option to disallow roaming. If I ever leave a spint service area, I'll know it. If I really feel the need, I can then enable roaming. Yeah, it means the call I was on would be dropped, but I would prefer that instead of a bunch of unexpected roaming charges.
People talking on a phone tend to speak a lot louder that normal and disturb everyone around. For some reason, it is considered very rude to ask someone on the phone to quiet down.
People talking on the phone in a reasonable voice do not bother me at all. I hardly even notice them. Generally, when someone bothers me by talking really loudly, sometimes they have a hearing aid, but almost always anymore it is someone talking on a cell phone.
And don't even get me started on the damned annoying ringing all the time, especially when people won't answer their phone AND won't turn the damned thing off.
Don't blame IRC or IM for this kind of word shortening. This practice is older than computers.
I have no idea how "l33t sp33k" came about, but I've always thought it was, at least partly, to get around the automatic filters on a lot of mail/IM/IRC sites. If the computer can't match it with a disallowed word, then it can get through, and people can still figure out what you meant.
Maybe you should go read Taubman Sucks! about a fansite for a local shoping mall in Texas.
When I lived in Dallas a couple years ago, there was a restaurant that imported Dr. Pepper from Mexico because it is made with sugar instead of corn syrup. I was very surprised at the difference in taste. The sugar version is ten times better.
Y^eah, I was just out there last week. That drove me crazy, always having to shift over a lane because the lane I was in turned into a right turn only lane with NO warning, not even a sign on the side saying "Right lane must turn right". All the warning you get are a bunch of arrows painted on the street just before the turn; the only way you can see those from any distance is if nobody is in front of you. It wasn't long before I just started avoiding the right lane altogether. The speeders had to pass me on the right, but I was no longer swerving left every time the right lane wanted to turn without reasonable warning.
Get an encyclopedia. A troll is a mythological creature. By the way, I couldn't find your definition of troll at either www.dictionary.com or www.webster.com. What dictionary were you looking at?
Number two encourages readers to not read the books (assuming there is some way the author could enforce it)
Oooh, I want to buy the section of the EM spectrum commonly known as "red". I will not license that out to anybody. Finally, no more red neon bars, no more red anywhere in any advertising. Hmm, maybe this will mean no more red lights even (or at least I will make a hefty chunk of change for traffic lights). :)
That's not the point. The point is there Kali did no more to prevent pirate players than bnetd does. In fact, just from how it worked, Kali could NOT do anything to prevent pirate players from playing. At least bnetd CAN, IF Blizzard would provide a method for authenticating the CD-KEY. Of course, people could still disable that part when they download the source code, but it would still be more than Kali could even attempt to do.
www.kali.net allows IPX LAN games over the internet. It works. That's how my friends and I played WarCraft I and II. That's how we played StarCraft for a while after Blizzard's BattleNet server went to crap and before we discovered bnetd. There is no BattleNet authentication performed there. bnetd is NOT the only way for pirates to play, it is just an easier way. Just as it is an easier way for legitimate players to play.
Yes, they would, for the very same reason I have problems playing on Blizzard's BattleNet servers with a windows client. Their BattleNet servers are overloaded, full of spamming jerks, and are completely unusable for any group of people trying to play a game together.
That is why my friends and I setup our own bnetd server. When we login to our own server, we can actually find each other. We can all join the game that someone creates. We don't get incessant messages while we are playing: to join a clan, visit a site, or make money fast.
We all have legitimate copies of the game. Blizzard made their money from us. Let us play the game.
I would like to find a search engine that will index:
- text files
- html files
- PDF files
- names of binary files
Unfortunately, I am not able to spend much to purchase such a search engine (say $20, not $20K). This would be for my personal use, not for any kind of commercial use, and would not be funded except by my anemic hobby budget.Does anybody have any recommendations?
Between that and the U.S. Constitution, these supposedly "natural" and "unalienable" rights are specified. These are rights that the people ordered the government to grant to the people. These are the rights the government was created to protect for the people.
The only things preventing the government from taking these rights away are a few pieces of paper, the morals of the people in government, and an armed populace. (Though I strongly doubt the ability of the armed populace to successfully prevent the government from doing anything, considering how much better the military is armed.)
In other words, the only things special about those rights are that we have a document stating that they are special rights. The government is doing a very good job at severely limiting many of these rights, one tiny step at a time, and most of the people don't seem to notice or care.
There are other rights I think should be a special as these, but because they are not listed in a couple of ancient documents, they will never be held to be as special.
You may not authorize, encourage or allow the Player or any Content to be reproduced, modified, displayed, distributed or otherwise used by any other party
This sounds to be like you are not allowed to let anyone other than yourself use the CD in any way. If you are playing the CD yourself, and someone else walks into the room and hears it, does that count?
To listen to the CD on your PC, use the media player included in the CD.
None of the CDs I currently own have media player software included on the CD. Are the copy- protected CDs shipping with software on them? If so, can I really trust their software? What if I want to use my own media player, such as winamp?
If they're are working to make it possible to rip the songs to MP3 to be copied onto an MP3 player, what's the point of the copy-protection in the first place? First, they add copy-protection, then they plan to add even more features to work around the copy-protection.
Of course, their answer didn't really say this is what they are working toward, but it sure seems to be trying to imply it.
Just as you are not banned from yelling "fire!" in a crowded theater. There is no law saying you are not allowed to do so. What you'll get arrested for is something like "inciting a riot" or "reckless endangerment" or something. Unless of course there really was a fire. You are not prohibited from speaking the words, but you will have to suffer any consequences of doing so.
for an example, see this page on decimal URLs
An IP number is a 32-bit binary number. It can be represented in the familiar dotted-decimal format. It can be represented as a hex number. It can even be represented as a huge decimal number. Take your pick. If you convert the dotted decimal to a regular decimal number (and that isn't just taking out the dots and stringing the numbers together), and type that into your browser, you will get to the same destination as the dotted-decimal number. I don't know if the browsers will behave the same if you enter it in hex, though.
I did actually have a few teachers who were interested in teaching, but the majority seemed to view teaching as an interruption of their real job. And sports, especially football, seemed to be the center of the world, with every other concern taking second place to it.
I went for over a year trying to get my ISP to fix their services before I gave up and setup my own. Talking to support over email or web forms only resulted in form letters which usually had no relevance to the questions or problems I submitted. Talking to support over the phone only confirmed that my settings were correct and prompted a lot of unnecessary reboots which didn't resolve anything. It's really hard to get them to fix a problem when they won't even admit there is a problem.
Since I have to provide my own services in order to get working and reliables services, why should my rates reflect the fact that they are (supposedly) providing these services?
It may be easier, but Southwestern Bell Internet Services needs to find someone who knows what they're doing to run it for them. SBIS's news server is a joke. There are plenty of open and/or for-pay news servers/feeds out there. I don't use my ISP's news server (because it's worthless); why should my rates stay high for them to be able to say they are providing a news server? If they would do it right, and allocates the resources needed to do it right (such as more drive space), then maybe it would be worth it.
I wish the big bells (and all the other DSL providers and ISPs) could get it through their heads that all I want is the connectivity, not all the extra services. Give me the wire and a static IP address, and no blocking of services. Give me the basics and throw out the fluff. I don't need them to provide DNS, mail, spam, news, a web portal, etc. I can provide or find all of that I want on my own. Offer me just that and for a reasonably low price, and I'll be happy. This would negate much of their costs, including tech support.
Truth-in-advertising types of laws, implied contracts, ...
If so, are those laws enforcible?
If you have deep-enough pockets, then there's a good chance they're enforcable. Otherwise they can run roughshod over you, and there's nothing you can (afford to) do about it.