Too bad, so sad. So I trust that the qwest subscribers will have to click-through the new privacy agreements with MSN. Or will they just be bound to it by the transition gods? Mmmmm. Yummy Passport. Tastes great, but leaves a greasy stain on your soul.
So will the DoJ wait until after MS owns the entire North American ISP business or just the top 10%?
What are you talking about ? Have you ever been schooled on NT permissions before?
We aren't talking about NT or 2K here. This is related to XP, which has all the security benefits of Win9x. Everyone is root. The power switch is the security button. Pull your nose out of your Cosco special MSCE bundle books grab some fresh air. The simple point of the fact is that most consumers don't understand security. Period. That would make Windows too difficult.
How many times have you heard your neighbors say:
"Oh I don't need security. Nothing on my computer is that importatnt."
"Why do I have to click through so many warnings just so I can view this attachment?"
"Why can't they just stop writing these viruses"
"Can I have my lawnmower back?"
Yes, you've been schooled. Better learn some stuff before you show your face here again
Schooling as you refer to it is the ROOT of the problem here. Just because you are MS certified, it does not mean you know shot about networks. The technology is only 49% of the equation. 51% of what you do is based upon the policies you implement. The fact that you posted as an A/C further weakens your stance.
Cringely is the guy who took his three week's pay from Woz and Jobs and then left the garage, rather than take a percentage of Apple Computer instead. It was a colossal lack of vision and now his only claim to fame is as a journalist that knew most of the influential people in the Valley.
He did do a couple of well-done specials for PBS (Nerds 2.0.1 - A brief History of the Internet, and Triumph of the Nerds) that even my dad could understand. While this was good work, it doesn't make up for his histroical lack of insight. Browse his stuff over at PBS in the archive to see his track record.
How much more content is there to put through the pipe? How much can you possibly watch in one week? (No mathematical proofs please) Any programming whose content is restricted to be used solely in the time slots they were 'designed for' will be replaced by somthing else. It's not like the old days when consumers and broadcasters were limited to 13 channels plus UHF(giggle). There are already lots of new production companies with specialized or thematic approaches to content. Now of course what will really suck is that when the wizards have achieved 10,000 channels, Disney, AOL/Time-Warner, and The Survivor Network have licensing over 9,987 of them.
And for the last time - can we please not use the term intellectual property when discussing television production?
Yep there's a lot of assholes around here, but I don't think Mr. Dillon is one of 'em.
The car radio consumes power. Period. However negligible it may appear to be compared to a 300 cu. in. motor, it still comsumes power.
For example let's look at your basic AM/FM car radio rated at a mere 5 watts. It takes energy for the circuitry in the radio to generate a signal to drive the speakers to create the noise. Where does it get the 5 watts? From the alternator. Where does the alternator get it's power? From the mechanical energy provided by the motor. Let's hook up a thousand 5 watt radios to your car and see if the alternator can sustain that load. You will most certainly consume more chemical energy (gasoline) to maintain that load. Drive around town with your A/C on full time and tell me that your gas mileage doesn't completely suck.
By saying that "the power would have been sent to ground" is complete bullshit. Unless there is a load between the source and ground, no work is done and no energy is consumed.
I guess we're dealing with the same type of person here who will tell you that "heat rises" or that "it'll be 60 below with the windchill factor tonight. You'd better be sure your antifreeze can handle at least 70 below."
I think the magnet on your forehead is on too tight.
Yeah I caught that bit of nonsense. Not too surprised, but the mention of licensing or 'other forms of compensation' (kneecapping?) was almost offered as a challenge. Are they gonna sue doubleclick? Amazon? Yahoo? Google?
"Woid on da street is dat da clowns over at Yahoo are makin coin on our intellectual properties"
"Ya wants I should have dem, uh, 'repartitioned' boss?"
So Michael is probing the crowd for some sympathy for for a load of malcontents who have chosen to work outside the democratic process to get their point (do they have one?) across. There's no doubt it will lead to something productive; it will polarize the popular opinion against their cause (do they have one?). Terrorism is an act of pure cowardice and is best left to the tantrums of a five-year-old child. It is not a foundation for a political movement.
They rant against totalitarianism only to replace it with their own brand of the same thing. 'Their way' is better and anybody who chooses to disagree will be firebombed into submission.
Scientific 'Merican (or was it The Sciences - NYAS) had a piece about this problem about.. geeps 7 to 10 years ago. The Shrike Palace would be a good model. The real problem is longevity. How do you build something that will last at least as long as the half-life of the material (10K years?). You also must be able to communicate that the contents are dangerous. Sounds easy enough, but how many people can read languages more than 2000 years old now? It should at least have an MS Bob interface. Now was that really a MS bash?
Id software has filed a defamation of character suit against CNN claiming they were "totally misrepresented" in a story linking them to a regional shake-up in China.
In a related story China is now promoting a defensive strategy in order to curtail further attacks.
Yeah, annoying pop-up ads were so successful on MaximumPC and MaximumLinux. The best way to keep readers is to annoy the hell out of them? Sure you can place a dollar value per square inch for your content display, but it may be short-sighted if readership or sales are hurt by it. Like grandpa said, "Twenty percent of nothing is still nothing"
Maybe content generators should be looking at a more realistic business model while advertising sales depatments revalue the rates for advertisers. It's not like there are FEWER eyeballs on the WWW every year.
How about spending less money on chrome and fin development (read: Flash, streaming, shitty asp/java deployment)?
Pop-ups are the equivalent of those annoying consumer electronics mega-store salespeople; they are loud, annoying, abusive, and provide little information. Not to mention the greasy stain they leave on your immortal soul.
I know of a 'Regional Health District' that had all database users with 'admin' access. Everybody used the same account and there was no way to authenticate any individual user. The regional district was responsible for the hospital administration for about a million people. Hire a temp for the day? Give them the admin password... THAT was scary. That was late 1997 and I hope it's been fixed.
If I recall correctly compressed air may be a clean method of storing energy (provided that the compressor equipment is 'clean') but it is not very efficient method of energy delivery. Something to do with the amount of heat generated by the compressor and the diminished return of energy as the pressure drops. An industrial engineer could probably fill in the blanks for me...
Royal Bank's web services for banking work fine under Netscape/SuSE linux (I haven't tried the online investing). I was on support.dell.com the other day digging for info I needed to resurrect an old box and was annoyed to find that while the server was digging for my query all my other browser windows hung in various states of nothingness while the.asp loads/not loads. Not nice.
Whenever I hear "Hi this is Shmoe calling from Annoythehellouttame Company..." I pass the phone to the 2-year-old in the house and get back to whatever I was doing bofore. The entertainment value is good, although it does tie up the phone line. If the youngun is too pre-occupied to play with the phone I'll usually just plunk the phone in front of the TV.
Wow - the Curse free rig is back. I saw a network news blurb over the holiday season about that thing. Can I get one or hack one to filter my Sunday morning viewing content so I don't get Pat Robertson trying to convert me from my radical agnostic ways whilst channel bumping?
I also couldn't help but notice that the unit will filter "Televsion, Video, and DVD" Filtering DVD!? Isn't that like altering CONTENT? No word on what the 100 or so filtered words might be but maybe I could get an old George Carlin LP from eBay to get me started. Also I'd like to see other religious versions out on the market - one that would filter out things like holy cow.
How about it - let's try and see how many uses we can find for an altered CurseFree rig, like some fun filter items to replace with a meaning of your choice;
all the really bad 'dot-com' ads - (easy pickings with closed captioning)
Up in Canada we've got a GSM provider (Fido/Microcell)which also offers AMPS fallback. IMO the call quality is far superior to other digital networks, and of course analog networks. The other party is usually suprised when I tell them I'm on a mobile phone. Real text messaging, and handset email services via SMS, and good data services.
There's nothing magical about the reception as it still falls into the same limits of any radio technology. As mentioned in the previous post - coverage is king and if you can't get a 10 or 30 day trial from a vendor then you probably wouldn't want to deal with them. However shrewd shoppers could have picked up a bargain sattelite network last week, like new - hardly used!
As for handsets I would only buy a Nokia. My 6190 has been through hell and after a new faceplate looks pretty good (YMMV). But you should not worry about handsets until you find a good contract (or better - no contract) and service for the areas you frequent. If you really want to do some digging try perusing the newsgroups.
While I wholeheartedly agree with the ends to which these folks were striving it appears that they did transgress a few moral 'firewalls'. Personally I hope that the engineering student actually did this within his first couple of weeks in the dorm - I would expect no less. The university's solution of calling in law enforcement officials is an incredibly dumb move of purely academic proportions. It sounds like some network admin staffer is covering up a serious lack of physical administration and log surfing.
The way I read it, the students are paying a per smester tech access fee, they had physical access to the ports, and the only real crime is one of mere linear footage. True - they could have caused damage and/or exposed the building to fire or electrical malfunction, but instead of criminal charges, why not just make the 'offenders' take a network cabling certification course and spend a little time wiring up some of the dorms?
Reading all these postings it would appear that there is a real market for an inexpensive terminal like the i-opener which is not tied to a service contract. Hell, slashdotters have already done the market research. All they need is some firm price points, new name, and a distibution channel. So - how many units and how much?
Slashdot Mirror
- Microsoft Outlook for *NIX (and developer SDK!)
- New MCMBABCE (MS Mailbox Address Book Extentions Certified Engineer) certification.
- VisualBasic Perl Interpreter for ASP
I feel so embraced and extended...Too bad, so sad. So I trust that the qwest subscribers will have to click-through the new privacy agreements with MSN. Or will they just be bound to it by the transition gods? Mmmmm. Yummy Passport. Tastes great, but leaves a greasy stain on your soul.
So will the DoJ wait until after MS owns the entire North American ISP business or just the top 10%?
We aren't talking about NT or 2K here. This is related to XP, which has all the security benefits of Win9x. Everyone is root. The power switch is the security button. Pull your nose out of your Cosco special MSCE bundle books grab some fresh air. The simple point of the fact is that most consumers don't understand security. Period. That would make Windows too difficult.
How many times have you heard your neighbors say:
- "Oh I don't need security. Nothing on my computer is that importatnt."
- "Why do I have to click through so many warnings just so I can view this attachment?"
- "Why can't they just stop writing these viruses"
- "Can I have my lawnmower back?"
Schooling as you refer to it is the ROOT of the problem here. Just because you are MS certified, it does not mean you know shot about networks. The technology is only 49% of the equation. 51% of what you do is based upon the policies you implement. The fact that you posted as an A/C further weakens your stance.Cringely is the guy who took his three week's pay from Woz and Jobs and then left the garage, rather than take a percentage of Apple Computer instead. It was a colossal lack of vision and now his only claim to fame is as a journalist that knew most of the influential people in the Valley.
He did do a couple of well-done specials for PBS (Nerds 2.0.1 - A brief History of the Internet, and Triumph of the Nerds) that even my dad could understand. While this was good work, it doesn't make up for his histroical lack of insight. Browse his stuff over at PBS in the archive to see his track record.
Parent modded as troll, Funny I didn't think the MS firewall would let the tech support people access /., let alone moderate.
Try and tell that to Kevin
Don Henley of the Eagles? This Don Henley? He cries fowl (sic) claiming that big business will trample our rights? Shock! Horror!
What a crock of shit
Agreed - but to further stress your point;
The glass is twice as big as it needs to be.
How much more content is there to put through the pipe? How much can you possibly watch in one week? (No mathematical proofs please) Any programming whose content is restricted to be used solely in the time slots they were 'designed for' will be replaced by somthing else. It's not like the old days when consumers and broadcasters were limited to 13 channels plus UHF(giggle). There are already lots of new production companies with specialized or thematic approaches to content. Now of course what will really suck is that when the wizards have achieved 10,000 channels, Disney, AOL/Time-Warner, and The Survivor Network have licensing over 9,987 of them.
And for the last time - can we please not use the term intellectual property when discussing television production?
Yep there's a lot of assholes around here, but I don't think Mr. Dillon is one of 'em.
The car radio consumes power. Period. However negligible it may appear to be compared to a 300 cu. in. motor, it still comsumes power.
For example let's look at your basic AM/FM car radio rated at a mere 5 watts. It takes energy for the circuitry in the radio to generate a signal to drive the speakers to create the noise. Where does it get the 5 watts? From the alternator. Where does the alternator get it's power? From the mechanical energy provided by the motor. Let's hook up a thousand 5 watt radios to your car and see if the alternator can sustain that load. You will most certainly consume more chemical energy (gasoline) to maintain that load. Drive around town with your A/C on full time and tell me that your gas mileage doesn't completely suck.By saying that "the power would have been sent to ground" is complete bullshit. Unless there is a load between the source and ground, no work is done and no energy is consumed.
I guess we're dealing with the same type of person here who will tell you that "heat rises" or that "it'll be 60 below with the windchill factor tonight. You'd better be sure your antifreeze can handle at least 70 below."
I think the magnet on your forehead is on too tight.
Yeah I caught that bit of nonsense. Not too surprised, but the mention of licensing or 'other forms of compensation' (kneecapping?) was almost offered as a challenge. Are they gonna sue doubleclick? Amazon? Yahoo? Google?
"Woid on da street is dat da clowns over at Yahoo are makin coin on our intellectual properties"
"Ya wants I should have dem, uh, 'repartitioned' boss?"
See ya at the bottom of the lake, kids...
Exactly. Ban agriculture and eat the hippies.
So Michael is probing the crowd for some sympathy for for a load of malcontents who have chosen to work outside the democratic process to get their point (do they have one?) across. There's no doubt it will lead to something productive; it will polarize the popular opinion against their cause (do they have one?). Terrorism is an act of pure cowardice and is best left to the tantrums of a five-year-old child. It is not a foundation for a political movement.
They rant against totalitarianism only to replace it with their own brand of the same thing. 'Their way' is better and anybody who chooses to disagree will be firebombed into submission.
It's a crock of shit and it stinks.
Just make the cheque out to Dan Simmons.
Scientific 'Merican (or was it The Sciences - NYAS) had a piece about this problem about.. geeps 7 to 10 years ago. The Shrike Palace would be a good model. The real problem is longevity. How do you build something that will last at least as long as the half-life of the material (10K years?). You also must be able to communicate that the contents are dangerous. Sounds easy enough, but how many people can read languages more than 2000 years old now? It should at least have an MS Bob interface.
Now was that really a MS bash?
You failed to mention that after factoring in the current exchange rate the speeds are about the same. Metric bits also skew the results.
Id software has filed a defamation of character suit against CNN claiming they were "totally misrepresented" in a story linking them to a regional shake-up in China.
In a related story China is now promoting a defensive strategy in order to curtail further attacks.
Yeah, annoying pop-up ads were so successful on MaximumPC and MaximumLinux. The best way to keep readers is to annoy the hell out of them? Sure you can place a dollar value per square inch for your content display, but it may be short-sighted if readership or sales are hurt by it. Like grandpa said, "Twenty percent of nothing is still nothing"
Maybe content generators should be looking at a more realistic business model while advertising sales depatments revalue the rates for advertisers. It's not like there are FEWER eyeballs on the WWW every year.
How about spending less money on chrome and fin development (read: Flash, streaming, shitty asp/java deployment)?
Pop-ups are the equivalent of those annoying consumer electronics mega-store salespeople; they are loud, annoying, abusive, and provide little information. Not to mention the greasy stain they leave on your immortal soul.
I know of a 'Regional Health District' that had all database users with 'admin' access. Everybody used the same account and there was no way to authenticate any individual user. The regional district was responsible for the hospital administration for about a million people. Hire a temp for the day? Give them the admin password... THAT was scary. That was late 1997 and I hope it's been fixed.
If I'm not doing anything wrong, why should I be under sureveillance?
Why sould I not be allowed to encrypt my data?
If I recall correctly compressed air may be a clean method of storing energy (provided that the compressor equipment is 'clean') but it is not very efficient method of energy delivery. Something to do with the amount of heat generated by the compressor and the diminished return of energy as the pressure drops. An industrial engineer could probably fill in the blanks for me...
Royal Bank's web services for banking work fine under Netscape/SuSE linux (I haven't tried the online investing). I was on support.dell.com the other day digging for info I needed to resurrect an old box and was annoyed to find that while the server was digging for my query all my other browser windows hung in various states of nothingness while the .asp loads/not loads. Not nice.
Whenever I hear "Hi this is Shmoe calling from Annoythehellouttame Company..." I pass the phone to the 2-year-old in the house and get back to whatever I was doing bofore. The entertainment value is good, although it does tie up the phone line. If the youngun is too pre-occupied to play with the phone I'll usually just plunk the phone in front of the TV.
Wow - the Curse free rig is back. I saw a network news blurb over the holiday season about that thing. Can I get one or hack one to filter my Sunday morning viewing content so I don't get Pat Robertson trying to convert me from my radical agnostic ways whilst channel bumping?
I also couldn't help but notice that the unit will filter "Televsion, Video, and DVD" Filtering DVD!? Isn't that like altering CONTENT? No word on what the 100 or so filtered words might be but maybe I could get an old George Carlin LP from eBay to get me started. Also I'd like to see other religious versions out on the market - one that would filter out things like holy cow.
How about it - let's try and see how many uses we can find for an altered CurseFree rig, like some fun filter items to replace with a meaning of your choice;
Up in Canada we've got a GSM provider (Fido/Microcell)which also offers AMPS fallback. IMO the call quality is far superior to other digital networks, and of course analog networks. The other party is usually suprised when I tell them I'm on a mobile phone. Real text messaging, and handset email services via SMS, and good data services.
There's nothing magical about the reception as it still falls into the same limits of any radio technology. As mentioned in the previous post - coverage is king and if you can't get a 10 or 30 day trial from a vendor then you probably wouldn't want to deal with them. However shrewd shoppers could have picked up a bargain sattelite network last week, like new - hardly used!
As for handsets I would only buy a Nokia. My 6190 has been through hell and after a new faceplate looks pretty good (YMMV). But you should not worry about handsets until you find a good contract (or better - no contract) and service for the areas you frequent. If you really want to do some digging try perusing the newsgroups.
While I wholeheartedly agree with the ends to which these folks were striving it appears that they did transgress a few moral 'firewalls'. Personally I hope that the engineering student actually did this within his first couple of weeks in the dorm - I would expect no less. The university's solution of calling in law enforcement officials is an incredibly dumb move of purely academic proportions. It sounds like some network admin staffer is covering up a serious lack of physical administration and log surfing.
The way I read it, the students are paying a per smester tech access fee, they had physical access to the ports, and the only real crime is one of mere linear footage. True - they could have caused damage and/or exposed the building to fire or electrical malfunction, but instead of criminal charges, why not just make the 'offenders' take a network cabling certification course and spend a little time wiring up some of the dorms?
Reading all these postings it would appear that there is a real market for an inexpensive terminal like the i-opener which is not tied to a service contract. Hell, slashdotters have already done the market research. All they need is some firm price points, new name, and a distibution channel. So - how many units and how much?