The US won't mess with the root because it is not in their best interest, will never be in their best interest, and is and will always be very much directly against their best interest.
Because if the US did something like that the resulting backlash would hurt it very severely as the rest of the world would immediately form their own internet, not interoperate with ours, sanction in in the UN, WTO, etc, other countries wouldn't want to trade with it, etc.
I'm in the US, and I think almost no one here would ever want or tolerate such a thing.
I didn't realize T1 was PRI ISDN, I thought it was a different protocol. Both the Americans (T1) and Europeans (E1) did hack the protocol didn't they?
BRI ISDN in the US was hacked into National ISDN 1 (NI-1) and there was at least one (I am fairly sure at least 2) European standards.
Linux ISDN didn't support NI-1, I don't know if they do. DSL (and other broadband) hs pretty much killed almost all use of ISDN. People almost never use it for voice, it is used for conferencing and such.
So the UN standard is hacked up and the BRI form of it is used less and less, and a non-UN standard (DSL) is king.
Why didn't ISDN at higher speeds fill the niche that DSL is now filling?
I know the ISDN D-channel protocol seemed very over-engineered and Baroque when I looked at it. Like someone decided to shoehorn all the network concepts they could (virtual connections, SPIDs, etc). Way more than seemed needed to do the job.
Does Slashdot need people to make throwaway accounts to do pseudo-AC posting?
I could create one everytime one of the pseudo AC ones got blocked or defaulted to -1.
So could many others. Many who have no ethics. This is not a war that Slashdot wants.
It also happens if you are logged in and trying to anon post.
Somethings aren't trolling, but could have negative effects if it was connected to one by one's girlfriend/boyfriend/employer/parole officer, etc.
It will likely get fixed if enough noise is created about it. Yeah, one often takes a karma hit to protest this, but if one is bouncing off the karma ceiling does an occasional hit really matter?
Plus civil disobedience is supposed to be looked upon favorably here.
The UK ain't part of the EU. They don't want to be swallowed up by it.
Plus I don't think the US will ever pull the plug on the UK.
All the bad feelings between the US and UK have been gone for almost 200 years.
Yeah, of course the US and UK differ in some views, but 2 countries that share intelligence on each other citizens (c.f. UKUSA) aren't anything but the closest of friends. Perhaps the US and Canada are closer (we share nuclear war facilities - such as NORAD), but both the UK and Canada are extremely close allies.
Plus the UK owns a huge amount of land in and does a huge amount of trade with the US.
So if your British, stop worrying, the most you have to fear from us Americans is butchering your language.:)
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More to the point, do you really think the internet would have grown and propered the same if it had started out as a UN-like activity? Honestly, I think you're kidding yourself if you think it would have.
ISDN was specified by the ITU, an organization founded by the UN.
Re: the Supreme Court striking down juvenile execution:
Murdering kids is an abomination even and especially if it is done by the gov't.
They likely didn't want to seem soft on crime, since people oppose anyone that believes in mercy when dealing with criminal behavior.
I agree totally with you on the UN and such.
We shouldn't have our economic and national security dependent on others.
We haven't used our power over the Internet to oppress (regardless of what you might feel about US foreign policy in general - we haven't pulled countries out of the root, etc).
Imagine if the UN decided to pull all the.mil domains, harming our ability to respond to a crisis.
Imagine if the UN decided to pull the plug on the US internet because we pissed them off, like not ratifying the "Rights of the Child" act because we don't make spanking one's brat a federal felony.
Imagine if the UN decided to pull the plug on Christian churches because they were considered offensive to other faiths.
routinely pay $400 for a phone, carriers will be happy to offer that model.
$400 for a phone are you kidding me? That's outragous, a phone isn't worth nearly that much to all but phone fans (or "phans"). (won't say phone phreaks because that refers to old school phone hackers)
As for gas prices, the USA is much larger than most European countries and has more sprawl (so both short trips and long trips are longer than in Europe) and also has much poorer public transit, so the gas prices hurt us more than they do it Europe.
Heck, here in Vegas a mid 500's FICO score will let you pay a bond ($85) instead of a full deposit ($500) for an apartment and have you be told you have "good credit":)
Perhaps he had multiple serious delinquencies and/or a FICO under 500. Then it seems plausible. But one can get out of that gutter in a couple years if one was a good job and money in the bank (secured credit cards, then gas cards, etc). It is easier to go from 400 to 500 than it is from 600 to 700 or 700 to 800.
You could've always co-signed for him instead of letting him stay.
If you ever have more than 2 standard drinks a day (for a man) or 1 (for a woman) in the eyes of many who have a lot more power than you think you are an alcoholic.
Windows software was likely used somewhere in Mr. Reeve's medical care resulting in his demise and also in the HAARP project - which could have caused enough of an atmospheric disturbance to cause Katrina.
NO I DON'T REALLY BELIEVE THE ABOVE - PLEASE DON'T COMMIT ME - but I just wanted to get the conspiracy theories out of the way before the actual nuts did.
Dell probably charged more for the bare PC's because they were considered a server system and thus came from a different division of the company and in big companies different departments don't always coordinate with each other. Like, for eaxmple, Sony's music company attacking consumer rights and their electronics side supporting them when it comes to DRM, burning, etc.
Or perhaps Dell is in it with the aliens, Area 51, George Bush, the trilateral commission, the Illuminati, the 666 conspiracy, the New World Order, Microsoft, SCO, Al Qaeda, the DEA, the WTO, NAFTA, the UN, the city of Seattle, the cellular phone companies, the fast food companies, the tobacco companies, the casinos, the milirary/industrial/prison complex, Wal*Mart and even Satan/Cuthulu himself.
But I think I'll stick with the more reasonable theory.
People in prison with a lot of time on their hands do file blatantly obviously frivilous suits, such as suing for getting creamy peanut butter instead of chunky. This happened at Nevada State Prison.
Anyway, the whole drinking age thing is because of DUIs, so we probably would rather export that problem.
BTW: They drive better in Tijuana, Mexico than in Las Vegas, Nevada!
They actually stop for pedestrians instead of trying to run them over. And in Vegas, making a lane change is quite an experience - people try to stop you from doing so quite often.
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The US won't mess with the root because it is not in their best interest, will never be in their best interest, and is and will always be very much directly against their best interest.
Because if the US did something like that the resulting backlash would hurt it very severely as the rest of the world would immediately form their own internet, not interoperate with ours, sanction in in the UN, WTO, etc, other countries wouldn't want to trade with it, etc.
I'm in the US, and I think almost no one here would ever want or tolerate such a thing.
It would be political suicide for whoever did it.
Yeah, BRI.
I didn't realize T1 was PRI ISDN, I thought it was a different protocol. Both the Americans (T1) and Europeans (E1) did hack the protocol didn't they?
BRI ISDN in the US was hacked into National ISDN 1 (NI-1) and there was at least one (I am fairly sure at least 2) European standards.
Linux ISDN didn't support NI-1, I don't know if they do. DSL (and other broadband) hs pretty much killed almost all use of ISDN. People almost never use it for voice, it is used for conferencing and such.
So the UN standard is hacked up and the BRI form of it is used less and less, and a non-UN standard (DSL) is king.
Why didn't ISDN at higher speeds fill the niche that DSL is now filling?
I know the ISDN D-channel protocol seemed very over-engineered and Baroque when I looked at it. Like someone decided to shoehorn all the network concepts they could (virtual connections, SPIDs, etc). Way more than seemed needed to do the job.
It ain't documented and it is censorship.
Does Slashdot need people to make throwaway accounts to do pseudo-AC posting?
I could create one everytime one of the pseudo AC ones got blocked or defaulted to -1.
So could many others. Many who have no ethics. This is not a war that Slashdot wants.
It also happens if you are logged in and trying to anon post.
Somethings aren't trolling, but could have negative effects if it was connected to one by one's girlfriend/boyfriend/employer/parole officer, etc.
It will likely get fixed if enough noise is created about it. Yeah, one often takes a karma hit to protest this, but if one is bouncing off the karma ceiling does an occasional hit really matter?
Plus civil disobedience is supposed to be looked upon favorably here.
The UK ain't part of the EU. They don't want to be swallowed up by it.
:)
Plus I don't think the US will ever pull the plug on the UK.
All the bad feelings between the US and UK have been gone for almost 200 years.
Yeah, of course the US and UK differ in some views, but 2 countries that share intelligence on each other citizens (c.f. UKUSA) aren't anything but the closest of friends. Perhaps the US and Canada are closer (we share nuclear war facilities - such as NORAD), but both the UK and Canada are extremely close allies.
Plus the UK owns a huge amount of land in and does a huge amount of trade with the US.
So if your British, stop worrying, the most you have to fear from us Americans is butchering your language.
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Like it or not, we need to do business with people all over the planet.
No we don't.
The US, if cut off from all trade, won't be racked with starvation and death.
Yeah, the market would crash, some businesses would be hurt, but we have enough intelligent people and national resources to be self-sufficient.
More to the point, do you really think the internet would have grown and propered the same if it had started out as a UN-like activity? Honestly, I think you're kidding yourself if you think it would have.
:)
ISDN was specified by the ITU, an organization founded by the UN.
Look at how (not) far it got.
Re: the Supreme Court striking down juvenile execution:
.mil domains, harming our ability to respond to a crisis.
Murdering kids is an abomination even and especially if it is done by the gov't.
They likely didn't want to seem soft on crime, since people oppose anyone that believes in mercy when dealing with criminal behavior.
I agree totally with you on the UN and such.
We shouldn't have our economic and national security dependent on others.
We haven't used our power over the Internet to oppress (regardless of what you might feel about US foreign policy in general - we haven't pulled countries out of the root, etc).
Imagine if the UN decided to pull all the
Imagine if the UN decided to pull the plug on the US internet because we pissed them off, like not ratifying the "Rights of the Child" act because we don't make spanking one's brat a federal felony.
Imagine if the UN decided to pull the plug on Christian churches because they were considered offensive to other faiths.
etc.
routinely pay $400 for a phone, carriers will be happy to offer that model.
$400 for a phone are you kidding me? That's outragous, a phone isn't worth nearly that much to all but phone fans (or "phans"). (won't say phone phreaks because that refers to old school phone hackers)
As for gas prices, the USA is much larger than most European countries and has more sprawl (so both short trips and long trips are longer than in Europe) and also has much poorer public transit, so the gas prices hurt us more than they do it Europe.
GSM is moving to CDMA as their RF interface.
And at $60/mo. for a service on which I've personally seen sustained data rates of 700-800kbps (at 80mph no less),
Verizon held a phone call even at over 100 mph when someone I knew had them.
Just how fast can a person be going and still have a reliable cell connection?
I know the rumors about cell phones on the 9/11 planes.
YOU are a mutant! :)
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As are us all, actually, in all seriousness.
http://www.stanford.edu/group/hopes/causes/mutati
"In fact, every person in the entire world has some sort of mutation in his or her DNA; in that sense, everyone is a mutant!"
Denied an apartment because of credit?
:)
Heck, here in Vegas a mid 500's FICO score will let you pay a bond ($85) instead of a full deposit ($500) for an apartment and have you be told you have "good credit"
Perhaps he had multiple serious delinquencies and/or a FICO under 500. Then it seems plausible. But one can get out of that gutter in a couple years if one was a good job and money in the bank (secured credit cards, then gas cards, etc). It is easier to go from 400 to 500 than it is from 600 to 700 or 700 to 800.
You could've always co-signed for him instead of letting him stay.
There is risk in doing that though.
How much you make and how much own is already available at experian, transunion and can't remember the last one.
Equifax.
They also make SSL certificates.
And likely do a whole bunch more stuff.
Unless you actually want a society where everyone is afraid to deviate from the community's blandest common denominator.
We are close to that already.
I have nothing to hide, I'm no alcoholic,
If you ever have more than 2 standard drinks a day (for a man) or 1 (for a woman) in the eyes of many who have a lot more power than you think you are an alcoholic.
Such as these people:
http://www.rwjf.org/
Conspiracy time:
Windows software was likely used somewhere in Mr. Reeve's medical care resulting in his demise and also in the HAARP project - which could have caused enough of an atmospheric disturbance to cause Katrina.
NO I DON'T REALLY BELIEVE THE ABOVE - PLEASE DON'T COMMIT ME - but I just wanted to get the conspiracy theories out of the way before the actual nuts did.
Dell probably charged more for the bare PC's because they were considered a server system and thus came from a different division of the company and in big companies different departments don't always coordinate with each other. Like, for eaxmple, Sony's music company attacking consumer rights and their electronics side supporting them when it comes to DRM, burning, etc.
Or perhaps Dell is in it with the aliens, Area 51, George Bush, the trilateral commission, the Illuminati, the 666 conspiracy, the New World Order, Microsoft, SCO, Al Qaeda, the DEA, the WTO, NAFTA, the UN, the city of Seattle, the cellular phone companies, the fast food companies, the tobacco companies, the casinos, the milirary/industrial/prison complex, Wal*Mart and even Satan/Cuthulu himself.
But I think I'll stick with the more reasonable theory.
I know guys who are happy at a small firm who have implemented XP
Microsoft is hardly considered a small firm.
People in prison with a lot of time on their hands do file blatantly obviously frivilous suits, such as suing for getting creamy peanut butter instead of chunky. This happened at Nevada State Prison.
That is such a chillingly Orwellian statement.
Are you a lawyer too?
possession of stolen property is insufficient to demonstrate theft.
Nevertheless, that in itself is still a felony in many states.
You got a big Mac at Fry's?
;)
How's OSX?
Here's a couple!
Is P equal to NP?
Is there a way to factor a number in polynomial time?
Yeah, it's got all the cutting edge software from 1995!
Don't give them any ideas!
Anyway, the whole drinking age thing is because of DUIs, so we probably would rather export that problem.
BTW: They drive better in Tijuana, Mexico than in Las Vegas, Nevada!
They actually stop for pedestrians instead of trying to run them over. And in Vegas, making a lane change is quite an experience - people try to stop you from doing so quite often.