My step-dad, an electrical engineer, was talking about something extremely similar quite a few years ago. We decided it really wasn't a practical idea as every road would have to be ripped up and replaced, at least in long stretches at first, in order to provide for those cars that relied on it. And of course there's the question of who pays for the energy supplied, but we found that to be a lesser roadblock (har har) because that should be a very simple technical issue to resolve. Something like one of those speedpass devices for toll-roads could easily keep track of the usage.
You're right in the assumption that I did not bother to read the fucking article, but not correct in the assumption of a tin foil hat. I do mistrust any government body that is as large and overpowering as the FBI, which as I always understood it, is a true patriotic pastime.
Not always true. The week I went off to college my mom decided she was going to learn how to use her newly available computer. I started receiving calls day and night from her, asking how to do this or that, or that she broke something. Every weekend I'd come home and remove spyware and show her how to do things like create folders or scan pictures.
Then I started getting calls from my younger sisters. Mom's an internet addict. Quite the shocker, as this was the same woman who used to dream about throwing the computer out the window when my dad was alive. So now she's flying off around the country meeting men and having dirty phone conversations with them and she bought a webcam. So I decided maybe I should talk to mom and let her know that people on the Internet are RARELY who they seem to be, especially the trolls you find on yahoo chat. Of course it didn't faze her. These guys were way too smooth to be cock-blocked by some punk college freshman.
She abused her relationships with every one of us kids in order to please some short fat little illegal hispanic from Houston, 10 years her junior, and now he's taken every dime she had and now that he's got his green card, looks to be planning his escape. Judging by what all of his brothers have done, it would be the rule rather than the exception. Unfortunately for my mother she STILL doesn't see it coming, even after he wiped her bank account out, and now demanded they have seperate bank accounts since he got a nice paying job.
True not every relationship formed from online 'dating' could or would end up this way, but I don't think either of them got what they bargained for. It's too easy to lie online, they're both guilty of it, and now they're going to pay the consequences. He will run off with his new citizenship card, and she will have to try to repair all the damage she's done to her family in the hopes that someone will take her in.
In my previous job I accidentally granted myself access as a domain administrator, not believing it would be so incredibly easy to do. That was grounds for firing, though they hung on to me, after I showed them I could also reset the passwords for anyone in the company using their in-house password utility.
The FBI will have no fear of any such consequence. Illegally overstepping their bounds and then saying "oops" is about all you'll hear about this ordeal. I'm sure some calls for investigation will be made and someone might have a dispassionate speech on C-SPAN and then it will all be swept under the rug. It might even pave the way for the FBI to request this type of access for the future if they can "prove" that it's in the interest of "national security".
I feel the same way about sending letters, but I do it anyway. I always get a response to the effect of "thanks for you opinion but mine is better", but at least I feel better for having stated my opinion. I'm never wrong. The congressman is there to represent me. That's something we've seem to forgotten along the way... thanks in no small part to large sums of money being passed around by corporations and special interest groups.
I saw this when it first showed on BET as I was flipping through channels one day... I nearly fell off the couch. Funny as hell and yet heartwarming. I wonder how many kids' lives this straightened up.
I agree whole heartedly. I would also like to point out a major issue being that this is probably the first time people have directly picked a candidate to run for president with no corporate backing, as far as I'm aware. A very large problem with politics in this country is that you cannot make demands upon the person who is elected to office, regardless of whether you voted for them or not. Sure you can demand their impeachment if they do things you disagree with, and we all know how well that goes over, but you really can't make any demands on what they MUST do in order to continue to represent you. I thought that was the purpose of government first and foremost, but I was sadly mistaken.
I worked for a mid-sized business ISP HQ'd in Des Moines and headed up the abuse dept for a short while. We had clients all across the country for whom we sold spam/virus filtering and firewall services to. We never filtered any outbound e-mail whatsoever unless the client specifically requested it and then paid for the extra service of running their outbound e-mail through postini. All incoming e-mail was run through postini whether or not a client requested it. We offered outbound mail services free of charge to all clients (though we didn't make that a known fact) via a basically open smtp servers (access restricted to our ip ranges).
I can't tell you the nightmare it is being in the abuse department for an ISP that doesn't have SOME sort of e-mail filtering mechanism in place, or a policy in place to punish clients who let viruses run rampant on their own networks. Every day I would have to sift through 10 - 100 abuse complaints and even if I could verify that the spam did indeed originate from the client's network there was nothing I could do aside from e-mail their network admin a head's up.
Eventually it got to the point where I was receiving so many complaints about certain clients that I started threatening temporary disconnections (I had no authorization to do so). That worked up until someone who'd been a client for a lot longer than I'd worked there CC'd my boss on his reply. I was told to let the spam fly no matter what, and if I ran into any similar problems in the future to let him know instead. So I did, I sent him e-mails of the same violators and copies of the abuse complaints nearly every day, but nothing ever happened. I have a feeling he just set up an outlook rule to dump them in the trash.
It would be an extraordinary stress-reducer on the ISP side if there was some kind of automated outbound filtering in place for clients. It sucks to censor free-speech but when you can't speak because some moron is spamming the shit out of the entire internet then which is worse?
That's not necessarily true. At some point all connections are shared whether its at the first node or at the ISP's core. True you've got much better chances of getting full bandwidth if the line is PTP but that's not always the case as every ISP oversells no matter what lines they're running.
By the way my last cable internet connection was 20 mbps not 7. I also know many people with fios that only get 20 mbps. That was where I was drawing the comparison from.
This is where we point the finger at the telecoms and tell them to fork it over. No tax breaks, no subsidies. That's done and over with, now do what you were lawfully contracted to do with all that money you were given.
You can't tell me they haven't enough money to do it either, what with all the mergers going around in telecom town.
Why would you assume it was slower than cable? Until cable rolls with Docsis 3.0 fios will completely own it. Hell fios owns my ASDL 2+ connection in the upstream, though it's comparable to my downstream. Beats the hell out of anything I could get through cable without paying for business class.
My brother-in-law's father is a professor at ISU and worked with a fellow that kept anthrax samples for over 50 years, running diagnostics on samples once a year until 2001. Then the government came in and made him destroy them all. It's pretty ridiculous considering anthrax isn't THAT big of a threat. It is indeed deadly in a sufficient quantity, but in order to ingest the amount needed for lethality you'd just about have to cut up a line and snort it.
Well not quite to that extent but the media did a fine job of playing the other extreme.
Bush recently signed a bill into law making it legal and even outlining strategies for companies to undercut employees. If I recall correctly it included no less than 5 different provisions for how to rip employees off including slashing wages to compensate the company for workers' overtime, as well as by making employees assistant-managers and managers which means they're exempt from overtime pay.
It was quite a while ago when I first heard about the bill, but I've seen this happen more and more often since. There are some gas stations around here that make ALL of their employees managers or assistant managers. They routinely work 10-12 hour shifts and I've spoken with them about the overtime... they don't get any extra money for it.
It's hard to believe such things can happen, but inch by inch the peoples' rights keep disappearing.
Sub7 wasn't the first. DeepThroat was the first major trojan to do this. It really sucked when the author convinced me and all my other IRC acquaintances to use it instead of BO and eventually told me he had a master password on it. By the time he gave the password to me his trojan was picked up by most of the major AVS' of the day. Dirty scoundrels.;)
The only intrinsic value it has is it's perceived rarity and the fact that you can't just pull it out of thin air. There is no way anyone can go back to the gold standard with the WTO in existence, but that doesn't mean we shouldn't try to find a way to make the currency system actually work.
The way it's set up now every country in the world is gunning for bankruptcy in the end. You can't sustain a system of constant debt growth forever. We need to find something to base money on that isn't a commodity controlled by the few and also isn't debt. Or we can just continue to fight wars and reforming nations and start over every time the debt ceiling is too high.
In regards to the article, I find it hilarious that you can't even run a virtual bank without a real life charter. That just slays me. I think the line between virtual and real just blurred beyond recognition.
It's not just that it would cost money to provide factual reports of what's going on in our wars because the intensity with which people would be gripped by those reports would more than pay for those costs -- much more so than a report of what dress Paris Hilton took off last night, at least.
The difference with this war from any other is the fact that the press is strictly forbidden to report on virtually anything. The US Army controls the ground and they tell the corporate reporters what they can and cannot film, say, or write about. Anyone who dares to even TRY to circumvent these so-called laws, will not only lose their job and cause their corporate "sponsor" a shitton of money, but they may just as well be tried for treason.
This is not a time of freedom of speech. Apparently freedom of speech knows boundaries in today's age. The fact that a reporter cannot divulge information that the Army feels would drop troop morale, enrage the US constituency, or "embolden" the enemy is not much different that the chain-link fenced-in "free speech" zones that are cropping up anytime there is a protest on a college campus or in a international organization meeting.
We do indeed live in different times. Words no longer mean what they meant, which seems to make them all the more powerful if you can manage to sneak them around all the barriers.
Yet the internet has about the same quality of reporting on most stories, not very well written or very in-depth. But I have the freedom to view them at anytime.
This is incredibly untrue. When you're using the internet to get your news the source depends upon you. You can get your news from Joe Blog and CNN, or you can get it from China, Russia, India, Pakistan, Israel, Iraq, Turkey, etc etc. Each news organization puts its own spin on things, but with the Internet you've got every opportunity to link multiple stories of the same event together and get an excellent picture of what the world sees.
If that's not how you're seeing the news online, then it's your own laziness at fault, and you might as well just stick to cable.
Is it really capitalism when everything is owned in an oligopoly? Do the people really have a choice when the choice is between 5 corporations and their brands? How many times have you EVER heard about a Rothschild or Rockefeller in an american media outlet? I'm willing to bet my entire life savings that that number is 0. Funny how those families can own a controlling interest in not just the Federal Reserve through major corporations such as CitiBank and J.P. Morgan, but also have family on the boards of over 400 other major corporations.
It just boggles my mind the incestuous world economy we live with today, and a good 99% of us don't realize it. The reason you're not seeing the facts is because: 1. You shouldn't be waking from the slumber they've tried so hard to put you in since before you were in Kindergarten and 2. If you did ever get any urge that something isn't quite right, you should be working so hard you don't have time to talk or care about it.
That ladies and gentlemen is why we see what we see today. Entire governments have collapsed on a whim that one of these families might make some extra money. Who the hell do you think a news corporation is to stand up to that kind of power?
I'm not sure what highschool you went to, but in mine they didn't use projectors. They might have used an overhead once or twice a month if that. College on the other hand is taught solely by slides which you can download ahead of time... now THAT presents and opportunity for fun if you can get a front row seat...:)
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My step-dad, an electrical engineer, was talking about something extremely similar quite a few years ago. We decided it really wasn't a practical idea as every road would have to be ripped up and replaced, at least in long stretches at first, in order to provide for those cars that relied on it. And of course there's the question of who pays for the energy supplied, but we found that to be a lesser roadblock (har har) because that should be a very simple technical issue to resolve. Something like one of those speedpass devices for toll-roads could easily keep track of the usage.
Do what most other slashdotters do... use a paper towel or a sock.
You're right in the assumption that I did not bother to read the fucking article, but not correct in the assumption of a tin foil hat. I do mistrust any government body that is as large and overpowering as the FBI, which as I always understood it, is a true patriotic pastime.
Not always true. The week I went off to college my mom decided she was going to learn how to use her newly available computer. I started receiving calls day and night from her, asking how to do this or that, or that she broke something. Every weekend I'd come home and remove spyware and show her how to do things like create folders or scan pictures.
Then I started getting calls from my younger sisters. Mom's an internet addict. Quite the shocker, as this was the same woman who used to dream about throwing the computer out the window when my dad was alive. So now she's flying off around the country meeting men and having dirty phone conversations with them and she bought a webcam. So I decided maybe I should talk to mom and let her know that people on the Internet are RARELY who they seem to be, especially the trolls you find on yahoo chat. Of course it didn't faze her. These guys were way too smooth to be cock-blocked by some punk college freshman.
She abused her relationships with every one of us kids in order to please some short fat little illegal hispanic from Houston, 10 years her junior, and now he's taken every dime she had and now that he's got his green card, looks to be planning his escape. Judging by what all of his brothers have done, it would be the rule rather than the exception. Unfortunately for my mother she STILL doesn't see it coming, even after he wiped her bank account out, and now demanded they have seperate bank accounts since he got a nice paying job.
True not every relationship formed from online 'dating' could or would end up this way, but I don't think either of them got what they bargained for. It's too easy to lie online, they're both guilty of it, and now they're going to pay the consequences. He will run off with his new citizenship card, and she will have to try to repair all the damage she's done to her family in the hopes that someone will take her in.
In my previous job I accidentally granted myself access as a domain administrator, not believing it would be so incredibly easy to do. That was grounds for firing, though they hung on to me, after I showed them I could also reset the passwords for anyone in the company using their in-house password utility.
The FBI will have no fear of any such consequence. Illegally overstepping their bounds and then saying "oops" is about all you'll hear about this ordeal. I'm sure some calls for investigation will be made and someone might have a dispassionate speech on C-SPAN and then it will all be swept under the rug. It might even pave the way for the FBI to request this type of access for the future if they can "prove" that it's in the interest of "national security".
I feel the same way about sending letters, but I do it anyway. I always get a response to the effect of "thanks for you opinion but mine is better", but at least I feel better for having stated my opinion. I'm never wrong. The congressman is there to represent me. That's something we've seem to forgotten along the way... thanks in no small part to large sums of money being passed around by corporations and special interest groups.
I saw this when it first showed on BET as I was flipping through channels one day... I nearly fell off the couch. Funny as hell and yet heartwarming. I wonder how many kids' lives this straightened up.
I think it's some kind of Valentine's Day Fools joke...
"If you're not going anywhere you shouldn't be, then what do you have to worry about?"
I hereby give you permission to stalk anyone who says the above non-sarcastically.
I agree whole heartedly. I would also like to point out a major issue being that this is probably the first time people have directly picked a candidate to run for president with no corporate backing, as far as I'm aware. A very large problem with politics in this country is that you cannot make demands upon the person who is elected to office, regardless of whether you voted for them or not. Sure you can demand their impeachment if they do things you disagree with, and we all know how well that goes over, but you really can't make any demands on what they MUST do in order to continue to represent you. I thought that was the purpose of government first and foremost, but I was sadly mistaken.
It was 1.5 mbps up. Running at full speed down, which was a little over 2 MB/s the upstream used was about 512k.
I worked for a mid-sized business ISP HQ'd in Des Moines and headed up the abuse dept for a short while. We had clients all across the country for whom we sold spam/virus filtering and firewall services to. We never filtered any outbound e-mail whatsoever unless the client specifically requested it and then paid for the extra service of running their outbound e-mail through postini. All incoming e-mail was run through postini whether or not a client requested it. We offered outbound mail services free of charge to all clients (though we didn't make that a known fact) via a basically open smtp servers (access restricted to our ip ranges).
I can't tell you the nightmare it is being in the abuse department for an ISP that doesn't have SOME sort of e-mail filtering mechanism in place, or a policy in place to punish clients who let viruses run rampant on their own networks. Every day I would have to sift through 10 - 100 abuse complaints and even if I could verify that the spam did indeed originate from the client's network there was nothing I could do aside from e-mail their network admin a head's up.
Eventually it got to the point where I was receiving so many complaints about certain clients that I started threatening temporary disconnections (I had no authorization to do so). That worked up until someone who'd been a client for a lot longer than I'd worked there CC'd my boss on his reply. I was told to let the spam fly no matter what, and if I ran into any similar problems in the future to let him know instead. So I did, I sent him e-mails of the same violators and copies of the abuse complaints nearly every day, but nothing ever happened. I have a feeling he just set up an outlook rule to dump them in the trash.
It would be an extraordinary stress-reducer on the ISP side if there was some kind of automated outbound filtering in place for clients. It sucks to censor free-speech but when you can't speak because some moron is spamming the shit out of the entire internet then which is worse?
That's not necessarily true. At some point all connections are shared whether its at the first node or at the ISP's core. True you've got much better chances of getting full bandwidth if the line is PTP but that's not always the case as every ISP oversells no matter what lines they're running.
By the way my last cable internet connection was 20 mbps not 7. I also know many people with fios that only get 20 mbps. That was where I was drawing the comparison from.
This is where we point the finger at the telecoms and tell them to fork it over. No tax breaks, no subsidies. That's done and over with, now do what you were lawfully contracted to do with all that money you were given.
You can't tell me they haven't enough money to do it either, what with all the mergers going around in telecom town.
Do or die is what I say.
You forgot the signing statements. The president signing a bill from Congress into law, but declaring he won't follow portions or the entire thing.
Why would you assume it was slower than cable? Until cable rolls with Docsis 3.0 fios will completely own it. Hell fios owns my ASDL 2+ connection in the upstream, though it's comparable to my downstream. Beats the hell out of anything I could get through cable without paying for business class.
My brother-in-law's father is a professor at ISU and worked with a fellow that kept anthrax samples for over 50 years, running diagnostics on samples once a year until 2001. Then the government came in and made him destroy them all. It's pretty ridiculous considering anthrax isn't THAT big of a threat. It is indeed deadly in a sufficient quantity, but in order to ingest the amount needed for lethality you'd just about have to cut up a line and snort it.
Well not quite to that extent but the media did a fine job of playing the other extreme.
Bush recently signed a bill into law making it legal and even outlining strategies for companies to undercut employees. If I recall correctly it included no less than 5 different provisions for how to rip employees off including slashing wages to compensate the company for workers' overtime, as well as by making employees assistant-managers and managers which means they're exempt from overtime pay.
It was quite a while ago when I first heard about the bill, but I've seen this happen more and more often since. There are some gas stations around here that make ALL of their employees managers or assistant managers. They routinely work 10-12 hour shifts and I've spoken with them about the overtime... they don't get any extra money for it.
It's hard to believe such things can happen, but inch by inch the peoples' rights keep disappearing.
Sub7 wasn't the first. DeepThroat was the first major trojan to do this. It really sucked when the author convinced me and all my other IRC acquaintances to use it instead of BO and eventually told me he had a master password on it. By the time he gave the password to me his trojan was picked up by most of the major AVS' of the day. Dirty scoundrels. ;)
It's hard to just trash a contract and all the "support" that comes with it for something totally different and possibly unreliable (hah).
The only intrinsic value it has is it's perceived rarity and the fact that you can't just pull it out of thin air. There is no way anyone can go back to the gold standard with the WTO in existence, but that doesn't mean we shouldn't try to find a way to make the currency system actually work.
The way it's set up now every country in the world is gunning for bankruptcy in the end. You can't sustain a system of constant debt growth forever. We need to find something to base money on that isn't a commodity controlled by the few and also isn't debt. Or we can just continue to fight wars and reforming nations and start over every time the debt ceiling is too high.
In regards to the article, I find it hilarious that you can't even run a virtual bank without a real life charter. That just slays me. I think the line between virtual and real just blurred beyond recognition.
It's not just that it would cost money to provide factual reports of what's going on in our wars because the intensity with which people would be gripped by those reports would more than pay for those costs -- much more so than a report of what dress Paris Hilton took off last night, at least.
The difference with this war from any other is the fact that the press is strictly forbidden to report on virtually anything. The US Army controls the ground and they tell the corporate reporters what they can and cannot film, say, or write about. Anyone who dares to even TRY to circumvent these so-called laws, will not only lose their job and cause their corporate "sponsor" a shitton of money, but they may just as well be tried for treason.
This is not a time of freedom of speech. Apparently freedom of speech knows boundaries in today's age. The fact that a reporter cannot divulge information that the Army feels would drop troop morale, enrage the US constituency, or "embolden" the enemy is not much different that the chain-link fenced-in "free speech" zones that are cropping up anytime there is a protest on a college campus or in a international organization meeting.
We do indeed live in different times. Words no longer mean what they meant, which seems to make them all the more powerful if you can manage to sneak them around all the barriers.
If that's not how you're seeing the news online, then it's your own laziness at fault, and you might as well just stick to cable.
Is it really capitalism when everything is owned in an oligopoly? Do the people really have a choice when the choice is between 5 corporations and their brands? How many times have you EVER heard about a Rothschild or Rockefeller in an american media outlet? I'm willing to bet my entire life savings that that number is 0. Funny how those families can own a controlling interest in not just the Federal Reserve through major corporations such as CitiBank and J.P. Morgan, but also have family on the boards of over 400 other major corporations.
It just boggles my mind the incestuous world economy we live with today, and a good 99% of us don't realize it. The reason you're not seeing the facts is because: 1. You shouldn't be waking from the slumber they've tried so hard to put you in since before you were in Kindergarten and 2. If you did ever get any urge that something isn't quite right, you should be working so hard you don't have time to talk or care about it.
That ladies and gentlemen is why we see what we see today. Entire governments have collapsed on a whim that one of these families might make some extra money. Who the hell do you think a news corporation is to stand up to that kind of power?
I'm not sure what highschool you went to, but in mine they didn't use projectors. They might have used an overhead once or twice a month if that. College on the other hand is taught solely by slides which you can download ahead of time... now THAT presents and opportunity for fun if you can get a front row seat... :)