"Congress shall pass no law limiting the rights of persons to manipulate, operate, or otherwise utilize as they see fit any of their possessions or effects, nor the sale or trade of tools to be used for such purposes."
So I can build my machine shop right next door to your house, put in a runway for my private jet, and start work on assembling my nuclear weapon. Of course, we don't need any of those pesky electrical standards or fire regulations either....
TFA says that this will include a tax on porn, but not all of the lawmakers are on-board with the idea of taxing porn. Apparently taxing "legitimate" movies and music is fine, but a porn tax is bad.
Absolutely. I ran DesqView on my 486/25 with two Fidonet nodes on it (one Binkleyterm frontend with Opus backend, and one simple Opus setup connected to a (very expensive) CD-ROM reader that accessed Grolier's Encyclopaedia, which was used a lot by the local schools for the kids to do "high tech" research. And I could also run MsgEd along with everything else to read my own netmail and echomail.
It was a very cool setup, actually. I needed to run two phone lines due to the encyclopaedia use -- that tied up one bbs pretty much all day.
How much good would a camera do? There's a camera on the ATM that's in the front entrance of the credit union where I do most of my banking. Since that area is open 24 hours a day, I could easily go there wearing a Jimmy Carter mask and make a withdrawal any time after regular business hours. Nobody would notice.
It may depend on how and when you learned to type numbers. I learned to type in school (typing class) on big Underwood manual typewriters, but never really got good at typing the numbers there. But when I got my Commodore 64 and started typing in programs out of Compute! magazine using their mlx program, which involved typing in pages and pages of nothing but numbers, I quickly learned to type numbers just as well as I can type letters. Always using the top row numbers, of course, because the Commodore 64 has no numeric keypad.
To this day, I never use the numeric keypad on any keyboard. In fact, when it's not there (like on a laptop) I don't miss it a bit.
Could you show some citations for that? I store a ton of data (and the programs that create and manage that data) under/opt/programname and always assumed that I was doing it right.
A cell phone is faster though, and sometimes that time counts.
I doubt that. Remember, this is a movie theatre we're talking about. You know -- dark room with loud sound? How do you expect the 911 operator to understand you without going out of the auditorium to talk to her? And once you're out, you can tell the manager to call an ambulance just as quickly as you can dial it yourself on your cell phone. And the wired phone connection will probably be more reliable. Plus the manager is in a position to shut the show down and request medical help from other patrons -- you can't put the movie on "pause" when you're sitting in the auditorium.
That's when you tell the theatre management and they make the call to 911.
I own and operate a movie theatre. And I have actually had one occasion where an old lady had some kind of a seizure during a show. Her husband came out to ask me to call an ambulance for her. No cell phone required.
I learned to type in school. Typing class with Underwood manual typewriters, where I was the only boy in the class. However, I never really learned to type the numbers very well. I could (and still can) out-type most secretaries, but numbers were something that I was never good at.
Until I got my Commodore 64.
Then I started typing in programs out of Compute! magazine, with their MLX program, and learned to type the numbers. To this day, I never use the number pad on the side of a keyboard. I always use the numbers across the top of the keyboard.
Typing class was one of the smartest things that I took in school. I learned to type, and do a lot of other things that many people don't seem to know how to do any more. How to fold a letter properly to fit into an envelope is almost a lost art, it seems.
I think that's one of the things that Media Defender (is that the right name) does as a service to the music distribution companies. Fake mp3 files names similar to popular songs that say "piracy is bad" and so on.
So you're not the only one who's thought of that. However, it's my understanding that "pirate music downloaders" have communication and feedback methods that allow them to mark files as fake or incomplete.
Repairing a bad reputation and restoring trust takes 2 sides: one side to make a genuine effort to make amends for past damages, and the other side to be genuinely willing to forgive and move forward.
It also takes time to rebuild a damaged reputation, sometimes a great deal of time. And sometimes it simply can't be done.
If I spent 20 years beating your dog every time I saw it, throwing my feces over your fence, and telling everyone that I know what a bad bugger you are, then suddenly one day I said, "Things have changed so let's be friends now" would you immediately invite me in for coffee in your living room?
You might enjoy the sudden peace and quiet and hope that it continues, but I doubt we would ever be bosom buddies.
It strikes me we can best deal with this by addressing companies that pay for the unwanted calls. Not the companies that do the illegal acts, but instead the ones who pay them.
"Rachel from Cardholder Services" appears to be a credit card or identity theft scam outfit. Why would they be worried about a fine for non-compliance with the do not call list? A bank robber isn't going to be concerned with the fact that he's parked in a handicapped space.
One solution would be to use the DPI boxes as intended, said Allot's Cullen, to inspect packets. In that way, Comcast or other providers could both manage congestion as well as provide some level of priority access to real-time applications like VoIP or real-time gaming. Those apps typically don't consume much bandwidth anyway, while benefitting greatly from enhanced prioritization.
If they do that, then what would stop those eeeeeeevil P2P folks from massaging their traffic so the packets look similar to VOIP?
when either Jobs or Ballmer or some US politician like Orin Hatch
Because everyone knows that there is absolutely no market or need for computer services or software outside of the USA. And all software development must happen in Silicon Valley, of course.
In the 1980s everyone used a CLI even on home systems. What do you think has happened since then has caused people to lose so much intelligence?
A lot more people got computers since then.
The average computer owner (if there is such a thing) in the 1980's was more highly motivated than the average computer owner today. They expected their experience to be rather complex, and when it was they weren't caught by surprise. Today, everyone wants their computer to be a washing machine or a microwave oven. Push the magic button and stuff happens after that.
It's a matter of customer expectations when the computer is taken out of the box. People in the 1980's knew what they were getting when they bought a computer (or were instructed to start using one in their workplace). Those expectations still exist today, but they are completely different now.
I don't have a Kindle (I'm hoping there's a rev 2 that's just a bit better than I can bring myself to pull the trigger on buying)
Get an Acer Aspire One instead. My Aspire One has 1gb of ram and a 160gb hard drive, lots of room for plenty of books and other odds and ends (Commodore 64 emulator and games, for example). It came with Windows XP on it, but I reformatted that and installed Fedora 10.
You get a nice-sized ebook reader (I use recommend the FBReader software) and a cute little functional laptop, too.
I have got occasional FREE stuff from the grocery store here. They have a "scanning code of conduct" posted, which says that if an item scans at more than the shelf sticker price, the customer can have one of those items for free, up to $10 value.
About once a year I get something free through that policy.
In fact, I'm not sure why spammers go to the trouble of registering domains. If it's just for the ease of transferring the dns record to a new ip address, why bother? Just send out a new batch of garbage with a new ip address instead.
I downloaded the 64-bit version with the intention of looking at on my Fedora 10 system. However, when I mount the ISO and view the directory listing this is all that I see:
$ ll.gvfs/7000.0.081212-1400_client_en-us_Ultimate-GB1CULXFRE_EN_DVD.ISO/ total 1 -r-------- 1 user group 135 2008-12-13 08:51 README.TXT
README.TXT appears to be an empty file.
Is there a magic secret that's required to view the contents of this disk image?
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Acrobat Reader is the only PDF reader that works with all PDF files. I don't like that fact either.
Here is an example that renders properly only with acroread:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=220983
"Congress shall pass no law limiting the rights of persons to manipulate, operate, or otherwise utilize as they see fit any of their possessions or effects, nor the sale or trade of tools to be used for such purposes."
So I can build my machine shop right next door to your house, put in a runway for my private jet, and start work on assembling my nuclear weapon. Of course, we don't need any of those pesky electrical standards or fire regulations either....
TFA says that this will include a tax on porn, but not all of the lawmakers are on-board with the idea of taxing porn. Apparently taxing "legitimate" movies and music is fine, but a porn tax is bad.
Things that make you go hmmmm....
Actually, I had to write it myself. And since the Grolier's software wrote directly to the screen it was a non-trivial exercise to get it going.
The local school board actually bought me the cd reader and the cd on the condition that I make it available on my bbs for their use.
Absolutely. I ran DesqView on my 486/25 with two Fidonet nodes on it (one Binkleyterm frontend with Opus backend, and one simple Opus setup connected to a (very expensive) CD-ROM reader that accessed Grolier's Encyclopaedia, which was used a lot by the local schools for the kids to do "high tech" research. And I could also run MsgEd along with everything else to read my own netmail and echomail.
It was a very cool setup, actually. I needed to run two phone lines due to the encyclopaedia use -- that tied up one bbs pretty much all day.
It's been recalled.
How much good would a camera do? There's a camera on the ATM that's in the front entrance of the credit union where I do most of my banking. Since that area is open 24 hours a day, I could easily go there wearing a Jimmy Carter mask and make a withdrawal any time after regular business hours. Nobody would notice.
It may depend on how and when you learned to type numbers. I learned to type in school (typing class) on big Underwood manual typewriters, but never really got good at typing the numbers there. But when I got my Commodore 64 and started typing in programs out of Compute! magazine using their mlx program, which involved typing in pages and pages of nothing but numbers, I quickly learned to type numbers just as well as I can type letters. Always using the top row numbers, of course, because the Commodore 64 has no numeric keypad.
To this day, I never use the numeric keypad on any keyboard. In fact, when it's not there (like on a laptop) I don't miss it a bit.
Could you show some citations for that? I store a ton of data (and the programs that create and manage that data) under /opt/programname and always assumed that I was doing it right.
No user would understand what that meant, or why he should care if it changed.
A cell phone is faster though, and sometimes that time counts.
I doubt that. Remember, this is a movie theatre we're talking about. You know -- dark room with loud sound? How do you expect the 911 operator to understand you without going out of the auditorium to talk to her? And once you're out, you can tell the manager to call an ambulance just as quickly as you can dial it yourself on your cell phone. And the wired phone connection will probably be more reliable. Plus the manager is in a position to shut the show down and request medical help from other patrons -- you can't put the movie on "pause" when you're sitting in the auditorium.
That's when you tell the theatre management and they make the call to 911.
I own and operate a movie theatre. And I have actually had one occasion where an old lady had some kind of a seizure during a show. Her husband came out to ask me to call an ambulance for her. No cell phone required.
I learned to type in school. Typing class with Underwood manual typewriters, where I was the only boy in the class. However, I never really learned to type the numbers very well. I could (and still can) out-type most secretaries, but numbers were something that I was never good at.
Until I got my Commodore 64.
Then I started typing in programs out of Compute! magazine, with their MLX program, and learned to type the numbers. To this day, I never use the number pad on the side of a keyboard. I always use the numbers across the top of the keyboard.
Typing class was one of the smartest things that I took in school. I learned to type, and do a lot of other things that many people don't seem to know how to do any more. How to fold a letter properly to fit into an envelope is almost a lost art, it seems.
I think that's one of the things that Media Defender (is that the right name) does as a service to the music distribution companies. Fake mp3 files names similar to popular songs that say "piracy is bad" and so on.
So you're not the only one who's thought of that. However, it's my understanding that "pirate music downloaders" have communication and feedback methods that allow them to mark files as fake or incomplete.
Repairing a bad reputation and restoring trust takes 2 sides: one side to make a genuine effort to make amends for past damages, and the other side to be genuinely willing to forgive and move forward.
It also takes time to rebuild a damaged reputation, sometimes a great deal of time. And sometimes it simply can't be done.
If I spent 20 years beating your dog every time I saw it, throwing my feces over your fence, and telling everyone that I know what a bad bugger you are, then suddenly one day I said, "Things have changed so let's be friends now" would you immediately invite me in for coffee in your living room?
You might enjoy the sudden peace and quiet and hope that it continues, but I doubt we would ever be bosom buddies.
It strikes me we can best deal with this by addressing companies that pay for the unwanted calls. Not the companies that do the illegal acts, but instead the ones who pay them.
"Rachel from Cardholder Services" appears to be a credit card or identity theft scam outfit. Why would they be worried about a fine for non-compliance with the do not call list? A bank robber isn't going to be concerned with the fact that he's parked in a handicapped space.
From the article:
One solution would be to use the DPI boxes as intended, said Allot's Cullen, to inspect packets. In that way, Comcast or other providers could both manage congestion as well as provide some level of priority access to real-time applications like VoIP or real-time gaming. Those apps typically don't consume much bandwidth anyway, while benefitting greatly from enhanced prioritization.
If they do that, then what would stop those eeeeeeevil P2P folks from massaging their traffic so the packets look similar to VOIP?
when either Jobs or Ballmer or some US politician like Orin Hatch
Because everyone knows that there is absolutely no market or need for computer services or software outside of the USA. And all software development must happen in Silicon Valley, of course.
In the 1980s everyone used a CLI even on home systems. What do you think has happened since then has caused people to lose so much intelligence?
A lot more people got computers since then.
The average computer owner (if there is such a thing) in the 1980's was more highly motivated than the average computer owner today. They expected their experience to be rather complex, and when it was they weren't caught by surprise. Today, everyone wants their computer to be a washing machine or a microwave oven. Push the magic button and stuff happens after that.
It's a matter of customer expectations when the computer is taken out of the box. People in the 1980's knew what they were getting when they bought a computer (or were instructed to start using one in their workplace). Those expectations still exist today, but they are completely different now.
The bad guys already have databases full of names and addresses which they will cross reference against the data they stole.
I think they're called telephone books.
I don't have a Kindle (I'm hoping there's a rev 2 that's just a bit better than I can bring myself to pull the trigger on buying)
Get an Acer Aspire One instead. My Aspire One has 1gb of ram and a 160gb hard drive, lots of room for plenty of books and other odds and ends (Commodore 64 emulator and games, for example). It came with Windows XP on it, but I reformatted that and installed Fedora 10.
You get a nice-sized ebook reader (I use recommend the FBReader software) and a cute little functional laptop, too.
I have got occasional FREE stuff from the grocery store here. They have a "scanning code of conduct" posted, which says that if an item scans at more than the shelf sticker price, the customer can have one of those items for free, up to $10 value.
About once a year I get something free through that policy.
Madoff hasn't been found guilty yet. Why should a "presumed innocent" person be in jail, whether he is Madoff, or you, or me?
While your point is valid to a certain extent, there's no reason why spamvertized stuff can't be purchased from http://123.321.456.654/crap instead of http://abcdefghijk.cn/morecrap
In fact, I'm not sure why spammers go to the trouble of registering domains. If it's just for the ease of transferring the dns record to a new ip address, why bother? Just send out a new batch of garbage with a new ip address instead.
I downloaded the 64-bit version with the intention of looking at on my Fedora 10 system. However, when I mount the ISO and view the directory listing this is all that I see:
$ ll .gvfs/7000.0.081212-1400_client_en-us_Ultimate-GB1CULXFRE_EN_DVD.ISO/
total 1
-r-------- 1 user group 135 2008-12-13 08:51 README.TXT
README.TXT appears to be an empty file.
Is there a magic secret that's required to view the contents of this disk image?