These cable bastards need to be raked over the coals for this
Cable, unlike DSL, is a shared medium. In other words, if some selfish jerk wants to trade torrents 24/7 and max the bandwidth then that can very well impact every other user on that line.
If their advertisement of "unlimited bandwidth" is several hundred of gigs each month then that is effectively "unlimited."
In my opinion, it is completely reasonable to threaten to terminate service to people who are, in effect, diminishing the service of others.
The constant barrage of unconstitutionality baffles me.
Not to start an argument, but if the "constant barrage of unconstitutionality" baffles you then maybe, just maybe, your interpretation of unconstitutionality is wrong?
Don't any of you people read the article. (yes this is slashdot, I know)
President Bush isn't claiming any new found Presidential power. Nor is he saying that the federal government is planning on opening a random 25% of private mail.
The entire article is extremely slanted and only down near the bottom is it revealed that Presidents have always had such power. The most telling part is when the spokesperson mention the "tick bomb" example and the very next sentence was 'Bush, however, cited "exigent circumstances..."'. Using the word "however" gives the impression that President Bush is adding onto the "ticking bomb" powers with lesser demanding circumstances. Completely false.
A slanted hit piece on President Bush and the majority of the readers here and knee-jerking about how President Bush is destroying every American civil right.
If there were no nuclear weapons, the world would be a safer place.
This is completely false.
If the number of deaths by war were plotted over the course of human history you would see a a line that increased every year and each year the increase grew steeper. Around 1945, by coincidence I'm sure, the number of deaths by war has dropped to about a million per year and it has stayed there ever since.
Nuclear weapons, as illogical as it may sound, save lives.
there is only one county in the world that has ever used nuclear weapons... twice... on civilians.
Case in point. Japan started the fight and they would not surrender. Very conservative estimates of an invasion of Japan's homeland put American deaths at a million and Japanese deaths as a multiple of that. As horrific the destruction caused by the 2 atomic bombs, those bombs saved American and Japanese lives.
"If you discover a vlunerability and report it only to us, when we eventually release the patch, we will give you credit for discovering it (what researchers really want), and we will give you $10,000.
It's the same reason MS don't come down too hard on piracy of their OS and office suites. It actually supports their business.
Apparently, you haven't heard of the WGA.
A few years ago you were correct. MS didn't give a damn since it increased market share. Due to Vista being a clusterfuck and years late, ms needs to crack down on piracy in order to get their revenues back up.
"Dear Penthouse Letters, I know you'll never believe this, but I was driving to work, when I saw Ron Jeremy hitchhiking. After I pulled over to the shoulder, I could see he was VERY excited to see me, a 5' 10", 140 lbs. blonde woman with huge breasts, and my bi-curious Asian girlfriend Mia, who just had breast augmentation surgery as well. We had just opened up a second bottle of tequila when "wooden" Ron, in more ways than one!, got in the back seat with Mia.
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was Paris Hilton.
I watch way too much porn.
I'd say for hardware support Ubuntu is way ahead of where Win2k was in 2000 or 2001.
Maybe so, but no one is installing Win2k in 2001 right now.
Oh, artificial bones. I thought it said "artificial boners"
These cable bastards need to be raked over the coals for this
Cable, unlike DSL, is a shared medium. In other words, if some selfish jerk wants to trade torrents 24/7 and max the bandwidth then that can very well impact every other user on that line.
If their advertisement of "unlimited bandwidth" is several hundred of gigs each month then that is effectively "unlimited."
In my opinion, it is completely reasonable to threaten to terminate service to people who are, in effect, diminishing the service of others.
Why the need for so much drama?
Ad revenues?
IMO, Delphi is still the best and fastest option available.
The constant barrage of unconstitutionality baffles me.
Not to start an argument, but if the "constant barrage of unconstitutionality" baffles you then maybe, just maybe, your interpretation of unconstitutionality is wrong?
Don't any of you people read the article. (yes this is slashdot, I know)
President Bush isn't claiming any new found Presidential power. Nor is he saying that the federal government is planning on opening a random 25% of private mail.
The entire article is extremely slanted and only down near the bottom is it revealed that Presidents have always had such power. The most telling part is when the spokesperson mention the "tick bomb" example and the very next sentence was 'Bush, however, cited "exigent circumstances..."'. Using the word "however" gives the impression that President Bush is adding onto the "ticking bomb" powers with lesser demanding circumstances. Completely false.
A slanted hit piece on President Bush and the majority of the readers here and knee-jerking about how President Bush is destroying every American civil right.
I challenge you to prove otherwise.
OK.
If you make a conscious decision to kill a peaceful human being
Both countries were at war with each other.
If there were no nuclear weapons, the world would be a safer place.
This is completely false.
If the number of deaths by war were plotted over the course of human history you would see a a line that increased every year and each year the increase grew steeper. Around 1945, by coincidence I'm sure, the number of deaths by war has dropped to about a million per year and it has stayed there ever since.
Nuclear weapons, as illogical as it may sound, save lives.
there is only one county in the world that has ever used nuclear weapons... twice... on civilians.
Case in point. Japan started the fight and they would not surrender. Very conservative estimates of an invasion of Japan's homeland put American deaths at a million and Japanese deaths as a multiple of that. As horrific the destruction caused by the 2 atomic bombs, those bombs saved American and Japanese lives.
"If you discover a vlunerability and report it only to us, when we eventually release the patch, we will give you credit for discovering it (what researchers really want), and we will give you $10,000.
$10,000 per bug would bankrupt microsoft.
It's the same reason MS don't come down too hard on piracy of their OS and office suites. It actually supports their business.
Apparently, you haven't heard of the WGA.
A few years ago you were correct. MS didn't give a damn since it increased market share. Due to Vista being a clusterfuck and years late, ms needs to crack down on piracy in order to get their revenues back up.
Of course, the political correctness gestapo will not allow me to explain more.
the "John Holmes" build.
the record when she closed her jaws!
when they reach into the box and find a compact disc instead!
Christ people. One of these stories every other week is getting old.
"Windows"
So Penthouse letters can get a few entries.
"Dear Penthouse Letters, I know you'll never believe this, but I was driving to work, when I saw Ron Jeremy hitchhiking. After I pulled over to the shoulder, I could see he was VERY excited to see me, a 5' 10", 140 lbs. blonde woman with huge breasts, and my bi-curious Asian girlfriend Mia, who just had breast augmentation surgery as well. We had just opened up a second bottle of tequila when "wooden" Ron, in more ways than one!, got in the back seat with Mia.
He was tapping Stevie Case.
Except for when the technology breaks and there will be no man to fix it.
That was damn funny.
Someone else here reads OpinionJournal.com.
reads like a whos who of third world countries and banana republics, what good company USA keeps
Land mines are extremely effective and it would be stupid to not use them.
The land mines people are complaining about are the ones that are placed hundreds of thousands at a time and left for decades.
The US does not deploy land mines that way and our land mines can be destroyed when they are past their usefulness.
To complain just because the US hasn't signed that treaty is the same as saying that the Police shouldn't use firearms because criminals do.
DoubleSpace?
from Command Line Interface to the Command Line Interface Terminal.
Just to make the ladies comfortable and the OS a bit more feminine.