How's that read GPL again? I agree that I can do whatever I want with GPL code, but if I want to distribute it I have to share my changes. If I break it there'd be Slashdotters calling for my nads on a stick.
The agreement with the movie theaters is "I agree that I can come in and sit quietly and watch the movie. No, I can't record it. No, I can't sit in the back and sing the Spider Man cartoon theme at the top of my lungs. No, I can't piss on the people in the next row." Simply put, you're not allowed to disrupt their business. Yes, recording and distributing it before it leaves theaters disrupts their business, don't kid yourself. If you don't like it, DON'T GO TO THE THEATER. How difficult is this concept?
This just proves how much of a huge differance we are making to the planet. One more reason to take global warming seriously.
I am not disagreeing with you, but it also proves just how transient our influence truly is. Shut them down, problem begins abating immediately and to a remarkable degree. Shutting them down completely is not really an option, but it does show that if we improve the cleanliness of our power systems it will have a effect in a very short period of time.
There was a fairly informative story about this on NPR recently. You can listen to it here
One of the nice things is that such a quick change bodes well for the effectiveness of improved scrubbers and clean-air standards applied to existing power plants, some of which are supposed to reduce emissions by as much as 50%.
That only makes you less likely to get robbed. Were your house to be burglarized, though, you would be a victim. Every instance of burglary results in a victim. The fact that you are less likely to get robbed doesn't change that.
Uh, well, yeah. Nothing can make me immune to robbery, so "less likely" is all I can shoot for. The alarm, the dog, the guns, they're all part of a layered defense. I also replaced the outside lights with very bright compact flourescents and leave them burning 24/7 as burglars are less likely to hit a well-lit home.
I didn't say speeding was always harmless. I said it isn't always harmful. The simple fact is that the intent of speeding laws is to reduce the behavior, not eliminate it completely. And the stance that every violation must be punished is absolutely unreasonable.
See my previous comment: "I'm not complaining about the ones going 25 or even 30. It's the ones who scream by going 45 and 50." If the cops were nailing everyone on my street who went 5mph hour over I'd be griping too. But the ones who are going 2-2.5x the posted limit need to be shut down hard.
There is necessarily harm to a victim in every burglary. Not so with speeding. There's a reason that burglary is punished more severely than speeding. Because it's a worse crime.
Not necessarily. The street I live on, which is a small residential area, happens to connect in just the right area to turn it in to a convenient shortcut. As a result my little 2-lane curvy street gets quite a bit of traffic. Including morons who think "20mph posted? Screw that, I'm in a hurry!" I'm not complaining about the ones going 25 or even 30. It's the ones who scream by going 45 and 50.
It's only a matter of time until a kid gets hit. (Remember: residential suburban street) The speeders scare me a lot more than burglers. Between the alarm system, my dog and my guns I'm not really worried about burglars.
Right now people on our street take turns calling the police and complaining. They send someone out who nails speeders for a day, but it really doesn't make a difference.
I'm not advocating RFID tags in license plates, mind you. I just think speeding isn't always harmless. Going 80mph on the 70mph interstate? Go for it. Going 45mph on a 20mph residential side-street is excessive and should be punished appropriately. Say, with a kick in the nads.:)
"Bailiff, I hereby sentence this idiot to a kick in the nads. Said sentence to be carried out immediately." Heh, I'd vote for that.
While Amazon may not accept cash directly they do accept money orders, which may be purchased with cash at your local post office without any form of identification being required. So effectively, yes they do accept cash, as money orders are an accepted way of paying by cash through the mail.
And yes, I do know someone who buys things online this way. A friend of mine is a little funny about his money - he doesn't use checks or credit cards or check cards or what not. He pays for everything with cash or money order. He orders things from Newegg quite regularly via money order.
Changing the default SSID doesn't help. Unlike Netgear, Linksys routers have no way to stop broadcasting the SSID. WEP helps but most people don't bother.
Incorrect. Right there on the default setup page are the following fields:
SSID: (key in your SSID) SSID Broadcast: (*) Enable ( ) Disable
There are enough bad things you can say about Linksys, you don't have to make up new ones that aren't true.
I like PROGRESSIVE taxes. Sales tax by it's very nature is regressive.
Understandable viewpoint. I happen to disagree with you. But that's the beauty of it - you can live in a state that chooses no sales tax and I choose to live in one of the few states without an income tax. Florida being one of the others I can name off the top of my head. They manage it by fleecing the tourists.
The refund does not include sales tax on equipment or installation - only access.
Proof once again that politicians don't understand that hardware is needed if software is going to be worth anything. Boy I'm glad I live in a no-sales-tax state.
We have a ridiculously high sales tax here, but no state income tax. I'd rather have the sales tax. As an aside, I do find it amusing that someone who calls himself a Marxist in his nick would gripe about taxes. (not flaming, just chuckling a bit)
You absolute bastard. I'll never be able to read Harry Potter again without thinking of this. Damn web page warped my fragile little mind. And my friends will never speak to me again once I subject them to it. Not that that will stop me. Shared pain is lessened pain and all that.
Or, if you install systems with publicly-visible IPs like this a lot, just get a stupid lame-o $50 NAT boxes that can serve DHCP addresses.
I've done that for friends / family that didn't have a NAT box (either had them buy one or brought one with me), but where I work that's not an option. When I'm setting up a new Windows Server 2003 box (I admin Novell Netware 6 and Windows NT/2K/2K3 machines) I do exactly as I described. I set up the machine offline, then just before I'm ready to get the updates I need I enable the firewall and patch the server in to the network for the first time. Install updates and then I disable the firewall (we don't use it on our servers thank you). Each situation is unique.
This is only necessary when initially building the machine. After that you make a point of hitting update regularly. If you hit Windows Update once per week you're fine. The worm writers aren't disco vering flaws in windows, they're reverse-engineering the patches to find an exploit. You stay patched and everything's okay.
I'm not saying it's great. I'm saying this is what we have to deal with right now.
Perhaps I'm taking the analogy too far, but can you name another product that is widely sold brand new with massive known defects? Ask me again on election day.
Too bad the firewall software loads *last* in the startup sequence, leaving a gaping hole of anywhere from 20 seconds to two minutes (on a slow machine) when your machine is on the net and unprotected. And during the height of worm activity, that's *more than enough* time to get infected.
So you build the machine offline. Leave ethernet disconnected right up until the moment you're ready to hit Windows Update. You're already booted up with the firewall enabled. Connect cable, wait a few seconds for XP to notice it, hit update. Voila.
Although IANAL, I suspect they did this not out of legal obligation but out of a desire to keep bad sellers out of their hall. They CAN do this, they don't HAVE to do this except as good business practice.
Now don't get me wrong, I don't think eBay is perfect - I refuse to use Paypal for reasons expressed by many - but I've browsed eBay and bought for years with no problems. Maybe my problem-free experience has colored my perceptions.
The closest real life analogy would be the proprietor of an exhibition hall holding a flea market. If you buy something crappy at the flea market from Joe, the building's owners aren't the ones you have a problem with. All they did was rent space and maybe some tables to Joe so he could set up and sell his stuff.
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How's that read GPL again? I agree that I can do whatever I want with GPL code, but if I want to distribute it I have to share my changes. If I break it there'd be Slashdotters calling for my nads on a stick.
The agreement with the movie theaters is "I agree that I can come in and sit quietly and watch the movie. No, I can't record it. No, I can't sit in the back and sing the Spider Man cartoon theme at the top of my lungs. No, I can't piss on the people in the next row." Simply put, you're not allowed to disrupt their business. Yes, recording and distributing it before it leaves theaters disrupts their business, don't kid yourself. If you don't like it, DON'T GO TO THE THEATER. How difficult is this concept?
Then change banks. Suntrust works fine with Mozilla, as does Bank of America.
... that there is gambling in this establishment!
This just proves how much of a huge differance we are making to the planet. One more reason to take global warming seriously.
I am not disagreeing with you, but it also proves just how transient our influence truly is. Shut them down, problem begins abating immediately and to a remarkable degree. Shutting them down completely is not really an option, but it does show that if we improve the cleanliness of our power systems it will have a effect in a very short period of time.
There was a fairly informative story about this on NPR recently. You can listen to it here
One of the nice things is that such a quick change bodes well for the effectiveness of improved scrubbers and clean-air standards applied to existing power plants, some of which are supposed to reduce emissions by as much as 50%.
That only makes you less likely to get robbed. Were your house to be burglarized, though, you would be a victim. Every instance of burglary results in a victim. The fact that you are less likely to get robbed doesn't change that.
Uh, well, yeah. Nothing can make me immune to robbery, so "less likely" is all I can shoot for. The alarm, the dog, the guns, they're all part of a layered defense. I also replaced the outside lights with very bright compact flourescents and leave them burning 24/7 as burglars are less likely to hit a well-lit home.
I didn't say speeding was always harmless. I said it isn't always harmful. The simple fact is that the intent of speeding laws is to reduce the behavior, not eliminate it completely. And the stance that every violation must be punished is absolutely unreasonable.
See my previous comment: "I'm not complaining about the ones going 25 or even 30. It's the ones who scream by going 45 and 50." If the cops were nailing everyone on my street who went 5mph hour over I'd be griping too. But the ones who are going 2-2.5x the posted limit need to be shut down hard.
There is necessarily harm to a victim in every burglary. Not so with speeding. There's a reason that burglary is punished more severely than speeding. Because it's a worse crime.
:)
Not necessarily. The street I live on, which is a small residential area, happens to connect in just the right area to turn it in to a convenient shortcut. As a result my little 2-lane curvy street gets quite a bit of traffic. Including morons who think "20mph posted? Screw that, I'm in a hurry!" I'm not complaining about the ones going 25 or even 30. It's the ones who scream by going 45 and 50.
It's only a matter of time until a kid gets hit. (Remember: residential suburban street) The speeders scare me a lot more than burglers. Between the alarm system, my dog and my guns I'm not really worried about burglars.
Right now people on our street take turns calling the police and complaining. They send someone out who nails speeders for a day, but it really doesn't make a difference.
I'm not advocating RFID tags in license plates, mind you. I just think speeding isn't always harmless. Going 80mph on the 70mph interstate? Go for it. Going 45mph on a 20mph residential side-street is excessive and should be punished appropriately. Say, with a kick in the nads.
"Bailiff, I hereby sentence this idiot to a kick in the nads. Said sentence to be carried out immediately." Heh, I'd vote for that.
While Amazon may not accept cash directly they do accept money orders, which may be purchased with cash at your local post office without any form of identification being required. So effectively, yes they do accept cash, as money orders are an accepted way of paying by cash through the mail.
And yes, I do know someone who buys things online this way. A friend of mine is a little funny about his money - he doesn't use checks or credit cards or check cards or what not. He pays for everything with cash or money order. He orders things from Newegg quite regularly via money order.
the music industry just may decide to stop allowing the purchase of music with cash, effectively eliminating anonymous purchasing.
Nope. Take a bill out of your wallet and read what it says:
THIS NOTE IS LEGAL TENDER FOR ALL DEBTS PUBLIC AND PRIVATE.
They can give you incentives for using plastic, but they cannot refuse to accept cash.
Yes, I know. It was mostly a joke. I find it amusing that it was modded as "underrated" instead of "funny."
probably since most distros (BSD & Linux) include BIND as their default DNS server. People are lazy.
Probably since most retail desktop OS's (Mac & Windows) include IE as their default browser. People are lazy.
(sorry, I couldn't resist)
Changing the default SSID doesn't help. Unlike Netgear, Linksys routers have no way to stop broadcasting the SSID. WEP helps but most people don't bother.
Incorrect. Right there on the default setup page are the following fields:
SSID: (key in your SSID)
SSID Broadcast: (*) Enable ( ) Disable
There are enough bad things you can say about Linksys, you don't have to make up new ones that aren't true.
I like PROGRESSIVE taxes. Sales tax by it's very nature is regressive.
Understandable viewpoint. I happen to disagree with you. But that's the beauty of it - you can live in a state that chooses no sales tax and I choose to live in one of the few states without an income tax. Florida being one of the others I can name off the top of my head. They manage it by fleecing the tourists.
The refund does not include sales tax on equipment or installation - only access.
Proof once again that politicians don't understand that hardware is needed if software is going to be worth anything. Boy I'm glad I live in a no-sales-tax state.
We have a ridiculously high sales tax here, but no state income tax. I'd rather have the sales tax. As an aside, I do find it amusing that someone who calls himself a Marxist in his nick would gripe about taxes. (not flaming, just chuckling a bit)
The procedure to reclaim your refund per the Tennesee Dept. of Revenue
The form on Comcast's web page to fill out and mail in.
Why yes, I do live in Nashville and have been a Comcast cable modem customer for for several years.
IT is dead. Get over it. Go for something new instead.
Tough job market for you too, eh?
You absolute bastard. I'll never be able to read Harry Potter again without thinking of this. Damn web page warped my fragile little mind. And my friends will never speak to me again once I subject them to it. Not that that will stop me. Shared pain is lessened pain and all that.
I fixed a minor problem on the pc in the back room at my local auto shop. They gave me half a dozen free oil changes.
I also fixed a not-so-minor problem for a local gun store. He paid me with a very nice folding knife.
I do family & friends for free, or more accurately "for a favor to be named later."
Or, if you install systems with publicly-visible IPs like this a lot, just get a stupid lame-o $50 NAT boxes that can serve DHCP addresses.
I've done that for friends / family that didn't have a NAT box (either had them buy one or brought one with me), but where I work that's not an option. When I'm setting up a new Windows Server 2003 box (I admin Novell Netware 6 and Windows NT/2K/2K3 machines) I do exactly as I described. I set up the machine offline, then just before I'm ready to get the updates I need I enable the firewall and patch the server in to the network for the first time. Install updates and then I disable the firewall (we don't use it on our servers thank you). Each situation is unique.
This is only necessary when initially building the machine. After that you make a point of hitting update regularly. If you hit Windows Update once per week you're fine. The worm writers aren't disco vering flaws in windows, they're reverse-engineering the patches to find an exploit. You stay patched and everything's okay.
I'm not saying it's great. I'm saying this is what we have to deal with right now.
Perhaps I'm taking the analogy too far, but can you name another product that is widely sold brand new with massive known defects?
Ask me again on election day.
Too bad the firewall software loads *last* in the startup sequence, leaving a gaping hole of anywhere from 20 seconds to two minutes (on a slow machine) when your machine is on the net and unprotected. And during the height of worm activity, that's *more than enough* time to get infected.
So you build the machine offline. Leave ethernet disconnected right up until the moment you're ready to hit Windows Update. You're already booted up with the firewall enabled. Connect cable, wait a few seconds for XP to notice it, hit update. Voila.
Although IANAL, I suspect they did this not out of legal obligation but out of a desire to keep bad sellers out of their hall. They CAN do this, they don't HAVE to do this except as good business practice.
Now don't get me wrong, I don't think eBay is perfect - I refuse to use Paypal for reasons expressed by many - but I've browsed eBay and bought for years with no problems. Maybe my problem-free experience has colored my perceptions.
The closest real life analogy would be the proprietor of an exhibition hall holding a flea market. If you buy something crappy at the flea market from Joe, the building's owners aren't the ones you have a problem with. All they did was rent space and maybe some tables to Joe so he could set up and sell his stuff.
If you can't deal with this, don't shop on ebay.
A camera for hot & moist locations? Do you have any connections in the porn industry?