What we need is a moderation system for shitty drivers (i.e. the 90 year blind, crippled, and deaf paraplegic who drives a "boat" from the 70's - or fuckin teenie-boppers on cell phones. . )
ok, I do want to stay objective, but they are rated the _worst_ isp in the nation.
MSN's market is also pretty specific - they want to be like aol and serve the average joe - which, by the way has 26 million subs (fuck!!! that brings them $624,000,000 monthly) of which there are obviously plenty. Most people are perfectly content putting up with msn's bullshit - proprietary browser / email client, dsl modem, spy ware, shitty tech support etc, etc) and to be quite honest, they have seven million people paying at least $20 a month for isp service - they don't care if a few geeks don't like the terms, that isn't the market they are aiming for. Arrogant - yes; abnormal - not for the market.
Anyways..
ISP rankings by user
http://www.isp-planet.com/research/rankings/usa. ht ml
Qwest and SBC have both been "fined" heavily for their lack of cutomer service - however MSN is immune to this sort of thing.
Time for a few facts. Needless to say, try to switch.
MSN _WORST_ rated isp on dslreports.com
The letter states on the front that prices will not increase (or something to that effect), on the back, it states that additional rates will apply, so msn is probably more expensive than a local mom and pop - and will be certainly more expensive than your qwest service ($5 a month or so, depending on region).
Switching over to another isp is a major hassle, though the same thing happens with msn, they have to tear down your dsl circuit, and rebuild it. Give about a week for qwest to rebuild a circuit because of the volume that they have at the current time, and all the corporate bullshit. I'd say some kind of fuckups happen around 1% of the time.
MSN call times - 6 1/2 minutes or less, essentially high school age kids / parolees are hired at $6.50 an hour. Forget about help from these people - no doubt they have good intentions and some may actually be good techs (albeit masacists(sp??)), but it takes about a minute to get user's information into the db and to bring up the user info, so. . .
Ask the tech to check the service logs to see if
a) you are correctly translated (i.e. no "fail" in the bottom of the service logs).
One last thing - people in tier 2 are under pressure to fix tickets, so occasionally they will just close the tickets without even working on them, and that is plain fucked up.
DSL Service Center 1-800-247-7285 1,2,4
Call these people to switch isps. MF 6-6 PST
SEATTLE - Bill Gates, richest man in the world, announced late Friday evening, that in keeping with his company's new policy of "Discover Your World" he would be putting 30 billion dollars into funding a trip to the far reaches of outer space to finally put an answer to the question, " What is a black hole?"
"We must strive to stretch our horizons" Mr. Gates said while unveiling a mock up spacecraft. "The Qube is singularly revolutionary - it is controlled via neural networks which interface between the ship with these nifty lasers that go over one eye."
However skeptics maintain that information will not be able to travel back from the ship even if it does collect scientific data about the nature of black holes. Microsoft, however, seems unfazed; "We realize at the current time, that issue may cause us problems, though we aren't worried - we work best under deadlines - take our release of windows 97 . . . well that's a bad example, umm. . . Microsoft has a great team that helps us get out of tight situations - take the DOJ trials - no one expected us to come out of that scot-free."
Top Enron executives also expressed interest in coming along for the trip, and plan on funding their portion selling Enron Ethics Handbooks on Ebay , with a source close to the vice president mentioning that "Anyplace would be better than here when our employees find us." - a view shared by Garth Wayne Johnson, Ken Lay's future cellmate in New York's "Ban Gurahz" prison, "Ah no dat da eron beetches ah gonna be ah hoes, so dey nee' packtis an' shit!"
The universe is expanding yes? What is it expanding into?
Perhaps I'm wrong, but generally nuclear waste is more dense than water (i.e. it sinks). It shouldn't be a problem even if it does escape if you dump it into a deep enough trench.
I suppose the correct question to ask is how many possible solutions are there in "decoding" a hash that was "encoded" with a known algorithim - especially if you know the block size. Certainly less than the 2^(8*16) that you used in your example above. Sure, there are an [close to an?]infinite number of possibilities, but most of those possibilities wouldn't equal the "compressed" data (the hash).
Another thing would be is it possible to "decode" a hash inteligently - because there would be almost no way that this would work if you had to "brute force" all the data. I suppose this will get to something like "we can't do this intelligently and brute force will take too much time"
right - decoding the MD5 hash would give you several possiblities - the real file and a whole bunch of garbage byte streams.
but if you use another hashing algorithm, you will get your original file and a whole bunch of garbage byte streams.
If you find exact matches from both of the algorithims, you have found your original file.
This may be a bit off topic, actually I posted it on the original thread but got no responses -
and I was hoping for some/.'ers who have some math skills to give me some advice / explain why it is a bad idea (TM).
I'd like some fellow/.'ers to give me some advice on an idea for a "Kick Ass Compression" - appologies in advance for the clumsy language.
Take a block of data - throw it against an algorithm that outputs a specific value ( I'm thinking of CRC, MD5 hash or what not), do that several times against several different algorithms which generate a similar kind of value. Record the two (or more) values, then encapsulate the small block of data into larger blocks - I'm thinking only 3 or 4 levels of encapsulation would be needed (because if you calculated the crc of the entire file, a program could decide which choice (in decoding a "block" if there are multiple ones, which I'm fairly sure there will be) is correct.
Now people use md5 hashes/crc checks to verify whether the file they downloaded hasn't been modified, so I'm assuming that it is fairly difficult to get the exact value (especially with a known size). Using this "property" (I'm not sure if that is a correct word) you could decode the data into one of several (hundred??thousand??) byte streams (possibilities of uncompressed data) and by comparing byte streams between algorithm A and B, the byte streams would match at one (would it be possible to have more? I suppose it depends on the algorithms used) point, which would be the proper "uncompressed" (rather derived or something) data.
Basically there are many possibilities for each type of "hash", but if you compare the many output strings, you will eventually find matches.
I'm pretty sure it would take a shitload of computing power in decompressing - be horribly inefficient - but computers are fairly fast nowadays, and I think that this could be a viable at some point. 100:1 compression probably not, and there would be a lower limit imposed on the file size based on the possible choices (I think the possible choices would stretch to near infinity pretty fast, if anything, the computing time would set a "lower limit")
Maybe I'm just plain wrong - but could something like this be useable? Any advice / abuse would be appreciated:)
Thanks!
(Hmm.. a recent moderation of one of my comments, I found it quite funny)
Moderation Totals: Redundant=2, Insightful=1, Overrated=1, Underrated=1, Total=5.
handcuffs, ride to jail in the back of a police cruiser, being held in lockup untill someone proves your identity. . . Sounds suspiciously like arrest to me. If not, sounds like east germany.
Give Bernard a call;)
(773) 391-0595
What a fuckin' moron. Tho methinks he just disconnected his phone from the wall. I sure as hell hope he isnt expecting any calls . . .
(poor bastard)
Hey, this is turning into kinda a fc thread.. woot!
Damn that's funny.
Anyone remember the usenet flame wars of the early 90's (really depended on which group you were in)? Those were the days eh? I like how the asshole first writes "Fuck you bitch" emails and then follows them by slightly witty "please send me your addess so I can sue you" emails.
n00b. . .
I was bored so I sent him a link to the page (yeah, yeah, I'm an asshole:)
(Grammar nazi is gonna love all the spelling / grammar corrections)
Montana 904,433
Delaware 796,165
South Dakota 756,600
Alaska 634,892
North Dakota 634,448
Vermont 613,090
Wyoming 494,423
Of course, I dont know jack about the south korean situation, but there are plenty of "1000 people towns" in Canada as as well as the usa. Those people are _never_ going to get dsl because there is no point for the broadband companies to put an investment there. I honestly can't see the difference between an American / Canadian city - especially if DSL / Broadband access is pretty much not available in the states, but is almost universally available in canada.
I'm not a math person by any means (still doing college algebra, which pretty much means everybody has a better understanding of math than I do), and I would appreciate people picking this apart.
So, my idea for a "Kick Ass Compression"
Take a block of data - throw it against an algorithm that outputs a specific value ( I'm thinking of CRC, MD5 hash or what not), do that several times against several different algorithm which generate a similar kind of value. Record the two (or more) values, then encapsulate the small block of data into larger blocks - I'm thinking only 3 or 4 levels of encapsulation would be needed (because if you calculated the crc of the entire file, a program could decide which choice (in decoding a "block" if there are multiple ones, which I'm fairly sure there will be) is correct.
Now people use md5 hashes/crc checks to verify whether the file they downloaded hasn't been modified, so I'm assuming that it is fairly difficult to get the exact value (especially with a known size). Using this "property" (I'm not sure if that is a correct word) you could decode the data into one of several (hundred??thousand??) byte streams (possibilities of uncompressed data) and by comparing byte streams between algorithm A and B, the byte streams would match at one (would it be possible to have more? I suppose it depends on the algorithms used) point, which would be the proper "uncompressed" (rather derived or something) data.
I'm pretty sure it would take a shitload of computing power in decompressing, but computers are fairly fast nowadays, and I think that this could be a viable at some point. 100:1 probably not, and there would be a lower limit imposed on the file size based on the possible choices (I think the possible choices would reach a pretty large number pretty fast)
Maybe I'm just plain wrong - but could something like this be useable? Any abuse would be appreciated:)
Thanks!
oh come on, the article is a apple (and jobs) ad for christ sakes, I honestly doubt this was leaked as much as "be nice to use and we give you a scoop"
Fucking Bonzai Buddy
I swear that fucker resides in the MBR it is such a pain to get rid of. Once it is gone, windows is unstable (yeah, yah troll on, 2k is damn stable before this shit is installed)
Second, the exec lies thru his teeth.
And the clicktilluwin "not do anything until activated" motto is pure bullshit, this thing starts sending data from the moment it is installed beside limewire.
Of course, http://www.lavasoftusa.com/index.html is an awesome prog - ad aware lets you know what shit you have on your system and then removes it usually quite effectively. To be honest, shit like this might actually be a good arguement for open source, how many "features" are installed in popular programs that we have no idea of - i.e. they have been integrated into the program. Its also a really fucking good arguement for using opera (BTW, you know/. says that a majority of people are using ie 5.0, opera allows you to change its settings so it looks like it is ie (for the fucking sites that wont let other browers in) I switched, i dunno about others..
One last thought: Clicktilluwin
It was classified as a trojan horse, because that is what it is - think of this - if the av manufacuters bent over a desk for these fuckers (declassifying this "program" as a trojan), you think that they would protect you from the FBI?!?!!?
Shit, if the threat of a lawsuit is all it takes, someone could make a virus, sue all the av companies that made solutions, and then sell "protection"...
Someone meeds to stop by their headquarters and throw a friggin brick through the biggest window in the office. Then take pics, post them to freenet.
Seriously, stupid shit like this has got to stop, companies like rambus doing their patent fairy dance, the fuckin tivo/sonicblue bullshit, shit like trying to take a domain name away from a person who registered the name years before the company existed...
http://save.unicom.com/
I'd think the courts in this country would realize that pulling this sort of crap is not cool. If you're gonna make something propriatery and want to keep it secret
Of course, this is assuming that there is a pre-school level of technical ability / understanding in the patent office.
Fuckin' lawyers. . .
Jesus Christ, Ukraine is one of the, if not the poorest countries in the ex-eastern bloc. The usa is bullying them because they can. If you want to talk about rampant piracy talk about asia, india, pakistan, hell, to a lesser extent (but certainly where more piracy exists), the USA. Ukraine has other problems (like feeding its population) to worry about!
No one has picked up on this quote,
on
Monsanto and PCBs
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· Score: 2
Robert Kaley, Monsanto's whore, mentions 2 things that are really interesting: (environmental affairs director for Solutia who also serves as the PCB expert for the American Chemistry Council)
"Did we do some things we wouldn't do today? Of course. But that's a little piece of a big story," he said. "If you put it all in context, I think we've got nothing to be ashamed of."
Then another gem at the end. . .
"I'm really pretty proud of what we did," Kaley said. "Was it perfect? No. Could we be second-guessed? Sure. But I think we mostly did what any company would do, even today."
Now if this doesn't scare you I'm not sure what will. No remorse, nothing. Sad thing is that opinions like this end up getting to politicians after getting campaign contributions.
Hmm.. also, I wonder who introduced micheal to www.fark.com.. Quite a few stories have been taken off their front page today (i.e. all) Anyways...
More self interested fucks will set up crap spamware sites with 50 banners each.
I have to ask, do people actually make money off this shit? I mean, how valuable is "sex.com" or "banks.com.au" does anybody go to these sites (more than once)?? (and http porn is so passe. . . .;)
I think people would of have realized by now that people don't typically type shit like sex.com in their browser, but use a search engine. Space.com is a fairly cool site, but I don't visit it because of the domain name / advertising, but because the content is fairly decent.
Anyways....
It's not. Well, in the USA/ canada it isn't - it's damn near free. Europe is a different story, the "top level" isps tend to charge quite a bit for bandwidth... There is tons of dark fiber, but it isn't hooked up to anything (i.e. a major backbone provider)
Slashdot Mirror
Buwhahaha!
I'm sorry, you said aol and support in the same sentence.
Don't be stupid, sell out and leave with $$ and continue elsewhere, jeez, are you that rich?
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I thought this was hella funny btw.
http://ars.userfriendly.org/cartoons/?id=200201
What we need is a moderation system for shitty drivers (i.e. the 90 year blind, crippled, and deaf paraplegic who drives a "boat" from the 70's - or fuckin teenie-boppers on cell phones. . )
ok, I do want to stay objective, but they are rated the _worst_ isp in the nation.
. ht ml
MSN's market is also pretty specific - they want to be like aol and serve the average joe - which, by the way has 26 million subs (fuck!!! that brings them $624,000,000 monthly) of which there are obviously plenty. Most people are perfectly content putting up with msn's bullshit - proprietary browser / email client, dsl modem, spy ware, shitty tech support etc, etc) and to be quite honest, they have seven million people paying at least $20 a month for isp service - they don't care if a few geeks don't like the terms, that isn't the market they are aiming for. Arrogant - yes; abnormal - not for the market.
Anyways..
ISP rankings by user
http://www.isp-planet.com/research/rankings/usa
Qwest and SBC have both been "fined" heavily for their lack of cutomer service - however MSN is immune to this sort of thing.
Time for a few facts. Needless to say, try to switch.
:)
MSN _WORST_ rated isp on dslreports.com
The letter states on the front that prices will not increase (or something to that effect), on the back, it states that additional rates will apply, so msn is probably more expensive than a local mom and pop - and will be certainly more expensive than your qwest service ($5 a month or so, depending on region).
Switching over to another isp is a major hassle, though the same thing happens with msn, they have to tear down your dsl circuit, and rebuild it. Give about a week for qwest to rebuild a circuit because of the volume that they have at the current time, and all the corporate bullshit. I'd say some kind of fuckups happen around 1% of the time.
MSN call times - 6 1/2 minutes or less, essentially high school age kids / parolees are hired at $6.50 an hour. Forget about help from these people - no doubt they have good intentions and some may actually be good techs (albeit masacists(sp??)), but it takes about a minute to get user's information into the db and to bring up the user info, so. . .
Ask the tech to check the service logs to see if
a) you are correctly translated (i.e. no "fail" in the bottom of the service logs).
One last thing - people in tier 2 are under pressure to fix tickets, so occasionally they will just close the tickets without even working on them, and that is plain fucked up.
DSL Service Center 1-800-247-7285 1,2,4
Call these people to switch isps. MF 6-6 PST
Good luck I guess....
I thought I clicked on english . . .
SEATTLE - Bill Gates, richest man in the world, announced late Friday evening, that in keeping with his company's new policy of "Discover Your World" he would be putting 30 billion dollars into funding a trip to the far reaches of outer space to finally put an answer to the question, " What is a black hole?"
"We must strive to stretch our horizons" Mr. Gates said while unveiling a mock up spacecraft. "The Qube is singularly revolutionary - it is controlled via neural networks which interface between the ship with these nifty lasers that go over one eye."
However skeptics maintain that information will not be able to travel back from the ship even if it does collect scientific data about the nature of black holes. Microsoft, however, seems unfazed; "We realize at the current time, that issue may cause us problems, though we aren't worried - we work best under deadlines - take our release of windows 97 . . . well that's a bad example, umm. . . Microsoft has a great team that helps us get out of tight situations - take the DOJ trials - no one expected us to come out of that scot-free."
Top Enron executives also expressed interest in coming along for the trip, and plan on funding their portion selling Enron Ethics Handbooks on Ebay , with a source close to the vice president mentioning that "Anyplace would be better than here when our employees find us." - a view shared by Garth Wayne Johnson, Ken Lay's future cellmate in New York's "Ban Gurahz" prison, "Ah no dat da eron beetches ah gonna be ah hoes, so dey nee' packtis an' shit!"
The universe is expanding yes? What is it expanding into?
Perhaps I'm wrong, but generally nuclear waste is more dense than water (i.e. it sinks). It shouldn't be a problem even if it does escape if you dump it into a deep enough trench.
I suppose the correct question to ask is how many possible solutions are there in "decoding" a hash that was "encoded" with a known algorithim - especially if you know the block size. Certainly less than the 2^(8*16) that you used in your example above. Sure, there are an [close to an?]infinite number of possibilities, but most of those possibilities wouldn't equal the "compressed" data (the hash).
Another thing would be is it possible to "decode" a hash inteligently - because there would be almost no way that this would work if you had to "brute force" all the data. I suppose this will get to something like "we can't do this intelligently and brute force will take too much time"
right - decoding the MD5 hash would give you several possiblities - the real file and a whole bunch of garbage byte streams.
but if you use another hashing algorithm, you will get your original file and a whole bunch of garbage byte streams.
If you find exact matches from both of the algorithims, you have found your original file.
This may be a bit off topic, actually I posted it on the original thread but got no responses - /.'ers who have some math skills to give me some advice / explain why it is a bad idea (TM).
/.'ers to give me some advice on an idea for a "Kick Ass Compression" - appologies in advance for the clumsy language.
:)
and I was hoping for some
I'd like some fellow
Take a block of data - throw it against an algorithm that outputs a specific value ( I'm thinking of CRC, MD5 hash or what not), do that several times against several different algorithms which generate a similar kind of value. Record the two (or more) values, then encapsulate the small block of data into larger blocks - I'm thinking only 3 or 4 levels of encapsulation would be needed (because if you calculated the crc of the entire file, a program could decide which choice (in decoding a "block" if there are multiple ones, which I'm fairly sure there will be) is correct.
Now people use md5 hashes/crc checks to verify whether the file they downloaded hasn't been modified, so I'm assuming that it is fairly difficult to get the exact value (especially with a known size). Using this "property" (I'm not sure if that is a correct word) you could decode the data into one of several (hundred??thousand??) byte streams (possibilities of uncompressed data) and by comparing byte streams between algorithm A and B, the byte streams would match at one (would it be possible to have more? I suppose it depends on the algorithms used) point, which would be the proper "uncompressed" (rather derived or something) data.
Basically there are many possibilities for each type of "hash", but if you compare the many output strings, you will eventually find matches.
I'm pretty sure it would take a shitload of computing power in decompressing - be horribly inefficient - but computers are fairly fast nowadays, and I think that this could be a viable at some point. 100:1 compression probably not, and there would be a lower limit imposed on the file size based on the possible choices (I think the possible choices would stretch to near infinity pretty fast, if anything, the computing time would set a "lower limit")
Maybe I'm just plain wrong - but could something like this be useable? Any advice / abuse would be appreciated
Thanks!
(Hmm.. a recent moderation of one of my comments, I found it quite funny)
Moderation Totals: Redundant=2, Insightful=1, Overrated=1, Underrated=1, Total=5.
handcuffs, ride to jail in the back of a police cruiser, being held in lockup untill someone proves your identity. . . Sounds suspiciously like arrest to me. If not, sounds like east germany.
Give Bernard a call ;)
(773) 391-0595
What a fuckin' moron. Tho methinks he just disconnected his phone from the wall. I sure as hell hope he isnt expecting any calls . . .
(poor bastard)
Hey, this is turning into kinda a fc thread.. woot!
Damn that's funny.
:)
Anyone remember the usenet flame wars of the early 90's (really depended on which group you were in)? Those were the days eh? I like how the asshole first writes "Fuck you bitch" emails and then follows them by slightly witty "please send me your addess so I can sue you" emails.
n00b. . .
I was bored so I sent him a link to the page (yeah, yeah, I'm an asshole
(Grammar nazi is gonna love all the spelling / grammar corrections)
Urban sprawl - you mean like: (census data)
Montana 904,433
Delaware 796,165
South Dakota 756,600
Alaska 634,892
North Dakota 634,448
Vermont 613,090
Wyoming 494,423
Of course, I dont know jack about the south korean situation, but there are plenty of "1000 people towns" in Canada as as well as the usa. Those people are _never_ going to get dsl because there is no point for the broadband companies to put an investment there. I honestly can't see the difference between an American / Canadian city - especially if DSL / Broadband access is pretty much not available in the states, but is almost universally available in canada.
I'm not a math person by any means (still doing college algebra, which pretty much means everybody has a better understanding of math than I do), and I would appreciate people picking this apart.
:)
So, my idea for a "Kick Ass Compression"
Take a block of data - throw it against an algorithm that outputs a specific value ( I'm thinking of CRC, MD5 hash or what not), do that several times against several different algorithm which generate a similar kind of value. Record the two (or more) values, then encapsulate the small block of data into larger blocks - I'm thinking only 3 or 4 levels of encapsulation would be needed (because if you calculated the crc of the entire file, a program could decide which choice (in decoding a "block" if there are multiple ones, which I'm fairly sure there will be) is correct.
Now people use md5 hashes/crc checks to verify whether the file they downloaded hasn't been modified, so I'm assuming that it is fairly difficult to get the exact value (especially with a known size). Using this "property" (I'm not sure if that is a correct word) you could decode the data into one of several (hundred??thousand??) byte streams (possibilities of uncompressed data) and by comparing byte streams between algorithm A and B, the byte streams would match at one (would it be possible to have more? I suppose it depends on the algorithms used) point, which would be the proper "uncompressed" (rather derived or something) data.
I'm pretty sure it would take a shitload of computing power in decompressing, but computers are fairly fast nowadays, and I think that this could be a viable at some point. 100:1 probably not, and there would be a lower limit imposed on the file size based on the possible choices (I think the possible choices would reach a pretty large number pretty fast)
Maybe I'm just plain wrong - but could something like this be useable? Any abuse would be appreciated
Thanks!
oh come on, the article is a apple (and jobs) ad for christ sakes, I honestly doubt this was leaked as much as "be nice to use and we give you a scoop"
Ad aware, scans registry / files for spy/mal/etc ware and removes them
http://www.lavasoftusa.com/index.html
dont forget about __SPAM__ and annoying fucking banner ads!
First - the worst spyware/malware/virus.
/. says that a majority of people are using ie 5.0, opera allows you to change its settings so it looks like it is ie (for the fucking sites that wont let other browers in) I switched, i dunno about others..
Fucking Bonzai Buddy
I swear that fucker resides in the MBR it is such a pain to get rid of. Once it is gone, windows is unstable (yeah, yah troll on, 2k is damn stable before this shit is installed)
Second, the exec lies thru his teeth.
And the clicktilluwin "not do anything until activated" motto is pure bullshit, this thing starts sending data from the moment it is installed beside limewire.
Of course, http://www.lavasoftusa.com/index.html is an awesome prog - ad aware lets you know what shit you have on your system and then removes it usually quite effectively. To be honest, shit like this might actually be a good arguement for open source, how many "features" are installed in popular programs that we have no idea of - i.e. they have been integrated into the program. Its also a really fucking good arguement for using opera (BTW, you know
One last thought: Clicktilluwin
It was classified as a trojan horse, because that is what it is - think of this - if the av manufacuters bent over a desk for these fuckers (declassifying this "program" as a trojan), you think that they would protect you from the FBI?!?!!?
Shit, if the threat of a lawsuit is all it takes, someone could make a virus, sue all the av companies that made solutions, and then sell "protection"...
Someone meeds to stop by their headquarters and throw a friggin brick through the biggest window in the office. Then take pics, post them to freenet.
Seriously, stupid shit like this has got to stop, companies like rambus doing their patent fairy dance, the fuckin tivo/sonicblue bullshit, shit like trying to take a domain name away from a person who registered the name years before the company existed...
http://save.unicom.com/
I'd think the courts in this country would realize that pulling this sort of crap is not cool. If you're gonna make something propriatery and want to keep it secret
Of course, this is assuming that there is a pre-school level of technical ability / understanding in the patent office.
Fuckin' lawyers. . .
Jesus Christ, Ukraine is one of the, if not the poorest countries in the ex-eastern bloc. The usa is bullying them because they can. If you want to talk about rampant piracy talk about asia, india, pakistan, hell, to a lesser extent (but certainly where more piracy exists), the USA. Ukraine has other problems (like feeding its population) to worry about!
Robert Kaley, Monsanto's whore, mentions 2 things that are really interesting: (environmental affairs director for Solutia who also serves as the PCB expert for the American Chemistry Council)
"Did we do some things we wouldn't do today? Of course. But that's a little piece of a big story," he said. "If you put it all in context, I think we've got nothing to be ashamed of."
Then another gem at the end. . .
"I'm really pretty proud of what we did," Kaley said. "Was it perfect? No. Could we be second-guessed? Sure. But I think we mostly did what any company would do, even today."
Now if this doesn't scare you I'm not sure what will. No remorse, nothing. Sad thing is that opinions like this end up getting to politicians after getting campaign contributions.
Hmm.. also, I wonder who introduced micheal to www.fark.com.. Quite a few stories have been taken off their front page today (i.e. all) Anyways...
More self interested fucks will set up crap spamware sites with 50 banners each. ;)
I have to ask, do people actually make money off this shit? I mean, how valuable is "sex.com" or "banks.com.au" does anybody go to these sites (more than once)?? (and http porn is so passe. . . .
I think people would of have realized by now that people don't typically type shit like sex.com in their browser, but use a search engine. Space.com is a fairly cool site, but I don't visit it because of the domain name / advertising, but because the content is fairly decent.
Anyways....
It's not. Well, in the USA/ canada it isn't - it's damn near free. Europe is a different story, the "top level" isps tend to charge quite a bit for bandwidth... There is tons of dark fiber, but it isn't hooked up to anything (i.e. a major backbone provider)