How about standing behind your comments and opinions, instead of just deleting them when they can be held against you?
Okay, for usenet, sure. That's why I haven't removed my stuff from the google news thing. I've got posts from 1992 on their, many of them not all that flattering (I was 18, that's my excuse).
My websites, on the other hand, are *my* creation, not "released to the public" as has been argued is the case for email and usenet. I *still* own the copyrights, but they are not being respected.
I can stand behind stupid/offensive websites I made in my younger days. Can they stand behind their claims that they respect copyright? Last time I checked, copyright (at least in Berne signatory countries) was not an opt-in thing.
Wow. Is it just me, or has every single song on audiogalaxy just been yanked? Other than featured artists, everything seems to be "permission denied".
I *know* that there's indie stuff being shared that *was* okay to be posted (all of the SXSW demos, for example) but are now "permission denied" even though the artist in question has made the MP3s freely available.
Soooo, at a whim, the RIAA can chmod -r all songs offered through audiogalaxy, even those that they have no control over?
Then to see someone in the position of roblimo with the ability to reach a large readership pull shit like this
Your other points were interesting. I, too, have noticed that "I know something you don't know" elitist mentality. Do you think that this might be why the 'article' was posted on newsforge and not on slashdot?
Ya know, for the longest time, I really thought that they only thing the/. editors could do was post links to other articles (they sure as heck can't be bothered to run ispell). Every once in a while, though, I see something like this. I'm not saying that this was a brilliant piece of journalism or even satire, but at least roblimo can write a real article (where "real article" is being very generously applied to something that only has 23 sentences in it). Why doesn't this happen on/.? It happens on newsforge.... Just wondering.
No, your inability to understand high school economics makes you a poor troll. It's easier by far to troll sucessfully when you actually know what it is that you're talking about.
If I want interent access, I have to have cable broadband (for reasons that are not germane to this discussion). I have one and only one choice (Comcast). How is that not a monopoly?
If I were willing to consider broadband as a theoretical whole (but again, not a practical choice for *me* to make), my choices are two: Comcast (cable) and BellSouth (DSL). Both require extra fees to get *just* interent access--cost of cable internet+fee for just cable is equal to cost of DSL access plus fee for just DSL. One company raises/lowers its price by five dollars, the other company follows suit. How is this not collusion (tacit collusion, at the least)?
Please, oh anonymous one who claims not to be troll, enlighten me. I'm always looking to learn something new or be amused. Nash equibilirium (you would know about that, right, if you were talking about monopolies and oligopolies?) is win for me, no matter what you do.
By watching TV you are entering into a Faustian conract. They agree to show a show, you agree to sell your soul (some people refer to this as "watching commercials"). It's a concept that's as old as evil. I can't wait until that guy with the free cable winds up in h-e-double-hockey sticks. "But, but.... I just wanted to watch Sopranos!"
Password, procudures, etc... are *written* down and immediately put in a file which someone in the legal department then puts into your company's secure storage vaults (be they onsite or offsite).
We have all of our important bits written on paper. Paper is enclosed in a sealed envelope. Envelope is locked in the department combination safe. This seems like such an obvious solution to the "got hit by a bus" problem, I'm surprised at the number of IT places that don't have something like this in place.
Man, this pisses me off. I pay for cable+modem because it's cheaper. I'd rather just pay for the modem, because I don't watch TV. Really. In the past month, I have watched two (2) cable TV shows on my cable-enabled TV, and one of those was from a local (antenna accesible) affiliate. (buffy finale and game two of the stanley cup). That's it. And yet, I've got to pay an extra $15 a month for the priviledge of not having cable TV. This is as asinine as having to pay the phone compnay for the right to have them not print your number in the phone book. Amazing.
All this "console war" is great, but still can't afford 60+ for a game that's going to last me less than a week. Dude, if you had to trade in sixty copies of quake two to get one copy of Halo, you're getting gyped.
I'm on a planet where even trolls are given the benefit of doubt. Give the benefit of doubt to the place with which you do business by at least *trying* to get around the requirement of the SSN. You'd be surprised at how willing people are to use some other identifier (most places take driver's license number). My standard script: "I'd rather not provide my SSN, I have deeep, personal beliefs against doing so. I'd be happy to provide alternate identification, such as my driver's license or my passport." Sometimes this works, sometimes this does not. If it does not work, ask to speak to the supervisor. Repeat spiel. If you are calm and considerate and polite, they're not going to refuse you. Don't fill out the part that asks for your SSN, or make a big mark through it, or put it "REFUSED". This works. Really.
The biggest piece of legislation I would love to see is this: Private companies are forbidden to use SSN's as customer identifiers. How fucking hard is it for a company to generate a random account number?
You do have a choice: don't provide the SSN. Businesses are free to ask for you SSN. Unless there is a compelling reason (financial transaction with a bank, safety of the President is at stake, or access to government confidential information), you don't have to provide it.
Granted, the business can say "sorry, we don't want to do business with you" but I've only had two places (an apartment complex, and Verizon, when I tried to cancel my service with them after they bought Powertel even though I had a document which said that would not be considered a valid form of identification. Bastards.) absolutely refuse to do business with me.
If you have alternate forms of identification, they're almost always more than willing to do business with you.
"Meesa Jar Jar Binks!" You know, this is terrible, but that "How wude!" and "Yippee!" are the only three lines from the movie I can think of. What's bad is that I can remember more lines from "Runaway Bride" and "The Mummy" (both released the same year as TPM). Really.
You imply that you're still going to see Episode 2. Did you buy a ticket to Police Academy 6?
Yeah, I think I did, as a matter of fact. It was a Midnight Movie at the Cobb Madison Square 8. It cost me a buck to get in. It was worth a lot more than that. I had *fun* with the movie: talking back to the actors, laughing at inappropriate moments, throwing JuJuBees at the screen. Fun.
Somehow I don't think I'd be able to get away with that opening night of Ep2. I'll wait till my friends see it. Then I'll check out the reviews. If the movie is really bad, I'll try to get a few friends together to go see a mid-week matinee. And I'll bring JuJuBees. And, bad movie or not, I *will* get my money's worth.
I work at a hospital. During employee orientation (*all* employees), they have this cool exercise. At the start of the day, they ask you to wash your hands with this special evaporating liquid soap. It feels slighltly oily, but since its alcohol-based, it evaporates after a minute or two of rubbing your hands together.
Then you listen to some corporate spiel about our history. Then you're asked to wash your hands with regular soap and water. Then you get some blood tests done (hepatitis and something else). Then you wash your hands again (again, regular soap and water). Then you get a spiel on the importance of cleanliness in the worksplace. Wash your hands again.
Here's the interesting part. After your last batch of hand-washing, you're asked to put your hands under a UV light. The 'special' soap that was used in the beginning was actually a UV tagging liquid. Even the most compulsive of hand-washers wind up with tons of flourescent crap under their nails and in the cracks of their hands.
Gives the OCD people something else to keep them awake at night and makes Joe Schmoe think "Huh! Maybe I *should* wash my hands when I come out of the crapper!"
Maybe I'm just not with it, but am I the only one who is reserving judgment on the movie until after I see it?
Yes. Yes, you are.
I was so horribly let down by TPM that I have decided to force myself (not that hard to do after hearing about senator jar jar) to have the lowest of all possible expectation for AotC. Think Police Academy 6 bad. If AotC is better than Police Academy 6, I'll be happy.
The key happiness is having very low expectations.
I can't beleive this made the front page on slashdot.
Like the posting yesterday about shipping big iron? (whose "nightmare" was "product possibly damaged during shipping. noted on receiving ticket. company replaced server")
Just chalk it up to this being a slow news day and be thankful that no one pays to read this. Oh. Wait....
It's *you*!!! You're the lousy son of a gun who keeps signing me up for this marketing crap! Please, for the love of Pete, stop using my name! Instead, try using a name that no one else has, like Bill Gates.
Not to promote or trash VoIP or promote Qwest, but why would I want intermittent connections of VoIP when land-line POTS companies offer the same deal?
Because I (like a lot of my friends)
1)have no POTS
2)have broadband
3)have a long-distance girlfriend
I've got unlimited night-and-weekends on my cell phone, but the day charges are eating me alive. $0.05/minute with VoIP versus $0.35/minute for cell phone overage is a no-brainer. Quest sounds like a good deal, but I'd have to pay ~$35/month to get the phone service just so I could use it.
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How about standing behind your comments and opinions, instead of just deleting them when they can be held against you?
Okay, for usenet, sure. That's why I haven't removed my stuff from the google news thing. I've got posts from 1992 on their, many of them not all that flattering (I was 18, that's my excuse).
My websites, on the other hand, are *my* creation, not "released to the public" as has been argued is the case for email and usenet. I *still* own the copyrights, but they are not being respected.
I can stand behind stupid/offensive websites I made in my younger days. Can they stand behind their claims that they respect copyright? Last time I checked, copyright (at least in Berne signatory countries) was not an opt-in thing.
Wow. Is it just me, or has every single song on audiogalaxy just been yanked? Other than featured artists, everything seems to be "permission denied".
I *know* that there's indie stuff being shared that *was* okay to be posted (all of the SXSW demos, for example) but are now "permission denied" even though the artist in question has made the MP3s freely available.
Soooo, at a whim, the RIAA can chmod -r all songs offered through audiogalaxy, even those that they have no control over?
Gentoo is the penultimate Linux distro in my opinion.
Okay, I'll bite. If Gentoo is the penultimate distro, what's the ultimate distro?
Then to see someone in the position of roblimo with the ability to reach a large readership pull shit like this
Your other points were interesting. I, too, have noticed that "I know something you don't know" elitist mentality. Do you think that this might be why the 'article' was posted on newsforge and not on slashdot?
Ya know, for the longest time, I really thought that they only thing the /. editors could do was post links to other articles (they sure as heck can't be bothered to run ispell). Every once in a while, though, I see something like this. I'm not saying that this was a brilliant piece of journalism or even satire, but at least roblimo can write a real article (where "real article" is being very generously applied to something that only has 23 sentences in it). Why doesn't this happen on /.? It happens on newsforge....
Just wondering.
No, your inability to understand high school economics makes you a poor troll. It's easier by far to troll sucessfully when you actually know what it is that you're talking about.
If I want interent access, I have to have cable broadband (for reasons that are not germane to this discussion). I have one and only one choice (Comcast). How is that not a monopoly?
If I were willing to consider broadband as a theoretical whole (but again, not a practical choice for *me* to make), my choices are two: Comcast (cable) and BellSouth (DSL). Both require extra fees to get *just* interent access--cost of cable internet+fee for just cable is equal to cost of DSL access plus fee for just DSL. One company raises/lowers its price by five dollars, the other company follows suit. How is this not collusion (tacit collusion, at the least)?
Please, oh anonymous one who claims not to be troll, enlighten me. I'm always looking to learn something new or be amused. Nash equibilirium (you would know about that, right, if you were talking about monopolies and oligopolies?) is win for me, no matter what you do.
aw, dude, you made me spit coke all over my monitor
Troll, troll, go away.
Come back another day.
Okay, first stop misusing the word "momopoly", it is defined as ONE entity controlling a market.
As has been pointed out by others, many markets are monopolies--there is one and only one company which provides the desired type of broadband.
Would you prefer the term 'collusive oligopoly'?
By watching TV you are entering into a Faustian conract. They agree to show a show, you agree to sell your soul (some people refer to this as "watching commercials"). It's a concept that's as old as evil. I can't wait until that guy with the free cable winds up in h-e-double-hockey sticks. "But, but.... I just wanted to watch Sopranos!"
Password, procudures, etc... are *written* down and immediately put in a file which someone in the legal department then puts into your company's secure storage vaults (be they onsite or offsite).
We have all of our important bits written on paper. Paper is enclosed in a sealed envelope. Envelope is locked in the department combination safe. This seems like such an obvious solution to the "got hit by a bus" problem, I'm surprised at the number of IT places that don't have something like this in place.
Man, this pisses me off. I pay for cable+modem because it's cheaper. I'd rather just pay for the modem, because I don't watch TV. Really.
In the past month, I have watched two (2) cable TV shows on my cable-enabled TV, and one of those was from a local (antenna accesible) affiliate. (buffy finale and game two of the stanley cup). That's it. And yet, I've got to pay an extra $15 a month for the priviledge of not having cable TV.
This is as asinine as having to pay the phone compnay for the right to have them not print your number in the phone book. Amazing.
All this "console war" is great, but still can't afford 60 + for a game that's going to last me less than a week.
Dude, if you had to trade in sixty copies of quake two to get one copy of Halo, you're getting gyped.
I'm on a planet where even trolls are given the benefit of doubt. Give the benefit of doubt to the place with which you do business by at least *trying* to get around the requirement of the SSN. You'd be surprised at how willing people are to use some other identifier (most places take driver's license number).
My standard script:
"I'd rather not provide my SSN, I have deeep, personal beliefs against doing so. I'd be happy to provide alternate identification, such as my driver's license or my passport."
Sometimes this works, sometimes this does not.
If it does not work, ask to speak to the supervisor. Repeat spiel.
If you are calm and considerate and polite, they're not going to refuse you. Don't fill out the part that asks for your SSN, or make a big mark through it, or put it "REFUSED". This works. Really.
The biggest piece of legislation I would love to see is this: Private companies are forbidden to use SSN's as customer identifiers. How fucking hard is it for a company to generate a random account number?
You do have a choice: don't provide the SSN. Businesses are free to ask for you SSN. Unless there is a compelling reason (financial transaction with a bank, safety of the President is at stake, or access to government confidential information), you don't have to provide it.
Granted, the business can say "sorry, we don't want to do business with you" but I've only had two places (an apartment complex, and Verizon, when I tried to cancel my service with them after they bought Powertel even though I had a document which said that would not be considered a valid form of identification. Bastards.) absolutely refuse to do business with me.
If you have alternate forms of identification, they're almost always more than willing to do business with you.
"Meesa Jar Jar Binks!"
You know, this is terrible, but that "How wude!" and "Yippee!" are the only three lines from the movie I can think of.
What's bad is that I can remember more lines from "Runaway Bride" and "The Mummy" (both released the same year as TPM).
Really.
You imply that you're still going to see Episode 2. Did you buy a ticket to Police Academy 6?
Yeah, I think I did, as a matter of fact. It was a Midnight Movie at the Cobb Madison Square 8. It cost me a buck to get in. It was worth a lot more than that. I had *fun* with the movie: talking back to the actors, laughing at inappropriate moments, throwing JuJuBees at the screen. Fun.
Somehow I don't think I'd be able to get away with that opening night of Ep2. I'll wait till my friends see it. Then I'll check out the reviews. If the movie is really bad, I'll try to get a few friends together to go see a mid-week matinee.
And I'll bring JuJuBees.
And, bad movie or not, I *will* get my money's worth.
I work at a hospital. During employee orientation (*all* employees), they have this cool exercise. At the start of the day, they ask you to wash your hands with this special evaporating liquid soap. It feels slighltly oily, but since its alcohol-based, it evaporates after a minute or two of rubbing your hands together.
Then you listen to some corporate spiel about our history.
Then you're asked to wash your hands with regular soap and water.
Then you get some blood tests done (hepatitis and something else).
Then you wash your hands again (again, regular soap and water).
Then you get a spiel on the importance of cleanliness in the worksplace.
Wash your hands again.
Here's the interesting part. After your last batch of hand-washing, you're asked to put your hands under a UV light. The 'special' soap that was used in the beginning was actually a UV tagging liquid. Even the most compulsive of hand-washers wind up with tons of flourescent crap under their nails and in the cracks of their hands.
Gives the OCD people something else to keep them awake at night and makes Joe Schmoe think "Huh! Maybe I *should* wash my hands when I come out of the crapper!"
Do you touch your penis when you urinate?
Will you touch anything in the next thirty minutes that I am also likely to touch?
If the answer to both questions is 'yes', please wash your frikkin' hands.
Maybe I'm just not with it, but am I the only one who is reserving judgment on the movie until after I see it?
Yes. Yes, you are.
I was so horribly let down by TPM that I have decided to force myself (not that hard to do after hearing about senator jar jar) to have the lowest of all possible expectation for AotC. Think Police Academy 6 bad. If AotC is better than Police Academy 6, I'll be happy.
The key happiness is having very low expectations.
I can't beleive this made the front page on slashdot.
Like the posting yesterday about shipping big iron? (whose "nightmare" was "product possibly damaged during shipping. noted on receiving ticket. company replaced server")
Just chalk it up to this being a slow news day and be thankful that no one pays to read this. Oh. Wait....
It's a Slashback, which is a play on the word "Flashback." In other words, this is where we get to hear about previously-posted stories
/. articles be in Slashback then?
Shouldn't something like 86% of the
</sarcasm>
not to mention add a veneer of legitamacy to the whole PVR movement.
I swear I thought that read "add a weener of legitamacy".
AOL: The company with the legit weener.
whenever I apply for one, I'm John Doe
It's *you*!!! You're the lousy son of a gun who keeps signing me up for this marketing crap! Please, for the love of Pete, stop using my name! Instead, try using a name that no one else has, like Bill Gates.
Not to promote or trash VoIP or promote Qwest, but why would I want intermittent connections of VoIP when land-line POTS companies offer the same deal?
Because I (like a lot of my friends)
1)have no POTS
2)have broadband
3)have a long-distance girlfriend
I've got unlimited night-and-weekends on my cell phone, but the day charges are eating me alive. $0.05/minute with VoIP versus $0.35/minute for cell phone overage is a no-brainer. Quest sounds like a good deal, but I'd have to pay ~$35/month to get the phone service just so I could use it.