Each tape/minidisc/CDR-audio disc you buy has a built in tax which goes to RIAA members and lines the pockets of The Rolling Stones, Pink Floyd, The Who, Brittany Spears, etc. The small guys, like the late Muddy Waters as an example, never see a single red cent.
Check out your local Goodwill or other non-profit type store. I go to the one by my house every once in a while. CDs are usually around $1.50 each and there is some decent stuff too.
Heck, I even bought a Sinclair ZX-81 there a few months ago for $10.
It plainly states: (b) Restrictions on use of automated telephone equipment (1) Prohibitions It shall be unlawful for any person within the United States - (B) to initiate any telephone call to any residential telephone line using an artificial or prerecorded voice to deliver a message without the prior express consent of the called party, unless the call is initiated for emergency purposes or is exempted by rule or order by the Commission under paragraph (2)(B);
I thought I remembered reading that a few months ago when I found your site - guess I was wrong and I should have read it again before I went off and posted.
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But you bring up some semi decent questions, but they are ones that make perfect sense if you think about it a little bit.
Look at Kuro5hin. Look at the number of stories that get posted - what is it, about 5 or 10 a day? As rusty says, if he does not accept it immediately, he turns it over to the readers to vote on.
Now, I have no idea how many users are on Kuro5hin, but I am willing to bet it is a hell of a lot less than/. (Yes, I have a kuro5hin account too, and I have submitted my fair share of messages and stories). Now, how many things get submitted over on Kuro5hin?/.?
I saw emmett here in Kansas City at the Linuxfest 2000. In his talk he said there were something like 600 submissions a day. Even with all the duplicate submissions, that is ONE HELL OF A LOT! Say only 10% of all the submissions are unique - that is 60 stories a day. Of those I am sure a lot of them are absolute crap. And a lot of them probably don't have links. So say only 2/3 of those are any good. That is still 40 a day, which in some respects is a bit overboard to try and keep up on.
There are some things that ARS failed to mention, namely the total weight you can carry in the car - 380 pounds. So, that means I can ride in the car, but none of my friends can at the same time. Yes, I need to loose some weight...
Also, for a really excellent write up of what the pros and cons of this car are, visit Insight Man and be sure to check out his logs. He offers tons of great information on this car - a lot more than the two trips ARS took. Insight Man has attained over 90 MPG the last time I looked.
Anyway, if it was not for the low weight carrying limit, I would get one of these in a second. Guess I am going to have to go find a Prius. At least I can have someone else ride along in it.
Now that they have, I now know about this outfit. So, MAPS can't list them (for right now), but I sure as the hell can put in a filter.
It is truly amazing to me how folks like Yesmail don't seem to understand that the RBL is not the only group that filters. They have to deal with us, the public - be it some guy with LookOut filters, or sysadmins at large ISPs/companies. Either way the mail is gonna get sent to/dev/null.
You are probably aware of Home Power Magazine. Take a look at the current issue that is on there. They have an entire office with all the doo-dads running on solar - and the office is in Wisconsin. They do have a gas generator for backup, but, as they say, the thing has spent an entire 50 hours online in the past year. That is not a whole heck of a lot of time.
There are other reasons to do solar now - one solar panel can typically supply 100w to your home wiring system by means of something like the Trace Microsine Inverter. For under $1000 you can hook one of these panels up to your house wiring and feed it back to the grid. They are UL listed devices. Hook 'em up, plug 'em into an unused outlet, and sell it back.
Also, for every panel you have hooked up, you are effectively removing 1000 pounds of carbon from the air that would otherwise be generated by coal.
This is really one of the only ways to go when you think about it. Currently there are warnings about the Northeast part of the US starting to feel the strain from there just not being enough electricity available. If everyone had just one panel hooked to their house, that would be an ungodly amount of power being generated for these high use areas.
I have to respond to this for one reason - namely the line "I've certainly had friends be harassed and threatened online, and turning a blind eye to everything but attacks directly against the network doesn't seem right either."
I don't think a lot of people really think about this stuff when they do it. Yes we all want to be safe. We want our friends to be safe. Sometimes we even want those we despise to be safe as well.
But where do we draw the line? This type of thinking is as dangerous as blanket "log everything no matter what!" As the story suggests, Barnes and Noble learned a very important lesson when they kept track of everything.
Remember, the moment you give up just one of your rights to privacy is the moment you have given them all up. Also remember that "protecting the little children", as the religious right likes to say all the time, does not mean that MY rights as an adult should be erroded because of whatever draconian law they want passed.
The FIN website used to allow you to do emails to your congressman, the President and Vice President, your state house and senate members, governor and state attorney general.
Now it all seems to not be there any more.
Oh well, I was able to use it a few months ago with my "destroy Microsoft, let them be split up!" message.
There is an interview with Cowpland about this very subject in either Linux Journal or Linux Magazine - can't remember which at this moment.
Anyway, he rightly points out that Corel was giving away WordPerfect too - yet people were still buying copies of it.
Hell, The Offspring's Americana album was one of the top mp3's being swapped, yet the album sold many millions of copies.
I too go out and buy packages even though I can download them in a few minutes over the net. I have purchased lots of Linux distros, programs, etc. I could have just as easily spent 14 hours downloading all 6 of the SuSE 6.4 ISO images, yet I went out and paid $35 for the box. Why? Because I wanted to! (Plus, I got some userfriendly.org stickers!)
Red Hat sells lots of boxes, so does Debian, Mandrake, Caldera, and Cheapbytes.
Somebody is buying, because I don't quite have THAT much money!
According to the local media here in Kansas City, the world HQ for Sprint, the merger is off.
The Kansas City Star is saying that while the executives are all really glum, the employees have been celebrating.
I don't work for Sprint, but I am glad this is off as well. Even though all through this the executives were saying "We are not moving if we merge," everyone knows otherwise. It happened to Marion Labs, it would have happened to Sprint as well. That would have been a huge hit on the local economy beings that Sprint has 24,000+ employees in this town alone.
here is my take on the show. I have not been to it yet, but will mosey (see! I am from Kansas City!) over on Saturday.
Be that as it may, KC has some absolutely horrible shows. I am not talking bad - I am talking really bad. Every year there is some computer show that comes through town run by some outfit from Arizona. What kinds of high tech cool geek toys do they have on display?
Copying machines! Whoo boy! Just what I wanna see lots of. I am not joking either. Last time I went (1999), they had like 300 booths. There were ISPs in five or six of them, Apple had a decent sized booth, IBM was nowhere to be seen, MS was absent so I was unable to laugh at them, and other than one of the video production companies in town having a booth showing all their digital editing stuff, the rest of it was taken up with copier companies.
I think this is probably why folks in KC are not showing up at this thing, to be honest. It is a shame really. Lots of us just don't know what a good show can be like.
One thing you can do is open the box at the checkout, take the stuff out, and hand the trash to the cashier. I have tried this before. It is amazing how much garbage there is when you even go someplace like the grocery store.
There are tons of products out there on the market that are overpackaged. Andes Mints are a good example. If you look at a package of them, you will see what appears to be a whole bunch of mints through the cellophane window. Open the box and all the mints you can see are the ones you are getting. The rest is just cardboard.
Also, to the person that submitted the story: this type of stuff has as much to do with common sense and waste of money as it does with being environmental. TANSTAAFL. When you buy one of these oversized packages, the manufacturer is not giving this to you for free, ya know? You the consumer are the one paying for it. Hence, why I give the trash back to the store.
After all, why should I have to pay to throw away their overpackaging of my SIMM chips when putting the chips in a little container would be much better in the first place?
What is this thing going to do to people trying to run WinXX under VMware? The VMware stuff has it's own system bios (some form of Phoenix). From what that message is saying, if the CD can not detect a Dell BIOS, then it is not going to install... or did I read that wrong?
Tis true, and sorry that I obviously did not make myself more clear.
As you say, the problem is not what frequency it is on. The problem is that everything seems to be moving up here.
However, it does not matter whether it is spread spectrum or not. Yes, that is going to help, but it is not the total solution, either.
First, there are a limited number of frequencies there at 2.4 that can be used. Add to this that not all devices work on each of these frequencies. They may use 1, 2, 5, 10, or 20 of the frequencies. Next, even if they are frequency hopping there is a limit to the number of things that can be on a given frequency at the same time.
You mentioned that some devices don't frequency hop. True. So, if a device is in use and it does no hopping, that frequency is pretty much useless for devices that do hop.
We are seeing so many things using RF nowadays. And we are going to see many many more. Hell, I love wireless things. But I also realize that the more things I own, the more the possibility that they are going to start colliding. That is why I try to spread out between the different bands.
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Right. But those audio CD burners that you hook to your stereo will not accept a CD-R meant for your computer. They kick it out of the drive.
Don't forget www.gwbush.com. At least they got George-dubya to say "there ought to be limits to freedom."
Each tape/minidisc/CDR-audio disc you buy has a built in tax which goes to RIAA members and lines the pockets of The Rolling Stones, Pink Floyd, The Who, Brittany Spears, etc. The small guys, like the late Muddy Waters as an example, never see a single red cent.
Check out your local Goodwill or other non-profit type store. I go to the one by my house every once in a while. CDs are usually around $1.50 each and there is some decent stuff too.
Heck, I even bought a Sinclair ZX-81 there a few months ago for $10.
The RIAA has a contact page right here where you can write to them.
Has anyone heard if anyone is going to be doing a virtual sit in?
Check the law.
It plainly states:
(b) Restrictions on use of automated telephone equipment
(1) Prohibitions
It shall be unlawful for any person within the United States -
(B) to initiate any telephone call to any residential
telephone line using an artificial or prerecorded voice to
deliver a message without the prior express consent of the
called party, unless the call is initiated for emergency
purposes or is exempted by rule or order by the Commission
under paragraph (2)(B);
Thanks for that note, rusty!
I thought I remembered reading that a few months ago when I found your site - guess I was wrong and I should have read it again before I went off and posted.
But you bring up some semi decent questions, but they are ones that make perfect sense if you think about it a little bit.
/. (Yes, I have a kuro5hin account too, and I have submitted my fair share of messages and stories). Now, how many things get submitted over on Kuro5hin? /.?
Look at Kuro5hin. Look at the number of stories that get posted - what is it, about 5 or 10 a day? As rusty says, if he does not accept it immediately, he turns it over to the readers to vote on.
Now, I have no idea how many users are on Kuro5hin, but I am willing to bet it is a hell of a lot less than
I saw emmett here in Kansas City at the Linuxfest 2000. In his talk he said there were something like 600 submissions a day. Even with all the duplicate submissions, that is ONE HELL OF A LOT! Say only 10% of all the submissions are unique - that is 60 stories a day. Of those I am sure a lot of them are absolute crap. And a lot of them probably don't have links. So say only 2/3 of those are any good. That is still 40 a day, which in some respects is a bit overboard to try and keep up on.
There are some things that ARS failed to mention, namely the total weight you can carry in the car - 380 pounds. So, that means I can ride in the car, but none of my friends can at the same time. Yes, I need to loose some weight...
Also, for a really excellent write up of what the pros and cons of this car are, visit Insight Man and be sure to check out his logs. He offers tons of great information on this car - a lot more than the two trips ARS took. Insight Man has attained over 90 MPG the last time I looked.
Anyway, if it was not for the low weight carrying limit, I would get one of these in a second. Guess I am going to have to go find a Prius. At least I can have someone else ride along in it.
Now that they have, I now know about this outfit. So, MAPS can't list them (for right now), but I sure as the hell can put in a filter.
/dev/null.
It is truly amazing to me how folks like Yesmail don't seem to understand that the RBL is not the only group that filters. They have to deal with us, the public - be it some guy with LookOut filters, or sysadmins at large ISPs/companies. Either way the mail is gonna get sent to
They are a fuckedcompany.
At least I have a new pick for this next week...
It is also the way now.
You are probably aware of Home Power Magazine. Take a look at the current issue that is on there. They have an entire office with all the doo-dads running on solar - and the office is in Wisconsin. They do have a gas generator for backup, but, as they say, the thing has spent an entire 50 hours online in the past year. That is not a whole heck of a lot of time.
There are other reasons to do solar now - one solar panel can typically supply 100w to your home wiring system by means of something like the Trace Microsine Inverter. For under $1000 you can hook one of these panels up to your house wiring and feed it back to the grid. They are UL listed devices. Hook 'em up, plug 'em into an unused outlet, and sell it back.
Also, for every panel you have hooked up, you are effectively removing 1000 pounds of carbon from the air that would otherwise be generated by coal.
This is really one of the only ways to go when you think about it. Currently there are warnings about the Northeast part of the US starting to feel the strain from there just not being enough electricity available. If everyone had just one panel hooked to their house, that would be an ungodly amount of power being generated for these high use areas.
The FBI for coming up with this thing or Sprint for even allowing them to connect it in the first place.
I just love how law enforcement feels how they can invade the privacy of everyone because there are only a few people who are causing the problems.
This is just plain lunacy, pure and simple.
I have to respond to this for one reason - namely the line "I've certainly had friends be harassed and threatened online, and turning a blind eye to everything but attacks directly against the network doesn't seem right either."
I don't think a lot of people really think about this stuff when they do it. Yes we all want to be safe. We want our friends to be safe. Sometimes we even want those we despise to be safe as well.
But where do we draw the line? This type of thinking is as dangerous as blanket "log everything no matter what!" As the story suggests, Barnes and Noble learned a very important lesson when they kept track of everything.
Remember, the moment you give up just one of your rights to privacy is the moment you have given them all up. Also remember that "protecting the little children", as the religious right likes to say all the time, does not mean that MY rights as an adult should be erroded because of whatever draconian law they want passed.
The FIN website used to allow you to do emails to your congressman, the President and Vice President, your state house and senate members, governor and state attorney general.
Now it all seems to not be there any more.
Oh well, I was able to use it a few months ago with my "destroy Microsoft, let them be split up!" message.
I sure hope they don't make the mistake of saving the text files as MS Word. We all know how often that file format changes.
There is an interview with Cowpland about this very subject in either Linux Journal or Linux Magazine - can't remember which at this moment.
Anyway, he rightly points out that Corel was giving away WordPerfect too - yet people were still buying copies of it.
Hell, The Offspring's Americana album was one of the top mp3's being swapped, yet the album sold many millions of copies.
I too go out and buy packages even though I can download them in a few minutes over the net. I have purchased lots of Linux distros, programs, etc. I could have just as easily spent 14 hours downloading all 6 of the SuSE 6.4 ISO images, yet I went out and paid $35 for the box. Why? Because I wanted to! (Plus, I got some userfriendly.org stickers!)
Red Hat sells lots of boxes, so does Debian, Mandrake, Caldera, and Cheapbytes.
Somebody is buying, because I don't quite have THAT much money!
According to the local media here in Kansas City, the world HQ for Sprint, the merger is off.
The Kansas City Star is saying that while the executives are all really glum, the employees have been celebrating.
I don't work for Sprint, but I am glad this is off as well. Even though all through this the executives were saying "We are not moving if we merge," everyone knows otherwise. It happened to Marion Labs, it would have happened to Sprint as well. That would have been a huge hit on the local economy beings that Sprint has 24,000+ employees in this town alone.
Now /. is going to be clobbered with "ADRIENNE BATES NAKED AND PETRIFIED!" posts for the next week....
But seriously though, congrats!
here is my take on the show. I have not been to it yet, but will mosey (see! I am from Kansas City!) over on Saturday.
Be that as it may, KC has some absolutely horrible shows. I am not talking bad - I am talking really bad. Every year there is some computer show that comes through town run by some outfit from Arizona. What kinds of high tech cool geek toys do they have on display?
Copying machines! Whoo boy! Just what I wanna see lots of. I am not joking either. Last time I went (1999), they had like 300 booths. There were ISPs in five or six of them, Apple had a decent sized booth, IBM was nowhere to be seen, MS was absent so I was unable to laugh at them, and other than one of the video production companies in town having a booth showing all their digital editing stuff, the rest of it was taken up with copier companies.
I think this is probably why folks in KC are not showing up at this thing, to be honest. It is a shame really. Lots of us just don't know what a good show can be like.
I refreshed, my comment was not there. I post this and now it is there???? That was like 10 minutes ago....
And why can't a person make a profit from a parody? In that case you had better call the PETA Police and turn in Conan, Dave, and Jay.
The judge's decision was wrong. Dead wrong.
One thing you can do is open the box at the checkout, take the stuff out, and hand the trash to the cashier. I have tried this before. It is amazing how much garbage there is when you even go someplace like the grocery store.
There are tons of products out there on the market that are overpackaged. Andes Mints are a good example. If you look at a package of them, you will see what appears to be a whole bunch of mints through the cellophane window. Open the box and all the mints you can see are the ones you are getting. The rest is just cardboard.
Also, to the person that submitted the story: this type of stuff has as much to do with common sense and waste of money as it does with being environmental. TANSTAAFL. When you buy one of these oversized packages, the manufacturer is not giving this to you for free, ya know? You the consumer are the one paying for it. Hence, why I give the trash back to the store.
After all, why should I have to pay to throw away their overpackaging of my SIMM chips when putting the chips in a little container would be much better in the first place?
What is this thing going to do to people trying to run WinXX under VMware? The VMware stuff has it's own system bios (some form of Phoenix). From what that message is saying, if the CD can not detect a Dell BIOS, then it is not going to install... or did I read that wrong?
Tis true, and sorry that I obviously did not make myself more clear.
As you say, the problem is not what frequency it is on. The problem is that everything seems to be moving up here.
However, it does not matter whether it is spread spectrum or not. Yes, that is going to help, but it is not the total solution, either.
First, there are a limited number of frequencies there at 2.4 that can be used. Add to this that not all devices work on each of these frequencies. They may use 1, 2, 5, 10, or 20 of the frequencies. Next, even if they are frequency hopping there is a limit to the number of things that can be on a given frequency at the same time.
You mentioned that some devices don't frequency hop. True. So, if a device is in use and it does no hopping, that frequency is pretty much useless for devices that do hop.
We are seeing so many things using RF nowadays. And we are going to see many many more. Hell, I love wireless things. But I also realize that the more things I own, the more the possibility that they are going to start colliding. That is why I try to spread out between the different bands.