I can't say that I've actually read the Kyoto accord. The impression
I get from the radio is that countries like USA would be more strictly
limited than 3rd world under developed countries.
In a way that seems kind of bogus. Like saying "your country doesn't
have many cars, so your cars can belch as much pollution as you want them
to." These kinds of rules ( assuming that's really what it says )
will only serve to cause countries that are not heavy polluters now to
become heavy polluters. Who wrote that accord anyway? Who paid
them. Who is paying for their vacations now? Could it be that
some world wide politics came into play in drafting the accord? (
I can almost hear the World Bankers, "We have invested 20 Billion dollars
in Bangladesh. If we can push these pollution laws through Bangladesh
will be the only country in the world where air conditioners can be made...")
I tend to only believe about a small amount of what I read in
the popular news media. I'm quite skeptical that the long term world
wide climate is being significantly changed by our pollution. And
I laugh at anyone who will suggest that some forest fires someplace were
cause by global warming. Did this years climate cause a fire or prevent
one? Who is to say? How can anybody know?
Can you really use two Airports in this way? Cringely writes
that he makes his connections using two Airports. Here is a quote
from the article:
The set-up is simple. I had to buy a new Apple Airport hub
for each end of the link.
The 802.11b access points I have played with don't seem to directly support
this. Most vendors make you buy a different product, even though
the hardware is probably exactly the same, and the only difference is firmware
on the radio card and box..
I checked a recent link
about designing Airport nets and some other Airport sites.
They don't reveal any clues about this being possible.
I checked the Cisco/Aironet site. For the 340 Series WLAN gear
they have a product called an Ethernet
Bridge which is what you would use to do what Cringely said he did.
This is different from their Access
Points and Base
stations . A Cisco base station looks to be equivalent to an
Airport.
Does anyone have any references on how to do this with an Airport?
I'm finding Cringely's story a little hard to believe.
Our US government supports various monopolies. There are laws
which protect the phone companies, power companies, and cable companies.
If my solar panels can produce more power than I can use, federal laws
prevent me from selling it directly to my neighbor, unless
my neighbor is the government sanction local power monopoly.
Feds will come with guns if necessary to shut me down.
There are many regulations that the Gov't has around telecommunications.
They have been put in place over the last 100 years to keep the monopolies
propped up. It wouldn't surprise me for their to be a "providing
telecommunications service without a permit." I'd be surprised
to for it to be a city law though.
I would like to see that posting get validated too. People don't
realize how much gov't control their is. When the news talks about
"deregulation" it's really a big joke. They merely change the regulation, or perhaps reduce
the level of control. They never actually get rid of the regulations.
I thought the way it worked was that an IPOing company didn't actually sell all of thier shares all at once. Don't the shares really just trickle out? So if the price goes up, so does the amount of capital generated on the sale of shares after the price went up?
Apple's Airport will work with other vendor's wireless network adapters. They follow 802.11b.
Regarding CPIA, Who Gets too choose the filter?
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I wonder who gets to choose the filter software? Are the features
of the filter specifically dictated? Is there some definition of
what must be filtered? Does it ever all come down to someone's judgment
or is it clearly defined?
Next I wonder who lobbied for CIPA? Did the software companies
lobby? Must a school buy software from a big company?
Will schools/libraries have to *prove* they have installed filtering
everyplace? Will there be inspections? How much is it going
to cost to administer this law?
Could a bunch of slashdotters get together and build a filter that would
comply with the law, while still allowing the the library or school to
have more control over what gets filtered?
I wouldn't agree that American children "haven't been" as receptive to
electronic fads. Think Gameboy. Who's to say what the
future will bring? Like I said, it's all in the marketing. How many
kids have or had pagers in your neighborhood? ( I suspect a larger
number.. ) What if cell phone pricing becomes more competitive with pagers?
Or what if those games make it to the pager? A whole bunch of people
carry pagers everyplace they go now..
I would never suggest that video games played on cell phone would replace
a home console. I will suggest that some kids might want both.
Particularly if Mattel, and the Power Rangers tell them how cool they will
be if they have this new pager or cell phone that can do something different..
Dreamcast VMU's are a different story.. You need to have a Dreamcast
before you can do much with a VMU. Think Gameboy.
It's not a one or the other situation. I never dreamed that I
would find a Palmpilot usefull. I bought one just as a toy to play
writing software for it. I use it every day.
It's all in the niche. Just because *YOU* can't see it or won't use
it, doesn't mean a good business opportunity isn't there.
I wrote this above:
In Japan the imode phone from NTT DoCoMo is hugely popular with
teen girls. They had a service that 1 million customers
( as of last Feb ) paid $1 per month to get. The product was a single
screen ASCII character cartoon sent daily.
I suspect it might not take much of a game to get serious business in
specific markets. It's all in the marketing. What if this phone
is the only device on which you can play the "Back Street Boys Game" or
the "Beenie Baby Game." Pick a popular craze and build a product
around it, and make a million bucks a month.
In Japan the imode phone from NTT DoCoMo is hugely popular with teen
girls. They had a service that 1 million customers (
as of last Feb ) paid $1 per month to get. The product was a single
screen ASCII character cartoon sent daily.
I suspect it might not take much of a game to get serious business in
specific markets. It's all in the marketing. What if this phone
is the only device on which you can play the "Back Street Boys Game" or
the "Beenie Baby Game." Pick a popular craze and build a product
around it, and make a million bucks a month.
I've been following the Wind Power industry for a few years. We
are starting to see wind farms crop up around the nation, even though wind
power costs more. Deregulation can allow citizens and businesses
to specify which production facility they want to buy power from.
These wind generation facilities are getting direct support from consumers
who want to use green power only.
Here in New York, a small
wind farm was erected and went on line this fall. New York, or
at least my power company, NYSEG, won't allow me to specify who I buy from.
To allow people to support wind even if their local monopoly won't let
them, this wind farm is selling certificates. If you want to
support that wind power enterprise you can buy some "pure wind" certificates.
Your basically just giving them money. But that's what it's all about
I guess.
There was no actual "deregulation." Think of the deregulation as
a name given to a bunch of new regulations. An actual correct and
descriptive name would have been "reregulation."
Most of the bad stuff that we can observe about the current energy distribution
system can very probably be directly traced to regulation. You can't
depend on the Gov't to ever do things right.
>The real problem here is that the utilities aren't allowed to roll blackouts unless there is absolutely no power to be bought on the free market at any price. The power producers know this and can inflate their
A Law that mandates that your local power company buys power, regardless of price. If you were selling what would you do?
Stop calling it "DEregulation!". Call it what it was "REregulation."
First of all, there was no "DEregulation", there was only "REregulation."
The problem is in the laws. Laws were passed to force a market
to do something unnatural, like building expensive power plants instead
of being able to buy cheap power from outside of the region, under long
term contracts.
The problem is in the laws. The "regulations." Actual deregulation
is a good idea. Writing a bunch of new laws and calling them "deregulation"
can never be the answer.
NO! The reason for the trouble is that there was no "deregulation." It was only a *CHANGE* of the very thick regulations. And a stupid change at that! It should be called "reregulation."
Those environmental laws that have been around for 10 or 20 years have clearly limited the regular introduction of new power generation facilities, contributing to the shortage.
Reregulation has put the CA power market into a situation where consumer have no reason to limit use, because their prices can't be raised. Wholesale power producers have the region in a bind because of the limited ability to import power into the region.
Reregulation dictates by law, that municipal power companies MUST buy their power in the "spot" market, where prices can soar based on temporary supply glitches and demand spikes.
It really IS the reregulation that screwed you in CA. But had actual "DEREGULATION" occurred, an actual free market price structure would allow consumer electric pricing to go up with the increased demand or decreases supply, thereby
causing consumers to CONSERVE. ( And probably causing a media news blitz with CAers crying their eyes out because their electricity costs $.30 per Kwh.)
Had actual deregulation occurred, your local power company could have purchased contracts for large amounts of power, and limited their own exposure to temporary market glitches.
Who owns the wires? Your local power company of course. That is enforced by law, and regulation. If your power goes out, and your neighbor sets up a big old solar panel farm, that's real nice, but he will need to either use that power himself,
or sell it back to your local power company. Men will come with guns, to disconnect that wire, if your neighbor tries to sell that power directly to you. Thank your precious regulations.
Eventually banks, credit card companies, and employers will realize that
they are getting bad information. They will force credit reporting
agencies to improve. A bank makes money by collecting interest on
the loans they make. A company makes money by hiring talented people
to do good work for them. If inaccurate credit information takes
away a good employee or money borrower then the bank or employer looses
that money making potential. So it is in everyones best inerest to
have correct information.
There will always be the potential for unreasonably
harsh policies. But that is how free market works. If a school
says that they don't want to employ anyone who ever was convicted of drunk
driving, that is fine with me. It really sucks for someone who wants
to teach, but those are the breaks.
If an insurance company doesn't want to insure someone because they
file a lot of claims, that sucks too, if you are the one in a bind.
But it's just fine with me, because I don't have to finance your bad luck.
You can probably survive without a car if you really need to. I know
that in New York, USA, driving is considered to be a priviledge, not a right.
Credit is an expensive luxury. Everyone likes to buy first and
pay later. Pop culture and media brainwash us into thinking we need so many expensive things. Most people would be really surprised at how much of their
income goes to pay interest. Those of us with the self control to
save first, and buy with cash, will have a lot more in the long run.
Credit is a luxury, and it is not a right.
He seems to have a lot to say for a guy who doesn't have anything of value
to say.
I got through the first few paragraphs before I stopped reading.
You don't get far in this article before you start seeing stuff that doesn't
look right. He says, "Myth: OOP is a proven general-purpose technique
" I HAVE seen OOP proven on several projects.
Later, he writes "Fact: OO fans have repeatedly failed to demonstrate
OO superiority. They can talk up a good storm, but cannot walk their talk.
" OK, name one software programming technique that HAS demonstrated
it's superiority. Have any? If so, let me know so I can start
using it. Superiority FOR WHAT? Every application has different
requirements. It like saying "truck owners have failed prove
that trucks are superior."
Why does our society undervalue learning? Perhaps a couple of generations of poorly run Gov't Monopoly schools have turned our society against learning?
Your right, some people CAN afford to put thier kids in a different school. But they still have to pay for the Gov't Schools too.
Libertarianism is as good a choice for people who are hurting, as it is for us fat cats.
State and federal government nannyism, and protectionism is often just as damaging for those who are being helped as it is for the rest of us who are paying for it.
The minimum wage is supposed to help the poorest workers make more money. In reality it forces companies to lay off some of those lowest paid workers so they can afford to keep on the rest. It prevents companies from hiring people with very limited skills who WANT to work, even for limited pay. Minimum wage PROTECTS un-competitive industries from the threat of companies that DO have access to cheaper labor, and forces us all to pay higher prices.
No!! Not everyone is capable of achieving an equally comfortable or even secure life style. Government can't give it to you. If unemployable people can be as well off as hard workers, then hard workers are going to quit working. The hall sweeper shouldn't make as much as the engineer.
Libertarianism says that the Constitution should be strictly enforced. We want the Fed Gov't to provide national defense. We don't want our Gov't to go off gunning people around the world because we don't agree with them.
You talk about "safe neighborhoods." Why are some neighborhoods unsafe? Here are a few reasons:
Cities have criminalized gun ownership, forcing otherwise law-abiding citizens, who only want to protect themselves, to break the law in order to get an "illegal" gun for protection. Thugs who have guns, run free because they know there are not too many others around to mow them down if they get out of hand.
Our Country has criminalized drug use and possession to such an extent that in neighborhoods where there is a lot of drugs, most people are AGAINST the cops, because the cops are the ones that came and arrested my brother, father, uncle.. Since drugs are illegal they are expensive and dangerous and uncontrolled. Expensive drugs force addicts into criminal behavior in order to afford the habit.
Regulation creates Monopolies on Health Care and Medicines. Only a limited number of doctors are allowed to enroll in Medical Schools, due to limits and regulations on what a "Medical School" is. Only those with the "official accreditation" can practice medicine. This year it cost me $500 to have my 7 stitches at an Emergency Room. 12 years ago I could have gone to my family doctor and had those 7 stitches for $50.
The best kind of system is a SELF REGULATED system. A reoccurring them in libertarianism is that a Federal Government is not capable of regulation most things very well, and that a SELF REGULATED system, while it will also have it's own problems, will be cheaper and better in the long run.
Why doesn't America have the best Elementary and High Schools in the world? Because our Government's have created Monopolies. These Gov't Run Schools ( Monopolies ) don't have to do a good job to keep getting customers. They CAN get real bad, and you still have to send your kid.
In a more Libertarian system, if a school was bad, parents could put their kids in another local school, or start their own school. The bad schools would go out of business.
I beg to differ!
I have never seen a Sun box that didn't have physical disk for it's/tmp. And I've looked at a lot of them. That's not to say
that putting/tmp in RAM doesn't happen.. At companies including Kodak, Xerox and GE/Lockeed/MM over the last 8 years I never saw it.
I do agree that on Suns, when/tmp gets full strange things happen, including system reboots and other wierd things.
And turning on quotas is a good way to slow things down. I can only imagine that this would be a very bad thing to do on/tmp.
Kevin
I'm not convinced that there is really a serial number? Digital convergence will already have a way to track us, users already have to get an
"activation code" that is emailed out, and you have to use the activation code to enable the CRQ software.
They will be able to track most of us anyway even without a serial number.
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In a way that seems kind of bogus. Like saying "your country doesn't have many cars, so your cars can belch as much pollution as you want them to." These kinds of rules ( assuming that's really what it says ) will only serve to cause countries that are not heavy polluters now to become heavy polluters. Who wrote that accord anyway? Who paid them. Who is paying for their vacations now? Could it be that some world wide politics came into play in drafting the accord? ( I can almost hear the World Bankers, "We have invested 20 Billion dollars in Bangladesh. If we can push these pollution laws through Bangladesh will be the only country in the world where air conditioners can be made...")
I tend to only believe about a small amount of what I read in the popular news media. I'm quite skeptical that the long term world wide climate is being significantly changed by our pollution. And I laugh at anyone who will suggest that some forest fires someplace were cause by global warming. Did this years climate cause a fire or prevent one? Who is to say? How can anybody know?
Kevin
I checked a recent link about designing Airport nets and some other Airport sites. They don't reveal any clues about this being possible.
I checked the Cisco/Aironet site. For the 340 Series WLAN gear they have a product called an Ethernet Bridge which is what you would use to do what Cringely said he did. This is different from their Access Points and Base stations . A Cisco base station looks to be equivalent to an Airport.
Does anyone have any references on how to do this with an Airport? I'm finding Cringely's story a little hard to believe.
Kevin
If my solar panels can produce more power than I can use, federal laws prevent me from selling it directly to my neighbor, unless my neighbor is the government sanction local power monopoly. Feds will come with guns if necessary to shut me down.
There are many regulations that the Gov't has around telecommunications. They have been put in place over the last 100 years to keep the monopolies propped up. It wouldn't surprise me for their to be a "providing telecommunications service without a permit." I'd be surprised to for it to be a city law though.
I would like to see that posting get validated too. People don't realize how much gov't control their is. When the news talks about "deregulation" it's really a big joke. They merely change the regulation, or perhaps reduce the level of control. They never actually get rid of the regulations.
The point to this story is that renting something is only a temporary agreement.
If I own software, and the product is discontinued, I can still use the product. But I won't be getting much support or many updates.
If I rent software I must not assume that I will continue to be able to use it after the terms of the contract..
I thought the way it worked was that an IPOing company didn't actually sell all of thier shares all at once. Don't the shares really just trickle out? So if the price goes up, so does the amount of capital generated on the sale of shares after the price went up?
What is a CD? ;-)
This D-Link Di-704 doesn't support 802.11b Wireless network.
This D-Link box doesn't have a modem in it. Not sure about the SMC one.
Apple's Airport will work with other vendor's wireless network adapters. They follow 802.11b.
Next I wonder who lobbied for CIPA? Did the software companies lobby? Must a school buy software from a big company?
Will schools/libraries have to *prove* they have installed filtering everyplace? Will there be inspections? How much is it going to cost to administer this law?
Could a bunch of slashdotters get together and build a filter that would comply with the law, while still allowing the the library or school to have more control over what gets filtered?
I would never suggest that video games played on cell phone would replace a home console. I will suggest that some kids might want both. Particularly if Mattel, and the Power Rangers tell them how cool they will be if they have this new pager or cell phone that can do something different..
Dreamcast VMU's are a different story.. You need to have a Dreamcast before you can do much with a VMU. Think Gameboy.
It's not a one or the other situation. I never dreamed that I would find a Palmpilot usefull. I bought one just as a toy to play writing software for it. I use it every day.
I wrote this above:
I suspect it might not take much of a game to get serious business in specific markets. It's all in the marketing. What if this phone is the only device on which you can play the "Back Street Boys Game" or the "Beenie Baby Game." Pick a popular craze and build a product around it, and make a million bucks a month.
I've been following the Wind Power industry for a few years. We are starting to see wind farms crop up around the nation, even though wind power costs more. Deregulation can allow citizens and businesses to specify which production facility they want to buy power from. These wind generation facilities are getting direct support from consumers who want to use green power only.
Here in New York, a small wind farm was erected and went on line this fall. New York, or at least my power company, NYSEG, won't allow me to specify who I buy from. To allow people to support wind even if their local monopoly won't let them, this wind farm is selling certificates. If you want to support that wind power enterprise you can buy some "pure wind" certificates. Your basically just giving them money. But that's what it's all about I guess.
Most of the bad stuff that we can observe about the current energy distribution system can very probably be directly traced to regulation. You can't depend on the Gov't to ever do things right.
It's the regulations that are screwing you in CA.
>The real problem here is that the utilities aren't allowed to roll blackouts unless there is absolutely no power to be bought on the free market at any price. The power producers know this and can inflate their
A Law that mandates that your local power company buys power, regardless of price. If you were selling what would you do?
Stop calling it "DEregulation!". Call it what it was "REregulation."
The problem is in the laws. Laws were passed to force a market to do something unnatural, like building expensive power plants instead of being able to buy cheap power from outside of the region, under long term contracts.
The problem is in the laws. The "regulations." Actual deregulation is a good idea. Writing a bunch of new laws and calling them "deregulation" can never be the answer.
NO! The reason for the trouble is that there was no "deregulation." It was only a *CHANGE* of the very thick regulations. And a stupid change at that! It should be called "reregulation."
Those environmental laws that have been around for 10 or 20 years have clearly limited the regular introduction of new power generation facilities, contributing to the shortage.
Reregulation has put the CA power market into a situation where consumer have no reason to limit use, because their prices can't be raised. Wholesale power producers have the region in a bind because of the limited ability to import power into the region.
Reregulation dictates by law, that municipal power companies MUST buy their power in the "spot" market, where prices can soar based on temporary supply glitches and demand spikes.
It really IS the reregulation that screwed you in CA. But had actual "DEREGULATION" occurred, an actual free market price structure would allow consumer electric pricing to go up with the increased demand or decreases supply, thereby
causing consumers to CONSERVE. ( And probably causing a media news blitz with CAers crying their eyes out because their electricity costs $.30 per Kwh.)
Had actual deregulation occurred, your local power company could have purchased contracts for large amounts of power, and limited their own exposure to temporary market glitches.
Who owns the wires? Your local power company of course. That is enforced by law, and regulation. If your power goes out, and your neighbor sets up a big old solar panel farm, that's real nice, but he will need to either use that power himself,
or sell it back to your local power company. Men will come with guns, to disconnect that wire, if your neighbor tries to sell that power directly to you. Thank your precious regulations.
There will always be the potential for unreasonably harsh policies. But that is how free market works. If a school says that they don't want to employ anyone who ever was convicted of drunk driving, that is fine with me. It really sucks for someone who wants to teach, but those are the breaks.
If an insurance company doesn't want to insure someone because they file a lot of claims, that sucks too, if you are the one in a bind. But it's just fine with me, because I don't have to finance your bad luck. You can probably survive without a car if you really need to. I know that in New York, USA, driving is considered to be a priviledge, not a right.
Credit is an expensive luxury. Everyone likes to buy first and pay later. Pop culture and media brainwash us into thinking we need so many expensive things. Most people would be really surprised at how much of their income goes to pay interest. Those of us with the self control to save first, and buy with cash, will have a lot more in the long run. Credit is a luxury, and it is not a right.
You ARE free to move on. And I'm free to continue holding it against you.
I got through the first few paragraphs before I stopped reading. You don't get far in this article before you start seeing stuff that doesn't look right. He says, "Myth: OOP is a proven general-purpose technique " I HAVE seen OOP proven on several projects.
Later, he writes "Fact: OO fans have repeatedly failed to demonstrate OO superiority. They can talk up a good storm, but cannot walk their talk. " OK, name one software programming technique that HAS demonstrated it's superiority. Have any? If so, let me know so I can start using it. Superiority FOR WHAT? Every application has different requirements. It like saying "truck owners have failed prove that trucks are superior."
Those 2 gems are before the article even starts.
Don't waste your time..
Why does our society undervalue learning? Perhaps a couple of generations of poorly run Gov't Monopoly schools have turned our society against learning?
Your right, some people CAN afford to put thier kids in a different school. But they still have to pay for the Gov't Schools too.
Libertarianism is as good a choice for people who are hurting, as it is for us fat cats. State and federal government nannyism, and protectionism is often just as damaging for those who are being helped as it is for the rest of us who are paying for it. The minimum wage is supposed to help the poorest workers make more money. In reality it forces companies to lay off some of those lowest paid workers so they can afford to keep on the rest. It prevents companies from hiring people with very limited skills who WANT to work, even for limited pay. Minimum wage PROTECTS un-competitive industries from the threat of companies that DO have access to cheaper labor, and forces us all to pay higher prices. No!! Not everyone is capable of achieving an equally comfortable or even secure life style. Government can't give it to you. If unemployable people can be as well off as hard workers, then hard workers are going to quit working. The hall sweeper shouldn't make as much as the engineer. Libertarianism says that the Constitution should be strictly enforced. We want the Fed Gov't to provide national defense. We don't want our Gov't to go off gunning people around the world because we don't agree with them. You talk about "safe neighborhoods." Why are some neighborhoods unsafe? Here are a few reasons: Cities have criminalized gun ownership, forcing otherwise law-abiding citizens, who only want to protect themselves, to break the law in order to get an "illegal" gun for protection. Thugs who have guns, run free because they know there are not too many others around to mow them down if they get out of hand. Our Country has criminalized drug use and possession to such an extent that in neighborhoods where there is a lot of drugs, most people are AGAINST the cops, because the cops are the ones that came and arrested my brother, father, uncle.. Since drugs are illegal they are expensive and dangerous and uncontrolled. Expensive drugs force addicts into criminal behavior in order to afford the habit. Regulation creates Monopolies on Health Care and Medicines. Only a limited number of doctors are allowed to enroll in Medical Schools, due to limits and regulations on what a "Medical School" is. Only those with the "official accreditation" can practice medicine. This year it cost me $500 to have my 7 stitches at an Emergency Room. 12 years ago I could have gone to my family doctor and had those 7 stitches for $50. The best kind of system is a SELF REGULATED system. A reoccurring them in libertarianism is that a Federal Government is not capable of regulation most things very well, and that a SELF REGULATED system, while it will also have it's own problems, will be cheaper and better in the long run. Why doesn't America have the best Elementary and High Schools in the world? Because our Government's have created Monopolies. These Gov't Run Schools ( Monopolies ) don't have to do a good job to keep getting customers. They CAN get real bad, and you still have to send your kid. In a more Libertarian system, if a school was bad, parents could put their kids in another local school, or start their own school. The bad schools would go out of business.
I beg to differ! I have never seen a Sun box that didn't have physical disk for it's /tmp. And I've looked at a lot of them. That's not to say
that putting /tmp in RAM doesn't happen.. At companies including Kodak, Xerox and GE/Lockeed/MM over the last 8 years I never saw it.
I do agree that on Suns, when /tmp gets full strange things happen, including system reboots and other wierd things.
And turning on quotas is a good way to slow things down. I can only imagine that this would be a very bad thing to do on /tmp.
Kevin
I'm not convinced that there is really a serial number? Digital convergence will already have a way to track us, users already have to get an "activation code" that is emailed out, and you have to use the activation code to enable the CRQ software. They will be able to track most of us anyway even without a serial number.