> If we pay to get on the Net, we should be full nodes, no caps, no limits. The only things that should restrict that are our hardware components, not theirs. My ISP restricts upload speeds, but I have yet to hear a cogent argument as to why. I fork over for the privilege. I should get to use it. Period.
Get a T-1 or what ever fits your bandwidth needs and pay the money. A lot more than $40 a month isn't it. All companies I've dealt with when ordering T-1's et al don't care what you run if it isn't illegal. If you want to engage in illegal activity then you're out of luck.
Why not be your own provider? Right...because you don't want to spend the money and no one will give it to you for free. I got ya.
You are simply someone who wants something for nothing. As a consumer, you are nothing. You pay very little for the goods/services you want yet you complain when the providers try to make up the money you don't provide.
The reason many popular products are cheap is because of "subscription" based pricing. If you don't want ads, pay more money. Tell your broadband provider you want to pay business prices and they won't cram ads to you. Better yet, get your own T-line, register your own domain name (there are places that don't spam you) and set up your own email servers.
Pay your celluar provider more money to stop spamming you and selling your information. If you sign up for a business plan they won't sell your information (at least mine doesn't). Oh, and give them $300 for the cost of the phone too that way you don't owe them for that.
Cancel your magazine subscriptions and research any topic you are interested in yourself. Better yet, pay the publisher more money for content without ads.
Bottom line is, if you don't want spam and ads, pay more money for what you want. Maybe you don't want to hear that because it is true and you have no rebuttal for it. It takes effort to get exactly what you want, but since you are not willing to do that stick with your basic services and deal with the spam. Stop whining and do something about it.
A friend of mine told me about this, so I can't take full credit.
If you have your own domain (which for $30 or so should be reasonable for most), setup a mail server for yourself and have all non-registered (i.e. not a real user) accounts point to one real account.
Now, say you want to order tickets from Ticket Master. When they ask for an email address put in ticketmaster@mydomain.com. If they sell your email address and you get some spam, you will know exactly who sold your address. I've done this for ebay, amazon, Barnes&Nobles, Ticket Master and my credit union just to name a few.
It's been an interesting experiment. My credit union has ethics and follows their privacy policy so I haven't received any spam (yet). Barnes and Noble hasn't been spammed yet either. However Ticket Master, EBay and Amazon have resulted in spam. It's pretty neat to see who exactly sells your email address or allows people to scan pages for addresses.
What's the big deal? Modularize the graphics. Have them load via links (if not already) and officially distribute graphics that don't say "GAIM" but have someone host the "rogue" graphics that do.
Maybe it's the number racism lawsuits that may be contributing to the cycle? Don't get me wrong, there are some cases which MUST be tried but how many others are just for money?
The number of lawsuits has scared me to the point where I have become so PC it makes me seem cold and anti-social at times. This is because I don't want to know anyone I work with on a social level. "You have kids? How nice, now let me ask you about this project"
Maybe many of the employees on the defense fear the so-called minority. What if something they say comes across in a way they didn't mean it to? They're screwed. As a white male (in the so-called majority), I will lose EVERY court battle over racism or sexism simply because I am in the so-called majority (majority/minority is crap. It is all relative). I have been made out to be the enemy no matter where I came from, what school I went to, how hard ~~I~~ had to work. It doesn't matter because I'm white and I'm male. It doesn't matter that I'm "Irish-American" and was raised catholic (two groups hated and put down in the early 20th century). Could that be racism in the legal system?
Maybe many people are beginning to fear the so-called minority and detaching themselves. They don't say what made up the "harsh" working environment. Maybe it could have been no one wanted to hang out with them or socialize with them out of fear. If it was worse like, "you are in the minority so you should deliver mail all day" then the charges should be brought.
Everyone is shouting about linux's 5% of the computer market. How many of the users running those computers actually KNOWS enough about linux support it? Knowing to run "./configure;make;make install" or 'rpm --install' doesn't cut it. As a tech support person, I still want windows on the desktop because I know windows better than linux. Lets be honest, many other tech support managers and employees who like linux will say the same thing.
Sure, some companies will buy these machines. But with the extremely small pool of knowledgeable linux users, I don't see this happening for the same reason there is a tech worker shortage: not enough good people.
Saving money on the OS or other software won't make a difference when you have to pay for training.
Get off the CPU/FPU power trip. Not everyone needs a powerful desktop replacement. I'm a programmer and I use my laptop for programming, M$ Office type applications, and using the internet. I don't need a 1GHz CPU, 1gig of memory and 60 gigs of harddrive space in my laptop.
Maybe this is also another step in laptop upgrades. My previous celeron laptop was like this. I could upgrade from a 333 to a 433 painlessly. Granted it's only 100mhz, but it is still an upgrade that put a little more life in my investment.
Here in the second city, traffic is HORRIBLE. Every other road is being repaired and the ones they just repaired are falling apart already. Taking the tollways or expressways during rush hour is like sitting on the couch, you aren't going anywhere.
This WILL sound odd, but I've found that roads with traffic lights move faster during high travel times simply because people work better when regulated. The obvious exception is when you have multiple lights out of sync within a mile of each other. When placed properly, the road ahead is open giving people the change to actually move (what a concept in traffic!!).
On the expressways, traffic just slows to a crawl for no apparent reason around here. Mainly because you've got people who feel a need to slow down in heavy traffic. I'd rather stop at lights with periods of going 30 or 40 than a constant 10 miles per hour on the expressways around here. For anyone that knows the area, taking 94 from Lake-Cook to 137 takes 55 minutes on average but taking Waukegan Road (Rte 43) to 137 takes 35 to 40. And you cross three majors roads (22, 60 and 176). The only reason it took 50 minutes one day is because some moron wanted to go swimming in pond with his ugly Exploiter.
So, traffic lights are a good thing. If you're dumb enough to run a light that has been yellow for awhile you deserve anything you get. If you are creeping out on a red you deserve what you get. I want even get into trains. We need to stop trying to prevent natural selection and weed on some the population.
I don't know much about the traffic system in Chicago (sensors, cameras, etc), but I do know what I see. To comment on the traffic circles, they're cool and traffic moves quickly through them, but I can't help but feel nervous when driving through them. And see the broken glass on the edge of the round doesn't help;). Could they be safer simply because there are fewer of them? The same way there are less women getting into accidents because there a fewer of them driving (not sexist, that's a statistic).
Keystroking logging can be excessive, but if you are logging other things, you might as well. Extra evidence if you need it.
People have the expectation that they can do whatever they want where ever they are. If you don't want someone to have a personal password, don't enter it at work (entering at home can be just as dangerous, but I'm focusing on the workplace). This falls under the category of "if you don't want them to know, don't tell them."
An admin will have your network passwords no matter what you do. For the companies security they need to be able to get it. How else are you going to get on someone's machine if they leave the company (fired or what not)?
But as Napster advocates say about downloadable music, "that is the way technology is going..." That may sound out of context, but it isn't. Monitoring technology is also growing, and if it is there, someone is going to use it. Do I agree with it? No. But I do have to live with it.
A lot of people are complaing that "what if...". In reality, a company isn't going to come down on you for sending a few messages.
For example, there was a link on this website (/.) that I clicked on and the proxy where I work blocked it because of gambling or pr0n or something. Now, the article didn't say that is what I might find on that site and by the URL I couldn't tell what was on it. That sort thing not only can but does happen. Now, if I kept on getting those errors a number of times a day then that would set off some bells.
Another poster said that he emails his mother if he is coming home for the weekend. That email won't get his mom in trouble. Any rational manager would realize that email is becoming just like the telephone...an easy way to contact people.
IMHO the stuff the corps are trying to block are the seemingly endless supply of stupid joke forwards (and the like) as well as the abuse of email. Emailing my buddies from school all day and sending out WAY more email than is normal would probably set off some bells.
My point is, they aren't trying to stop personal emails and the _occasional_ browse of the internet during business hours. They are trying to stop the person who spends a vast majority of their time on the internet and not doing what they should be doing. And we all know at least one person who is like that.
I could go on all day about how voting is bunch of bunk with its dirty psychological tricks and shady emotional appeals but that would be off topic. Voter turn out is decreasing in +the United States so the government doesn't really care what the people say. Corps are paying the governments campaign bills and filling politician's pockets so if XYZ company wants to know what a French company is doing to try to win a contract of course the government will use its spy technology to help them. I don't think WW3 is much of a concern considering if it did happen the world would end with every country launching is chemical and/or nuclear weapons (how do you like your skin, lightly toasted or extra crispy). That said, the spy technology isn't as busy as it was during the Cold War so someone might as well use it, right? Its kind of hard to bash the US right after Independance Day, but oh well.
Then write one yourself:). What kind of innovations do you want? If everything one needs to use their computer has already been written then why innovate? Writting a better word processor is not innovating, that's just building a better mouse trap. Innovation means coming up with something truly bleeding edge. Something COMPLETELY unique and I haven't seen that since win95 (as far as OS's and their features go and before I started using Linux). Rather than complain about the lack of innovation, why not say "hey, wouldn't it be cool if b, c or d feature could be included in x, y or z OS?" Get off the bandwagon.
I COMPLETELY agree with you. But is there really anything we can do to stop it? Money talks and the Consitution walks. Canada keeps looking better and better to me...
We (the US) are governed by politicians who are only concerned with money and another term, not the well being of the people they represent.
What a way to welcome in D-Day. Every year since 1944, we have been losing more and more freedom. Geez, in the late 40's and 50's the government tried to prosecute people for their political beliefs.
Pretty soon there will be a disclaimer on our national anthem:
...land of the free(*)...and the home of the brave.
* - Only if you are a rich contributor to a politician or a corp.
Hmmm...that brings in a whole lot of different aspects. Just to name one, are you someone that would say the confederacy was a seperate nation? There is evidence to argue that they were not a country because the United States of America (at that time) did not recognize those states as a seperate nation. Besides, the USA wasn't a communist nation during the Civil War.
But, to answer your question, I think that even during the CW those southern states in rebellion were still Americans. So, naturally, yes I do believe they were given the finger too.
Also, going back that far maybe a little excessive. I was referring to WWII, Korea, Vietnam and other operations in which the USA sent troops to either "contain" or do battle with troops from communist nations.
Anyone remember the Progressive car insurance commercials where the guy is sitting with his laptop in the middle of a field? That's what I think of when I think wireless internet.
Out here in Illinois, NIU uses a wireless connection to connect a local community college to the internet. And for many other rural areas, like DeKalb County, IL it is cheaper than running land lines for the simple fact that everything is so far apart.
As mention above, the phone companies might/are charging to use their infrastructure. When I go back to my parents' place in a suburb of Chicago, DSL is about $30-$40 a month with no charges from Ameritech (SBC). However, at my apartment at school, we get a $35 charge from the phone company AND another $35 charge from our ISP (Verizon doesn't act as the ISP in my area).
That sounds cheap for the end user, but after looking at the costs for the ISP, things can be REALLY expensive. Just looking at some of Cisco's price for large area connectivity (8km+). You are REALLY getting expensive. So if this were to be a public system, who would foot the bill? Who would provide the backbone? Might this end up just going back to the phone companies anyway?
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That's because the government (in the U.S.) says that has to be fixed. It is a regulated industry.
> If we pay to get on the Net, we should be full nodes, no caps, no limits. The only things that should restrict that are our hardware components, not theirs. My ISP restricts upload speeds, but I have yet to hear a cogent argument as to why. I fork over for the privilege. I should get to use it. Period.
Get a T-1 or what ever fits your bandwidth needs and pay the money. A lot more than $40 a month isn't it. All companies I've dealt with when ordering T-1's et al don't care what you run if it isn't illegal. If you want to engage in illegal activity then you're out of luck.
Why not be your own provider? Right...because you don't want to spend the money and no one will give it to you for free. I got ya.
Grow up.
You are simply someone who wants something for nothing. As a consumer, you are nothing. You pay very little for the goods/services you want yet you complain when the providers try to make up the money you don't provide.
The reason many popular products are cheap is because of "subscription" based pricing. If you don't want ads, pay more money. Tell your broadband provider you want to pay business prices and they won't cram ads to you. Better yet, get your own T-line, register your own domain name (there are places that don't spam you) and set up your own email servers.
Pay your celluar provider more money to stop spamming you and selling your information. If you sign up for a business plan they won't sell your information (at least mine doesn't). Oh, and give them $300 for the cost of the phone too that way you don't owe them for that.
Cancel your magazine subscriptions and research any topic you are interested in yourself. Better yet, pay the publisher more money for content without ads.
Bottom line is, if you don't want spam and ads, pay more money for what you want. Maybe you don't want to hear that because it is true and you have no rebuttal for it. It takes effort to get exactly what you want, but since you are not willing to do that stick with your basic services and deal with the spam. Stop whining and do something about it.
If you have your own domain (which for $30 or so should be reasonable for most), setup a mail server for yourself and have all non-registered (i.e. not a real user) accounts point to one real account.
Now, say you want to order tickets from Ticket Master. When they ask for an email address put in ticketmaster@mydomain.com. If they sell your email address and you get some spam, you will know exactly who sold your address. I've done this for ebay, amazon, Barnes&Nobles, Ticket Master and my credit union just to name a few.
It's been an interesting experiment. My credit union has ethics and follows their privacy policy so I haven't received any spam (yet). Barnes and Noble hasn't been spammed yet either. However Ticket Master, EBay and Amazon have resulted in spam. It's pretty neat to see who exactly sells your email address or allows people to scan pages for addresses.
What are they going to do, sue us all?
The number of lawsuits has scared me to the point where I have become so PC it makes me seem cold and anti-social at times. This is because I don't want to know anyone I work with on a social level. "You have kids? How nice, now let me ask you about this project"
Maybe many of the employees on the defense fear the so-called minority. What if something they say comes across in a way they didn't mean it to? They're screwed. As a white male (in the so-called majority), I will lose EVERY court battle over racism or sexism simply because I am in the so-called majority (majority/minority is crap. It is all relative). I have been made out to be the enemy no matter where I came from, what school I went to, how hard ~~I~~ had to work. It doesn't matter because I'm white and I'm male. It doesn't matter that I'm "Irish-American" and was raised catholic (two groups hated and put down in the early 20th century). Could that be racism in the legal system?
Maybe many people are beginning to fear the so-called minority and detaching themselves. They don't say what made up the "harsh" working environment. Maybe it could have been no one wanted to hang out with them or socialize with them out of fear. If it was worse like, "you are in the minority so you should deliver mail all day" then the charges should be brought.
Everyone is shouting about linux's 5% of the computer market. How many of the users running those computers actually KNOWS enough about linux support it? Knowing to run "./configure;make;make install" or 'rpm --install' doesn't cut it. As a tech support person, I still want windows on the desktop because I know windows better than linux. Lets be honest, many other tech support managers and employees who like linux will say the same thing.
Sure, some companies will buy these machines. But with the extremely small pool of knowledgeable linux users, I don't see this happening for the same reason there is a tech worker shortage: not enough good people.
Saving money on the OS or other software won't make a difference when you have to pay for training.
Well...safe sex doesn't have to look that way...
Maybe this is also another step in laptop upgrades. My previous celeron laptop was like this. I could upgrade from a 333 to a 433 painlessly. Granted it's only 100mhz, but it is still an upgrade that put a little more life in my investment.
This WILL sound odd, but I've found that roads with traffic lights move faster during high travel times simply because people work better when regulated. The obvious exception is when you have multiple lights out of sync within a mile of each other. When placed properly, the road ahead is open giving people the change to actually move (what a concept in traffic!!).
On the expressways, traffic just slows to a crawl for no apparent reason around here. Mainly because you've got people who feel a need to slow down in heavy traffic. I'd rather stop at lights with periods of going 30 or 40 than a constant 10 miles per hour on the expressways around here. For anyone that knows the area, taking 94 from Lake-Cook to 137 takes 55 minutes on average but taking Waukegan Road (Rte 43) to 137 takes 35 to 40. And you cross three majors roads (22, 60 and 176). The only reason it took 50 minutes one day is because some moron wanted to go swimming in pond with his ugly Exploiter.
So, traffic lights are a good thing. If you're dumb enough to run a light that has been yellow for awhile you deserve anything you get. If you are creeping out on a red you deserve what you get. I want even get into trains. We need to stop trying to prevent natural selection and weed on some the population.
I don't know much about the traffic system in Chicago (sensors, cameras, etc), but I do know what I see. To comment on the traffic circles, they're cool and traffic moves quickly through them, but I can't help but feel nervous when driving through them. And see the broken glass on the edge of the round doesn't help ;). Could they be safer simply because there are fewer of them? The same way there are less women getting into accidents because there a fewer of them driving (not sexist, that's a statistic).
All these businesses are putting up there E-Commerce sites and then E-Jaculate all over themselves because they feel cool and "hip".
Keystroking logging can be excessive, but if you are logging other things, you might as well. Extra evidence if you need it.
People have the expectation that they can do whatever they want where ever they are. If you don't want someone to have a personal password, don't enter it at work (entering at home can be just as dangerous, but I'm focusing on the workplace). This falls under the category of "if you don't want them to know, don't tell them."
An admin will have your network passwords no matter what you do. For the companies security they need to be able to get it. How else are you going to get on someone's machine if they leave the company (fired or what not)?
But as Napster advocates say about downloadable music, "that is the way technology is going..." That may sound out of context, but it isn't. Monitoring technology is also growing, and if it is there, someone is going to use it. Do I agree with it? No. But I do have to live with it.
A lot of people are complaing that "what if...". In reality, a company isn't going to come down on you for sending a few messages.
For example, there was a link on this website (/.) that I clicked on and the proxy where I work blocked it because of gambling or pr0n or something. Now, the article didn't say that is what I might find on that site and by the URL I couldn't tell what was on it. That sort thing not only can but does happen. Now, if I kept on getting those errors a number of times a day then that would set off some bells.
Another poster said that he emails his mother if he is coming home for the weekend. That email won't get his mom in trouble. Any rational manager would realize that email is becoming just like the telephone...an easy way to contact people.
IMHO the stuff the corps are trying to block are the seemingly endless supply of stupid joke forwards (and the like) as well as the abuse of email. Emailing my buddies from school all day and sending out WAY more email than is normal would probably set off some bells.
My point is, they aren't trying to stop personal emails and the _occasional_ browse of the internet during business hours. They are trying to stop the person who spends a vast majority of their time on the internet and not doing what they should be doing. And we all know at least one person who is like that.
I could go on all day about how voting is bunch of bunk with its dirty psychological tricks and shady emotional appeals but that would be off topic. Voter turn out is decreasing in +the United States so the government doesn't really care what the people say. Corps are paying the governments campaign bills and filling politician's pockets so if XYZ company wants to know what a French company is doing to try to win a contract of course the government will use its spy technology to help them. I don't think WW3 is much of a concern considering if it did happen the world would end with every country launching is chemical and/or nuclear weapons (how do you like your skin, lightly toasted or extra crispy). That said, the spy technology isn't as busy as it was during the Cold War so someone might as well use it, right? Its kind of hard to bash the US right after Independance Day, but oh well.
Then write one yourself :). What kind of innovations do you want? If everything one needs to use their computer has already been written then why innovate? Writting a better word processor is not innovating, that's just building a better mouse trap. Innovation means coming up with something truly bleeding edge. Something COMPLETELY unique and I haven't seen that since win95 (as far as OS's and their features go and before I started using Linux). Rather than complain about the lack of innovation, why not say "hey, wouldn't it be cool if b, c or d feature could be included in x, y or z OS?" Get off the bandwagon.
I COMPLETELY agree with you. But is there really anything we can do to stop it? Money talks and the Consitution walks. Canada keeps looking better and better to me...
We (the US) are governed by politicians who are only concerned with money and another term, not the well being of the people they represent.
What a way to welcome in D-Day. Every year since 1944, we have been losing more and more freedom. Geez, in the late 40's and 50's the government tried to prosecute people for their political beliefs.
Pretty soon there will be a disclaimer on our national anthem:
...land of the free(*)...and the home of the brave.
* - Only if you are a rich contributor to a politician or a corp.
Another glass of TRUTH anyone?
Hmmm...that brings in a whole lot of different aspects. Just to name one, are you someone that would say the confederacy was a seperate nation? There is evidence to argue that they were not a country because the United States of America (at that time) did not recognize those states as a seperate nation. Besides, the USA wasn't a communist nation during the Civil War.
But, to answer your question, I think that even during the CW those southern states in rebellion were still Americans. So, naturally, yes I do believe they were given the finger too.
Also, going back that far maybe a little excessive. I was referring to WWII, Korea, Vietnam and other operations in which the USA sent troops to either "contain" or do battle with troops from communist nations.
Out here in Illinois, NIU uses a wireless connection to connect a local community college to the internet. And for many other rural areas, like DeKalb County, IL it is cheaper than running land lines for the simple fact that everything is so far apart.
As mention above, the phone companies might/are charging to use their infrastructure. When I go back to my parents' place in a suburb of Chicago, DSL is about $30-$40 a month with no charges from Ameritech (SBC). However, at my apartment at school, we get a $35 charge from the phone company AND another $35 charge from our ISP (Verizon doesn't act as the ISP in my area).
That sounds cheap for the end user, but after looking at the costs for the ISP, things can be REALLY expensive. Just looking at some of Cisco's price for large area connectivity (8km+). You are REALLY getting expensive. So if this were to be a public system, who would foot the bill? Who would provide the backbone? Might this end up just going back to the phone companies anyway?