I am truly astonished that anyone can so fervently believe in a system so corrupt. Have you not been paying ANY attention? Your government is 0wn3d by big corporations. Most governments are, it's just that yours is the most obvious about it. How can anyone beleive that the last election was NOT rigged? How gullible can you be? If what happened to elect Bush had happened in a third-world country there would have been outcries the world over.
Every last judge, politician and lawyer has been bought. The entire judicial system of your country wreaks with corruption. Ever notice how NOT A SINGLE company was attacked under anti-trust law for one hundred years? Stalin and Hitler where amateurs at propoganda. Rank amateurs. The US has perfected the art. Just watch some of the garbage churned out by Hollywood(Independance Day, "Thank god the americans have come to save us!", and Airforce One are two stark examples), and look at how pervasive it is. Coke is in how many countries now? The "Constitution" is a hollow, meaningless sheet of paper. It's a theory, laughed at by politicians and judges alike as they cash their cheques from the RIAA. Your country is a fraud, this garbage about the "Constitution" is nothing short of propoganda.
IMHO, there is something FUNDAMENTALLY wrong if you have to kick the stupid thing every so often. Something somewhere is a piece of junk and not worth the money you paid for it.
The problem is an economic one. DSL customers consume MUCH more bandwidth than dialup customers, YET, they only pay $10 more! As a company providing access, $10 extra per customer really isn't enough to be able to afford the kind of connection necessary. Add to that the always-on aspect, plus the extra cost of hardware for a DSLAM, and DSL or cable are both extremely non-profitable. DSL or Cable-only provider could never survive, it'd sink like a rock. You really can't fit 200 DSL users on a T1. 200 dial-up and you're fine.
Just remember, once children hit puberty they become like crack addicts. They can't help themselves. It is a truly unique and extraordinary child that can. If they can get at it through the net, THEY WILL FIND A WAY. You just can't trust them to do what's right - they can't even trust themselves. It's not something they have control over yet, they're still trying to learn how to control the urges.
You can't trust them, you just can't. They might be really good kids, but when they go looking for this stuff, they aren't in their right mind. Kill your net access and maybe you'll be lucky enough to just keep them down to long looks at the cover of MAXIM.
In that situation, they will probably have the brains to be able to control it. But, if they can find a way to get at the stuff without a public act, they will.
People seem to have the impression that it's impossible to invent the perfect machine. I disagree. Eventually, you have to get as close to perfection as is physically possible. This can't go on forever - eventually you wind up with something WORSE than what you started with. The good, old-fashioned book is right near the closest you can get to a machine being perfect. What's left now is improvements in durability.
It's fundamentally intuitive, to use one all I have to know is how to read. If I want to let a friend borrow it, the only thing I need to know is how to operate my limbs. I don't need to learn how to command my book to transfer over to his book. What if he doesn't have his reader with him at the time? With a regular, I just hand it to him. Very quick, very painless process. Also very intuitive. I understand that letting someone borrow something by actually HANDING it to them is a truly novel concept, but after a while you get used to it.
I keep noticing from e-book proponents one thing that stands out: They're constantly struggling to make the point that "It's just as good as a regular book!". About the only benefit they can ever quote are the ability to store a large number of books in one reader, and back-lit displays. Neither of which outweigh the fact that old-fashioned books feel better, and lack the flaws of their electronic counterparts. From a business standpoint, those advantages simply aren't enough to make e-books a successful product, especially when you consider the cost of the reader, plus the fact that publishers are unwilling to sell e-books for a lower price(it would require a MUCH lower price, we're talking $3 for the electronic version versus $30 for the paper version).
This is like natural gas cars - something which will always be on the fringe because the benefits are insufficient. And old-fashioned books are much more popular with people than gasoline is.
Y2K was never something to be really concerned about.
All these chicken littles did was make money off other people's ignorance, including your own. In my opinion, they should be taken out and fed to the senate.
Charging for security information is a very bad idea. Say a bug is discovered with one of your client's products, client knows about the bug first and asks for you to delay mentioning it for a while or to soften the blow.
If the customer where worth $70k to you, would you deny them that request?
By charging for these alerts you have a conflict of interest. Personally, I would never trust security from a for-profit business. As a result, there are a lot of security sites that have lost my trust because they've gone commercial.
I have yet to find a single person, other than myself, that plays with pneumatic instrumentation and controllers(even electronic process controllers) as a hobby.
If there's anyone out there, I've got a Taylor, some Synchro 3's and some pneumatic integrators I've been playing with.
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They don't have any 286s - no MMU, Linux can't run.
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The way to win is to wait. The RIAA has already lost, we're just waiting for the body to hit the floor right now.
Napster is something people won't give up without a struggle. Get more people using napster, that's what they want. When the RIAA shuts down napster, even more people will start using the open napster servers and gnutella. The RIAA cannot fight the REAL battle, because the REAL battle is against individuals. The real battle is against their customers.
So long as we can keep some semblance of napster running for the people, the RIAA can never win. The RIAA is right now fighting a symptom of their problem, not the cause. The cause is people wanting cheap, good music. This is not the most profitable thing for a busines to produce, so the RIAA doesn't want to provide what the customers want. Instead of trying to compete with napster's offerings, they are trying to shut it down. They are now faced with significant competition and like the trust that they are, they are fighting it vehemently.
You can send hate-mail, letter-bombs, even scorpions to the people responsible, it will have no effect. The venom will be ignored. Police will be called in to protect those responsible, and the whole effort be a failure.
Every day that napster runs is a day their monopoly erodes. It's a matter of endurance, if napster and friends can keep running long enough, the RIAA will lose on it's own. They cannot win.
One thing I don't see a lot of people mentioning is that the RIAA(like the MPAA and OPEC) is an industry cartel.
If you keep this in mind, their actions make a lot more sense.
Secondly, the RIAA is dead. Napster, too, is quite probably dead meat. OpenNap is the future. It's too late for them, they're trying to fight something they can't kill.
Corel failed with their Linux distro because Linux isn't windows. People forget that Linux works differently from windows, has to be employed differently from windows, and needs different software. Corel didn't grok that, and as a result, we all saw(much to our horror) what Linux looks like when it is mauled to be a clone of Windows.
Just remember, unions are the only thing that kept the US and Canada from becoming third-world countries. Before unions, workplace safety was completely nonexistant, workers where mistreated, payed low wages and could be fired on a whim.
When the workers refused to work in these conditions, employers eventually had to give in. If that had never happened, the majority of the US and Canada would be living in abject poverty, in filth and disease. All the horror stories we've read about child labour and inhuman treatment of workers would be happening here.
"Workers of the world unite, you have nothing to lose but your chains."
Spam is considered legitimate. Say there's 500,000 spammers worldwide(a conservative number). Let's say 10% of them have your e-mail address on file. That's 5,000 spammers. Let's say that a further 10% of THOSE spammers spams on a daily basis(not an unreasonable figure).
That means that you, my friend, will receive 500 spam e-mails PER DAY. How are you going to deal with being deluged by 500 worthless e-mails daily? And that's a conservative number! Spamming is too easy - bulk snail-mail costs some serious $$$ to do, spam is free. 520 hours on AOL and some spam software for $50. The problem with spam is that if it's allowed to grow in use, it will inevitably grow to the point that any e-mail messages of use are drowned out by the noise. And what about occasional users? There are some people that only get 5 messages a week from friends! Can you imagine what a PAIN it would be to sort through 3500 messages just to find those 5 that you want to read? E-mail would be crippled by it, USENET already has been largely crippled by spam.
The S/N ratio of the net has been dropping steadily for a LONG time, it's doomed if people don't try to fight that trend.
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I am truly astonished that anyone can so fervently believe in a system so corrupt. Have you not been paying ANY attention? Your government is 0wn3d by big corporations. Most governments are, it's just that yours is the most obvious about it. How can anyone beleive that the last election was NOT rigged? How gullible can you be? If what happened to elect Bush had happened in a third-world country there would have been outcries the world over.
Every last judge, politician and lawyer has been bought. The entire judicial system of your country wreaks with corruption. Ever notice how NOT A SINGLE company was attacked under anti-trust law for one hundred years? Stalin and Hitler where amateurs at propoganda. Rank amateurs. The US has perfected the art. Just watch some of the garbage churned out by Hollywood(Independance Day, "Thank god the americans have come to save us!", and Airforce One are two stark examples), and look at how pervasive it is. Coke is in how many countries now? The "Constitution" is a hollow, meaningless sheet of paper. It's a theory, laughed at by politicians and judges alike as they cash their cheques from the RIAA. Your country is a fraud, this garbage about the "Constitution" is nothing short of propoganda.
IMHO, there is something FUNDAMENTALLY wrong if you have to kick the stupid thing every so often. Something somewhere is a piece of junk and not worth the money you paid for it.
The problem is an economic one. DSL customers consume MUCH more bandwidth than dialup customers, YET, they only pay $10 more! As a company providing access, $10 extra per customer really isn't enough to be able to afford the kind of connection necessary. Add to that the always-on aspect, plus the extra cost of hardware for a DSLAM, and DSL or cable are both extremely non-profitable. DSL or Cable-only provider could never survive, it'd sink like a rock. You really can't fit 200 DSL users on a T1. 200 dial-up and you're fine.
At least spell kernel right.
Just remember, once children hit puberty they become like crack addicts. They can't help themselves. It is a truly unique and extraordinary child that can. If they can get at it through the net, THEY WILL FIND A WAY. You just can't trust them to do what's right - they can't even trust themselves. It's not something they have control over yet, they're still trying to learn how to control the urges.
You can't trust them, you just can't. They might be really good kids, but when they go looking for this stuff, they aren't in their right mind. Kill your net access and maybe you'll be lucky enough to just keep them down to long looks at the cover of MAXIM.
In that situation, they will probably have the brains to be able to control it. But, if they can find a way to get at the stuff without a public act, they will.
The only effective way is to kill your net access.
Reactivate it when she turns 23.
People seem to have the impression that it's impossible to invent the perfect machine. I disagree. Eventually, you have to get as close to perfection as is physically possible. This can't go on forever - eventually you wind up with something WORSE than what you started with. The good, old-fashioned book is right near the closest you can get to a machine being perfect. What's left now is improvements in durability.
It's fundamentally intuitive, to use one all I have to know is how to read. If I want to let a friend borrow it, the only thing I need to know is how to operate my limbs. I don't need to learn how to command my book to transfer over to his book. What if he doesn't have his reader with him at the time? With a regular, I just hand it to him. Very quick, very painless process. Also very intuitive. I understand that letting someone borrow something by actually HANDING it to them is a truly novel concept, but after a while you get used to it.
I keep noticing from e-book proponents one thing that stands out: They're constantly struggling to make the point that "It's just as good as a regular book!". About the only benefit they can ever quote are the ability to store a large number of books in one reader, and back-lit displays. Neither of which outweigh the fact that old-fashioned books feel better, and lack the flaws of their electronic counterparts. From a business standpoint, those advantages simply aren't enough to make e-books a successful product, especially when you consider the cost of the reader, plus the fact that publishers are unwilling to sell e-books for a lower price(it would require a MUCH lower price, we're talking $3 for the electronic version versus $30 for the paper version).
This is like natural gas cars - something which will always be on the fringe because the benefits are insufficient. And old-fashioned books are much more popular with people than gasoline is.
I'm surprised elfrad hasn't been mentioned.
http://www.elfrad.com
Am I the only one that wonders where he got fissionable material from? It's not like you can pull the stuff out of smoke detectors.
Someday, we will build a computer so fast that it will instantaneously spit out the result of all computations we will present it with.
Instead trying to find answers for our questions, we will have to find questions for our answers.
Y2K was never something to be really concerned about.
All these chicken littles did was make money off other people's ignorance, including your own. In my opinion, they should be taken out and fed to the senate.
Has everyone forgotten about Philo T. Farnsworth's fusor?
A table-top fusion reactor using IEC. See this page for more information:
http://fus.x0r.com
Charging for security information is a very bad idea. Say a bug is discovered with one of your client's products, client knows about the bug first and asks for you to delay mentioning it for a while or to soften the blow.
If the customer where worth $70k to you, would you deny them that request?
By charging for these alerts you have a conflict of interest. Personally, I would never trust security from a for-profit business. As a result, there are a lot of security sites that have lost my trust because they've gone commercial.
Command-line graphics software?
Boy, huh, ImageMagick seems to come to mind.
I guess povray would count, too.
I have yet to find a single person, other than myself, that plays with pneumatic instrumentation and controllers(even electronic process controllers) as a hobby.
If there's anyone out there, I've got a Taylor, some Synchro 3's and some pneumatic integrators I've been playing with.
They don't have any 286s - no MMU, Linux can't run.
The way to win is to wait. The RIAA has already lost, we're just waiting for the body to hit the floor right now.
Napster is something people won't give up without a struggle. Get more people using napster, that's what they want. When the RIAA shuts down napster, even more people will start using the open napster servers and gnutella. The RIAA cannot fight the REAL battle, because the REAL battle is against individuals. The real battle is against their customers.
So long as we can keep some semblance of napster running for the people, the RIAA can never win. The RIAA is right now fighting a symptom of their problem, not the cause. The cause is people wanting cheap, good music. This is not the most profitable thing for a busines to produce, so the RIAA doesn't want to provide what the customers want. Instead of trying to compete with napster's offerings, they are trying to shut it down. They are now faced with significant competition and like the trust that they are, they are fighting it vehemently.
You can send hate-mail, letter-bombs, even scorpions to the people responsible, it will have no effect. The venom will be ignored. Police will be called in to protect those responsible, and the whole effort be a failure.
Every day that napster runs is a day their monopoly erodes. It's a matter of endurance, if napster and friends can keep running long enough, the RIAA will lose on it's own. They cannot win.
The "Boy Electrician" is very much back in print, available from Lindsay Books.
http://www.lindsaybks.com
It's their catalog number 21648, sells for $19.95 US.
Lindsay's has a lot of great books available for sale that they reprint.
Mr. Science: Now, timmy, stand in front of this X-ray tube while I step behind this three foot thick steel plate!
Timmy: Sure thing, Mr. Science!
BWAAAAUUUGGGHHH!!!!
Mr. Science: Uh-oh! We're gonna need another Timmy!!!
One thing I don't see a lot of people mentioning is that the RIAA(like the MPAA and OPEC) is an industry cartel.
If you keep this in mind, their actions make a lot more sense.
Secondly, the RIAA is dead. Napster, too, is quite probably dead meat. OpenNap is the future. It's too late for them, they're trying to fight something they can't kill.
Corel failed with their Linux distro because Linux isn't windows. People forget that Linux works differently from windows, has to be employed differently from windows, and needs different software. Corel didn't grok that, and as a result, we all saw(much to our horror) what Linux looks like when it is mauled to be a clone of Windows.
Sorry dude, QNX is a UNIX variant.
Just remember, unions are the only thing that kept the US and Canada from becoming third-world countries. Before unions, workplace safety was completely nonexistant, workers where mistreated, payed low wages and could be fired on a whim.
When the workers refused to work in these conditions, employers eventually had to give in. If that had never happened, the majority of the US and Canada would be living in abject poverty, in filth and disease. All the horror stories we've read about child labour and inhuman treatment of workers would be happening here.
"Workers of the world unite, you have nothing to lose but your chains."
Consider this, bunky:
Spam is considered legitimate. Say there's 500,000 spammers worldwide(a conservative number). Let's say 10% of them have your e-mail address on file. That's 5,000 spammers. Let's say that a further 10% of THOSE spammers spams on a daily basis(not an unreasonable figure).
That means that you, my friend, will receive 500 spam e-mails PER DAY. How are you going to deal with being deluged by 500 worthless e-mails daily? And that's a conservative number! Spamming is too easy - bulk snail-mail costs some serious $$$ to do, spam is free. 520 hours on AOL and some spam software for $50. The problem with spam is that if it's allowed to grow in use, it will inevitably grow to the point that any e-mail messages of use are drowned out by the noise. And what about occasional users? There are some people that only get 5 messages a week from friends! Can you imagine what a PAIN it would be to sort through 3500 messages just to find those 5 that you want to read? E-mail would be crippled by it, USENET already has been largely crippled by spam.
The S/N ratio of the net has been dropping steadily for a LONG time, it's doomed if people don't try to fight that trend.
It's not just recent. Remember Bonny and Clyde?