Right now, it is paranoia. It's paranoia about future uses of the data. It's paranoia about future technology that has more insidious uses.
You have to stop at some point and say "enough is enough". Don't you think it's time that we stop allowing ourselves to be measured, tracked, counted and herded like sheep at the hands of big corporations?
The previous post was made by someone who decided that they wouldn't register, and used "Anonymous Coward".
Mr. Kettle meet Mr. Black, Mr. Black, Mr. Kettle.
The reason is that it's an issue is because it's none of their business what I watch on TV.
Just remove your cookies at boot. Confuses the hell outta them.
That is unless you run Linux. If you run Linux, then there's no reason to reboot and you'll have to do with a crontab.
Most of the prairies, the arctic, and any place that there's basically a working cellular network could be retrofitted for a working DSL network, I imagine.
Only if you created a completely new wireless network utilizing existing cell towers.
I can tell you, there's damn little on the praries and in the arctic. That's why the only thing that's available is satellite.
Well, except for severe solar storms. Then it all craps out.
You mean Howard Stern is in the public good?
Howard Stern is in the good of Infinity Broadcasting, a former part of CBS which was split from CBS (although CBS is a major stockholder) so CBS could own more stations in major markets.
It's all out of hand. Local broadcasting is dead, 80% of the stations are owned by 4 large corporations.
Outside of broadcasting, three major telcos own almost all of the cellular and PCS spectrum allocations, and anyone who wants to compete in the wireless Internet game needs to use unlicensed 2.4 and 5 gig spread spectrum bands.
Let's face it, the FCC has sold out a long time ago. Simply calling it a lease is admitting to the current state of affairs. And courtesy of the NAB, some of those leaseholders paid nothing for their leases.
It's not a CB, per se. It's well known that the Russians passed the time playing on several amateur radio modes.
I heard more that one rumour that the ground controllers fired up R0MIR beacons for the last few passes.
... get a footing in an industry.
Not sure which is the lesser evil, but if these tech companies keep this crap up, their employees will be drawn to unionize and then they'll be dicked.
I worked in a union tech shop for years. Talk about a productivity loss...
Back when I worked in broadcasting, the industry thought they could get away with no-competes for everything. Right down to the minimum-wage people they had answering phones.
As my attorney told me, if you live in a right-to-work state, the only way a no-compete clause is valid is if there's quid pro quo. That is, they buy from you the work time that you'd spend at another employer. If they chose to let you spend that time watching Jerry Springer or flipping burgers, that's up to them. But they have to *purchase* that ability.
Generally, I've seen negotiated rates from 100% of salary to what I negotiated in my no-compete which was they make up the difference if my non-broadcasting job was paying less than what I was making in the industry.
So, when the company was bought out, I found myself a posh job in the bookstore at a community college. I was paid a paltry sum of $9 an hour for 5 hours per day and due to (the all to common) ineptitude of the broadcast outfit, they made up the difference for my old 8 hour-day job.
Best two years I've ever spent!
...the kludge.
That's right, any "work-around" to extend the limits of existing technology or the shortcomings of any system.
So, these guys have infringed upon my patent. Because that's what their system is, a kludge because they couldn't figure out how to do it any other way.
Yes, you get getter service from a small local company in just about anything.
But you as the consumer are to blame. You let yourself be sold by the big boys, hoping in the back of your mind that "this time it'll be different". Well, it ain't.
The Mom and Pop ISPs were locked out of broadband by the big boys, and the attrition of customers to cable and DSL are a problem.
It used to be that regularily killing off cookies diluted doubleclick's ability to target ads.
But I've noticed on my DSL connection that they are probably using my IP address too. I've entered all of Doubleclick's suspected IP's into the firewall.
They suspended him because he didn't accept the crown. What did they want him to do, walk in with a gun to make his point?
More and more, "educators" are proving themselves to be in that field because they are worthless anywhere else.
Just purge out your cookies. Doubleclick.net and their ilk will keep pushing new identifiers out there, totally inflate their "seen" numbers and won't be able to generate meaningful demographic information.
It's not safe unless it's encrypted before it is put on the machine. Period.
Doesn't matter what access level people have to the machine, if it's coming in SSL, it needs to be laid to disk encrypted if there people unaffiliated to that SSL site on the same machine.
Yet again, some dork lawmaker decides that "there outta be a law" and here we go, drafting legislation on top of legislation. I'm sure Pennsylvania has laws of merchantibility already in place.
What this will mean is that the price of hardware will rise because manufacturers would rather pass on the cost of the x% of people who claim defective hardware. I would, who wants to argue with an idiot. Just send 'em a new whatever and mark up the price of all the products by 10%.
Let's face it, governments big and small are there to make laws. Since all the really good laws are already written, they have to come up with new ones.
Well gee, I guess the defense needs to call some highly vocal and rich Open Source types to massage the judge's thinking...
No one is going to sue Hollywood over those statements. C'mon, they make up reality every day. How accurate, even for 1983 was War Games? That's probably their perception of hackers; a bunch of little Matthew Brodericks running around getting into trouble by breaking into government computers, and when they are not doing that, getting a little sticky-finger from Ally Sheedy.
Nah, I don't go to the movies. This is based upon the fact that I spend way too much time on the Internet, and partly because I haven't seen anything out of Hollywood that seems remotely interesting.
Of all people in the world to point out this argument, was my accountant.
His take on this is that DeCSS is a tool, and just like trying to find Stanley guilty in a breaking and entering case, DeCSS is a tool used for viewing DVDs.
Furthermore, it's not illegal to own lock picks. It's just illegal to use them for illegal purposes.
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This is just silly, a network inside your clothes. Just what I need, a bunch of IRC bound script kiddies hacking my boxers to figure out my penis size, and then emailing it to my date.
But hey, an MP3 player would be ok. Then the party might not necessarily be in my pants, but certainly my pants might be an integral part of the party.
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The big advantage that I see in this for Linux (or even BSD) is that there's lots of interesting hardware currently supported under SCO that's nary been touched by the Linux community. Getting this hardware and the associated applications running under Linux will only underscore the power of Unix.
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Right now, it is paranoia. It's paranoia about future uses of the data. It's paranoia about future technology that has more insidious uses. You have to stop at some point and say "enough is enough". Don't you think it's time that we stop allowing ourselves to be measured, tracked, counted and herded like sheep at the hands of big corporations?
The previous post was made by someone who decided that they wouldn't register, and used "Anonymous Coward". Mr. Kettle meet Mr. Black, Mr. Black, Mr. Kettle. The reason is that it's an issue is because it's none of their business what I watch on TV.
Just remove your cookies at boot. Confuses the hell outta them. That is unless you run Linux. If you run Linux, then there's no reason to reboot and you'll have to do with a crontab.
Most of the prairies, the arctic, and any place that there's basically a working cellular network could be retrofitted for a working DSL network, I imagine. Only if you created a completely new wireless network utilizing existing cell towers.
I can tell you, there's damn little on the praries and in the arctic. That's why the only thing that's available is satellite. Well, except for severe solar storms. Then it all craps out.
Yeah, they have free medical care. Socialist moron.
...already done this. So, guess a patent doesn't apply now, does it.
You mean Howard Stern is in the public good? Howard Stern is in the good of Infinity Broadcasting, a former part of CBS which was split from CBS (although CBS is a major stockholder) so CBS could own more stations in major markets. It's all out of hand. Local broadcasting is dead, 80% of the stations are owned by 4 large corporations. Outside of broadcasting, three major telcos own almost all of the cellular and PCS spectrum allocations, and anyone who wants to compete in the wireless Internet game needs to use unlicensed 2.4 and 5 gig spread spectrum bands. Let's face it, the FCC has sold out a long time ago. Simply calling it a lease is admitting to the current state of affairs. And courtesy of the NAB, some of those leaseholders paid nothing for their leases.
It's not a CB, per se. It's well known that the Russians passed the time playing on several amateur radio modes. I heard more that one rumour that the ground controllers fired up R0MIR beacons for the last few passes.
Back when I worked in broadcasting, the industry thought they could get away with no-competes for everything. Right down to the minimum-wage people they had answering phones. As my attorney told me, if you live in a right-to-work state, the only way a no-compete clause is valid is if there's quid pro quo. That is, they buy from you the work time that you'd spend at another employer. If they chose to let you spend that time watching Jerry Springer or flipping burgers, that's up to them. But they have to *purchase* that ability. Generally, I've seen negotiated rates from 100% of salary to what I negotiated in my no-compete which was they make up the difference if my non-broadcasting job was paying less than what I was making in the industry. So, when the company was bought out, I found myself a posh job in the bookstore at a community college. I was paid a paltry sum of $9 an hour for 5 hours per day and due to (the all to common) ineptitude of the broadcast outfit, they made up the difference for my old 8 hour-day job. Best two years I've ever spent!
Yes, you get getter service from a small local company in just about anything. But you as the consumer are to blame. You let yourself be sold by the big boys, hoping in the back of your mind that "this time it'll be different". Well, it ain't. The Mom and Pop ISPs were locked out of broadband by the big boys, and the attrition of customers to cable and DSL are a problem.
It used to be that regularily killing off cookies diluted doubleclick's ability to target ads. But I've noticed on my DSL connection that they are probably using my IP address too. I've entered all of Doubleclick's suspected IP's into the firewall.
They suspended him because he didn't accept the crown. What did they want him to do, walk in with a gun to make his point? More and more, "educators" are proving themselves to be in that field because they are worthless anywhere else.
Just purge out your cookies. Doubleclick.net and their ilk will keep pushing new identifiers out there, totally inflate their "seen" numbers and won't be able to generate meaningful demographic information.
It's not safe unless it's encrypted before it is put on the machine. Period. Doesn't matter what access level people have to the machine, if it's coming in SSL, it needs to be laid to disk encrypted if there people unaffiliated to that SSL site on the same machine.
Yet again, some dork lawmaker decides that "there outta be a law" and here we go, drafting legislation on top of legislation. I'm sure Pennsylvania has laws of merchantibility already in place. What this will mean is that the price of hardware will rise because manufacturers would rather pass on the cost of the x% of people who claim defective hardware. I would, who wants to argue with an idiot. Just send 'em a new whatever and mark up the price of all the products by 10%. Let's face it, governments big and small are there to make laws. Since all the really good laws are already written, they have to come up with new ones.
Well gee, I guess the defense needs to call some highly vocal and rich Open Source types to massage the judge's thinking... No one is going to sue Hollywood over those statements. C'mon, they make up reality every day. How accurate, even for 1983 was War Games? That's probably their perception of hackers; a bunch of little Matthew Brodericks running around getting into trouble by breaking into government computers, and when they are not doing that, getting a little sticky-finger from Ally Sheedy.
Nah, I don't go to the movies. This is based upon the fact that I spend way too much time on the Internet, and partly because I haven't seen anything out of Hollywood that seems remotely interesting.
Of all people in the world to point out this argument, was my accountant. His take on this is that DeCSS is a tool, and just like trying to find Stanley guilty in a breaking and entering case, DeCSS is a tool used for viewing DVDs. Furthermore, it's not illegal to own lock picks. It's just illegal to use them for illegal purposes.
This is just silly, a network inside your clothes. Just what I need, a bunch of IRC bound script kiddies hacking my boxers to figure out my penis size, and then emailing it to my date. But hey, an MP3 player would be ok. Then the party might not necessarily be in my pants, but certainly my pants might be an integral part of the party.
The big advantage that I see in this for Linux (or even BSD) is that there's lots of interesting hardware currently supported under SCO that's nary been touched by the Linux community. Getting this hardware and the associated applications running under Linux will only underscore the power of Unix.