The problem is the government gets a nice chunk of money from all those taxes tacked on to your phone bill. Don't think that state/local/federal entities will just give up all that money without making up the loss somewhere else.
I've tripped over enough that i wish someone would get seriously injured so they could be banned. I have a week of high school left, and i'm gonna miss kicking those down the stairs...
So sorry but what in the world are you talking about? What is a "rolling piece of luggage"?
It has wheels and a handle, and these asshats drag it along behind them in crowded hallways.
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Meanwhile, hardened PHP won't mean much, I'm afraid. If a guy doesn't know enough to use an automated filtering class on his $_GET[] he won't know he needs Hardened PHP either, because he lacks severely where PHP security is concerned. You can lead a horse to water but you can't make it drink, right?
How about some sort of key pair system? Tech support generates a number, the customer does as well, the combo resets/changes the password kind of thing?
Isn't this how some APC products work? I only had to reset a web card once, but as I recall, tech support had me press some weird key combo which generated a number they wanted, after which they gave me another weird number to type in for the card.
How dare you? You can call killing a fetus anything you like, but from where I come it's called murder. Abortion is simply the nice term for it when it's an unborn baby.
Did you know what when a woman has a miscarriage, that's an abortion, too? Spontaneous abortion, actually, but you claim that killing a fetus is murder.
Therefore, by your logic, you should go around calling mothers who miscarried murdurers.
Want to jump in with IPv6 now? Your ISP doesn't offer it to you? Get a free tunnel like this one from HE. I'm sure there's others, but this is the only one I know off the top of my head.
If you really believe what you posted, then your best bet is to seek out an authoritarian state and emigrate from the U.S.. China has been progressing, but likely still has enough government regulation to make you happy.
Regulation or no regulation, it doesn't matter to me. It's not a matter of "happy," either, however you define the term. I'm "happy" right here and if it were put to vote, I'd vote for these screening programs and whatnot. Are you suggesting we just let people on airplanes without security? No metal detectors? No x-ray machines? I'm sure someone out there whined about invasion of privacy with x-ray machines were required, but we don't cry over them these days.
Better yet, to win the war on terrorism compell a real peace in Isreal and the West Bank and get U.S. occupation troops out Islamic countries. If the U.S. and Isreal stop humiliating the Palastinians in particular and arabs in general that will dramaticly reduce the ability of islamic extremists to recruit for and fund their movement.
A little off topic, but I really don't see that happening. One wants the land the other had and the other gone from the land once they have it. It's been like that since forever with them. Can't force them to live together when they don't want to in the first place.
A bit different from "Passengers who ask questions...".
Passenger: Can I switch to first class? Airline: Why? P: Because I want to fly first class. A: That's pretty close to the cockpit... P: So? A: *flags as ultra-terrorist* Security!
Excuse my bluntness... but fuck privacy. People want to blow up planes or do shit? Then I say fuck 'em. I don't care how much I have to go through to fly if it means there's less of a chance some nutcase takes over the plane I'm on and does crazy shit, whatever it may be.
I don't care what anyone thinks about the president, or who or what is doing this stuff. The fact is people are doing lame things like blowing up planes and killing people. And it's not like this is the first time this stuff has happened, either. Remember that Pan Am 747? Way back in the day people could go fly with barely any security checks, and I'm sure if they had the kind of technology we had today, they would have already used it.
So track my finances, profile me, catalog my usenet posts, whatever, if it makes everyone else feel comfortable enough that I'm not going to randomly kill people. I have nothing to hide.
Check out the whois on the domain "ilostmyfavoritechannels.com". It was registered by Viacom back in January! The page contains anti-Echostar remarks and links to go sign up for the competition. Check it out for yourself. WTF is up with that?
Was Viacom planning ahead of time on Dish not giving in to their demands, so they could try to "teach them a lesson" by pulling the channels? What's with all the anti-Dish stuff aired by Viacom on their stations? Viacom keeps pointing the finger at Dish, basically stating that the channels were "removed."
Maybe Viacom was setting out to cause harm to Echostar, who has a history of refusing to bend over and take it when it comes to price increase demands. Or maybe I'm being a little on the conspiracy theory side of things. But I wouldn't put such a thing past them. Everything they're doing (the banners, the anti-Dish stuff, etc.) only keeps pointing the finger at them and away from Echostar.
In case it wants to change, here's the whois for the domain:
Registrant: MTVN Online Partner 1 LLC (SMQELJVTUD)
1515 Broadway
8th Floor
Attn Pier Borra
New York, NY 10036-5794
US
Domain Name: ILOSTMYFAVORITECHANNELS.COM
Administrative Contact:
MTVi-Admin Contact (35876815O) mtvi-admin@mtvigroup.com
MTVi-Admin Contact
MTVi Group
1515 Broadway
New York, NY 10036-5794
US
+1 212 846-3367 fax: +1 212-654-9068
Technical Contact:
Amirian, Brian (36553847P) amirianb@mtvi.com
1515 Broadway
New York, NY 10036
US
212 846 3223
Record expires on 16-Jan-2006.
Record created on 16-Jan-2004.
Database last updated on 10-Mar-2004 02:46:42 EST.
You miss a basic fact of business, you don't want to burn your customer base when your competitor has about the same or better services.
You can argue all the trial lawyer crap you want, if you have a declining customer base when it comes time to put that replacement bird into orbit all the legal immunity in the world isn't going to save your company.
Who said I wanted to be a lawyer? I'm a Dish Network customer, and intend to stay that way. And I think "better" is subjective, because I don't care about the channels in question would rather have a service discount.
Does it make me a wannabe lawyer because I read agreements I sign/enter? I think it just makes me a little more educated about the terms of service for whatever it is I'm paying for.
Why do I say this? Because I'm sick and tired of the scrolling on my screen whining about this, it doesn't affect me, I don't care. If MY cable company yanks these channels you can bet I WILL scream bloody murder, having a 3 year old, many of these channels are viewed quite a lot around here.
If I WERE a Dish subscriber I'd be plenty pissed right now though, and probably no longer a subscriber.
I am, and I'm not pissed at it at all. I'll live without Comedy Central (the only channel affected), and I praise Echostar for standing up to Viacom by refusing to be force-fed a rate increase under threat.
Plus I don't see any of the on-air crap Viacom is injecting. Only non-Dish customers get to see it. I'm not 3 anymore, but I did just fine with PBS as a kid, which wasn't all that long ago. I didn't grow up as a cable TV child. And you know what? Now as an adult, I prefer intellegent programming as opposed to the popular reality TV drivel, and can see the Viacom dispute from a point other than "I want my MTV!!".
Echostar will provide a $1 monthly credit to customers who lose programming while the channels are unavailable. Sorry but $1 a month is not exactly a fair trade off.
Guess what? Echostar doesn't own you anything. You should be glad they are giving you that discount, and you'd know it if you actually read the agreement they provide service under. Here's the related section of the agreement:
"G. Changes in Services offered. DISH Network reserves the right to change the Services that we offer, and our prices or fees related to such Services at any time. If the change affects you, we will provide you notice of the change and its effective date. The notice may be provided on your billing statement or by other communication permitted under Section 9B. In the event of a change in the contents of any programming, programming packages or other Services, you understand and agree that we have no obligation to replace or supplement the programming, programming packages or other Services previously offered that have been deleted, rearranged or otherwise changed. You further understand and agree you will not be entitled to any refund because of a change in the contents of any programming, programming packages, or other Services previously offered."
Anyway I think people should stay with windows 2000 as an operating system of choice in a business type environment.
Or in *any* environment. My dad got a new laptop the other day and I spent hours being pissed off at XP because some network retardedness is causing the backup client software to fail. It still doesn't work.
My girlfriend's computer had XP installed; it was malfunctioning badly. Erased it and put Windows 2000 on it. Rock solid ever since.
Personally, I had installed XP installed on the machine I use to play games on. XP broke OpenGL support, and since I like OpenGL, I ended up having to erase the machine and go back to 2000. (This computer also had problems with the backup client once running XP; works fine under 2000.)
I've had a couple XP experiences, none of them good. I much perfer Windows 2000 because it just works. Kind of like my Macs. I'm hoping SP2 will fix XP's assanine problems because sometimes you don't have a choice and have to support it.
I just got a new phone with AT&T. It's a Motorola T721; the old one was a Nokia 5160, also with AT&T. The Motorola has the Java support and browser and junk, but I don't really use that stuff. What do I use it for? Just talking and messaging. Not really sending messages; Nagios sends stuff to my phone so its important that the phone be able to display longer text messages. It's got a nice phone book and call log.
I wanted a flip phone and the best thing about this one is the little external screen that shows basic information (signal, battery, time, date, caller id, etc) without having to open the phone. It folds small enough for a pocket, but opens up to a normal size. I can't really stand those mini-me phones that feel fragile or oddly small when you're talking on them.
It has an external headset jack that isn't covered by some stupid cover that gets broken off or in the way when you're trying to plug in your headset in the dark. If a headset is plugged in and a call comes in, it rings a few times and then picks up automatically. Nice feature if you're driving and expecting an important call.
Once and a while the web browser comes in handy for weather and road conditions, which are nice when you live in areas with mountain passes. But you won't see me downloading games or ring tones or whatever. If I really want data, I'll get the interface cable so I can quickly do something on my laptop with GPRS.
Does it heave features I won't use? Sure. But that doesn't stop it from being useful as a basic, camera-free, phone with handy features I'll use once and a while.
All the other functions of a HTPC aside, the PowerMac G3 I'm using does one thing I can't replicate with a one-box solution: it records HDTV over FireWire. A DVHS deck would cost me way more than the $100 + $75 FireWire/USB card I paid for the G3. Even then, the DVHS deck uses tape opposed to random access hard drive.
It's not exactly a TiVo, but it time-shifts HDTV just fine. Since there is so little HD content anyway, I have no need for an HD TiVo anyway.
I watched it on NASA TV, too. It was quite an exciting ride through entry and landing. We have the second rover landing to look forward to on January 24.
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The problem is the government gets a nice chunk of money from all those taxes tacked on to your phone bill. Don't think that state/local/federal entities will just give up all that money without making up the loss somewhere else.
I've tripped over enough that i wish someone would get seriously injured so they could be banned. I have a week of high school left, and i'm gonna miss kicking those down the stairs...
Don't worry, you'll see them again in college.
So sorry but what in the world are you talking about? What is a "rolling piece of luggage"?
It has wheels and a handle, and these asshats drag it along behind them in crowded hallways.
Meanwhile, hardened PHP won't mean much, I'm afraid. If a guy doesn't know enough to use an automated filtering class on his $_GET[] he won't know he needs Hardened PHP either, because he lacks severely where PHP security is concerned. You can lead a horse to water but you can't make it drink, right?
How 'bout a link to or example of (a good) one?
When you call them, give them something fun and creative to listen to, like the Gay Bar song by Electric Six.
Ah, good times...
How about some sort of key pair system? Tech support generates a number, the customer does as well, the combo resets/changes the password kind of thing?
Isn't this how some APC products work? I only had to reset a web card once, but as I recall, tech support had me press some weird key combo which generated a number they wanted, after which they gave me another weird number to type in for the card.
How dare you? You can call killing a fetus anything you like, but from where I come it's called murder. Abortion is simply the nice term for it when it's an unborn baby.
Did you know what when a woman has a miscarriage, that's an abortion, too? Spontaneous abortion, actually, but you claim that killing a fetus is murder.
Therefore, by your logic, you should go around calling mothers who miscarried murdurers.
Want to jump in with IPv6 now? Your ISP doesn't offer it to you? Get a free tunnel like this one from HE. I'm sure there's others, but this is the only one I know off the top of my head.
If you really believe what you posted, then your best bet is to seek out an authoritarian state and emigrate from the U.S.. China has been progressing, but likely still has enough government regulation to make you happy.
Regulation or no regulation, it doesn't matter to me. It's not a matter of "happy," either, however you define the term. I'm "happy" right here and if it were put to vote, I'd vote for these screening programs and whatnot. Are you suggesting we just let people on airplanes without security? No metal detectors? No x-ray machines? I'm sure someone out there whined about invasion of privacy with x-ray machines were required, but we don't cry over them these days.
I don't expect privacy in public. If that's what I want, I'll stay home. Do you expect privacy in public?
Better yet, to win the war on terrorism compell a real peace in Isreal and the West Bank and get U.S. occupation troops out Islamic countries. If the U.S. and Isreal stop humiliating the Palastinians in particular and arabs in general that will dramaticly reduce the ability of islamic extremists to recruit for and fund their movement.
A little off topic, but I really don't see that happening. One wants the land the other had and the other gone from the land once they have it. It's been like that since forever with them. Can't force them to live together when they don't want to in the first place.
A bit different from "Passengers who ask questions...".
Passenger: Can I switch to first class?
Airline: Why?
P: Because I want to fly first class.
A: That's pretty close to the cockpit...
P: So?
A: *flags as ultra-terrorist* Security!
Excuse my bluntness... but fuck privacy. People want to blow up planes or do shit? Then I say fuck 'em. I don't care how much I have to go through to fly if it means there's less of a chance some nutcase takes over the plane I'm on and does crazy shit, whatever it may be.
I don't care what anyone thinks about the president, or who or what is doing this stuff. The fact is people are doing lame things like blowing up planes and killing people. And it's not like this is the first time this stuff has happened, either. Remember that Pan Am 747? Way back in the day people could go fly with barely any security checks, and I'm sure if they had the kind of technology we had today, they would have already used it.
So track my finances, profile me, catalog my usenet posts, whatever, if it makes everyone else feel comfortable enough that I'm not going to randomly kill people. I have nothing to hide.
There's always Apple's QuickTime trailers, for those who can view QT.
http://www.apple.com/trailers/fox/i_robot/
It actually works, too.
Check out the whois on the domain "ilostmyfavoritechannels.com". It was registered by Viacom back in January! The page contains anti-Echostar remarks and links to go sign up for the competition. Check it out for yourself. WTF is up with that?
Was Viacom planning ahead of time on Dish not giving in to their demands, so they could try to "teach them a lesson" by pulling the channels? What's with all the anti-Dish stuff aired by Viacom on their stations? Viacom keeps pointing the finger at Dish, basically stating that the channels were "removed."
Maybe Viacom was setting out to cause harm to Echostar, who has a history of refusing to bend over and take it when it comes to price increase demands. Or maybe I'm being a little on the conspiracy theory side of things. But I wouldn't put such a thing past them. Everything they're doing (the banners, the anti-Dish stuff, etc.) only keeps pointing the finger at them and away from Echostar.
In case it wants to change, here's the whois for the domain:
Registrant:
MTVN Online Partner 1 LLC (SMQELJVTUD)
1515 Broadway
8th Floor
Attn Pier Borra
New York, NY 10036-5794
US
Domain Name: ILOSTMYFAVORITECHANNELS.COM
Administrative Contact:
MTVi-Admin Contact (35876815O) mtvi-admin@mtvigroup.com
MTVi-Admin Contact
MTVi Group
1515 Broadway
New York, NY 10036-5794
US
+1 212 846-3367 fax: +1 212-654-9068
Technical Contact:
Amirian, Brian (36553847P) amirianb@mtvi.com
1515 Broadway
New York, NY 10036
US
212 846 3223
Record expires on 16-Jan-2006.
Record created on 16-Jan-2004.
Database last updated on 10-Mar-2004 02:46:42 EST.
Great. Another geek who wants to be a lawyer.
You miss a basic fact of business, you don't want to burn your customer base when your competitor has about the same or better services.
You can argue all the trial lawyer crap you want, if you have a declining customer base when it comes time to put that replacement bird into orbit all the legal immunity in the world isn't going to save your company.
Who said I wanted to be a lawyer? I'm a Dish Network customer, and intend to stay that way. And I think "better" is subjective, because I don't care about the channels in question would rather have a service discount.
Does it make me a wannabe lawyer because I read agreements I sign/enter? I think it just makes me a little more educated about the terms of service for whatever it is I'm paying for.
So the "100 Channel" deal is ___ONLY___ 94 channels?
I believe that would be called Bait and Switch.
Except that they'ev updated their programming lineup to omit the Viacom disputed channels. No deception there.
Why do I say this? Because I'm sick and tired of the scrolling on my screen whining about this, it doesn't affect me, I don't care. If MY cable company yanks these channels you can bet I WILL scream bloody murder, having a 3 year old, many of these channels are viewed quite a lot around here.
If I WERE a Dish subscriber I'd be plenty pissed right now though, and probably no longer a subscriber.
I am, and I'm not pissed at it at all. I'll live without Comedy Central (the only channel affected), and I praise Echostar for standing up to Viacom by refusing to be force-fed a rate increase under threat.
Plus I don't see any of the on-air crap Viacom is injecting. Only non-Dish customers get to see it. I'm not 3 anymore, but I did just fine with PBS as a kid, which wasn't all that long ago. I didn't grow up as a cable TV child. And you know what? Now as an adult, I prefer intellegent programming as opposed to the popular reality TV drivel, and can see the Viacom dispute from a point other than "I want my MTV!!".
Echostar will provide a $1 monthly credit to customers who lose programming while the channels are unavailable. Sorry but $1 a month is not exactly a fair trade off.
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Guess what? Echostar doesn't own you anything. You should be glad they are giving you that discount, and you'd know it if you actually read the agreement they provide service under. Here's the related section of the agreement:
"G. Changes in Services offered. DISH Network reserves the right to change the Services that we offer, and our prices or fees related to such Services at any time. If the change affects you, we will provide you notice of the change and its effective date. The notice may be provided on your billing statement or by other communication permitted under Section 9B. In the event of a change in the contents of any programming, programming packages or other Services, you understand and agree that we have no obligation to replace or supplement the programming, programming packages or other Services previously offered that have been deleted, rearranged or otherwise changed. You further understand and agree you will not be entitled to any refund because of a change in the contents of any programming, programming packages, or other Services previously offered."
From http://www.dishnetwork.com/content/aboutus/RCA/in
DirecTV sounds like a great choice.
Make sure you learn to read their agreement when you sign up. Don't cry about about it after the fact.
Anyway I think people should stay with windows 2000 as an operating system of choice in a business type environment.
Or in *any* environment. My dad got a new laptop the other day and I spent hours being pissed off at XP because some network retardedness is causing the backup client software to fail. It still doesn't work.
My girlfriend's computer had XP installed; it was malfunctioning badly. Erased it and put Windows 2000 on it. Rock solid ever since.
Personally, I had installed XP installed on the machine I use to play games on. XP broke OpenGL support, and since I like OpenGL, I ended up having to erase the machine and go back to 2000. (This computer also had problems with the backup client once running XP; works fine under 2000.)
I've had a couple XP experiences, none of them good. I much perfer Windows 2000 because it just works. Kind of like my Macs. I'm hoping SP2 will fix XP's assanine problems because sometimes you don't have a choice and have to support it.
How about this:
I don't drink. At all. Never have, never will. Why must I suffer this shit?
I know, it's so a drunk can't steal my car. WTF ever... I know how to drive properly, don't punish me because some other asshat can't.
I just got a new phone with AT&T. It's a Motorola T721; the old one was a Nokia 5160, also with AT&T. The Motorola has the Java support and browser and junk, but I don't really use that stuff. What do I use it for? Just talking and messaging. Not really sending messages; Nagios sends stuff to my phone so its important that the phone be able to display longer text messages. It's got a nice phone book and call log.
I wanted a flip phone and the best thing about this one is the little external screen that shows basic information (signal, battery, time, date, caller id, etc) without having to open the phone. It folds small enough for a pocket, but opens up to a normal size. I can't really stand those mini-me phones that feel fragile or oddly small when you're talking on them.
It has an external headset jack that isn't covered by some stupid cover that gets broken off or in the way when you're trying to plug in your headset in the dark. If a headset is plugged in and a call comes in, it rings a few times and then picks up automatically. Nice feature if you're driving and expecting an important call.
Once and a while the web browser comes in handy for weather and road conditions, which are nice when you live in areas with mountain passes. But you won't see me downloading games or ring tones or whatever. If I really want data, I'll get the interface cable so I can quickly do something on my laptop with GPRS.
Does it heave features I won't use? Sure. But that doesn't stop it from being useful as a basic, camera-free, phone with handy features I'll use once and a while.
The hard part is the mpeg decoding, which, I assume in this guy's case, is handled by a dedicated decoder chip on the firewire device.
Correct; I'm just using the G3 to store the stream. The tuner does all the hard work. My notes on the setup are here.
All the other functions of a HTPC aside, the PowerMac G3 I'm using does one thing I can't replicate with a one-box solution: it records HDTV over FireWire. A DVHS deck would cost me way more than the $100 + $75 FireWire/USB card I paid for the G3. Even then, the DVHS deck uses tape opposed to random access hard drive.
It's not exactly a TiVo, but it time-shifts HDTV just fine. Since there is so little HD content anyway, I have no need for an HD TiVo anyway.
Check out the live mission updates on Spaceflight Now:
http://spaceflightnow.com/mars/mera/status.html
I watched it on NASA TV, too. It was quite an exciting ride through entry and landing. We have the second rover landing to look forward to on January 24.