What about the 400 people that will lose their jobs when the company goes out of business? I'm not sure whether the cell company read the patent idea and then stole it, or whether they were designing a system while the patent was being written up, but it bothers me that Freedom Wireless (4, presumably rich, patent lawyers) don't mind killing a company that is providing a service for 3.5 million people, and having them fire 400 employees for the sake of their brilliant idea. Wow, they thought of something and never bothered to use it... better fuck over everyone that wants to use it!
Go to GeoTorrent I'm getting 400KB/s and there is only one other leecher (29 seeders). I will seed for the rest of the day.. I can only upload at 11Mb/s though because im on wireless;)
No matter where you are or what you acheive, one is never truly happy.
You can be fully and truly happy in any given moment. Happiness is inside you, it's not something you "get." Happy is to accept and love everyting (yourself, your life situation, etc), even if you don't "prefer" or "agree" with certain things. You can recognize that your situation could be "better" in some way, but that doesn't mean you have to be unhappy with the way it is now. You can make the act of changing situations ("improving" yourself, etc) a "happy" thing to do. This way, finding things that you don't enjoy in your life, with the goal of changing them, will also make you happy.
To be happy is to be content.. and to be content is to lack the craving to better oneself. And to lack that craving is to lack a fundamental part of 'survival of the fittest.'
Being content is not the lack of wanting to better yourself. I don't know who told you that. You can be content WHILE you better yourself. In fact, the act of bettering yourself could be what makes you content.
Happiness is not looking at your life situation and saying "well, I don't like this or that, so until I do like this or that, I'm not going to be happy." Happiness is about accepting those things, embracing them, recognizing that you can change them (or are changing them) at any given time if you like, but that your fine with everyting just the way it is. It is to be fully satisfied with yourself and your situation. You choose this emotion whenever you like - it doesn't "happen" to you.
Is there a third alternative? Maybe decentralized governance? Self-governance? A meritocracy? Unpaid volunteership? Management by 1000 chimpanzees randomly pushing buttons?
You can put the root servers at my house, I don't mind.
I'm not even sure that IIIR has the trademark. If you look HERE it seems that a company from Florida called Cencourse filed for the trademark the day that Google broke the news about its new GMail service. Google is actually 4th in line for the GMail name. Everyone who filed applications did so within 4 days of Google launching the news. Google waited a week or so.
IIR, led by chairman and chief executive Shane Smith, accused the search engine of "failing to respect the intellectual property rights of others" and said it had no alternative but to pursue an expensive legal action that it admitted it could ill afford.
Umm... if you can "... ill afford" to pursure legal action, and GMail (Google) obviously has nothing to do with bank/financial research, then you could choose NOT to pursue legal action, and just continue business as usual. That way you won't have to dip into that family trust fund, etc.
People whine to much about these rights. Is Google damaging their business in any way at all? Its a free service... are they stealing customers? Are any of IIRs customers confused with which site to go to?
It's not like they care anyway.. I mean, how many people call Microsoft for support? Everyone goes to the local "computer expert," or their ISP, or the techie in their office. Once those all fail (milked the local expert for too much free time), they will finally bring the computer to the local computer repair store. Microsoft couldn't give two shits if it makes support a nightmare.
On the plus side (sort of), look how many people make their living from supporting Microsoft problems.
I was the same... when games started to be written for win95, I was like "WTF?! Games *IN* Windows? Why not stick them in DOS for more speed. My 4MB can't handle this shiz!" I also upgraded to 8MB shortly afterwards.
Wow, so I guess it's been about 10.5 yrs since I started running FreeBSD. A couple of years later.. perhaps 96,97, I started running Linux. I think I only ran '95 for a few months in total - it didn't run so hot on my 386DX40 with 4MB RAM and 86MB HD.
We were just installing phone lines (I work for a telco) at a new neighbourhood which is relatively upper class (beside a golf course). We were going to run Fibre-to-the-home (FTTH). The neighbourhood is only about 1km from our CO, so it wouldn't cost too much. The developers said they didn't want any fibre pedestals installed, so we ended up having to run copper. They can still get DSL at decent speeds, so it's not a big deal, but I had to shake my head at those developers. They didn't want to see any pedestals at all, it was to be "clean." If I were you, I would call up the ISP and say you don't mind if they stick a cabinet in your shrubs out front. They can stick a DSLAM in there and hook it to the fibre. They will probably laugh at you, but give it a try;)
Yeah but it's lame in the sense that they are eventually (very soon) going to have to get a REAL cable plant installed. This is just wasting money on testing/installing technology that can let them sit on their asses for another couple of years. No ISP should be providing DSL unless they have fibre connecting to the DSLAMs. OC3/12/etc is expensive, but GigE is cheap. Telstra, get on the ball, get some GigE DSLAMs and provide your customers with real service.
It sounds like Telstras cable plant is pretty shoddy. We have remote DSLAMS near the customers so that we can give them great speeds. Soon, we will be putting a bunch more in so that everyone can get ADSL2+. This crap that Telstra is using sounds like a massive cop-out. It's not going to last very long if you have 2+ (max 8!) users sharing 2.3MBit. You also have to remember, these are people that have been ITCHING to get highspeed because it has been unavailable for so long. When they get it, they will be using it a lot, which means it will suck for those sharing 2.3MBit with 8 people. Telstra should get their act together and start laying fibre. Then they can put REAL DSLAMs near each neighbourhood and do 8MBit with ADSL, or greater speeds with newer technologies. 2.3Mbit won't be highspeed for much longer.
Maybe one day the internet can be used to catch people with criminal tendencies. By monitoring the actions of the young, say ages 5 to 12, I am sure an algorithm can be made that can predict with 95%+ certainty which people will end up commiting violent crimes. Society could protect itself by locking these people up before the violence
Fuck, I hope you never get any sort of political power. Would you trust an algorithm to decide this? Even if it is about 95% accurate? How would you like to be locked up and told "Sorry Son, our calculator says that some day your going to do something bad. Yeah, we have to keep you in here for ever because we don't know exactly when you'll do something bad.. we just know that you will. We have to lock you up for the good of society. Sorry about that."
I have been reading many of the posts on the subject of pornography, and after reading a couple hundred, all I want to do is look at porn. So... I'm taking a break from slashdot for a few minutes. Back in a jiffy!
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What about the 400 people that will lose their jobs when the company goes out of business? I'm not sure whether the cell company read the patent idea and then stole it, or whether they were designing a system while the patent was being written up, but it bothers me that Freedom Wireless (4, presumably rich, patent lawyers) don't mind killing a company that is providing a service for 3.5 million people, and having them fire 400 employees for the sake of their brilliant idea. Wow, they thought of something and never bothered to use it... better fuck over everyone that wants to use it!
Go to GeoTorrent I'm getting 400KB/s and there is only one other leecher (29 seeders). I will seed for the rest of the day.. I can only upload at 11Mb/s though because im on wireless ;)
Ultimate Edition, as it says on the page with the screenshots (you will see this if you click on TFA).
No matter where you are or what you acheive, one is never truly happy.
You can be fully and truly happy in any given moment. Happiness is inside you, it's not something you "get." Happy is to accept and love everyting (yourself, your life situation, etc), even if you don't "prefer" or "agree" with certain things. You can recognize that your situation could be "better" in some way, but that doesn't mean you have to be unhappy with the way it is now. You can make the act of changing situations ("improving" yourself, etc) a "happy" thing to do. This way, finding things that you don't enjoy in your life, with the goal of changing them, will also make you happy.
To be happy is to be content.. and to be content is to lack the craving to better oneself. And to lack that craving is to lack a fundamental part of 'survival of the fittest.'
Being content is not the lack of wanting to better yourself. I don't know who told you that. You can be content WHILE you better yourself. In fact, the act of bettering yourself could be what makes you content.
Happiness is not looking at your life situation and saying "well, I don't like this or that, so until I do like this or that, I'm not going to be happy." Happiness is about accepting those things, embracing them, recognizing that you can change them (or are changing them) at any given time if you like, but that your fine with everyting just the way it is. It is to be fully satisfied with yourself and your situation. You choose this emotion whenever you like - it doesn't "happen" to you.
Is there a third alternative? Maybe decentralized governance? Self-governance? A meritocracy? Unpaid volunteership? Management by 1000 chimpanzees randomly pushing buttons?
You can put the root servers at my house, I don't mind.
Anyone notice that the guys name in that article was Peter Fried?
Nice video. Once again, Marijuana proves to make some people stupid. Who would pay $60 for a 1/2 qtr!? Shiiiiit.
My name is Maximus Decimus Meridius!
Stop making Frontpage!
I'm not even sure that IIIR has the trademark. If you look HERE it seems that a company from Florida called Cencourse filed for the trademark the day that Google broke the news about its new GMail service. Google is actually 4th in line for the GMail name. Everyone who filed applications did so within 4 days of Google launching the news. Google waited a week or so.
IIR, led by chairman and chief executive Shane Smith, accused the search engine of "failing to respect the intellectual property rights of others" and said it had no alternative but to pursue an expensive legal action that it admitted it could ill afford.
Umm... if you can "... ill afford" to pursure legal action, and GMail (Google) obviously has nothing to do with bank/financial research, then you could choose NOT to pursue legal action, and just continue business as usual. That way you won't have to dip into that family trust fund, etc.
People whine to much about these rights. Is Google damaging their business in any way at all? Its a free service... are they stealing customers? Are any of IIRs customers confused with which site to go to?
It's not like they care anyway.. I mean, how many people call Microsoft for support? Everyone goes to the local "computer expert," or their ISP, or the techie in their office. Once those all fail (milked the local expert for too much free time), they will finally bring the computer to the local computer repair store. Microsoft couldn't give two shits if it makes support a nightmare.
On the plus side (sort of), look how many people make their living from supporting Microsoft problems.
...that is installing SCO OpenServer 5.0.2 as I type this
And you are worried about being flamed for running MS software?
Ahh yes, good point.
And Max Payne
Dude, your hardcore! You can play a Kazoo AND sing at the same time!
Or do you just try to sing through the Kazoo?
I was the same... when games started to be written for win95, I was like "WTF?! Games *IN* Windows? Why not stick them in DOS for more speed. My 4MB can't handle this shiz!" I also upgraded to 8MB shortly afterwards.
Wow, so I guess it's been about 10.5 yrs since I started running FreeBSD. A couple of years later.. perhaps 96,97, I started running Linux. I think I only ran '95 for a few months in total - it didn't run so hot on my 386DX40 with 4MB RAM and 86MB HD.
I don't know, why?
We were just installing phone lines (I work for a telco) at a new neighbourhood which is relatively upper class (beside a golf course). We were going to run Fibre-to-the-home (FTTH). The neighbourhood is only about 1km from our CO, so it wouldn't cost too much. The developers said they didn't want any fibre pedestals installed, so we ended up having to run copper. They can still get DSL at decent speeds, so it's not a big deal, but I had to shake my head at those developers. They didn't want to see any pedestals at all, it was to be "clean." If I were you, I would call up the ISP and say you don't mind if they stick a cabinet in your shrubs out front. They can stick a DSLAM in there and hook it to the fibre. They will probably laugh at you, but give it a try ;)
Yeah but it's lame in the sense that they are eventually (very soon) going to have to get a REAL cable plant installed. This is just wasting money on testing/installing technology that can let them sit on their asses for another couple of years. No ISP should be providing DSL unless they have fibre connecting to the DSLAMs. OC3/12/etc is expensive, but GigE is cheap. Telstra, get on the ball, get some GigE DSLAMs and provide your customers with real service.
It sounds like Telstras cable plant is pretty shoddy. We have remote DSLAMS near the customers so that we can give them great speeds. Soon, we will be putting a bunch more in so that everyone can get ADSL2+. This crap that Telstra is using sounds like a massive cop-out. It's not going to last very long if you have 2+ (max 8!) users sharing 2.3MBit. You also have to remember, these are people that have been ITCHING to get highspeed because it has been unavailable for so long. When they get it, they will be using it a lot, which means it will suck for those sharing 2.3MBit with 8 people. Telstra should get their act together and start laying fibre. Then they can put REAL DSLAMs near each neighbourhood and do 8MBit with ADSL, or greater speeds with newer technologies. 2.3Mbit won't be highspeed for much longer.
Maybe one day the internet can be used to catch people with criminal tendencies. By monitoring the actions of the young, say ages 5 to 12, I am sure an algorithm can be made that can predict with 95%+ certainty which people will end up commiting violent crimes. Society could protect itself by locking these people up before the violence
Fuck, I hope you never get any sort of political power. Would you trust an algorithm to decide this? Even if it is about 95% accurate? How would you like to be locked up and told "Sorry Son, our calculator says that some day your going to do something bad. Yeah, we have to keep you in here for ever because we don't know exactly when you'll do something bad.. we just know that you will. We have to lock you up for the good of society. Sorry about that."
I have been reading many of the posts on the subject of pornography, and after reading a couple hundred, all I want to do is look at porn. So... I'm taking a break from slashdot for a few minutes. Back in a jiffy!
Can I get a list of these vulnerable servers so I can.. umm... see if I'm on it and patch my systems? Yeah.. that's it.