VOIP requires that you have a high speed line - either DSL or cable - an expense that many people can't afford.
The broadband portion of my cable bill was less than my monthly phone bill (without even taking toll calls into account). Adding Lingo made the cost just $10 more for a higher service level (voice mail, caller ID, etc like before but now I can get voice mail forwarded via email anywhere plus a few other things) and there's no extra charge for calls anywhere in the US. Lingo is saving me at least $40 a month, and if I didn't already have broadband I'd be breaking even.
Switching to VoIP would be especially ideal for lower income families. They're already likely to be behind technologically and they'd be gaining high speed Internet access essentially for free.
You do have a point about "no access to broadband" though that's only a matter of time.
For things at the Federal level like the military that's why there's an income tax. Though preferably it would be a national sales tax instead. For things at the local level, like emergency services, property taxes.
Where'd you get that idea? That applies only to cell phones, not land lines. If the phone company disconnects your service the phone is OFF. No dial tone, no 911. I'm a VoIP customer (Lingo), and I assure you that my SBC phone line is completely dead.
whats keeping him from replacing one/all of them with doctored records. He complains that the voting machines could be tampered with, but there needs to be more safeguards than just the code.
Nothing. RTFA. He's critcizing more than just the safeguards of the code
"All of the votes from the entire precinct in my hand. Substituting those cards with five identical looking cards, one could replace all of the ballots that were cast with bogus ones.
He also mentions the physical security of the machines, and that they were set up by two members of one political party with no one else present, and that a member of one party also had keys to access the room the machines were stored in at any time.
Okay, so I was wrong about the pie chart, but who the hell is "unsure" about being the target of extortion? Those people should be counted as "No".
As for the method of extortion I stand by my statement. The article starts off with the sentence about an email received, the same as the summary does. That email though, threatened DDoSing, not leaking of customer data. The other anecdotes are more about the other types of extortion out there and aren't really the focus.
I still say it was a rushed, poorly written summary that missed the thrust of the article.
Oh, and the other thing I forgot to mention about the summary is that the story isn't even about stealing customer data and using it for extortion. The story is about threatening random sites with DDoSing if they don't pay. Very different scenarios since it's far more difficult to protect against the later. Once again, good job submitter.
This is a timely article, I just burned and used it today. A couple days ago my wife showed some interest in switching to Linux (after many XP frustrations) so I popped in a KNOPPIX 3.3 CD I had sitting around so she could try it out. She has an SMC2635 wireless card for her laptop and, sadly, it just isnt supported under Linux. Enter 3.6. It's still not supported, but two additions make it as painless as possible to get working: Captive NTFS and ndiswrapper. I downloaded the SMC drivers under XP and unpacked them on the hard drive. Booting back into KNOPPIX Captive NTFS then allowed me to mount the XP hard drive using XP's own NTFS dlls for read/write, and then use ndiswrapper to allow KNOPPIX to use the XP drivers for the SMC. Wireless goodness. The result? She's sitting behind me backing up files so I can repartition the HD to add a Linux partition.
Why? We seem to have no problem believing it when we call that OS "Linux".
You need to recompile an app when you move it from x86 Linux to PPC Linux. I don't think the source code to XBox games was included on the DVD last time I checked.
Seriously, scientists found evidence and are investigating, because that's their job. Science doesn't start with a conclusion and work backwards (except "creation science")
You are naive if you believe that. "Scientists" are people too, and they have their own beliefs and biases. Science is just as political a field as any other. There's no shortage of scientists who decide what they want to prove ahead of time, and there's no shortage of sound but unpoplar science "shouted down" for no other reason that it's unpopular.
Exactly, you hear that a lot here about "paper MCSEs". Yet that's just the converse of the typical proposal here: "You don't need a class, you can learn it all by running Slack on your old 486." Yet somehow one is sage advice and the other is mocked. You can't learn without doing, but you can't learn in a vacuum either. Neglecting either one will lead to sometimes critical (from a business standpoint) holes in your knowledge.
Just like you shouldn't take a class and think you know everything before you have real experience, you shouldn't think you've seen it all already "in the wild" and structured learning is beneath you. It's the same personality flaw. It's just manifesting itself in a different way.
Install Linux at home. It's the best training you'll ever get.
No, it's not. When you just install a distro at home and start using it you'll learn a lot, sure. But what you'll learn a scattershot and mostly just what you need to do to get a functional system, because that's what your incentive is to do. You won't learn best practices and you won't learn why things are they way they are. Heck you probably won't even learn about some fairly basic tools just because you didn't happen to need them. You really need the formality of a structured learning environment (not a class, specifically, but a structured curriculum at least) to make sure you cover everything you need to know.
I know it seems to be the number one recommended method here on Slashdot, but it really has some serious flaws that everyone seems to conveniently overlook. Following your advice leads to sloppiness and "good enough"-ness. Not exactly skills that will endear you to an employer.
All consumer TV's have lower resolution than broadcast quality. If you buy a really expensive NTSC TV, it might be able to resolve 600 lines. The NTSC signal is comprised of 720 lines.
Where did you ever get that idea? If that were true broadcast TVs and DVD would look exactly the same. I mean if broadcast TV is already better than a TV could support, how could DVDs possibly improve the picture? I would think anyone who has ever watched a DVD on their television has already empirically proved your statement incorrect.
In fact, broadcast TV is a far lower resolution than your TV can support (525 scanlines, of which 480 is picutre information, of which 330 is the theoretical max that will be displayed). Rather than try to explain it myself, some very good technical explanations of how it all works can be found here and here.
U.S. law now supersedes the written laws of all sovereign nations?
Umm, no. The US had to go to Australia and make their case in an Australian court before an Australian magistrate (and then an Australian appeals court) who ruled based on Australian law.
Wow, that's really buried, not to mention ambiguous. "You will not use any [...] manual process to copy any content from the Service"? Like Ctrl-C? They explictly exclaim owenership of the content and they still try to have that restriction? Odd.
"Things that didn't get as much attention as we think they should."
According to their About Us page this is just:
"an annual list of 25 news stories of social significance that have been overlooked, under-reported or self-censored by the country's major national news media."
This is a total non-story posed in a dishonestly sensationalistic fashion.
They explicitly disallow in the GMail TOS using web-fetching "screen scrapers" like this thing uses
They do? Could you point me to the relevant part of the Terms of Use or the Program Policies (dated June 28 as I type this), because I sure don't see it.
They were the lowest I found when I was last switchng (I was with AvoMark previously but they dropped coverage in CT). I've been with Amica for 2 1/2 years, but I've never had any claims so I'm not the best person to ask about bad experiences there. When I signed up the rep was good about finding the level of coverage I needed rather than upselling. They're good about covering rental cars, too. Really, the worst thing about them is that they send sometimes send junk mail for other types of insurance that look a lot like the bill.
They exist already. Sign up with a mutual insurance company. I'm with Amica. Once a year for the past couple years I've gotten a dividend check equal to about twice my monthly rate.
T-Mobile is the best about that among US carriers though. Just email your customers details and IMEI to through the customer service form on the site and they'll send you the unlock codes.
BitchX is a piece of buggy, exploit ridden crap targetted at script-kiddies and other wannabes who are using it just because it's 1337. As for the rest, well they're fine. The problem is that there's two general groups of IRCers; people who just want to hang out in a channel and talk to their friends, and people who want full-on scripting capabilities. If you're in the former category it doesn't really matter what you use as long as you like it. If you're in the latter category you have very few options. Pretty much just BitchX, which no one in their right mind would seriously use, mIRC and XChat. mIRC is hugely popular and has its own full fledged but proprietary scripting language. XChat is popular on the *nix side and it goes one better than mIRC by having existing scripting modules for C, TCL, Perl, Python and Ruby. It would be a shame if something happened to hurt adoption of XChat on the Windows side since it has the potential to surpass mIRC if more Windows users realize its potential.
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The broadband portion of my cable bill was less than my monthly phone bill (without even taking toll calls into account). Adding Lingo made the cost just $10 more for a higher service level (voice mail, caller ID, etc like before but now I can get voice mail forwarded via email anywhere plus a few other things) and there's no extra charge for calls anywhere in the US. Lingo is saving me at least $40 a month, and if I didn't already have broadband I'd be breaking even.
Switching to VoIP would be especially ideal for lower income families. They're already likely to be behind technologically and they'd be gaining high speed Internet access essentially for free.
You do have a point about "no access to broadband" though that's only a matter of time.
For things at the Federal level like the military that's why there's an income tax. Though preferably it would be a national sales tax instead. For things at the local level, like emergency services, property taxes.
Where'd you get that idea? That applies only to cell phones, not land lines. If the phone company disconnects your service the phone is OFF. No dial tone, no 911. I'm a VoIP customer (Lingo), and I assure you that my SBC phone line is completely dead.
Nothing. RTFA. He's critcizing more than just the safeguards of the code
He also mentions the physical security of the machines, and that they were set up by two members of one political party with no one else present, and that a member of one party also had keys to access the room the machines were stored in at any time.As for the method of extortion I stand by my statement. The article starts off with the sentence about an email received, the same as the summary does. That email though, threatened DDoSing, not leaking of customer data. The other anecdotes are more about the other types of extortion out there and aren't really the focus.
I still say it was a rushed, poorly written summary that missed the thrust of the article.
Oh, and the other thing I forgot to mention about the summary is that the story isn't even about stealing customer data and using it for extortion. The story is about threatening random sites with DDoSing if they don't pay. Very different scenarios since it's far more difficult to protect against the later. Once again, good job submitter.
No, it doesn't say that at all. It says:
It does talk about how many businesses have had to deal with 'cyberextortion', and that percentage is just over half of the submitter's claims:10.x addresses will not route across the Internet (nor will the other private blocks). Routers will simply discard them as escaped packets.
Perhaps you should look again.
This is a timely article, I just burned and used it today. A couple days ago my wife showed some interest in switching to Linux (after many XP frustrations) so I popped in a KNOPPIX 3.3 CD I had sitting around so she could try it out. She has an SMC2635 wireless card for her laptop and, sadly, it just isnt supported under Linux. Enter 3.6. It's still not supported, but two additions make it as painless as possible to get working: Captive NTFS and ndiswrapper. I downloaded the SMC drivers under XP and unpacked them on the hard drive. Booting back into KNOPPIX Captive NTFS then allowed me to mount the XP hard drive using XP's own NTFS dlls for read/write, and then use ndiswrapper to allow KNOPPIX to use the XP drivers for the SMC. Wireless goodness. The result? She's sitting behind me backing up files so I can repartition the HD to add a Linux partition.
You need to recompile an app when you move it from x86 Linux to PPC Linux. I don't think the source code to XBox games was included on the DVD last time I checked.
Here you go. Painfully slow though.
You are naive if you believe that. "Scientists" are people too, and they have their own beliefs and biases. Science is just as political a field as any other. There's no shortage of scientists who decide what they want to prove ahead of time, and there's no shortage of sound but unpoplar science "shouted down" for no other reason that it's unpopular.
Never fear, every episode of Max Headroom but one (and it's coming) is available for download from the Digital Archive Project.
Exactly, you hear that a lot here about "paper MCSEs". Yet that's just the converse of the typical proposal here: "You don't need a class, you can learn it all by running Slack on your old 486." Yet somehow one is sage advice and the other is mocked. You can't learn without doing, but you can't learn in a vacuum either. Neglecting either one will lead to sometimes critical (from a business standpoint) holes in your knowledge.
Just like you shouldn't take a class and think you know everything before you have real experience, you shouldn't think you've seen it all already "in the wild" and structured learning is beneath you. It's the same personality flaw. It's just manifesting itself in a different way.
No, it's not. When you just install a distro at home and start using it you'll learn a lot, sure. But what you'll learn a scattershot and mostly just what you need to do to get a functional system, because that's what your incentive is to do. You won't learn best practices and you won't learn why things are they way they are. Heck you probably won't even learn about some fairly basic tools just because you didn't happen to need them. You really need the formality of a structured learning environment (not a class, specifically, but a structured curriculum at least) to make sure you cover everything you need to know.
I know it seems to be the number one recommended method here on Slashdot, but it really has some serious flaws that everyone seems to conveniently overlook. Following your advice leads to sloppiness and "good enough"-ness. Not exactly skills that will endear you to an employer.
Where did you ever get that idea? If that were true broadcast TVs and DVD would look exactly the same. I mean if broadcast TV is already better than a TV could support, how could DVDs possibly improve the picture? I would think anyone who has ever watched a DVD on their television has already empirically proved your statement incorrect.
In fact, broadcast TV is a far lower resolution than your TV can support (525 scanlines, of which 480 is picutre information, of which 330 is the theoretical max that will be displayed). Rather than try to explain it myself, some very good technical explanations of how it all works can be found here and here.
Umm, no. The US had to go to Australia and make their case in an Australian court before an Australian magistrate (and then an Australian appeals court) who ruled based on Australian law.
Wow, that's really buried, not to mention ambiguous. "You will not use any [...] manual process to copy any content from the Service"? Like Ctrl-C? They explictly exclaim owenership of the content and they still try to have that restriction? Odd.
"an annual list of 25 news stories of social significance that have been overlooked, under-reported or self-censored by the country's major national news media."
This is a total non-story posed in a dishonestly sensationalistic fashion.
They do? Could you point me to the relevant part of the Terms of Use or the Program Policies (dated June 28 as I type this), because I sure don't see it.
They were the lowest I found when I was last switchng (I was with AvoMark previously but they dropped coverage in CT). I've been with Amica for 2 1/2 years, but I've never had any claims so I'm not the best person to ask about bad experiences there. When I signed up the rep was good about finding the level of coverage I needed rather than upselling. They're good about covering rental cars, too. Really, the worst thing about them is that they send sometimes send junk mail for other types of insurance that look a lot like the bill.
They exist already. Sign up with a mutual insurance company. I'm with Amica. Once a year for the past couple years I've gotten a dividend check equal to about twice my monthly rate.
T-Mobile is the best about that among US carriers though. Just email your customers details and IMEI to through the customer service form on the site and they'll send you the unlock codes.
BitchX is a piece of buggy, exploit ridden crap targetted at script-kiddies and other wannabes who are using it just because it's 1337. As for the rest, well they're fine. The problem is that there's two general groups of IRCers; people who just want to hang out in a channel and talk to their friends, and people who want full-on scripting capabilities. If you're in the former category it doesn't really matter what you use as long as you like it. If you're in the latter category you have very few options. Pretty much just BitchX, which no one in their right mind would seriously use, mIRC and XChat. mIRC is hugely popular and has its own full fledged but proprietary scripting language. XChat is popular on the *nix side and it goes one better than mIRC by having existing scripting modules for C, TCL, Perl, Python and Ruby. It would be a shame if something happened to hurt adoption of XChat on the Windows side since it has the potential to surpass mIRC if more Windows users realize its potential.