The problem is, they applied for the trademark on October 28th, 2003. This, of course, is the same exact day that the other people decided to split off from them. And this isn't "a few contributors", this is *all the staff*. Basically the only people left at Linuxgazette.com are SSC's people -- everyone who actually worked on Linuxgazette has left.
So yeah. Something's fishy here. Not sure what, but the impression I got (from the article and the emails posted to LWN) was that:
SSC basically offered them hosting space for a long period of time.
Having done so, SSC has basically started taking over recently, changing LinuxGazette.com from a newspaper type website to a blog/slashdot type "Content Managment System" site. This includes them taking older articles that were published under the OPL an removing the copyright notice, modifying articles at will without telling anyone (or even asking), and stuff like that. The only reason anyone noticed they were modifying articles was the original staff kept mirrors of the issues elsewhere, which were unedited.
The founders/authors weren't happy with this, so they decided rather than fight it, they'd just split off to "the other Linuxgazette" and poiltely request that SSC rename Linuxgazette.com and give them back their domain name.
SSC decides that hey, since they were hosting LinuxGazette.com, they now own LinuxGazette.*, and trademarks the name in reply to them deciding to leave.
Only 1 more year, then Shrub's gone. It should be sooner -- in a saner world, Ashcroft and Bush would have been imprisoned for Treason for some of this stuff, war crimes for some of the rest of it, and impeeched for a the last bit. But hey, we don't live in a sane world right now, we live in Neo-con-bizzarro world.
Even after Shrub is thrown out on his ear, the little power trip Ashcroft and his cronies are on will either 1. be ignored and abused by the other side or 2. be reigned back into control, or outright removed.
Personally, my gut says it'll be #1 -- there's no way the democrats will try to push it when the republicans can use it as a campaign platform.
Guess what they say about a slippery slope is true.
Does this mean I can replace my original copy of PowerDVD's Trial version with an Open Source DVD driver? I'd love to see someone try it and use this case as a precident.
heh. I learned how to use a computer on a PCjr. Basically sat down one day when the cable was out and read the DOS 2 manual front to back playing with it.
Didn't have the basic add on stuff (it was like a carterage or something, wasn't it?) so I couldn't make programs and save them -- which is a good thing, since not being able to code that early (I was around 8 or so) ment that I still got to see the sun every so often.:)
Here's the thing though, if they find the GPL unenforceable, thanks to the wonderful insane IP laws that are being pushed through in the US and Europe, suddenly, bammo, *NO ONE* has *ANY RIGHT* to use *ANY GPLED SOFTWARE.* The GPL won't go away overnight and suddenly the next day MS will release "MS WinLinux 3.1". They couldn't since by default, *no one* is allowed to touch that code, unless the GPL is enforceable AND accepted by the person using it.
Of course, even if it is deemed unenforceable, that's only until the GPL, revision 3, with a "Thou shalt not be a dumbfuck assmonger from SCO" clause in it, that suddenly IS enforceable again, comes out, since the GPL 2 has that "or any later version" clause.
Of course, I imagine someday soon MS will wake up and go "Waitaminute, if that crazy GPL is invalid, that means all that 'You buy it but not really, you're just renting it' part of our EULA might not be valid either. Crap!"
Except that, ya know, they *have* been caught lying about Iraq, repeatedly, in the last few months, and are currently doing another lie/spin campaign trying to get everyone to agree that their previous lies never happened, and anyone pointing out that they did lie are just the evil liberal media (TM) attacking them.
In another world, another time, I might be tempted to believe that the SCO Execs are being taken advantage of by unethical lawyers.
But then again, the SCO Execs are dumping stock like madmen the second they can get their prices up with these insane press releases.
So no, I don't believe the lawyers are the unethical ones here. In fact, I'd wager there are quite a few lawyers working for them trying desperately to talk some sense into them.
Yeah, because $szDiety knows that every virus and worm in the Windows world requires you to actively open the file. It couldn't have just been them a bit too slow on the uptake on installing a patch on their server, workstations, etc.
Nah. It couldn't be a really shitty OS. Has to be the developers being morons. Because $szDiety knows, computer programmers have such a horrible reputation of being clueless computer users.
Another student was blocked twice for using Internet Relay Chat, a chat program that also allows for some file sharing.
What a bunch of asshats. These people are blocking IRC and kicking people off of it. I'm sorry, but if I got punted from my school's network for chatting on IRC -- something that uses like 1k of bandwidth every 10 minutes or so -- I'd be telling them some creative uses for Cat5 and their spinchter.
>>The diamond devices are expected to be in demand to replace with the vacuum tubes that are used in the high frequency, high-power applications such as receivers and transmitters at digital TV broadcasting stations.
Did I miss something? Did Japan miss something? Is there some reason they're still using Vacuum Tubes over there?
Other than that, cool article. These are only being used for cell phones right now, but it's a step in the right direction.
Imagine the leet overclockers of tomorrow... "How hot is your CPU running?" "Oh, about 200C" "Wow, what are you using, liquid cooling?" "Nah, it's just an AMD Rumplestiltskin, so it runs cold."
Ok, cool. But why would someone do that on a Saturday? Should have done it during the week when their customers might be more likely to try to get to their site.
First, I would like to insert some random flame at you. You deserve it, because you're being an ass. So... "your mother is a neo-conservative republican." I certainly feel better, don't you?
I'd make it more direct, but, I don't want to waste my time.
Now then. If not for MS, I would *still* have a job. MS makes my job worse, it doesn't make it easier or enable it.
Microsoft did not make the Internet, they did not invent TCP/IP. The Internet, and my job, would still be here without them. I have additional duties above just phone support, having to walk some person through fixing MSBlast or recreating their dial up networking connection properties takes time away from other responsibliities I *have* to get done during the day.
If MS wasn't around, our customers would be on MacOS X right now instead of WinXP, and wouldn't be calling me every 5 minutes because their machine has broken down or that they decided that.PIF file their grandmother sent them in Korean must have been a legit file attachment.
The majority of my calls are not things the user have done, but rather, just random screwups due to Win98, ME, and yes, even WinXP bugs.
Sutff like, oh, I can't DNS, help me fix it. (Granted, it's more like "My internet broke", but that's what they really mean.) I donno why, but I get at least 2 calls a day with Win98 just randomly forgetting the DNS numbers. If the glorious cesspool that is Windows wasn't around, I wouldn't have to deal with that, unless it's a user created error, which are so much easier to fix, it's not even funny.
Again. Another mess of Microsoft's that *I* have to clean up after.
If not for a few dozen of these stupid random windows bugs taking out DUN properties, my life would be *much* easier.
I do it for free because if I tell some of these people "It's not my problem, it's Microsofts, contact them", then they get it in their head "Oh, well screw you, I'll go find another ISP."
And that's bad. I should point out that I do tech support for our customers who call in, not for the company's workers.
A *LOT* of our customers call with just about any computer problem they can think of. For some reason, they think that we are obligated to fix their machines no matter what. I had some crazy woman calling at 9 PM at night (I do after hours tech support sometimes as well) demanidng I go to a town 45 minutes away and fix her mother's computer -- for free -- because hey, she pays $19 a month for Internet access. (So obviously that entitles her and her whole family to free 24/7 tech support housecalls.)
The problem was a simple DNS issue, takes 3 minutes to fix. I've walked 8 year olds through this. But the mere suggestion of having this woman's grown mother even *try* it my way got me a 20 minute long rant about customer service and how people shouldn't be forced to do "this kinda crap" on "these infernal machines", and how "it should just work."
Another mess I have to clean up for Microsoft.
It's those kind of people, the kind with that oh so special combination of cluelessness, frustration, and outright asshole attitude that make my life such a joy.
Oh, and if I hear one more smartass say "The customer is always right", I swear to god I'll force them to run Windows ME. In their sphincter.
I thought WinXP and it's "Categorial" Control Panel was hard to explain and keep track of for users.
This is a new form of hell.
Does MS specifically *try* to make support's lives miserable? Dear god. There's something to be said about some stability. Between Win 95 to 2000, at least I had the capability to tell people "Oh, go into control panels, and double click the one that says "Networking"" when I needed to get someone's DNS settings fixed.
XP it wasn't that simple -- I had to make sure the user had their control panel in "classic" view, and I'll be damned if Microsoft didn't "help" me by making the button to switch between the two a fake hyperlink. At the very least, they could have made that hyperlink underlined so an average (or below average) user could figure it out, but no, they won't even go that far.
Longhorn looks like it's going to be even worse. Now I'm going to have to waste money buying Longhorn right when it comes out (or waste time and a CD-R downloading it) and waste time memorizing it so I can walk people through the brain dead Fisher Price system designed for 5 year olds. And I'd be willing to wager money that they'll make it "helpful" by hiding DNS, IP, et all settings under 50 pages of wizards and candy sheets.
I already had to answer phones for 2 weeks for Microsoft for free because of MS Blaster, and will have to for another week or two because of SoBig.F.
Now, come next year, I'm going to have to memorize an OS that looks like something from Clippy's wet dreams?
I'm sick of cleaning up Microsoft's messes.
On the flip side, it looks like they've stolen enough MacOS X and Linux GUI ideas to make it so slightly above average users won't need to bother me, so I guess it's not all that bad. Some of it is almost interesting, like having sound volume -- FOR EACH PROGRAM. Some of the extended stuff looks like it might be pretty useful, if a bit sugarcoated.
So, in Summary:
1. Tech support is hell. 2. New GUI + Confused Users = bad news. 3. Longhorn looks interesting, but I don't want to have to support it. 4. 3 may change depending on future screenshots.
Ok, bit of history lesson, from the way I heard it. Back in the day, DivX 4's dev team (Project Mayo) split up, half becomming what is now DivX, and the other half becomming what would later be called the XviD team.
Basically, the DivX guys seem more concerned with becomming a closed source but open standard group right now, and making DivX into the next VHS/DVD type standard. XviD seems to be the flip side, free software, version of the coin.
(I should point out that this is just what I heard, and I've also heard things as absurd as that DivX is just a pirated copy of Microsoft's implimentation of MPEG4, and that SCO apparently owns UNIX, Linux, Florida, the plans to the Death Star, and my mother, so, grain of salt, eh? In other words, I might be off in my history lesson. but hey, that doesn't stop Bush, so why should it slow me?:) )
AAAANYWAY. XviD is a MPEG4 codec, much ilke DivX (indeed, DivX and XviD can play each other's files) but XviD is completely open source, liscensed under the GPL.
So, if you are truely fed up with DivX -- and I don't see why you would be, they're just trying to make a living -- you could also go get XviD instead. It's still beta, but it's quite nice. Fast, Slightly smaller files, and has a lot of features DivX doesn't. (Like setting credits to encode in black and white, or in a much lower quality; or intelligently encoding part of the screen at different quality levels depending on how busy that part of the screen is)
Lately, one of the neat tricks I've seen is to use XviD and OGG audio, and combine them in some weird way. Insted of AVI files, you get OGM files, which are *much* neater. OGMs can hold more than one audio stream (English / Japanese, switch at will) and as many subtitles as you want, making them really much closer to the "nifty" factor of DVDs. But I'm no video editor, so someone else would have to chime in on OGMs.:)
Anyway. Go give XviD a try here. http://www.xvid.org/ If you can't compile you're own source, do a search on Yahoo for "Xvid Binaries" for user made binary installers. I like Koepi's or uManiacs for Windows, myself.
But ham radio operators usually buy their own (very expensive) equipment. Why should they have to put up with interference on their own dedicated frequencies for just one of 50,000 other ways of getting TCP/IP Packets from your computer to another one?
And the power wasn't out everywhere. What good is a cry for help if all the other guy hears is a bunch of static?
If you don't see the problem with a hack technology (albiet a brilliant hack) like Power Line Broadband causing RF noise that screws with Ham Radio...
Well, just wait till it starts screwing with 801.11. Or, Cell Phones. Or, for those of you a bit farther behind the times, say, Cable TV? How about your phone lines, for those of you still on dialup? (Granted, some of these are stretches, but you see the point, I hope.)
There are *reasons* interference on already regulated and deligated frequenceys are bad things. Just because you don't use them, doesn't mean someone doesn't.
(That's just what I want -- to have my wireless network or TV screwed up because Bubba down the street doesn't want to pony up for DirectPC, and would rather try to convince someone to turn the power network into one 30 mile long signal scrambler. Bleh.)
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The problem is, they applied for the trademark on October 28th, 2003. This, of course, is the same exact day that the other people decided to split off from them. And this isn't "a few contributors", this is *all the staff*. Basically the only people left at Linuxgazette.com are SSC's people -- everyone who actually worked on Linuxgazette has left.
So yeah. Something's fishy here. Not sure what, but the impression I got (from the article and the emails posted to LWN) was that:
SSC basically offered them hosting space for a long period of time.
Having done so, SSC has basically started taking over recently, changing LinuxGazette.com from a newspaper type website to a blog/slashdot type "Content Managment System" site. This includes them taking older articles that were published under the OPL an removing the copyright notice, modifying articles at will without telling anyone (or even asking), and stuff like that. The only reason anyone noticed they were modifying articles was the original staff kept mirrors of the issues elsewhere, which were unedited.
The founders/authors weren't happy with this, so they decided rather than fight it, they'd just split off to "the other Linuxgazette" and poiltely request that SSC rename Linuxgazette.com and give them back their domain name.
SSC decides that hey, since they were hosting LinuxGazette.com, they now own LinuxGazette.*, and trademarks the name in reply to them deciding to leave.
Am I close? Anyone got any corrections to offer?
Only 1 more year, then Shrub's gone. It should be sooner -- in a saner world, Ashcroft and Bush would have been imprisoned for Treason for some of this stuff, war crimes for some of the rest of it, and impeeched for a the last bit. But hey, we don't live in a sane world right now, we live in Neo-con-bizzarro world.
Even after Shrub is thrown out on his ear, the little power trip Ashcroft and his cronies are on will either 1. be ignored and abused by the other side or 2. be reigned back into control, or outright removed.
Personally, my gut says it'll be #1 -- there's no way the democrats will try to push it when the republicans can use it as a campaign platform.
Guess what they say about a slippery slope is true.
Does this mean I can replace my original copy of PowerDVD's Trial version with an Open Source DVD driver? I'd love to see someone try it and use this case as a precident.
heh. I learned how to use a computer on a PCjr. Basically sat down one day when the cable was out and read the DOS 2 manual front to back playing with it.
:)
Didn't have the basic add on stuff (it was like a carterage or something, wasn't it?) so I couldn't make programs and save them -- which is a good thing, since not being able to code that early (I was around 8 or so) ment that I still got to see the sun every so often.
Here's the thing though, if they find the GPL unenforceable, thanks to the wonderful insane IP laws that are being pushed through in the US and Europe, suddenly, bammo, *NO ONE* has *ANY RIGHT* to use *ANY GPLED SOFTWARE.* The GPL won't go away overnight and suddenly the next day MS will release "MS WinLinux 3.1". They couldn't since by default, *no one* is allowed to touch that code, unless the GPL is enforceable AND accepted by the person using it.
Of course, even if it is deemed unenforceable, that's only until the GPL, revision 3, with a "Thou shalt not be a dumbfuck assmonger from SCO" clause in it, that suddenly IS enforceable again, comes out, since the GPL 2 has that "or any later version" clause.
Of course, I imagine someday soon MS will wake up and go "Waitaminute, if that crazy GPL is invalid, that means all that 'You buy it but not really, you're just renting it' part of our EULA might not be valid either. Crap!"
I don't think I've ever had such a great momment of zen in my life.
Thank you, Mr. Slashdot troll. Thank you, HeX86. You made my day. =)
Except that, ya know, they *have* been caught lying about Iraq, repeatedly, in the last few months, and are currently doing another lie/spin campaign trying to get everyone to agree that their previous lies never happened, and anyone pointing out that they did lie are just the evil liberal media (TM) attacking them.
Go awAY. Your stupid poSTs have annoyED me for montHS now.
In another world, another time, I might be tempted to believe that the SCO Execs are being taken advantage of by unethical lawyers.
But then again, the SCO Execs are dumping stock like madmen the second they can get their prices up with these insane press releases.
So no, I don't believe the lawyers are the unethical ones here. In fact, I'd wager there are quite a few lawyers working for them trying desperately to talk some sense into them.
$500,000 per month. Read the fine article, Charlie Brown.
Yeah, because $szDiety knows that every virus and worm in the Windows world requires you to actively open the file. It couldn't have just been them a bit too slow on the uptake on installing a patch on their server, workstations, etc.
Nah. It couldn't be a really shitty OS. Has to be the developers being morons. Because $szDiety knows, computer programmers have such a horrible reputation of being clueless computer users.
Who's more pathetic, the fanboy geeks, or the loser trolls who spend time on slashdot making fun of them?
(Or the fanboy geeks making fun of the loser trolls making fun of the fanboy geeks?)
What a bunch of asshats. These people are blocking IRC and kicking people off of it. I'm sorry, but if I got punted from my school's network for chatting on IRC -- something that uses like 1k of bandwidth every 10 minutes or so -- I'd be telling them some creative uses for Cat5 and their spinchter.
MSCE is free? Last I heard you needed to pay a rather large amount of money to take them.
>>The diamond devices are expected to be in demand to replace with the vacuum tubes that are used in the high frequency, high-power applications such as receivers and transmitters at digital TV broadcasting stations.
Did I miss something? Did Japan miss something? Is there some reason they're still using Vacuum Tubes over there?
Other than that, cool article. These are only being used for cell phones right now, but it's a step in the right direction.
Imagine the leet overclockers of tomorrow...
"How hot is your CPU running?" "Oh, about 200C" "Wow, what are you using, liquid cooling?" "Nah, it's just an AMD Rumplestiltskin, so it runs cold."
And you're a dumbfuck troll. Nothing to see here, Next idiot, please.
> It's currently being hit by a massive DDoS.
Ok, cool. But why would someone do that on a Saturday? Should have done it during the week when their customers might be more likely to try to get to their site.
Customers? SCO? You're new here, right?
First, I would like to insert some random flame at you. You deserve it, because you're being an ass. So... "your mother is a neo-conservative republican." I certainly feel better, don't you?
.PIF file their grandmother sent them in Korean must have been a legit file attachment.
I'd make it more direct, but, I don't want to waste my time.
Now then. If not for MS, I would *still* have a job. MS makes my job worse, it doesn't make it easier or enable it.
Microsoft did not make the Internet, they did not invent TCP/IP. The Internet, and my job, would still be here without them. I have additional duties above just phone support, having to walk some person through fixing MSBlast or recreating their dial up networking connection properties takes time away from other responsibliities I *have* to get done during the day.
If MS wasn't around, our customers would be on MacOS X right now instead of WinXP, and wouldn't be calling me every 5 minutes because their machine has broken down or that they decided that
The majority of my calls are not things the user have done, but rather, just random screwups due to Win98, ME, and yes, even WinXP bugs.
Sutff like, oh, I can't DNS, help me fix it. (Granted, it's more like "My internet broke", but that's what they really mean.) I donno why, but I get at least 2 calls a day with Win98 just randomly forgetting the DNS numbers. If the glorious cesspool that is Windows wasn't around, I wouldn't have to deal with that, unless it's a user created error, which are so much easier to fix, it's not even funny.
Again. Another mess of Microsoft's that *I* have to clean up after.
If not for a few dozen of these stupid random windows bugs taking out DUN properties, my life would be *much* easier.
I do it for free because if I tell some of these people "It's not my problem, it's Microsofts, contact them", then they get it in their head "Oh, well screw you, I'll go find another ISP."
And that's bad. I should point out that I do tech support for our customers who call in, not for the company's workers.
A *LOT* of our customers call with just about any computer problem they can think of. For some reason, they think that we are obligated to fix their machines no matter what. I had some crazy woman calling at 9 PM at night (I do after hours tech support sometimes as well) demanidng I go to a town 45 minutes away and fix her mother's computer -- for free -- because hey, she pays $19 a month for Internet access. (So obviously that entitles her and her whole family to free 24/7 tech support housecalls.)
The problem was a simple DNS issue, takes 3 minutes to fix. I've walked 8 year olds through this. But the mere suggestion of having this woman's grown mother even *try* it my way got me a 20 minute long rant about customer service and how people shouldn't be forced to do "this kinda crap" on "these infernal machines", and how "it should just work."
Another mess I have to clean up for Microsoft.
It's those kind of people, the kind with that oh so special combination of cluelessness, frustration, and outright asshole attitude that make my life such a joy.
Oh, and if I hear one more smartass say "The customer is always right", I swear to god I'll force them to run Windows ME. In their sphincter.
I work for tech support for a ISP. Oh my god.
I thought WinXP and it's "Categorial" Control Panel was hard to explain and keep track of for users.
This is a new form of hell.
Does MS specifically *try* to make support's lives miserable? Dear god. There's something to be said about some stability. Between Win 95 to 2000, at least I had the capability to tell people "Oh, go into control panels, and double click the one that says "Networking"" when I needed to get someone's DNS settings fixed.
XP it wasn't that simple -- I had to make sure the user had their control panel in "classic" view, and I'll be damned if Microsoft didn't "help" me by making the button to switch between the two a fake hyperlink. At the very least, they could have made that hyperlink underlined so an average (or below average) user could figure it out, but no, they won't even go that far.
Longhorn looks like it's going to be even worse. Now I'm going to have to waste money buying Longhorn right when it comes out (or waste time and a CD-R downloading it) and waste time memorizing it so I can walk people through the brain dead Fisher Price system designed for 5 year olds. And I'd be willing to wager money that they'll make it "helpful" by hiding DNS, IP, et all settings under 50 pages of wizards and candy sheets.
I already had to answer phones for 2 weeks for Microsoft for free because of MS Blaster, and will have to for another week or two because of SoBig.F.
Now, come next year, I'm going to have to memorize an OS that looks like something from Clippy's wet dreams?
I'm sick of cleaning up Microsoft's messes.
On the flip side, it looks like they've stolen enough MacOS X and Linux GUI ideas to make it so slightly above average users won't need to bother me, so I guess it's not all that bad. Some of it is almost interesting, like having sound volume -- FOR EACH PROGRAM. Some of the extended stuff looks like it might be pretty useful, if a bit sugarcoated.
So, in Summary:
1. Tech support is hell.
2. New GUI + Confused Users = bad news.
3. Longhorn looks interesting, but I don't want to have to support it.
4. 3 may change depending on future screenshots.
Really? Damn. Wait, that doesn't mean SCO owns the plans to the death star, does it?
Ok, bit of history lesson, from the way I heard it. Back in the day, DivX 4's dev team (Project Mayo) split up, half becomming what is now DivX, and the other half becomming what would later be called the XviD team.
:) )
:)
Basically, the DivX guys seem more concerned with becomming a closed source but open standard group right now, and making DivX into the next VHS/DVD type standard. XviD seems to be the flip side, free software, version of the coin.
(I should point out that this is just what I heard, and I've also heard things as absurd as that DivX is just a pirated copy of Microsoft's implimentation of MPEG4, and that SCO apparently owns UNIX, Linux, Florida, the plans to the Death Star, and my mother, so, grain of salt, eh? In other words, I might be off in my history lesson. but hey, that doesn't stop Bush, so why should it slow me?
AAAANYWAY. XviD is a MPEG4 codec, much ilke DivX (indeed, DivX and XviD can play each other's files) but XviD is completely open source, liscensed under the GPL.
So, if you are truely fed up with DivX -- and I don't see why you would be, they're just trying to make a living -- you could also go get XviD instead. It's still beta, but it's quite nice. Fast, Slightly smaller files, and has a lot of features DivX doesn't. (Like setting credits to encode in black and white, or in a much lower quality; or intelligently encoding part of the screen at different quality levels depending on how busy that part of the screen is)
Lately, one of the neat tricks I've seen is to use XviD and OGG audio, and combine them in some weird way. Insted of AVI files, you get OGM files, which are *much* neater. OGMs can hold more than one audio stream (English / Japanese, switch at will) and as many subtitles as you want, making them really much closer to the "nifty" factor of DVDs. But I'm no video editor, so someone else would have to chime in on OGMs.
Anyway. Go give XviD a try here. http://www.xvid.org/ If you can't compile you're own source, do a search on Yahoo for "Xvid Binaries" for user made binary installers. I like Koepi's or uManiacs for Windows, myself.
But ham radio operators usually buy their own (very expensive) equipment. Why should they have to put up with interference on their own dedicated frequencies for just one of 50,000 other ways of getting TCP/IP Packets from your computer to another one?
And the power wasn't out everywhere. What good is a cry for help if all the other guy hears is a bunch of static?
If you don't see the problem with a hack technology (albiet a brilliant hack) like Power Line Broadband causing RF noise that screws with Ham Radio...
Well, just wait till it starts screwing with 801.11. Or, Cell Phones. Or, for those of you a bit farther behind the times, say, Cable TV? How about your phone lines, for those of you still on dialup? (Granted, some of these are stretches, but you see the point, I hope.)
There are *reasons* interference on already regulated and deligated frequenceys are bad things. Just because you don't use them, doesn't mean someone doesn't.
(That's just what I want -- to have my wireless network or TV screwed up because Bubba down the street doesn't want to pony up for DirectPC, and would rather try to convince someone to turn the power network into one 30 mile long signal scrambler. Bleh.)
Dude, you really, really have to stop posting to slashdot while drunk. I mean, honestly. It can't be healthy.
WE CARE ABOUT YOU ANONYMOUS COWARD! We don't want to see you hurt yourself! *sob sob*