It is news. Or at the very least slightly important information. The MPs responsible need to be listed, so that we may know to not vote for them, their party pubilcly shamed(of which this thread is an example), etc.
As far as I know Canada is still governed by Canadians, Canadian Laws, and (our sovereign) the Queen of Canada. We still have the choice whether or not to accept Continental rule. We can probably even get out of NAFTA if we were so motivated. Granted, I think we collectively would choose Continental rule given a choice, but it's an ongoing issue; we choose to cede a little here, a little there, with every purchase, every moment of inaction, etc, but the choice has not yet been entirely made.
We still have a hope. we stand on more natural resources than any other nation, and with a warmer climate will be a logical choice for trade with russia, china, europe, etc. We sit on enough extracteable oil to last well into the post-petroleum transition and collectively are one of the most educated and capable states on the globe. It is entirely plausible that we could snub the yanks and get away with it, as their economy implodes and their international influence wanes, if we play our cards right(and assuming no military confrontation).
I for one will I accept overt american rule only after I am pushing daisies in an unmarked, never to be found, grave.
This issue isn't about how much I must pay my ISP for decent net connectivity.
This issue is about how much Google must pay my ISP for decent net connectivity.
AND this issue is also about how much you must pay Google's ISP for a decent connection as well. Don't forget that part.
What else would you call the large and growing prison labour population in the US? Granted I don't think it's quite as widespread as it was in the former soviet union(yet), but it is one of the biggest growing industries around today, so the US is certainly getting there in a hurry.
Sure there is. Contribute to Open Source video projects, seed appropriate torrents, and create video in new and exciting formats. I'm looking for a render_video@home...have you seen one?
(disclaimer: I work for SaskTel).
SaskTel does DTV over phone lines. In fact I'm at work troubleshooting them right now. Or not troubleshooting; it's fairly quiet since they are working well. Phone lines are definitely capable of HD, if the lines are fairly well taken care of.
maybe you can help, since you seem versed in the topic;
Since I started at my current job, I haven't really done anything other than go to work, work, come home, eat, sleep, wake up, go to work, work...etc. Occasionally I do chores, and in the off chances that I have spare time I read vector calculus textbooks; but...this isn't something that I can really talk about with other people, and work, well, I signed an agreement essentially agreeing to disclose nothing that happens to me from the time I start work until the time I leave to go home;
So I come across friends and...find I'm unable to remember anything that's happened to me, or that I know of that's worth talking about...I haven't really been exposed to anything like that since January. I went for Japanese food two weeks ago. That's about the most interesting thing that I could talk about since then. Normally I'm fairly talkative, but my canned responses are getting old, and I'm not replenishing what I would normally talk about with anything, since everything I deal with day to day is under a shroud of secrecy, I have really nothing to talk about. What makes matters worse is my memory capacity is getting worse and worse with every year and I am having a hard time remembering things that I really should know, nevermind anything particularly relevant.
Maybe the solution is 'do less Calculus', but it's the only non-work productive thing that I'm doing, and the only one that makes sense to me since I'm still a student?
I know I know, asking for advice on/. is probably not a good idea, but hey someone's probably experienced this...(either that or my mind is finished as a thinking/remembering instrument since I'm having so much trouble trying to remember things that happened 4 months ago or more in detail enough to talk about them; I used to pride myself that since I took close notes of my dreams that at any point, either awake or asleep, that I could stop and ask myself; where am I and how did I get here? Just before now I was doing *[x+0], before that I was doing *[x-1], before that *[x-2]..)
"slashdot.org. Who is this m1.2mdn.net? Some advertising company I can't identify."
You mean...Google?
themusicgod1@chthulhu:~$ whois 2mdn.net
Whois Server Version 2.0
Domain names in the.com and.net domains can now be registered with many different competing registrars. Go to http://www.internic.net for detailed information.
Domain Name: 2MDN.NET
Registrar: REGISTER.COM, INC.
Whois Server: whois.register.com
Referral URL: http://www.register.com/
Name Server: NS1.DOUBLECLICK.NET
Name Server: NS2.DOUBLECLICK.NET
Name Server: NS3.DOUBLECLICK.NET
Name Server: NS4.DOUBLECLICK.NET
Status: clientDeleteProhibited
Status: clientTransferProhibited
Status: clientUpdateProhibited
Updated Date: 02-may-2005
Creation Date: 02-may-2005
Expiration Date: 02-may-2007
Last update of whois database: Mon, 30 Apr 2007 00:07:47 UTC
NOTICE: The expiration date displayed in this record is the date the registrar's sponsorship of the domain name registration in the registry is currently set to expire. This date does not necessarily reflect the expiration date of the domain name registrant's agreement with the sponsoring registrar. Users may consult the sponsoring registrar's Whois database to view the registrar's reported date of expiration for this registration.
Registrant:
DoubleClick Inc
Host Master
111 Eighth Avenue 10th Floor
New York, NY 10011
US
Email: hostmaster@doubleclick.net
Registrar Name....: REGISTER.COM, INC.
Registrar Whois...: whois.register.com
Registrar Homepage: www.register.com
Domain Name: 2mdn.net
Created on..............: Mon, May 02, 2005
Expires on..............: Wed, May 02, 2007
Record last updated on..: Mon, May 02, 2005
Administrative Contact:
DoubleClick Inc
Host Master
111 Eighth Avenue 10th Floor
New York, NY 10011
US
Phone: 1--2126557699
Email: hostmaster@doubleclick.net
Technical Contact:
DoubleClick Inc
DNS Tech
111 Eighth Avenue 10th Floor
New York, NY 10011
US
Phone: 1--2126557699
Email: dnstech@doubleclick.net
"and are willing to buy a years' worth at a time."
"can afford to buy a year's worth at a time" perhaps. A years worth of mustard is great, unless all you get to eat all year is mustard. Like I should talk though; after spending maybe, oh, total 45$ this year for groceries total in the past two days I splurged and just spent 30$ on food(some of it was better than sex though, and I don't regret it, although I'm not going back for another meal there, ever, due to the cost).
How about a song? Huh? You gonna write one? I would but I have no piano available. Wanna give me a piano so I can make one? I got a piano you can transport for me so I can write your song. Give me a chance, get my piano to me and I'll do it. Promise.
I prefer to argue with actual people, myself, but...
"The design flaw of the secular social-democratic state is that it requires a religious-society birthrate to sustain it."
bud, this is/.
Society doesn't need a religious-society birthrate, we need R&D into robotics. Technology and the application of reason is the solution, not more idiots to waste precious resources, and break beer bottles everywhere. South Korea and Japan are already ahead of the curve here(funny; these two have some of the greyest populations of all countries). You are expecting to find liberals here, but have instead found technoprogressives(well, some of us, anyway).
"doesn't mean that the Word of God endorses said behaviour"
I'll let your challenge stand; I have neither inspiration, energy, nor time, really to fufill it. That being said; Do you really understand what is in the bible? I sure as hell don't think I grok it. It's a thick book...I read it only twice*, the last time was probably over a decade ago! I know someone who spent years of her life, and by now at the rate she was going she will have memorized the whole thing, word for word, old testament to psalms. Where I spend my time doing things like working for a living, and going to university for computer science, she's dedicated her life to this work; she is aware of weird numerological connections between pages and modern day events, and supposed deeper, 'true' meaning, that I am simply not privy to. She is learning languages closer to the language it was written in; and will in this sense understand it in a way that english readers can't. I wouldn't dream of claiming to understand the bible to the extent that she does.
I seem to remember violence against women; I don't remember where, or who was involved, or whether the official doctrine of X$ church says that this is God or against God's wishes. Doesn't matter; it's a matter of faith that you believe either way. And if your faith does not match the faith of the government in this case, you are a criminal. Criminalizing christianity is not a Conservative thing to do; and so far that's the only convincing argument that would appeal to a CRAP MP that I've come up with. Please help me do better, because I will write a letter to my also CRAP MP.
*2 different versions, in case one church was lying to me about The Word of God.
"or a similar law of the province or a foreign state."
If a country defines "violence against women" as the same as "dishonouring a woman" (ie, not killing her when she is raped...), you are breaking a "similar law" of a "foreign state" if you are providing information that goes against this process in some way, from my reading. This brings canadian citizens under the laws of whatever the CRTC(appointed bureaucrats) decide, online anyway.
that a good portion of internet traffic is encrypted, and that ISPs cannot know what is contained within it? How can an ISP living under this bill possibly coexist with encryption? And if we outlaw encryption, how can we possibly compete on the global marketplace?
And because it hasn't been said yet; it's violence against women and child porn now; but before the ink on this bill dries, it will be turned toward copyright enfringers, and peole who promote the end of marijuana prohibition.
What if I post the Holy Bible on my webpage? I'm a little blurry on details; (I haven't read it in, oh at least 10 years now), but I'm pretty sure there's explicit violence against women within it's sacred pages. If my online library(accessible through gnutella, usually) contains this work; will my hosting the Word of God cause me to be a criminal under this bill? To the point that I am essentially banished forever from connecting to the internet in Canada?
Three horse race? You are mistaking the one-party system of the US with our multi-party democracy. The greens are polling at what, 33% of the population these days? They will take seats, and they will represent a subset of the people of Canada in parliament. They, along with the NDP(and *gasp* the conservatives) will together, come to a consensus about what direction our country will go. It is not merely who is in power what is important, as we saw in the ndp-liberal budget, even smaller parties can have their say.
"Show of hands, please, from all of you who think that they shouldn't be punished and/or sued for libel."
I see nothing wrong with your situation. If people want to waste their money on a newspaper add(does anyone still read those rags anymore?), all the power to them. The newspapers sure as shit shouldn't keep them from publishing. The government has no business determining who gets to publish what(despite what the CRTC and ontario may think). There's absolutely nothing wrong with your scenario; free market, and freedom of expression in action. Hell it'd even be entertaining so even the newspapers would win out. Besides; since this is the information age, within moments of publishing there will be rebuttals posted online, and similarily degrading statements about the authors floated. Of course, that is to say, if anyone gives a fuck, but if not, then who cares?
Windows? Certified secure? I think you have just proven whatever certification you're talking about is a joke, and any company relying on it as any kind of serious metric on security is being boondoggled.
Honestly though I couldn't care less about you, or your company. If you honestly place that level of trust in microsoft, microsoft will completely destroy your business right from under you, and other, more competent companies will pick up the peices in their ever-going struggle to compete with them. Yes -- microsoft is your competitor too, don't kid yourself. Oh and the "real world" is your company downsizing, sending you and everyone you know to become as poor as the rest of us, as is wont to happen sooner or later if you keep making piss poor business decisions by putting the blinders on and not paying attention to the market, instead opting to "think like those above you".
Slashdot Mirror
Not coins...credit cards! Or credsticks!
It is news. Or at the very least slightly important information. The MPs responsible need to be listed, so that we may know to not vote for them, their party pubilcly shamed(of which this thread is an example), etc.
As far as I know Canada is still governed by Canadians, Canadian Laws, and (our sovereign) the Queen of Canada. We still have the choice whether or not to accept Continental rule. We can probably even get out of NAFTA if we were so motivated. Granted, I think we collectively would choose Continental rule given a choice, but it's an ongoing issue; we choose to cede a little here, a little there, with every purchase, every moment of inaction, etc, but the choice has not yet been entirely made.
We still have a hope. we stand on more natural resources than any other nation, and with a warmer climate will be a logical choice for trade with russia, china, europe, etc. We sit on enough extracteable oil to last well into the post-petroleum transition and collectively are one of the most educated and capable states on the globe. It is entirely plausible that we could snub the yanks and get away with it, as their economy implodes and their international influence wanes, if we play our cards right(and assuming no military confrontation).
I for one will I accept overt american rule only after I am pushing daisies in an unmarked, never to be found, grave.
This issue isn't about how much I must pay my ISP for decent net connectivity.
This issue is about how much Google must pay my ISP for decent net connectivity.
AND this issue is also about how much you must pay Google's ISP for a decent connection as well. Don't forget that part.
What else would you call the large and growing prison labour population in the US? Granted I don't think it's quite as widespread as it was in the former soviet union(yet), but it is one of the biggest growing industries around today, so the US is certainly getting there in a hurry.
Sure there is. Contribute to Open Source video projects, seed appropriate torrents, and create video in new and exciting formats. I'm looking for a render_video@home ...have you seen one?
We will also have HD PVR service at some point...
(disclaimer: I work for SaskTel).
SaskTel does DTV over phone lines. In fact I'm at work troubleshooting them right now. Or not troubleshooting; it's fairly quiet since they are working well. Phone lines are definitely capable of HD, if the lines are fairly well taken care of.
like SaskTel?
Live efficient or be replaced by those more efficient than you.
The ecosystem cannot and will not sustain your inefficiency.
"Great city by the way, I hope I get to go there for the Olympics."
I think you misspelled genocide
maybe you can help, since you seem versed in the topic;
/. is probably not a good idea, but hey someone's probably experienced this...(either that or my mind is finished as a thinking/remembering instrument since I'm having so much trouble trying to remember things that happened 4 months ago or more in detail enough to talk about them; I used to pride myself that since I took close notes of my dreams that at any point, either awake or asleep, that I could stop and ask myself; where am I and how did I get here? Just before now I was doing *[x+0], before that I was doing *[x-1], before that *[x-2]..)
Since I started at my current job, I haven't really done anything other than go to work, work, come home, eat, sleep, wake up, go to work, work...etc. Occasionally I do chores, and in the off chances that I have spare time I read vector calculus textbooks; but...this isn't something that I can really talk about with other people, and work, well, I signed an agreement essentially agreeing to disclose nothing that happens to me from the time I start work until the time I leave to go home;
So I come across friends and...find I'm unable to remember anything that's happened to me, or that I know of that's worth talking about...I haven't really been exposed to anything like that since January. I went for Japanese food two weeks ago. That's about the most interesting thing that I could talk about since then. Normally I'm fairly talkative, but my canned responses are getting old, and I'm not replenishing what I would normally talk about with anything, since everything I deal with day to day is under a shroud of secrecy, I have really nothing to talk about. What makes matters worse is my memory capacity is getting worse and worse with every year and I am having a hard time remembering things that I really should know, nevermind anything particularly relevant.
Maybe the solution is 'do less Calculus', but it's the only non-work productive thing that I'm doing, and the only one that makes sense to me since I'm still a student?
I know I know, asking for advice on
"slashdot.org. Who is this m1.2mdn.net? Some advertising company I can't identify."
.com and .net domains can now be registered
You mean...Google?
themusicgod1@chthulhu:~$ whois 2mdn.net
Whois Server Version 2.0
Domain names in the
with many different competing registrars. Go to http://www.internic.net
for detailed information.
Domain Name: 2MDN.NET
Registrar: REGISTER.COM, INC.
Whois Server: whois.register.com
Referral URL: http://www.register.com/
Name Server: NS1.DOUBLECLICK.NET
Name Server: NS2.DOUBLECLICK.NET
Name Server: NS3.DOUBLECLICK.NET
Name Server: NS4.DOUBLECLICK.NET
Status: clientDeleteProhibited
Status: clientTransferProhibited
Status: clientUpdateProhibited
Updated Date: 02-may-2005
Creation Date: 02-may-2005
Expiration Date: 02-may-2007
Last update of whois database: Mon, 30 Apr 2007 00:07:47 UTC
NOTICE: The expiration date displayed in this record is the date the
registrar's sponsorship of the domain name registration in the registry is
currently set to expire. This date does not necessarily reflect the expiration
date of the domain name registrant's agreement with the sponsoring
registrar. Users may consult the sponsoring registrar's Whois database to
view the registrar's reported date of expiration for this registration.
Registrant:
DoubleClick Inc
Host Master
111 Eighth Avenue 10th Floor
New York, NY 10011
US
Email: hostmaster@doubleclick.net
Registrar Name....: REGISTER.COM, INC.
Registrar Whois...: whois.register.com
Registrar Homepage: www.register.com
Domain Name: 2mdn.net
Created on..............: Mon, May 02, 2005
Expires on..............: Wed, May 02, 2007
Record last updated on..: Mon, May 02, 2005
Administrative Contact:
DoubleClick Inc
Host Master
111 Eighth Avenue 10th Floor
New York, NY 10011
US
Phone: 1--2126557699
Email: hostmaster@doubleclick.net
Technical Contact:
DoubleClick Inc
DNS Tech
111 Eighth Avenue 10th Floor
New York, NY 10011
US
Phone: 1--2126557699
Email: dnstech@doubleclick.net
DNS Servers:
ns3.doubleclick.net
ns1.doubleclick.net
ns2.doubleclick.net
ns4.doubleclick.net
Visit AboutUs.org for more information about 2mdn.net
If you have a wireless mesh community with nodes being 'dissapeared' 10km away, you get a head start.
"and are willing to buy a years' worth at a time."
"can afford to buy a year's worth at a time" perhaps. A years worth of mustard is great, unless all you get to eat all year is mustard. Like I should talk though; after spending maybe, oh, total 45$ this year for groceries total in the past two days I splurged and just spent 30$ on food(some of it was better than sex though, and I don't regret it, although I'm not going back for another meal there, ever, due to the cost).
How about a song? Huh? You gonna write one? I would but I have no piano available. Wanna give me a piano so I can make one? I got a piano you can transport for me so I can write your song. Give me a chance, get my piano to me and I'll do it. Promise.
I prefer to argue with actual people, myself, but... /.
"The design flaw of the secular social-democratic state is that it requires a religious-society birthrate to sustain it."
bud, this is
Society doesn't need a religious-society birthrate, we need R&D into robotics. Technology and the application of reason is the solution, not more idiots to waste precious resources, and break beer bottles everywhere. South Korea and Japan are already ahead of the curve here(funny; these two have some of the greyest populations of all countries). You are expecting to find liberals here, but have instead found technoprogressives(well, some of us, anyway).
"doesn't mean that the Word of God endorses said behaviour" I'll let your challenge stand; I have neither inspiration, energy, nor time, really to fufill it. That being said; Do you really understand what is in the bible? I sure as hell don't think I grok it. It's a thick book...I read it only twice*, the last time was probably over a decade ago! I know someone who spent years of her life, and by now at the rate she was going she will have memorized the whole thing, word for word, old testament to psalms. Where I spend my time doing things like working for a living, and going to university for computer science, she's dedicated her life to this work; she is aware of weird numerological connections between pages and modern day events, and supposed deeper, 'true' meaning, that I am simply not privy to. She is learning languages closer to the language it was written in; and will in this sense understand it in a way that english readers can't. I wouldn't dream of claiming to understand the bible to the extent that she does.
I seem to remember violence against women; I don't remember where, or who was involved, or whether the official doctrine of X$ church says that this is God or against God's wishes. Doesn't matter; it's a matter of faith that you believe either way. And if your faith does not match the faith of the government in this case, you are a criminal. Criminalizing christianity is not a Conservative thing to do; and so far that's the only convincing argument that would appeal to a CRAP MP that I've come up with. Please help me do better, because I will write a letter to my also CRAP MP.
*2 different versions, in case one church was lying to me about The Word of God.
"or a similar law of the province or a foreign state."
If a country defines "violence against women" as the same as "dishonouring a woman" (ie, not killing her when she is raped...), you are breaking a "similar law" of a "foreign state" if you are providing information that goes against this process in some way, from my reading. This brings canadian citizens under the laws of whatever the CRTC(appointed bureaucrats) decide, online anyway.
that a good portion of internet traffic is encrypted, and that ISPs cannot know what is contained within it? How can an ISP living under this bill possibly coexist with encryption? And if we outlaw encryption, how can we possibly compete on the global marketplace?
And because it hasn't been said yet; it's violence against women and child porn now; but before the ink on this bill dries, it will be turned toward copyright enfringers, and peole who promote the end of marijuana prohibition.
What if I post the Holy Bible on my webpage? I'm a little blurry on details; (I haven't read it in, oh at least 10 years now), but I'm pretty sure there's explicit violence against women within it's sacred pages. If my online library(accessible through gnutella, usually) contains this work; will my hosting the Word of God cause me to be a criminal under this bill? To the point that I am essentially banished forever from connecting to the internet in Canada?
AFM is against filesharing, no? That would be like joining the RIAA, or what?
Three horse race? You are mistaking the one-party system of the US with our multi-party democracy. The greens are polling at what, 33% of the population these days? They will take seats, and they will represent a subset of the people of Canada in parliament. They, along with the NDP(and *gasp* the conservatives) will together, come to a consensus about what direction our country will go. It is not merely who is in power what is important, as we saw in the ndp-liberal budget, even smaller parties can have their say.
"Show of hands, please, from all of you who think that they shouldn't be punished and/or sued for libel."
I see nothing wrong with your situation. If people want to waste their money on a newspaper add(does anyone still read those rags anymore?), all the power to them. The newspapers sure as shit shouldn't keep them from publishing. The government has no business determining who gets to publish what(despite what the CRTC and ontario may think). There's absolutely nothing wrong with your scenario; free market, and freedom of expression in action. Hell it'd even be entertaining so even the newspapers would win out. Besides; since this is the information age, within moments of publishing there will be rebuttals posted online, and similarily degrading statements about the authors floated. Of course, that is to say, if anyone gives a fuck, but if not, then who cares?
USB should work fine. Seriously, you shouldn't need HDMI. Hell even ethernet might work. We're talking audio, not video here.
Windows? Certified secure? I think you have just proven whatever certification you're talking about is a joke, and any company relying on it as any kind of serious metric on security is being boondoggled.
Honestly though I couldn't care less about you, or your company. If you honestly place that level of trust in microsoft, microsoft will completely destroy your business right from under you, and other, more competent companies will pick up the peices in their ever-going struggle to compete with them. Yes -- microsoft is your competitor too, don't kid yourself. Oh and the "real world" is your company downsizing, sending you and everyone you know to become as poor as the rest of us, as is wont to happen sooner or later if you keep making piss poor business decisions by putting the blinders on and not paying attention to the market, instead opting to "think like those above you".