Can they? Sure. Just like they can arbitrarly block "bad" web sites, spammers email or networks, or even potentially exploitable ports on user machines.
But do they have a contractual obligation to provide service to the Internet? I think that's where the difference lies: the AUP most likely disallows me probing for "potentially exploitable ports," so it's (a little bit) reasonable for them to block them. The AUP most likely does not prohibit me from connecting to website that disagree with Telus.
Granted, I'd rather they don't block anything without my permission, but I don't think your analogy is perfect: blocking websites I want to access is most likely violating their contractual obligation to provide Internet service.
I'm not a medical person, so my apologies if this is actaully a brain-dead idea.
But if you knew you were planning a trip to say, China, would it make sense you to slowly expose yourself to their water? A few drops in a gallon at first: you'd start to build up an immunity?
It's the same principle as getting a shot: expose you to a tiny bit of it, so you can 'learn' to fight it, and then you get it in higher doses and it's not a problem.
A few reasons I can think of off-hand: * Renting higher-end servers gets awfully expensive * Adding another hard drive might cost you something like $20/month forever -- if you plan on being around for a long time, it's actaully much cheaper to just buy * I've read a few horror stories of people whose dedicated server providers (some at fairly reputable places) had their servers formatted by mistake. With a colocated server, you don't have to worry about a tech transposing a couple digits in your IP and formatting the wrong machine.
Their reasoning is why stop progress for something that only 600,000 people in the country do.
That anyone would accuse ham radio of "stopping progress" is preposterous. I actually see Linux and ham radio as very similar.
Hams like to tinker. This "tinkering" has given us a lot of new formats (PSK31 as one recent example), just like Linus's "tinkering" has given us a new OS, or thousands of geeks' tinkering has given us countless new programs.
Plenty of hams do enjoy "old" stuff like Morse code -- just as plenty of us here enjoy getting a CLI up and running on an old 386 salvaged from the garbage. Why not just run Windows XP on a new P4?
Anyway, the point I'm trying to make is that the sort of people that hang around here are the sort of people that should be into ham radio. That, and that ham radio is full of innovation.
1.) The admins actually read the site 2.) The admins remember, "Hey, that was our biggest story yesterday," and therefore don't post it again 3.) There is no step three.
If I can argue that your open WAP was an "attractive nuisance," and I get infected with a virus while using it, can I try to sue your for damages incurred while using your AP?
Now that might persuade people to secure their APs.:)
I think a better analogy would be if your left your front door open, and happened to live in a commercial zone, and you had huge doors and an inviting lobby area in your home.
People would have no way of knowing whether you were a new restaurant hoping for some business, or whether it was a house that had been left unlocked. Wireless is the same way: a lot of wireless networks are left open deliberately, to allow people to share them, just as doors to restaurants are left open (during operating hours) to allow people to come in.
patent on the microprocessor... includes only football play diagrams
I know the USPTO has approved some ridiculous things, but might someone, somewhere along the line have realized, "This has absolutely nothing to do with this newfangled technology thing being described?"
A.) "Terminator" is on that list. I hear someone in the California executive branch might have something to say about that.
B.) The logos are the ugliest things I've ever seen (goatse included), and half of them don't even load.
C.) Is "renting" your trademarks out actually a legitimate business strategy?
I'm actually not sure that's quite what goes on. If I'm understanding this correctly, people pay $300 a year so that RentAMark.com can "proclaiming to the world" that the phrase "tree house" "is famous, well known, in use and not abandoned."
Both cultures used to emphasize on memorizing texts for a long long time.
This has been a pet peeve of mine of education for a long time: memorizing is not learning. It's possible, I suppose, to thoroughly understand something and to memorize it, but frankly, few people seem to: if you ask them to memorize, they can mindlessly recite the list, but don't ask them what it means.
More significantly, memorization will probably serve you very little: it's almost always the meaning that matters. (Example: knowing that pi is 3.14, and that it's what you get when dividing the circumference of a circle by its diameter, is a lot more important than knowing 80,000 digits of it, but possibly not even knowing what it is or why it's useful.)
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Why 14%, I want to know. Is it better than 15% or 13%, or did he just try 14% and find that it worked well? I think I've found an experiment for a slow day.
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When the hard disk completely goes and I have to replace it, I'll be able to reinstall Gentoo Linux without paying anyone anything. ;-)
So I assume you've already paid your $699 to SCO for that machine?
Can they? Sure. Just like they can arbitrarly block "bad" web sites, spammers email or networks, or even potentially exploitable ports on user machines.
But do they have a contractual obligation to provide service to the Internet? I think that's where the difference lies: the AUP most likely disallows me probing for "potentially exploitable ports," so it's (a little bit) reasonable for them to block them. The AUP most likely does not prohibit me from connecting to website that disagree with Telus.
Granted, I'd rather they don't block anything without my permission, but I don't think your analogy is perfect: blocking websites I want to access is most likely violating their contractual obligation to provide Internet service.
Anyone else read this and think of Vendetta from Making Fiends, and get excited that something was out before September 1st?
A, who has three people on her buddy list, doesn't add much to your score. That's because she doesn't have as many people on her buddy list as does B
I'm not sure I agree with the thought process.
In my opinion, if you're an AIM whore and have your buddy list full, you might have lots of people on your buddy list, but not talk to most of them.
On the other hand, I know people with about ten people on their buddy list.
Therefore, if you're on a shorter buddy list, chances are higher that you actually converse with them.
I'm not a medical person, so my apologies if this is actaully a brain-dead idea.
But if you knew you were planning a trip to say, China, would it make sense you to slowly expose yourself to their water? A few drops in a gallon at first: you'd start to build up an immunity?
It's the same principle as getting a shot: expose you to a tiny bit of it, so you can 'learn' to fight it, and then you get it in higher doses and it's not a problem.
Would this idea work at all?
one popular tool for make dovetail joints is the Stots TemplateMaster dovetail jig.
You did return it, right?
The coummunity is in the business of producing better software--not equal software.
Moving buttons around is not better, it's just different. I'd daresay it's equal.
Devil's advocate: Random placing of the buttons forces you to actually pay attention to what you're clicking.
I thought Linux never crashed?
A few reasons I can think of off-hand:
* Renting higher-end servers gets awfully expensive
* Adding another hard drive might cost you something like $20/month forever -- if you plan on being around for a long time, it's actaully much cheaper to just buy
* I've read a few horror stories of people whose dedicated server providers (some at fairly reputable places) had their servers formatted by mistake. With a colocated server, you don't have to worry about a tech transposing a couple digits in your IP and formatting the wrong machine.
So where does the extra money go? A nicer server? A reserve fund? To the developers?
More significantly, you don't have to worry about people leeching off of 'backbones' like you do with cable television.
Their reasoning is why stop progress for something that only 600,000 people in the country do.
That anyone would accuse ham radio of "stopping progress" is preposterous. I actually see Linux and ham radio as very similar.
Hams like to tinker. This "tinkering" has given us a lot of new formats (PSK31 as one recent example), just like Linus's "tinkering" has given us a new OS, or thousands of geeks' tinkering has given us countless new programs.
Plenty of hams do enjoy "old" stuff like Morse code -- just as plenty of us here enjoy getting a CLI up and running on an old 386 salvaged from the garbage. Why not just run Windows XP on a new P4?
Anyway, the point I'm trying to make is that the sort of people that hang around here are the sort of people that should be into ham radio. That, and that ham radio is full of innovation.
screw emergency services. They should all be using broadband.
And when broadband goes down?
I'm not sure if you're trolling or trying to be funny, but do you have any clue how idiotic a statement this is? A few examples:
I'd go on, but I don't think it's necessary.
Here's a simpler idea:
1.) The admins actually read the site
2.) The admins remember, "Hey, that was our biggest story yesterday," and therefore don't post it again
3.) There is no step three.
Pretty simple, eh?
Go was sold to AT&T Corp. in 1994, which closed the company in July of the same year.
So, the company has ceased to exist for 11 years now. Can a dissolved company file a lawsuit?
This has an interesting implication.
:)
If I can argue that your open WAP was an "attractive nuisance," and I get infected with a virus while using it, can I try to sue your for damages incurred while using your AP?
Now that might persuade people to secure their APs.
I think a better analogy would be if your left your front door open, and happened to live in a commercial zone, and you had huge doors and an inviting lobby area in your home.
People would have no way of knowing whether you were a new restaurant hoping for some business, or whether it was a house that had been left unlocked. Wireless is the same way: a lot of wireless networks are left open deliberately, to allow people to share them, just as doors to restaurants are left open (during operating hours) to allow people to come in.
Come on, you've got to use the word in stealth:
Like that!
patent on the microprocessor... includes only football play diagrams
I know the USPTO has approved some ridiculous things, but might someone, somewhere along the line have realized, "This has absolutely nothing to do with this newfangled technology thing being described?"
Someone who's this greedy... would discretely get his ass kicked one day
Do you mean stealthily?
A.) "Terminator" is on that list. I hear someone in the California executive branch might have something to say about that.
B.) The logos are the ugliest things I've ever seen (goatse included), and half of them don't even load.
C.) Is "renting" your trademarks out actually a legitimate business strategy?
I'm actually not sure that's quite what goes on. If I'm understanding this correctly, people pay $300 a year so that RentAMark.com can "proclaiming to the world" that the phrase "tree house" "is famous, well known, in use and not abandoned."
I'd like to reply to this thread, but I can't think of anything that ends in "am" to say I like.
(Read the usernames if you're confused.)
Both cultures used to emphasize on memorizing texts for a long long time.
This has been a pet peeve of mine of education for a long time: memorizing is not learning. It's possible, I suppose, to thoroughly understand something and to memorize it, but frankly, few people seem to: if you ask them to memorize, they can mindlessly recite the list, but don't ask them what it means.
More significantly, memorization will probably serve you very little: it's almost always the meaning that matters. (Example: knowing that pi is 3.14, and that it's what you get when dividing the circumference of a circle by its diameter, is a lot more important than knowing 80,000 digits of it, but possibly not even knowing what it is or why it's useful.)
Why 14%, I want to know. Is it better than 15% or 13%, or did he just try 14% and find that it worked well? I think I've found an experiment for a slow day.