How can this even be legal? What bone head brainless piece of shit at FedEx allowed the MPAA to do this? If I ship a DVD to some one I expect it to only be opened by one person, the recipient. This would be like the RIAA going to the post office and opening everyones mail looking for lyrics. Un fucking believable! Well, the MPAA has pushed me into buying even FEWER DVDs this year.
Out where I live, your only choice is dial up, satellite or service through your cell phone. I only have a cell phone and no land line service. Verizon will take for ever to get DSL in my area; and the cable provider is some Mom and Pop outfit I never heard of that doesn't offer Internet service, so I don't subscribe anyway because I don't have a TV.
I currently use Verizons 'National Access' Internet service with my LG VX4500, it provides 16 k/bits synchronous service that puts it about 3 times the speed of dial up. While not 'fast' it's certainly is better than dial up. I have looked into satellite, but I'm not willing to shell out $600 for the hardware; followed by a $139 a month contract for 1 M/bit service with a 275ms or worse latency.
If Verizon would get off their dead asses and either deliver xDSL or EVDO service into my area I would snarf up either of these services. The other company expanding near my area (Clearwire) is planing on offering it's service located 24 miles west of me. But I doubt I'll see this service anytime soon.
I am very much like the poster, I use console based e-mail clients like pine; and good olde fashioned command line mail. I normally don't like web based e-mail. Stuff like hotmail are way over guified; that's why I like gmail, lean, fast and very reasonable storage space. However, I will still use pine and command line e-mail for all my stuff I don't want prying eyes to look at.
Just another excuse for the meat and dairy industry to perpetuate the senseless slaughter of these innocent beings; just so you can have your fucking eggs and sausage. It amazes me to no end that most people don't have the intellectual capacity to catch even half a clue. It isn't bad enough that I have to foot the medical bills of people with health problems from eating this shit. Now we have 'science' making flesh that's 'better for you'.
In other news, it was reported that top officials of the RIAA and the MPAA were planning aggressive litigation to halt this progress citing 'Won't someone please think of the rampant piracy this technology will foster'. 'We believe that consumers cannot be allowed access to this kind of bandwidth'.
Hmmmmm, could one use this method to get around some of these pesky Quality Of Service restrictions? Because we all know the carriers like to enforce these things to keep you from getting quality from your VoIP service.
The movie experience just plain SUCKS nowadays, rude movie goers who refuse to turn off their cell phones, talkers, problem children, over priced concessions and just plain uninteresting movies etc, etc, etc..... The last movie I went to was Too Wong Fu and the Rocky Horror Picture Show. Now I just wait for the movie to come out on DVD and watch it in scaled high def on the living room PC.
I guess we should get a team to the Antarctic post haste so we can keep The Thing from thawing out and taking over the world 27,000 hrs from first contact. And while were at it we need to do something about that big blob we air lifted and dropped off there back in the 50's.
I guess it's just beyond most human beings intellectual capacity to just get a fucking clue. This ranks right up there with the rest of the dumb fucking things our military does with innocent animals. It's not *just* that people are dumb. They are. But they also don't *want* to know what they do to animals (or causes others to do to animals on their behalf). For example, offer to show someone a short video of what goes on in an abattoir. Almost guaranteed they will refuse. Tell them you don't think eating meat is wrong -- you just want them to see what goes on for them to be able to eat that McBurger. See if they'd be willing (not even "curious", just *willing*) to see how the fowl are slaughtered. They won't do it -- they will almost always prefer ignorance, and they'll probably also get mad at you for "trying to ruin their day".
I agree, 100%. You know, I used to eat animals, I was the kind of guy who would smack his fist down on the table and say "I got to have my slab of dead cow!" But, all that changed forever when I watched an undercover video showing some of the most deplorable acts violence committed against an innocent sow on a pig farm in North Carolina. These guys were yelling and screaming expletives at her, beating her with pipe wrenches and gate rods, sexually molesting her with a steel rod. And then to add insult to injury, smashed her over the head with a cinder block, it was then they started to skin and dismember her while she was still alive. It was the most disgusting thing I ever saw, it was extremely painful to watch. Chickens are treated even worse, and cows fair no better than pigs. And as for China, dogs are routinely strung up by their hind legs and beaten to death, cats are callously tossed into vats of scalding hot water while fully conscious.
So I make no excuse for my disdain towards my fellow human beings let alone what our own fucking government does to animals.
I guess it's just beyond most human beings intellectual capacity to just get a fucking clue. This ranks right up there with the rest of the dumb fucking things our military does with innocent animals. I could go on endlessly about the things humans do to animals, but then, most of you out there would label me as some wacko animal rights terrorist.
It's beyond bad enough the industrial farming institutions have most people brain washed to believe that eating animals and animal products is "good" for you. When I kick the bucket, I sincerely hope I'm not judged by what the rest of the human race does to animals.
I'm glad to see that there is someone other than me who would of told the FBI to fuck off, get a warrant. Of course, now that I've said this I'll probably be considered a terrorist.
Just to show how inept our government officials are, do a google on "Willian Luke Stewart"
This guy spun a a big sack of BS of how his company (Mediafusion) could provide billion plus giga bits over ordinary power wires. Now our administration has modified part 15 (to the point of uselessness), ignored ITU agreements and is ignoring valid interference complaints from BPL deployments. BPL is the king of a cardboard, duct tape and bailing wire Internet delivery method that should of NEVER gotten off the ground. A person with ANY reasonable engineering skills would not even consider this abortion. When the commission was presented with evidence from the NTIA about the interference problems BPL would create they were met with, "So what, don't confuse us with all this technical mumbo jumbo, find a way to accommodate it, our minds are already made up".
To say the least I have no confidence in our FCC commissioners let alone other government officials to do their jobs properly.
Sony better get a clue from all this. As having all my home entertainment equipment stolen four months ago I was considering replacing it all with New Sony gear. Well I can safely say that's NOT going to happen, Sony, you are going to have to do a lot to regain my trust before I buy ANY of your products again. Oh and by the way, didn't Sony say some months ago that they weren't going to make DRM'ed CDs? The article was on/. some time back but I cannot find it...
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How can this even be legal? What bone head brainless piece of shit at FedEx allowed the MPAA to do this? If I ship a DVD to some one I expect it to only be opened by one person, the recipient. This would be like the RIAA going to the post office and opening everyones mail looking for lyrics. Un fucking believable! Well, the MPAA has pushed me into buying even FEWER DVDs this year.
Out where I live, your only choice is dial up, satellite or service through your cell phone. I only have a cell phone and no land line service. Verizon will take for ever to get DSL in my area; and the cable provider is some Mom and Pop outfit I never heard of that doesn't offer Internet service, so I don't subscribe anyway because I don't have a TV.
I currently use Verizons 'National Access' Internet service with my LG VX4500, it provides 16 k/bits synchronous service that puts it about 3 times the speed of dial up. While not 'fast' it's certainly is better than dial up. I have looked into satellite, but I'm not willing to shell out $600 for the hardware; followed by a $139 a month contract for 1 M/bit service with a 275ms or worse latency.
If Verizon would get off their dead asses and either deliver xDSL or EVDO service into my area I would snarf up either of these services. The other company expanding near my area (Clearwire) is planing on offering it's service located 24 miles west of me. But I doubt I'll see this service anytime soon.
"Dell's CTO, Kevin Kettler, who says quite loudly that they are not Microsoft and Intel's puppet."
Fair enough, then how come I cannot get a dual opteron with ultra320 SCSI and a linux disrto of my choice?
I am very much like the poster, I use console based e-mail clients like pine; and good olde fashioned command line mail. I normally don't like web based e-mail. Stuff like hotmail are way over guified; that's why I like gmail, lean, fast and very reasonable storage space. However, I will still use pine and command line e-mail for all my stuff I don't want prying eyes to look at.
I still read this as 'International Federation of the Pornographic Industry' every time I see it.
Just another excuse for the meat and dairy industry to perpetuate the senseless slaughter of these innocent beings; just so you can have your fucking eggs and sausage. It amazes me to no end that most people don't have the intellectual capacity to catch even half a clue. It isn't bad enough that I have to foot the medical bills of people with health problems from eating this shit. Now we have 'science' making flesh that's 'better for you'.
I could go on, but no one will listen anyway.
In other news, it was reported that top officials of the RIAA and the MPAA were planning aggressive litigation to halt this progress citing 'Won't someone please think of the rampant piracy this technology will foster'. 'We believe that consumers cannot be allowed access to this kind of bandwidth'.
I have this episode on VHS, this is the one where Data gets to bone that hot security officer.
I'll just keep MY data on my OWN machine where the government cannot get their grubby little hands on it.
Hmmmmm, could one use this method to get around some of these pesky Quality Of Service restrictions? Because we all know the carriers like to enforce these things to keep you from getting quality from your VoIP service.
"fisherman to locate large quantities of fish in mid-sea"
Do we really want fisherman to have these tools to essentially strip mine the ocean of even more fish? Give me a break!
1.6 petabytes ought to be enough for anyone......
The movie experience just plain SUCKS nowadays, rude movie goers who refuse to turn off their cell phones, talkers, problem children, over priced concessions and just plain uninteresting movies etc, etc, etc..... The last movie I went to was Too Wong Fu and the Rocky Horror Picture Show. Now I just wait for the movie to come out on DVD and watch it in scaled high def on the living room PC.
I guess we should get a team to the Antarctic post haste so we can keep The Thing from thawing out and taking over the world 27,000 hrs from first contact. And while were at it we need to do something about that big blob we air lifted and dropped off there back in the 50's.
I guess it's just beyond most human beings intellectual capacity to just get a fucking clue. This ranks right up there with the rest of the dumb fucking things our military does with innocent animals.
It's not *just* that people are dumb. They are. But they also don't *want* to know what they do to animals (or causes others to do to animals on their behalf).
For example, offer to show someone a short video of what goes on in an abattoir. Almost guaranteed they will refuse. Tell them you don't think eating meat is wrong -- you just want them to see what goes on for them to be able to eat that McBurger. See if they'd be willing (not even "curious", just *willing*) to see how the fowl are slaughtered. They won't do it -- they will almost always prefer ignorance, and they'll probably also get mad at you for "trying to ruin their day".
I agree, 100%. You know, I used to eat animals, I was the kind of guy who would smack his fist down on the table and say "I got to have my slab of dead cow!" But, all that changed forever when I watched an undercover video showing some of the most deplorable acts violence committed against an innocent sow on a pig farm in North Carolina. These guys were yelling and screaming expletives at her, beating her with pipe wrenches and gate rods, sexually molesting her with a steel rod. And then to add insult to injury, smashed her over the head with a cinder block, it was then they started to skin and dismember her while she was still alive. It was the most disgusting thing I ever saw, it was extremely painful to watch. Chickens are treated even worse, and cows fair no better than pigs. And as for China, dogs are routinely strung up by their hind legs and beaten to death, cats are callously tossed into vats of scalding hot water while fully conscious.
So I make no excuse for my disdain towards my fellow human beings let alone what our own fucking government does to animals.
I guess it's just beyond most human beings intellectual capacity to just get a fucking clue. This ranks right up there with the rest of the dumb fucking things our military does with innocent animals. I could go on endlessly about the things humans do to animals, but then, most of you out there would label me as some wacko animal rights terrorist.
It's beyond bad enough the industrial farming institutions have most people brain washed to believe that eating animals and animal products is "good" for you. When I kick the bucket, I sincerely hope I'm not judged by what the rest of the human race does to animals.
"Yesterday, SCO announced a new MLM called "Me Inc."
Who also read this as "Multi level marketing"
I like the way this guy thinks.... :)
So.... What you're saying is I can take a picture of the DNA of a microbe on the hair of a gnats ass.
I'm glad to see that there is someone other than me who would of told the FBI to fuck off, get a warrant. Of course, now that I've said this I'll probably be considered a terrorist.
Just to show how inept our government officials are, do a google on "Willian Luke Stewart"
This guy spun a a big sack of BS of how his company (Mediafusion) could provide billion plus giga bits over ordinary power wires. Now our administration has modified part 15 (to the point of uselessness), ignored ITU agreements and is ignoring valid interference complaints from BPL deployments. BPL is the king of a cardboard, duct tape and bailing wire Internet delivery method that should of NEVER gotten off the ground. A person with ANY reasonable engineering skills would not even consider this abortion. When the commission was presented with evidence from the NTIA about the interference problems BPL would create they were met with, "So what, don't confuse us with all this technical mumbo jumbo, find a way to accommodate it, our minds are already made up".
To say the least I have no confidence in our FCC commissioners let alone other government officials to do their jobs properly.
"Microsoft stands behind its products and respects intellectual property rights."
:) Thanks for making my morning.
I needed a good laugh this morning
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I can afford that 4-way Crayteron workstation I have been dreaming about..
Sony better get a clue from all this. As having all my home entertainment equipment stolen four months ago I was considering replacing it all with New Sony gear. Well I can safely say that's NOT going to happen, Sony, you are going to have to do a lot to regain my trust before I buy ANY of your products again. Oh and by the way, didn't Sony say some months ago that they weren't going to make DRM'ed CDs? The article was on /. some time back but I cannot find it...