These are files that people probably aren't dealing with on a daily basis, or they would be in a newer format. My thought would be to install a copy of Office 2000 on something and use it to access legacy formats and/or start converting them. And Office 2000 didn't even require product activation, so the screwing can go both ways on this deal, really.
I think a lot of different distributions is a good thing, but I think everyone is going to gravitate toward a few dominate distributions, and the rest will end up as niche products.
And let's just say that the ISP could save every packet from every user on the ISP...let's just think of the size of that porn collection. Think about...huge quantities of porn; a vast sea of it. The amount of porn that most slashdotters can only dream about.
Well, I'm really bad about just getting a book and learning what I'm wanting to learn. And then when it comes to a job application, I have very little education to put on it. If I could read an O'Reilly book, which I was going to read anyway, and then take a test over it and get proof that I knew the material, I would go this route, even though it is just another worthless piece of paper.
What would stop me from doing O'Reilly is what they are charging. There are much cheaper ways to get pieces of paper that are just about as worthless, but still give you something to put on a resume.
The proprietary software fiasco has led companies to slant their advertising towards telling us to buy more closed-source software to save the environment; Nonsense! According to this scenario, open source software binary digits migrate into the upper atmosphere and destroy the ozone, but proprietary binary digits are heavier than air and cannot get from the ground to the upper atmosphere. This has led scientist to believe that open source software may actually be a danger to our ecosystem.
The funny thing is that if you look at the authors, these people aren't even scientists!
Thanks for the link. I have to say after hearing it, if you can't hear that, you are freaking deaf. And I'll add that I'm way past 25 and spent way too much time listening to loud heavy metal as a teenager.
But what I would have always wondered, if that many people over 25 can't hear things like that, how many people are getting ripped off on high-end speakers and high-quality stereo equipment?
Somewhere, I bet there are older people complaing about MP3 and ACC audio not being high enough quality, and all the while they couldn't even hear a good portion of the high-end of the original CD that the songs came off of.
Ok, I've posted this a couple of times already...not just karma whoring, I just thought it was so fitting to the parent topic that I would post once more. I think we should all sing together!
The Terrorist Song (Sung to the tune of Python's The Lumber Jack Song)
I'm a terrorist and I'm OK I read at night and I work all day.
The Government: He's a terrorist and he's OK He reads at night and he works all day.
I read a lot and I seek the truth I go to the lavatory. After OKC, I saw some things that didn't make sense to me.
The Government: He doesn't believe our story about OKC, We monitor when he goes to the lavatory. On Wednesday night, he went to an unapproved web site.
Chorus: He's a terrorist and he's OK He reads at night and he works all day.
When, after 9-11 didn't all add up, I met with others on the net, to talk it up.
The government: He didn't believe our story about 9-11. We followed him to unapproved web sites after hours. In our report, we'll say he had bomb-making materials under his sink.
Chorus: He's a terrorist and he's OK He reads at night and he works all day.
I don't think a plane hit the Pentagon. I think the World Trade Center buildings fell all wrong. I wish I could convince my dear ol' mom!!
The government: He's a terrorist and we're going to make him pay?! We read his e-mail and didn't like what he had to say?!...
Just me: I wish I'd been born, back when America was really free!!
The Government: He's a terrorist and we're going to make him pay He reads the Constitution and knows his rights. He's just like McVeigh, Bin Laden, and al-Qaeda!!
Chorus: He's a terrorist and he's OK He reads at night and he works all day.
The Terrorist Song (Sung to the tune of Python's The Lumber Jack Song)
I'm a terrorist and I'm OK I read at night and I work all day.
The Government: He's a terrorist and he's OK He reads at night and he works all day.
I read a lot and I seek the truth I go to the lavatory. After OKC, I saw some things that didn't make sense to me.
The Government: He doesn't believe our story about OKC, We monitor when he goes to the lavatory. On Wednesday night, he went to an unapproved web site.
Chorus: He's a terrorist and he's OK He reads at night and he works all day.
When, after 9-11 didn't all add up, I met with others on the net, to talk it up.
The government: He didn't believe our story about 9-11. We followed him to unapproved web sites after hours. In our report, we'll say he had bomb-making materials under his sink.
Chorus: He's a terrorist and he's OK He reads at night and he works all day.
I don't think a plane hit the Pentagon. I think the World Trade Center buildings fell all wrong. I wish I could convince my dear ol' mom!!
The government: He's a terrorist and we're going to make him pay?! We read his e-mail and didn't like what he had to say?!...
Just me: I wish I'd been born, back when America was really free!!
The Government: He's a terrorist and we're going to make him pay He reads the Constitution and knows his rights. He's just like McVeigh, Bin Laden, and al-Qaeda!!
Chorus: He's a terrorist and he's OK He reads at night and he works all day.
Funny, I wrote that this morning, and ever since then, I can't help but envision ended up in some sort of scene right out of My Cousin Vinny, where I'm sitting in front of a judge saying "I wrote 'I'm a terrorist!'... I wrote 'I'm a terrorist?!?!'"
Only the bad part is, unlike in My Cousin Vinny, there is no jury and my trial is in secret.
The Terrorist Song by Usurper_ii (Sung to the tune of Python's The Lumber Jack Song)
I'm a terrorist and I'm OK I read at night and I work all day.
The Government: He's a terrorist and he's OK He reads at night and he works all day.
I read a lot and I seek the truth I go to the lavatory. After OKC, I saw some things that didn't make sense to me.
The Government: He doesn't believe our story about OKC, We monitor when he goes to the lavatory. On Wednesday night, he went to an unapproved web site.
Chorus: He's a terrorist and he's OK He reads at night and he works all day.
When, after 9-11 didn't all add up, I met with others on the net, to talk it up.
The government: He didn't believe our story about 9-11. We followed him to unapproved web sites after hours. In our report, well say he had bomb-making materials under his sink.
Chorus: He's a terrorist and he's OK He reads at night and he works all day.
I don't think a plane hit the Pentagon. I think the World Trade Center buildings fell all wrong. I wish I could convince my dear ol' mom!!
The government: He's a terrorist and we're going to make him pay?! We read his e-mail and didn't like what he had to say?!...
Just me: I wish I'd been born, back when America was really free!!
The Government: He's a terrorist and we're going to make him pay He reads the Constitution and knows his rights. He's just like McVeigh, Bin Laden, and al-Qaeda!!
Chorus: He's a terrorist and he's OK He reads at night and he works all day.
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Personally, I think that if you have to sell your house, use your college funds up, or spend the next 20 - 30 years of your life working to pay off your fine...that at least that should get you a lifetime of unlimited downloads.
The Constitution (Article I, Section 1) states that only congress has the power to make laws. The executive branch and the judicial branch have no legislative powers, whatsoever. And Congress does not have the constitutional authority to delegate its legislative power to institutions that are beyond electoral accountability to the American people.
So why is there never a word said about the fourth branch of the federal government: the unconstitutional and entirely illegal regulatory branch?
What are the alphabet agencies -- FDA, EPA, OSHA, and so on -- doing when they pass laws? And, while these laws are called regulations, so as not to upset anyone who might actually read the Constitution, the Webster's dictionary defines regulation as a rule, ordinance or law.
If America is ever to return to its constitutionally limited government, these illegal federal agencies must be abolished. If laws are needed in certain areas they must be passed by Congress. If laws are unpopular, the citizens should be able to vote out the lawmakers that enacted them. This is not possible in the regulatory branch of the government, the majority of whom are not elected nor held accountable to the people.
And you can play around with it without paying out the butt for support. It is called FreeBSD.
I pretty much consider myself an idiot, but having never touched Linux or a free Unix distro, I had a distro installed in approx. 1 - 2 days, and had Apache running in a day or so. If all you need is a basic Apache server set up with the default settings, it is a piece of cake. Now if you want to do virtual domains, etc., it is a little harder, but nothing you need to spend a ton of money on for support.
As far as uptime, if I left my FreeBSD server as is, I fully expect it would run 365 days a year and never fail to serve a web page (excepting a hardware failure, or slashdotting of course).
I also, having never touched Win 2003 before, had it installed in about a day and had the terminal server up in about a day. Having some prior experience with NT 4.0, I can say that 2003 was a great improvement for Microsoft (with the exception of the stupid product activation).
As far as uptime? The hardware the Win 2003 server on is way better than the hardware for the FreeBSD server, but I'm constantly having to reboot it. Things stop working, printing from Quickbooks, printing from the Remote Desktops, it is all flaky. It works perfect for a random amount of time and then quits...with all problems fixed by a reboot.
Heck, our ancient NT 4.0 server with Exchange 5.5 on it, has to rebooted nightly or it hoses up the next day (memory leak?).
And all this time OpenBSD DNS servers (setup by our prior IT guy) and the FreeBSD servers, sometimes only go down when the power is out long enough to let the UPS batteries run out...and sometimes I reboot the FreeBSD server when I'm too lazy to figure out how to stop a process and restart it (so if up time was a goal of mine, I could even greatly improve it if I so desired).
Of course, log files can be manipulated and faked. ISPs will have the power to exonerate or destroy people (maybe a new revenue stream for the ISPs???).
If this does become law, soon it will be required that the ISPs use only "approved" monitoring software, perhaps software that will digitally sign the log files. And then, since they still can't be trusted, the log files will have to be kept in a central location of some government office.
How much will this "approved" monitoring software cost?
They are already doing it, and they know how many small ISPs would have to shut down because of the cost and complexity of doing something on this scale, if it became law. Big monopolistic-type businesses loves big government, because it puts up a large barrier for entry into the market.
I work at a small WISP. Wireless Internet is secondary to our primary business, so anything to do with the Internet gets put on hold when a primary job comes up. The practical result of that is, we barely have a spare minute to work on the network side of the WISP (the result is also crappy customer service, but that is a different post).
Should something like this actually happen, it would take not only a large amount of space, but for us, probably a full time person just to manage backing up the logs. For a large ISP it would take probably a couple of people or more. Not to mention the fact of the cost of the network monitoring software it would take to record all of this information.
We are already on the edge, something like this would just do us in.
But maybe that is an intended result, as having a few AT&T's that give you a straight pipe right onto their backbone, is a hell of a lot easier to monitor than a whole bunch of mom & pop ISPs who could not possibly to even begin to comply with these monitoring requirements.
Yes, yes, and FUCK NO. People do not "develop natural immunity over time".
Dude, you do realize that it has been proven that mothers can pass immunity on to babies in breast milk? Considering that this happened without some doctor shooting a substance made in a laboratory right into a baby, I would call that NATURAL IMMUNITY. Why do you think diseases we brought to the Americas killed natives but not us (or at least death was rare for us)???...and there were no vaccines at the time!
But given your apparent brain power, I doubt there is little you don't know...
Oh yes, you outed me. I did manage to sneak into the University of Nevada School of Medicine, the office of the publication Neurology, the University of California-Los Angeles (UCLA) and even the office of the FDA...planting fake facts for all of them to unknowingly publish! A person sure doesn't put much over on those/.ers.
Actually, it is quite a myth that vaccines work as well as they do, although I won't say they don't work at all. Many of the diseases you mentioned, such as polio, also declined dramatically around the same time periods in countries that had a fraction of the vaccine penetration that we did. If vaccines made all of these diseases go away (or at least drastically decline), what made them go away in countries that weren't vaccinating for it??? Could be 1) diets and living conditions improved. 2) The disease ran its course and declined on its own. 3) People developed natural immunity over time. But given the facts, someone with an open mind could conclude that *maybe* we are giving too much credit to vaccines.
As far as the measles, I posted on that wonderful vaccine the last time the subject came up (+4 informative):
A lot of these childhood diseases actually help strengthen the immune system. Here is an article from The Lancet, which explains that, while the measles vaccine does stop you from getting a rash...the rash is actually the body killing the virus. By stopping the rash, many vaccinated people get MUCH MORE SERIOUS diseases later on in life because they still have the virus, but because of the vaccine, the body can't get rid of it. The biggest majority of these diseases are a pain, but rarely life threatening. I would much rather have measles than lupus erythematosus, Scheurmann's diseases and chondromalacia, which are all chronic degenerative diseases...which means the doctor says, "it sucks to be you." -- Usurper_ii
More info:
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An article in the January 5, 1985 issue of The Lancet is titled "Measles Virus Infection Without Rash in Childhood is Related to Disease in Adult Life." The research, based in Denmark, investigated the histories of people who claimed they did not have measles when they were children. Many of these people with no measles rash as a child, however, were found to have in their bloodstream antibody evidence of the measles infection. Significant numbers of these people had been vaccinated for measles, and "A high proportion of such individuals were found in adult life to have developed immuno-reactive diseases such as sebacious skin disease, tumours and degenerative disease of the bone and cartridge. These included cervical cancer, skin cancers and cases of multiple sclerosis."
The fact that the normal progression of measles was halted by the vaccination appears to have prevented the body from destroying the measles virus. This destruction of the virus takes place in the "spots" for which measles is known, but when the vaccine prevents the spots and fever from occurring, the measles virus is not destroyed, and stays in the body through adulthood, the medical journal article explains.
The Lancet article is further quoted by Chaitow, concluding that, "If this association is correct, absence of a rash may imply that intracellular virus escapes neutralization during the acute infection, and this, in turn, might give rise to developmental disease subsequently."
"Put simply this means that, as part of the process of neutralizing the invading virus, the body literally 'burns' up the cells which contain (measles virus). This incineration takes place at the site of the spots or rash, which measles are known for. If this is stopped in some way (as by an inoculation with a vaccine) then the rash is prevented and the virus survives and lives on in the body, only to cause havoc later," Chaitow writes. Among these people vaccinated for measles and who did not have a rash, the diseases they displayed later in life included lupus erythematosus, Scheurmann's diseases and chondromalacia, which are all chronic degenerative diseases.
"This research confirms the worst fears of those who have speculated on the possibility of viruses remaining dormant for many years after immunization. It also shows the folly of suppressing a self-healing mechanism, such as is displayed by the healthy body in response to infection. A healthy child will suffer no
As evidenced by the fact that many SIDs cases happen within a day(s) of being vaccinated, but the cause of death is labeled as SIDs. -- Usurper_ii
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More info:
The vast majority of infant deaths caused by vaccinations are put into the vague category of SIDS (Sudden Infant Death Syndrome), also known as "crib death." Officially, SIDS is the second-leading cause of infant deaths in the United States, with between 8,000 and 10,500 deaths annually placed in this category. Some medical studies have estimated that about two-thirds of all SIDS deaths are vaccine-related. If these estimates are accurate, that would mean as many as 6,000 to 7,000 babies die in the U.S. every year because of adverse reactions to vaccines!
But doctors who give these vaccinations very seldom have the honesty to write "death by vaccination" on a death certificate, even if the death occurs just a few days or hours after a vaccination. It is much more comfortable for the medical establishment to blame it on SIDS, the catch-all category invented by doctors for any unexplained death of an infant.
One of the most dangerous of all vaccinations is the DPT vaccine, which is administered to babies beginning at the age of two months. Estimates vary widely as to the number of injuries and fatalities that are caused by the DPT vaccine, but regardless of whose figures you look at, there can be little doubt that this vaccine is a potential threat to any baby.
Medical historian Dr. Harris Coulter -- co-author of DPT: A Shot in the Dark, and author of Vaccination, Social Violence and Criminality -- has estimated that two-thirds of the deaths attributed to Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) in the U.S. are caused by vaccines.
The University of Nevada School of Medicine conducted a survey of 103 American children whose deaths had been labeled as SIDS. The survey found that two-thirds of the children had been given a DPT vaccine within three weeks of their death, and that many had died within 24 hours of the vaccine.
During a 1979 vaccination campaign in Tennessee, there were eight infant deaths following DPT vaccines, including five who died within one day of the vaccination. All eight Tennessee deaths following the vaccinations were labeled SIDS.
The April 1986 issue of Neurology contains a summary of a report given by Dr. William C. Torch at the 34th annual meeting of the American Academy of Neurology in 1982. The study of "150 DPT postvaccinal deaths" found that about 50 percent of these deaths occurred within 24 hours of the DPT vaccination; 75 percent occurred within 72 hours of the vaccination; and 90 percent occurred within one week of the vaccination. The remaining 10 percent occurred within 20 months of the vaccination, following "protracted reactions."
About 50 percent of the deaths were sudden or "SIDS-like," and the other half followed neurotoxic or systematic symptoms such as coma, paralysis, apnea, shock, seizures, dyspnea (difficulty and pain in breathing), irritability, lethargy or apathy according to the medical journal. Dr. Torch's study also found the peak incidence of SIDS to be at the ages of two and four months, precisely the times when the first two DPT vaccines are routinely administered.
A 1979 medical study at University of California-Los Angeles (U.C.L.A.), sponsored by the FDA, estimated that approximately 1,000 babies die every year in the United States as a direct result of the DPT vaccination, and that these deaths are officially classified as SIDS. This FDA-sponsored study also estimated there are between 11,000 and 12,000 cases of permanent neurological damage every year as a result of the DPT vaccine. This study has been the FDA's only attempt to evaluate more than 40 years of reported adverse reactions to the DPT vaccine. It was published in 1981 in the Journal of Pediatrics, but no attempt was ever made to make these findings available to the general public to inform parents that this vaccine was related to permanent neurological damage and deat
The problem with this, of course, is that it cost an incredible amount of money to put up wireless APs to cover any good size piece of land...and because you want to get the most amount of users per AP, it only makes sense to deploy your network in heavily populated areas, which is exactly the kinds of areas that already have cable and DSL available. Just take what it cost Google just to do SF -- 15 million-plus -- and it doesn't take long to figure that even Google isn't going to cover much ground before going broke.
And the people who really, really want this type of service, in rural areas, are going to get the shaft yet again.
But Google wants to pay the bills -- at least in part -- with advertising. It only makes sense to put that AP right where the most amount of eyes will hit it. I can't fault them for that.
If I know of a Constitutional violation that has happened or is happening, but it didn't actually happen to me, 99% of the time, the suit is thrown out of court. That is why it is incredibly difficult to win on a Constitutional argument, no matter how valid the violation happens to be. But this one little person can just up and sue Google on what looks like, if the charges or true, that an offical agency of the federal government should be prosecuting.
Not that I'm shocked to find a double standard with our judicial system, but it looks like to me that this should be thrown out unless the guy can show proof that he was harmed, somehow.
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These are files that people probably aren't dealing with on a daily basis, or they would be in a newer format. My thought would be to install a copy of Office 2000 on something and use it to access legacy formats and/or start converting them. And Office 2000 didn't even require product activation, so the screwing can go both ways on this deal, really.
Usurper_ii
I think a lot of different distributions is a good thing, but I think everyone is going to gravitate toward a few dominate distributions, and the rest will end up as niche products.
Usurper_ii
And let's just say that the ISP could save every packet from every user on the ISP...let's just think of the size of that porn collection. Think about...huge quantities of porn; a vast sea of it. The amount of porn that most slashdotters can only dream about.
Well, I'm really bad about just getting a book and learning what I'm wanting to learn. And then when it comes to a job application, I have very little education to put on it. If I could read an O'Reilly book, which I was going to read anyway, and then take a test over it and get proof that I knew the material, I would go this route, even though it is just another worthless piece of paper.
What would stop me from doing O'Reilly is what they are charging. There are much cheaper ways to get pieces of paper that are just about as worthless, but still give you something to put on a resume.
Usurper_ii
The funny thing is that if you look at the authors, these people aren't even scientists!
Usurper_ii
Thanks for the link. I have to say after hearing it, if you can't hear that, you are freaking deaf. And I'll add that I'm way past 25 and spent way too much time listening to loud heavy metal as a teenager.
But what I would have always wondered, if that many people over 25 can't hear things like that, how many people are getting ripped off on high-end speakers and high-quality stereo equipment?
Somewhere, I bet there are older people complaing about MP3 and ACC audio not being high enough quality, and all the while they couldn't even hear a good portion of the high-end of the original CD that the songs came off of.
Transporter_ii
Ok, I've posted this a couple of times already...not just karma whoring, I just thought it was so fitting to the parent topic that I would post once more. I think we should all sing together!
The Terrorist Song
(Sung to the tune of Python's The Lumber Jack Song)
I'm a terrorist and I'm OK
I read at night and I work all day.
The Government:
He's a terrorist and he's OK
He reads at night and he works all day.
I read a lot and I seek the truth
I go to the lavatory.
After OKC, I saw some things that didn't make sense to me.
The Government:
He doesn't believe our story about OKC,
We monitor when he goes to the lavatory.
On Wednesday night, he went to an unapproved web site.
Chorus:
He's a terrorist and he's OK
He reads at night and he works all day.
When, after 9-11 didn't all add up,
I met with others on the net, to talk it up.
The government:
He didn't believe our story about 9-11.
We followed him to unapproved web sites after hours.
In our report, we'll say he had bomb-making materials under his sink.
Chorus:
He's a terrorist and he's OK
He reads at night and he works all day.
I don't think a plane hit the Pentagon.
I think the World Trade Center buildings fell all wrong.
I wish I could convince my dear ol' mom!!
The government:
He's a terrorist and we're going to make him pay?!
We read his e-mail and didn't like what he had to say?!...
Just me:
I wish I'd been born, back when America was really free!!
The Government:
He's a terrorist and we're going to make him pay
He reads the Constitution and knows his rights.
He's just like McVeigh, Bin Laden, and al-Qaeda!!
Chorus:
He's a terrorist and he's OK
He reads at night and he works all day.
The Terrorist Song
(Sung to the tune of Python's The Lumber Jack Song)
I'm a terrorist and I'm OK
I read at night and I work all day.
The Government:
He's a terrorist and he's OK
He reads at night and he works all day.
I read a lot and I seek the truth
I go to the lavatory.
After OKC, I saw some things that didn't make sense to me.
The Government:
He doesn't believe our story about OKC,
We monitor when he goes to the lavatory.
On Wednesday night, he went to an unapproved web site.
Chorus:
He's a terrorist and he's OK
He reads at night and he works all day.
When, after 9-11 didn't all add up,
I met with others on the net, to talk it up.
The government:
He didn't believe our story about 9-11.
We followed him to unapproved web sites after hours.
In our report, we'll say he had bomb-making materials under his sink.
Chorus:
He's a terrorist and he's OK
He reads at night and he works all day.
I don't think a plane hit the Pentagon.
I think the World Trade Center buildings fell all wrong.
I wish I could convince my dear ol' mom!!
The government:
He's a terrorist and we're going to make him pay?!
We read his e-mail and didn't like what he had to say?!...
Just me:
I wish I'd been born, back when America was really free!!
The Government:
He's a terrorist and we're going to make him pay
He reads the Constitution and knows his rights.
He's just like McVeigh, Bin Laden, and al-Qaeda!!
Chorus:
He's a terrorist and he's OK
He reads at night and he works all day.
Crud, an entire joke shot to crap because I forgot one apostrophe.
Usurper_ii
OWED TO THE SPELL CHECKER
I have a spelling checker --
It came with my PC.
It plane lee marks four my revue
Miss steaks aye can knot sea.
Eye ran this poem threw it,
Your sure reel glad two no.
Its vary polished in it's weigh,
My checker tolled me sew.
A checker is a bless sing,
It freeze yew lodes of thyme.
It helps me right awl stiles two reed,
And aides me when aye rime.
To rite with care is quite a feet
Of witch won should be proud.
And wee mussed dew the best wee can,
Sew flaws are knot aloud.
And now bee cause my spelling
Is checked with such grate flare,
Their are know faults with in my cite,
Of none eye am a wear.
Each frays come posed up on my screen
Eye trussed to bee a joule
The checker poured over every word
To cheque sum spelling rule.
That's why aye brake in two averse
By righting wants too pleas.
Sow now ewe sea why aye dew prays
Such soft wear for pea seas!
Funny, I wrote that this morning, and ever since then, I can't help but envision ended up in some sort of scene right out of My Cousin Vinny, where I'm sitting in front of a judge saying "I wrote 'I'm a terrorist!' ... I wrote 'I'm a terrorist?!?!'"
Only the bad part is, unlike in My Cousin Vinny, there is no jury and my trial is in secret.
Usurper_ii
The Terrorist Song
by Usurper_ii
(Sung to the tune of Python's The Lumber Jack Song)
I'm a terrorist and I'm OK
I read at night and I work all day.
The Government:
He's a terrorist and he's OK
He reads at night and he works all day.
I read a lot and I seek the truth
I go to the lavatory.
After OKC, I saw some things that didn't make sense to me.
The Government:
He doesn't believe our story about OKC,
We monitor when he goes to the lavatory.
On Wednesday night, he went to an unapproved web site.
Chorus:
He's a terrorist and he's OK
He reads at night and he works all day.
When, after 9-11 didn't all add up,
I met with others on the net, to talk it up.
The government:
He didn't believe our story about 9-11.
We followed him to unapproved web sites after hours.
In our report, well say he had bomb-making materials under his sink.
Chorus:
He's a terrorist and he's OK
He reads at night and he works all day.
I don't think a plane hit the Pentagon.
I think the World Trade Center buildings fell all wrong.
I wish I could convince my dear ol' mom!!
The government:
He's a terrorist and we're going to make him pay?!
We read his e-mail and didn't like what he had to say?!...
Just me:
I wish I'd been born, back when America was really free!!
The Government:
He's a terrorist and we're going to make him pay
He reads the Constitution and knows his rights.
He's just like McVeigh, Bin Laden, and al-Qaeda!!
Chorus:
He's a terrorist and he's OK
He reads at night and he works all day.
Maybe not per post, but for posts. About the only reason I ever think about subscribing would be to get my entire comment history, instead of my last 24 comments:
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Usurper_ii
Personally, I think that if you have to sell your house, use your college funds up, or spend the next 20 - 30 years of your life working to pay off your fine...that at least that should get you a lifetime of unlimited downloads.
Usurper_ii
The Constitution (Article I, Section 1) states that only congress has the power to make laws. The executive branch and the judicial branch have no legislative powers, whatsoever. And Congress does not have the constitutional authority to delegate its legislative power to institutions that are beyond electoral accountability to the American people.
So why is there never a word said about the fourth branch of the federal government: the unconstitutional and entirely illegal regulatory branch?
What are the alphabet agencies -- FDA, EPA, OSHA, and so on -- doing when they pass laws? And, while these laws are called regulations, so as not to upset anyone who might actually read the Constitution, the Webster's dictionary defines regulation as a rule, ordinance or law.
If America is ever to return to its constitutionally limited government, these illegal federal agencies must be abolished. If laws are needed in certain areas they must be passed by Congress. If laws are unpopular, the citizens should be able to vote out the lawmakers that enacted them. This is not possible in the regulatory branch of the government, the majority of whom are not elected nor held accountable to the people.
Usurper_ii
And you can play around with it without paying out the butt for support. It is called FreeBSD.
I pretty much consider myself an idiot, but having never touched Linux or a free Unix distro, I had a distro installed in approx. 1 - 2 days, and had Apache running in a day or so. If all you need is a basic Apache server set up with the default settings, it is a piece of cake. Now if you want to do virtual domains, etc., it is a little harder, but nothing you need to spend a ton of money on for support.
As far as uptime, if I left my FreeBSD server as is, I fully expect it would run 365 days a year and never fail to serve a web page (excepting a hardware failure, or slashdotting of course).
I also, having never touched Win 2003 before, had it installed in about a day and had the terminal server up in about a day. Having some prior experience with NT 4.0, I can say that 2003 was a great improvement for Microsoft (with the exception of the stupid product activation).
As far as uptime? The hardware the Win 2003 server on is way better than the hardware for the FreeBSD server, but I'm constantly having to reboot it. Things stop working, printing from Quickbooks, printing from the Remote Desktops, it is all flaky. It works perfect for a random amount of time and then quits...with all problems fixed by a reboot.
Heck, our ancient NT 4.0 server with Exchange 5.5 on it, has to rebooted nightly or it hoses up the next day (memory leak?).
And all this time OpenBSD DNS servers (setup by our prior IT guy) and the FreeBSD servers, sometimes only go down when the power is out long enough to let the UPS batteries run out...and sometimes I reboot the FreeBSD server when I'm too lazy to figure out how to stop a process and restart it (so if up time was a goal of mine, I could even greatly improve it if I so desired).
Usuper_ii
Of course, log files can be manipulated and faked. ISPs will have the power to exonerate or destroy people (maybe a new revenue stream for the ISPs???).
If this does become law, soon it will be required that the ISPs use only "approved" monitoring software, perhaps software that will digitally sign the log files. And then, since they still can't be trusted, the log files will have to be kept in a central location of some government office.
How much will this "approved" monitoring software cost?
Usurper_ii
They are already doing it, and they know how many small ISPs would have to shut down because of the cost and complexity of doing something on this scale, if it became law. Big monopolistic-type businesses loves big government, because it puts up a large barrier for entry into the market.
Usurper_ii
I work at a small WISP. Wireless Internet is secondary to our primary business, so anything to do with the Internet gets put on hold when a primary job comes up. The practical result of that is, we barely have a spare minute to work on the network side of the WISP (the result is also crappy customer service, but that is a different post).
Should something like this actually happen, it would take not only a large amount of space, but for us, probably a full time person just to manage backing up the logs. For a large ISP it would take probably a couple of people or more. Not to mention the fact of the cost of the network monitoring software it would take to record all of this information.
We are already on the edge, something like this would just do us in.
But maybe that is an intended result, as having a few AT&T's that give you a straight pipe right onto their backbone, is a hell of a lot easier to monitor than a whole bunch of mom & pop ISPs who could not possibly to even begin to comply with these monitoring requirements.
Let the cry be heard: V for Vendetta
Usurper_ii
Yes, yes, and FUCK NO. People do not "develop natural immunity over time".
Dude, you do realize that it has been proven that mothers can pass immunity on to babies in breast milk? Considering that this happened without some doctor shooting a substance made in a laboratory right into a baby, I would call that NATURAL IMMUNITY. Why do you think diseases we brought to the Americas killed natives but not us (or at least death was rare for us)???...and there were no vaccines at the time!
But given your apparent brain power, I doubt there is little you don't know...
Usurper_ii
Oh yes, you outed me. I did manage to sneak into the University of Nevada School of Medicine, the office of the publication Neurology, the University of California-Los Angeles (UCLA) and even the office of the FDA...planting fake facts for all of them to unknowingly publish! A person sure doesn't put much over on those /.ers.
Usurper_ii
Actually, it is quite a myth that vaccines work as well as they do, although I won't say they don't work at all. Many of the diseases you mentioned, such as polio, also declined dramatically around the same time periods in countries that had a fraction of the vaccine penetration that we did. If vaccines made all of these diseases go away (or at least drastically decline), what made them go away in countries that weren't vaccinating for it??? Could be 1) diets and living conditions improved. 2) The disease ran its course and declined on its own. 3) People developed natural immunity over time. But given the facts, someone with an open mind could conclude that *maybe* we are giving too much credit to vaccines.
As far as the measles, I posted on that wonderful vaccine the last time the subject came up (+4 informative):
A lot of these childhood diseases actually help strengthen the immune system. Here is an article from The Lancet, which explains that, while the measles vaccine does stop you from getting a rash...the rash is actually the body killing the virus. By stopping the rash, many vaccinated people get MUCH MORE SERIOUS diseases later on in life because they still have the virus, but because of the vaccine, the body can't get rid of it. The biggest majority of these diseases are a pain, but rarely life threatening. I would much rather have measles than lupus erythematosus, Scheurmann's diseases and chondromalacia, which are all chronic degenerative diseases...which means the doctor says, "it sucks to be you." -- Usurper_ii
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An article in the January 5, 1985 issue of The Lancet is titled "Measles Virus Infection Without Rash in Childhood is Related to Disease in Adult Life." The research, based in Denmark, investigated the histories of people who claimed they did not have measles when they were children. Many of these people with no measles rash as a child, however, were found to have in their bloodstream antibody evidence of the measles infection. Significant numbers of these people had been vaccinated for measles, and "A high proportion of such individuals were found in adult life to have developed immuno-reactive diseases such as sebacious skin disease, tumours and degenerative disease of the bone and cartridge. These included cervical cancer, skin cancers and cases of multiple sclerosis."
The fact that the normal progression of measles was halted by the vaccination appears to have prevented the body from destroying the measles virus. This destruction of the virus takes place in the "spots" for which measles is known, but when the vaccine prevents the spots and fever from occurring, the measles virus is not destroyed, and stays in the body through adulthood, the medical journal article explains.
The Lancet article is further quoted by Chaitow, concluding that, "If this association is correct, absence of a rash may imply that intracellular virus escapes neutralization during the acute infection, and this, in turn, might give rise to developmental disease subsequently."
"Put simply this means that, as part of the process of neutralizing the invading virus, the body literally 'burns' up the cells which contain (measles virus). This incineration takes place at the site of the spots or rash, which measles are known for. If this is stopped in some way (as by an inoculation with a vaccine) then the rash is prevented and the virus survives and lives on in the body, only to cause havoc later," Chaitow writes. Among these people vaccinated for measles and who did not have a rash, the diseases they displayed later in life included lupus erythematosus, Scheurmann's diseases and chondromalacia, which are all chronic degenerative diseases.
"This research confirms the worst fears of those who have speculated on the possibility of viruses remaining dormant for many years after immunization. It also shows the folly of suppressing a self-healing mechanism, such as is displayed by the healthy body in response to infection. A healthy child will suffer no
As evidenced by the fact that many SIDs cases happen within a day(s) of being vaccinated, but the cause of death is labeled as SIDs. -- Usurper_ii
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The vast majority of infant deaths caused by vaccinations are put into the vague category of SIDS (Sudden Infant Death Syndrome), also known as "crib death." Officially, SIDS is the second-leading cause of infant deaths in the United States, with between 8,000 and 10,500 deaths annually placed in this category. Some medical studies have estimated that about two-thirds of all SIDS deaths are vaccine-related. If these estimates are accurate, that would mean as many as 6,000 to 7,000 babies die in the U.S. every year because of adverse reactions to vaccines!
But doctors who give these vaccinations very seldom have the honesty to write "death by vaccination" on a death certificate, even if the death occurs just a few days or hours after a vaccination. It is much more comfortable for the medical establishment to blame it on SIDS, the catch-all category invented by doctors for any unexplained death of an infant.
One of the most dangerous of all vaccinations is the DPT vaccine, which is administered to babies beginning at the age of two months. Estimates vary widely as to the number of injuries and fatalities that are caused by the DPT vaccine, but regardless of whose figures you look at, there can be little doubt that this vaccine is a potential threat to any baby.
Medical historian Dr. Harris Coulter -- co-author of DPT: A Shot in the Dark, and author of Vaccination, Social Violence and Criminality -- has estimated that two-thirds of the deaths attributed to Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) in the U.S. are caused by vaccines.
The University of Nevada School of Medicine conducted a survey of 103 American children whose deaths had been labeled as SIDS. The survey found that two-thirds of the children had been given a DPT vaccine within three weeks of their death, and that many had died within 24 hours of the vaccine.
During a 1979 vaccination campaign in Tennessee, there were eight infant deaths following DPT vaccines, including five who died within one day of the vaccination. All eight Tennessee deaths following the vaccinations were labeled SIDS.
The April 1986 issue of Neurology contains a summary of a report given by Dr. William C. Torch at the 34th annual meeting of the American Academy of Neurology in 1982. The study of "150 DPT postvaccinal deaths" found that about 50 percent of these deaths occurred within 24 hours of the DPT vaccination; 75 percent occurred within 72 hours of the vaccination; and 90 percent occurred within one week of the vaccination. The remaining 10 percent occurred within 20 months of the vaccination, following "protracted reactions."
About 50 percent of the deaths were sudden or "SIDS-like," and the other half followed neurotoxic or systematic symptoms such as coma, paralysis, apnea, shock, seizures, dyspnea (difficulty and pain in breathing), irritability, lethargy or apathy according to the medical journal. Dr. Torch's study also found the peak incidence of SIDS to be at the ages of two and four months, precisely the times when the first two DPT vaccines are routinely administered.
A 1979 medical study at University of California-Los Angeles (U.C.L.A.), sponsored by the FDA, estimated that approximately 1,000 babies die every year in the United States as a direct result of the DPT vaccination, and that these deaths are officially classified as SIDS. This FDA-sponsored study also estimated there are between 11,000 and 12,000 cases of permanent neurological damage every year as a result of the DPT vaccine. This study has been the FDA's only attempt to evaluate more than 40 years of reported adverse reactions to the DPT vaccine. It was published in 1981 in the Journal of Pediatrics, but no attempt was ever made to make these findings available to the general public to inform parents that this vaccine was related to permanent neurological damage and deat
Any society that would give up a little liberty to gain a little security will deserve neither and lose both.
Usurper_ii
The problem with this, of course, is that it cost an incredible amount of money to put up wireless APs to cover any good size piece of land...and because you want to get the most amount of users per AP, it only makes sense to deploy your network in heavily populated areas, which is exactly the kinds of areas that already have cable and DSL available. Just take what it cost Google just to do SF -- 15 million-plus -- and it doesn't take long to figure that even Google isn't going to cover much ground before going broke.
And the people who really, really want this type of service, in rural areas, are going to get the shaft yet again.
But Google wants to pay the bills -- at least in part -- with advertising. It only makes sense to put that AP right where the most amount of eyes will hit it. I can't fault them for that.
Usurper_ii
If I know of a Constitutional violation that has happened or is happening, but it didn't actually happen to me, 99% of the time, the suit is thrown out of court. That is why it is incredibly difficult to win on a Constitutional argument, no matter how valid the violation happens to be. But this one little person can just up and sue Google on what looks like, if the charges or true, that an offical agency of the federal government should be prosecuting.
Not that I'm shocked to find a double standard with our judicial system, but it looks like to me that this should be thrown out unless the guy can show proof that he was harmed, somehow.