Many people may not appreciate the accomodations given to those who have handicaps. My experience is those businesses that follow the codes required for disabled access generally offer better services. The ability of the company to serve all the public greatly reflects its commitment to quality. It really shows in other areas of customer support.
Its a good sign to see a company that has a caring attitude. Consider the opposite extreme with customer support that are quick to judge customers as morons. Sometimes legal threats are not really threats at all. The company may actually recognize the value of this challenge depsite its economic conflict.
Not to mention ADC's are very easy to make from discrete components. This is a required lab project for EE majors. The recording industry would make every prospective EE student sign an NDA before they could enroll.
Seems very likely the recording industry would like to forbid knowledge as they perceive it to be dangerous for their revenue model.
Did she tell you how they do drug research? The best way to find effective drugs is to research the ancient use of herbs, spices, plants, and other ways of tribal healing. Many chemists who work for drug companies often travel around the world, getting to know the past. If there is a connection between a tree's root and diabetes, they will attempt to isolate the chemical responsible. Then they will patent it.
In the early days of slashdot, you had sometimes a few hours to get a first post. If it was early in the morning, you had to wait a while before everyone would wake up and the party would start. The first post back in those days was actually a funny joke. Nowdays its about as novel as crapflooding.
Silly posts commenting on a funny article was the norm back in those days. Now its brutal competition among the pedantic keepers of wisdom and those who can google out gems of knowledge. Comments back then seem trollish today. But its still fun to see how much information thousands of people can pack into the comments section. Slashdot today is quite an impressive collection of concise facts following each article.
Mispelled words and poor grammar are just tokens of nostolgia.
Is it illegal to pick up the wireless network as you drive by, if you don't do anything with it?
I don't know. But I'm sure it is illegal for the person's email you just forged over their wireless network. With all the things you could do to someone, this type of revenge appears to be the most evil things a person could do...
This is how I would handle the situation. It will surely inflame the asshole and hopefully his lawyer will have a clue before they enter it into court. Imagine the fun publicity the case will generate in the media.
Its not just him. A remote control that can select from 1000 channels of canned and rehashed content of baby food that are offered by a close group of vendors cannot be compared to the openness of two way communication provided by the internet.
If a person cannot adapt to the communications possibilities provided by this network, then perhaps television is their vice.
There might be some truth to it. We all know how crazy the accounting tricks were at Enron. Now imagine how twisted the strings a pulled from marketing at a large game company. They could ask for these advertisement features in the new game. Ok, so the programmers spend weeks on it, meetings with the vendors, working on the code and artwork, getting the placement right, sending it to QA, etc... Let's say marketing "forgot" to allocate this new source of revenue to the programmer's budget and it went to the Vice Prez of Marketing's new golf course? I don't want to start a rumor about what goes on at these game companies, but I'll leave these wild accusations to imagination...
A few years back, some girl in Sacremento somehow made a card with name and number (who said criminals are intelligent) and went to Kmart charging a few thousand dollars in purchases. In one day. Visa took care of everything, cancelling the charges, and only asked me to sign a statement that I had not authorized that person to use my card. The card companies seem to be good at spotting unusual behavior.
But he does convey the biggest problem when people ask for help. They fail to realize unix systems are very modular and newbies give amazing detailed lists of irrelevant information. Like what does the kernel have to do with the mailing system?
I wouldn't worry about the network load, but think of the load on the batteries. And the heat generated from your phone being turned on only to be a relay station. Worried about microwave radiation from phones now? This is it!
I can say spraying cleaner on a screen is very bad, as I have a laptop that has a few white horizontal lines across the screen. A few years ago, I sprayed cleaner on the surface and much of the top half turned white. Shutting off the power saved most of it, but a few white lines remained permanently shorted.
I'm not sure how the driver transistors would fail or if it was the contact between the connectors and the screen itself that were damaged. Interesting.
Road Runner allows me to run my own mailserver. This allows me to run my own spam rules and have my own domain name; however, when they scan it and find an open relay, they would shut me down in a heartbeat. I feel this is a good example of a responsible ISP.
All ISP's need to scan customers for annoying vulnerabilities. It is not a violation of privacy, it helps everyone. Especially if we want to eliminate sources of spam.
I keep my server in the bomb shelter underneath my house with the fireproof doors shut. Its mounted on a shelf 8 feet up in that room. If a fire, flood, or tornado can get that, then I have bigger things to worry about.
Does anyone have that mp3 on Bill Gates during a radio interview where he was describing the sad state of copyright protections back in those days? From what I remember, he became a hero for backing the rights of software authors.
Back then, if you were an author, your only protection was protecting your software with keys and other nasty copy protections. No one liked it. Mr. Gates fought for legal protection, stating the software industry would thrive with laws.
Somewhere between then and now it turned ugly with people who disagree with their vision of revenue being called "pirates." It would come down to a person who makes a backup copy of their own software would be suspected of raping and pillaging thousands of software authors of thousands of dollars.
The entertainment industry appears to be a great amplifier of this intellectual property madness. They wish consumers and the technology they buy to be a conduit for their business plan. It appears the label "pirate" has appeared on the other side of the coin these days.
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Many people may not appreciate the accomodations given to those who have handicaps. My experience is those businesses that follow the codes required for disabled access generally offer better services. The ability of the company to serve all the public greatly reflects its commitment to quality. It really shows in other areas of customer support.
Its a good sign to see a company that has a caring attitude. Consider the opposite extreme with customer support that are quick to judge customers as morons. Sometimes legal threats are not really threats at all. The company may actually recognize the value of this challenge depsite its economic conflict.
Not to mention ADC's are very easy to make from discrete components. This is a required lab project for EE majors. The recording industry would make every prospective EE student sign an NDA before they could enroll.
Seems very likely the recording industry would like to forbid knowledge as they perceive it to be dangerous for their revenue model.
I'm working on my BS degree. A bachelor's in slashdoting.
I hear most people never finish it though.
Did she tell you how they do drug research? The best way to find effective drugs is to research the ancient use of herbs, spices, plants, and other ways of tribal healing. Many chemists who work for drug companies often travel around the world, getting to know the past. If there is a connection between a tree's root and diabetes, they will attempt to isolate the chemical responsible. Then they will patent it.
Patents are reinventing prior art.
In the early days of slashdot, you had sometimes a few hours to get a first post. If it was early in the morning, you had to wait a while before everyone would wake up and the party would start. The first post back in those days was actually a funny joke. Nowdays its about as novel as crapflooding.
Silly posts commenting on a funny article was the norm back in those days. Now its brutal competition among the pedantic keepers of wisdom and those who can google out gems of knowledge. Comments back then seem trollish today. But its still fun to see how much information thousands of people can pack into the comments section. Slashdot today is quite an impressive collection of concise facts following each article.
Mispelled words and poor grammar are just tokens of nostolgia.
Is it illegal to pick up the wireless network as you drive by, if you don't do anything with it?
I don't know. But I'm sure it is illegal for the person's email you just forged over their wireless network. With all the things you could do to someone, this type of revenge appears to be the most evil things a person could do...
This is how I would handle the situation. It will surely inflame the asshole and hopefully his lawyer will have a clue before they enter it into court. Imagine the fun publicity the case will generate in the media.
Just don't get a papercut. Your hands are now the key to get your work done. And don't use doorknobs. Don't want people duplicating your key.
Why are they using a radio frequency with a wavelength the size of a real car? Why not use a more efficient frequency in the microwave band?
Its not just him. A remote control that can select from 1000 channels of canned and rehashed content of baby food that are offered by a close group of vendors cannot be compared to the openness of two way communication provided by the internet.
If a person cannot adapt to the communications possibilities provided by this network, then perhaps television is their vice.
There might be some truth to it. We all know how crazy the accounting tricks were at Enron. Now imagine how twisted the strings a pulled from marketing at a large game company. They could ask for these advertisement features in the new game. Ok, so the programmers spend weeks on it, meetings with the vendors, working on the code and artwork, getting the placement right, sending it to QA, etc... Let's say marketing "forgot" to allocate this new source of revenue to the programmer's budget and it went to the Vice Prez of Marketing's new golf course? I don't want to start a rumor about what goes on at these game companies, but I'll leave these wild accusations to imagination...
Pop ups in games add value to the product. You are lucky the price isn't going up for these features.
A few years back, some girl in Sacremento somehow made a card with name and number (who said criminals are intelligent) and went to Kmart charging a few thousand dollars in purchases. In one day. Visa took care of everything, cancelling the charges, and only asked me to sign a statement that I had not authorized that person to use my card. The card companies seem to be good at spotting unusual behavior.
Some people claimed it was a tragic accident, but there were a few people who believed Starbucks hired several thugs to...oh..."talk" to him.
But he does convey the biggest problem when people ask for help. They fail to realize unix systems are very modular and newbies give amazing detailed lists of irrelevant information. Like what does the kernel have to do with the mailing system?
Here's the gentoo way:
get the tree up to date:
emerge rsync
update your package:
emerge -u openssl
or just update the whole world at once:
emerge -u world
I wouldn't worry about the network load, but think of the load on the batteries. And the heat generated from your phone being turned on only to be a relay station. Worried about microwave radiation from phones now? This is it!
I can say spraying cleaner on a screen is very bad, as I have a laptop that has a few white horizontal lines across the screen. A few years ago, I sprayed cleaner on the surface and much of the top half turned white. Shutting off the power saved most of it, but a few white lines remained permanently shorted.
I'm not sure how the driver transistors would fail or if it was the contact between the connectors and the screen itself that were damaged. Interesting.
Bandwidth is a finite resource which we should all conserve. One day, eventually, the Internet will run out of bandwidth.
Consider joining the Bandwidth Conservation Society.
Road Runner allows me to run my own mailserver. This allows me to run my own spam rules and have my own domain name; however, when they scan it and find an open relay, they would shut me down in a heartbeat. I feel this is a good example of a responsible ISP.
All ISP's need to scan customers for annoying vulnerabilities. It is not a violation of privacy, it helps everyone. Especially if we want to eliminate sources of spam.
It might be that all these points are simply honeypots.
Did they make tcp connections to find out?
I keep my server in the bomb shelter underneath my house with the fireproof doors shut. Its mounted on a shelf 8 feet up in that room. If a fire, flood, or tornado can get that, then I have bigger things to worry about.
Besides, filling up large drives is half the fun!
As much as I detest Microsoft, I've reached the conclusion that the GPL is a greater long-term threat.
And printers, specificly a troublesome one made by Xerox, is why RMS developed the GPL.
Does anyone have that mp3 on Bill Gates during a radio interview where he was describing the sad state of copyright protections back in those days? From what I remember, he became a hero for backing the rights of software authors.
Back then, if you were an author, your only protection was protecting your software with keys and other nasty copy protections. No one liked it. Mr. Gates fought for legal protection, stating the software industry would thrive with laws.
Somewhere between then and now it turned ugly with people who disagree with their vision of revenue being called "pirates." It would come down to a person who makes a backup copy of their own software would be suspected of raping and pillaging thousands of software authors of thousands of dollars.
The entertainment industry appears to be a great amplifier of this intellectual property madness. They wish consumers and the technology they buy to be a conduit for their business plan. It appears the label "pirate" has appeared on the other side of the coin these days.
The recording industry is correct.
If you agree they want 99.5% of the profits.