so maybe we should twist the DMA's tail and agree that they are right, opt-out won't work, because opt-IN is the only thing that will.
by opt-IN I mean a signed legal contract with three witness signatures, a notary acknowledgement, and value given for the purpose of letting them draw you away from the table (I think five skids of slightly used $20 bills might be a starting point for negotiations). the telemarketer can't show that on challenge, take 'em out and shoot 'em.
unless you are using MSN on a qwest line, you have to buy the cpe from them. you can't get out of it. if you have a closet full of 678 dsl modems from past hookups, they will be sending out the current intel or actiontec unit if it looks in the records like a new install. no way out. it will be on your next bill.
you have to read ALL the small print, or hassle the sales person until you get the information, no matter what service you're getting.
... and be sure to put a whopping big thumbprint smear on each disk that fails as you pull it out of the CD player. shoot, sounds like so much fun it's worth getting the orange "we saw you with this" sticker on your CD player from the door wardens. until these weasels put "NOT a CD" stickers on their defective wares, we need to continue to try and train them.
because of the usual Microsoft strategy... agree to bundle something from somebody else, but "revise and extend" it with proprietary MS hooks, put out development tools that cross-operate invisibly with other MS dev tools, and co-opt the other guy's trademark into another proprietary MS lockdown.
if you use J++ to its best advantage, the "java" it cranks out doesn't run on anything else but the MS java engine, which is not going to be extended due to losing another court case.
it's the same kind of parasitic gutsucking that MS has been doing for years, and three consent decrees.
that's why the judge ruled as he did. the weight of evidence, it is called down by the court house.
as soon as black-hole non-CDs come over here, I'm out of the market as well. piss on 'em. I've got 500 against the wall and several hundred vinyl LPs that work fine, don't need to pay for freakin' bugs on disk. I can write my own to disk and try to play 'em, thank you very much.
OK, so screw 'em, instead of a few albums, buy an instrument instead, and make your own music.
if you're into headbanging, all you have to do is plug it in and repeatedly drop it on the floor;) harmony-lovers need to spend some more time on it.
oh, yes, there is some sort of election about in a couple weeks. figure out who your congresscritters and senators are, and use their fill-in boxes to email 'em about the issue (most don't take "regular" email because of spam... so they can't hardly say they don't know about THAT issue, either)
if all they have to do is crab and whine instead of working for a solution, fsck 'em.
I had the idea of striking some CDs of an out of print album for holiday presents, and was able to find all the information to do that several years ago on da ISH... but it looked like $500 each for the eight or so, so the project died.
one thing you CAN do is check out the music licensors, generally ascap and bmi, and follow the link trail. this is for the MUSIC rights only, though, rights to a particular recording (the mechanical rights) should be licenseable from the harry fox agency.
if you are working from a legitimate product, there will be licensing clues for each song in the libretto or on the back of the CD insert, in the form of "COLIC AND DIAPERS", (C) 2001, I. B. Goofy and Snot Bugger, BMI 3:26. to track that down, the agency is BMI, the song title is "COLIC AND DIAPERS", copyright date 2001, and I. B Goofy and Snot Bugger are the artists who will get their nickel per performance.
to make this go in a revised plan, the two conspirators are proposing that directtv sell enough satellite orbital slots before jan 21 to enable a competitor to come about.
it also would kill DTV in a few years, as they would have no place to expand their service, or park enhanced satellites.
this is a fools' bargain they propose. be very afraid.
it's the original DIVX loser philosophy popping up in another hole. circuit city almost had to be run into the ground economically before they got the hint. does that mean we have to take M$ to chapter 7 before somebody picks up the clue that we don't eat this shit up? that could take a while.
you also need the diagnostic trees for the particular auto system(s) that you are trying to fix. you see issues, you pull codes, you work down the diagnostic tree from the factory manual, alldata, whatever... try a couple other tests as prompted by the tree... and > THEN as if by magic, you get down to one or two parts, adjustments, or lame excuses to lay on the customer that solve the particular issue.
if you can't hear, if you can't see, if you are colorblind and chasing wiring, you have some handicaps in the way of fixing a car. same for not having the diag codes from the modules.
none of this has anything to do with reverse-engineering the real-time process code in any of the modules, or using the airbag controller as a circumvention device so you can play DVDs over the heads-up display. it is the equivalent of self-diagnosing system outputs like S.M.A.R.T on hard disks.
uhhh, what you get with a commercial tool is almost always the international standard codes, occasionally manufacturer-specific drivetrain codes. with very few ($2000 and up range) exceptions do you get the "chassis codes" for traction enhancement controls, transmission/engine crosstalk codes, and so on.
you still are not going to get them free, but they will be availiable in updates some day before we all die to professional test readers.
presumably this will also include the equivalent to the "mode 4" international code for the wacko ones. "mode 4" is also known as "reset," turns out the $$$ light on the dash.
wanna check out scanners, including build-your-own, try
http://www.batauto.com/technical/scaninfo.shtml
and for code lists for specific cars, try
http://www.batauto.com/technical/
and click what you want. as usual, you get what you pay for, no deposit no return, use at your own risk, etc. etc.
ain't just airplanes... wideband scatter communications piss off all their neighbors because of all the random hits on other frequencies. all the other users screaming, that's why the air force almost had to fight nuclear war in the US to get one up in alaska decades ago. the physics haven't changed. I shot newsreel footage behind the Safeguard ABM antenna structure some 23 years ago, and the sound track on my film was all fuzzed up from an RF-proofed amplifier being zinged by the backscatter through the disk. "shut up and drive!" will be replaced by "log off and use pencil!"
current going against the voltage, indeed. mysterious effects, my arse. suspend normal thought patterns long enough to be taken in, yah sure you betcha then, Ole. all these guys need to do is provide one to the Patent Office, go on a celebration trip, and if they have invented a perpetual motion machine, the President himself will carry the left front grip of the sedan chair to Stockholm.
hasn't happened, won't happen, ain't never a-gonna happen. only Jesus took a couple loaves and fish, and fed an ever-growing crowd with food left over, and only once, and he's God's right hand man. these guys claim to do the same with energy. they have only proven they can do it with bullshit, and that record will, IMHO, stand.
yes, Nikola Tesla proposed this at the mechanically-interrupted RF rates that top out at 2 MHz in a lecture way the heck back in February, 1892 (yes, that is before the automobile) to the Institute of Electrical Engineers in London. read along and pay particular attention to the "single-terminal electric" effects into our old friend the Ether if you have a copy of the periodically-availiable Barnes and Noble reprint "The Inventions, Researches, and Writings of Nikola Tesla", 2e, Thomas Commerford Martin, dedicated December 1893 and reprinted (c) 1995.
unknown to Tesla at the time, since he was some 4 or 5 years after the Edison Effect and writeups that looked like vacuum-tube powered Marconi aerials in patent papers, and some 8 years before Marconi sent ethereal waves across the Channel, this became known as electrostatic waves that had strong edges and generated an equally strong RF field.
no "one-button electrical" patents allowed, there was one over 100 years ago.
actually, the only ones I ever came across (as a kid, I'm not older than plugboards) were filled with carbon tetrachloride, which was allegedly more effective because it smothers the fire. no shit, Sherlock, because passing carbon tet through fire produces phosgene gas. lovely thing to have in the home, next to the old "octopus" furnace.
that's ALL I need, having my Adobe FingerPrint (tm) or MS Eyeball(c) hacked off the card after I hand it to my waitron to confirm the Domestic Security Agency has no objection to my having a beer with supper, and posted on a goons site at some religious retreat in the Afghani mountains.
read my lips: NO, GODDAMMIT! in fact, pass a law that my SSN be taken off every database in the country except the FBI and SS systems, and nobody can ever ask for it again who is not from SS. or I'll dump your tea off the dock!
mine's there, too. guess I get to enjoy the rousing spamfest sure to come from putting my online and dead tree addresses in there. maybe I'll put M$ spam in the other guys' postage-paid envelopes and send it back in;)
I wonder if windows update will work for my W98SE machine now???
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so maybe we should twist the DMA's tail and agree that they are right, opt-out won't work, because opt-IN is the only thing that will.
by opt-IN I mean a signed legal contract with three witness signatures, a notary acknowledgement, and value given for the purpose of letting them draw you away from the table (I think five skids of slightly used $20 bills might be a starting point for negotiations). the telemarketer can't show that on challenge, take 'em out and shoot 'em.
unless you are using MSN on a qwest line, you have to buy the cpe from them. you can't get out of it. if you have a closet full of 678 dsl modems from past hookups, they will be sending out the current intel or actiontec unit if it looks in the records like a new install. no way out. it will be on your next bill.
you have to read ALL the small print, or hassle the sales person until you get the information, no matter what service you're getting.
get an instrument today.
"She said the RIAA board will conduct a search for her replacement." -AP
Hey, how about Kevin Mitnick? he's availiable now.
... and be sure to put a whopping big thumbprint smear on each disk that fails as you pull it out of the CD player. shoot, sounds like so much fun it's worth getting the orange "we saw you with this" sticker on your CD player from the door wardens. until these weasels put "NOT a CD" stickers on their defective wares, we need to continue to try and train them.
it's easy. M$ is the AntiChrist and those Packets of Death that sneak in on the broadband and reboot your box are your warning of doom.
either that, or they don't care as long as they separate fools from their money.
because of the usual Microsoft strategy... agree to bundle something from somebody else, but "revise and extend" it with proprietary MS hooks, put out development tools that cross-operate invisibly with other MS dev tools, and co-opt the other guy's trademark into another proprietary MS lockdown.
if you use J++ to its best advantage, the "java" it cranks out doesn't run on anything else but the MS java engine, which is not going to be extended due to losing another court case.
it's the same kind of parasitic gutsucking that MS has been doing for years, and three consent decrees.
that's why the judge ruled as he did. the weight of evidence, it is called down by the court house.
woo hoo! THIS is what the Internet was invented for, folks!
ought to be a lively market for plutonium powder in the CompUsa and Kmart aisles, too. this will lure Wacko Bin Loony out of his cave!
as soon as black-hole non-CDs come over here, I'm out of the market as well. piss on 'em. I've got 500 against the wall and several hundred vinyl LPs that work fine, don't need to pay for freakin' bugs on disk. I can write my own to disk and try to play 'em, thank you very much.
again, RIAA: piss on ya. game over.
OK, so screw 'em, instead of a few albums, buy an instrument instead, and make your own music.
;) harmony-lovers need to spend some more time on it.
if you're into headbanging, all you have to do is plug it in and repeatedly drop it on the floor
oh, yes, there is some sort of election about in a couple weeks. figure out who your congresscritters and senators are, and use their fill-in boxes to email 'em about the issue (most don't take "regular" email because of spam... so they can't hardly say they don't know about THAT issue, either)
if all they have to do is crab and whine instead of working for a solution, fsck 'em.
I had the idea of striking some CDs of an out of print album for holiday presents, and was able to find all the information to do that several years ago on da ISH... but it looked like $500 each for the eight or so, so the project died.
one thing you CAN do is check out the music licensors, generally ascap and bmi, and follow the link trail. this is for the MUSIC rights only, though, rights to a particular recording (the mechanical rights) should be licenseable from the harry fox agency.
if you are working from a legitimate product, there will be licensing clues for each song in the libretto or on the back of the CD insert, in the form of "COLIC AND DIAPERS", (C) 2001, I. B. Goofy and Snot Bugger, BMI 3:26. to track that down, the agency is BMI, the song title is "COLIC AND DIAPERS", copyright date 2001, and I. B Goofy and Snot Bugger are the artists who will get their nickel per performance.
to make this go in a revised plan, the two conspirators are proposing that directtv sell enough satellite orbital slots before jan 21 to enable a competitor to come about.
it also would kill DTV in a few years, as they would have no place to expand their service, or park enhanced satellites.
this is a fools' bargain they propose. be very afraid.
it's the original DIVX loser philosophy popping up in another hole. circuit city almost had to be run into the ground economically before they got the hint. does that mean we have to take M$ to chapter 7 before somebody picks up the clue that we don't eat this shit up? that could take a while.
you also need the diagnostic trees for the particular auto system(s) that you are trying to fix. you see issues, you pull codes, you work down the diagnostic tree from the factory manual, alldata, whatever... try a couple other tests as prompted by the tree... and > THEN as if by magic, you get down to one or two parts, adjustments, or lame excuses to lay on the customer that solve the particular issue.
if you can't hear, if you can't see, if you are colorblind and chasing wiring, you have some handicaps in the way of fixing a car. same for not having the diag codes from the modules.
none of this has anything to do with reverse-engineering the real-time process code in any of the modules, or using the airbag controller as a circumvention device so you can play DVDs over the heads-up display. it is the equivalent of self-diagnosing system outputs like S.M.A.R.T on hard disks.
uhhh, what you get with a commercial tool is almost always the international standard codes, occasionally manufacturer-specific drivetrain codes. with very few ($2000 and up range) exceptions do you get the "chassis codes" for traction enhancement controls, transmission/engine crosstalk codes, and so on.
you still are not going to get them free, but they will be availiable in updates some day before we all die to professional test readers.
presumably this will also include the equivalent to the "mode 4" international code for the wacko ones. "mode 4" is also known as "reset," turns out the $$$ light on the dash.
wanna check out scanners, including build-your-own, try
http://www.batauto.com/technical/scaninfo.shtml
and for code lists for specific cars, try
http://www.batauto.com/technical/
and click what you want. as usual, you get what you pay for, no deposit no return, use at your own risk, etc. etc.
ain't just airplanes... wideband scatter communications piss off all their neighbors because of all the random hits on other frequencies. all the other users screaming, that's why the air force almost had to fight nuclear war in the US to get one up in alaska decades ago. the physics haven't changed. I shot newsreel footage behind the Safeguard ABM antenna structure some 23 years ago, and the sound track on my film was all fuzzed up from an RF-proofed amplifier being zinged by the backscatter through the disk. "shut up and drive!" will be replaced by "log off and use pencil!"
current going against the voltage, indeed. mysterious effects, my arse. suspend normal thought patterns long enough to be taken in, yah sure you betcha then, Ole. all these guys need to do is provide one to the Patent Office, go on a celebration trip, and if they have invented a perpetual motion machine, the President himself will carry the left front grip of the sedan chair to Stockholm.
hasn't happened, won't happen, ain't never a-gonna happen. only Jesus took a couple loaves and fish, and fed an ever-growing crowd with food left over, and only once, and he's God's right hand man. these guys claim to do the same with energy. they have only proven they can do it with bullshit, and that record will, IMHO, stand.
a bait vending machine has its uses up here in the land of 10,000 lakes.
you don't want to put the "leeches" or "grubworms" buttons right on the bottom where the littlest kids can reach, though.
yes, Nikola Tesla proposed this at the mechanically-interrupted RF rates that top out at 2 MHz in a lecture way the heck back in February, 1892 (yes, that is before the automobile) to the Institute of Electrical Engineers in London. read along and pay particular attention to the "single-terminal electric" effects into our old friend the Ether if you have a copy of the periodically-availiable Barnes and Noble reprint "The Inventions, Researches, and Writings of Nikola Tesla", 2e, Thomas Commerford Martin, dedicated December 1893 and reprinted (c) 1995.
unknown to Tesla at the time, since he was some 4 or 5 years after the Edison Effect and writeups that looked like vacuum-tube powered Marconi aerials in patent papers, and some 8 years before Marconi sent ethereal waves across the Channel, this became known as electrostatic waves that had strong edges and generated an equally strong RF field.
no "one-button electrical" patents allowed, there was one over 100 years ago.
actually, the only ones I ever came across (as a kid, I'm not older than plugboards) were filled with carbon tetrachloride, which was allegedly more effective because it smothers the fire. no shit, Sherlock, because passing carbon tet through fire produces phosgene gas. lovely thing to have in the home, next to the old "octopus" furnace.
that's ALL I need, having my Adobe FingerPrint (tm) or MS Eyeball(c) hacked off the card after I hand it to my waitron to confirm the Domestic Security Agency has no objection to my having a beer with supper, and posted on a goons site at some religious retreat in the Afghani mountains.
read my lips: NO, GODDAMMIT! in fact, pass a law that my SSN be taken off every database in the country except the FBI and SS systems, and nobody can ever ask for it again who is not from SS. or I'll dump your tea off the dock!
sounds like more cold fusion nonsense... detectors from Hell, one set of experiments, and SAY! -- what's the control on this one?
when they have enough neutrons to kill a sloppy lab assistant, let me know.
but why did the lurker post as billg without once using the signature phrase, "That is the dumbest thing I have ever heard!"
and incidentally, that hoax post was the dumbest thing I have ever heard......
mine's there, too. guess I get to enjoy the rousing spamfest sure to come from putting my online and dead tree addresses in there. maybe I'll put M$ spam in the other guys' postage-paid envelopes and send it back in ;)
I wonder if windows update will work for my W98SE machine now???
force hard MPAA/RIAA type copy locking onto all computers? in the old country, we joined this conversation by saying, "eat my shit, fool."