I'm pretty certain that due to FCC rules regarding 911 services they wouldnt be allowed to offer it if it didnt already have a GPS receiver. Now, whether they offer or allow any software that would let you use that capability for navigation is an entirely different story.
The best possible wifi range possible, and wimax if that ever takes off. The ability for it to function as a VoIP (using an open protocol such as SIP) client over any wireless internet connection, along with the removal of the requirement to activate it with AT&T (or at all, if one wants a VoIP-over-wifi-only wireless phone)
Along with costing less, and the ability for developers to port their own applications to it.
There may or may not be a law, but would you bother pulling into a station that didn't have a price posted conspicuously?
Follow the logic - if the stations prices were lower, you can bet they would want drivers to see them. If they arent putting them up, they must be higher. So a station without the prices posted is either stupid, or their price is higher.
Indeed. This whole concept of the economy being up or down is a bit oversimplified. When it is 'down' for one group or set of groups, it may well be 'up' for others.
Assuming you have a return-for-refund option of the book is not in usable condition, there isnt much use to the ability to examine a required textbook - its not like you are choosing between multiple books on the same subject like you might do it purchasing a book for personal use or entertainment, as the course presumably requires you to have that specific edition of that specific book.
Which is why you set it to boot into linux by default, and to automatically seek an Internet connection as soon as it boots.
While you average thief *might* know how to find a Window-based commercial/proprietary "tracker" program, if you homebrew it with cron and a shell script they wont have any idea whats its doing.
Think of all the shows where some one is breaking into a building and just happens to be familiar with the commercial/proprietary alarm system they use and knows exactly which wires to cut. Or a commercial detonator on a bomb - same scenario.
A homebrew alarm system (or bomb) there would be no public documentation of - hell, you could even make all the wires the same color - try to choose the right wire now, jackass!
Thats all well and good for protecting your data and/or making the laptop useless to the thief, and maybe insurace can replace the laptop, but neither one is much useful for actually recovering the original stolen laptop and any information/data to the rightful owner.
Set up your box so the default boot is linux *NOT* windows.
Make sure it by default actively seeks out a wired and/or wireless Internet connection.
Install a crontask that runs every minute, that does nothing more than access a particular website that either you or this tracking company controls and have access to the logs of. Perhaps have it access something like http://thewebsite.com/ saudadelinuxs-laptop-calling-home/ (which may 404, but who cares, the IP its coming from will be logged identifiably).
There, the entire software part of the 'tracker' is done. No proprietary pay-for software needed. The part that might be worth paying for is their assistance in working with law enforcement and ISP's in tracking does where your laptop is based on the IP its connecting from.
I never said the monopoly itself was illegal. However I (and certain big and powerful judges) did say that it has illegaly abused its position to maintain and extend that monopoly .
Neat little logic trick there. I guess I forgot to add 'near' in front of 'monopoly. One can still choose, one just has to have the cahones to do so.
And I guess you apparently do have time to put up with all the bullshit that MS forces on you, in which case you get whaever they want to give you.
There are two options:
1. Go with a proprietary closed-source OS. Pay whatever they demand, expect them to assert whatever control they want over your hardware and software. Accept that the vendor owns your software, and your data. Recognize that complaining about it (to either the vendor, or to those of us that avoid proprietary OS for exactly that reason) doesnt matter (becuase neither care one whit)
2. Go with Free Software. Learn how to use the tool you are using. Assert your own control over your own property. REcognize that all the nincompoops that still allow proprietary megacorp software vendors to control them will be jealous and will think that they have a right to complain when their stuff doesnt work the way they want it to.
Basically, either learn to drive, or accept that someone else is going to decide where you go.
No, its not their choice. Once you choose Microsoft, their terms allow them to choose anything and everything else that Bill Gates & company want to chose for you.
The only choice is to either use Microsoft products, or not to. One leaves someone else in control of your system, another retains control for you.
Anyone who is shocked or surprised by this just hasnt been paying attention for the last ten years or so.
You chose to use proprietary software from a company that uses its control to illegally maintain a monopoly. You really think they are going to be bothered to care wether you give permission to update that software any damn time they want, for whatever reason they want? (And/or, a company that produces shoddy unstable 'oh look its shiny' software for nincompoops and that they are competent enough to actually be able to keep track properly)
There is no halfway. Eiher you give control of your system to Microsoft, or you dont (by not running *ANY* Microsoft software). If you have a problem with the agreement that you choose to let MS impose on you, take it up with MS (or their local sychophants, or your attorney). Why annoy people who dont care?
Of course, they don't realize that their own wording is really true, albeit not the way they intend it to be.
The real 'interference' that high-speed wireless Internet represents is _competitive_ interference, as fewer people feel the need to sit and drool watching the ads on the 'boob tube', and more choose other means of entertainment.
And of course that wasnt at all intentional on Microsoft's part by using a generic term for the product name, to intentiaonally create confusion between 'a windowing environment' and a specific brand of a specific product that implemented 'a windowing environment'
I had the same thought, except instead of proprietary Skype or whatever iChat is, I was thinking a standards-compliant VoIP client, that could connect over WiFi to either one of the VoIP service (Vonage,Packet8,etc) or one's one Asterisk server.
If it can do that, then all we need to add is massive rollouts of community WiFi, and you've got a recipe to put a serious damper on cell carriers continued relevance, especially as long as they insist on accounting for and charging for each minute of use.
And the really sad thing is that, from what I hear, even if judged solely on the merits, and completely ignoring MS' monopoly position, OOXML is still a horrifying piece of shit. Its unimplementable, since it specifies things like 'Do it like (a certain version of a certain MS product) does it' and never actually defines what that is. And thats just *one* problem with it.
Most jurisditctions specifically advise using 911 to summon police, fire, or ambulance for any matter, since it is a well-known number. Many dispatch centers dont even have any other number, and just use 911.
So feel free to point out the URL of the story where $big_media_company developed a product with a rootkit for anything other than Windows.
Of course, why anyone would even consider installing some proprietary binary-only software to use a flash drive, let alone consider or allow it to be the automatic default, just boggles me. If I bought a flash drive, and it contained some such drive you can beleive the first thing that would be done is a clean wipe.
(And yes, I get that it was some sort of encryption software for 'added (in)security'. There is plenty of Free Software that implements real security without needing to rootkit your system to do so)
Microsoft in general, and Windows specifically, are *less* useful than a poopy flavored lollipop.
And there is something I can do about it - refuse to touch it with a ten foot pole.
Someone who bought a particular make car, and it blew up, and went back and bought the same brand of car again, and it blew up again, and who have done this over and over with the same results, and yet *still* keeping going back and buying from the same car maker, apparently are incapable of learning.
If you chose to work on, use, support, or worse, recommend, Windows systems, then you are a fool. Enjoy being locked-in to your monopolizing corporate overlord - I'll enjoy laughing at you and everyone like you.
Yes, it is your right to chose whatever brand of OS you want. But when your choices have less than desirable results, thats your fault, not anyone else's.
There is some anti-rootkit system available that prevents that vast majority of this crap from ever being installed on your systems in the first place. Its called 'not using Microsoft platforms'.
Apparently you are not aware of the breakers between the high-voltage lines feeding the transformers on the poles.
Also, cableTV/phone lines do NOT need to come in near power. A cold water pipe (such as one leading to an outside spigot) will do just fine, and is in fact preferable. Note that Fiber (which I suspect may have been what was being installed here, Verizon FiOS) specifically does NOT need to be grounded (although the inside equipment they connect it to will need an ordinary house current connection inside)
I'm an advocate of Free Software and don't use anything from Microsoft, and I absolutely LOVE Vista. Why shouldnt I? More headaches for MS users, more cost, more lock-in, more DRM, less control of your computer, more new 'features' for the trojan and virus writers to play with, without any real benefits other than some new gee-whix eyecandy - more evidence of exactly why MS software is absolute shit.
And doing so is entirely your choice, and no one other than your boss (unless you are the boss) has any business telling you to do otherwise.
I am curious though, if you (or your boss) are happy with the loss of profits involved due to increased bandwidth and server resource costs that go with that choice (Or, if you've raised your prices to offset that, if your customers are happy with that).
Why is MCI not the problem? If MCI continues to provide Internet connectivity to known spammers, then yes, MCI *is* part of the problem. The object of a list like APEWS (and before them, SPEWS) is to remove the spammers from the Internet, not just to play whack-a-mole with individual IP blocks. I'll even take it one step further - if you knowingly and intentionally continue to pay an ISP that knowingly and intentionally providers spammers Internet connectivity, then you too are part of the problem, and I would be quite happy to refuse mail from you.
If you dont like how a particular DNSBL works, then dont use it, no one is forcing you to. Others that do like how it works may choose to use it, and don't have to listen to your arguments about it. The *senders* of mail dont get to choose what lists apply to them, the *recipient* does. (and by recipient, I mean the owner of the server that receives the email, or whatever admin they might delegate that authority to, not necessarily any individual mailbox user - however that would be a matter of the contract between the individual mailbox users and the owner of the server and would be of no concern to some random sender of email)
Other lists do work the way you describe (only listing the actual spammer IP's), although since ISP's move spammers around (and once an ISP is know to be 'friendly' to spammers more spammers sign up with them), they arent terribly effective.
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I'm pretty certain that due to FCC rules regarding 911 services they wouldnt be allowed to offer it if it didnt already have a GPS receiver. Now, whether they offer or allow any software that would let you use that capability for navigation is an entirely different story.
The best possible wifi range possible, and wimax if that ever takes off. The ability for it to function as a VoIP (using an open protocol such as SIP) client over any wireless internet connection, along with the removal of the requirement to activate it with AT&T (or at all, if one wants a VoIP-over-wifi-only wireless phone)
Along with costing less, and the ability for developers to port their own applications to it.
There may or may not be a law, but would you bother pulling into a station that didn't have a price posted conspicuously?
Follow the logic - if the stations prices were lower, you can bet they would want drivers to see them. If they arent putting them up, they must be higher. So a station without the prices posted is either stupid, or their price is higher.
Indeed. This whole concept of the economy being up or down is a bit oversimplified. When it is 'down' for one group or set of groups, it may well be 'up' for others.
Assuming you have a return-for-refund option of the book is not in usable condition, there isnt much use to the ability to examine a required textbook - its not like you are choosing between multiple books on the same subject like you might do it purchasing a book for personal use or entertainment, as the course presumably requires you to have that specific edition of that specific book.
Which is why you set it to boot into linux by default, and to automatically seek an Internet connection as soon as it boots.
While you average thief *might* know how to find a Window-based commercial/proprietary "tracker" program, if you homebrew it with cron and a shell script they wont have any idea whats its doing.
Think of all the shows where some one is breaking into a building and just happens to be familiar with the commercial/proprietary alarm system they use and knows exactly which wires to cut. Or a commercial detonator on a bomb - same scenario.
A homebrew alarm system (or bomb) there would be no public documentation of - hell, you could even make all the wires the same color - try to choose the right wire now, jackass!
Thats all well and good for protecting your data and/or making the laptop useless to the thief, and maybe insurace can replace the laptop, but neither one is much useful for actually recovering the original stolen laptop and any information/data to the rightful owner.
Set up your box so the default boot is linux *NOT* windows.
Make sure it by default actively seeks out a wired and/or wireless Internet connection.
Install a crontask that runs every minute, that does nothing more than access a particular website that either you or this tracking company controls and have access to the logs of. Perhaps have it access something like http://thewebsite.com/
saudadelinuxs-laptop-calling-home/ (which may 404, but who cares, the IP its coming from will be logged identifiably).
There, the entire software part of the 'tracker' is done. No proprietary pay-for software needed. The part that might be worth paying for is their assistance in working with law enforcement and ISP's in tracking does where your laptop is based on the IP its connecting from.
I never said the monopoly itself was illegal. However I (and certain big and powerful judges) did say that it has illegaly abused its position to maintain and extend that monopoly .
http://www.news.com/2009-1001-232571.html
http://money.cnn.com/1999/11/05/technology/microsoft_finding/
Neat little logic trick there. I guess I forgot to add 'near' in front of 'monopoly. One can still choose, one just has to have the cahones to do so.
And I guess you apparently do have time to put up with all the bullshit that MS forces on you, in which case you get whaever they want to give you.
There are two options:
1. Go with a proprietary closed-source OS. Pay whatever they demand, expect them to assert whatever control they want over your hardware and software. Accept that the vendor owns your software, and your data. Recognize that complaining about it (to either the vendor, or to those of us that avoid proprietary OS for exactly that reason) doesnt matter (becuase neither care one whit)
2. Go with Free Software. Learn how to use the tool you are using. Assert your own control over your own property. REcognize that all the nincompoops that still allow proprietary megacorp software vendors to control them will be jealous and will think that they have a right to complain when their stuff doesnt work the way they want it to.
Basically, either learn to drive, or accept that someone else is going to decide where you go.
No, its not their choice. Once you choose Microsoft, their terms allow them to choose anything and everything else that Bill Gates & company want to chose for you.
The only choice is to either use Microsoft products, or not to. One leaves someone else in control of your system, another retains control for you.
Anyone who is shocked or surprised by this just hasnt been paying attention for the last ten years or so.
You chose to use proprietary software from a company that uses its control to illegally maintain a monopoly. You really think they are going to be bothered to care wether you give permission to update that software any damn time they want, for whatever reason they want? (And/or, a company that produces shoddy unstable 'oh look its shiny' software for nincompoops and that they are competent enough to actually be able to keep track properly)
There is no halfway. Eiher you give control of your system to Microsoft, or you dont (by not running *ANY* Microsoft software). If you have a problem with the agreement that you choose to let MS impose on you, take it up with MS (or their local sychophants, or your attorney). Why annoy people who dont care?
Of course, they don't realize that their own wording is really true, albeit not the way they intend it to be.
The real 'interference' that high-speed wireless Internet represents is _competitive_ interference, as fewer people feel the need to sit and drool watching the ads on the 'boob tube', and more choose other means of entertainment.
And of course that wasnt at all intentional on Microsoft's part by using a generic term for the product name, to intentiaonally create confusion between 'a windowing environment' and a specific brand of a specific product that implemented 'a windowing environment'
I just fired it up in VLC and its working fine, audio and video, other than being slightly choppy.
I had the same thought, except instead of proprietary Skype or whatever iChat is, I was thinking a standards-compliant VoIP client, that could connect over WiFi to either one of the VoIP service (Vonage,Packet8,etc) or one's one Asterisk server.
If it can do that, then all we need to add is massive rollouts of community WiFi, and you've got a recipe to put a serious damper on cell carriers continued relevance, especially as long as they insist on accounting for and charging for each minute of use.
And the really sad thing is that, from what I hear, even if judged solely on the merits, and completely ignoring MS' monopoly position, OOXML is still a horrifying piece of shit. Its unimplementable, since it specifies things like 'Do it like (a certain version of a certain MS product) does it' and never actually defines what that is. And thats just *one* problem with it.
Most jurisditctions specifically advise using 911 to summon police, fire, or ambulance for any matter, since it is a well-known number. Many dispatch centers dont even have any other number, and just use 911.
So feel free to point out the URL of the story where $big_media_company developed a product with a rootkit for anything other than Windows.
Of course, why anyone would even consider installing some proprietary binary-only software to use a flash drive, let alone consider or allow it to be the automatic default, just boggles me. If I bought a flash drive, and it contained some such drive you can beleive the first thing that would be done is a clean wipe.
(And yes, I get that it was some sort of encryption software for 'added (in)security'. There is plenty of Free Software that implements real security without needing to rootkit your system to do so)
Microsoft in general, and Windows specifically, are *less* useful than a poopy flavored lollipop.
And there is something I can do about it - refuse to touch it with a ten foot pole.
Someone who bought a particular make car, and it blew up, and went back and bought the same brand of car again, and it blew up again, and who have done this over and over with the same results, and yet *still* keeping going back and buying from the same car maker, apparently are incapable of learning.
If you chose to work on, use, support, or worse, recommend, Windows systems, then you are a fool. Enjoy being locked-in to your monopolizing corporate overlord - I'll enjoy laughing at you and everyone like you.
Yes, it is your right to chose whatever brand of OS you want. But when your choices have less than desirable results, thats your fault, not anyone else's.
There is some anti-rootkit system available that prevents that vast majority of this crap from ever being installed on your systems in the first place. Its called 'not using Microsoft platforms'.
Apparently you are not aware of the breakers between the high-voltage lines feeding the transformers on the poles.
Also, cableTV/phone lines do NOT need to come in near power. A cold water pipe (such as one leading to an outside spigot) will do just fine, and is in fact preferable. Note that Fiber (which I suspect may have been what was being installed here, Verizon FiOS) specifically does NOT need to be grounded (although the inside equipment they connect it to will need an ordinary house current connection inside)
I'm an advocate of Free Software and don't use anything from Microsoft, and I absolutely LOVE Vista. Why shouldnt I? More headaches for MS users, more cost, more lock-in, more DRM, less control of your computer, more new 'features' for the trojan and virus writers to play with, without any real benefits other than some new gee-whix eyecandy - more evidence of exactly why MS software is absolute shit.
And doing so is entirely your choice, and no one other than your boss (unless you are the boss) has any business telling you to do otherwise.
I am curious though, if you (or your boss) are happy with the loss of profits involved due to increased bandwidth and server resource costs that go with that choice (Or, if you've raised your prices to offset that, if your customers are happy with that).
Why is MCI not the problem? If MCI continues to provide Internet connectivity to known spammers, then yes, MCI *is* part of the problem. The object of a list like APEWS (and before them, SPEWS) is to remove the spammers from the Internet, not just to play whack-a-mole with individual IP blocks. I'll even take it one step further - if you knowingly and intentionally continue to pay an ISP that knowingly and intentionally providers spammers Internet connectivity, then you too are part of the problem, and I would be quite happy to refuse mail from you.
If you dont like how a particular DNSBL works, then dont use it, no one is forcing you to. Others that do like how it works may choose to use it, and don't have to listen to your arguments about it. The *senders* of mail dont get to choose what lists apply to them, the *recipient* does. (and by recipient, I mean the owner of the server that receives the email, or whatever admin they might delegate that authority to, not necessarily any individual mailbox user - however that would be a matter of the contract between the individual mailbox users and the owner of the server and would be of no concern to some random sender of email)
Other lists do work the way you describe (only listing the actual spammer IP's), although since ISP's move spammers around (and once an ISP is know to be 'friendly' to spammers more spammers sign up with them), they arent terribly effective.