Sometimes you have to quote the specific section of the regulation that compels a company to offer something, and sometimes even have a lawyer send the letter with a threat to open an official complaint with the appropriate authority (I guess FCC in your case). Then poof, suddenly oh hey they found someone that does know how to offer that service to you...
Nothing prevents their first tier people from lying to you, or being ignorant about a little-used but mandated service.
Because the reward of doing all the hard work to find something new and cool is to get to be the first people to STUDY the cool new thing and publish about it. It's not just about finding things, it's about finding things and studying them. The studying bit takes a year or two. Then they announce.
> There is a huge disaster recovery effort going on and they need to have things working as soon as possible
I'm sorry, you think they whipped this website up AFTER the hurricane hit?
"OMG a natural disaster, jee whizz - we need some system so affected people can file forms online with us, if only we had thought of this the last 50 small disasters...":-)
Hmmmm, every so often back when I was choosing extensions I would get a misbehaving browser - at which point it became a game of figuring out what new extension was misbehaving. So I would disable one a day until I noticed no problems, and in that way winnow out the thing that was causing the problem.
Have you tried installing the flash related extension that blocks flash from running unless you click to get it to run?
Really? What version? I'm at 0.92 and 0.93 at home and work (so many plugins I don't want to migrate forward), and I use bajillions of tabs. I *love* my "drag a link --> open in a tab" plugin. Yes there is an upper limit to the number of tabs I can open, but it's around 30 or 40 or so - and that's not because firefox gets slow, it's because at some point it stops opening new tabs.
Once a week I have to exit and re-start firefox because it'll have reached 150 MB in memory size, but that's acceptable and besides, it's an early rev. Once a month firefox will "die" on me. I wish it's "history" function would have a separate grouping for "pages that were last known to be open". Perhaps I should try the plugin that caches and re-opens last open tabs.
. Not only that, but you have to remember your basic economics. They don't have an infinite number of these complete collections to sell. They probably only have ONE. Furthermore of all the people in the world considering buying this, ONE of them is probably capable and willing of spending a cool quarter million.
Which means that they should set their price at a quarter million dollars. .
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. We need someone in the US (where this argument is used the most, or really the only place where it's frequently used), someone with a really high profile, and a really good... I don't know.. to write a short but ultra elegant, logical, trans-political timeless piece utterly refuting and destroying this stupid argument.
You know how we can quote famous people from hundreds of years ago on simple principles of democracy, freedom, fairness, etc etc etc. We need something like that that says, oh I don't know, maybe something like this:
"If the people, as represented by their elected government, decide that it is in their best interests to provide a service, free or not, for the public good - who are corporations to argue that they are being denied their 'fundamental right to make money'. There is no 'fundamental right to make money'. If we the people decide that it is in the best interests of all to do something, and you as a corporation don't like us spending money on that something, then tough noogies."
. It hasn't just got a lot of us buying broadband, but a ton of us have bought anywhere between 1 and 10 new super-huge hard-drives over the past 2+ years, CD/DVD Burners, spindles of CDRs/DVDRs, and now having downloaded a 40 minute TV episode that is a 1.5 GB xvid 720p, I'm feeling the need for a 3800+ system with a brand new $500 video card!! .
> but instead ultra-elite combination soldiers/priests/shamen/wizards, > then you can start to see how on the one hand, conventional weapons would be entirely ineffective against them
...to the extent that if you watch all of the "Clone Wars" animated shorts, you realize that the more senior the Jedi, the older he his, the vastly greater his power is. To the point that they can do *nasty* things to entire starships. And this is the Jedi thousands of years after their zenith, when they are in decline.
. Here in Canada, the former-monopoly telco's with their monopoly-supplied last mile runs have long had to share their systems (at federally approved prices) to DSL resellers/competitors.
NOW that's also being extended to Cable, cable companies are now having to allow other providers onto their monopoly-supplied last mile cables.
AND NOW this summer, you will be able to get DSL without having to have a phone, zero extra cost. Of course Bells are also taking that very moment to start rolling out their own VOIP solutions - but basically they've all realized they need to compete in the future, not try and desparately hold on to old technologically inferior monopolies. .
"The fact that there's competition in the different supermarket chains means price-cutting" - any price cutting that ocurrs is cutting the costs of the supermarkets and helping to eliminate extra supermarkets, and keeping the profit margins in their business low. It doesn't hurt chicken farmers at all! Chicken farmers are in their own little world of supply and demand.
The right question is - how does a supermarket cutting it's own retail prices hurt farmers? They can't **force** the farmers to sell to them at a lower price.
The fact that there is competition between supermarkets has no direct effect on the "suffering of farmers".
> The fact that there's competition in the different > supermarket chains means price-cutting and > probably the livestock farmers of the world > suffering as a result.
That's called competition, and yes it does involve a lot of hard work, worrying, risk, and hand wringing. That's the price we pay for having a more efficient system of production that doesn't result in us having 10 times as many chicken farmers as we actually need.
I try not to worry too much, our federal governments do have the penultimate seat of power - and if push comes to shove we should be able to "set things straight".
And worst yet, their population is brainwashed/fearful enough that they would willingly fight to near total extinction/death against any Western invasion, even more so than Japan would have at the end of WWII had they been invaded.
I have ***no*** idea what would be the best way of dealing with them. Other than "containment" and building an anti-missile wall around them, and waiting 500 years for the rest of civilization to reach nirvana while they are still a reeking hole... then something will crack internally - maybe.
Actually I do have one idea. It involves a MASSIVE airdrop - of livestock and consumer goods. Seriously. Imagine you are a poor impoverished hard-working little North Korean, you've spent your entire life being told about the evil capitalist west - and then suddenly food and goods beyond imagine start dropping from the sky, and continue dropping from the sky for weeks and months on end.
Maybe, just maybe, you'd begin doubting the crap you'd been taught by your masters.
Of course first we'd have to wipe the NK airforce from the sky, and China would have to be on board, and we'd have to evacuate Seoul and put 5 million Western troops in SK to hold the line...
Meh, too much work. Let em rot. Personally I wouldn't mind not giving them any food and oil. I know they keep claiming that they'll go to war should the free food and energy stop, but fuck em.
It's their bed, make them lie in it. .
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OOOooooohhhhh, that makes a heck of a lot more sense:) Thanks for pointing that out, both you and Ironsides.
Yes, definitely, fansubs are pretty much equivalent to free global advertising.
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> I've bought countless DVDs based entirely on the work of fansubbers,
WHAT THE FUCK!! Don't you know *anything* about this stuff? The fansub groups explicity do not want that to happen, because that is exactly what causes the companies to need to crack down, idiots like you buying illegal copies.
Fansub groups and most anime fans will even go so far as to STOP distributing the fansubs when a given show becomes available commercially in their market. They understand how vital it is that the producers of the content get to profit from their work.
> but why doesn't Israel just give the fucking land back?
Because the terrorists don't want just bits and pieces back, they want ALL of Israel and they want ALL of the Jews to leave. No exceptions. That is the explicit stated aim of Hammas - they have repeatedly said that their reign of terror will NEVER end until that happens. .
I don't know, maybe for the first year or two afterwards, yeah. But Hiroshima and Nagasaki are now fully populated again, so are all the other famous battelgrounds.
If they had been serious about re-building, I'd have been willing to move in. I would have kept a parachute or 2000' of rope in my desk, but I'd have gone there to spite the T's and show our resilience.
You know, if I was the president or in Congress and someone/NY really wanted to rebuild the towers, I would have lobbied to let the National guard put an air defence tower on top.
Actually to be honest, I wonder why they haven't done that in a few major cities. Do you have any idea how closely jets get to hundreds of tall buildings in Toronto every day? The core is only a 1 minute flight from the airport, and there are tons of unguarded courier jets sitting around not far from the fences. A 4 man commando team with a ladder could easily get in and fly to the core in under 2 minutes.
Seriously, nothing's changed in terms of what *could* happen. They've only eliminated the "hijack commercial passenger plane" plan, not the other 15 possible plans.
Someone should swipe a fueled jet and fly it between buildings in a major city for a half hour or so, then land it on a grid road and escape in a getaway car. It's the only way they'll learn.
> I'm sure the owners of said networks do not want > random passersby using up their bandwidth.
Not true *at all*. I and friends run WiFi connections explicitly so people can do stuff like this. Laptops on the park bench below me, disabled guy down the hall barely making ends meet gets to use an old/donated system, friends/strangers walking or driving by who pull out their high-end PDA to refer to something online, WiFi p2p/sharing networks, etc etc.
What's the old saying? Information wants to be free?
New saying - Bandwidth wants to be free!
Seriously, the above two sayings are closely related. The effective "cost" of many types of information is near zero due to the ability to replicated it among 6 billion people for near zero cost. And that's because bandwidth is so cheap. Bandwidth *and* information want to be free!
(_) Odds favourable of having fewer foreign civilians unjustly die in a war versus deaths under the status quo. (_) Economic opportunity cost of fighting for someone else's freedoms (Will the economic cost of fighting the war be disproportionate to the economic gains as well as the amount of freedom/justice acquired by the foreign citizens vs status quo) (_) Human/freedom opportunity cost of fighting for someone else's freedoms (Will the number of our deaths be disproportionate to the freedom/justice acquired by the foreign citizens vs status quo).
Pacificsts always forget these ones - they are incapable of even acknowledging that there is utility in trying to realistically compare scenario A with X deaths versus scenario B with Y deaths. aka dealing with Reality.
Here's some reality for ya:
The war in Sudan since 1996 has resulting in 3,000,000 deaths and can NOT be stopped using any known pacificst means. Yet pacificsts will still recoil in horror at the idea of sending in western combat troops.
Fuck the pacificsts.
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The trend will be to encourage the use of older, cheaper and less effective drugs rather than newer, better formulations.
The trend will be to encourage the use of older, cheaper, and almost as effective drugs rather than new ultra-expensive superfluous proprietary formulations. .
Also, I wouldn't count on pussy in your face/lap at a titty bar. Last time I checked around here, the places that were all nude weren't allowed to serve alcohol.
You need to take a road trip to Canada, either Toronto or Montreal.
. > What I want to know about VOIP is, how do you pronounce it?
Sounds like John Voight's last name, except P instead of T. Or like void, except P instead of D.
Although I read that some "purists" still pronounce the letters individually.
A new hire at the company I work at says "t-dot" is the new "hip" designation for Toronto, being some kind of bastardization of "TO" (tee ohh). Everyone polled so far thinks "t-dot" it's stupid.
Of course, t-dot is nicer than "big penis town":) .
Slashdot Mirror
Sometimes you have to quote the specific section of the regulation that compels a company to offer something, and sometimes even have a lawyer send the letter with a threat to open an official complaint with the appropriate authority (I guess FCC in your case). Then poof, suddenly oh hey they found someone that does know how to offer that service to you...
Nothing prevents their first tier people from lying to you, or being ignorant about a little-used but mandated service.
Because the reward of doing all the hard work to find something new and cool is to get to be the first people to STUDY the cool new thing and publish about it. It's not just about finding things, it's about finding things and studying them. The studying bit takes a year or two. Then they announce.
> There is a huge disaster recovery effort going on and they need to have things working as soon as possible
:-)
I'm sorry, you think they whipped this website up AFTER the hurricane hit?
"OMG a natural disaster, jee whizz - we need some system so affected people can file forms online with us, if only we had thought of this the last 50 small disasters..."
.
Hmmmm, every so often back when I was choosing extensions I would get a misbehaving browser - at which point it became a game of figuring out what new extension was misbehaving. So I would disable one a day until I noticed no problems, and in that way winnow out the thing that was causing the problem.
Have you tried installing the flash related extension that blocks flash from running unless you click to get it to run?
Really? What version? I'm at 0.92 and 0.93 at home and work (so many plugins I don't want to migrate forward), and I use bajillions of tabs. I *love* my "drag a link --> open in a tab" plugin. Yes there is an upper limit to the number of tabs I can open, but it's around 30 or 40 or so - and that's not because firefox gets slow, it's because at some point it stops opening new tabs.
Once a week I have to exit and re-start firefox because it'll have reached 150 MB in memory size, but that's acceptable and besides, it's an early rev. Once a month firefox will "die" on me. I wish it's "history" function would have a separate grouping for "pages that were last known to be open". Perhaps I should try the plugin that caches and re-opens last open tabs.
Ummm, I take issue with the following bit of the summary:
;-)
is that two products succeeded to proactively detect all 6 attacks without any signature update
Note that the listis NOT ordered, there are 3 products that scored 6/6.
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Not only that, but you have to remember your basic economics. They don't have an infinite number of these complete collections to sell. They probably only have ONE. Furthermore of all the people in the world considering buying this, ONE of them is probably capable and willing of spending a cool quarter million.
Which means that they should set their price at a quarter million dollars.
.
We need someone in the US (where this argument is used the most, or really the only place where it's frequently used), someone with a really high profile, and a really good
You know how we can quote famous people from hundreds of years ago on simple principles of democracy, freedom, fairness, etc etc etc. We need something like that that says, oh I don't know, maybe something like this:
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.
It hasn't just got a lot of us buying broadband, but a ton of us have bought anywhere between 1 and 10 new super-huge hard-drives over the past 2+ years, CD/DVD Burners, spindles of CDRs/DVDRs, and now having downloaded a 40 minute TV episode that is a 1.5 GB xvid 720p, I'm feeling the need for a 3800+ system with a brand new $500 video card!!
.
> then you can start to see how on the one hand, conventional weapons would be entirely ineffective against them
.
Here in Canada, the former-monopoly telco's with their monopoly-supplied last mile runs have long had to share their systems (at federally approved prices) to DSL resellers/competitors.
NOW that's also being extended to Cable, cable companies are now having to allow other providers onto their monopoly-supplied last mile cables.
AND NOW this summer, you will be able to get DSL without having to have a phone, zero extra cost. Of course Bells are also taking that very moment to start rolling out their own VOIP solutions - but basically they've all realized they need to compete in the future, not try and desparately hold on to old technologically inferior monopolies.
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Ummm, now that I re-read things, you're right.
"The fact that there's competition in the different supermarket chains means price-cutting" - any price cutting that ocurrs is cutting the costs of the supermarkets and helping to eliminate extra supermarkets, and keeping the profit margins in their business low. It doesn't hurt chicken farmers at all! Chicken farmers are in their own little world of supply and demand.
The right question is - how does a supermarket cutting it's own retail prices hurt farmers? They can't **force** the farmers to sell to them at a lower price.
The fact that there is competition between supermarkets has no direct effect on the "suffering of farmers".
> The fact that there's competition in the different
4 #i_have_the_distinct_pleasure, notice items 1, 2 and 6. And what's this guy teaching? Corporate governance. Nice eh?
> supermarket chains means price-cutting and
> probably the livestock farmers of the world
> suffering as a result.
That's called competition, and yes it does involve a lot of hard work, worrying, risk, and hand wringing. That's the price we pay for having a more efficient system of production that doesn't result in us having 10 times as many chicken farmers as we actually need.
Buuuutt, the general point about massive corporations throwing their weight around is well taken. Take a look at this - http://blogs.sun.com/roller/page/mtibbets/2005021
I try not to worry too much, our federal governments do have the penultimate seat of power - and if push comes to shove we should be able to "set things straight".
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Yup.
And worst yet, their population is brainwashed/fearful enough that they would willingly fight to near total extinction/death against any Western invasion, even more so than Japan would have at the end of WWII had they been invaded.
I have ***no*** idea what would be the best way of dealing with them. Other than "containment" and building an anti-missile wall around them, and waiting 500 years for the rest of civilization to reach nirvana while they are still a reeking hole... then something will crack internally - maybe.
Actually I do have one idea. It involves a MASSIVE airdrop - of livestock and consumer goods. Seriously. Imagine you are a poor impoverished hard-working little North Korean, you've spent your entire life being told about the evil capitalist west - and then suddenly food and goods beyond imagine start dropping from the sky, and continue dropping from the sky for weeks and months on end.
Maybe, just maybe, you'd begin doubting the crap you'd been taught by your masters.
Of course first we'd have to wipe the NK airforce from the sky, and China would have to be on board, and we'd have to evacuate Seoul and put 5 million Western troops in SK to hold the line...
Meh, too much work. Let em rot. Personally I wouldn't mind not giving them any food and oil. I know they keep claiming that they'll go to war should the free food and energy stop, but fuck em.
It's their bed, make them lie in it.
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OOOooooohhhhh, that makes a heck of a lot more sense :) Thanks for pointing that out, both you and Ironsides.
Yes, definitely, fansubs are pretty much equivalent to free global advertising.
> I've bought countless DVDs based entirely on the work of fansubbers,
WHAT THE FUCK!! Don't you know *anything* about this stuff? The fansub groups explicity do not want that to happen, because that is exactly what causes the companies to need to crack down, idiots like you buying illegal copies.
Fansub groups and most anime fans will even go so far as to STOP distributing the fansubs when a given show becomes available commercially in their market. They understand how vital it is that the producers of the content get to profit from their work.
> but why doesn't Israel just give the fucking land back?
Because the terrorists don't want just bits and pieces back, they want ALL of Israel and they want ALL of the Jews to leave. No exceptions. That is the explicit stated aim of Hammas - they have repeatedly said that their reign of terror will NEVER end until that happens.
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I don't know, maybe for the first year or two afterwards, yeah. But Hiroshima and Nagasaki are now fully populated again, so are all the other famous battelgrounds.
If they had been serious about re-building, I'd have been willing to move in. I would have kept a parachute or 2000' of rope in my desk, but I'd have gone there to spite the T's and show our resilience.
You know, if I was the president or in Congress and someone/NY really wanted to rebuild the towers, I would have lobbied to let the National guard put an air defence tower on top.
Actually to be honest, I wonder why they haven't done that in a few major cities. Do you have any idea how closely jets get to hundreds of tall buildings in Toronto every day? The core is only a 1 minute flight from the airport, and there are tons of unguarded courier jets sitting around not far from the fences. A 4 man commando team with a ladder could easily get in and fly to the core in under 2 minutes.
Seriously, nothing's changed in terms of what *could* happen. They've only eliminated the "hijack commercial passenger plane" plan, not the other 15 possible plans.
Someone should swipe a fueled jet and fly it between buildings in a major city for a half hour or so, then land it on a grid road and escape in a getaway car. It's the only way they'll learn.
> I'm sure the owners of said networks do not want
> random passersby using up their bandwidth.
Not true *at all*. I and friends run WiFi connections explicitly so people can do stuff like this. Laptops on the park bench below me, disabled guy down the hall barely making ends meet gets to use an old/donated system, friends/strangers walking or driving by who pull out their high-end PDA to refer to something online, WiFi p2p/sharing networks, etc etc.
What's the old saying? Information wants to be free?
New saying - Bandwidth wants to be free!
Seriously, the above two sayings are closely related. The effective "cost" of many types of information is near zero due to the ability to replicated it among 6 billion people for near zero cost. And that's because bandwidth is so cheap. Bandwidth *and* information want to be free!
You forgot a few important ones:
(_) Odds favourable of having fewer foreign civilians unjustly die in a war versus deaths under the status quo.
(_) Economic opportunity cost of fighting for someone else's freedoms (Will the economic cost of fighting the war be disproportionate to the economic gains as well as the amount of freedom/justice acquired by the foreign citizens vs status quo)
(_) Human/freedom opportunity cost of fighting for someone else's freedoms (Will the number of our deaths be disproportionate to the freedom/justice acquired by the foreign citizens vs status quo).
Pacificsts always forget these ones - they are incapable of even acknowledging that there is utility in trying to realistically compare scenario A with X deaths versus scenario B with Y deaths. aka dealing with Reality.
Here's some reality for ya:
The war in Sudan since 1996 has resulting in 3,000,000 deaths and can NOT be stopped using any known pacificst means. Yet pacificsts will still recoil in horror at the idea of sending in western combat troops.
Fuck the pacificsts.
The trend will be to encourage the use of older, cheaper and less effective drugs rather than newer, better formulations.
The trend will be to encourage the use of older, cheaper, and almost as effective drugs rather than new ultra-expensive superfluous proprietary formulations.
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Also, I wouldn't count on pussy in your face/lap at a titty bar. Last time I checked around here, the places that were all nude weren't allowed to serve alcohol.
You need to take a road trip to Canada, either Toronto or Montreal.
http://www.merc.ca/vbulletin/
http://www.terb.ca/
http://www.sexwork.com/montreal/
Just one more reason Canada is the new home of the Free.
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Grrr, keep forgetting how far behind phpBB slashcode is.
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Your wish is my command.
http://users.telenet.be/0074ever/Clintonfucker.
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> What I want to know about VOIP is, how do you pronounce it?
Sounds like John Voight's last name, except P instead of T. Or like void, except P instead of D.
Although I read that some "purists" still pronounce the letters individually.
A new hire at the company I work at says "t-dot" is the new "hip" designation for Toronto, being some kind of bastardization of "TO" (tee ohh). Everyone polled so far thinks "t-dot" it's stupid.
Of course, t-dot is nicer than "big penis town"
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