As far as I'm concerned, these DNS servers are a fine stopgap solution until I finish switching to a new ISP.
But as for using "OpenDNS," my main objection is that I'm already paying for a DNS server with the cost of my subscription!. Why should I have to jury-rig this work-around, one that is only marginally less distasteful than earthlink-help.net, when I should be getting the Real Thing(TM) with the cost of my subscription (with support, thankyouverymuch)?
The only reason I'm still here is that my parents are using my account as well. And that will be fixed when I visit them for Thanksgiving.
It seems that the task of finding and catching phishers should be put to those best able to pursue them: the banks. If the customer is responsible for the loss, be prepared to see silly little class actions against phishers, with the only real victors being the lawyers.
If a bank doesn't want to be held responsible for what happens to my money, I'll do the responsible thing and move my money elsewhere.
Uh... my MCE setup did 30 s skip out of the box. In fact, I've become so used to it that it's become a bit of a problem while watching DVDs (it's the same button as chapter skip).
"As Sony is a company that manufactures HD-TVs, it's in their interest to add that compatibility to give consumers another reason to upgrade."
This ignores whether or not consumers want to upgrade. Trying to charge consumers more in an effort to get them to upgrade is putting the cart before the horse.
"There's various numbers about how long it'll take for HD to 'replace' standard-feed televisions (just as broadband has all but eliminated dial-up),"
Bad metaphor. Broadband had a killer app, and its name was Napster. Broadband enabled you to get content (music, video, etc.) that was, realisticly, unavailable on dial-up. HDTV offers only the same content (i. e. car dealership ads) only with a sharper image.
The only hope HDTV has of finding a kiler app at this point is console gaming; it should be gaming side of the PS3 that Sony should be focusing on to sell HDTVs, not the movie-playing side.
"but it's conceivable that HD televisions will become affordable during the PS3's lifecycle,"
HDTVs, perhaps, but HDTV+PS3 doesn't sound like it will be "affordable" before the end of the decade.
"and for those of us that have been blessed by the high-def gods, it's another reason to take advantage of the highest-quality visual equipment available."
But how many people have been "blessed" by a maxed out credit card? Is it realistic to believe these early adopters are numerous enough to drive PS3 sales? Wouldn't these people also have driven Xbox 360 sales?
You're still failing to explain why precious ROM space would be spent to identify something even though there was no realistic expectation that it would be removed or replaced.
The South had disproportionate influence in Congress. The free whites got to vote in the House and the Electoral College on behalf of 3/5 of the slaves in the states. And they had two votes in the Senate, just like everybody else.
Was having more influence on a per capita basis simply not enough to avoid throwing one of history's greatest temper tantrums?
"Yes. Slavery was the 'boogey man' invented by the north part way through the war to justify its conclusion. Slavery is cruel and intolerable, but it was only a tiny element of a huge number of reasons why the North and South went to war."
If you're going to be purely majoritarian about it, then it should be pointed out that the majority of the Union were against secession; the people of the wouldbe Confederacy were in the minority (which is why they demanded the 3/5 compromise to begin with). Otherwise the Southern states could have simply asked Congress to revoke their statehood.
The only way you can justify the secession is by claiming to support the rights of the Southern minority to secede while simultaneously denying the rights of the black minority in those states. Not only are those two stances incompatible, you would be attempting to place the rights of the state above both the Union as well as the people.
"If the colonies had the 'right' to succeed from England, then the states should have maintained the 'right' to succeed from the union."
The Thirteen were successful in wresting a treaty from the UK recognizing their independence. The Southern states had the perfectly valid option of asking Congress for secession but chose to ignore that option, choosing violence over the political process; if that's the way they wanted to play, then why should they be entitled to more than the Thirteen were? No treaty, no independence.
"you cannot liberate a country that does not wish to be liberated."
West Virginia (among other places) did not "wish to be liberated."
"When states wanted to leave the former USSR they were free to go"
The Soviet Constitution explicitly allowed republics to unilaterally secede (Article 72). On the other hand, the United States Constitution puts statehood solely into the hands of Congress (Article IV, Section 3) and denies the states the ability to unilaterally overturn acts of Congress (Article VI).
"The Federal Communications Commission has also taken interest in HP, asking AT&T Inc. last week how the company's private investigators managed to obtain the private phone records of board members and journalists."
Isn't this the same AT&T that's all too willing to sell the government private phone records without anything as silly as a warrant?
How are they going to answer? "Why, the same way you did, of course."
Unless you're still using VHS and/or laserdisc, you've already sold your dignity for the sake of putting up with DVD-CSS proto-DRM and proprietary MPEG-2 encoding. You're already a sell-out, it's simply a matter of degrees now.
"Japanese gamers may feel that it is Japanese enough to purchase."
Are these the same ones that feel the Apple iPod is "Japanese" enough to purchase?
You yourself are perpetuating a stereotype that Japanese stereotype US electronics. Just accept the fact that it's the Xbox and Xbox 360 specifically they don't like and deal with it.
"I bought the D-Link RangeBooster N for my home laptop (which never leaves the table) because I was tired of my neighbors G routers constantly dropping my connection."
That will solve little, as n and g both use the same frequency range. Between you and your neighbors, it's simply a contest of who's putting out the stronger signal, and you're still all screwed when somebody decides to microwave something.
A cheaper solution would have to simply move to a different channel, or leave the b/g/n/noise spectrum entirely by moving to a equipment.
Besides, how exactly can you tell that it's your neighbor's networks that are the problem? It sounds like you either have some pretty fancy radio gear, or you simply have your laptop to connect to the strongest network avaible, which makes me wonder about both your network security and your ability to establish it. How exactly are you losing these SSH sessions again?
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"my only addiction is to the email address."
Solution.
"I thought a person who acts unsportingly was a cheat."
"Unsportingly?" This is Slashdot; the only way anybody around here can act "sportingly" is with the help of a "sporting lady."
Yeah, because we want all name requests to point to goatse.
As far as I'm concerned, these DNS servers are a fine stopgap solution until I finish switching to a new ISP.
But as for using "OpenDNS," my main objection is that I'm already paying for a DNS server with the cost of my subscription!. Why should I have to jury-rig this work-around, one that is only marginally less distasteful than earthlink-help.net, when I should be getting the Real Thing(TM) with the cost of my subscription (with support, thankyouverymuch)?
The only reason I'm still here is that my parents are using my account as well. And that will be fixed when I visit them for Thanksgiving.
"Even with all those soldiers and insurgents in Iraq and Afghanistan - who would seriously take their ipod into a combat situation?"
You're assuming they always know they're about to enter a combat situation. As has been said, war is long periods of boredom.
"Everytime a Linux article comes up, out comes loads of people who barely use Linux to its fulliest, or at least seems so by their comments."
The same can be said of Windows, or any other operating system mentioned on here, I'd imagine.
Welcome to Slashdot, where your operating system is your religion with all the holy wars that it implies.
Before asking us "Would you date Microsoft," you need to ask Slashdotters questions like "Do you actually date?" or "Do you know what 'dating' is?"
"WEBiSITEo"
My God, what is that, Engrish?
"Windows DVRs: Uh... Go go gadget DRM! Aw, crap!"
Uh... my MCE setup did 30 s skip out of the box. In fact, I've become so used to it that it's become a bit of a problem while watching DVDs (it's the same button as chapter skip).
FUD much?
"in an uncontested trial in an Illinois court."
It isn't an Illinois court, it's a federal district court that happens to be in Illinois.
It's nice to know that Nintendo isn't trying to reinvent the wheel (and charging us for it in the process).
How did Schwarzenegger become governor of California again?
"As Sony is a company that manufactures HD-TVs, it's in their interest to add that compatibility to give consumers another reason to upgrade."
This ignores whether or not consumers want to upgrade. Trying to charge consumers more in an effort to get them to upgrade is putting the cart before the horse.
"There's various numbers about how long it'll take for HD to 'replace' standard-feed televisions (just as broadband has all but eliminated dial-up),"
Bad metaphor. Broadband had a killer app, and its name was Napster. Broadband enabled you to get content (music, video, etc.) that was, realisticly, unavailable on dial-up. HDTV offers only the same content (i. e. car dealership ads) only with a sharper image.
The only hope HDTV has of finding a kiler app at this point is console gaming; it should be gaming side of the PS3 that Sony should be focusing on to sell HDTVs, not the movie-playing side.
"but it's conceivable that HD televisions will become affordable during the PS3's lifecycle,"
HDTVs, perhaps, but HDTV+PS3 doesn't sound like it will be "affordable" before the end of the decade.
"and for those of us that have been blessed by the high-def gods, it's another reason to take advantage of the highest-quality visual equipment available."
But how many people have been "blessed" by a maxed out credit card? Is it realistic to believe these early adopters are numerous enough to drive PS3 sales? Wouldn't these people also have driven Xbox 360 sales?
"The ones that are coming in the next 6-12 months could change the way people interact online."
So... we'll all be browsing on Segways?
You're still failing to explain why precious ROM space would be spent to identify something even though there was no realistic expectation that it would be removed or replaced.
"and in hindsight, we should've let them go."
Federalist #5.
"The south had no control in congress."
The South had disproportionate influence in Congress. The free whites got to vote in the House and the Electoral College on behalf of 3/5 of the slaves in the states. And they had two votes in the Senate, just like everybody else.
Was having more influence on a per capita basis simply not enough to avoid throwing one of history's greatest temper tantrums?
"Yes. Slavery was the 'boogey man' invented by the north part way through the war to justify its conclusion. Slavery is cruel and intolerable, but it was only a tiny element of a huge number of reasons why the North and South went to war."
If you're going to be purely majoritarian about it, then it should be pointed out that the majority of the Union were against secession; the people of the wouldbe Confederacy were in the minority (which is why they demanded the 3/5 compromise to begin with). Otherwise the Southern states could have simply asked Congress to revoke their statehood.
The only way you can justify the secession is by claiming to support the rights of the Southern minority to secede while simultaneously denying the rights of the black minority in those states. Not only are those two stances incompatible, you would be attempting to place the rights of the state above both the Union as well as the people.
"If the colonies had the 'right' to succeed from England, then the states should have maintained the 'right' to succeed from the union."
The Thirteen were successful in wresting a treaty from the UK recognizing their independence. The Southern states had the perfectly valid option of asking Congress for secession but chose to ignore that option, choosing violence over the political process; if that's the way they wanted to play, then why should they be entitled to more than the Thirteen were? No treaty, no independence.
"you cannot liberate a country that does not wish to be liberated."
West Virginia (among other places) did not "wish to be liberated."
"When states wanted to leave the former USSR they were free to go"
The Soviet Constitution explicitly allowed republics to unilaterally secede (Article 72). On the other hand, the United States Constitution puts statehood solely into the hands of Congress (Article IV, Section 3) and denies the states the ability to unilaterally overturn acts of Congress (Article VI).
Apples and oranges.
"The Federal Communications Commission has also taken interest in HP, asking AT&T Inc. last week how the company's private investigators managed to obtain the private phone records of board members and journalists."
Isn't this the same AT&T that's all too willing to sell the government private phone records without anything as silly as a warrant?
How are they going to answer? "Why, the same way you did, of course."
"Dignity > watching the latest movie."
Unless you're still using VHS and/or laserdisc, you've already sold your dignity for the sake of putting up with DVD-CSS proto-DRM and proprietary MPEG-2 encoding. You're already a sell-out, it's simply a matter of degrees now.
"Japanese gamers may feel that it is Japanese enough to purchase."
Are these the same ones that feel the Apple iPod is "Japanese" enough to purchase?
You yourself are perpetuating a stereotype that Japanese stereotype US electronics. Just accept the fact that it's the Xbox and Xbox 360 specifically they don't like and deal with it.
"I bought the D-Link RangeBooster N for my home laptop (which never leaves the table) because I was tired of my neighbors G routers constantly dropping my connection."
That will solve little, as n and g both use the same frequency range. Between you and your neighbors, it's simply a contest of who's putting out the stronger signal, and you're still all screwed when somebody decides to microwave something.
A cheaper solution would have to simply move to a different channel, or leave the b/g/n/noise spectrum entirely by moving to a equipment.
Besides, how exactly can you tell that it's your neighbor's networks that are the problem? It sounds like you either have some pretty fancy radio gear, or you simply have your laptop to connect to the strongest network avaible, which makes me wonder about both your network security and your ability to establish it. How exactly are you losing these SSH sessions again?
Where did 802.11a go? Why does it seem nobody is selling it any more?