Does driving under the influence cause injury and death? Yes.
But what are the 2 most common factors in accidents resulting in injury or death? Excessive speed and failure to keep proper distance from the vehicle in front of you.
So where are the laws requiring speed limiters?
Where is the mandatory sensor that will slow the car if you're tailgating at highway speeds?
More smoke and mirrors attempting to make everyone prove they are't a criminal before they act. This place is getting sickening.
1. Junk mail, which has a realworld cost (printing paper means felling trees);
No. The reason being that NONE of it ever gives me any useful info. First off, if you want to mail me something, start with your resume or whatever, after all you do want me to hire you for the Pres job right? Secondly, include a fairly detailed platform and a method by which I could respond with questions and get actual useful answers. What we get now is good only for recycling or heating your house.
2. An email, which has negligible cost and is easily disposed of by deletion?
Negligible. Perhaps, but the cost to me is greater than receiving paper mail, which is nothing, except time. Email costs me that plus bandwidth, storage, and so forth. Not to mention that sorting postal mail is still easier (IMO) than dealing with email, especially if you get alot of it. (YMMV) And what do I care if they are saving themselves any money by using email, they still aren't giving me any more useful info than what they would by postal mail. And I doubt they would answer me if I responded with questions.
What say we each set something up along the lines of forwarding each email to all of the respective candidate's opponants, with a little sig about how we all hate spam?
"Actually, the DMCA does explicitly state it's illegal to bypass an "effective means" of copy protection."
This is something that has puzzled me since the DMCA was passed. What is considered an "effective means"? Isn't the very fact that the copy protection scheme was able to be bypassed render it ineffective? The very wording of the law would seem to state that the act of violating it would exonerate the one who broke it. You could simply not bypass an effective protection scheme.
You are receiving what you are paying for... AN EDUCATION. I didn't realize that paying for college necessitated a fast P2P pipe for getting porn, movies, and music.
True enough, but why I wonder are students here where I work getting free frickin cable???
College housing has lost its focus. When I was in school, I was lucky to have a phone in my dorm room.
I'm with a small IT shop (3-4 people to handle pc's and network) at a private college. Our situation is something of a nightmare.
First, the network. Two dorms, one housing about 450 with a new network (cat-5e/fiber, switches, dhcp, NAT and Packetshaper, Cisco router). The other is just wrong, housing 330: cat-3/5/5e/fiber, 10 & 10/100 hubs(???), 2 class c's, one thru firewall/NAT SOHO dsl router(???), Packetshaper and Cisco router.
The freshmen have been here for 3 days now. Our ISP has been threatening to shut off the dorm since day 2.
There are (we figure) dozens of machines with Blaster/Sobig infections and basically everyone is running some sort of p2p app, mostly Kazaa.
Bandwidth is basically saturated to the point of being useless (machines can't pull IP's) and out network admin's attempts at packet shapinging are less that stellar, often resulting in a nearly useless network.
There is ZERO desire for our shop to bear any support responsibility to the student population (you touched it last syndrome), other than ensuring the network lines are working.
There is no money (so we're told) to fix it the right way (replace the network) and the powers that be are not open to suggestions from lowely, yet knowledgable techs.
What, other than swift and random violence, would/.ers suggest to reign in the behavior of students and their machines when there is no budget and (seemingly) no interest in doing it right.
Sorry, just the way life is. Most people I know (in person) don't have broadband, its an unnecessary expense right now.
"Microsoft has always offered Service Packs on CD for just the cost of S&H."
Riiiight. And patches? And why the hell should I pay them one dime for them to FIX their broken products? I'm not asking for replacement CD's, that I'll pay for, we're talking about stuff that repairs an existing product.
"Or you can always go to a friends or an internet cafe with highspeed internet (or your work), download the patches/SP's, and burn them to a CD."
See above. Broadband isn't as common as you would seem to think, at least not in my area. Yes I have alot of ways to get what I'm after (I can't believe you suggested using your employer's resourses to fix personal probems), but I'm one of those odd/. people, not your average person who can barely use his/her machine. Remember, we're talking about people who purchased MS products. And internet cafes? All gone around here, every last one of them. And even when they were here, none of them let you burn CDs.
Ok would this be 3rd party code that gets installed after MS stuff, or the 3rd party code that MS swallows up as they buy whatever seems nice and absorb it into the mire of their own code?
As there is an amazing amount of comment here about what we all see as something the SEC should look into, I can't help but wonder if anyone here has either picked up the phone or dropped an email to the SEC itself to clue them in, since they don't appear to be paying attention. Maybe we should all take 5 minutes out of our day?
There is no "next file-sharing service". My employer (a college) decided to throttle back the bandwidth so much as to make Kazaa etc unusable. Ok, so they killed my file sharing, I'm not gonna cry about it, it was pretty much unusable anyway since I really could give a rats ass about the monsterous amount of top 40 crap that was littering it. I could never find what I was looking for anyway. My answer: STREAMRIPPER! Just find a streaming station that I like and whammo! all the music I want.
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So I guess this would explain the state of school systems and education in general.
"OK kids, for next week you need to write a 2 page report on the latest 'Britney' CD."
Pointless.
Having playtested and contributed idea-wise to "Tales From the Floating Vagabond" as well as gaming for ages, I'm glad to see a new Paranoia.
My only question is: Do you need any playtesters?
Didn't the German Infantry have something they were taking so they could run along with the tanks and other vehicles during the Blitzkrieg?
They might first want to start an educational program to make certain that every soldier is familiar with Murphy's Laws of Combat.
Does driving under the influence cause injury and death? Yes.
But what are the 2 most common factors in accidents resulting in injury or death? Excessive speed and failure to keep proper distance from the vehicle in front of you.
So where are the laws requiring speed limiters?
Where is the mandatory sensor that will slow the car if you're tailgating at highway speeds?
More smoke and mirrors attempting to make everyone prove they are't a criminal before they act. This place is getting sickening.
1. Junk mail, which has a realworld cost (printing paper means felling trees);
No. The reason being that NONE of it ever gives me any useful info. First off, if you want to mail me something, start with your resume or whatever, after all you do want me to hire you for the Pres job right? Secondly, include a fairly detailed platform and a method by which I could respond with questions and get actual useful answers. What we get now is good only for recycling or heating your house.
2. An email, which has negligible cost and is easily disposed of by deletion?
Negligible. Perhaps, but the cost to me is greater than receiving paper mail, which is nothing, except time. Email costs me that plus bandwidth, storage, and so forth. Not to mention that sorting postal mail is still easier (IMO) than dealing with email, especially if you get alot of it. (YMMV) And what do I care if they are saving themselves any money by using email, they still aren't giving me any more useful info than what they would by postal mail. And I doubt they would answer me if I responded with questions.
They want to spam us eh?
What say we each set something up along the lines of forwarding each email to all of the respective candidate's opponants, with a little sig about how we all hate spam?
In a word... NO.
Not when I can build a nice Shuttle stlye system for cheap and still have enough for a video projector as well.
Halo life-sized anyone?
So in the furture our robots will be alcoholics?
What, and ruin a perfect day?
/. does she?
So your girlfriend reads
Don't forget that he won his country's top science award for DeCSS.
"Actually, the DMCA does explicitly state it's illegal to bypass an "effective means" of copy protection."
This is something that has puzzled me since the DMCA was passed. What is considered an "effective means"? Isn't the very fact that the copy protection scheme was able to be bypassed render it ineffective? The very wording of the law would seem to state that the act of violating it would exonerate the one who broke it. You could simply not bypass an effective protection scheme.
"I wonder if they will play a cartoon before the movies???"
Yeah, I hear it will be something called "The Hobbit"
You are receiving what you are paying for... AN EDUCATION. I didn't realize that paying for college necessitated a fast P2P pipe for getting porn, movies, and music.
True enough, but why I wonder are students here where I work getting free frickin cable???
College housing has lost its focus. When I was in school, I was lucky to have a phone in my dorm room.
I'm with a small IT shop (3-4 people to handle pc's and network) at a private college. Our situation is something of a nightmare.
/.ers suggest to reign in the behavior of students and their machines when there is no budget and (seemingly) no interest in doing it right.
First, the network. Two dorms, one housing about 450 with a new network (cat-5e/fiber, switches, dhcp, NAT and Packetshaper, Cisco router). The other is just wrong, housing 330: cat-3/5/5e/fiber, 10 & 10/100 hubs(???), 2 class c's, one thru firewall/NAT SOHO dsl router(???), Packetshaper and Cisco router.
The freshmen have been here for 3 days now. Our ISP has been threatening to shut off the dorm since day 2.
There are (we figure) dozens of machines with Blaster/Sobig infections and basically everyone is running some sort of p2p app, mostly Kazaa.
Bandwidth is basically saturated to the point of being useless (machines can't pull IP's) and out network admin's attempts at packet shapinging are less that stellar, often resulting in a nearly useless network.
There is ZERO desire for our shop to bear any support responsibility to the student population (you touched it last syndrome), other than ensuring the network lines are working.
There is no money (so we're told) to fix it the right way (replace the network) and the powers that be are not open to suggestions from lowely, yet knowledgable techs.
What, other than swift and random violence, would
What if he wrote the one that PATCHED the system vulnerability? Just as much of a pain in the neck but the intent behinds it appears benevolent.
"Ok, getting a bit tired of the "dialup" excuse."
/. people, not your average person who can barely use his/her machine. Remember, we're talking about people who purchased MS products. And internet cafes? All gone around here, every last one of them. And even when they were here, none of them let you burn CDs.
Sorry, just the way life is. Most people I know (in person) don't have broadband, its an unnecessary expense right now.
"Microsoft has always offered Service Packs on CD for just the cost of S&H."
Riiiight. And patches? And why the hell should I pay them one dime for them to FIX their broken products? I'm not asking for replacement CD's, that I'll pay for, we're talking about stuff that repairs an existing product.
"Or you can always go to a friends or an internet cafe with highspeed internet (or your work), download the patches/SP's, and burn them to a CD."
See above. Broadband isn't as common as you would seem to think, at least not in my area. Yes I have alot of ways to get what I'm after (I can't believe you suggested using your employer's resourses to fix personal probems), but I'm one of those odd
"Sheesh."
Indeed.
Yeah, 30MB of updates over dailup sounds just grand to me, do I get to bill MS when my relatives start calling?
How about MS mails you a CD with the updates as they come out, its not like they don't have the spare change laying around.
Fifty billion in the bank and their stuff is _still_ sub-par.
No, ED-209....
Ok would this be 3rd party code that gets installed after MS stuff, or the 3rd party code that MS swallows up as they buy whatever seems nice and absorb it into the mire of their own code?
Cripes man! It'd take forever. I'm still waiting for my $12 from the record company pricy fixing thing.
As there is an amazing amount of comment here about what we all see as something the SEC should look into, I can't help but wonder if anyone here has either picked up the phone or dropped an email to the SEC itself to clue them in, since they don't appear to be paying attention. Maybe we should all take 5 minutes out of our day?
There is no "next file-sharing service". My employer (a college) decided to throttle back the bandwidth so much as to make Kazaa etc unusable. Ok, so they killed my file sharing, I'm not gonna cry about it, it was pretty much unusable anyway since I really could give a rats ass about the monsterous amount of top 40 crap that was littering it. I could never find what I was looking for anyway. My answer: STREAMRIPPER!
Just find a streaming station that I like and whammo! all the music I want.
Yes, but you will be legally required to change your middle name to "The".
This will last about as long as it takes for someone to trace an attack back to their wifi access.