The couple wouldn't let the "inspector" in, so they shut off power to the house. The family had to move into a hotel. At least they didn't have a SWAT team smash the door in at 4am and start shooting dogs. That what they do here in the USA.
The reason the president of your insurance company didn't listen was because you used the words "offer better rates" in your argument. If, instead, you had said you could nail the speeders with higher rates and leave safe drivers rates the same you would have gotten a promotion.
I do some work for divorce lawyers and they can't wait to get GPS data from cars to catch cheating spouses.
What a terrible idea. If an unpowered car is rolling down the hill towards me I want to be able to accelerate as fast as is possible to get out of the way, no matter what the speed limit is.
Loeliger's book 'Threaded Interpreted Languages' was one of my favorites non-fiction books ever. (Yes, I am that geeky). Reading how he started with just a few tens of opcodes and chapter by chapter boot-strapped an entire operating environment was like reading Genesis.
> not even artificial life-support by governments can buy much more than a temporary stay of execution > I suspect, in twenty years, RIAA, the MPAA and all these ever-increasingly harsh laws will be history
You are half right. In twenty years the RIAA and MPAA may be history... but those laws giving large corporations and the government the power to monitor everything we do and punish any individual or small business that gets in their way... they will never give up those laws.
And THAT is why Congress is letting the RIAA and MPAA push them around. It's an excuse for both parties to get what they want. The same thing is going on with the "terrorism" industry.
And just who is going to pass these tough new rules on the rich? All of the poor downtrodden poverty level people in Congress? Oh that's right, the rich are running the show...
My head is mounted on a pivoting cylinder giving me the ability to "turn and look" obviating the need for the advanced rear-view camera technology that you apparently employ.
He yelled out "We got another one, here in the bathroom!" and a church crew quickly came in, wrapped me in a tarp, tossed me into a van, and relocated me to a church in a far-off parish.
I like having the ability to wipe out and redo any partition without ruining my ability to boot into my other partitions. I typically multi-boot 3 or 4 partitions so this matters to me.
So I always use an independent boot manager like GAG or PLOP that can boot just about anything else and is drop dead simple to reconfigure. Each partition gets it's own favorite PARTITION boot manager, Grub for Linux, BCD for Windows, etc...
A few weeks ago I was sitting on the toilet in a stall in the church bathroom. I was taking longer than usual; After about 10 minutes the lights shut off. So there I am sitting in complete pitch black. I called out lightly, but no one heard. I was too embarrassed to yell. I reached my hand under the stall door and waved it around trying to activate the motion sensor, to no avail. I reached up and took my light jacket off the hook on the door and started whipping my jacket over the top of the stall door, again to no avail. Then I was getting pissed. I partially stood, wiped as well as possible in pitch darkness, and pushed the stall door open, but still nothing. Then I waddled a couple of steps forward and started waving my jacket around towards the entry door hoping it would break into the motion sensor's area of view.
That's when the door opened, the lights snapped on instantly, and a little boy stood staring in shock at the nut case waddling like a penguin with his pants around his ankles waving his jacket in a circle over his head.
"A client is coming in for a meeting, clean that role-playing shit off the conference table. Someone call Fred and tell him to get his ass into the office. I don't care how late he stayed up. John, here's a razor. You have 10 minutes to shave that monkey-tail off your face before the client gets here. JOE PUT SOME DAMN PANTS ON!"
Why is this so hard for you to understand? Use your own domain as the rightmost component and use subdomains. Is that so hard? Or if you just cannot get over that on an aesthetic level, pick a testing tld that you don't care if it conflicts, such as 'test-domain'. Yes, you won't be able to resolve the "real" test-domain if there is one.
Well what would be stopping you? You are right, I don't understand the problem. If you control your DNS server you can resolve anything. company.int, company.whatever.the.hell.you.want. Why would the lack of.com.org and.net in the wide world stop you from setting up your testing domains?
There is *ONE* hearing officer doing all of this for every domain and every request. One person. I'm sure he's going to do all the appropriate due-diligence making sure the complainant is a legitimate company who actually sold some vacuum cleaners. Perhaps even a site visit to be sure.
We should get rid of all the TLDs, not add more. sony.com, sony.net, sony.org is just a source of confusion, and worse phishing sites, for the average person. It should never have been done that way.
> However, this would not prevent something like Geohotz.net from being anti-Sony.
Sure it would. Behind some closed doors SONY incorporates a new company, say GEO HOT Z vacuum cleaners. Then it pays the $200 fee and takes down Geohotz.net . Done. No warning, no judicial review. Geohotz is gone. Sure they can fight it. Lawyer up buddy!
That's a useless distinction, legally. The way BitTorrent works, as soon as you finish downloading the first block you are sharing it out to someone else. Seeding only refers to when you have 100% of the file and you are sharing it. You can be sure if you have 99% of the file and are sharing it out nobody is going to make the legal distinction that you weren't "seeding" it.
Slashdot Mirror
Damn, I just read the link.
The couple wouldn't let the "inspector" in, so they shut off power to the house. The family had to move into a hotel.
At least they didn't have a SWAT team smash the door in at 4am and start shooting dogs. That what they do here in the USA.
The reason the president of your insurance company didn't listen was because you used the words "offer better rates" in your argument. If, instead, you had said you could nail the speeders with higher rates and leave safe drivers rates the same you would have gotten a promotion.
I do some work for divorce lawyers and they can't wait to get GPS data from cars to catch cheating spouses.
What a terrible idea. If an unpowered car is rolling down the hill towards me I want to be able to accelerate as fast as is possible to get out of the way, no matter what the speed limit is.
Loeliger's book 'Threaded Interpreted Languages' was one of my favorites non-fiction books ever. (Yes, I am that geeky).
Reading how he started with just a few tens of opcodes and chapter by chapter boot-strapped an entire operating environment was like reading Genesis.
> not even artificial life-support by governments can buy much more than a temporary stay of execution
> I suspect, in twenty years, RIAA, the MPAA and all these ever-increasingly harsh laws will be history
You are half right. In twenty years the RIAA and MPAA may be history... but those laws giving large corporations and the government the power to monitor everything we do and punish any individual or small business that gets in their way... they will never give up those laws.
And THAT is why Congress is letting the RIAA and MPAA push them around. It's an excuse for both parties to get what they want.
The same thing is going on with the "terrorism" industry.
Sorry to disappoint you, but Netcraft has confirmed that 2011 will be the year of the Linux desktop.
I understand the need for defending your country etc.
But really, how can anybody involved in this actually think they are not doing evil?
And just who is going to pass these tough new rules on the rich? All of the poor downtrodden poverty level people in Congress? Oh that's right, the rich are running the show...
My head is mounted on a pivoting cylinder giving me the ability to "turn and look" obviating the need for the advanced rear-view camera technology that you apparently employ.
How many wipes does it take to get to the center of a Tootsie-roll?
tj2 may never know.
Hahaha!
He yelled out "We got another one, here in the bathroom!" and a church crew quickly came in, wrapped me in a tarp, tossed me into a van, and relocated me to a church in a far-off parish.
I like having the ability to wipe out and redo any partition without ruining my ability to boot into my other partitions. I typically multi-boot 3 or 4 partitions so this matters to me.
So I always use an independent boot manager like GAG or PLOP that can boot just about anything else and is drop dead simple to reconfigure. Each partition gets it's own favorite PARTITION boot manager, Grub for Linux, BCD for Windows, etc...
Because God can't even afford a router that can keep 2^128 routes in it's memory.
Yeah, motion sensor lights are just great.
A few weeks ago I was sitting on the toilet in a stall in the church bathroom. I was taking longer than usual; After about 10 minutes the lights shut off. So there I am sitting in complete pitch black. I called out lightly, but no one heard. I was too embarrassed to yell. I reached my hand under the stall door and waved it around trying to activate the motion sensor, to no avail. I reached up and took my light jacket off the hook on the door and started whipping my jacket over the top of the stall door, again to no avail. Then I was getting pissed. I partially stood, wiped as well as possible in pitch darkness, and pushed the stall door open, but still nothing. Then I waddled a couple of steps forward and started waving my jacket around towards the entry door hoping it would break into the motion sensor's area of view.
That's when the door opened, the lights snapped on instantly, and a little boy stood staring in shock at the nut case waddling like a penguin with his pants around his ankles waving his jacket in a circle over his head.
Yep. Love motion sensors.
No, but I'm sure the President can be dissolved by NSA deed.
*sigh*
My original post was to ELIMINATE gTLDs. GET RID OF THEM.
You just want to argue about something I never said.
"A client is coming in for a meeting, clean that role-playing shit off the conference table. Someone call Fred and tell him to get his ass into the office. I don't care how late he stayed up. John, here's a razor. You have 10 minutes to shave that monkey-tail off your face before the client gets here. JOE PUT SOME DAMN PANTS ON!"
Why is this so hard for you to understand? Use your own domain as the rightmost component and use subdomains. Is that so hard? Or if you just cannot get over that on an aesthetic level, pick a testing tld that you don't care if it conflicts, such as 'test-domain'. Yes, you won't be able to resolve the "real" test-domain if there is one.
Well what would be stopping you? .com .org and .net in the wide world stop you from setting up your testing domains?
You are right, I don't understand the problem.
If you control your DNS server you can resolve anything. company.int, company.whatever.the.hell.you.want.
Why would the lack of
You can still add as many levels of subdomains as you want. I would just get rid of the confusing and useless .com / .net / .org distinction.
http://test1.devel.disney/
There is *ONE* hearing officer doing all of this for every domain and every request.
One person.
I'm sure he's going to do all the appropriate due-diligence making sure the complainant is a legitimate company who actually sold some vacuum cleaners. Perhaps even a site visit to be sure.
We should get rid of all the TLDs, not add more. sony.com, sony.net, sony.org is just a source of confusion, and worse phishing sites, for the average person. It should never have been done that way.
http://sony/
http://disney/
etc
> However, this would not prevent something like Geohotz.net from being anti-Sony.
Sure it would. Behind some closed doors SONY incorporates a new company, say GEO HOT Z vacuum cleaners. Then it pays the $200 fee and takes down Geohotz.net . Done. No warning, no judicial review. Geohotz is gone. Sure they can fight it. Lawyer up buddy!
They don't WANT to make a distinction between 1:1 and 1:100. And they will convince the non-technical Judge that there is no distinction.
That's a useless distinction, legally. The way BitTorrent works, as soon as you finish downloading the first block you are sharing it out to someone else. Seeding only refers to when you have 100% of the file and you are sharing it. You can be sure if you have 99% of the file and are sharing it out nobody is going to make the legal distinction that you weren't "seeding" it.