That's a really interesting idea. Remember the "arms dealer" they found alone on the station, and the conversation between Adama and him? The guy suggested that the Cylons were divine punishment for humanity's sins, and he brought up something about Cylons' souls. Adama then asserted that the Cylons were made by man, not God, and didn't have souls.
If I was a spiritual Cylon, I might very well consider them fightin' words, I suppose. Or maybe it's reflective of an underlying attitude that they can't stand.
That sounds like something that'd show up on the BOFH excuse list, wouldn't it? "Why did all our monitors go dead at once?" "Hmm, let me see, umm... Solar flares."
No, don't call the ISPs. Verisign doesn't care what ISPs smaller than AOL think, and they never did. Stuff like this should be proof of it. You, the user, should complain directly to Verisign, and not your ISP, who is just as irritated as you are. They don't need any extra motivation to complain to Verisign, and will likely be dealing with confused tech support calls as a result of this, besides. Your complaints will be better heard if you are speaking from beside your ISP, rather than behind them.
I agree. I was wondering what sort of person worries about seventeen percent efficiency increases in making change, when I ran across the footnote from his paper:
"Informally, a 1-cent coin is usually called a 'penny', but this usage is frowned upon by numismatists."
Numbers are, at least for me, less mnemonic than letters. Besides, I moved two years ago. Someone else has my old phone number, but my email address is still the same.
I agree wholeheartedly (my comment was sarcastic, of course).
I'm betting most people don't pay any more attention to those terms of service than they do their software licenses. I did, which is why I dropped AT&T for another LD phone company. AT&T's service agreement not only forbade me to use them (binding arbitration was required), but forbade me from telling anyone that I even went to arbitration with them. By golly, if I have an issue with AT&T that makes me want to sue 'em, I'm not going to keep it to myself!
My current LD company tells me that they have no formal service agreement, and I've seen nothing on their web site or inserted into their bills to contradict this. Maybe that's disorganized of them, but hey, I can work with that.:)
The text of the FCC ruling claims that this opt-out thing was done to balance the "first amendment rights" of the carriers. What about my rights not to be marketed at constantly?
Oh, wait, sorry, my mistake. That right's not explicitly mentioned in the constitution, I must not deserve it.
I'm not a person, I'm but a lowly consumer. I exist to fuel other people's economy. I should just shut up and consume.
We must remember the First Amendment which protects any shrill jackass no matter how self-seeking. -- F. G. Withington
Sure, the system as a whole's usually referred to as Linux, rather than GNU/Linux, and realistically, that won't change, probably because it's easier to say "Linux" rather than "GNU/Linux", and just calling it "GNU" isn't appropriate since the HURD's not involved.
But as far as giving credit where credit is due, the components GNU has produced are credited -- my Debian system's package descriptions refer to "GNU Emacs" and "GNU fileutils", letting you know just where that editor and those basic file management utilities came from, and I'm so used to GNU C at this point, that it strikes me as odd to have to use 'cc' instead of 'gcc' on proprietary Unices.
The FSF's tools are important, non-trivial, and anyone involved with Linux to any degree knows it. The GNU project is in no danger of being forgotten -- merly neglected, perhaps. (How many people do you know who're running the HURD?)
I'm sorry you were unable to read between the lines as well as Mr. Drehuis was. My point was that there will be things that the government wants that the general public is not necessarily entitled to, whether that be for national security reasons, or simply as an attempt to recoup some of the costs associated with the inital outlay of funds.
Not all of these things have to be hardware, and not all of these things have to be purchased from government contractors.
Hey! They funded the Minuteman missile, and didn't even give me the plans so I could build my own! Those're public funds, dammit, and I know they've got extras laying around. I want one!
It may not be line noise, actually -- it could also be a pair gain. These're devices phone companies use when an area grows faster than a phone company expects, they run out of cable pairs in an area and can't afford to lay new cable. Some of these devices do ugly things to the audio spectrum. Depending on how scarce copper back to the central office is, your phone company may be able to rearrange things and take you off of the pair gain. They may not have the luxury, though -- telecom budgets are tight lately, and running new cable is expensive.
Sony's not a video game company. They're a consumer electronics company that makes a lot of other stuff. Clocks, stereos of all sizes, televisions, and, of course, laptops. And that's just the stuff I can see from the front door of Circuit City.
I can't help but think that any experience they gain with Linux in the PS2 arena would eventually turn out to be useful elsewhere in their product line. . . and if they happen to garner some enthusiasm in the developer community, so much the better.
Back in the stone age, when GEM/3 was fighting Windows 2.11 for supremacy and DOS 3.3 was king, the shareware scene was jammed full of editors and word processors. Everybody had to write their very own word processor, programmers' editor, whatever. And, strangely enough, most of them seemed to have been built with Borland's Editor Toolbox.
It's kind of amusing to see this continue in the arena of scripting languages. Now, all we need is a scripting language construction set for people to play with. How about it, Borland? Oh, wait, Borland's off trying to find itself, nevermind...
Well, were it up to me, I would've rejected.web, too. The problem with.web is that it doesn't mean anything, other than "It's for web pages." Well, duh. So's everything else, anymore. So what?
All of the new domains seem to be attempting to further subdivide.com, to re-assign meaning to the top level domain.
If we're just trying to create more namespace in the same mindset that rendered the difference between.com,.net, and.org meaningless, we may as well quit arguing about it and add nonsense domain names like.blorq,.argh, and.foom, and be done with it.
Seems like another conflict between the techies (pro-meaning) and the marketroids (anti-meaning).
If the feds installed a box on my network that suddenly started taking it down, I wouldn't sit on my thumb, I'd start pulling plugs and cutting wires. And if they confiscated all of our stuff, I'd be sure to tell any customer who asked exactly why we were down.
And while I'm at it... assuming the people would stand for it if they did shut the Internet down, so what? I'd have to get a real job, and everybody would have to go back to reading books and watching television, and auntie Mabel wouldn't be able to sell her Hummel collection on e-Bay or email all of her friends smarmy overforwarded Flash animations.
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That's a really interesting idea. Remember the "arms dealer" they found alone on the station, and the conversation between Adama and him? The guy suggested that the Cylons were divine punishment for humanity's sins, and he brought up something about Cylons' souls. Adama then asserted that the Cylons were made by man, not God, and didn't have souls.
If I was a spiritual Cylon, I might very well consider them fightin' words, I suppose. Or maybe it's reflective of an underlying attitude that they can't stand.
That sounds like something that'd show up on the BOFH excuse list, wouldn't it? "Why did all our monitors go dead at once?" "Hmm, let me see, umm... Solar flares."
No, don't call the ISPs. Verisign doesn't care what ISPs smaller than AOL think, and they never did. Stuff like this should be proof of it. You, the user, should complain directly to Verisign, and not your ISP, who is just as irritated as you are. They don't need any extra motivation to complain to Verisign, and will likely be dealing with confused tech support calls as a result of this, besides. Your complaints will be better heard if you are speaking from beside your ISP, rather than behind them.
Well, gee... I hope they can handle all the traffic from all of us who've got our mail servers configured to do SMTP callbacks...
Damn. I can't believe I almost miss the pit of worthlessness and apathy that was Network Solutions, now.
Millions for defense, but not a cent for tribute.
And in other news, the Department of Homeland Security also warned that the sun may rise in the east tomorrow. . .
Maybe they're just waiting for it to finish ZIPping the ARJ of the RAR file...
It's that kind of person.
Numbers are, at least for me, less mnemonic than letters. Besides, I moved two years ago. Someone else has my old phone number, but my email address is still the same.
I like it that way.
I agree wholeheartedly (my comment was sarcastic, of course).
:)
I'm betting most people don't pay any more attention to those terms of service than they do their software licenses. I did, which is why I dropped AT&T for another LD phone company. AT&T's service agreement not only forbade me to use them (binding arbitration was required), but forbade me from telling anyone that I even went to arbitration with them. By golly, if I have an issue with AT&T that makes me want to sue 'em, I'm not going to keep it to myself!
My current LD company tells me that they have no formal service agreement, and I've seen nothing on their web site or inserted into their bills to contradict this. Maybe that's disorganized of them, but hey, I can work with that.
The text of the FCC ruling claims that this opt-out thing was done to balance the "first amendment rights" of the carriers. What about my rights not to be marketed at constantly?
Oh, wait, sorry, my mistake. That right's not explicitly mentioned in the constitution, I must not deserve it.
I'm not a person, I'm but a lowly consumer. I exist to fuel other people's economy. I should just shut up and consume.
We must remember the First Amendment which protects any shrill jackass no matter how self-seeking.
-- F. G. Withington
Yeah! The heck with their camera, I want to know where they got their wallets!
Sure, the system as a whole's usually referred to as Linux, rather than GNU/Linux, and realistically, that won't change, probably because it's easier to say "Linux" rather than "GNU/Linux", and just calling it "GNU" isn't appropriate since the HURD's not involved. But as far as giving credit where credit is due, the components GNU has produced are credited -- my Debian system's package descriptions refer to "GNU Emacs" and "GNU fileutils", letting you know just where that editor and those basic file management utilities came from, and I'm so used to GNU C at this point, that it strikes me as odd to have to use 'cc' instead of 'gcc' on proprietary Unices. The FSF's tools are important, non-trivial, and anyone involved with Linux to any degree knows it. The GNU project is in no danger of being forgotten -- merly neglected, perhaps. (How many people do you know who're running the HURD?)
Does this mean I can look forward to little stickers on Windows packages that say, "Warning, Lark Vomit"?
I'm sorry you were unable to read between the lines as well as Mr. Drehuis was. My point was that there will be things that the government wants that the general public is not necessarily entitled to, whether that be for national security reasons, or simply as an attempt to recoup some of the costs associated with the inital outlay of funds.
Not all of these things have to be hardware, and not all of these things have to be purchased from government contractors.
Hey! They funded the Minuteman missile, and didn't even give me the plans so I could build my own! Those're public funds, dammit, and I know they've got extras laying around. I want one!
Gee. Sounds like I can look forward to HPQ following in the footsteps of Packard Bell NEC... >:)
It may not be line noise, actually -- it could also be a pair gain. These're devices phone companies use when an area grows faster than a phone company expects, they run out of cable pairs in an area and can't afford to lay new cable. Some of these devices do ugly things to the audio spectrum. Depending on how scarce copper back to the central office is, your phone company may be able to rearrange things and take you off of the pair gain. They may not have the luxury, though -- telecom budgets are tight lately, and running new cable is expensive.
Sony's not a video game company. They're a consumer electronics company that makes a lot of other stuff. Clocks, stereos of all sizes, televisions, and, of course, laptops. And that's just the stuff I can see from the front door of Circuit City. I can't help but think that any experience they gain with Linux in the PS2 arena would eventually turn out to be useful elsewhere in their product line. . . and if they happen to garner some enthusiasm in the developer community, so much the better.
It's kind of amusing to see this continue in the arena of scripting languages. Now, all we need is a scripting language construction set for people to play with. How about it, Borland? Oh, wait, Borland's off trying to find itself, nevermind...
Aaah... that makes a great deal of sense. I suspect it'll be hard to convince Joe Salesman of that, though.
All of the new domains seem to be attempting to further subdivide .com, to re-assign meaning to the top level domain.
If we're just trying to create more namespace in the same mindset that rendered the difference between .com, .net, and .org meaningless, we may as well quit arguing about it and add nonsense domain names like .blorq, .argh, and .foom, and be done with it.
Seems like another conflict between the techies (pro-meaning) and the marketroids (anti-meaning).
That sounds like a breakfast cereal for bald people.
And while I'm at it... assuming the people would stand for it if they did shut the Internet down, so what? I'd have to get a real job, and everybody would have to go back to reading books and watching television, and auntie Mabel wouldn't be able to sell her Hummel collection on e-Bay or email all of her friends smarmy overforwarded Flash animations.
Good.