and I dont wanna hear about waste, thats what empty oil wells are for.
Well, sorry, but you have to hear about it.
I'm a rather environmentally-conscious fellow. Sierra Club and their ilk get my full support...most of the time.
However, I think nuclear energy is certainly a great solution for most power needs. BUT UNTIL we figure out a way to either recycle or safely dispose of nuclear waste, it's simply not a good alternative.
'empty oil wells' my patootie. What do you put nuclear waste IN? Just dump it in wells? You're just asking for radiated groundwater. Seal it in lead barrels, then dump it? Great, now we drink leaded water until the radioactive material seeps through.
Nuclear will be great, once we solve the waste problem...sorry you don't wanna hear that...
KM
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Hey!
Also on the russian site, at the bottom it says this:
Recent development sources are also available in anonymous CVS at sourceforge.net:
$ cvs -z3 -d:pserver:anonymous@cvs.avifile.sourceforge.net:/ cvsroot/avifile co avifile-0.6
(simply press enter when prompted for password).
Its CVSWeb interface address is http://cvs.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/avi file/avifile-0.6/.
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helps?
If not, I'm trying to dload the one from the Russian site, but having the same throughput problems. If the above site isn't what you need, lemme know and I'll tell ya if/when the
http://divx.euro.ru/avifile-0.53.5.tar.gz
dload completes and I'll give ya FTP info.
KM
Years ago, wasn't it Ticketmaster that sued MS for having a link on their Sidewalk site which went directly to Ticketmaster's order page?
Something along the lines of that link bypassing Ticketmaster's info, and making the order page look like it was part of the Sidewalk site...
If I remember correctly, MS had to remove the link- implications that if a site doesn't want you to link to them, you have no inherent right to do so...
So now I make a website and mention tickets for a concert. The new IE underlines that link, trying to be helpful (rolling eyes), and gives my word a link to Ticketmasters site.
Am I in trouble?
Does this give weight to your argument? Haven't they already lost the 'links are not content' argument?
Doesn't the DeCSS case also negate that?
Links ARE content, in both those precedents. Thus, MS is mucking with the content the author intended.
However, while lame, if the authors can include a metatag to turn off this linking, then maybe not so bad. But I DO hate opt-out rather than opt-in.
KM
Wouldn't that just make lots of big red dots? Don't alternating concentric circles of white have to be used as well?
Or maybe big red dots is what you meant...dot-com and all that?
;)
KM
In HS, a couple friends and I were arrested for vandalism. We were guilty, did our community service, and paid the fines.
In the car was a friend's BB gun. It had been 'modified' with a scope. Ya, silly, but it was a cool BB gun;)
Word spread quickly around the school of our arrest. Who could believe geeks were vandals! [gasp!]
The rumour mill, as usual, went crazy. Before ya know it, we had been arrested with an AK-47 and were plotting to blowup the school. LOL!
We visited the principle, explained the stupidity, they called the police, confirmed it was a BB gun, we had to talk with the school psychiatrist, and life went on.
THANK GOD I'm not in HS these days, or I'd have been expelled!
Idiots.
Call the local papers- get YOUR community fired up about such ridiculous behavior.
Go to school board meetings and be a PITA.
You can make this an issue if you rally.
Call the ACLU and see if they'll represent your kid.
GOOD LUCK, and stay strong Sean.
KM
I can't believe anyone uses 3Com NIC's except stupid boxen makers. Go to any store, and Linksys, DLink, NetGear cards all cost like $15. 3Com cards cost $30. Why? What makes it worthy? The proprietary software that the 3Com cards like? Yuck, it sucks and is pointless.
I hope you guys do better with your wireless products. Try to keep them affordable and competitive, ok?
KM
I think this is a dead issue now, since replies not given the day of the post tend to be forgotten...but I must make this point:
The Fed tax rate on tips is WELL below what the average waiter/waitress actually makes. The Fed rate assumes a very low percentage (I forget exactly what).
SO, a wait-person (PC!) would have to be constantly inept in their service to not cover the taxes the Fed assumes. Any decent server can easily outstrip the assumed rate, not declare the rest, and make out sweet.
While I agree that as far as taxes go, tips *are* a given, it's not representative of what folks actually make in tips, assuming they're competant at their jobs. I still don't like places that auto-tip for me. Blah.
KM
So what the hell is up with that anyway. Tips are given dependent on the quality of service the employees provide. This is the point of tips. Ever see Resevoir Dogs? The beginning rant by Mr. Pink (?) was dead-on. Tips are NOT a given!
I do not patronize restaruants, or any type of service, where tips are included in the bill. That totally kills my leverage as a customer. Give me good service, I'll tip you 20%. Give me great service, I'll tip you 30%. Give me poor service, I might give you 10%. Give me crap service, and you get SQUAT.
I really, really dislike places that automatically include a tip in the bill, can you tell?
KM
Ads suck, sure.
But hey, you want to read the content for free, then don't block the ads!
Folks who do this are directly contributing to the crap we're seeing now- FlashAds, BigAds, VerticalAds...
I think this is a fine idea- I wish cable could do this. I'm already paying for cable, yet I have to suffer through ads anyway? THAT deserves a Junkbuster concept. But online...you want free, deal with the ads. You don't want ads, pay for the content.
By trying to have it free and ad-free, people who use such junkbuster-like software are largely responsible for the death of sites which can't survive the overhead, and will utlimately be repsonsible for the increased commercialization of the net.
Exception- ad services which use sneaky tracking practices like doubelclick- filter them. Companies which use such web-bugs and things, I redirect those URL's to my own webserver using the hosts file. But banner sites that don't pull that crap, I happily deal with adverts to get the content for free.
KM
I read your post. I saw 'Michigan, MD' and thought "I've lived in MD for years, and never heard of a town called Michigan. Wild."
Took me til the end of your post seeing MD again that it dawned on me.
The sentence even still makes sense if read that way. I love the english language and it's ever-growing log of abbreviations.
KM
Ya, you say that now in the comfort of your home on this human-dominated planet.
But when the first interplanetary invaders come, and they will come, you'll be eating your words.
The ISS is not just about research. Ya think the governments involved would do invest the amounts of money they are just for 'research'? Bah.
With the dissolution of the Cold War, one of the outcomes of glasnost was collaboration among the alien researchers.
Evidence from the UFO crash in Siberia has been correlated with the evidence found in New Mexico and Arizona. Aliens are a fact, though it's kept quiet for obvious reasons.
The ISS is not simply a research vehicle, but our first line of defense against these little maurading green men (though they're more cyan than green). This missle-shield thing? Half calculated distraction and half subversive research that will ultimately end up on the ISS anyway.
So when those aliens come, and they will come, you'll be thanking your respective gods that Russia and the US had the foresight to develop that laser-packed and nuclear-cored ISS to defend us all and SAVE THE WORLD.
I feel the same way. My wife and I both smoke, but now that we have a kid we don't smoke in the house any longer. Maybe in the garage on those really cold winter nights...
I haven't noticed any real difference. Well, the amount of dust in my computers seems to be less than when I was single, but I would attribute that more to better housekeeping and the death of my cat who shed All The Time.
The dustballs in my computers now seem to be a bit smaller, and perhaps a bit less sticky, but overall, no real difference. I still use several parts from the computers I had as a bachelor and all seem to be working fine. Only thing that's inexplicably died is my SoundBlaster Live, which wasn't but 1.5 years old and I attribute more toward shoddy workmanship than anything else.
But also, we're not heavy smokers. I do about a halfpack a day and she even less. However, when I lived on my own, I often had friends over for beer drinking events and the house was FULL of smoke very often.
I guess maybe those that are the most affected are those that really do blow smoke toward their cases?
Our office is right next door to a liquor store, and Friday production meetings often involve a beer or five.
Then again, maybe that's why our stock price is in the crapper;)
You have ad.doubleclick in there at least three times. No, not ad, ads, and ads1, etc, but the same ad.doubleclick line. You may want to go through and strip out repeats, just for sake of efficiency.
Also, how you note Netscape 4.x users have slowdowns- it's due to URL timeouts- it can't find that server on localhost. Instead of 127.0.0.1, point it to some other real server and that hang for Netscape users will go away.
Then again, could this cause a big DoS attack?
You have a valid argument, though people complaining about advertisments is not the horrid tempest of evil you seem to suggest.
The biggest aspect of your comment I have issue with is
But most of us have broadband by now
Us who? Slashdotters? So those are the only ones to whom the rant applied? Or you mean everyone? If so, man are you outta touch.
Refer to this image from DSL reports
showing their estimate of DSl-capable CO's. I wonder how cable compares?
LOTS of work to do in the US!
In my hosts file, I have
ad.doubleclick.net
pointing to my webserver's IP at home. I never see doubleclick ads that I'm aware of. But I sure see lots of little broken images on many sites. Next thing is to figure out how to have all those broken images be replaced by a little text message that says "You are the koolest".:)
I used to just have
ad.doubleclick.net
point to 127.0.0.1, but then pages would wait for a timeout until the rest of the page loaded (Netscape 4.x).
Pointing it to a real IP stopped that nonsense.
Perhaps pointing
ad.doubleclick.net
to Slashdot's IP would be best, cause then everytime you load a page with a doubleclick banner, slashdot's site would record a 'hit', wouldn't it?
Slashdot's viewings would be doubled in a week if everyone did this!
Or point them to my server so I can rack up tons of hits and then
...put ad banners on my site and get paid;)
I have Rhythms at home, work, and a work branch office. All connections are 95% reliable and damn zippy. What complaints do you have? Perhaps I can be of help..
I think RTHM, out of all the DSL providers, has simply the best network.
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There's probably a tap somewhere on your line, or anything else creating 'line noise'. A friend moved the DSL pairs on his netbox to a different pair into his house when he had flakey service and all is good. Try different pairs?
Ok, I responded, now my thoughts:
DSL is awesome- solid performance and great tech. Wait til VoDSL comes out and the DSL users can totally drop their local phone company. Then video-ver-DSL and who needs cable?
The DownSide to DSL is having to go through your local ILEC. I have service with Rhythms directly (not a partner) and the service is kick-ass. I've had it just under two years now, a solid 256k SDSL connection that NEVER under-performs and often gives me 28-30K connections. It is expensive though- $120 a month. But it's worth it cause it goes down so rarely. The past two years, been down a total of 15 days. Pretty good for new tech. AND each time that outage went more than 5 days, they took 30% off my monthly bill, no hassles (though I did have to request it).
Look, this technology is still in its infancy. Cars sucked for a long time before they got to where they are today. Same with most everything else. Just because we live in a fast-paced society doesn't mean everything is gonna work out right from the start. Patience!
DSL will be around for a while, and let's PRAY that at least one other provider remains. Verizon SUCKS for phone service, I'd hate to rely on them for my DSL service more than I already have to. And imagine the support/pricing hell we'll go through if you can only get DSL from your local ILEC!
disclaimer: I own stock in RTHM, cause I really think they've done it right. Of course, it's so in the red...but someday!;)
This is right on for now, but how much longer?
Hopefully a 'free internet' has been embraced and will never be altered.
But let's say, for example, all other web browsers die off and the only way to access the web from a PC is via the MS OS and IE (I know, a stretch, but bear with me).
So one day John Smith and his MS-Sux.net website pissed of MS and in that night's auto-update, everyone's browsers no longer will go to MS-Sux.net.
Or perhaps Cisco gains so much control over network hardware, they force ISP's to block access to some sites whom they are offended by.
Or perhaps ISP's just keep loosing money and figure they have to do subscriptions like HBO- so you have to subscribe to various websites to access them.
Things are good now, but for how long. Remain vigilent! Lets just hope the idiots responsible for passing the DCMA aren't around when the above scenarios are played out.
Kool
Mr. Clueless,
Demand for power has gone up, true enough.
California buys its power from other states, true enough.
What would make power cheaper if they bought it from internal power companies? Subsidies? Good looks?
The REASON power is expensive is NOT because it's coming out of state, but that natural gas prices have gone up dramatically. Whether a power plant is in CA or OR or NV or wherever, half-assed deregulation IS responsible.
There's no environmental fault at all. If nothing else, CA should find more Natural Gas in it's own state. If environmentalists bitch about more drilling, then you have a vaild complaint. But your current one holds no water.
"Do me a favor and run up to the fridge and get Gramps a new spleen, grandson"
What they should do FIRST is clone body parts. Or better, yet, functioning bodies without heads.
I smoke. It's stupid, I know. I hope to stop before I get cancer. If I do get cancer, how cool would it be to say 'just slice open Kool Moe 2 and transplant his lungs into me' (or to that effect, don't get particular;).
The whole soul question is still around, but without a head, at least there's no consciousness.
So then we get backup body parts, with less of a moral delimma. Once we get that right, THEN take to the streets demanding an end to genetically perfect humans.
I'm pretty sure the SMC hardware does all that as well, for about $120 ($30 off first time Buy.com customers makes it a sweet deal). Not sure about IPSec, but since the firmware is flashable, it certainly could. I have it at home and it's sweet (just wish I didn't have to 'install the software' on all the computers to work with the printer port- would be better if I could just install a basic driver. Maybe I can...need time to dig into it).
Slashdot Mirror
and I dont wanna hear about waste, thats what empty oil wells are for.
Well, sorry, but you have to hear about it. I'm a rather environmentally-conscious fellow. Sierra Club and their ilk get my full support...most of the time.
However, I think nuclear energy is certainly a great solution for most power needs. BUT UNTIL we figure out a way to either recycle or safely dispose of nuclear waste, it's simply not a good alternative.
'empty oil wells' my patootie. What do you put nuclear waste IN? Just dump it in wells? You're just asking for radiated groundwater. Seal it in lead barrels, then dump it? Great, now we drink leaded water until the radioactive material seeps through.
Nuclear will be great, once we solve the waste problem...sorry you don't wanna hear that...
KM
Hey!
/ cvsroot/avifile co avifile-0.6
i file/avifile-0.6/.
Also on the russian site, at the bottom it says this:
Recent development sources are also available in anonymous CVS at sourceforge.net:
$ cvs -z3 -d:pserver:anonymous@cvs.avifile.sourceforge.net:
(simply press enter when prompted for password).
Its CVSWeb interface address is http://cvs.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/av
http://ernie.eit.uni-kl.de/avifile/avifile-0.60.20 010429.tar.gz
helps?
If not, I'm trying to dload the one from the Russian site, but having the same throughput problems. If the above site isn't what you need, lemme know and I'll tell ya if/when the
http://divx.euro.ru/avifile-0.53.5.tar.gz
dload completes and I'll give ya FTP info.
KM
Years ago, wasn't it Ticketmaster that sued MS for having a link on their Sidewalk site which went directly to Ticketmaster's order page?
Something along the lines of that link bypassing Ticketmaster's info, and making the order page look like it was part of the Sidewalk site...
If I remember correctly, MS had to remove the link- implications that if a site doesn't want you to link to them, you have no inherent right to do so...
So now I make a website and mention tickets for a concert. The new IE underlines that link, trying to be helpful (rolling eyes), and gives my word a link to Ticketmasters site.
Am I in trouble?
Does this give weight to your argument? Haven't they already lost the 'links are not content' argument?
Doesn't the DeCSS case also negate that?
Links ARE content, in both those precedents. Thus, MS is mucking with the content the author intended.
However, while lame, if the authors can include a metatag to turn off this linking, then maybe not so bad. But I DO hate opt-out rather than opt-in.
KM
Wouldn't that just make lots of big red dots? Don't alternating concentric circles of white have to be used as well?
Or maybe big red dots is what you meant...dot-com and all that?
;)
KM
In HS, a couple friends and I were arrested for vandalism. We were guilty, did our community service, and paid the fines. ;)
In the car was a friend's BB gun. It had been 'modified' with a scope. Ya, silly, but it was a cool BB gun
Word spread quickly around the school of our arrest. Who could believe geeks were vandals! [gasp!]
The rumour mill, as usual, went crazy. Before ya know it, we had been arrested with an AK-47 and were plotting to blowup the school. LOL!
We visited the principle, explained the stupidity, they called the police, confirmed it was a BB gun, we had to talk with the school psychiatrist, and life went on.
THANK GOD I'm not in HS these days, or I'd have been expelled!
Idiots.
Call the local papers- get YOUR community fired up about such ridiculous behavior.
Go to school board meetings and be a PITA.
You can make this an issue if you rally.
Call the ACLU and see if they'll represent your kid.
GOOD LUCK, and stay strong Sean.
KM
I have on my desk next to me a 20oz plastic bottle of Coca-Cola. On the side ingredients, phosphoric acid is indeed listed.
Just an FYI,
KM
I can't believe anyone uses 3Com NIC's except stupid boxen makers. Go to any store, and Linksys, DLink, NetGear cards all cost like $15. 3Com cards cost $30. Why? What makes it worthy? The proprietary software that the 3Com cards like? Yuck, it sucks and is pointless.
I hope you guys do better with your wireless products. Try to keep them affordable and competitive, ok?
KM
I think this is a dead issue now, since replies not given the day of the post tend to be forgotten...but I must make this point:
The Fed tax rate on tips is WELL below what the average waiter/waitress actually makes. The Fed rate assumes a very low percentage (I forget exactly what).
SO, a wait-person (PC!) would have to be constantly inept in their service to not cover the taxes the Fed assumes. Any decent server can easily outstrip the assumed rate, not declare the rest, and make out sweet.
While I agree that as far as taxes go, tips *are* a given, it's not representative of what folks actually make in tips, assuming they're competant at their jobs. I still don't like places that auto-tip for me. Blah.
KM
So what the hell is up with that anyway. Tips are given dependent on the quality of service the employees provide. This is the point of tips. Ever see Resevoir Dogs? The beginning rant by Mr. Pink (?) was dead-on. Tips are NOT a given!
I do not patronize restaruants, or any type of service, where tips are included in the bill. That totally kills my leverage as a customer. Give me good service, I'll tip you 20%. Give me great service, I'll tip you 30%. Give me poor service, I might give you 10%. Give me crap service, and you get SQUAT.
I really, really dislike places that automatically include a tip in the bill, can you tell?
KM
Ads suck, sure.
But hey, you want to read the content for free, then don't block the ads!
Folks who do this are directly contributing to the crap we're seeing now- FlashAds, BigAds, VerticalAds...
I think this is a fine idea- I wish cable could do this. I'm already paying for cable, yet I have to suffer through ads anyway? THAT deserves a Junkbuster concept. But online...you want free, deal with the ads. You don't want ads, pay for the content.
By trying to have it free and ad-free, people who use such junkbuster-like software are largely responsible for the death of sites which can't survive the overhead, and will utlimately be repsonsible for the increased commercialization of the net.
Exception- ad services which use sneaky tracking practices like doubelclick- filter them. Companies which use such web-bugs and things, I redirect those URL's to my own webserver using the hosts file. But banner sites that don't pull that crap, I happily deal with adverts to get the content for free.
KM
I read your post. I saw 'Michigan, MD' and thought "I've lived in MD for years, and never heard of a town called Michigan. Wild."
Took me til the end of your post seeing MD again that it dawned on me.
The sentence even still makes sense if read that way. I love the english language and it's ever-growing log of abbreviations.
KM
Ya, you say that now in the comfort of your home on this human-dominated planet.
But when the first interplanetary invaders come, and they will come, you'll be eating your words.
The ISS is not just about research. Ya think the governments involved would do invest the amounts of money they are just for 'research'? Bah.
With the dissolution of the Cold War, one of the outcomes of glasnost was collaboration among the alien researchers.
Evidence from the UFO crash in Siberia has been correlated with the evidence found in New Mexico and Arizona. Aliens are a fact, though it's kept quiet for obvious reasons.
The ISS is not simply a research vehicle, but our first line of defense against these little maurading green men (though they're more cyan than green). This missle-shield thing? Half calculated distraction and half subversive research that will ultimately end up on the ISS anyway.
So when those aliens come, and they will come, you'll be thanking your respective gods that Russia and the US had the foresight to develop that laser-packed and nuclear-cored ISS to defend us all and SAVE THE WORLD.
Shhhh, don't tell anyone. This is a secret.
I feel the same way. My wife and I both smoke, but now that we have a kid we don't smoke in the house any longer. Maybe in the garage on those really cold winter nights...
I haven't noticed any real difference. Well, the amount of dust in my computers seems to be less than when I was single, but I would attribute that more to better housekeeping and the death of my cat who shed All The Time.
The dustballs in my computers now seem to be a bit smaller, and perhaps a bit less sticky, but overall, no real difference. I still use several parts from the computers I had as a bachelor and all seem to be working fine. Only thing that's inexplicably died is my SoundBlaster Live, which wasn't but 1.5 years old and I attribute more toward shoddy workmanship than anything else.
But also, we're not heavy smokers. I do about a halfpack a day and she even less. However, when I lived on my own, I often had friends over for beer drinking events and the house was FULL of smoke very often.
I guess maybe those that are the most affected are those that really do blow smoke toward their cases?
Our office is right next door to a liquor store, and Friday production meetings often involve a beer or five. ;)
Then again, maybe that's why our stock price is in the crapper
You have ad.doubleclick in there at least three times. No, not ad, ads, and ads1, etc, but the same ad.doubleclick line. You may want to go through and strip out repeats, just for sake of efficiency.
Also, how you note Netscape 4.x users have slowdowns- it's due to URL timeouts- it can't find that server on localhost. Instead of 127.0.0.1, point it to some other real server and that hang for Netscape users will go away.
Then again, could this cause a big DoS attack?
You have a valid argument, though people complaining about advertisments is not the horrid tempest of evil you seem to suggest.
The biggest aspect of your comment I have issue with is But most of us have broadband by now
Us who? Slashdotters? So those are the only ones to whom the rant applied? Or you mean everyone? If so, man are you outta touch.Refer to
this image from DSL reports
showing their estimate of DSl-capable CO's. I wonder how cable compares?
LOTS of work to do in the US!
In my hosts file, I have :)
;)
ad.doubleclick.net
pointing to my webserver's IP at home. I never see doubleclick ads that I'm aware of. But I sure see lots of little broken images on many sites. Next thing is to figure out how to have all those broken images be replaced by a little text message that says "You are the koolest".
I used to just have
ad.doubleclick.net
point to 127.0.0.1, but then pages would wait for a timeout until the rest of the page loaded (Netscape 4.x).
Pointing it to a real IP stopped that nonsense.
Perhaps pointing
ad.doubleclick.net
to Slashdot's IP would be best, cause then everytime you load a page with a doubleclick banner, slashdot's site would record a 'hit', wouldn't it?
Slashdot's viewings would be doubled in a week if everyone did this!
Or point them to my server so I can rack up tons of hits and then
...put ad banners on my site and get paid
2001-04-05 03:06:07
just being weird...see the 1234567...
Groovy
I have Rhythms at home, work, and a work branch office. All connections are 95% reliable and damn zippy. What complaints do you have? Perhaps I can be of help..
I think RTHM, out of all the DSL providers, has simply the best network.
There's probably a tap somewhere on your line, or anything else creating 'line noise'. A friend moved the DSL pairs on his netbox to a different pair into his house when he had flakey service and all is good. Try different pairs?
;)
Ok, I responded, now my thoughts:
DSL is awesome- solid performance and great tech. Wait til VoDSL comes out and the DSL users can totally drop their local phone company. Then video-ver-DSL and who needs cable?
The DownSide to DSL is having to go through your local ILEC. I have service with Rhythms directly (not a partner) and the service is kick-ass. I've had it just under two years now, a solid 256k SDSL connection that NEVER under-performs and often gives me 28-30K connections. It is expensive though- $120 a month. But it's worth it cause it goes down so rarely. The past two years, been down a total of 15 days. Pretty good for new tech. AND each time that outage went more than 5 days, they took 30% off my monthly bill, no hassles (though I did have to request it).
Look, this technology is still in its infancy. Cars sucked for a long time before they got to where they are today. Same with most everything else. Just because we live in a fast-paced society doesn't mean everything is gonna work out right from the start. Patience!
DSL will be around for a while, and let's PRAY that at least one other provider remains. Verizon SUCKS for phone service, I'd hate to rely on them for my DSL service more than I already have to. And imagine the support/pricing hell we'll go through if you can only get DSL from your local ILEC!
disclaimer: I own stock in RTHM, cause I really think they've done it right. Of course, it's so in the red...but someday!
This is right on for now, but how much longer?
Hopefully a 'free internet' has been embraced and will never be altered.
But let's say, for example, all other web browsers die off and the only way to access the web from a PC is via the MS OS and IE (I know, a stretch, but bear with me).
So one day John Smith and his MS-Sux.net website pissed of MS and in that night's auto-update, everyone's browsers no longer will go to MS-Sux.net.
Or perhaps Cisco gains so much control over network hardware, they force ISP's to block access to some sites whom they are offended by.
Or perhaps ISP's just keep loosing money and figure they have to do subscriptions like HBO- so you have to subscribe to various websites to access them.
Things are good now, but for how long. Remain vigilent! Lets just hope the idiots responsible for passing the DCMA aren't around when the above scenarios are played out.
Kool
Mr. Clueless,
Demand for power has gone up, true enough.
California buys its power from other states, true enough.
What would make power cheaper if they bought it from internal power companies? Subsidies? Good looks?
The REASON power is expensive is NOT because it's coming out of state, but that natural gas prices have gone up dramatically. Whether a power plant is in CA or OR or NV or wherever, half-assed deregulation IS responsible.
There's no environmental fault at all. If nothing else, CA should find more Natural Gas in it's own state. If environmentalists bitch about more drilling, then you have a vaild complaint. But your current one holds no water.
"Do me a favor and run up to the fridge and get Gramps a new spleen, grandson"
;).
What they should do FIRST is clone body parts. Or better, yet, functioning bodies without heads.
I smoke. It's stupid, I know. I hope to stop before I get cancer. If I do get cancer, how cool would it be to say 'just slice open Kool Moe 2 and transplant his lungs into me' (or to that effect, don't get particular
The whole soul question is still around, but without a head, at least there's no consciousness.
So then we get backup body parts, with less of a moral delimma. Once we get that right, THEN take to the streets demanding an end to genetically perfect humans.
I'm pretty sure the SMC hardware does all that as well, for about $120 ($30 off first time Buy.com customers makes it a sweet deal). Not sure about IPSec, but since the firmware is flashable, it certainly could. I have it at home and it's sweet (just wish I didn't have to 'install the software' on all the computers to work with the printer port- would be better if I could just install a basic driver. Maybe I can...need time to dig into it).