This is seriously fucked up. I'm at the point where I think its time we simply declared open season on all lawyers. At least scumbag lawyers like the ones who write these kind of letters.
Sign up their email addresses to porn. Post their sites on portal of evil.com and watch them get trolled. Let the hack attacks begin. I'm sorry but its high time we the people put an end this the obscene litigation in this country.
True you have to wait "4-6 weeks" according to the website. But it all depends on how cheap one is willing to be;)
Now if you were in the market for a car anyway, it would be a nice side benefit to looking at another option, though I don't think I'd buy a Kia even if I was in the market for a car. But stuff like this would make me go and have a look.
I just saw a commercial today that if you go test drive a Kia car or SUV, they will give you a free copy of Lord of the Rings on DVD! I don't know if this is just in the Cincinnati area (where I heard the ad) or everywhere, but if you don't mind getting to play with a car and listen to a sales pitch, you can score a free copy of the DVD.
Ouch, you should have asked for full anethesia. Its expansive but well worth it for this type of operation. It helps if your insurance covers some or most of it like mind did (about half the operation was covered).
As it turns out, I just had mine out (all 4, impacted) this Tuesday (yes I'm still very sore but healing up nicely and even made it into work today).
They put a tube into my vein, which was like a small pinprick, the only pain I would feel for the next few hours. The doctor then put in 3 mini hypo's of "the good stuff" and pressed them in one after another. By the time he was pushing in he 3rd one, the room was getting a bit spinny. I laid back in the chair to relax a bit and didn't even finish my "I wonder how long this takes" thought. Next thing I know, I'm waking up on some kind of bed and being helped into a wheelchair. I saw double for a good hour or so afterwards, but it was worth not remembering a damn thing about the operation between the pinprick and waking up:P
That is because they aren't signed with an RIAA label. If a label isn't part of the RIAA, the RIAA makes sure that the big stores don't carry them at all. Yes that is illegal but the RIAA is an illegal cartel and has been for years but no one in the govt cares because the RIAA knows how to grease palms.
My favorite webcasting site, DigitalGunfire.com was about to shut down but was SAVED by 3 of the labels they played, who gave them SIGNED contracts saying they could play their music 100% Royalty free! These labels recognize that DigitalGunfire is actually helping them with FREE promotional broadcasting.
So if you are into industrial/electronic music, check out these three labels and buy from them if you like what you hear (check out DigitalGunfire.com for a few hours or days if you want to listen before you buy!)
The setup is a it geeky, but it will remove almost all ads and popups and such crap. It also has many other powerful features and you can easilly add things to the blocklist. Since it runs as a proxy, you can point other machines on your network to it and it will filter them as well, great if being used in a buisiness to save on bandwidth costs, or to simplify home setup if you have a network with several machines in the house.
Seriously though, why all the fuss about a national ID? We have it at the State level already and you don't see people screaming big brother about that. Here in Ohio, we have drivers licenses but you can also get a "State ID" card which looks like it only it says "non driver" if for some reason you can't drive (say, due to age).
Granted its just yet another card I'll have to carry about with me, unless maybe they strike a deal with states to combine the ID with drivers licenses as well as using them as just standard ID's (for non drivers).
Ok, I don't know who modded this person down as troll, but that was wrong. Far as I can see, this person was modded troll because the moderator didn't agree with their viewpoint.
I didn't agree with them either as you can see by my post in reply to them, but save -1 troll for the real trolls, or better yet, modding up the GOOD posts, let those with endless mod points deal with the real trolls.
But if you must mod troll, do it real trolling, not just because you do not agree with a post. If you don't agree, REPLY and make your rebuttle, don't just slap someone down to where no one will read them, otherwise you become no better than the censors (DMCA anyone?) us Slashdotters all lothe.
Much as I shudder at the thought of nude Janet Reno pics going through my body, we've been have Nsync, Backstreet Boys, Michael Jackson, Rush Limbaugh and Howard Stern passing through our bodies for a long time now and as far as I know, no ones died from it yet.
The problem is, despite the best of intentions, someone has to be in charge somehow. The reason you were able to have it set up by "the community" in a university is because that community was full of peopel who know how to do that. But in the wider community of say a city, there isn't enough expertise to go around, at least I don't think there is. I suppose if there were enough volunteers one could set this up, but you would have to find enough volunteers in that general area. You would also then have to find a way to pay for the equipment as well as the connection to the main internet.
Another problem is that, even in the universities, someone was in charge of this, and at some point they did start caring who did what, just try to log into Napster or any service which happens to use one of the popular Napster ports from a university and you will see what I mean.
The moral is, someone will eventually take control of the network and there is no way to guarentee that it won't ever happen. If we start with a community based system, eventually it will get taken over by either a company or local, state or federal government. If anything, it may be best to keep it in the local government because at least then it is easier to be heard than if it was all run by the feds, where only the rich are allowed to talk to the powerful.
You complain when corporations provide it, then you complain when the government does it. So who should provide it then? Internet access doesn't grow on trees you know.
When I saw the Pentagon mentioned along with a crackdown, I expected something about them cracking down on citizens. Instead it is simply about the Pentagon taking the wise move to curtail wireless WITHIN the military only use until they can be assured it can be used securely. That strikes me as a smart move, closing a hole that a terrorist or assassin might have otherwise used. Its good to see those in the Pentagon using their brains and thinking of interesting ways they might have security problems rather than having a tragedy happen first.
Replying to my own post is silly, but here is mine.
Dear Ms. Fiorina,
I read on Slashdot.org that your company is suing a group of security experts for pointing out a flaw in your Tru64 UNIX operating system and warning others about it via SecurityFocus.com. As a buffer overflow is a rather trivial thing to fix, and you've apparently known about it for a while, I wonder why your programming team did not simply fix the bug and release a patch? That would certainly make a lot more sense than expensive lawyers and damaging your corporate image by using the DMCA as a censorship tool.
I will add that where I work, we have purchased several HP Unix machines and seeing this kind of reaction to a security hole instead of fixing it and thanking SnoSoft for pointing it out concerns me greatly. We don't use Tru64, but if this is how you deal with security holes in your products, ignoring it and trying to cover it rather than fixing it, it doesn't make companies, small or large very keen on continuing to purchase your hardware or software.
So I urge you to put pressure on those in your company who need it to retract their claim against SnoSoft, instruct your programmers to fix the hole and release a patch, and finally, apologize to those your company has threatened to sue under the DMCA for simply doing their jobs, which is to audit software and warn others about security problems they should know about.
I don't see why you should blame the guy on the sales floor for that! It is the management of Best Buy who is at fault, not the individual employees, many of who were likely upset at this as well.
Tell her in NICE non flaming tones why you feel what they are doing is wrong. Explain that this kind of action makes you unwilling to buy any more products from them.
So is the London Underground and many other subways in big cities around the world.
I wish there was better public transportation out here in Cincinnati, light rail at the very least... You have to drive everywhere here unless you live in the inner city slums.
Yes, you don't get back out exactly what was put in, but it does make the system more efficient and saving $20 million a year in electric costs is nothing to sneeze at. Nothing wrong with making the system a bit more efficient, helps both the environment and the city at the same time.
Exactly! At this point we might as well give up on this worthless fight and when things come crashing down around their ears, we should instead by ready to fill the hole it will leave behind with the next big thing. All these guys are going to do is piss the public off more and more as their laws adversely effect more and more people and eventually destroy their own political careers.
If anything, these guys should be under as much scrutiny as Rep Trafficant was for his own bribe taking.
This is actually going to HURT them. If I can't record the show, then I'm not going to be able to watch it if I'm not around when its on. That means I'm less likely to get hooked on the show and less likely to buy it on DVD later, or buy any of the other collectible junk sold to support the show.
If anything, I will boycott any show which won't let you record it out of spite and I think a lot more people may as well.
The problem is, if we vote someone else in, they are very often as corrupt and likely to be bought as the guy before them. Hell, how else do you think they got in the ticket?
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This is seriously fucked up. I'm at the point where I think its time we simply declared open season on all lawyers. At least scumbag lawyers like the ones who write these kind of letters.
Sign up their email addresses to porn. Post their sites on portal of evil.com and watch them get trolled. Let the hack attacks begin. I'm sorry but its high time we the people put an end this the obscene litigation in this country.
True you have to wait "4-6 weeks" according to the website. But it all depends on how cheap one is willing to be ;)
Now if you were in the market for a car anyway, it would be a nice side benefit to looking at another option, though I don't think I'd buy a Kia even if I was in the market for a car. But stuff like this would make me go and have a look.
I just saw a commercial today that if you go test drive a Kia car or SUV, they will give you a free copy of Lord of the Rings on DVD! I don't know if this is just in the Cincinnati area (where I heard the ad) or everywhere, but if you don't mind getting to play with a car and listen to a sales pitch, you can score a free copy of the DVD.
Check out the information here
Ouch, you should have asked for full anethesia. Its expansive but well worth it for this type of operation. It helps if your insurance covers some or most of it like mind did (about half the operation was covered).
:P
As it turns out, I just had mine out (all 4, impacted) this Tuesday (yes I'm still very sore but healing up nicely and even made it into work today).
They put a tube into my vein, which was like a small pinprick, the only pain I would feel for the next few hours. The doctor then put in 3 mini hypo's of "the good stuff" and pressed them in one after another. By the time he was pushing in he 3rd one, the room was getting a bit spinny. I laid back in the chair to relax a bit and didn't even finish my "I wonder how long this takes" thought. Next thing I know, I'm waking up on some kind of bed and being helped into a wheelchair. I saw double for a good hour or so afterwards, but it was worth not remembering a damn thing about the operation between the pinprick and waking up
That is because they aren't signed with an RIAA label. If a label isn't part of the RIAA, the RIAA makes sure that the big stores don't carry them at all. Yes that is illegal but the RIAA is an illegal cartel and has been for years but no one in the govt cares because the RIAA knows how to grease palms.
My favorite webcasting site, DigitalGunfire.com was about to shut down but was SAVED by 3 of the labels they played, who gave them SIGNED contracts saying they could play their music 100% Royalty free! These labels recognize that DigitalGunfire is actually helping them with FREE promotional broadcasting.
So if you are into industrial/electronic music, check out these three labels and buy from them if you like what you hear (check out DigitalGunfire.com for a few hours or days if you want to listen before you buy!)
Here are the labels: (Industrial/Electronic genre)
Alfa Matrix
Metropolis Records
Inception Records
If anyone knows of other indy labels who have given sites permission to play Royalty free, please add them here and list what Genre they fall under!
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The setup is a it geeky, but it will remove almost all ads and popups and such crap. It also has many other powerful features and you can easilly add things to the blocklist. Since it runs as a proxy, you can point other machines on your network to it and it will filter them as well, great if being used in a buisiness to save on bandwidth costs, or to simplify home setup if you have a network with several machines in the house.
Best of all, its totally free!
We only have a 9 digit number instead...
Seriously though, why all the fuss about a national ID? We have it at the State level already and you don't see people screaming big brother about that. Here in Ohio, we have drivers licenses but you can also get a "State ID" card which looks like it only it says "non driver" if for some reason you can't drive (say, due to age).
Granted its just yet another card I'll have to carry about with me, unless maybe they strike a deal with states to combine the ID with drivers licenses as well as using them as just standard ID's (for non drivers).
Ok, I don't know who modded this person down as troll, but that was wrong. Far as I can see, this person was modded troll because the moderator didn't agree with their viewpoint.
I didn't agree with them either as you can see by my post in reply to them, but save -1 troll for the real trolls, or better yet, modding up the GOOD posts, let those with endless mod points deal with the real trolls.
But if you must mod troll, do it real trolling, not just because you do not agree with a post. If you don't agree, REPLY and make your rebuttle, don't just slap someone down to where no one will read them, otherwise you become no better than the censors (DMCA anyone?) us Slashdotters all lothe.
Much as I shudder at the thought of nude Janet Reno pics going through my body, we've been have Nsync, Backstreet Boys, Michael Jackson, Rush Limbaugh and Howard Stern passing through our bodies for a long time now and as far as I know, no ones died from it yet.
The problem is, despite the best of intentions, someone has to be in charge somehow. The reason you were able to have it set up by "the community" in a university is because that community was full of peopel who know how to do that. But in the wider community of say a city, there isn't enough expertise to go around, at least I don't think there is. I suppose if there were enough volunteers one could set this up, but you would have to find enough volunteers in that general area. You would also then have to find a way to pay for the equipment as well as the connection to the main internet.
Another problem is that, even in the universities, someone was in charge of this, and at some point they did start caring who did what, just try to log into Napster or any service which happens to use one of the popular Napster ports from a university and you will see what I mean.
The moral is, someone will eventually take control of the network and there is no way to guarentee that it won't ever happen. If we start with a community based system, eventually it will get taken over by either a company or local, state or federal government. If anything, it may be best to keep it in the local government because at least then it is easier to be heard than if it was all run by the feds, where only the rich are allowed to talk to the powerful.
You complain when corporations provide it, then you complain when the government does it. So who should provide it then? Internet access doesn't grow on trees you know.
When I saw the Pentagon mentioned along with a crackdown, I expected something about them cracking down on citizens. Instead it is simply about the Pentagon taking the wise move to curtail wireless WITHIN the military only use until they can be assured it can be used securely. That strikes me as a smart move, closing a hole that a terrorist or assassin might have otherwise used. Its good to see those in the Pentagon using their brains and thinking of interesting ways they might have security problems rather than having a tragedy happen first.
Replying to my own post is silly, but here is mine.
Dear Ms. Fiorina,
I read on Slashdot.org that your company is suing a group of security experts for pointing out a flaw in your Tru64 UNIX operating system and warning others about it via SecurityFocus.com. As a buffer overflow is a rather trivial thing to fix, and you've apparently known about it for a while, I wonder why your programming team did not simply fix the bug and release a patch? That would certainly make a lot more sense than expensive lawyers and damaging your corporate image by using the DMCA as a censorship tool.
I will add that where I work, we have purchased several HP Unix machines and seeing this kind of reaction to a security hole instead of fixing it and thanking SnoSoft for pointing it out concerns me greatly. We don't use Tru64, but if this is how you deal with security holes in your products, ignoring it and trying to cover it rather than fixing it, it doesn't make companies, small or large very keen on continuing to purchase your hardware or software.
So I urge you to put pressure on those in your company who need it to retract their claim against SnoSoft, instruct your programmers to fix the hole and release a patch, and finally, apologize to those your company has threatened to sue under the DMCA for simply doing their jobs, which is to audit software and warn others about security problems they should know about.
Sincerely,
I don't see why you should blame the guy on the sales floor for that! It is the management of Best Buy who is at fault, not the individual employees, many of who were likely upset at this as well.
Email their president and CEO from this page!
Tell her in NICE non flaming tones why you feel what they are doing is wrong. Explain that this kind of action makes you unwilling to buy any more products from them.
So is the London Underground and many other subways in big cities around the world.
I wish there was better public transportation out here in Cincinnati, light rail at the very least... You have to drive everywhere here unless you live in the inner city slums.
Yes, you don't get back out exactly what was put in, but it does make the system more efficient and saving $20 million a year in electric costs is nothing to sneeze at. Nothing wrong with making the system a bit more efficient, helps both the environment and the city at the same time.
I wouldn't mind that myself.
I wonder how much the NYT pays Michael to post their articles links here. I swear almost every article he posts is from the NYT page.
Exactly! At this point we might as well give up on this worthless fight and when things come crashing down around their ears, we should instead by ready to fill the hole it will leave behind with the next big thing. All these guys are going to do is piss the public off more and more as their laws adversely effect more and more people and eventually destroy their own political careers.
If anything, these guys should be under as much scrutiny as Rep Trafficant was for his own bribe taking.
This is actually going to HURT them. If I can't record the show, then I'm not going to be able to watch it if I'm not around when its on. That means I'm less likely to get hooked on the show and less likely to buy it on DVD later, or buy any of the other collectible junk sold to support the show.
If anything, I will boycott any show which won't let you record it out of spite and I think a lot more people may as well.
Yet they haven't gone away yet either.
Actually, I don't mind getting AOL CD's when they come in a nice DVD style case. I just tear all the crap off of it and, boom a case for my VCD's.
The problem is, if we vote someone else in, they are very often as corrupt and likely to be bought as the guy before them. Hell, how else do you think they got in the ticket?
Given that they have put it into the XServe, I would highly expect it in any new towers which are released, whether at the show or later.
(My guess is they will announce the towers and have them "available in August")