Earthlink caps newsgroups. I think it is about 3 gig in a 30 day period before they throttle the connection to 1/2 speed for broadband customers. This effects everyone who uses the binary groups. I switched to a dedicated new server, Astraweb.
The real problem here is lack of competition. Most broadband is handled by only a few companies. The only new competitor I see out there is speakeasy, and I've been giving them a real close look, and so far it looks good.
Why is it that people who disagree with the War in Iraqi are LIberals? Do you mean that people who point out lies are LIberals? Does that mean that non-Liberals are liars? This whole post is scary shit. There was nothing in the original rational for the war about stopping terrorists in general, or liberating the Iraqi people, it was to get the Weapons of Mass Destruction. The are none, so we are finding other rationals. There is nothing here about LIberals and non-liberals, it is a out lieing. The moral of our troops is sinking because they were lied to, and it is that simple. The capture of Saddam with not effect that.
I've been reading about the elections and am rather annoyed about how hard it is to get find info, where can I find info on what went on where in yesterdays election? I realize the question is somewhat vauge, but you need to start somewhere to be able to formulate intelligent questions and the where to start is what is missing.
I agree totally. This is a serious issue here in the US and in the rest of the developed world.
When I make a deposit at a Diebold ATM my Bank doesn't just accept what I say on the screen, they require the paperwork I use be correct also. If a touch-screen isn't good enough for a simple deposit why is it good enough for an election?
This has all sorts of repercussions. It makes voting a privilege provided by technocrats and not an open process. This is the same problem that the Free Software movement set out to solve. Now it crops up here.
Not all computer or voting hacks are the same
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CNN Reports on Diebold
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In reading all these comments on touch screen voting I've never seen the issue that bothers me most raised.
There is a constant refrain that any system can be hacked. Sure any voting system can be compromised but the how is all important. It you're going to stuff ballot boxes you need to have a bunch of people do it and they have too have physical access to the boxes. How many boxes can one person stuff, 1? 10? Many more opportunities to catch them in the act. In a computerized system one person can hack the whole election creating any results that that one person may want. This is IMHO a totally different magnitude of issue.
This sort of problem also favors the incumbent wildly, who has all the access to any part of the system they may want.
Just because any system can be hacked doesn't make all hacks the same. Some are worse than others and some favors one person or group more than others
Alphasmart has a cool product, and laptop that uses the Palm OS , the Dana.The NY Times gave it a great review, there is a PDF version of the review on their website.
I think they just killed ST for me. Enterprise started out ok but has slid and slid. They don't need gimiks they need good basic writing. Look at "City on the edge of Forever", perhaps the only good time travel story done, the plot is pretty straight forward. What makes it work is the writing, it's the interaction of the characters while in the situation that works. Look at Babalyon 5, a more or less standard sci-fi setup, but with great writing.
The most important info we keep on most home computers is who we are. Get that and we have idenity theft. When home system's get hacked what happens is either they get set to be used as DDoS drones, or the attackers are looking to get enough info to steal your idenity. Even if only 1 percent of home users get used this way that is still millions of people, since when is this not a problem.
This is the sort of crappy reasoning that states that since most people don't get wacked by the Mob, the Mob doesn't mean much. In NYC for years everyone payed a 1 percent Mob tax. That was the amount prices were inflated to cover corprate losses to the Mob. If you wanted to build a building the cement was controlled by the Mob. Then you had, and have, labor rackettes.
If a company is hacked and blackmailed they often don't report it. But the cost is passed along to the consumer.
According to the National Geographic Special that came with the 4 cd set (its great - get it -) the Finish Kalevala was more an influance than Beowulf to Tolkien. If you check this page it lists some of the orgins of some of the character names in the LotR.
People forget that Tolkien was one of the world's great authorities on all forms of Northen European Lang. and Lit. He had a lot more than Beowulf to draw on. Many linguists have commented on how much Tolkien leaned on Finnish when he created Elvish.
Pro Rendering is done with huge server farms running linux this or that. Who cares what the speed is on your machine, this is just the sort of silly Ohh this PC is Sooo much faster than this Mac thing that discredits the whole field. It is just like the peope who bitch that IBM mainframes are slow because their processors don't run at 3 Ghz.
I don't know anyone who has bought one of these speed demons. Every one who I know who has bought a new PC in the last 12 months has got one in the 1-2 ghz range, which is where the PPC Macs sit.
The most important thing about mainframes isn't their intrinstic stablity - its their ability to run the same app written in 1964, now, and get the same results faster and better, without uptime issues.
Every line of code written costs money, and provides another chance for a bug, if it works don't monkey with it. The longer a block of code can just sit and work, the better. If the same code can do its job for 20 or 30 years that is just wonderful.
This is the point of the 1st amendment. Injustice can only go so far in a society that has free and open communications before someone points it out.
This is one of the greatest questions I have on "trusted computing", it so limits the ability to diseminate information. I might not have a problem if it could *only* be applied to Disney Movies, but once it exists for one it can be used for any.
It isn't enough to bitch here, its important to shake some of your local gov't's cages, not to mention the feds.
In the end I have to agree that some form of DRM is necessary. So far this is laid out as a Goliath (RIAA, MPAA) against David (Lil ol' me). I think to understand this issue we also have to turn it around. Hypothetical Question:
If I'm (and I'm not) a little indy band working with my mac to cut some songs, can I hope to develop a working way to avoid going through the RIAA to release my material and make a living doing it? Since I'm not going to sell enough copies to cover a lot of theft can I make sure I get at least most of the money that these may generate. Here is the stark choice: If I can't make a living doing this then I can it and sell insurance. I have less joy in my life and you don't get the fruits of my work. Where are the answers that I need?
Ya know - if you don't like Aqua use KDE
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No More Mac Tweaking?
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One thing that isn't being noted here is that you can run X at the same time as Aqua. If you feel like tweeking do that. If Apple can't make good on a claim that OSX - Including Aqua - isn't secure and stable they've got nothing to compete with.
It is more stable and secure than Windows - with a better tought out UI.
It is more clean and consistant than Linux - with a better thought out UI
So it has the best of both without the worst of either.
It you allow people to muck arround with the guts of Aqua without a clue then you get the worst of both instead.
What a beautiful day, besides the act of terrorism it's a signpost of the government taking away our freedoms, AND when daddy lied.
Do you have children?
Do you tell a toddler that there are people out there who want to kill her because she exists?
Do you tell her that sorry I can't protect you because the airplanes you love to look at are going to be crashed into you?
As an A.C. pointed out I told her the strict truth.
And!! I haven't just bitched on/. about our freedoms, I've contacted MY Senators and Reps and made clear what I think they should be doing on this issue.
As a SAHD (Stay at home dad) I sometimes come to/. to escape the world of children, though there are times like this that I wish there was more awareness here about children. If we're so upset and up in arms about "Freedoms" whose Freedoms, and world for that matter, are we worried about?
Some of you may have noticed the satellite photos of the smoke and "other stuff" that streamed south from Ground Zero. I live in Brooklyn and was right under that cloud. There was a fine white-grey powder that fell for about 20 minutes. I'm a stay-at-home Dad. I How can I explain the feeling when my kids asked why it was snowing. They were upset that it wasn't real snow and I wouldn't let them outside to play as I swept up. I just told them that it was dirt that had blown down from Manhattan. My wife works a whole 3 blocks from Ground Zero but was home taking my school-age daughter to her first day a school. I'll go to my grave remembering the feeling that I was sweeping out a crematoria in front of my house.
There is some use for bean counters
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Layoffs at WotC
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Checked around on some of the business sites and the general idea is that Hasbro is run by bean counters. They are very good at hording the money they make from their hits, when the hit runs dry they cut staff and anything else to save money and wait for the next hit. Then they ramp up and take it for all it's worth and then start over again. It ain't pretty, but it works for GM and Ford.
To me this looks less and less like a way for Copyright holders to protect their investment and more and more like a way to gather even more info on us so they can "improve" how they sell goods. I keep a firewall not so much to keep others out, but to control what info on me goes out.
Like MS's Passport, just because they say their only doing X, if your not allowed to check (DMCA) how can you tell what they are doing.
What people seem to be forgeting is that there was, and to a point, is, a version of OSX on x86. Its called OpenStep and NextStep. Most of the cool stuff in OSX is there. When it was released for X86 in the early 90's it developed a niche following, but not more that that.
I'm tired of all the people who complain about having to pay for what they use - this ain't a charity. If all you want is email then by all means go to yahoo and get your email. Remember they will be adding to.mac, and it already does things that itools didn't do, like ical.
As Steve pointed out even yahoo charges if you go over some rather small limits on your email with them and all the internet storage co's are dead. I get perfectly fine email from my ISP, I never used itools, so I won't now and won' t pay for it.
The point of.mac is this:
"this is costing us an arm and a leg, so if you think it is too cool to live without then pay for it and we'll make it worth your money, and if its no big deal then split and stop costing us money"
Check out this link
http://www.amnestyusa.org/news/2002/world04092002. html
(I forgot how to make it a link:( sorry)
I think the point here should be scary enough.
To add clarity this is from the pravda web site siting the Amnisty Int. report
The International body's annual report, published yesterday, states that 3,048 executions were carried out in 2001, compared to the year 2000 figure of 1,457 ; an increase largely attributed to Beijing's new Strike Hard crime policy. Indeed, no fewer than 1,781 people were executed in China between April and July 2001 - more than the total number of people executed in the rest of the world in the previous three years combined.
Here is the pravda link
http://english.pravda.ru/world/2002/04/10/27497.ht ml
Even they can speak the truth sometimes.
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Earthlink caps newsgroups. I think it is about 3 gig in a 30 day period before they throttle the connection to 1/2 speed for broadband customers. This effects everyone who uses the binary groups. I switched to a dedicated new server, Astraweb.
The real problem here is lack of competition. Most broadband is handled by only a few companies. The only new competitor I see out there is speakeasy, and I've been giving them a real close look, and so far it looks good.
Why is it that people who disagree with the War in Iraqi are LIberals? Do you mean that people who point out lies are LIberals? Does that mean that non-Liberals are liars? This whole post is scary shit. There was nothing in the original rational for the war about stopping terrorists in general, or liberating the Iraqi people, it was to get the Weapons of Mass Destruction. The are none, so we are finding other rationals. There is nothing here about LIberals and non-liberals, it is a out lieing. The moral of our troops is sinking because they were lied to, and it is that simple. The capture of Saddam with not effect that.
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I've been reading about the elections and am rather annoyed about how hard it is to get find info, where can I find info on what went on where in yesterdays election? I realize the question is somewhat vauge, but you need to start somewhere to be able to formulate intelligent questions and the where to start is what is missing.
I agree totally. This is a serious issue here in the US and in the rest of the developed world.
When I make a deposit at a Diebold ATM my Bank doesn't just accept what I say on the screen, they require the paperwork I use be correct also. If a touch-screen isn't good enough for a simple deposit why is it good enough for an election?
This has all sorts of repercussions. It makes voting a privilege provided by technocrats and not an open process. This is the same problem that the Free Software movement set out to solve. Now it crops up here.
In reading all these comments on touch screen voting I've never seen the issue that bothers me most raised.
There is a constant refrain that any system can be hacked. Sure any voting system can be compromised but the how is all important. It you're going to stuff ballot boxes you need to have a bunch of people do it and they have too have physical access to the boxes. How many boxes can one person stuff, 1? 10? Many more opportunities to catch them in the act. In a computerized system one person can hack the whole election creating any results that that one person may want. This is IMHO a totally different magnitude of issue.
This sort of problem also favors the incumbent wildly, who has all the access to any part of the system they may want.
Just because any system can be hacked doesn't make all hacks the same. Some are worse than others and some favors one person or group more than others
Alphasmart has a cool product, and laptop that uses the Palm OS , the Dana .The NY Times gave it a great review, there is a PDF version of the review on their website.
I think they just killed ST for me. Enterprise started out ok but has slid and slid. They don't need gimiks they need good basic writing. Look at "City on the edge of Forever", perhaps the only good time travel story done, the plot is pretty straight forward. What makes it work is the writing, it's the interaction of the characters while in the situation that works. Look at Babalyon 5, a more or less standard sci-fi setup, but with great writing.
Love to, but your email gets bounced back to me, let me know where to send it and I will
I have one of these cards, the P100. I have no Idea what I'll do with it, but its there all the same.
The most important info we keep on most home computers is who we are. Get that and we have idenity theft. When home system's get hacked what happens is either they get set to be used as DDoS drones, or the attackers are looking to get enough info to steal your idenity. Even if only 1 percent of home users get used this way that is still millions of people, since when is this not a problem.
This is the sort of crappy reasoning that states that since most people don't get wacked by the Mob, the Mob doesn't mean much. In NYC for years everyone payed a 1 percent Mob tax. That was the amount prices were inflated to cover corprate losses to the Mob. If you wanted to build a building the cement was controlled by the Mob. Then you had, and have, labor rackettes.
If a company is hacked and blackmailed they often don't report it. But the cost is passed along to the consumer.
People forget that Tolkien was one of the world's great authorities on all forms of Northen European Lang. and Lit. He had a lot more than Beowulf to draw on. Many linguists have commented on how much Tolkien leaned on Finnish when he created Elvish.
Pro Rendering is done with huge server farms running linux this or that. Who cares what the speed is on your machine, this is just the sort of silly Ohh this PC is Sooo much faster than this Mac thing that discredits the whole field. It is just like the peope who bitch that IBM mainframes are slow because their processors don't run at 3 Ghz.
I don't know anyone who has bought one of these speed demons. Every one who I know who has bought a new PC in the last 12 months has got one in the 1-2 ghz range, which is where the PPC Macs sit.
Has there been a survey on this?
The most important thing about mainframes isn't their intrinstic stablity - its their ability to run the same app written in 1964, now, and get the same results faster and better, without uptime issues.
Every line of code written costs money, and provides another chance for a bug, if it works don't monkey with it. The longer a block of code can just sit and work, the better. If the same code can do its job for 20 or 30 years that is just wonderful.
This is the point of the 1st amendment. Injustice can only go so far in a society that has free and open communications before someone points it out.
This is one of the greatest questions I have on "trusted computing", it so limits the ability to diseminate information. I might not have a problem if it could *only* be applied to Disney Movies, but once it exists for one it can be used for any.
It isn't enough to bitch here, its important to shake some of your local gov't's cages, not to mention the feds.
In the end I have to agree that some form of DRM is necessary. So far this is laid out as a Goliath (RIAA, MPAA) against David (Lil ol' me). I think to understand this issue we also have to turn it around. Hypothetical Question:
If I'm (and I'm not) a little indy band working with my mac to cut some songs, can I hope to develop a working way to avoid going through the RIAA to release my material and make a living doing it? Since I'm not going to sell enough copies to cover a lot of theft can I make sure I get at least most of the money that these may generate.
Here is the stark choice: If I can't make a living doing this then I can it and sell insurance. I have less joy in my life and you don't get the fruits of my work.
Where are the answers that I need?
One thing that isn't being noted here is that you can run X at the same time as Aqua. If you feel like tweeking do that. If Apple can't make good on a claim that OSX - Including Aqua - isn't secure and stable they've got nothing to compete with.
It is more stable and secure than Windows - with a better tought out UI.
It is more clean and consistant than Linux - with a better thought out UI
So it has the best of both without the worst of either.
It you allow people to muck arround with the guts of Aqua without a clue then you get the worst of both instead.
What a beautiful day, besides the act of terrorism it's a signpost of the government taking away our freedoms, AND when daddy lied.
/. about our freedoms, I've contacted MY Senators and Reps and made clear what I think they should be doing on this issue.
/. to escape the world of children, though there are times like this that I wish there was more awareness here about children. If we're so upset and up in arms about "Freedoms" whose Freedoms, and world for that matter, are we worried about?
Do you have children?
Do you tell a toddler that there are people out there who want to kill her because she exists?
Do you tell her that sorry I can't protect you because the airplanes you love to look at are going to be crashed into you?
As an A.C. pointed out I told her the strict truth.
And!! I haven't just bitched on
As a SAHD (Stay at home dad) I sometimes come to
Some of you may have noticed the satellite photos of the smoke and "other stuff" that streamed south from Ground Zero. I live in Brooklyn and was right under that cloud. There was a fine white-grey powder that fell for about 20 minutes. I'm a stay-at-home Dad. I How can I explain the feeling when my kids asked why it was snowing. They were upset that it wasn't real snow and I wouldn't let them outside to play as I swept up. I just told them that it was dirt that had blown down from Manhattan. My wife works a whole 3 blocks from Ground Zero but was home taking my school-age daughter to her first day a school. I'll go to my grave remembering the feeling that I was sweeping out a crematoria in front of my house.
Checked around on some of the business sites and the general idea is that Hasbro is run by bean counters. They are very good at hording the money they make from their hits, when the hit runs dry they cut staff and anything else to save money and wait for the next hit. Then they ramp up and take it for all it's worth and then start over again. It ain't pretty, but it works for GM and Ford.
To me this looks less and less like a way for Copyright holders to protect their investment and more and more like a way to gather even more info on us so they can "improve" how they sell goods. I keep a firewall not so much to keep others out, but to control what info on me goes out.
Like MS's Passport, just because they say their only doing X, if your not allowed to check (DMCA) how can you tell what they are doing.
What people seem to be forgeting is that there was, and to a point, is, a version of OSX on x86. Its called OpenStep and NextStep. Most of the cool stuff in OSX is there. When it was released for X86 in the early 90's it developed a niche following, but not more that that.
I'm tired of all the people who complain about having to pay for what they use - this ain't a charity. If all you want is email then by all means go to yahoo and get your email. Remember they will be adding to .mac, and it already does things that itools didn't do, like ical.
.mac is this:
As Steve pointed out even yahoo charges if you go over some rather small limits on your email with them and all the internet storage co's are dead. I get perfectly fine email from my ISP, I never used itools, so I won't now and won' t pay for it.
The point of
"this is costing us an arm and a leg, so if you think it is too cool to live without then pay for it and we'll make it worth your money, and if its no big deal then split and stop costing us money"
Ahh, no it doesn't
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It comes in a very distant 4th with 66 compaired to over 1500 for china.
Pray check your facts.
Please ref this link:
http://www.amnestyusa.org/news/2002/world040920
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http://www.amnestyusa.org/news/2002/world04092002
(I forgot how to make it a link
I think the point here should be scary enough.
To add clarity this is from the pravda web site siting the Amnisty Int. report
The International body's annual report, published yesterday, states that 3,048 executions were carried out in 2001, compared to the year 2000 figure of 1,457 ; an increase largely attributed to Beijing's new Strike Hard crime policy. Indeed, no fewer than 1,781 people were executed in China between April and July 2001 - more than the total number of people executed in the rest of the world in the previous three years combined.
Here is the pravda link
http://english.pravda.ru/world/2002/04/10/27497.h
Even they can speak the truth sometimes.