If you didn't hear about the penalties last time, thats because there weren't any. All the companies had to do was send out a form letter, not to price fix, and that was it. Slap on the wrist.
Of course now I see CDs are $20, WOW! Time to stay on them this time.
Heres the form letter they had to send out from the FTC (EMI version)
"Dear [Recipient]:
EMI announces several important changes in policy. All of these changes will be reflected in the new Policy Manual.
EMI has dropped its Minimum Advertised Price ("MAP") policy effective ____, 2000. Cooperative advertising and other promotional funds will not be conditioned upon the price at which EMI product is advertised or promoted. As many of you know, the Federal Trade Commission has conducted an investigation into EMI's MAP policy. To end the investigation expeditiously and to avoid disruption to the conduct of its business, EMI has voluntarily agreed, without admitting any violation of the law, to the entry of a Consent Agreement relating to MAP and other related matters.
EMI's customers can advertise and promote our products at any price they choose. EMI will not withhold cooperative advertising or other promotional funds on the basis of the price at which EMI product is advertised in the media or promoted in your stores. EMI may announce suggested retail prices, but retailers remain free to sell and advertise EMI product at any price they choose. "
"Hopefully at somepoint we'll have smart phones that can be set to ring only for doctors etc. if desperately needed. If not, only allow phones to vibrate."
Thats ridiculous. I suppose you would have microchip implants identifying credentials as well. And you'll only allow government issue phones.
"Are you not willing to pay 30 cents for your IP address space?"
Are you high? $2500/year is a real steal huh? What does that buy me, some numbers. Well I've got something for you. You can have 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9. There, pay me $2500 please.
The fact that my ISP has to pay at all persuades them to charge me $5 per IP number, not 30c. Why should I pay 30c anways?, so someone can jet-set off to conferences, work in a brand new lavish office building, have bullshit brunches figuring out what companies are "playing ball", etc? No sir, customers are not willing to pay one cent more than is necessary, especially if we don't even get a static IP number, which is supposedly what the fees are all about.
Look at em go..
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ICANN Updates
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ICANN is an organization which wants to control the internet.
ARIN and the other RIRs is an organization that wants to control the internet.
Both charge outrageous fees to dole out ones and zeros in the form of IP numbers and DNS entries.
I particularly like ARINs approach to IPv6, which still costs thousands for a block of numbers even though there's essentially limitless identifiers.
I also like ICANNs policy of "give us 50k and maaayybeee you can run a tld, but probably not, and, oh yeah, its nonrefundable."
Lets face it, without these internet inhibitors there would be no artificial scarcity of either IP numbers or domain addressess. These scams only drive up the costs for internet users. IPv4 blocks are not reclaimed, IPv6 blocks are virtually limitless. New TLDs don't require any sort of voodoo magic, and can be handled the same way, and with the same hardware as the old TLDs.
It sounds like these organizations, built on greed, are getting carried away with each other.
Architects like you are describing design buildings and relay these designs as blueprints to the builders.
Manufacturing companies make windows.
Window manufacturers are not responsible for the acts of criminals.
Web server manufacturers are not responsible for the acts of criminals.
If you want to end human suffering, stop whining.
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What does it matter if the earth is warming up? If the world becomes less habitable, human population levels will recede to the correct levels. If you don't want to die, too bad you're going to die anyways. And so what about extinction. The dinosaurs are extinct and you don't hear people crying. And who knows what kind of grand lifeform would take over if humans were to extinct ourselves. The fact is, global nuclear war would not even destroy the bacteria living miles below the surface of the earth.
The fact is, while human beings are doing all the right things to ensure survival, the earth has gotten along fine for many eons, and will get along fine for many eons further despite doomsayers.
Humans did not put life on this planet and they aren't able to take it away. If we kill the baby seals they will be replaced with something else, like head crabs.
I propose that CEOs are counterproductive towards profits. When a CEO gets a $15-200 million bonus after 15,000 workers have been laid off, several product lines are shut down. Even if these product lines were not making money, they may have been the next killer app in the future. Even if they weren't making money, perhaps one of those 15k workers developed the next hot feature for an existing product. For example in digital electronics, the work of one engineer can improve a product performance by as much as 15%.
How many killer app inventions or features were ever created by CEOs? Everyone knows about these companies where the second, or third, or fourth ranked employee created the primary product and the guy on top just happened to be there. Look at apple.
"The real problem is a lack or morals and ethics in general, compared with a generation or two ago."
Thats what every generation says when they get older. Society always seems less moral as one grows older. Don't believe me go back and watch some comedians from a few decades ago. Yes your grandparents used words like fuck and shit quite often back in the golden era. Look at music: that golden oldie "Cotton Eyed-Joe" was about an abortionist. You don't hear Brittany Spears singing about a hunky one eyed abortionist. "The Yellow Rose of Texas" was a prostitute. The only difference is that the eminems of yesterday have faded into oblivion. I think general societal ethics have cleaned up today. Someone's grandad might have been a "T-Bird" and despite the movie Grease, the guy might have put a few people in the hospital during his gang years.
And just because they didn't report a shooting in the Mayberry Gazette doesn't mean it didn't happen. Today, every major shooting in the world of 6 billion people is funnelled into your mind.
As another point, its not a computer administrator's job to be mind control morality police. There job is to keep the computers running so students can find what they need, when they need it. Much like defensive driving instructors down at K-Mart, these guys hold themselves in too much esteem.
Joe Nacchio, CEO, Qwest, is famous for supposedly saying something along the lines of:
"We don't need customers, the customers need us."
at a conference call.
No one likes quest, not Wall street, not the SEC, not the customers. Their freakin dsl is twice as much as cable for the same bandwidth, and thats just for the loop and the dsl modem, with no isp. Really, shouldn't the ISP be who decides the bandwidth costs. Its ok, because you can't get qwest dsl hardly anywhere in Denver anyway.
Well now, if the topic is internet monopolies, we should bring up ARIN, the supposedly non-profit organization that has taken it upon itself to sell IP Numbers.
With a minimum cost of $2500 for what was previously termed a "C" block (used to cost nothing) and a $500 fee just to attend their meetings, ARIN has all the markings of a wide range fleecing.
You see, when a company goes bankrupt or scales back their network or fails to utilized IP space, supposedly those IP blocks would be reclaimed and reassigned, however IP blocks are not currently reclaimed in order to justify the huge fees for the numbers because of the apparent IP crunch. (30% of the space is unassigned, notwithstanding)
When we look at ARIN's budget we see a payroll of $2.3 million dollars for 35 employees, with over $1 million in fringe benefits. Their office is in one of the most expensive places in the country in a brand new 2001 built office building.
Despite all this the supposedly non-profit organization budgets a profit of over $1.5 million dollars.
Maintaining an IP number registry is unlike maintaining the DNS root servers, there are no servers, just a list of companies and the blocks assigned to them. While there are many millions of DNS entries, IP number registrants are in the thousands.
How does this affect you? ISPs have to pay these ridiculous "taxes" and pass the costs on to their users. ERIN directors have said, "Users won't mind paying an extra 30 cents a year." Well, I suppose banks won't mind if someone borrows a few pennies from each account right? In reality small time ISPs are denied larger blocks, and couldn't "sell" that many IP numbers anyways, so they end up passing on the $5-$10 fee per IP we enjoy today.
I, for one, would love to see the US military's augmented reality program. Imagine the boost to soldiers who have to storm a structure, or even just quickly locating friendly forces visually from miles away.
So, a Saturn V moon mission might have relied on some gel or something similar to make sure it got back to earth. Well so much for wanting to be an astronaut.
"if you force them to go back to their countries of origin, they won't become farmers, they'll create a thriving and competitive software industry there."
Well now thats the crux of the H1B debate now isn't it:
Are these people really qualified to replace American workers?
Ok, maybe you haven't worked in an OR, but doctors are way more anal than programmers. They schedule operations at 4am, or 10pm, or 2am, they listen to classical, they listen to rock, they listen to whatever, they have to have the right instruments and the right people, they need the right kind of headlamp.
Perhaps trauma doctors don't worry as much, but you can bet the trauma room is configured meticulously.
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If you didn't hear about the penalties last time, thats because there weren't any. All the companies had to do was send out a form letter, not to price fix, and that was it. Slap on the wrist.
Of course now I see CDs are $20, WOW! Time to stay on them this time.
Heres the form letter they had to send out from the FTC (EMI version)
"Dear [Recipient]:
EMI announces several important changes in policy. All of these changes will be reflected in the new Policy Manual.
EMI has dropped its Minimum Advertised Price ("MAP") policy effective ____, 2000. Cooperative advertising and other promotional funds will not be conditioned upon the price at which EMI product is advertised or promoted. As many of you know, the Federal Trade Commission has conducted an investigation into EMI's MAP policy. To end the investigation expeditiously and to avoid disruption to the conduct of its business, EMI has voluntarily agreed, without admitting any violation of the law, to the entry of a Consent Agreement relating to MAP and other related matters.
EMI's customers can advertise and promote our products at any price they choose. EMI will not withhold cooperative advertising or other promotional funds on the basis of the price at which EMI product is advertised in the media or promoted in your stores. EMI may announce suggested retail prices, but retailers remain free to sell and advertise EMI product at any price they choose.
"
"Hopefully at somepoint we'll have smart phones that can be set to ring only for doctors etc. if desperately needed. If not, only allow phones to vibrate."
Thats ridiculous. I suppose you would have microchip implants identifying credentials as well. And you'll only allow government issue phones.
"Are you not willing to pay 30 cents for your IP address space?"
Are you high? $2500/year is a real steal huh? What does that buy me, some numbers. Well I've got something for you. You can have 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9. There, pay me $2500 please.
The fact that my ISP has to pay at all persuades them to charge me $5 per IP number, not 30c. Why should I pay 30c anways?, so someone can jet-set off to conferences, work in a brand new lavish office building, have bullshit brunches figuring out what companies are "playing ball", etc? No sir, customers are not willing to pay one cent more than is necessary, especially if we don't even get a static IP number, which is supposedly what the fees are all about.
ICANN is an organization which wants to control the internet.
ARIN and the other RIRs is an organization that wants to control the internet.
Both charge outrageous fees to dole out ones and zeros in the form of IP numbers and DNS entries.
I particularly like ARINs approach to IPv6, which still costs thousands for a block of numbers even though there's essentially limitless identifiers.
I also like ICANNs policy of "give us 50k and maaayybeee you can run a tld, but probably not, and, oh yeah, its nonrefundable."
Lets face it, without these internet inhibitors there would be no artificial scarcity of either IP numbers or domain addressess. These scams only drive up the costs for internet users. IPv4 blocks are not reclaimed, IPv6 blocks are virtually limitless. New TLDs don't require any sort of voodoo magic, and can be handled the same way, and with the same hardware as the old TLDs.
It sounds like these organizations, built on greed, are getting carried away with each other.
Just give me my tin-foil underwear first.
>If you don't think global warming is real, great, PROVE IT!
t ml
Well the first point of debate would be a reminder that its impossible to prove a negative.
Second, Global Warming is not a debate about temperature variations, its a debate about how much impact humans have on the global climate.
Third, Richard Lindzen, MIT does a good job in this piece of why the verdict is still out:
http://www.eos.ubc.ca/courses/eosc112/lindzen.h
Architects like you are describing design buildings and relay these designs as blueprints to the builders.
Manufacturing companies make windows.
Window manufacturers are not responsible for the acts of criminals.
Web server manufacturers are not responsible for the acts of criminals.
What does it matter if the earth is warming up? If the world becomes less habitable, human population levels will recede to the correct levels. If you don't want to die, too bad you're going to die anyways. And so what about extinction. The dinosaurs are extinct and you don't hear people crying. And who knows what kind of grand lifeform would take over if humans were to extinct ourselves. The fact is, global nuclear war would not even destroy the bacteria living miles below the surface of the earth.
The fact is, while human beings are doing all the right things to ensure survival, the earth has gotten along fine for many eons, and will get along fine for many eons further despite
doomsayers.
Humans did not put life on this planet and they aren't able to take it away. If we kill the baby seals they will be replaced with something else, like head crabs.
When an SUV rolls over someone dies.
When children's clothing chokes a child, someone dies.
When a doctor screws up a surgery, someone dies.
When IIS is hacked, L331 H4XOR OWNZORZ JOO.
"Good CEOs build companies and produce profits."
I propose that CEOs are counterproductive towards profits. When a CEO gets a $15-200 million bonus after 15,000 workers have been laid off, several product lines are shut down. Even if these product lines were not making money, they may have been the next killer app in the future. Even if they weren't making money, perhaps one of those 15k workers developed the next hot feature for an existing product. For example in digital electronics, the work of one engineer can improve a product performance by as much as 15%.
How many killer app inventions or features were ever created by CEOs? Everyone knows about these companies where the second, or third, or fourth ranked employee created the primary product and the guy on top just happened to be there. Look at apple.
"The real problem is a lack or morals and ethics in general, compared with a generation or two ago."
Thats what every generation says when they get older. Society always seems less moral as one grows older. Don't believe me go back and watch some comedians from a few decades ago. Yes your grandparents used words like fuck and shit quite often back in the golden era. Look at music: that golden oldie "Cotton Eyed-Joe" was about an abortionist. You don't hear Brittany Spears singing about a hunky one eyed abortionist. "The Yellow Rose of Texas" was a prostitute. The only difference is that the eminems of yesterday have faded into oblivion. I think general societal ethics have cleaned up today. Someone's grandad might have been a "T-Bird" and despite the movie Grease, the guy might have put a few people in the hospital during his gang years.
And just because they didn't report a shooting in the Mayberry Gazette doesn't mean it didn't happen. Today, every major shooting in the world of 6 billion people is funnelled into your mind.
As another point, its not a computer administrator's job to be mind control morality police. There job is to keep the computers running so students can find what they need, when they need it. Much like defensive driving instructors down at K-Mart, these guys hold themselves in too much esteem.
Joe Nacchio, CEO, Qwest, is famous for supposedly saying something along the lines of:
"We don't need customers, the customers need us."
at a conference call.
No one likes quest, not Wall street, not the SEC, not the customers. Their freakin dsl is twice as much as cable for the same bandwidth, and thats just for the loop and the dsl modem, with no isp. Really, shouldn't the ISP be who decides the bandwidth costs. Its ok, because you can't get qwest dsl hardly anywhere in Denver anyway.
Well now, if the topic is internet monopolies, we should bring up ARIN, the supposedly non-profit organization that has taken it upon itself to sell IP Numbers.
With a minimum cost of $2500 for what was previously termed a "C" block (used to cost nothing) and a $500 fee just to attend their meetings, ARIN has all the markings of a wide range fleecing.
You see, when a company goes bankrupt or scales back their network or fails to utilized IP space, supposedly those IP blocks would be reclaimed and reassigned, however IP blocks are not currently reclaimed in order to justify the huge fees for the numbers because of the apparent IP crunch. (30% of the space is unassigned, notwithstanding)
When we look at ARIN's budget we see a payroll of $2.3 million dollars for 35 employees, with over $1 million in fringe benefits. Their office is in one of the most expensive places in the country in a brand new 2001 built office building.
Despite all this the supposedly non-profit organization budgets a profit of over $1.5 million dollars.
Maintaining an IP number registry is unlike maintaining the DNS root servers, there are no servers, just a list of companies and the blocks assigned to them. While there are many millions of DNS entries, IP number registrants are in the thousands.
How does this affect you? ISPs have to pay these ridiculous "taxes" and pass the costs on to their users. ERIN directors have said, "Users won't mind paying an extra 30 cents a year." Well, I suppose banks won't mind if someone borrows a few pennies from each account right? In reality small time ISPs are denied larger blocks, and couldn't "sell" that many IP numbers anyways, so they end up passing on the $5-$10 fee per IP we enjoy today.
Relax, theres already licensees working with the technology
I, for one, would love to see the US military's augmented reality program. Imagine the boost to soldiers who have to storm a structure, or even just quickly locating friendly forces visually from miles away.
Ok, thanks that was interesting.
So, a Saturn V moon mission might have relied on some gel or something similar to make sure it got back to earth. Well so much for wanting to be an astronaut.
"it's a spacecraft dammnit!"
Eeek!
"not to hold them together, but to absorb vibrational energy."
Well, if they come apart without the gel...
So some gel is supposed to hold the thing together? I hope it was a vcr or something and not a jumbo jet.
Phone calls in xome Vegas Hotels can run about $20 / min.
Maybe she just wanted to see her kids. I hope this wasn't on Sunday.
We know you're trying to drum up some traffic using cheap tricks.
If Carmack posts, you know every game site on the web will link to slashdot, giving slashdot a 'quad damage' to its server stats and ad revenue.
How about just don't tell your boss and keep your personal circumstances to yourself, and quit when it suits you.
"if you force them to go back to their countries of origin, they won't become farmers, they'll create a thriving and competitive software industry there."
Well now thats the crux of the H1B debate now isn't it:
Are these people really qualified to replace American workers?
Ok, maybe you haven't worked in an OR, but doctors are way more anal than programmers. They schedule operations at 4am, or 10pm, or 2am, they listen to classical, they listen to rock, they listen to whatever, they have to have the right instruments and the right people, they need the right kind of headlamp.
Perhaps trauma doctors don't worry as much, but you can bet the trauma room is configured meticulously.
I heard potatos are good also in case of hard times, just ask the irish.