Do you really think China and India need the help of the Kyoto Protocol? Production is *already* shifting to those countries. And yes their emissions are uncapped, but their emissions are a fraction of the U.S.'s emissions. When they become part of the problem then we can talk, but right now Europe and the U.S. are the problem.
Yeah! Lets wait untill they are fully involved in their technologies, ending up just like America (WRT their pollution)! Screw helping them *avoid* the problems we currently have! Lets not help them learn from our mistakes so they don't repeat them!
The same Bennett Haselton of peacefire.org? The same Bennett Haselton with which I've exchanged email after email trying to get him to understand that, while it is his right to provide proxies to get around web filters, it was also my right to block what *I* want on *MY* connection? The very same Bennett Haselton who REMOVED me from the stupidcensorship mailing list (the one email account I was using anyway) so I would no longer receive notifications of new proxy web pages?
That Bennett Haselton?
Too bad for him that I'm signed up to that list with so many email addresses that he'd have to completely shut the list down to be 100% sure I'm not on it any longer.
If this is the same Bennett Haselton, well, I couldn't give two-shits less about *anything* he's got to say. As far as I'm concerned, he can kiss my shiny metal ass.
That's right, but Isn't there any cell phones with some kind of answering machines, that could record voice messages directly in the phone, ignoring your phone provider voicemail service?
Not only would this be incredibly stupid (in my opinion), but no. The providers would never allow for something like this because they can't control it. They can't charge you for the service (yes, it may seem "free", but did you ever wonder why your cell phone cost the same, if not more, than a landline phone with the same features?)
Actually, in some countries, like Belgium, you don't pay to receive calls, only the caller pays to talk on the phone and you also don't pay to receive text messages... In other countries, like the US, you pay for calling and for receiving calls, and for sending and receiving text messages...
Just FYI
In addition to not paying for incoming calls (USCellular), I also do not pay to receive text messages.
uscc.com even has a tool that lets you send text messages to their customers for free (no one pays for the text messages in this way!)
Not all US carriers do this. This, in addition to the fact that the ONLY major provider in my area is Sprint (and they only have towers near the highway) is why I have USCellular.
I guess Alltel could be considered "major", but they suck big floppy donkey ears compared to USCellular.
They'll never try to voluntarily assist their customers in limiting the number of air minutes used by their customers.
I don't know how wide-spread this is, but on USCellular, so long as you are on their network, incoming calls are free (as in they don't use ANY of your minutes). 24/7/365.
So what would their incentive be for *not* offering a feature like this? For that matter, why would *any* carrier not offer a feature like this? It's a "feature" they could charge their subscribers monthly to have!
A stunning victory for the Establishment and a horror show for private citizens everywhere. Welcome to 1984.
Give me a break. They (google) tell you when you sign up for your account that the email will most likely hang around forever. They also don't claim that they will tell "the man" to fuck off if they are asked for your email(s). It's been said by others, but if you (or anyone else, for that matter) *really* care about the privacy of your email, host it yourself, or find someone who will host it in the way YOU want.
Google is providing a very good service that is, obviously, usefull to quite a few people. The gmail service was *never* sold as anything other than "your mail will probably be public, or at least in some way accessable by others" service.
Go cry your river elsewhere. The water is too high.
They aren't hosting any of the content. Only text files (as explained on their web page).
It is not illegal (Again, according to their web page) to host files that *point* to the content. Untill that changes in their country, they will stay alive (also, so long as they can keep their bills paid, that would help...:) )
For SOHO, do you *really* need 2ghz for web server, router, storage, etc?
1.2ghz ought to be fine for that, which is what they claim it will run while being passively cooled.
Minus the vpn tunnels, I ran a web/mail/storage/router/firewall server, under linux, on a P3550mhz. I'm sure the VPN tunnels wouldn't require THAT much CPU time...
I think the term 'audiophile' does not fit here. Audiophiles buy expensive HiFi equipment and don't listen to 128kbit AAC from the Apple store. Especially as many people can hear the encoding artefacts on good equipment. But I must admit that I cannot hear the difference with the crappy earbuds that came with my iPod.
Of course you can't hear the artifacts. You're hearing is leaving you!
Right click in the document. Choose "Page...". Go to "Page" tab in the window that pops up. Select "Landscape". Done.
(looking, I see you got moderated as a Troll, as you should have. I have one mod point left but felt this reply would do a better service than wasting it on a coward.)
Keep in mind that Wal Mart, the world's largest, most powerful retailer can't compete with iTunes with their music service. How many people even know Wal Mart has a music download service... Amazon is a great brand in many ways, but that doesn't mean they can roll right into a new business.
Misguided, yes. Flamebait, no.
What was the last TV commercial you saw that advertised Wal*Mart's music download service? Radio commercial? Commercial in their own in-store TV network? What? You haven't seen one?
THAT is why most people have no idea Wal*Mart does online music. They aren't even trying beyond having some deals (like with Duracell, and the makers of Pop-Tarts) to offer free songs for purchasing other products. (I am sure there are other products you can buy that have the free songs -- I just happened to notice on the two I mentioned).
If Wal*Mart gave more than two shits about their online music service, you'd see ads plastered all over *everything*. They are just treating it like any other product they offer. Unlike Apple, they have the money (for bandwidth, advertising blitzes, etc) to spread around so many ads that you'd actually be sick of 'em. They list their songs at.88 and claim about 800,000. Yes, this isn't as many as iTunes, and yes it uses.wmv (I've downloaded some free songs from them), but many people are not going to care, especially if their Wal*Mart purchased MP3 player works just fine with the store.
So while AVG alone might run quicker than NAV, it doesn't offer the firewall capabilities. Soon enough you've installed ZoneAlarm or Kerio or some other firewall. And you may very well find your system performing worse than using only NAV for similar functionality, with a greater amount of memory consumption.
Speaking as a person that has just installed AVG7 Network Edition on multiple computers in a school (yes, they paid for their licenses, before you ask), I'd have to correct you here. AVG 7, indeed, has a firewall built in.
AVG has several other features built in (email scanning, etc). FAR less resource hogging than ANYTHING I could put on from Symantec.
Why are you defending NAV/NIS so much? They are utter pieces of shit and deserve a slow and painful death.
If, knowing all that, you still don't like it, your remedy is not to play the game.
I already don't play the game, as I previously mentioned. I think the game sucks. I'll just stick to DDO. It's too bad the "free ride" (beta) is ending soon.:(
You aren't the first person I've seen state this, but reading through I haven't seen anyone mention what I'm about to say either.
Some of these mass mailing pieces of crap use the address of the host they have infested to do their mailing. I don't know how many times I've had to tell my mother "Did you expect to receive the attachment from the person who sent it? No? Don't you think you should email/call them first to make sure they sent it?".
I don't think it's user stupidity in the least to open up an attachment from a friend/family member. That's what these low-life "virus" creators are banking on.
Teleport hacking is rampant in WoW, and it's accomplished through the use of third-party programs.
In one case, the problem was bad enough that Blizzard disabled a quest that was being abused to gain massive XP and fairly decent items. The limiting factor in repeating the quest was the travel time between the quest item and the turn-in point, so with a teleport hack, you effectively reduce that time from about 15-20 minutes to 30 seconds. There are also numerous complaints on the official forums about people using teleport hacks to go to mineral nodes while popping them just underneath the terrain, making them invulnerable to attack; as well as people using teleport hacks in one of the battlegrounds to capture all of the battleground nodes before the gates open to let the players into the battleground.
If this is true, and they have an "official" method for putting third party plugins into the game, then it's entirely their own fault. That being said, just because they (if I'm reading what you said correctly) can't correctly code their software isn't a good reason for them to load my machine with what is basically malware.
IIRC, the speed hack was a problem for AC players from day one. If you left during beta, I would agree with your statement.
In the years I played AC (I was not part of it's beta, but was in AC2), I never encountered anyone using the speed hack (though I did hear of it). I also recall MS/Turbine stating that ANYONE caught using it would be banned from the game. I don't know that it was as much a problem as several people claimed at the time.
Turbine had a stated policy against exploiters and hackers. However, Turbine was notoriously not enforcing that policy for at least a full year into the life-cycle of the game. Only until a money duplication exploit began to ruin the game economy did they act.
That'd be hackers/exploiters. I hardly count Decal (and it's plugins) in either of those catagories. I'd like to think I kept up with what was going on in the world of AC at the time (reading stratics and several other pages that dealt with it) and I don't recall seeing much (if anything) about MS/Turbine having problems with decal and it's plugins. (I did read some about other 'software', like the stuff surrounding the speed hack, but that's pretty much it).
Blizzard currently has a serious problem with 3rd party applications and their client. They've entrusted too much information to the client, IMHO, so that's left, for them, a security issue that they've been trying to address for some time now.
It's sad that some people just can't leave stuff alone and feel the need to exploit everything and everything in life (I fully believe this will come back on them. Kinda' a karma type of thing.). It is Blizzard's own fault, however, for leaving so much in the clients hands.
Do you really expect me to believe that? There weren't any "cheaters" (that I recall) in AC before I left it and MS/Turbine had no problems with people poking around in the memory (for things like decal).
No, if you said "They have the game structured in the way it currently is so that 3rd party applications that hook into the game use one, blessed, method that is guaranteed (pretty much) not to break from release to release (patch to patch, whatever). This also keeps the authors from accidentially corrupting the install which would result in a re-install for the person using such software", I could have had an easier time believing you.
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Ask those of us who subscribe to the "premium" movie channels that have to sit through every "free preview week/weekend".
This type of "offer" is nothing new.
>>Interestingly, they also use BNC-coax cabling for their TR.
>Er... how? TR only has standard for twisted pair and fiber.
Poster before you might be confusing Token Ring with ARCnet.
Do you really think China and India need the help of the Kyoto Protocol? Production is *already* shifting to those countries. And yes their emissions are uncapped, but their emissions are a fraction of the U.S.'s emissions. When they become part of the problem then we can talk, but right now Europe and the U.S. are the problem.
Yeah! Lets wait untill they are fully involved in their technologies, ending up just like America (WRT their pollution)! Screw helping them *avoid* the problems we currently have! Lets not help them learn from our mistakes so they don't repeat them!
Yeah!
I'm thirsty! Do you Gnow where I kan find some Koffee?
At Krispy-Kreme?
That Bennett Haselton? - who also has not updated piecefire.org since 2003?
He's too busy trying to take away my right to configure MY internet connection to update that site.
I see I touched a nerve on somone,though. I was moderated flamebait.. Wonder if Bennett is reading...
The same Bennett Haselton of peacefire.org? The same Bennett Haselton with which I've exchanged email after email trying to get him to understand that, while it is his right to provide proxies to get around web filters, it was also my right to block what *I* want on *MY* connection? The very same Bennett Haselton who REMOVED me from the stupidcensorship mailing list (the one email account I was using anyway) so I would no longer receive notifications of new proxy web pages?
That Bennett Haselton?
Too bad for him that I'm signed up to that list with so many email addresses that he'd have to completely shut the list down to be 100% sure I'm not on it any longer.
If this is the same Bennett Haselton, well, I couldn't give two-shits less about *anything* he's got to say. As far as I'm concerned, he can kiss my shiny metal ass.
That's right, but Isn't there any cell phones with some kind of answering machines, that could record voice messages directly in the phone, ignoring your phone provider voicemail service?
Not only would this be incredibly stupid (in my opinion), but no. The providers would never allow for something like this because they can't control it. They can't charge you for the service (yes, it may seem "free", but did you ever wonder why your cell phone cost the same, if not more, than a landline phone with the same features?)
Actually, in some countries, like Belgium, you don't pay to receive calls, only the caller pays to talk on the phone and you also don't pay to receive text messages...
In other countries, like the US, you pay for calling and for receiving calls, and for sending and receiving text messages...
Just FYI
In addition to not paying for incoming calls (USCellular), I also do not pay to receive text messages.
uscc.com even has a tool that lets you send text messages to their customers for free (no one pays for the text messages in this way!)
Not all US carriers do this. This, in addition to the fact that the ONLY major provider in my area is Sprint (and they only have towers near the highway) is why I have USCellular.
I guess Alltel could be considered "major", but they suck big floppy donkey ears compared to USCellular.
They'll never try to voluntarily assist their customers in limiting the number of air minutes used by their customers.
I don't know how wide-spread this is, but on USCellular, so long as you are on their network, incoming calls are free (as in they don't use ANY of your minutes). 24/7/365.
So what would their incentive be for *not* offering a feature like this? For that matter, why would *any* carrier not offer a feature like this? It's a "feature" they could charge their subscribers monthly to have!
A stunning victory for the Establishment and a horror show for private citizens everywhere. Welcome to 1984.
Give me a break. They (google) tell you when you sign up for your account that the email will most likely hang around forever. They also don't claim that they will tell "the man" to fuck off if they are asked for your email(s). It's been said by others, but if you (or anyone else, for that matter) *really* care about the privacy of your email, host it yourself, or find someone who will host it in the way YOU want.
Google is providing a very good service that is, obviously, usefull to quite a few people. The gmail service was *never* sold as anything other than "your mail will probably be public, or at least in some way accessable by others" service.
Go cry your river elsewhere. The water is too high.
They aren't hosting any of the content. Only text files (as explained on their web page).
:) )
It is not illegal (Again, according to their web page) to host files that *point* to the content. Untill that changes in their country, they will stay alive (also, so long as they can keep their bills paid, that would help...
For SOHO, do you *really* need 2ghz for web server, router, storage, etc?
1.2ghz ought to be fine for that, which is what they claim it will run while being passively cooled.
Minus the vpn tunnels, I ran a web/mail/storage/router/firewall server, under linux, on a P3550mhz. I'm sure the VPN tunnels wouldn't require THAT much CPU time...
I think the term 'audiophile' does not fit here. Audiophiles buy expensive HiFi equipment and don't listen to 128kbit AAC from the Apple store. Especially as many people can hear the encoding artefacts on good equipment. But I must admit that I cannot hear the difference with the crappy earbuds that came with my iPod.
Of course you can't hear the artifacts. You're hearing is leaving you!
Who *really* cares what you (or anyone else, for that matter) has to say about what someone downloads?
I'm gunna keep downloading the tracks I like, no matter who "performs" them, whether you like it or not.
Snob.
This is far from "Insightful", it's plain WRONG.
Right click in the document. Choose "Page...". Go to "Page" tab in the window that pops up. Select "Landscape". Done.
(looking, I see you got moderated as a Troll, as you should have. I have one mod point left but felt this reply would do a better service than wasting it on a coward.)
Keep in mind that Wal Mart, the world's largest, most powerful retailer can't compete with iTunes with their music service. How many people even know Wal Mart has a music download service...
.88 and claim about 800,000. Yes, this isn't as many as iTunes, and yes it uses .wmv (I've downloaded some free songs from them), but many people are not going to care, especially if their Wal*Mart purchased MP3 player works just fine with the store.
Amazon is a great brand in many ways, but that doesn't mean they can roll right into a new business.
Misguided, yes. Flamebait, no.
What was the last TV commercial you saw that advertised Wal*Mart's music download service? Radio commercial? Commercial in their own in-store TV network? What? You haven't seen one?
THAT is why most people have no idea Wal*Mart does online music. They aren't even trying beyond having some deals (like with Duracell, and the makers of Pop-Tarts) to offer free songs for purchasing other products. (I am sure there are other products you can buy that have the free songs -- I just happened to notice on the two I mentioned).
If Wal*Mart gave more than two shits about their online music service, you'd see ads plastered all over *everything*. They are just treating it like any other product they offer. Unlike Apple, they have the money (for bandwidth, advertising blitzes, etc) to spread around so many ads that you'd actually be sick of 'em. They list their songs at
So while AVG alone might run quicker than NAV, it doesn't offer the firewall capabilities. Soon enough you've installed ZoneAlarm or Kerio or some other firewall. And you may very well find your system performing worse than using only NAV for similar functionality, with a greater amount of memory consumption.
Speaking as a person that has just installed AVG7 Network Edition on multiple computers in a school (yes, they paid for their licenses, before you ask), I'd have to correct you here. AVG 7, indeed, has a firewall built in.
AVG has several other features built in (email scanning, etc). FAR less resource hogging than ANYTHING I could put on from Symantec.
Why are you defending NAV/NIS so much? They are utter pieces of shit and deserve a slow and painful death.
Ok so my math was off. My point still stands. (I can't believe I divided that by 10. Dunno what I was thinking....)
£120 per year for a "TV License" is not free. It's £12 a month. That, right there, is your "subscription fee". Yes, it is cheap, but not free.
If, knowing all that, you still don't like it, your remedy is not to play the game.
:(
I already don't play the game, as I previously mentioned. I think the game sucks. I'll just stick to DDO. It's too bad the "free ride" (beta) is ending soon.
Here's hoping my pre-order gets here on time!
Attachments from unknown people? Delete!
You aren't the first person I've seen state this, but reading through I haven't seen anyone mention what I'm about to say either.
Some of these mass mailing pieces of crap use the address of the host they have infested to do their mailing. I don't know how many times I've had to tell my mother "Did you expect to receive the attachment from the person who sent it? No? Don't you think you should email/call them first to make sure they sent it?".
I don't think it's user stupidity in the least to open up an attachment from a friend/family member. That's what these low-life "virus" creators are banking on.
This is out of hand. You have changed what I said on several occasions to fit into your arguement so you can continue. I'm finished with you.
Teleport hacking is rampant in WoW, and it's accomplished through the use of third-party programs.
In one case, the problem was bad enough that Blizzard disabled a quest that was being abused to gain massive XP and fairly decent items. The limiting factor in repeating the quest was the travel time between the quest item and the turn-in point, so with a teleport hack, you effectively reduce that time from about 15-20 minutes to 30 seconds. There are also numerous complaints on the official forums about people using teleport hacks to go to mineral nodes while popping them just underneath the terrain, making them invulnerable to attack; as well as people using teleport hacks in one of the battlegrounds to capture all of the battleground nodes before the gates open to let the players into the battleground.
If this is true, and they have an "official" method for putting third party plugins into the game, then it's entirely their own fault. That being said, just because they (if I'm reading what you said correctly) can't correctly code their software isn't a good reason for them to load my machine with what is basically malware.
IIRC, the speed hack was a problem for AC players from day one. If you left during beta, I would agree with your statement.
In the years I played AC (I was not part of it's beta, but was in AC2), I never encountered anyone using the speed hack (though I did hear of it). I also recall MS/Turbine stating that ANYONE caught using it would be banned from the game. I don't know that it was as much a problem as several people claimed at the time.
Turbine had a stated policy against exploiters and hackers. However, Turbine was notoriously not enforcing that policy for at least a full year into the life-cycle of the game. Only until a money duplication exploit began to ruin the game economy did they act.
That'd be hackers/exploiters. I hardly count Decal (and it's plugins) in either of those catagories. I'd like to think I kept up with what was going on in the world of AC at the time (reading stratics and several other pages that dealt with it) and I don't recall seeing much (if anything) about MS/Turbine having problems with decal and it's plugins. (I did read some about other 'software', like the stuff surrounding the speed hack, but that's pretty much it).
Blizzard currently has a serious problem with 3rd party applications and their client. They've entrusted too much information to the client, IMHO, so that's left, for them, a security issue that they've been trying to address for some time now.
It's sad that some people just can't leave stuff alone and feel the need to exploit everything and everything in life (I fully believe this will come back on them. Kinda' a karma type of thing.). It is Blizzard's own fault, however, for leaving so much in the clients hands.
Er, the game. From cheaters.
Do you really expect me to believe that? There weren't any "cheaters" (that I recall) in AC before I left it and MS/Turbine had no problems with people poking around in the memory (for things like decal).
No, if you said "They have the game structured in the way it currently is so that 3rd party applications that hook into the game use one, blessed, method that is guaranteed (pretty much) not to break from release to release (patch to patch, whatever). This also keeps the authors from accidentially corrupting the install which would result in a re-install for the person using such software", I could have had an easier time believing you.