I don't think that it will violate common carrier. Losing common carrier would stem from the ISP refusing to carry certain kinds of traffic, putting themselves in the position of being the arbiter of what doesn't or does go through their circuits. Here, they're just giving the traffic a lower priority on the network, letting it get through, but taking longer.
This is similar to broadband providers using QoS to assign a lower priority to VoIP traffic that doesn't come from their own VoIP service. Shady, yes. Illegal, probably not.
My P150 laptop's bios doesn't boot from cd either. I found a great bootdisk that loads a cd driver, allowing you to boot from the cd. It's on this page.
Don't downplay the flash thing. I have a Zaurus 6000 and I've never known Flash to work on it. If they release an ipk that would make that happen, that would be a big deal.
No kidding, between this and seeing all the tremendously elaborate pranks in NightWork, I'm starting to think that the greatest prank that MIT ever pulled was convincing the world that they have actual classes going on.
I'm begging on my knees for a Beowulf cluster of these
HOT GRITS!
[tempo change]
In Soviet Russia.... [grandiose piano] In Soviet Russia... [grandiose piano] Yakov says its opposite I don't understand it In Soviet Russia MUSICAL... SINGS... YOU!
The bedding industry is notorious for this. Many mattress stores advertise a price match policy similar to the one the parent describes. Mattress manufacturers, however, make "exclusive models" for stores that are identical in every way to their other products except for the model name. This guarantees (for example) that you'll never find a Sealy Kenmark Plush in any other store than the one chain you found it in. Since they can say that the mattresses aren't the same, they can weasel out of having to pricematch.
worst case scenario I'll become an activist to set up a community Coop ISP.
and lease the lines from.. Ma Bell? This is the joke of so-called competition. The lines belong to Ma Bell (at public expense), so you're just dealing with the same crap, different face.
Cable companies are no picnic either. Many offer their own VOIP products and use QoS on their routers to make sure that their packets get priority routing over Vonage and other 3rd party providers. What kind of competition can you have when they're well within their rights to route traffic on their networks as they see fit and will use that to stifle competition?
Yes, do tell us about the time you went into Wendy's and you specifically asked for a burger with NO PICKLES because you HATE PICKLES. No pickles! Pretty easy, but nooooooo, the jerk gave you pickles on your hamburger.
Please also update the mood and music icons ala LJ.
I have a Kenwood Music keg that I bought on eBay a couple of years ago. I paid $300 for it, a good deal considering they went for nearly twice that brand new in Crutchfields catalog. 10 gb of space with a mix of mp3, ogg, & flac. Vince at Phatnoise wrote a bunch of bash scripts that will copy files over to the Phatbox and do the signatures on the playlists. On my main Ubuntu machine, updating my PB goes like this:
1)Rip a cd, use XMMS to make a playlist and keep it in the temp directory. 2)Use the pls2phat script to convert the playlist to a PB playlist, this will also copy over the files to the cartridge (of course it has to be mounted prior to starting this). 3)Run vrfydisc to see that the files are all in their proper places 4)Run a script I wrote to call the signature binary that crytographically signs each playlist on the cartridge so that the machine will recongnize it and play it.
I keep a text file with the name of the album/playlist and its number, so I can keep track of things. This is by no means a pretty or remotely user friendly system, but it has served me well and helped me understand bash scripting when I was learning it.
However, it doesn't constitute harrasment. A bunch of geeks calling his house or hacking into his email or whatever else does, though. I don't know if that sort of this is happening yet, but you can bet it will if this continues.
He could always try to make the claim that their followers are doing the bidding of Gabe and Tycho by harrassing the douchebag. They even put up a link to his personal info on their site.
That said, I'd love to hear that call to the cops:
Hello police? Drop that missing child case and get a load of this: two guys said UNKIND things about me on the internet! They promote video games that glorify violence against cops and are displeasing to your grandma.
If a US company is selling technology specifically designed to censor the public or if they provide technical support to achieve such an end, they should be fined, and if the offense continues, dissolved.
Its silly to give companies grief for selling censorware while American defense contractors sell weaponry that causes actual death and destruction. Which causes more harm?
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I don't think that it will violate common carrier. Losing common carrier would stem from the ISP refusing to carry certain kinds of traffic, putting themselves in the position of being the arbiter of what doesn't or does go through their circuits. Here, they're just giving the traffic a lower priority on the network, letting it get through, but taking longer.
This is similar to broadband providers using QoS to assign a lower priority to VoIP traffic that doesn't come from their own VoIP service. Shady, yes. Illegal, probably not.
but this smells like a scam to me.
Sorry, sometimes my puns just stink.
I think everybody nose that by now.
Well played. Posts like yours are why I've been lobbying for a +1 Public Enemy moderation for years.
My P150 laptop's bios doesn't boot from cd either. I found a great bootdisk that loads a cd driver, allowing you to boot from the cd. It's on this page.
Where on earth are we going to leave all the other content?
What other content?
Don't downplay the flash thing. I have a Zaurus 6000 and I've never known Flash to work on it. If they release an ipk that would make that happen, that would be a big deal.
No kidding, between this and seeing all the tremendously elaborate pranks in NightWork, I'm starting to think that the greatest prank that MIT ever pulled was convincing the world that they have actual classes going on.
Hit it maestro!
Dupe dupity, dupe dupity, dupe dupe, dupe-e
This slashdot story is familar to me!
[tempo change]
I've got a wish thats bona fide
I want Natalie Portman petrafied
Petrafied and covered in hot grits!
Grits grits grits
from her elbows to her tits
Grits grits grits
I swear to God, you insensitive clod
I'm begging on my knees for a Beowulf cluster of these
HOT GRITS!
[tempo change]
In Soviet Russia....
[grandiose piano]
In Soviet Russia...
[grandiose piano]
Yakov says its opposite
I don't understand it
In Soviet Russia
MUSICAL...
SINGS...
YOU!
Cha cha ha!
If I were you, I'd stop putting myself next to admitted rapists and child molesters.
/ducks
What do you have against going to church?
The bedding industry is notorious for this. Many mattress stores advertise a price match policy similar to the one the parent describes. Mattress manufacturers, however, make "exclusive models" for stores that are identical in every way to their other products except for the model name. This guarantees (for example) that you'll never find a Sealy Kenmark Plush in any other store than the one chain you found it in. Since they can say that the mattresses aren't the same, they can weasel out of having to pricematch.
Actually its for their upcoming production of "Goatse: A One Anus Show".
Let's fix the oceans and live in them, that's more feasible than the moon and mars.
Yep, a coat a paint and a new rug and that ocean is in move-in condition!
worst case scenario I'll become an activist to set up a community Coop ISP.
and lease the lines from.. Ma Bell? This is the joke of so-called competition. The lines belong to Ma Bell (at public expense), so you're just dealing with the same crap, different face.
Cable companies are no picnic either. Many offer their own VOIP products and use QoS on their routers to make sure that their packets get priority routing over Vonage and other 3rd party providers. What kind of competition can you have when they're well within their rights to route traffic on their networks as they see fit and will use that to stifle competition?
Since they are from the State, I wonder if some of their old characters will make a cameo as bots?
Louiebot! The robot who says his catch phrase over and over?
Barry Ver. 1.2 & the Lavon-o-matic with their $240 worth of ball bearing grease.
Will the Jew, The Italian, and the Redhead Gay fall victim to the ruthless bots?
It's given them a new senNASA's new motto is : Nobody puts baby in the corner.
It'll be fixed in time for Slashdot II: The Quest for More Mod Points.
For the very first time.
Write on, Rob. Write more.
Yes, do tell us about the time you went into Wendy's and you specifically asked for a burger with NO PICKLES because you HATE PICKLES. No pickles! Pretty easy, but nooooooo, the jerk gave you pickles on your hamburger.
Please also update the mood and music icons ala LJ.
I somehow managed to keep a Troll named "Goatse" off of the Everquest GMs' radar.
C'mon, thats a bit of a stretch....
I have a Kenwood Music keg that I bought on eBay a couple of years ago. I paid $300 for it, a good deal considering they went for nearly twice that brand new in Crutchfields catalog. 10 gb of space with a mix of mp3, ogg, & flac. Vince at Phatnoise wrote a bunch of bash scripts that will copy files over to the Phatbox and do the signatures on the playlists. On my main Ubuntu machine, updating my PB goes like this:
1)Rip a cd, use XMMS to make a playlist and keep it in the temp directory.
2)Use the pls2phat script to convert the playlist to a PB playlist, this will also copy over the files to the cartridge (of course it has to be mounted prior to starting this).
3)Run vrfydisc to see that the files are all in their proper places
4)Run a script I wrote to call the signature binary that crytographically signs each playlist on the cartridge so that the machine will recongnize it and play it.
I keep a text file with the name of the album/playlist and its number, so I can keep track of things. This is by no means a pretty or remotely user friendly system, but it has served me well and helped me understand bash scripting when I was learning it.
Linux scripts here.
This is like the 21st century equivalent to pulling the fire alarm in school in order to get out of taking a test.
I can't take the test, professor. The sites with the study guides were Slashdotted this morning!
You deserve an A for shrewdness.
However, it doesn't constitute harrasment. A bunch of geeks calling his house or hacking into his email or whatever else does, though. I don't know if that sort of this is happening yet, but you can bet it will if this continues.
He could always try to make the claim that their followers are doing the bidding of Gabe and Tycho by harrassing the douchebag. They even put up a link to his personal info on their site.
That said, I'd love to hear that call to the cops:
Hello police? Drop that missing child case and get a load of this: two guys said UNKIND things about me on the internet! They promote video games that glorify violence against cops and are displeasing to your grandma.
yes, I'll hold....
If a US company is selling technology specifically designed to censor the public or if they provide technical support to achieve such an end, they should be fined, and if the offense continues, dissolved.
Its silly to give companies grief for selling censorware while American defense contractors sell weaponry that causes actual death and destruction. Which causes more harm?
Having seen a lot of Canadian tv in college, you may be able to seek asylum at Fred Penner's Place. You just have to find that log to crawl through.
The clay characters themselves are not kept after filming because they disintegrate...
Point this out to a kid next time you watch a claymation-type feature.
Hey kids! Gumby's dead!
I think the child development experts call this a "teachable moment".