Anonymous political speech has a long tradition in the US. Many of our founding fathers hid behind pseudonyms while writing many of what are termed 'The Federalist Papers' which laid much of the groundwork for the US Constitution.
If the messages were inciting people to break the law I could possibly understand, but on the face of what few facts I have on the subject right now my knee wants to jerk right into the Government's jaw a few times.
We don't know how many templates there are for life or the frequency of them. For all we know life follows a very similar chemical pattern everywhere it ariese. Or not. That's the point. We don't know, but it's worth looking into.
Unfortunately my wife likes on demand programming. That's a non starter with Cablecards whether we stick with Comcrap or go to Verizon. It does suck because I love our Tivo Series 2 (it's in the bedroom on basic cable these days) and would LOVE to move to HD on Tivo. I just can't afford to give up functionality to do so.
Orrrr instead of jumping through hoops I can keep Comcrap for my TV. I'm relatively happy with the service as far as television goes.
I sort of like having Verizon and Comcast at odds against each other as well. I've gotten discounts from both when mentioning that I could always go with the other for [tv/internet].
This is true, and it may be that if I got another Actiontec it would work just fine; however I use my network for a lot of various things and I prefer to choose the router that I use.
I tried their router because they gave me one free when I got FIOS Internet. It was crap. Wireless connections dropped every day or so forcing a router reboot, the NAT table is extremely limited in capacity, and it died exactly ONE week after it was out of warranty. I'll stick with my Netgear, thanks though.
I have FIOS for Internet but I've kept Comcrap for my TV for one simple reason: Verizon requires you to use their crappy Actiontec router if you want to use FIOS TV.
Am I the only one that finds it ironic that China, which has a totalitarian one party politcal system (the ULTIMATE monopoly) is implementing anti-monopoly laws?
How is someone who shows a total lack of understanding of basic physics 'Insightful'? As the cable gets closer to the Earth it speeds up relative to the surface. It's called conservation of angular momentum. It will indeed wrap around half the planet, though much of it will probably burn up in the atmosphere on it's way down.
There was a time back in the Detonator days that Nvidia had the best drivers going. Each generation has gotten a bit buggier. My first Vista machine has a 7900GS, not even an nv80 series chip and it had horrible problems with rendering and stability. It never brought the whole OS down but the number of times the driver itself would crash and restart (a neat feature in Vista by the way) was beyond count for the first few months.
They've gotten far better now at least, but they (Nvidia) really dropped the ball on that one.
Except you basically answered the question with a prettier version of 'OSS Rulez'. If you're willing to buy the software you want then you'll never 'need' to 'pirate' it again either.
Talk about quality and features, not politics, and then maybe you'll be on to something as there are many many examples of high quality FOSS. Focusing on the political aspects loses a large part of the audience; the pragmatic ones.
If we allow an internet to exist without the need for complex interpreted languages, if people open mostly static HTML documents when they open web pages instead of opening a pandora's box of plugins, languages, interpreted bytecodes, activeX gotchas and other unnecessary exploitable garbage, then the entire internet will be more secure.
Yes, and if everyone were to drive 25 miles per hour there would be far fewer accidents on the road.
God created all life, ET's included, 6,000 years ago. The light just hasn't had enough time to reach us from the nearest neighbor. Give it another few hundred years.
If a Vista machine had been first there would be a 'haha' tag on this article, as well as on yesterday's article talking about how MS issues patches faster.
Wow, you really need a better plan. I pay a flat rate for unlimited data, and I can put whatever wallpaper I want on my phone, myself, for free. Same with ringtones. It's basically like a little PC, and yes it's a Motorola (the Q to be exact).
While there is some truth to the tired meme you're promulgating, it's not all as gloomy as your trolling makes it sound.
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Anonymous political speech has a long tradition in the US. Many of our founding fathers hid behind pseudonyms while writing many of what are termed 'The Federalist Papers' which laid much of the groundwork for the US Constitution.
If the messages were inciting people to break the law I could possibly understand, but on the face of what few facts I have on the subject right now my knee wants to jerk right into the Government's jaw a few times.
We don't know how many templates there are for life or the frequency of them. For all we know life follows a very similar chemical pattern everywhere it ariese. Or not. That's the point. We don't know, but it's worth looking into.
Hmmm, it would be great to have an OSS widget engine that ran on Windows, OS X, and Linux. I wish I had more time to code these days.
Unfortunately my wife likes on demand programming. That's a non starter with Cablecards whether we stick with Comcrap or go to Verizon. It does suck because I love our Tivo Series 2 (it's in the bedroom on basic cable these days) and would LOVE to move to HD on Tivo. I just can't afford to give up functionality to do so.
Assholes in the frame of reference you are used are all human; not all humans are assholes.
Geez guys, what's up with all the broken logic around here?
Orrrr instead of jumping through hoops I can keep Comcrap for my TV. I'm relatively happy with the service as far as television goes.
I sort of like having Verizon and Comcast at odds against each other as well. I've gotten discounts from both when mentioning that I could always go with the other for [tv/internet].
Quite true, but that does not mean that all AC's are lying shills. All murders are commited by humans, but not all humans are murderers. Same logic ;)
This is true, and it may be that if I got another Actiontec it would work just fine; however I use my network for a lot of various things and I prefer to choose the router that I use.
I tried their router because they gave me one free when I got FIOS Internet. It was crap. Wireless connections dropped every day or so forcing a router reboot, the NAT table is extremely limited in capacity, and it died exactly ONE week after it was out of warranty. I'll stick with my Netgear, thanks though.
Most people when speaking about affairs at their employer are smart to post as an AC.
I have FIOS for Internet but I've kept Comcrap for my TV for one simple reason: Verizon requires you to use their crappy Actiontec router if you want to use FIOS TV.
Am I the only one that finds it ironic that China, which has a totalitarian one party politcal system (the ULTIMATE monopoly) is implementing anti-monopoly laws?
Things sure were simpler when we were monkeys.
Yeah, nowadays if you fling poo at people they think you are crazy. Ah...those were the days.
You are free to say what you want, and you are also free to accept the consequences of your speech.
Akin to the nigger race maybe..
More akin to the racist brand of Anonymous Coward.
How is someone who shows a total lack of understanding of basic physics 'Insightful'? As the cable gets closer to the Earth it speeds up relative to the surface. It's called conservation of angular momentum. It will indeed wrap around half the planet, though much of it will probably burn up in the atmosphere on it's way down.
I even heard they had 1024 core computers with terrabytes of ram! ;)
That was just on their PDA's!
There was a time back in the Detonator days that Nvidia had the best drivers going. Each generation has gotten a bit buggier. My first Vista machine has a 7900GS, not even an nv80 series chip and it had horrible problems with rendering and stability. It never brought the whole OS down but the number of times the driver itself would crash and restart (a neat feature in Vista by the way) was beyond count for the first few months.
They've gotten far better now at least, but they (Nvidia) really dropped the ball on that one.
But it's made my Apple, so it must be better than any other PDA. You must be new here.
Except you basically answered the question with a prettier version of 'OSS Rulez'. If you're willing to buy the software you want then you'll never 'need' to 'pirate' it again either.
Talk about quality and features, not politics, and then maybe you'll be on to something as there are many many examples of high quality FOSS. Focusing on the political aspects loses a large part of the audience; the pragmatic ones.
I have to take issue with your arguement. Any company that sells a commercial OS has an equal obligation to patch exploits as soon as possible.
If we allow an internet to exist without the need for complex interpreted languages, if people open mostly static HTML documents when they open web pages instead of opening a pandora's box of plugins, languages, interpreted bytecodes, activeX gotchas and other unnecessary exploitable garbage, then the entire internet will be more secure.
Yes, and if everyone were to drive 25 miles per hour there would be far fewer accidents on the road.
God created all life, ET's included, 6,000 years ago. The light just hasn't had enough time to reach us from the nearest neighbor. Give it another few hundred years.
(for the humor impaired, I am joking)
If a Vista machine had been first there would be a 'haha' tag on this article, as well as on yesterday's article talking about how MS issues patches faster.
Just sayin...
Wow, you really need a better plan. I pay a flat rate for unlimited data, and I can put whatever wallpaper I want on my phone, myself, for free. Same with ringtones. It's basically like a little PC, and yes it's a Motorola (the Q to be exact).
While there is some truth to the tired meme you're promulgating, it's not all as gloomy as your trolling makes it sound.