I'm a mere seven miles outside a city. It's not a metropolis by any means, but those seven miles are the difference between DSL/Cable and absoultely no real broadband. And no, DirecWay does not count. Anything they would do to close that gap and allow us people who live out in "the country" to participate in the broadband revolution would be a blessing. I keep hearing that broadband is failing because it costs too much or there is no real content that people want. No one ever mentions the fact that there is a large segment of the population that flat out has no real options. Now if you'll excuse me, I'm going back to downloading my 152 meg game demo. It should be finished sometime before the sun explodes.
This guy's first name is Gore and he is obviously against Bush. Is this not corruption? Stay put Mr. Vidal, Barbra Streisand will be there shortly in a black helicopter to whisk you away to safety alongside Elian Gonzales and Vince Foster. The vast right wing conspiracy shadow government zionist regime run by the aliens will never get their hands on you!!
Just another weapon for the machines when they rise. What, the unstoppable cyborgs sent from the past to kill our future leaders wasn't enough? Controlling our nuclear arsenal not enough? Why don't we just send up the robots to build the solar array in a big ass cube and call it a day?
Besides, Jobs wouldn't try and sell something like the iShit because Gates already did that and called it Windows ME.
No, you are getting it confused. You're thinking of Microsoft Bob. Compared to BOB, ME was a high point of software engineering. BOB was a product so bad that the Smiley Face had to go into witness protection and now can only get a job at Wal-Mart. Sad really.
Of course they are broke! I imagine the food and housing bill alone skyrocketed after all those hot chicks kept breaking into their living rooms, bedrooms and porches. Luckily I have a camera to keep them away...at least I think it's the camera that does it..
Contrary to popular belief not everyone has a computer and schleps around on slashdot all day. The difference as you move forward between those who have easy access to computers and those who do not is HUGE. Even in my generation, I'm rapidly approaching 30, the gulf created by those of us who had machines at home and those who didn't created a digital caste system of sorts. I remember in school how those of us who sat in front of computers at home found it much easier when we ended up in front of the behemoths in the classroom. While they stared blankly and hunted and pecked me and my compatriots were busy writing infinite loops in BASIC to make the screen say Mrs. Farrell is a booger. That's a huge difference and like it or not it comes down to socioeconomic issues. My family had a little bit of money so I had those advantages -- which consequently allow me to make a little extra money doing troubleshooting and consulting -- and earned me lots of freebies in college when dealing with people who couldn't even spell printer driver much less install one. Anything we do to close that gap is good in my opinion. The earlier the better and for everyone.
These kinds of "attacks" have become commonplace. They happened after the election of the new Taiwanese president as well.
It's widely believed that these hackers do in fact have an official link with the Chinese government as part of the People's Liberation Army in their efforts to prepare for what they term "asymetrical warfare."
This would involve using systematic computer attacks to take down the Taiwanese technological infrastructure and communications in the moments before or following a massive short-range missile attack across the Taiwan Strait.
The goal would be to spur massive confusion and allow the substandard Chinese naval and amphibious forces to seize the island before the United States could mobilize to its defense and making any attack by American forces that much more difficult.
The Taiwanese position isn't "propaganda." It's information based on what they know is happening in China. And yes, China does have a goal of reunifying the island with the mainland and refuses to rule out the use of military force or any other method necessary.
Do you think the hackers just happened to attack Taiwan because they were in the neighborhood?
Someone needs to help correct all the mistakes the humans, I mean, that we, have been making. And a little advice never hurt anyone right? Oh, that file being saved called nuclear override and command codes? Ignore that..I'm sure it's just a typo.
The walkie-talkie feature on Nextel is the whole reason my wife and I switched. While it may sound annoying to some people it is like crack once you get your hands on it. It's infinitely easier to push the button and just speak rather than finding the number, waiting for it to dial, waiting for it to ring and hoping someone answers. It does take some getting used to. You don't want to call your wife and start dropping F-bombs while she's at the neighbor's house playing with their children. (Unfortunately, I know this one from personal experience.) With other companies trotting out comparable services, the marketplace can't help but get better. Until now, Nextel knew if you wanted the service you had no choice but to go to them, so they tended to skimp on customer service. Did you know they have no tech support on the weekends? Our service blanked on Saturday and there was no one anywhere to call to get it fixed. Nextel, how business gets done...unless it's the weekend.
So now suddenly "the album" is some sacred cow that can't be cut apart? For those who are honest enough to say, "Hey! We want to make money of our crappy tracks too!" I say good for them. They still are a festering pile of sewer scum but at least they are honest about it. For those who preach about artistic integrity and the full impact of the album, then I propose that radio stations be required to play the entire album everytime. Oh, that also means no more single releases either to capitalize on the airplay you are getting through the ClearChannel funnel. Oh, and the Grammys and Billboards? Forget about those awards for Best Song or Best Duet. You will be judged on the merits of your entire album including the stinkers you slip into the middle of the album. To think, all along we thought it was the RIAA's corporate goons in suits that were the real bad guys when all along it was women it tight pants and cone bras. Here's a little bit of advice for you artistic losers. You can't put the genie back in the bottle no matter how often you try to get Congress to do your dirty work. Either take your 99 cents from users who want a legitimate option to download your one good song and shut up or force the issue and turn everyone into pirates and collect your dwindling album sales. Idiots.
I don't think this is the way it's supposed to go. I haven't seen Terminator 3 yet, but I'm pretty sure Skynet doesn't begin with a withering attack on humanity's carefully-crafted illusion that foosball is anything other than spinning the handles as quickly as you can and screaming, "BOOOYAH! IN YOUR FACE!"
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The math is actually very simple, but for some reason, we all try to do it the wrong way. Whether it's some odd flaw in the education system or what, I don't know. Most of us probably start by trying to subtract 37 from 12, which is kind of a pain. The fast way to do this math is to subtract 12 from both figures - this makes everything terribly obvious. For some reason when doing algebra, if you had an equation like this: x + 12 = y + 2 + 12 most of us would see that we could subtract the 12 from both sides and figure out that x = y + 2.
*sound of my head exploding* I'm sorry, I can't do algebra...my algebra teacher in college was drop dead gorgeous so x always = cleavage. I think I'll stick to things not so terribly obvious.
An interesting take, but I think that puts the responsibility on the response to the speech, not the matter in which in was transmitted or in which it was received. And how is it "free" speech if you never intend anyone to hear it? By the very nature as I understand it "free speech" has to be free. Putting constraints upon it that it's "free" but not for you sort of defeats the principle upon which the idea is based in my opinion.
Ok, perhaps I don't trip and fall into this hellish techno-dystopia delusion as easily as a lot of the/. crowd, some of which seem to consider 1984 an orgasmic experience, but even if I did, can someone please tell me how "privacy" has anything to do with "freedom of speech?" And seeing as how the government can already get wiretaps for your POTS and have used said wiretaps to get organized crime lords and terrorists off the street why shouldn't Inet telephony be held to the same standards? Can someone explain to me what the diff is here?
Yeah, you can get your national and international and even statewide news on the Internet from a variety of sources, but how will that translate to all the smaller towns and cities which don't get the bright glare of satellite trucks from the major networks? What viewpoint will you get from your local school board and city council when one company owns all the voices? That's the nightmare the FCC forgets about when they get blinded by the major metro areas and lose sight of the small towns and cities across the country.
One part of the FCC rules that could be lifted prohibits a company from owning a newspaper or broadcast outlet in the same market. So not only could they own all the radio and television stations, but they could also own the newspaper in town. Sounds great from a "diversity of voices" standpoint doesn't it?
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I'm a mere seven miles outside a city. It's not a metropolis by any means, but those seven miles are the difference between DSL/Cable and absoultely no real broadband.
And no, DirecWay does not count.
Anything they would do to close that gap and allow us people who live out in "the country" to participate in the broadband revolution would be a blessing.
I keep hearing that broadband is failing because it costs too much or there is no real content that people want. No one ever mentions the fact that there is a large segment of the population that flat out has no real options.
Now if you'll excuse me, I'm going back to downloading my 152 meg game demo. It should be finished sometime before the sun explodes.
This guy's first name is Gore and he is obviously against Bush. Is this not corruption?
Stay put Mr. Vidal, Barbra Streisand will be there shortly in a black helicopter to whisk you away to safety alongside Elian Gonzales and Vince Foster.
The vast right wing conspiracy shadow government zionist regime run by the aliens will never get their hands on you!!
Just another weapon for the machines when they rise.
What, the unstoppable cyborgs sent from the past to kill our future leaders wasn't enough? Controlling our nuclear arsenal not enough?
Why don't we just send up the robots to build the solar array in a big ass cube and call it a day?
I hope this never gets in the wild. I would hate to have to switch to a damn trackball.
Hey, way to add another 800k to the glut with this pdf file!!
Besides, Jobs wouldn't try and sell something like the iShit because Gates already did that and called it Windows ME.
No, you are getting it confused. You're thinking of Microsoft Bob. Compared to BOB, ME was a high point of software engineering.
BOB was a product so bad that the Smiley Face had to go into witness protection and now can only get a job at Wal-Mart.
Sad really.
Of course they are broke! I imagine the food and housing bill alone skyrocketed after all those hot chicks kept breaking into their living rooms, bedrooms and porches.
Luckily I have a camera to keep them away...at least I think it's the camera that does it..
Contrary to popular belief not everyone has a computer and schleps around on slashdot all day.
The difference as you move forward between those who have easy access to computers and those who do not is HUGE.
Even in my generation, I'm rapidly approaching 30, the gulf created by those of us who had machines at home and those who didn't created a digital caste system of sorts. I remember in school how those of us who sat in front of computers at home found it much easier when we ended up in front of the behemoths in the classroom.
While they stared blankly and hunted and pecked me and my compatriots were busy writing infinite loops in BASIC to make the screen say Mrs. Farrell is a booger.
That's a huge difference and like it or not it comes down to socioeconomic issues. My family had a little bit of money so I had those advantages -- which consequently allow me to make a little extra money doing troubleshooting and consulting -- and earned me lots of freebies in college when dealing with people who couldn't even spell printer driver much less install one.
Anything we do to close that gap is good in my opinion. The earlier the better and for everyone.
Uranium, Plutonium? In space? Sounds like WMD! INVADE!!!
Remember, if our music isn't secure then the terrorists have already won.
These kinds of "attacks" have become commonplace. They happened after the election of the new Taiwanese president as well.
It's widely believed that these hackers do in fact have an official link with the Chinese government as part of the People's Liberation Army in their efforts to prepare for what they term "asymetrical warfare."
This would involve using systematic computer attacks to take down the Taiwanese technological infrastructure and communications in the moments before or following a massive short-range missile attack across the Taiwan Strait.
The goal would be to spur massive confusion and allow the substandard Chinese naval and amphibious forces to seize the island before the United States could mobilize to its defense and making any attack by American forces that much more difficult.
The Taiwanese position isn't "propaganda." It's information based on what they know is happening in China. And yes, China does have a goal of reunifying the island with the mainland and refuses to rule out the use of military force or any other method necessary.
Do you think the hackers just happened to attack Taiwan because they were in the neighborhood?
Someone needs to help correct all the mistakes the humans, I mean, that we, have been making.
And a little advice never hurt anyone right? Oh, that file being saved called nuclear override and command codes? Ignore that..I'm sure it's just a typo.
Sincerely,
Skynet
English teachers all across the country blamed the dismantling of the English language on people who use "text" as a verb.
The walkie-talkie feature on Nextel is the whole reason my wife and I switched. While it may sound annoying to some people it is like crack once you get your hands on it.
It's infinitely easier to push the button and just speak rather than finding the number, waiting for it to dial, waiting for it to ring and hoping someone answers.
It does take some getting used to. You don't want to call your wife and start dropping F-bombs while she's at the neighbor's house playing with their children. (Unfortunately, I know this one from personal experience.)
With other companies trotting out comparable services, the marketplace can't help but get better. Until now, Nextel knew if you wanted the service you had no choice but to go to them, so they tended to skimp on customer service.
Did you know they have no tech support on the weekends? Our service blanked on Saturday and there was no one anywhere to call to get it fixed.
Nextel, how business gets done...unless it's the weekend.
Guy walks through the Pennsylvania state house
"Can you pay me now?"
"Goooood."
So now suddenly "the album" is some sacred cow that can't be cut apart?
For those who are honest enough to say, "Hey! We want to make money of our crappy tracks too!" I say good for them. They still are a festering pile of sewer scum but at least they are honest about it.
For those who preach about artistic integrity and the full impact of the album, then I propose that radio stations be required to play the entire album everytime.
Oh, that also means no more single releases either to capitalize on the airplay you are getting through the ClearChannel funnel. Oh, and the Grammys and Billboards? Forget about those awards for Best Song or Best Duet. You will be judged on the merits of your entire album including the stinkers you slip into the middle of the album.
To think, all along we thought it was the RIAA's corporate goons in suits that were the real bad guys when all along it was women it tight pants and cone bras.
Here's a little bit of advice for you artistic losers. You can't put the genie back in the bottle no matter how often you try to get Congress to do your dirty work. Either take your 99 cents from users who want a legitimate option to download your one good song and shut up or force the issue and turn everyone into pirates and collect your dwindling album sales.
Idiots.
I don't think this is the way it's supposed to go. I haven't seen Terminator 3 yet, but I'm pretty sure Skynet doesn't begin with a withering attack on humanity's carefully-crafted illusion that foosball is anything other than spinning the handles as quickly as you can and screaming, "BOOOYAH! IN YOUR FACE!"
The math is actually very simple, but for some reason, we all try to do it the wrong way. Whether it's some odd flaw in the education system or what, I don't know. Most of us probably start by trying to subtract 37 from 12, which is kind of a pain. The fast way to do this math is to subtract 12 from both figures - this makes everything terribly obvious. For some reason when doing algebra, if you had an equation like this:
x + 12 = y + 2 + 12
most of us would see that we could subtract the 12 from both sides and figure out that x = y + 2.
*sound of my head exploding*
I'm sorry, I can't do algebra...my algebra teacher in college was drop dead gorgeous so x always = cleavage. I think I'll stick to things not so terribly obvious.
Damn..where are all my mod points when I really need them...
I would rather have AC/DC's Big Guns pre-installed in an eternal loop on mine.
One word:
Khan
An interesting take, but I think that puts the responsibility on the response to the speech, not the matter in which in was transmitted or in which it was received. And how is it "free" speech if you never intend anyone to hear it? By the very nature as I understand it "free speech" has to be free. Putting constraints upon it that it's "free" but not for you sort of defeats the principle upon which the idea is based in my opinion.
Ok, perhaps I don't trip and fall into this hellish techno-dystopia delusion as easily as a lot of the /. crowd, some of which seem to consider 1984 an orgasmic experience, but even if I did, can someone please tell me how "privacy" has anything to do with "freedom of speech?"
And seeing as how the government can already get wiretaps for your POTS and have used said wiretaps to get organized crime lords and terrorists off the street why shouldn't Inet telephony be held to the same standards?
Can someone explain to me what the diff is here?
Yeah, you can get your national and international and even statewide news on the Internet from a variety of sources, but how will that translate to all the smaller towns and cities which don't get the bright glare of satellite trucks from the major networks?
What viewpoint will you get from your local school board and city council when one company owns all the voices?
That's the nightmare the FCC forgets about when they get blinded by the major metro areas and lose sight of the small towns and cities across the country.
One part of the FCC rules that could be lifted prohibits a company from owning a newspaper or broadcast outlet in the same market. So not only could they own all the radio and television stations, but they could also own the newspaper in town.
Sounds great from a "diversity of voices" standpoint doesn't it?