I'm not even proposing internet access on that page. Without crossing a street, the most homes that could be hooked up in my neighborhood is 16, and that's assuming 100% participation. Assuming you did get that many, you might be able to bring in 20 or so ADSL loops, at 10mps a piece, you could have a decent upstream. That's assuming you could find a DSL company willing to do such business. But cheap multimode does scale pretty far, all the hardware's cheap...
If a few close neighbors did want to do such a thing, we could probably implement it for $100 per, one time fee. Gotta be something you can do with gigabit, even if its not an internet connection.
No, this time it was another windows machine that was infected in 12 minutes. Expect to see 200 million similar stories in the next week or so.
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Yeh, if you have one of the asterisk digium cards (or any other FXO card for that matter). If you just have a crappy internal modem, it *might* be possible, supposing whether or not it has an answering machine feature, or is a winmodem whose chipset you can reverse closely enough. If it's a plain modem, you'll never force voice quality sound through it in either direction.
Would need to monitor the mic in channel on the soundcard, listening for DTMF tones. The tones themselves are pretty unmistakable if I remember, almost impossible for random noise to approximate them.
If I was truly interested in freedom, I'd be ok with you and a few thousand of your fascist friends overthrowing the US government and running the country as some sort of dictatorship?
Same thing with the code, you're free to do with it what you like except try to take it for your own and make it so no one else can use it.
That guy has no natural rights to the material. It was meant to protect his incentive to continue creating. With the entertainment industry being the multi-billion-dollar-a-year behemoth that it is, we don't need to protect their incentive any more.
Copyright was also meant to protect the consumer, that is, from other less-inspired legislation that would turn it into some perpetual monopoly ala the crap that goes on in the country we broke away from. As copyright has been mutilated, it has protected the consumer even less. And don't let me get started on how badly it has fucked the historian....
His choice of words shows how little he understands, after all this time. Infectious implies that you have no control over it. But you do... you can choose not to be infected, write your own damn code.
GPL is about "converting" in the religious sense. Is this a bad thing? You tell me. You can choose not to be converted, and continue making excuses why you are so stingy with your source code, or you can share it freely. Be stingy, I don't care, but don't expect me to continue giving all my source code to you, so you can go off and sell it...
I could be considered a linux zealot. But you need to keep several things in mind.
#1 I can't speak for everyone, but I will say that I couldn't care less if linux "sells" either literally, or metaphorically. If my dumbass neighbor wants to continue using Win98, and wondering why it doesn't work, I simply don't care. I do reserve the right to laugh at him.
#2 It does pain me to use windows, say for whatever job I have. So this might be a mild exception to the above rule.
#3 It can't be made any more "user-friendly" than it it. People need to make themselves less "logic-hostile". No one complains that calculus needs to be more user-friendly. Most people realize how dumb that would be. If you need the things that only calculus provides, you don't go after watered-down-math... when you do, you pay consequences. There is no substitute for calculus that is worth having. Most people stay away from calculus, but they have messed up ideas on what a computer is supposed to be, and so...
#4 They need to learn what in the hell it is they want. A game machine? Buy a playstation. A web browser? Well give me a fucking break, linux does that fine already, you're just a tard. Email too. It's a little fuzzy when you get around to word processor/spreadsheet still (I admit that), but many people that think they want a word processor would do just fine with a text editor, and linux has that covered. Oh, wait, you use image editing, Photoshop? You're either a liar or a tard, buy a Mac of some sort.
Now, all that said, if you're a person not so dissimilar to myself, and you like doing truly interesting things with computers... well, if you need help, just ask. Everyone needs help of some kind, and I'm usually glad to give it.
Not that I have any particular sympathy for them, but you'd think these people would learn. This is the same kind of thing we've seen for the past decade with international raids against groups like DoD.
And I don't mean "learn" as in, stop pirating. But there is software out there that would make them more or less invulnerable to this sort of sting operation. Duh.
I don't mean to discourage the notion that our leaders sell out cheaply, they certainly do. But documented campaign contributions are the tip of this iceberg, dive down below the surface with me.
There are golf trips, and trips to las vegas, or other places this senator needs to check out for him to be able to properly understand Microsoft and the plight of the industry regarding the federal government.
There are the neices and nephews with a different last name, that need a job out of college, that Microsoft hires.
There are the flights on corporate jets. The introductions to other powerful industry people, that both junior and senior senators need.
There's the promise of a cushy job if and when they do retire out of Congress.
The promise of indirect contributions come next election.
And once you consider that the $5000 is more like roughly $100,000 all things considered, and that it only required an hour here, and hour there throughout the year, never interfering with others giving him more or less the same benefits... would you pass over one more free grab at $100,000, when you're already selling out 5 times a day, and #6 won't be all that more difficult?
I tried switching the family over to JSF attack jets over the summer vacation and the wails of terror, utter anxiety, and lack of any flight training whatsoever was enough to crash the jets straight into the ground. So why all the troubles? Afterall JSF pilots love to tell stories of how the JSF is so much better than a donkey cart with a broken wheel and they would never try to fly across the ocean in one. My conclusion after seeing real people in a real average Jane setting crash and burn after being dropped in the pilot's seat midair is that the JSF advocates are just plain lying because the JSF is really a step backwards for people used to using technology several centuries behind what it should be.
To make this short and simple, virtually NOTHING worked properly in the JSF. Telling the JSF to turn left and swatting it with your hand did nothing, it would not listen. Stuffing oats and barley into the fuel tank did not refuel it. In fact, the jet technician said I caused 100s of 1000s of $$$ worth of damage! I tried to nail a proper shoe onto the jet turbine, but the jet-grade aluminum just gouged. I applied salve to where we attached the harness, but the weird metallic lesions would not heal. We then took the JSF to a vetrinarian, but he said he did not treat JSFs. I was unable to tie the reins up to the hitching post. And it goes on and on for pages,but the bottom line is that the JSF lasted about 3 days in my house before I ditched it and went back to my donkey cart with a broken wheel.
Conclusion is that the JSF is a birds nest of confusion. The JSF seems like it might be good until you actually try and fly it and then it shows it's ugliness, slowness and instability.
Why on earth ANYONE would use the JSF for personal transportation is beyond me.
Sorry, I love my old macs too, but the Lifetime Achievement Worst Use of Awesome CPU Award goes to the TI99/4a. Incidentally, the first and only computer I ever had, until my brother gave me his 386 in 1996.
Took forever, but Comcast finally got around to installing a filter that blocks the analog basic cable channels. Only thing that works is CMT (Country Music Television).
Never had Scifi in the basic lineup anyway, not even in basic digital. Had to spend $60 a month (in addition to the $40some for cable internet) to get that.
I worked for a company that offered commercial VOIP. It was a joke. Anyone that relies on Vonage, well, there's no need for me to insult you, I suppose.
Let's just say I'm not offering a POTS replacement kind of VOIP. It's a long distance replacement. And for people like me that only make a few LD calls every month anyway, this would be more than adequate.
You miss the point. Sure, my broadband can provide more than 1 voip link, but I've only got one landline that I can donate to this cause. Figures. Still not sure if its just that my ideas are dumb, or if I do a shitty job explaining them...
I'll do you one better. I have a $12 asterisk card. I have a landline that allows me to make unlimited calls in the Richmond, VA area. I have broadband.
I don't care if my landline is tied up most of the time, I have a cellphone finally (just got my first a few months back). Maybe you're in a similar situation. Maybe you'd buy a $12 asterisk card too.
If we set up the hardware correctly, well then, I can make long distance calls to your area, and you to mine, and it won't cost us anything. Better yet, technically, your grandma down the road, who doesn't even have a computer, could make a LD call to Richmond VA, without it showing up on her bill. She dials into your asterisk machine, it puts it through over broadband to mine. My grandma could do the same thing... or for that matter, anyone in Richmond could do the same thing.
Why would I do this, you ask? Because even if I only cheat the bastard phone companies out of a nickel of long distance revenue, I consider it a victory.
I described it well enough that most knew which episode I was talking about. That I didn't use the proper amount of religious awe in describing it and that this bothers you... it's indescribably laughable. I love B5, but goddam, but I'd still describe episodes that simply. Thanks for reinforcing my suspicion that its all a bunch of worthless crap that you retards gibber about.
Still, I wish I could figure out the exact formula about these shows... I also just watched an episode (the first for me) of Dark Angel. Genetically engineered soldier escapes into a post-apocalyptic urban wasteland? Sounds like it has potential. Why do I still get the feeling that it's 2 parts daytime soap opera, 1 part Beverly Hills 90210, 3 parts "lets show off Alba's ass" ?
Why are we so obsessed with copper? It's time to move out of the fucking 1890s. I do have to agree with people that it can't be profitable for a company to overbuild, but some of us just want a network that is faster than 1985's 10baseT ethernet.
Ah, I see. Since I'm not a fan sitting there with a notebook in my lap taking notes on it already, it just shows I'm not watching it properly? What kind of shit is that? It shows the captain hurt, near the end of the story, first. Then goes back over how the engine isn't running, they can't fix it, him telling them to leave, blah blah blah. You guys are all fucking nuts, this proved it.
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I'm not even proposing internet access on that page. Without crossing a street, the most homes that could be hooked up in my neighborhood is 16, and that's assuming 100% participation. Assuming you did get that many, you might be able to bring in 20 or so ADSL loops, at 10mps a piece, you could have a decent upstream. That's assuming you could find a DSL company willing to do such business. But cheap multimode does scale pretty far, all the hardware's cheap...
If a few close neighbors did want to do such a thing, we could probably implement it for $100 per, one time fee. Gotta be something you can do with gigabit, even if its not an internet connection.
Like this much?
No, this time it was another windows machine that was infected in 12 minutes. Expect to see 200 million similar stories in the next week or so.
Yeh, if you have one of the asterisk digium cards (or any other FXO card for that matter). If you just have a crappy internal modem, it *might* be possible, supposing whether or not it has an answering machine feature, or is a winmodem whose chipset you can reverse closely enough. If it's a plain modem, you'll never force voice quality sound through it in either direction.
Would need to monitor the mic in channel on the soundcard, listening for DTMF tones. The tones themselves are pretty unmistakable if I remember, almost impossible for random noise to approximate them.
If I was truly interested in freedom, I'd be ok with you and a few thousand of your fascist friends overthrowing the US government and running the country as some sort of dictatorship?
Same thing with the code, you're free to do with it what you like except try to take it for your own and make it so no one else can use it.
Oh, and go fuck yourself.
That guy has no natural rights to the material. It was meant to protect his incentive to continue creating. With the entertainment industry being the multi-billion-dollar-a-year behemoth that it is, we don't need to protect their incentive any more.
Copyright was also meant to protect the consumer, that is, from other less-inspired legislation that would turn it into some perpetual monopoly ala the crap that goes on in the country we broke away from. As copyright has been mutilated, it has protected the consumer even less. And don't let me get started on how badly it has fucked the historian....
His choice of words shows how little he understands, after all this time. Infectious implies that you have no control over it. But you do... you can choose not to be infected, write your own damn code.
GPL is about "converting" in the religious sense. Is this a bad thing? You tell me. You can choose not to be converted, and continue making excuses why you are so stingy with your source code, or you can share it freely. Be stingy, I don't care, but don't expect me to continue giving all my source code to you, so you can go off and sell it...
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Seriously. Make it user-friendly and it will sell
I could be considered a linux zealot. But you need to keep several things in mind.
#1 I can't speak for everyone, but I will say that I couldn't care less if linux "sells" either literally, or metaphorically. If my dumbass neighbor wants to continue using Win98, and wondering why it doesn't work, I simply don't care. I do reserve the right to laugh at him.
#2 It does pain me to use windows, say for whatever job I have. So this might be a mild exception to the above rule.
#3 It can't be made any more "user-friendly" than it it. People need to make themselves less "logic-hostile". No one complains that calculus needs to be more user-friendly. Most people realize how dumb that would be. If you need the things that only calculus provides, you don't go after watered-down-math... when you do, you pay consequences. There is no substitute for calculus that is worth having. Most people stay away from calculus, but they have messed up ideas on what a computer is supposed to be, and so...
#4 They need to learn what in the hell it is they want. A game machine? Buy a playstation. A web browser? Well give me a fucking break, linux does that fine already, you're just a tard. Email too. It's a little fuzzy when you get around to word processor/spreadsheet still (I admit that), but many people that think they want a word processor would do just fine with a text editor, and linux has that covered. Oh, wait, you use image editing, Photoshop? You're either a liar or a tard, buy a Mac of some sort.
Now, all that said, if you're a person not so dissimilar to myself, and you like doing truly interesting things with computers... well, if you need help, just ask. Everyone needs help of some kind, and I'm usually glad to give it.
Not a proper one, I use Firefox after all. A shitty little div, one of those interstitial things they've been doing. Usually see them as flash though.
Not that I have any particular sympathy for them, but you'd think these people would learn. This is the same kind of thing we've seen for the past decade with international raids against groups like DoD.
And I don't mean "learn" as in, stop pirating. But there is software out there that would make them more or less invulnerable to this sort of sting operation. Duh.
I don't mean to discourage the notion that our leaders sell out cheaply, they certainly do. But documented campaign contributions are the tip of this iceberg, dive down below the surface with me.
There are golf trips, and trips to las vegas, or other places this senator needs to check out for him to be able to properly understand Microsoft and the plight of the industry regarding the federal government.
There are the neices and nephews with a different last name, that need a job out of college, that Microsoft hires.
There are the flights on corporate jets. The introductions to other powerful industry people, that both junior and senior senators need.
There's the promise of a cushy job if and when they do retire out of Congress.
The promise of indirect contributions come next election.
And once you consider that the $5000 is more like roughly $100,000 all things considered, and that it only required an hour here, and hour there throughout the year, never interfering with others giving him more or less the same benefits... would you pass over one more free grab at $100,000, when you're already selling out 5 times a day, and #6 won't be all that more difficult?
I tried switching the family over to JSF attack jets over the summer
vacation and the wails of terror, utter anxiety, and lack of any flight training whatsoever was enough to crash the jets straight into the ground.
So why all the troubles?
Afterall JSF pilots love to tell stories of how the JSF is so
much better than a donkey cart with a broken wheel and they would never try to fly across the ocean in one.
My conclusion after seeing real people in a real average Jane setting
crash and burn after being dropped in the pilot's seat midair is that the JSF advocates are just plain lying
because the JSF is really a step backwards for people used to using
technology several centuries behind what it should be.
To make this short and simple, virtually NOTHING worked properly in the JSF.
Telling the JSF to turn left and swatting it with your hand did nothing, it would not listen.
Stuffing oats and barley into the fuel tank did not refuel it. In fact, the jet technician said I caused 100s of 1000s of $$$ worth of damage!
I tried to nail a proper shoe onto the jet turbine, but the jet-grade aluminum just gouged.
I applied salve to where we attached the harness, but the weird metallic lesions would not heal.
We then took the JSF to a vetrinarian, but he said he did not treat JSFs.
I was unable to tie the reins up to the hitching post.
And it goes on and on for pages,but the bottom line is that the JSF lasted about 3 days in my house before I ditched it and went back to
my donkey cart with a broken wheel.
Conclusion is that the JSF is a birds nest of confusion. The JSF seems
like it might be good until you actually try and fly it and then it
shows it's ugliness, slowness and instability.
Why on earth ANYONE would use the JSF for personal transportation is beyond me.
I was actually going to read the eweek article, when this stupid little div popup appears, complete with candy-ass XP style close button. No thanks.
Sorry, I love my old macs too, but the Lifetime Achievement Worst Use of Awesome CPU Award goes to the TI99/4a. Incidentally, the first and only computer I ever had, until my brother gave me his 386 in 1996.
Took forever, but Comcast finally got around to installing a filter that blocks the analog basic cable channels. Only thing that works is CMT (Country Music Television).
Never had Scifi in the basic lineup anyway, not even in basic digital. Had to spend $60 a month (in addition to the $40some for cable internet) to get that.
I worked for a company that offered commercial VOIP. It was a joke. Anyone that relies on Vonage, well, there's no need for me to insult you, I suppose.
Let's just say I'm not offering a POTS replacement kind of VOIP. It's a long distance replacement. And for people like me that only make a few LD calls every month anyway, this would be more than adequate.
Wouldn't be for free then, now would it?
You miss the point. Sure, my broadband can provide more than 1 voip link, but I've only got one landline that I can donate to this cause. Figures. Still not sure if its just that my ideas are dumb, or if I do a shitty job explaining them...
I'll do you one better. I have a $12 asterisk card. I have a landline that allows me to make unlimited calls in the Richmond, VA area. I have broadband.
I don't care if my landline is tied up most of the time, I have a cellphone finally (just got my first a few months back). Maybe you're in a similar situation. Maybe you'd buy a $12 asterisk card too.
If we set up the hardware correctly, well then, I can make long distance calls to your area, and you to mine, and it won't cost us anything. Better yet, technically, your grandma down the road, who doesn't even have a computer, could make a LD call to Richmond VA, without it showing up on her bill. She dials into your asterisk machine, it puts it through over broadband to mine. My grandma could do the same thing... or for that matter, anyone in Richmond could do the same thing.
Why would I do this, you ask? Because even if I only cheat the bastard phone companies out of a nickel of long distance revenue, I consider it a victory.
Anyone feel like helping?
It also uses the Windows security model!
I described it well enough that most knew which episode I was talking about. That I didn't use the proper amount of religious awe in describing it and that this bothers you... it's indescribably laughable. I love B5, but goddam, but I'd still describe episodes that simply. Thanks for reinforcing my suspicion that its all a bunch of worthless crap that you retards gibber about.
Still, I wish I could figure out the exact formula about these shows... I also just watched an episode (the first for me) of Dark Angel. Genetically engineered soldier escapes into a post-apocalyptic urban wasteland? Sounds like it has potential. Why do I still get the feeling that it's 2 parts daytime soap opera, 1 part Beverly Hills 90210, 3 parts "lets show off Alba's ass" ?
Why are we so obsessed with copper? It's time to move out of the fucking 1890s. I do have to agree with people that it can't be profitable for a company to overbuild, but some of us just want a network that is faster than 1985's 10baseT ethernet.
Why can't we build our own?
Ah, I see. Since I'm not a fan sitting there with a notebook in my lap taking notes on it already, it just shows I'm not watching it properly? What kind of shit is that? It shows the captain hurt, near the end of the story, first. Then goes back over how the engine isn't running, they can't fix it, him telling them to leave, blah blah blah. You guys are all fucking nuts, this proved it.