150 years worth of horded capital, of practice in perfecting propaganda, and all sorts of nasty things. You're mentally retarded if you think that the Fortune 50s of the world would not take the opportunity to do all sorts of evil things.
Money, influence on media and culture, teams of lawyers... these are all power in their own right, even with a diminished government.
I also talk to an average of one OSX user per night. They're only ever calling in to set it up initially, never to try to fix it. Ever.
I've been doing this 40 hours a week since november, too.
Judging by our call volume, versus the number of DSL customers we have, a not insignificant portion of XP users have real trouble. Not trouble setting it up, but chronic, ongoing, unfixable trouble. If we find out it's only 5%, are you going to conclude that's "good enough" ?
Using OSX, probably. Using any other OS, supposing he did manage to set the IP, it would have worked. None of this shit where it works when it wants, then fails to work otherwise. Sure it was easy and straightforward, and it FAILED. I speak to many customers that would likely say they'd rather have slightly difficult and working, than easy and "it's a gamble whether it will work".
Working in a DSL support, just got off the phone with a XP customer. Had him set his static IP address, wouldn't work. MAC address wouldn't even show. Heard him mention a router... had him hook that up, even though we don't support them, I walked him through setup. Router's MAC address showed up immediately, he was on the internet. His nic was fine, so was the driver... or else DHCP wouldn't have worked. It's constantly doing crap like this.
And how about the new XP firewall? It fucking blocks icmp. Mind you, that's the only thing in the world that it blocks apparently, because it gets every virus in the world, even with Norton or Mcaffee running. And that's not a small thing, the people who need others to ping them are generally too illiterate to turn the firewall off for people like me.
Or how about the whole "let's hide how to get to classic view" thing? Or them deciding to change the label for "ok" button on the network adapter properties panel? How about not being able to use a static IP on more than one adapter, but still sticking a 1394 adapter into the mix, for ijits to mistakenly configure?
That last one sounds minor, but on an OS that has to hide the icons in the control panel from its own user because they can't be trusted, how many of those same people need to do IP-over-Firewire? Honestly.
XP isn't usable, not by the vast majority of people. Not even close.
Corporations have far more cash, not to mention organization, than a citizen. If we neuter government, without neutering corporations at the same time, they'll use their cash and organization to re-corrupt government. Corporations don't get to blame government, and they wouldn't be saints if somehow we woke up with an anarchy tomorrow.
And that's the kicker isn't it? I'm not a warez kiddy, the occassional linux iso (think once every 4 months) is the only large thing I ever download/upload. So, if they were to decrease bandwidth, not only do I not have a right to bitch as you pointed out, I actually wouldn't.
The kinds of things they do have nothing to do with their bottom line. It has everything to do with turning it back into TV, which is the only thing comcast understands how to sell.
For the record, my website move about 30 megs a month, total. Spread evenly, dialup could handle that...
My dollars are worthless. I suppose I'm supposed to become a full-time activist. How am I supposed to start a broadband company, and if I did, do you think the same organization that did this "study" would sit idly by? Haha.
I'll start supporting libertarians when they start feeling like neutering the corporations that are just as bad as our government. The only check and balance left is government/corporations... and you guys only want to eliminate one side of that. It's a recipe for disaster.
While I love the idea of cheap wireless I do not want the government controlling it. Unlike private corporations governments have incredible methods of ignoring laws and worse writing new ones that control access and content. They also are very good at pushing an agenda with such services.
Like my ISP? No servers, no VPN usage. Arbitrary rules on what systems would be allowed to be connected. Protocols chosen less for their technical merit, and more for their ability to cripple an internet connection, to "consumerize" it.
Tell me, when the next code red hits, will they just block port 80 again? If it happens to be a virus that propagates through video games somehow, will they block that port too? Comcast would.
Personally, I can't imagine a internet connection more limited, more useless, than the broadband and dialup offerings available to me. How could this be any worse? And your other arguments are lame too... we don't provide a car free of charge to everyone, just so they can use the roads.
Picture of a fingerprint, how could you "print" it out, complete with ridges? Laytex, or maybe silicone would be nice, something I could glue to my fingertips, temporarily. Also, what are the oldest fingerprints available, that would show up in a search? I'd like to be a 170 yr old, 90 yrs dead suspect, or, supposing celebrity fingerprints are available, George W. Bush himself!
And then for when I get caught, fingerprints with an embedded "Fuck You Pigs" logo that would show up on the fingerprint card....
That's for militaries and governments, not for us. The way in which it works to prevent interception also works to prevent relaying... so unless you have a fiber line or laser link directly to whoever it is you are communicating with, it's useless as I understand it.
Hah. If you're going to bother splitting it up that way, then of course it's illegal. It's an undeniable fact. It's also undeniable that it was the intention of the legislators that it be illegal... they didn't write a sloppy law without realizing the implications.
When people talk about illegality here, they're really meaning "should/shouldn't be illegal", in addition to the fact of it's illegality. Maybe they're thrifty with their words, or just in a hurry to type out their opinions.
No matter what, though, it's clear that legislators both make things illegal when they shouldn't, and when they don't believe that they are doing so (unless making off-brand printer cartridges really was meant to be illegal by the DMCA). Corporations also like to push and stretch these laws to acquire rights that the laws probably don't mean for them to have.
Summary: All you jackasses screaming "but it's illegal!" can go fuck yourselves. That I haven't murdered you yet has nothing to do with it being illegal, it's because I think it is wrong. But if you want me to become a strict legalist, well, I guess I should start looking for a murder loophole....
iirc, he actually zigzag-cut them into individual bills. And then when the secret service investigated him, he presented a rather genuine-looking fake idea, that had him the Inspector General of the US Bikini Patrol or something. He's on my list of personal heroes.
You know, I have the same complaint about the gears in standard automobiles, whether they are automatic or manual transmission. They don't feel any different from one another at all... how does any blind person manage to drive?
I've only seen the pilot, but the scene where starbuck rescues apollo is pretty damn cool. Crazy, but plausible. And she actually crashes in the landing bay, I don't think I've ever seen a proper crash in Enterprise. On that show, they would have invented a new subatomic particle to save apollo...
My god, scifi where spaceships have real physics, and don't always meet right-side-up. And with apollo's engine out, was that some sort of crazy spin I saw him in? Damn.
Watched it religiously for two seasons. Trapped on the planet, they can't even have a proper lightning storm, it has to be a fucking "polaric" storm. Tell me, how many of these one-off plots did they go through in those 2 seasons, and awkwardly at that:
A) They befriend a new alien species that turns out to be hunting another, defenseless species. B) The crew is going through an area of space dangerous unless they're sequestered in stasis/shielded area/unconsciousness.* C) Non-corporeal entities visit seemingly as friends, only to discover they really want bodies back, and somehow Scott Bakula's is looking good. D) They're out in the middle of nowhere, when a big bad alien attacks, and they have to hurry up and get weapons ready. E) Weird things start happening, and their time-traveler friend has to show up to explain it to them, or else it would take the nitwits 5 episodes to figure it out (if ever). F) There is a stowaway that takes hostages unless they return it to their own planet, and worse! They don't speak it's language. G) They're exploring some anomaly, and the crew gets trapped.**
* Used twice, at least.
** A comet? Give me a fucking break. That shuttle has to have life support for weeks. They need vulcan help? Why not just bake the damn thing a bit, until they melt their way free? A FTL vessel that can't put out some heat one way or another?
Don't be a fool. Why they had to go and invent usernit when we already had the worled-wide intarwebb is beyond me. I can't believe congress funded this usernit thing. They should butt out of it, and let private entities like AOL invent their own usernits... which they wouldn't as this decision proves.
Duh, of course prices are lowered *while* Microsoft tries to monopolise that industry. The only study worth anything, would be one 20 years after Microsoft eliminated its last competitor.
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150 years worth of horded capital, of practice in perfecting propaganda, and all sorts of nasty things. You're mentally retarded if you think that the Fortune 50s of the world would not take the opportunity to do all sorts of evil things.
Money, influence on media and culture, teams of lawyers... these are all power in their own right, even with a diminished government.
Well, in linux that would be a simple fix. Set up an alias. It's more a job of the distro to do that, than POSIX standards, though.
I also talk to an average of one OSX user per night. They're only ever calling in to set it up initially, never to try to fix it. Ever.
I've been doing this 40 hours a week since november, too.
Judging by our call volume, versus the number of DSL customers we have, a not insignificant portion of XP users have real trouble. Not trouble setting it up, but chronic, ongoing, unfixable trouble. If we find out it's only 5%, are you going to conclude that's "good enough" ?
Using OSX, probably. Using any other OS, supposing he did manage to set the IP, it would have worked. None of this shit where it works when it wants, then fails to work otherwise. Sure it was easy and straightforward, and it FAILED. I speak to many customers that would likely say they'd rather have slightly difficult and working, than easy and "it's a gamble whether it will work".
Next time log in, AC lamer.
Working in a DSL support, just got off the phone with a XP customer. Had him set his static IP address, wouldn't work. MAC address wouldn't even show. Heard him mention a router... had him hook that up, even though we don't support them, I walked him through setup. Router's MAC address showed up immediately, he was on the internet. His nic was fine, so was the driver... or else DHCP wouldn't have worked. It's constantly doing crap like this.
And how about the new XP firewall? It fucking blocks icmp. Mind you, that's the only thing in the world that it blocks apparently, because it gets every virus in the world, even with Norton or Mcaffee running. And that's not a small thing, the people who need others to ping them are generally too illiterate to turn the firewall off for people like me.
Or how about the whole "let's hide how to get to classic view" thing? Or them deciding to change the label for "ok" button on the network adapter properties panel? How about not being able to use a static IP on more than one adapter, but still sticking a 1394 adapter into the mix, for ijits to mistakenly configure?
That last one sounds minor, but on an OS that has to hide the icons in the control panel from its own user because they can't be trusted, how many of those same people need to do IP-over-Firewire? Honestly.
XP isn't usable, not by the vast majority of people. Not even close.
Corporations have far more cash, not to mention organization, than a citizen. If we neuter government, without neutering corporations at the same time, they'll use their cash and organization to re-corrupt government. Corporations don't get to blame government, and they wouldn't be saints if somehow we woke up with an anarchy tomorrow.
And that's the kicker isn't it? I'm not a warez kiddy, the occassional linux iso (think once every 4 months) is the only large thing I ever download/upload. So, if they were to decrease bandwidth, not only do I not have a right to bitch as you pointed out, I actually wouldn't.
The kinds of things they do have nothing to do with their bottom line. It has everything to do with turning it back into TV, which is the only thing comcast understands how to sell.
For the record, my website move about 30 megs a month, total. Spread evenly, dialup could handle that...
My dollars are worthless. I suppose I'm supposed to become a full-time activist. How am I supposed to start a broadband company, and if I did, do you think the same organization that did this "study" would sit idly by? Haha.
I'll start supporting libertarians when they start feeling like neutering the corporations that are just as bad as our government. The only check and balance left is government/corporations... and you guys only want to eliminate one side of that. It's a recipe for disaster.
While I love the idea of cheap wireless I do not want the government controlling it. Unlike private corporations governments have incredible methods of ignoring laws and worse writing new ones that control access and content. They also are very good at pushing an agenda with such services.
Like my ISP? No servers, no VPN usage. Arbitrary rules on what systems would be allowed to be connected. Protocols chosen less for their technical merit, and more for their ability to cripple an internet connection, to "consumerize" it.
Tell me, when the next code red hits, will they just block port 80 again? If it happens to be a virus that propagates through video games somehow, will they block that port too? Comcast would.
Personally, I can't imagine a internet connection more limited, more useless, than the broadband and dialup offerings available to me. How could this be any worse? And your other arguments are lame too... we don't provide a car free of charge to everyone, just so they can use the roads.
Picture of a fingerprint, how could you "print" it out, complete with ridges? Laytex, or maybe silicone would be nice, something I could glue to my fingertips, temporarily. Also, what are the oldest fingerprints available, that would show up in a search? I'd like to be a 170 yr old, 90 yrs dead suspect, or, supposing celebrity fingerprints are available, George W. Bush himself!
And then for when I get caught, fingerprints with an embedded "Fuck You Pigs" logo that would show up on the fingerprint card....
That's for militaries and governments, not for us. The way in which it works to prevent interception also works to prevent relaying... so unless you have a fiber line or laser link directly to whoever it is you are communicating with, it's useless as I understand it.
Hah. If you're going to bother splitting it up that way, then of course it's illegal. It's an undeniable fact. It's also undeniable that it was the intention of the legislators that it be illegal... they didn't write a sloppy law without realizing the implications.
When people talk about illegality here, they're really meaning "should/shouldn't be illegal", in addition to the fact of it's illegality. Maybe they're thrifty with their words, or just in a hurry to type out their opinions.
No matter what, though, it's clear that legislators both make things illegal when they shouldn't, and when they don't believe that they are doing so (unless making off-brand printer cartridges really was meant to be illegal by the DMCA). Corporations also like to push and stretch these laws to acquire rights that the laws probably don't mean for them to have.
Summary: All you jackasses screaming "but it's illegal!" can go fuck yourselves. That I haven't murdered you yet has nothing to do with it being illegal, it's because I think it is wrong. But if you want me to become a strict legalist, well, I guess I should start looking for a murder loophole....
The EFF is a noble effort, but a futile one. Donate that money to the Freenet guys instead, and maybe they can make the damn thing usable.
iirc, he actually zigzag-cut them into individual bills. And then when the secret service investigated him, he presented a rather genuine-looking fake idea, that had him the Inspector General of the US Bikini Patrol or something. He's on my list of personal heroes.
Unless your friend is Steve Wozniak, I doubt that he is telling the truth.
You know, I have the same complaint about the gears in standard automobiles, whether they are automatic or manual transmission. They don't feel any different from one another at all... how does any blind person manage to drive?
When she lets me, I do. Never heard the slang term "blur" before, but rest assured I have it covered.
With counter-revolutionary titles like The Sims 2 and Fifa 2005, it's small wonder that they were banned.
I've only seen the pilot, but the scene where starbuck rescues apollo is pretty damn cool. Crazy, but plausible. And she actually crashes in the landing bay, I don't think I've ever seen a proper crash in Enterprise. On that show, they would have invented a new subatomic particle to save apollo...
My god, scifi where spaceships have real physics, and don't always meet right-side-up. And with apollo's engine out, was that some sort of crazy spin I saw him in? Damn.
Watched it religiously for two seasons. Trapped on the planet, they can't even have a proper lightning storm, it has to be a fucking "polaric" storm. Tell me, how many of these one-off plots did they go through in those 2 seasons, and awkwardly at that:
A) They befriend a new alien species that turns out to be hunting another, defenseless species.
B) The crew is going through an area of space dangerous unless they're sequestered in stasis/shielded area/unconsciousness.*
C) Non-corporeal entities visit seemingly as friends, only to discover they really want bodies back, and somehow Scott Bakula's is looking good.
D) They're out in the middle of nowhere, when a big bad alien attacks, and they have to hurry up and get weapons ready.
E) Weird things start happening, and their time-traveler friend has to show up to explain it to them, or else it would take the nitwits 5 episodes to figure it out (if ever).
F) There is a stowaway that takes hostages unless they return it to their own planet, and worse! They don't speak it's language.
G) They're exploring some anomaly, and the crew gets trapped.**
* Used twice, at least.
** A comet? Give me a fucking break. That shuttle has to have life support for weeks. They need vulcan help? Why not just bake the damn thing a bit, until they melt their way free? A FTL vessel that can't put out some heat one way or another?
On that note, linux is inferior to Windows, seeing how it's so rare in the "real world".
Too bad for the macromedia fanboys that the answer to your problem is called "SVG+XML+Xforms".
Don't be a fool. Why they had to go and invent usernit when we already had the worled-wide intarwebb is beyond me. I can't believe congress funded this usernit thing. They should butt out of it, and let private entities like AOL invent their own usernits... which they wouldn't as this decision proves.
Usernit sucks, use the intarwebb instead!
Hardly, they'll use the networking effect. What company risks using the small startup's office suite, when none of their customers or suppliers do?
Then, they use all sorts of aggressive tactics.
Besides, what venture capitalist will fund a startup going up against Microsoft?
I'm not saying it's forever, but in Microsoft's case, the monopoly will erode far slower than a monopoly carmaker's would.
Duh, of course prices are lowered *while* Microsoft tries to monopolise that industry. The only study worth anything, would be one 20 years after Microsoft eliminated its last competitor.