My guess that it's less costly than buying cell phones for everyone and then having to pay for airtime ontop of that. Plus it would be easier for that to record, log, etc. calls from HQ, regardless of who the officer calls.
If you're trying to state that corporations in the US have *way* too much influence on politics, then I will agree with you. However, this comment seems to be a dangerously broad accusation. Keep in mind that corporations and politicians only have as much power as the people give them. This is especially true at the local level, where community leaders are directly elected (sometimes by a margin of a few dozen votes) and come in daily, personal contact with their constituants. While you might have a hard time getting much more than a form letter from your federal reps, you'd be surprised at how easy it is to get the ear of your county commissioner, district attorney, or city councilman.
All is not lost, and hyperbolizing the situation only adds to the feelings of civil powerlessness; thus, increasing the problem. Mindless corporation bashing is becoming as trendy on Slashdot as baseless Microsoft bashing has become.
Fascism has zero to do with corporations. This article has zero to do with Fascism OR corporations.
For before you mod me down for stating the obvious, I'm beginning to wonder if Slashcode parses and automatically mods up and comments containing "before you 'flame me|mod me down'".
It's generally around 1% when the merchant swipes a physical card, and isn't just keying in a card number. Plus there's a monthly processing fee of about $20, a $0.25 per transaction fee and an application fee of $50. The myriad of fees add up, but it isn't as huge as the grandparent thinks it is.
When Congress just upped the penality for showing a nipple on TV to half a million dollars, you have to ask why prostition is illegal? It has nothing to do with praticality and everything to do with morality.
A bit off topic, but you hit a sore spot of mine. I am a life-long martial artist and it really bothers me that people think of training as "fighting". You might have seen one too many Van Damme flicks. We don't call it "fighting" it's either "sparring" or "kumite". In either case it's nothing more than a skillful game of tag. Very strict contact rules apply; hitting harder doesn't score more points and will only get you DQed. Even when practicing more realistic self-defense scenarios, we never push the boundries and actually try to injure our partner (and it's "partner", not "opponent").
Well, can't comment on the the validity of the site itself, but why does it matter? You're not buying *that* site. They just act as a broker for templates created by independent designers. The templates themselves are just sliced up Photoshop files embedded in HTML tables, nothing special about it. Some of them use CSS, but most do not.
As I mentioned in my OP, I just bought one a half-hour ago. Looks kosher to me in both IE and Firefox. I'm working on customizing it in Photoshop as I write this.
Eh, yeah, I know what you're saying... I kinda feel a bit weird about it. But I just spent three weeks designing a (small-ish) site from scratch. Clients never trully understand the amount of work that goes into creating a truly professional site. (Thank God for Change Orders though) They want it on the cheap AND to look sharp. If I can use templates to offer them a bit of both, and they're happy, then we both win.
I'm a technology generalist who pays my bills by providing services on a contractual basis to small bizs. Occasionaly this entails web design.
Talk about a coincidence... I clicked over to/. while I was waiting for my order at templatemonster.com to process. I was vaugly aware of the sites like this, but never really looked at the templates until yesterday. They offer full, very professional website templates for download for only around $60(!). I'll never design a website for a client from scratch again.
(Disclaimer: The URL above includes my affliate ID, but isn't my reason for posting.)
Whoops... I guess that the main article source was the Free Press. Well then, in standard/. operating procedure I guess I could just sum things up as "RTFA!"
Ok, I need to clarify things: This is NOT being funded by tax dollars. The Detroit Free Press makes this point a bit more clear than the submitter's articles. As I wrote in a reply below:
"The companies involved here will be providing basic access for free and charging those who want faster acccess. The assumption is that the powerusers will be subsidizing the freeloaders. In fact, I believe the county is planning on charging a franchise fee, making this actually a source of income."
Despite our proximity to Detroit, Oakland County is the 3rd wealthiest county in the US. Coincidently, a couple of weeks ago, I was actually undertaking the task of mapping all the APs in Oakland County using NetStumber and GPSVisualizer. I only mapped about half of my city (Novi) before I wrote it off as an exercise in futility. From my place to the grocery store (about a mile and a half) I found about 40 APs. This plan will be used by more than just a select few. While I don't know enough about the plan to say that it's a great idea, it's not as simple as you write it off as.
BTW, this is all besides the point anyhow. If you RTFA, you'd see that this isn't going to be funded by tax dollars. The companies involved here will be providing basic access for free and charging those who want faster acccess. The assumption is that the powerusers will be subsidizing the freeloaders. In fact, I believe the county is planning on charging a franchise fee, making this actually a source of income.
The movies that Loki distributed is only part of the story. They moved as much, if not more, warez, ebooks, and full album rips as well.
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One of the last announcements from Mr. Webber. Kinda shameful/funny considering what he's done two weeks later.
01/27 - LokiTorrent up for sale? (by lowkee) I now know what it's like to be a politician. Every move, no matter how small, gets posted as news.
As some of you may have read recently on some p2p news sites, LokiTorrent.com is posted as 'for sale' on Sedo.com.
If you ran a website (and some of your do), wouldn't you be curious how much it was worth?
It's common knowledge that most people that buy websites don't buy them to continue running them. They simply nab the mailing list, spam everyone, then make the site into one big sponsored search engine and pop-up gallery....The exact reason selling it would mean scrapping an entire year's worth of work that I and the entire volunteer team at LokiTorrent have put into making a worthwhile community site.
If some guy offers me $75K for the domain name, he's more than welcome to it, and I'll simply move the site to a different domain. Selling the entire site will never happen. I have way too much of myself in this site to sell it for any price (well, 2 million could get me to part with it, lol.. but let's live in reality).
As for the legal fund.. if I were going to run off, I would have already. That money is for the lawsuit, as stated. Only those who would run off with the money thought we would.
The legal fund is an enormous sum, and it shows exactly who supports p2p rights. Those who called it a scam and haven't put a few bucks in don't deserve the work, money and time I and the rest of the supporters of LokiTorrent and other p2p sites have put into their projects. If it were up to them, the internet would be nothing more than porn spam and fake college degrees.
Lead by example. We're fighting for your rights, the right to run our site and up until recently I have been spending my OWN money (thousands of it!) to keep LokiTorrent running for this past year. It was only recently when we began making our bills.. just in time for them to double from extra bandwidth usage.
If there were so many who jump on the 'it's a scam' bandwagon every time we make a change or entertain curiousity, this website (and many other user supported sites) would never exist. I can't tell you how many people I've seen say 'That lawsuit is a fake, anyone can make up a bogus suit'
Yeah, tell that to the MPAA. I'd love nothing more than to make that rediculous suit vanish.
Not ironic. It just further proves what many insightful observers have been saying for years: The price of movies are artifically high.
The MPAA likes to clasify P2Pers as amoral freeloaders when the truth is that we're all rational human beings. The fact that many people donated proves that they beleived that what they were getting was of value and that they are willing to exchange something of value in return. The MPAA really needs to rethink their strategy and analyze this situation. A legally sanctioned electronic distribution system, would be of even greater utility to consumers; hence the demand would be higher. Since electronic distribution is much less costly than tradtional outlets, I have to beleive that there is the potential for profit in this formula. Then again, the cost-benefit analysis might just show that suing comsumers to be more profitable.:-(
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They actually took in closer to $70k.
I long predicted this, for obvious reasons. Loki succeeded in getting a lot of naive idealists rallied around the call to "fight the Man". People donated thinking that they'd have ring-side seats to an exciting legal battle. It was all bullshit... Of course it was. There was absolutely zero change of them successfully defending themselves, based on mountains of preceding case law. If you were sitting on $70k in real cash (not just discussing a hypothetical situation on the semi-anonymous Intraweb), would you really flush it down the toliet? Even if you met with several lawyers who told you to expect the exact same outcome?
I'm sorry, but this outcome was obvious to any rational observer. It saddened me to see Loki take advantage of their users like that. But, it also enraged me to see them actually monetarily profit from distributing software that was not within their rights to sell.
Another tinfoil rant from a zealot... how was this modded +5?
Kazaa was given away for free and used by the vast majority of its users to engage in illegal file swapping. You didn't pay them a dime and therefore can't reasonabily expect anything of them. They were quite willing to piss off a few people along the way, millions of other freeloaders didn't know and if they did, didn't care. Sharmon's customers weren't the users anyhow, they were the advertisers.
Now, if a company is selling their product to the people who use them. Since the users *are* the customers, they are largely beholden to their users. (I'm talking free market here, this excludes monopolies). Companies selling closed source, commerical products are *far* less likely to risk alienating their user base than you indicate. It would be easy for everyone to simply jump ship and go to a competitor. In short, this has nothing to do with open source vs. closed source and everything to do with accountability.
Unbinding any protocols from your NIC before wardriving should help you there. That way you can't be accused of trying to penetrate the discovered LANs. You're also less likely to be flagged by an IDS.
Simply detecting radio signals on publicly accessible (and unlicensed) frequencies isn't a crime.
Of course, I'm a geek not a lawyer, so what do I know?
I tend to think along the same lines. Maybe I'm a bit of an elitist, or it's the fact that I despise contending with so many horrid DBs thrown together by people who had no clue what they were doing. I'm sorry, but these "implement technology x in minutes" books really rub me the wrong way. Why don't people take the time to learn how to properly use their choosen tools? I wouldn't expect to be able pick up a wrench today and then begin building an engine tomorrow. Designing a good relational database requires some know-how. If you want to do something fast, use a simple flat file.
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My guess that it's less costly than buying cell phones for everyone and then having to pay for airtime ontop of that. Plus it would be easier for that to record, log, etc. calls from HQ, regardless of who the officer calls.
Actually... People have fried eggs on a P4. And since many other chips can run even hotter, it's probably been done more than once.
If you're trying to state that corporations in the US have *way* too much influence on politics, then I will agree with you. However, this comment seems to be a dangerously broad accusation. Keep in mind that corporations and politicians only have as much power as the people give them. This is especially true at the local level, where community leaders are directly elected (sometimes by a margin of a few dozen votes) and come in daily, personal contact with their constituants. While you might have a hard time getting much more than a form letter from your federal reps, you'd be surprised at how easy it is to get the ear of your county commissioner, district attorney, or city councilman.
All is not lost, and hyperbolizing the situation only adds to the feelings of civil powerlessness; thus, increasing the problem. Mindless corporation bashing is becoming as trendy on Slashdot as baseless Microsoft bashing has become.
Fascism has zero to do with corporations. This article has zero to do with Fascism OR corporations.
For before you mod me down for stating the obvious, I'm beginning to wonder if Slashcode parses and automatically mods up and comments containing "before you 'flame me|mod me down'".
Probably not since that's what they call their existing complex.
It's generally around 1% when the merchant swipes a physical card, and isn't just keying in a card number. Plus there's a monthly processing fee of about $20, a $0.25 per transaction fee and an application fee of $50. The myriad of fees add up, but it isn't as huge as the grandparent thinks it is.
When Congress just upped the penality for showing a nipple on TV to half a million dollars, you have to ask why prostition is illegal? It has nothing to do with praticality and everything to do with morality.
A bit off topic, but you hit a sore spot of mine. I am a life-long martial artist and it really bothers me that people think of training as "fighting". You might have seen one too many Van Damme flicks. We don't call it "fighting" it's either "sparring" or "kumite". In either case it's nothing more than a skillful game of tag. Very strict contact rules apply; hitting harder doesn't score more points and will only get you DQed. Even when practicing more realistic self-defense scenarios, we never push the boundries and actually try to injure our partner (and it's "partner", not "opponent").
Well, can't comment on the the validity of the site itself, but why does it matter? You're not buying *that* site. They just act as a broker for templates created by independent designers. The templates themselves are just sliced up Photoshop files embedded in HTML tables, nothing special about it. Some of them use CSS, but most do not.
As I mentioned in my OP, I just bought one a half-hour ago. Looks kosher to me in both IE and Firefox. I'm working on customizing it in Photoshop as I write this.
Eh, yeah, I know what you're saying... I kinda feel a bit weird about it. But I just spent three weeks designing a (small-ish) site from scratch. Clients never trully understand the amount of work that goes into creating a truly professional site. (Thank God for Change Orders though) They want it on the cheap AND to look sharp. If I can use templates to offer them a bit of both, and they're happy, then we both win.
I'm a technology generalist who pays my bills by providing services on a contractual basis to small bizs. Occasionaly this entails web design.
Talk about a coincidence... I clicked over to /. while I was waiting for my order at templatemonster.com to process. I was vaugly aware of the sites like this, but never really looked at the templates until yesterday. They offer full, very professional website templates for download for only around $60(!). I'll never design a website for a client from scratch again.
(Disclaimer: The URL above includes my affliate ID, but isn't my reason for posting.)
Here's the linked image in the submission
(This is probably the dumbest mirror ever, but oh well...)
Whoops... I guess that the main article source was the Free Press. Well then, in standard /. operating procedure I guess I could just sum things up as "RTFA!"
Despite our proximity to Detroit, Oakland County is the 3rd wealthiest county in the US. Coincidently, a couple of weeks ago, I was actually undertaking the task of mapping all the APs in Oakland County using NetStumber and GPSVisualizer. I only mapped about half of my city (Novi) before I wrote it off as an exercise in futility. From my place to the grocery store (about a mile and a half) I found about 40 APs. This plan will be used by more than just a select few. While I don't know enough about the plan to say that it's a great idea, it's not as simple as you write it off as.
BTW, this is all besides the point anyhow. If you RTFA, you'd see that this isn't going to be funded by tax dollars. The companies involved here will be providing basic access for free and charging those who want faster acccess. The assumption is that the powerusers will be subsidizing the freeloaders. In fact, I believe the county is planning on charging a franchise fee, making this actually a source of income.
The movies that Loki distributed is only part of the story. They moved as much, if not more, warez, ebooks, and full album rips as well.
Not ironic. It just further proves what many insightful observers have been saying for years: The price of movies are artifically high.
:-(
The MPAA likes to clasify P2Pers as amoral freeloaders when the truth is that we're all rational human beings. The fact that many people donated proves that they beleived that what they were getting was of value and that they are willing to exchange something of value in return. The MPAA really needs to rethink their strategy and analyze this situation. A legally sanctioned electronic distribution system, would be of even greater utility to consumers; hence the demand would be higher. Since electronic distribution is much less costly than tradtional outlets, I have to beleive that there is the potential for profit in this formula. Then again, the cost-benefit analysis might just show that suing comsumers to be more profitable.
They actually took in closer to $70k.
I long predicted this, for obvious reasons. Loki succeeded in getting a lot of naive idealists rallied around the call to "fight the Man". People donated thinking that they'd have ring-side seats to an exciting legal battle. It was all bullshit... Of course it was. There was absolutely zero change of them successfully defending themselves, based on mountains of preceding case law. If you were sitting on $70k in real cash (not just discussing a hypothetical situation on the semi-anonymous Intraweb), would you really flush it down the toliet? Even if you met with several lawyers who told you to expect the exact same outcome?
I'm sorry, but this outcome was obvious to any rational observer. It saddened me to see Loki take advantage of their users like that. But, it also enraged me to see them actually monetarily profit from distributing software that was not within their rights to sell.On the off chance that you'll read this reply, would you mind dropping me an email? I'm in a similar situation and had some quick questions. Thanks.
P2P != Illicit file-sharing.
However, the RIAA and the MPAA would like to thank you for your attention; your reprogramming is now complete and you may go about your daily life.
Another tinfoil rant from a zealot... how was this modded +5?
Kazaa was given away for free and used by the vast majority of its users to engage in illegal file swapping. You didn't pay them a dime and therefore can't reasonabily expect anything of them. They were quite willing to piss off a few people along the way, millions of other freeloaders didn't know and if they did, didn't care. Sharmon's customers weren't the users anyhow, they were the advertisers.
Now, if a company is selling their product to the people who use them. Since the users *are* the customers, they are largely beholden to their users. (I'm talking free market here, this excludes monopolies). Companies selling closed source, commerical products are *far* less likely to risk alienating their user base than you indicate. It would be easy for everyone to simply jump ship and go to a competitor. In short, this has nothing to do with open source vs. closed source and everything to do with accountability.
Unbinding any protocols from your NIC before wardriving should help you there. That way you can't be accused of trying to penetrate the discovered LANs. You're also less likely to be flagged by an IDS.
Simply detecting radio signals on publicly accessible (and unlicensed) frequencies isn't a crime.
Of course, I'm a geek not a lawyer, so what do I know?
I'd give my left eye if I could use regular expressions to search google.
I tend to think along the same lines. Maybe I'm a bit of an elitist, or it's the fact that I despise contending with so many horrid DBs thrown together by people who had no clue what they were doing. I'm sorry, but these "implement technology x in minutes" books really rub me the wrong way. Why don't people take the time to learn how to properly use their choosen tools? I wouldn't expect to be able pick up a wrench today and then begin building an engine tomorrow. Designing a good relational database requires some know-how. If you want to do something fast, use a simple flat file.
Anyone who's a paid member of LJ can get a 2-week credit here.