Does this mean that all of us who filed via the Lindows method are going to be stiffed?
I did receive a claim form direct from the court...I wonder If I should file it.
It says I have until March 15, 2004.
As TAT-14 is a dual, bi-directional ring of cable, a single serious fault should not be enough to break it, as traffic would still be able to flow between the countries on the ring. Unfortunately, a part of the cable near the US coast had already suffered a technical fault earlier this month, which meant there was no built-in redundancy to cope with Tuesday's failure.
I can hear it now:
"Hey boss, half of the cable just failed. We need to get on this right away".
The cable's still working, right?
"Yeah, but if something else goes wrong, we're screwed".
Look, that cable hasn't failed in ten years; let's put off repairing it until January. That way it won't affect our 2003 budget.
But these things generally happen in pairs, and with no back up - well, we're taking an awful risk. If something else fails, most of Europe - well, I don't have to tell you the consequences. Plus, remember..the weather in January -
cuts him off-- Not gonna happen! Put it on the schedule for mid January!
Hopefully that manager is no longer employed....but don't be surprised if he winds up at Clear Channel! He sounds like just their kind of guy!
Some people simply have nothing better to do. Last month there was a big deal in Los Angeles about lap dancing. The state faces a 30 billion dollar deficit, has the highest unemployment of all the top 10 tech states, has a big illegal immigrant problem, has had the worst wildfires in it's history and the powers that be worry about lap dancing and computer terminology.
To this bunch I say:
I live in a residential neighborhood. There are no less that SEVEN wireless nodes that pop up on my computer. Three of them have the SSID: "WIRELESS", two have: "LINKSYS" , one says: "DEFAULT" and there's mine that says DJP.
How does the average user know which one to hook to? Even if he knows his unit is a Linksys, there's still a 50/50 chance he'll hook to the wrong one. Not to mention the fact that Windows usually connects to the strongest signal automatically. On one of my computers that would be my neighbor's connection on the other side of the wall from where that computer is (as opposed to mine almost 50 feet away). I can see if you're cracking even the most rudimentry encription, but all these ones (except mine) are sitting right out in the open.
This law is WAY too broad, as it doesn't discriminate between accidental and deliberate use.
If Vivendi were truly interested in MUSIC, they would not be destroying these irreplacable songs. Their intention to do so shows their TRUE interest: MONEY!!. To them, they simply make money from music. If tomorrow, they could make more money manufacturing tires instead of CD's they'd be doing that. Most 'old generation' companies were founded by people who WANTED to provide something. Vivendi and their ilk's only WANT is to make as much cash as possible. This is why they sue 12 and 15 year olds. This is why commercial music SUCKS as much as it does, and yes, this is why they WANT to destroy all the original music from MP3.com. They don't CARE about music. The only thing they CARE about is cash!
I believe they do...and it's set to automatically record two votes every time someone votes for someone with the last name "BUSH".
I hear it worked flawlessly there in 2000......
3. Get patent granted...It's easy to do! After all, the patent office is so clueless they would probably issue a patent for: "Brown 25 Organic Lubricant" (see: "The Kentucky Fried Movie") these days.
The broadcasters really don't want it. They had it rammed down their throats. They'd much rather it went away.
The cable and satellite people don't want it. It requires them to give away more channels. Their cables and transponders can only carry so many signals.
The consumers don't want it. Just wait until the day AFTER their 700 dollar two year old analog TV isn't working...and they find out that they have to either spend another 500 dollars for an 'adapter' or throw their TV in the dumpster and pay over a grand for a new one.
The only ones who want DTV is the TV set manufacturers (who stand to make $$ by forcing consumers to upgrade), the content providers(who want to control everything) and the Govt. (who have been paid off by the above two groups).
Ain't America grand??
1. Buys DR DOS (a solid, advanced DOS; much better then MS-DOS). "Fixes" it and releases Novell DOS 7. Enough said?
2. Buys and then sells UNIX - TO SCO!
If it wasn't for Novell, we wouldn't be having all these SCO problems...
3. Has anyone ever had Netware work out of the box? I've always found that there's always a pitfall...yes, you eventually get it to work, but usually after pulling out some hair...or finding your wallet a bit lighter because there's some 'enhancement' that (only) you need but costs another 50 bucks...
4. Groupwise....well, just one word sums that up...Groupwise
Yes, Novell will screw this one up too...Guarenteed!
NPR covered this today on All Things Considered...
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Students, ISP Sue Diebold
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· Score: 2, Informative
NPR did about 10 minutes about the suit this afternoon on All Things Considered. They even had Wendy on. Also, a good overview about the
problems with the machines.
It appears the mainstream media is catching on to this.
Shall we start a pool on when Faux News picks it up?
(My guess is never!)
Dear Dean Gross:
I was most disappointed to discover that you had quashed your students'
effort to expose Diebold's voting machine irregularities. I would have hoped
that a place of higher learning with the rich tradition that Swarthmore has
could do better. Putting dollars over rights is hardly a good lesson to teach
your students.
I do hope you 'see the light' and reverse this bad decision you have made.
In closing, my daughter was accepted to your college last year and after much
soul searching decided to go to Harvard instead. I questioned her decision but
after this can understand why. Of course, this begs the question: What would
the Dean of Harvard have done faced with the decision you had to make? I
believe he would have decided differently.
Sincerely,
rgross1@swarthmore.edu
Let's let ol' Gross Bob know how we feel about his decision!
Maybe submitting swarthmore's mail server to the Slashdot effect will help him get the message!
Massachusetts' tax burden isn't even in the top ten of states! Even New Hampshire (you know, the 'live free or die' people) have a larger tax burden. While it's true that they have no state income or sales taxes, ask them what they pay for property taxes. You'll find them to be almost FOUR TIMES what someone in Massachusetts pays!! Why? Over a decade ago, Massachusetts passed Proposition 2 1/2, which limits property taxes. I lived in a town where we still had a town meeting form of Govt. EVERY PENNY SPENT was examined with a magnifying glass. So, next time, get your facts straight, clueless ones!!!
The RIAA's legacy is that of a LIAR!
When CDs first came out, LPs cost 6.98. CD prices were a full TEN DOLLARS MORE at $16.98! The RIAA claimed this was because CD's cost more to make and would come down as technology improved. Well, IT took OVER TWENTY YEARS for ONE company to lower them to twelve dollars - and this only happened as a RESULT of file sharing!
The other companies still fix prices at around 16.98.
Also, they killed the 45 RPM single - the way for the consumer to get the song they WANTED without having to pay for a CD 80% filled with JUNK!
Along the way, they've screwed EVERYONE...the musician, songwriter, and especially the consumer!
Then they lobbied Congress to make CD rentals a federal crime (ever wonder why there's movie rentals but no CD rental stores -The RIAA paid off Congress to kill them in the mid 1980's). The irony of course is that consumers STILL PAY about 10 cents per blank cassette in fees that go to the recording industry!
Finally, Napster comes out...the perfect opportunity for the RIAA to 'make up' with the consumer..and make a PILE of money in the process! Who in their right mind wouldn't pay 20 bucks a month for decent quality downloads of their favorite music? It's a model that's worked for the movie industry (who make close to HALF their income on movie rentals, by the way). The RIAA's response is to sue them out of existence....BUT WAIT Hilary Rosen comes out and publicly says that the RIAA WON'T SUE individuals...
Now we're to the next lie...the worst one of all...
In a RECESSION, the RIAA's sales are down (poor baby - come to Montana Ave in Santa Monica, CA and see how many whitewashed store windows have sprouted in the past year).
Their response is to call their customers PIRATES AND CROOKS....blaming file sharing for their sales drop - when STUDY AFTER STUDY shows that file sharers buy MORE CDs then the average person. We won't even mention that music SUCKS these days...and I'm sure that customers just LOVE being called crooks by them! Now they begin suing INDIVIDUALS...a 100% turnabout from their earlier statement!
Yet still they wonder why sales keep dropping...
The bottom line is this:
THESE PEOPLE ARE A HERD OF CLUELESS, NASTY CROOKS AND LIARS THAT ARE 100% OUT OF TOUCH WITH THEIR CUSTOMERS!!!
My daughter still uses a Leading Edge Model D for word processing. She's completely proficient with LEWP (Leading Edge Word Processing). The unit is an 8088 running at 8 mhz I believe, with Hercules graphics and an amber monitor.
640 K memory and a 30 meg hard drive....and it still has it's original 1200 baud modem!
Its printer is an IBM 9 pin graphics printer.
MS-DOS 3.1 is the operating system. Fill it out with a 5 1/4" floppy (low density) and you've got one HELL of a computer (for 1985 that is....)
Of course, she does have an IBM laptop with a PIII-800 in it..but many of her earlier poems are still on the Leading Edge.
I mean, this company is automatically installing software on my machine without my knowlege or consent. Isn't this hacking?
And if it is, shouldn't the president of this company be arrested for felonious criminal behavior?
Get real. Congress doesn't care about their constituants. All they care about is lining their own pockets! This is proven time after time after time. Congress hasn't cared about the people for decades! Why should we be surprised about the DMCA? Congress and big business saw digital as a way to TAKE BACK right that the people just assumed they were unalienable. The irony is that all it would take is a couple of these clowns to be thrown out on their ever-widening asses because they put out a: "for sale" sign and the rest wuld be so scared shit about the gravy train pulling into the station they'd likely capitulate. But we know that just isn't going to happen. People have become so apathetic that they don't even bother to vote. Even Arnold who would be governor of CA doesn't! I guess we do get the government we deserve though. Do nothing, and get nothing in return.
I beamed it from my computer into the void known as Microspace, though I wish I could have beamed it into the Klingon engine room where the Tribbles went.
Everyone is right. This is another attempt to tax me more. Many here have said that since Vonage is a telephone service, it should be taxed like one. I disagree.
First off, I must have DSL to use Vonage. There's no other way. Adelphia cable has capped upstream at under 100K in Santa Monica, and Vonage won't work at all when someone is surfing the web with cable. This makes DSL mandatory.
Next, I MUST have a Verizon telephone to get DSL. Verizon charges me many, many taxes just to have a telephone. The taxes are almost half of the 34 dollar bill in fact. I have Spring long distance, which is supposed to be free, but I find that I have to pay something like 6 plus dollars a month in Taxes just to have long distance I don't use. Last month, my total Sprint LD bill was 8 dollars. Like I said, over six of it was taxes. I may drop it next month.
DSL charges me about four dollars a month in taxes. That's another 8 percent in taxes.
Now Vonage is charging me six dollars a month in taxes for my four numbers.
Let's do the math:
Taxes collected: (conservative estimates)
Verizon: 12.00
Sprint: 6.00
DSL: 3.85
Vonage: 6.00
Total: $27.85.
I pay another over 30 bucks a month in taxes for two mobile phones.
These are the taxes that I pay just for the RIGHT to RECEIVE PHONE CALLS! I haven't made a single call yet!
To me at least, sixty dollars a month is telephone taxes is too much already! Now they want MORE?
I don't think so.....
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Does this mean that all of us who filed via the Lindows method are going to be stiffed? I did receive a claim form direct from the court...I wonder If I should file it. It says I have until March 15, 2004.
I can hear it now:
"Hey boss, half of the cable just failed. We need to get on this right away".
The cable's still working, right?
"Yeah, but if something else goes wrong, we're screwed".
Look, that cable hasn't failed in ten years; let's put off repairing it until January. That way it won't affect our 2003 budget.
But these things generally happen in pairs, and with no back up - well, we're taking an awful risk. If something else fails, most of Europe - well, I don't have to tell you the consequences. Plus, remember..the weather in January -
cuts him off-- Not gonna happen! Put it on the schedule for mid January!
Hopefully that manager is no longer employed....but don't be surprised if he winds up at Clear Channel! He sounds like just their kind of guy!Damn!
DOWN ON YOUR KNEES! CRACK!!!
Okay, I won't go there....
I live in a residential neighborhood. There are no less that SEVEN wireless nodes that pop up on my computer. Three of them have the SSID: "WIRELESS", two have: "LINKSYS" , one says: "DEFAULT" and there's mine that says DJP. How does the average user know which one to hook to? Even if he knows his unit is a Linksys, there's still a 50/50 chance he'll hook to the wrong one. Not to mention the fact that Windows usually connects to the strongest signal automatically. On one of my computers that would be my neighbor's connection on the other side of the wall from where that computer is (as opposed to mine almost 50 feet away). I can see if you're cracking even the most rudimentry encription, but all these ones (except mine) are sitting right out in the open. This law is WAY too broad, as it doesn't discriminate between accidental and deliberate use.
If Vivendi were truly interested in MUSIC, they would not be destroying these irreplacable songs. Their intention to do so shows their TRUE interest: MONEY!!. To them, they simply make money from music. If tomorrow, they could make more money manufacturing tires instead of CD's they'd be doing that. Most 'old generation' companies were founded by people who WANTED to provide something. Vivendi and their ilk's only WANT is to make as much cash as possible. This is why they sue 12 and 15 year olds. This is why commercial music SUCKS as much as it does, and yes, this is why they WANT to destroy all the original music from MP3.com. They don't CARE about music. The only thing they CARE about is cash!
I believe they do...and it's set to automatically record two votes every time someone votes for someone with the last name "BUSH". I hear it worked flawlessly there in 2000......
1. Steal someone's unpatented invention
2. Patent it yourself
3. Get patent granted...It's easy to do! After all, the patent office is so clueless they would probably issue a patent for: "Brown 25 Organic Lubricant" (see: "The Kentucky Fried Movie") these days.
4. ????
5. Profit!
The broadcasters really don't want it. They had it rammed down their throats. They'd much rather it went away. The cable and satellite people don't want it. It requires them to give away more channels. Their cables and transponders can only carry so many signals. The consumers don't want it. Just wait until the day AFTER their 700 dollar two year old analog TV isn't working...and they find out that they have to either spend another 500 dollars for an 'adapter' or throw their TV in the dumpster and pay over a grand for a new one. The only ones who want DTV is the TV set manufacturers (who stand to make $$ by forcing consumers to upgrade), the content providers(who want to control everything) and the Govt. (who have been paid off by the above two groups). Ain't America grand??
1. Buys DR DOS (a solid, advanced DOS; much better then MS-DOS). "Fixes" it and releases Novell DOS 7. Enough said?
2. Buys and then sells UNIX - TO SCO! If it wasn't for Novell, we wouldn't be having all these SCO problems...
3. Has anyone ever had Netware work out of the box? I've always found that there's always a pitfall...yes, you eventually get it to work, but usually after pulling out some hair...or finding your wallet a bit lighter because there's some 'enhancement' that (only) you need but costs another 50 bucks...
4. Groupwise....well, just one word sums that up...Groupwise
Yes, Novell will screw this one up too...Guarenteed!NPR did about 10 minutes about the suit this afternoon on All Things Considered. They even had Wendy on. Also, a good overview about the problems with the machines. It appears the mainstream media is catching on to this. Shall we start a pool on when Faux News picks it up? (My guess is never!)
I like spam with eggs, spam with bacon, spam with viruses...
1. Bush lies about Iraq to get us into a war with them
2. Bush continues to lie about Iraq
3. Bush edits Whitehouse.gov web bage so his lies are concealed (ie: can't be proven any more)
And now we're just supposed to TRUST the filthy slime at his word??
Dear Dean Gross: I was most disappointed to discover that you had quashed your students' effort to expose Diebold's voting machine irregularities. I would have hoped that a place of higher learning with the rich tradition that Swarthmore has could do better. Putting dollars over rights is hardly a good lesson to teach your students. I do hope you 'see the light' and reverse this bad decision you have made. In closing, my daughter was accepted to your college last year and after much soul searching decided to go to Harvard instead. I questioned her decision but after this can understand why. Of course, this begs the question: What would the Dean of Harvard have done faced with the decision you had to make? I believe he would have decided differently. Sincerely,
rgross1@swarthmore.edu Let's let ol' Gross Bob know how we feel about his decision! Maybe submitting swarthmore's mail server to the Slashdot effect will help him get the message!
Massachusetts' tax burden isn't even in the top ten of states! Even New Hampshire (you know, the 'live free or die' people) have a larger tax burden. While it's true that they have no state income or sales taxes, ask them what they pay for property taxes. You'll find them to be almost FOUR TIMES what someone in Massachusetts pays!! Why? Over a decade ago, Massachusetts passed Proposition 2 1/2, which limits property taxes. I lived in a town where we still had a town meeting form of Govt. EVERY PENNY SPENT was examined with a magnifying glass. So, next time, get your facts straight, clueless ones!!!
Of course, it might get out of hand....everyone knoes it takes two hands to handle the whopper!
The RIAA's legacy is that of a LIAR! When CDs first came out, LPs cost 6.98. CD prices were a full TEN DOLLARS MORE at $16.98! The RIAA claimed this was because CD's cost more to make and would come down as technology improved. Well, IT took OVER TWENTY YEARS for ONE company to lower them to twelve dollars - and this only happened as a RESULT of file sharing! The other companies still fix prices at around 16.98. Also, they killed the 45 RPM single - the way for the consumer to get the song they WANTED without having to pay for a CD 80% filled with JUNK! Along the way, they've screwed EVERYONE...the musician, songwriter, and especially the consumer! Then they lobbied Congress to make CD rentals a federal crime (ever wonder why there's movie rentals but no CD rental stores -The RIAA paid off Congress to kill them in the mid 1980's). The irony of course is that consumers STILL PAY about 10 cents per blank cassette in fees that go to the recording industry! Finally, Napster comes out...the perfect opportunity for the RIAA to 'make up' with the consumer..and make a PILE of money in the process! Who in their right mind wouldn't pay 20 bucks a month for decent quality downloads of their favorite music? It's a model that's worked for the movie industry (who make close to HALF their income on movie rentals, by the way). The RIAA's response is to sue them out of existence....BUT WAIT Hilary Rosen comes out and publicly says that the RIAA WON'T SUE individuals... Now we're to the next lie...the worst one of all... In a RECESSION, the RIAA's sales are down (poor baby - come to Montana Ave in Santa Monica, CA and see how many whitewashed store windows have sprouted in the past year). Their response is to call their customers PIRATES AND CROOKS....blaming file sharing for their sales drop - when STUDY AFTER STUDY shows that file sharers buy MORE CDs then the average person. We won't even mention that music SUCKS these days...and I'm sure that customers just LOVE being called crooks by them! Now they begin suing INDIVIDUALS...a 100% turnabout from their earlier statement! Yet still they wonder why sales keep dropping... The bottom line is this: THESE PEOPLE ARE A HERD OF CLUELESS, NASTY CROOKS AND LIARS THAT ARE 100% OUT OF TOUCH WITH THEIR CUSTOMERS!!!
My daughter still uses a Leading Edge Model D for word processing. She's completely proficient with LEWP (Leading Edge Word Processing). The unit is an 8088 running at 8 mhz I believe, with Hercules graphics and an amber monitor. 640 K memory and a 30 meg hard drive....and it still has it's original 1200 baud modem! Its printer is an IBM 9 pin graphics printer. MS-DOS 3.1 is the operating system. Fill it out with a 5 1/4" floppy (low density) and you've got one HELL of a computer (for 1985 that is....) Of course, she does have an IBM laptop with a PIII-800 in it..but many of her earlier poems are still on the Leading Edge.
I mean, this company is automatically installing software on my machine without my knowlege or consent. Isn't this hacking? And if it is, shouldn't the president of this company be arrested for felonious criminal behavior?
Get real. Congress doesn't care about their constituants. All they care about is lining their own pockets! This is proven time after time after time. Congress hasn't cared about the people for decades! Why should we be surprised about the DMCA? Congress and big business saw digital as a way to TAKE BACK right that the people just assumed they were unalienable.
The irony is that all it would take is a couple of these clowns to be thrown out on their ever-widening asses because they put out a: "for sale" sign and the rest wuld be so scared shit about the gravy train pulling into the station they'd likely capitulate. But we know that just isn't going to happen. People have become so apathetic that they don't even bother to vote. Even Arnold who would be governor of CA doesn't!
I guess we do get the government we deserve though. Do nothing, and get nothing in return.
I beamed it from my computer into the void known as Microspace, though I wish I could have beamed it into the Klingon engine room where the Tribbles went.
Everyone is right. This is another attempt to tax me more. Many here have said that since Vonage is a telephone service, it should be taxed like one. I disagree. First off, I must have DSL to use Vonage. There's no other way. Adelphia cable has capped upstream at under 100K in Santa Monica, and Vonage won't work at all when someone is surfing the web with cable. This makes DSL mandatory. Next, I MUST have a Verizon telephone to get DSL. Verizon charges me many, many taxes just to have a telephone. The taxes are almost half of the 34 dollar bill in fact. I have Spring long distance, which is supposed to be free, but I find that I have to pay something like 6 plus dollars a month in Taxes just to have long distance I don't use. Last month, my total Sprint LD bill was 8 dollars. Like I said, over six of it was taxes. I may drop it next month. DSL charges me about four dollars a month in taxes. That's another 8 percent in taxes. Now Vonage is charging me six dollars a month in taxes for my four numbers. Let's do the math: Taxes collected: (conservative estimates) Verizon: 12.00 Sprint: 6.00 DSL: 3.85 Vonage: 6.00 Total: $27.85. I pay another over 30 bucks a month in taxes for two mobile phones. These are the taxes that I pay just for the RIGHT to RECEIVE PHONE CALLS! I haven't made a single call yet! To me at least, sixty dollars a month is telephone taxes is too much already! Now they want MORE? I don't think so.....
Yeah, RIGHT! With help like yours, who needs hurt? Hmmm...what's that other truism..the one about coming and a mouth?