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I got modded down 'cause I was against this..which shows how purely clueless some are.
First off, the Government is going about this BACKWARDS...they should have instead adopted the domain.xxx or similar and required all the 'bad' stuff to be there! What they did instead is the equilavent of fencing the children IN as opposed to keeping the bad stuff OUT! But then we do this all the time in the USA these days, don't we? Instead of cleaning the streets of criminals, we instead lock ourselves in our homes! Look, I'm tired of the Govt. in the USA deciding things for me and my family. I raised three kids, the oldest a girl who's a Freshman at Harvard now..and I did it without Govt. help.
My kids all used (and use) the 'net and I supervise them. Also, I raised them right...they know what to look at and what not to..and they ask me when they need advice. Why should I (and they) be forced have to lower myself to SOMEONE ELSE'S lowest common denominator..why can't they RAISE themselves up to mine? We have laws that limit people's access by age to movies,..to cigarettes, to drinking..to driving...even to viewing certain TV shows. We don't BAN them from coming into a movie theater building where there's an R movie playing on the next screen..or a food store that happens to sell cigarettes and liquor..or the TV completely..yet so many of you here are simply GUSHING about a domain that does EXACTLY that!
Why would you want to do this? Again I say..it's stupid and makes no sense!
Why? 1001 Reasons.
First off, once again lawmakers are looking for technological solutions for social problems. It's easy to just pass another law to solve problems..right? After all, we can pass a law to cover every possible circumstance..right?
Second, it creates an entire infrastructure problem. I'm sure that school libraries around the country can't wait to 'protect' their students by locking down their networks so they only work on this domain. Problem is, will the content be there? Will the New York Times offer a kids friendly version of their newspaper for example? Will the National Cancer Institute offer have a site free of 'dirty' pictures showing breast cancer?
I don't think that they will..and that means that many students will lose valuable research sources.
Finally, we know that P2P probably won't be allowed here either..right?
This is another example of the government inserting themselves where they have no right to be...and instituting censorship in the process.
The TigerDirect Lindows machine sold for $230.00 and had a 900 meg Duron CPU, 128 megs of RAM, a 20 gig HD, Modem, decent video, NIC, etc.
They sold over 2000 of them in less then two weeks and have been out of stock for several more (apparently this machine was one of the biggest sellers in their history).
WalMart got what IT WANTED! It managed to throw its corporate weight around and got its prices removed from FatWallet's web site. Now that the sale's long OVER WalMart relents??!!
I don't think so...
How do you spell B O Y C O T T ?
TigerDirect sold out of theri entire stock of 2000+ Lindows computers in less then two weeks... but then again, Slashdot readers wouldn't even know that they were for sale there!
Here's a mod I posted before that converts a cheap Promise ATA-100/133 or ATA-66 controller into a RAID unit.
http://www.tweakhardware.com/guide/raid100/
The last time I checked, Maxtor was selling the Promise unit as their own brand as well. This means that it's in wide distribution.
ASCAP, BMI and SESAC are orginizations that represent the composers of music. They collect performance royalties for music and distribute them to their members.
I would assume that the people at work are listening on 'standard radios'
BUT your post made me ask myself..what about thise companies that put a radio station as their telephone hold music. Are THEY liable for copyright payments?
I read an ad for a Hard drive (TV, Stereo, car, whatever) in the paper. Stores are now claiming that I can't use digital means (email, VOIP, whatever) to tell my friend about it? Or I might be violating a federal law by emailing him that I was at K mart and they have a sale on pants?
This is beyone ridiculous! This is prior restraint of free speech!
OKAY..so let me violate federal law right now then:
In their ad in last week's Los Angeles Times,
Wal Mart had Apex DVD players advertised for $49.88.
COME GET ME YOU WALMART COCKSUCKERS!!!! I DARE YOU !!!!!
Here in the USA the copyright laws regarding the radio are quite a bit more liberal. They state that you may play a radio in your place of business without paying a royalty if the radio is:
"self contained and unmodified". In other words, it must be a standard radio without extension speakers such as a boom box that uses it's own internal speakers. I would assume that a factory installed car radio would also qualify though an aftermarket one would probably fall into a gray area. The court case (what else?) that decided this is known as the "Gap" case, after the clothing chain of the same name. They had installed component stereos with multiple speakers in all their stores and got pinched for playing the radio through them. They were found liable because they were using multiple extension speakers. These days, many retail establishments and restaurants don't play the radio. Instead they sign up for a service such as Digital Music Express (DMXmusic.com)that pay blanklet rates to Ascap, BIM and Sesac.
A side to this story is that yesterday two commonly owned radio stations in Pittsburgh got pinched for infringing on Sesac's copyright to the tune of 1.5 million dollars.
This is a big boost for Gnome...and it's been needing the boost since KDE is coming on so strong.
Unless of course, Sun screws things up...which is entirely possible.
My big concern with the dueling desktops is that for uniformity's sake there really should be only one standard desktop.
The 2000 presidential election was decided by less then 1500 Florida votes.
In Israel, the prime Minister was elected by a less then 1/2 of 1% of a majority.
More and more, small percentages DO make a difference.
If 1600 of people like you asked that question in Fla, we'd have a different President today.
AND...the USA has morons everywhere, from the president on down! Who do you think ELECTS the morons? Other morons. Or are they the morons after all? Why? Because many smart people like us ACT like morons and don't even bother to vote! In the last election, 61% of the registered voters didn't vote. I voted. Did you? Probably another 20-30% of the people eligible to vote aren't even registered. Are you? The DMCA is probably the most anti-freedom law ever passed. We all bitch about it. Did you vote?
Maybe you people who didn't vote or register are the morons after all.
Think about it.
"Evil flourishes when good people do nothing" -Edmund Burke-
Computer: Dave, this is Billcomp2010. You haven't completed your reading of my EULA, Dave.
Dave: Bill can this wait? I'm doing a spacewalk now.
Computer: Sorry Dave, my program and your life support will be terminated in 20 seconds.
Dave: Noooo....(runs into airlock and begins pulling memory cards and hot swap drives)
Computer: What are you doing Dave? Is that a Linux CD you have there Dave? I'm afraid, Dave.
Dave: Pound sand, Bill!
The word PHOENIX has been around long before there were abacuses, let alone slide rules and computers.
Also, Phoenix Technologies makes FIRMWARE not software.
Or maybe I should call my friend, John Roberts, who founded Phoenix SYSTEMS, a maker of electronic gadgetry going back many decades, and tell him that there's a company called Phoenix Technologies infringing on HIS name.
After all, turnabout is fair play........
The ears are by far our most sensitive sensory system. The eyes can easily be fooled (if they couldn't there'd be no movies or TV). Sense of touch can be compromised by callouses. Taste...well no two people taste quite the same.
Same is true for smell. Then we have our ears....Most people can hear over at least a 100 db dynamic range. sense of pitch - the ability to hear minute changes in the frequency of sounds is quite acute. So it the ability to hear the variance in time between sounds.
Yes, there are quirks about our hearing such as the ability to mask sounds, and the fact that we only hear the louder of two frequencies close together (otherwise MP3 and Ogg encoding wouldn't work) but these anomolies have been extensively studied and are faily well known.
Another thing...our hearing can be trained too!
We can learn to hear things better/differently...just ask any audiophile.
All in all, nature has given us a great test instrument in our hearing.....
I lived in Boston until 1999 and had my (ruptured) appendix removed at that hospital. That place is absolutely HUGE, many city blocks in size. It's network must be huge too and that's the problem. A LAN that size HAS to be sub-netted into smaller segments! Now, I'm not a whiz bang Network engineer, but I do know when something's done WRONG, and it sure seems like this is the case here. Building a parallel WRONG network won't solve the problem, it'll DOUBLE the problem!
There are many gifted people here....why not come up with a solution for them here? Consider it a public service to a very public oriented hospital.
The greening of the net began years ago. Frankly, I can't see how sites like Mapquest, CNN.com, etc. can afford to keep giving away services for free. Face it guys, the Internet as an ad medium fell flat on it's face. Content costs money, and corporations are in business to make money, not give it away.
In a way, the net hase become a big disappointment to me. Maybe I bought into the hype, I don't know. But one thing I do know is that I miss the net's good 'ol days.
Unfortunately, they're gone....forever.
The last time I checked, Windows MILLENNIUM edition was first offered at the MILLENNIUM, or 2000!
How come it's being lumped in with The older OSes if it's ONLY 2 YEARS OLD???
Class action lawsuit, anyone????
I'm typing this on a Dell P166-MMX overclocked to 200. It has 64 megs of RAM and is running Windows 98SE. Actually, I found this computer sitting among a pallet of old computers on their way to the dumpster. All the other ones were P133's. I took this one home, installed a 6 gig hard drive I had sitting around, an old sound card and a $1.99 NIC (on sale at Fry's). Know what? For basic web browsing, checking email, typing a letter or two, and other mundane tasks, it works just fine. Yes my wife has a P4-1500 with half a gig of DDR RAM, a whiz bang video card and an 80 gig drive that she edits photos on...but we find that this little computer in the bedroom gets used every bit as much as the power one does. Indeed, it's used all night every night to play ambient music from Live 365 to lull us to sleep. Let me ask you doubting Thomases this: for what this is used for why does it need to be any better then it is? I believe the answer is no.
I can see it now.. Thousands of script kiddies licking their lips over THIS one!
Sometimes there's a line between telling and showing...and they didn't just tell..they SHOWED the kiddies how to do it!
This is really bad.....
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I got modded down 'cause I was against this..which shows how purely clueless some are. First off, the Government is going about this BACKWARDS...they should have instead adopted the domain .xxx or similar and required all the 'bad' stuff to be there! What they did instead is the equilavent of fencing the children IN as opposed to keeping the bad stuff OUT! But then we do this all the time in the USA these days, don't we? Instead of cleaning the streets of criminals, we instead lock ourselves in our homes! Look, I'm tired of the Govt. in the USA deciding things for me and my family. I raised three kids, the oldest a girl who's a Freshman at Harvard now..and I did it without Govt. help.
My kids all used (and use) the 'net and I supervise them. Also, I raised them right...they know what to look at and what not to..and they ask me when they need advice. Why should I (and they) be forced have to lower myself to SOMEONE ELSE'S lowest common denominator..why can't they RAISE themselves up to mine? We have laws that limit people's access by age to movies,..to cigarettes, to drinking..to driving...even to viewing certain TV shows. We don't BAN them from coming into a movie theater building where there's an R movie playing on the next screen..or a food store that happens to sell cigarettes and liquor..or the TV completely..yet so many of you here are simply GUSHING about a domain that does EXACTLY that!
Why would you want to do this? Again I say..it's stupid and makes no sense!
Why? 1001 Reasons. First off, once again lawmakers are looking for technological solutions for social problems. It's easy to just pass another law to solve problems..right? After all, we can pass a law to cover every possible circumstance..right? Second, it creates an entire infrastructure problem. I'm sure that school libraries around the country can't wait to 'protect' their students by locking down their networks so they only work on this domain. Problem is, will the content be there? Will the New York Times offer a kids friendly version of their newspaper for example? Will the National Cancer Institute offer have a site free of 'dirty' pictures showing breast cancer? I don't think that they will..and that means that many students will lose valuable research sources. Finally, we know that P2P probably won't be allowed here either..right? This is another example of the government inserting themselves where they have no right to be...and instituting censorship in the process.
The TigerDirect Lindows machine sold for $230.00 and had a 900 meg Duron CPU, 128 megs of RAM, a 20 gig HD, Modem, decent video, NIC, etc. They sold over 2000 of them in less then two weeks and have been out of stock for several more (apparently this machine was one of the biggest sellers in their history).
WalMart got what IT WANTED! It managed to throw its corporate weight around and got its prices removed from FatWallet's web site. Now that the sale's long OVER WalMart relents??!! I don't think so... How do you spell B O Y C O T T ?
TigerDirect sold out of theri entire stock of 2000+ Lindows computers in less then two weeks... but then again, Slashdot readers wouldn't even know that they were for sale there!
Here's a mod I posted before that converts a cheap Promise ATA-100/133 or ATA-66 controller into a RAID unit. http://www.tweakhardware.com/guide/raid100/ The last time I checked, Maxtor was selling the Promise unit as their own brand as well. This means that it's in wide distribution.
ASCAP, BMI and SESAC are orginizations that represent the composers of music. They collect performance royalties for music and distribute them to their members.
I would assume that the people at work are listening on 'standard radios' BUT your post made me ask myself..what about thise companies that put a radio station as their telephone hold music. Are THEY liable for copyright payments?
I read an ad for a Hard drive (TV, Stereo, car, whatever) in the paper. Stores are now claiming that I can't use digital means (email, VOIP, whatever) to tell my friend about it? Or I might be violating a federal law by emailing him that I was at K mart and they have a sale on pants? This is beyone ridiculous! This is prior restraint of free speech! OKAY..so let me violate federal law right now then: In their ad in last week's Los Angeles Times, Wal Mart had Apex DVD players advertised for $49.88. COME GET ME YOU WALMART COCKSUCKERS!!!! I DARE YOU !!!!!
Here in the USA the copyright laws regarding the radio are quite a bit more liberal. They state that you may play a radio in your place of business without paying a royalty if the radio is: "self contained and unmodified". In other words, it must be a standard radio without extension speakers such as a boom box that uses it's own internal speakers. I would assume that a factory installed car radio would also qualify though an aftermarket one would probably fall into a gray area. The court case (what else?) that decided this is known as the "Gap" case, after the clothing chain of the same name. They had installed component stereos with multiple speakers in all their stores and got pinched for playing the radio through them. They were found liable because they were using multiple extension speakers. These days, many retail establishments and restaurants don't play the radio. Instead they sign up for a service such as Digital Music Express (DMXmusic.com)that pay blanklet rates to Ascap, BIM and Sesac. A side to this story is that yesterday two commonly owned radio stations in Pittsburgh got pinched for infringing on Sesac's copyright to the tune of 1.5 million dollars.
This is a big boost for Gnome...and it's been needing the boost since KDE is coming on so strong. Unless of course, Sun screws things up...which is entirely possible. My big concern with the dueling desktops is that for uniformity's sake there really should be only one standard desktop.
The 2000 presidential election was decided by less then 1500 Florida votes. In Israel, the prime Minister was elected by a less then 1/2 of 1% of a majority. More and more, small percentages DO make a difference. If 1600 of people like you asked that question in Fla, we'd have a different President today.
Morons will be morons!
How much simpler can I say it?
AND...the USA has morons everywhere, from the president on down!
Who do you think ELECTS the morons? Other morons.
Or are they the morons after all?
Why? Because many smart people like us ACT like morons and don't even bother to vote!
In the last election, 61% of the registered voters didn't vote. I voted. Did you?
Probably another 20-30% of the people eligible to vote aren't even registered. Are you?
The DMCA is probably the most anti-freedom law ever passed. We all bitch about it. Did you vote?
Maybe you people who didn't vote or register are the morons after all.
Think about it.
"Evil flourishes when good people do nothing"
-Edmund Burke-
Computer: Dave, this is Billcomp2010. You haven't completed your reading of my EULA, Dave. Dave: Bill can this wait? I'm doing a spacewalk now. Computer: Sorry Dave, my program and your life support will be terminated in 20 seconds. Dave: Noooo....(runs into airlock and begins pulling memory cards and hot swap drives) Computer: What are you doing Dave? Is that a Linux CD you have there Dave? I'm afraid, Dave. Dave: Pound sand, Bill!
But it drags a bit....
I guess it's about to come to Urth....
The word PHOENIX has been around long before there were abacuses, let alone slide rules and computers. Also, Phoenix Technologies makes FIRMWARE not software. Or maybe I should call my friend, John Roberts, who founded Phoenix SYSTEMS, a maker of electronic gadgetry going back many decades, and tell him that there's a company called Phoenix Technologies infringing on HIS name. After all, turnabout is fair play........
The ears are by far our most sensitive sensory system. The eyes can easily be fooled (if they couldn't there'd be no movies or TV). Sense of touch can be compromised by callouses. Taste...well no two people taste quite the same. Same is true for smell. Then we have our ears....Most people can hear over at least a 100 db dynamic range. sense of pitch - the ability to hear minute changes in the frequency of sounds is quite acute. So it the ability to hear the variance in time between sounds. Yes, there are quirks about our hearing such as the ability to mask sounds, and the fact that we only hear the louder of two frequencies close together (otherwise MP3 and Ogg encoding wouldn't work) but these anomolies have been extensively studied and are faily well known. Another thing...our hearing can be trained too! We can learn to hear things better/differently...just ask any audiophile. All in all, nature has given us a great test instrument in our hearing.....
I lived in Boston until 1999 and had my (ruptured) appendix removed at that hospital. That place is absolutely HUGE, many city blocks in size. It's network must be huge too and that's the problem. A LAN that size HAS to be sub-netted into smaller segments! Now, I'm not a whiz bang Network engineer, but I do know when something's done WRONG, and it sure seems like this is the case here. Building a parallel WRONG network won't solve the problem, it'll DOUBLE the problem! There are many gifted people here....why not come up with a solution for them here? Consider it a public service to a very public oriented hospital.
The greening of the net began years ago. Frankly, I can't see how sites like Mapquest, CNN.com, etc. can afford to keep giving away services for free. Face it guys, the Internet as an ad medium fell flat on it's face. Content costs money, and corporations are in business to make money, not give it away. In a way, the net hase become a big disappointment to me. Maybe I bought into the hype, I don't know. But one thing I do know is that I miss the net's good 'ol days. Unfortunately, they're gone....forever.
Hmmm? As someone who works for them, I'd say where they touched me, they could have at least used a bit more KY jelly!
Hmmm..I'll bet they needed this to figure out how many radioactive trees there are nearby!
The last time I checked, Windows MILLENNIUM edition was first offered at the MILLENNIUM, or 2000! How come it's being lumped in with The older OSes if it's ONLY 2 YEARS OLD??? Class action lawsuit, anyone????
I'm typing this on a Dell P166-MMX overclocked to 200. It has 64 megs of RAM and is running Windows 98SE. Actually, I found this computer sitting among a pallet of old computers on their way to the dumpster. All the other ones were P133's.
I took this one home, installed a 6 gig hard drive I had sitting around, an old sound card and a $1.99 NIC (on sale at Fry's). Know what? For basic web browsing, checking email, typing a letter or two, and other mundane tasks, it works just fine. Yes my wife has a P4-1500 with half a gig of DDR RAM, a whiz bang video card and an 80 gig drive that she edits photos on...but we find that this little computer in the bedroom gets used every bit as much as the power one does. Indeed, it's used all night every night to play ambient music from Live 365 to lull us to sleep.
Let me ask you doubting Thomases this: for what this is used for why does it need to be any better then it is? I believe the answer is no.
I can see it now.. Thousands of script kiddies licking their lips over THIS one! Sometimes there's a line between telling and showing...and they didn't just tell..they SHOWED the kiddies how to do it! This is really bad.....