This doesn't surprise me at all. Kansas is the most backward thinking, Republican, pro big business, conservative state in the USA! I married a Kansan and let me tell you something-you can take the girl off the farm, but you can't take the farm off the girl!
Fortunately, it's fixed now..:)
So typical..they want it one way whe it suits them...and the opposite way when it suits THEM!
Frigging herd of hypocrites!
Kathryn Ford of Louisville, Ky., the gambler who alerted the casino, said going after the other patrons was unfair.
When a slot machine jams and gamblers lose money, they don't get it back, she said.
"It doesn't work in the reverse," Ford said. "They need to forget it and move on."
This is exactly the reason why so many capitulate and take the RIAA $3000.00 settlement. maybe, just maybe people will begin fighting these RIAA thugs in suits because of this ruling.
My brother (who is in the Boston area) has their standard service. He's been getting 15,000/3000 Internet for quite some time now. It even bursts to almost 30,000. he's getting amazingly fast speeds. I saw download speeds on his computer well in excess of 2 mB/sec.
I wish I had those speeds here in L.A. with Road Runner. On a good day I get 9600/960 and I have their extreme service (which costs an extra 10 dollars a month).
Especially where the URL in question links to an email message! Many webmail services use URLs to access individual emails. Snooping these addresses can actually OPEN email messages. How can this be allowed?
Read above where they have determined that the average temp. in an underground tank is 64.7 degrees F.
That means that the temps. are almost 8% higher then they calculate for.
In other words, they should reduce gas prices by 8% on average.
It's likely even WORSE where I live (California) and in places like Nevada, Arizona and
New Mexico.
Th Comissioner of the MA state health insurance authority was on NPR yesterday. The Mass law makes denial of coverage for pre-existing conditions ILLEGAL!. Clearly, though you might be an agant, you're one who doesn't know what they're taking about!
Also, Insurance is subsidized for most of the state's population. People living below the federal poverty line got it FREE and it's still heavily subsidized for others until they reach THREE TIMES the federal poverty income (about $62,000 for a family of four in MA).
What this DOESN'T get rid of is deductibles and co-pays. Those can be THOUSANDS of dollars for the simplest thing. However, it IS a step in the right direction-and if they had required this LAST year, I and my family would have probably not been homeless in Massachusetts this past year.
You people who have no empathy for your fellow man are pathetic! You are probably all young, single professional types, who went to college on daddy's dime and now are bummed because you only have ONE 60 inch HDTV and your car just turned two years old.
My health insurance payments made my family HOMELESS! We spent last year living in Extended Stays for 45 dollars a night. I didn't QUIT my job, I got LAID OFF. I didn't consult by choice, I consulted BECAUSE I COULD NOT FIND A JOB! It took me two years to find one and I STILL don't have health insurance because my employer doesn't offer it until you've been here 90 days.
NO ONE should have to choose between food, housing and their health. NO ONE!! None of you ASSHOLES do!
I'm 52. My only regret is that I wasn't YOUR father. You'd have grown up with a bit more empathy and a bit less hypocracy...and your butt would have been a bit pinker along the way too!
I don't have health insurance. My COBRA ran out in January. I was paying amlost SEVENTEEN HUNDRED DOLLARS A MONTH for Blus Cross that paid 80% of IN NETWORK stuff-and even THAT had a yearly deductible applied to it. My son caught Lyme Disease last summer, and the co pays and deductibles for that ONE incident cost me almost $6000.00!
Doing consulting last year, I grossed about $52,000. Take away $1668.00 (monthly COBRA) * 12 months and then add $6000.00 to that. What do you get? TWENTY SIX THOUSAND DOLLARS! HALF of my pre-tax income went DIRECTLY to health insurance. Actually, it was closer to THIRTY TWO THOUSAND DOLLARS, because my wife has Asthma and takes medication for depression, and my 17 year old daughter fell on ice and fractured her tailbone.
And some of you here have the NERVE to tell me this is okay??? I have an average sized family with four children on the health insurance. Health care costs were the SINGLE BIGGEST EXPENSE I paid last year! MORE then housing, MORE then food, MORE then ANYTHING...IN fact, MORE then EVERYTHING ELSE PUT TOGETHER!!!
But this is okay for most of you, RIGHT? After all, YOU have company health insurance, and you're single..RIGHT? Well, so did I, until one day when I was LAID OFF!
Don't you DARE say that the health care system in the USA is fair or equitable! It isn't...and I'm LIVING PROOF OF IT!!
I have designed many 2.4 gig WiFi systems that have none of these issues. First off, you have to consider the design of the area you want to use WiFi in. Lots of steel studs or concrete walls mean more access points (though I don't use AP's because routers are cheaper and can be used as APs). Generally speaking, you need an AP for every four 10x20 rooms and for every ten computers. Trying to use less AP's or more computers will create an overloaded system. Next, the quality of the AP's is paramount. As a minimum, I generally use Linksys or Buffalo equipment. Next, channel selection is important. Channels 1,6 and 11 do not overlap at all, and my experience is that channel 1 is lightly used. Channels 1.4.8 and 11 barely overlap, and can be used in bigger networks. I like to use channels 4 and 8 when I'm in an area where 1,6, and 11 are heavily used. If you use the same SSID for each AP, there will be almost seamless roaming between APs.
I never use wireless repeaters-all AP's are wired back to the router. Yes it's more work, but the results are so much better! Finally, I use third party firmware on all routers, because I find it more stable then the firmware provided by the manufacturers. It also has the capability to be used for a field survey, which is useful to find any new wireless gear that's been installed lately.
Of course, it goes without saying that encryption should always be used, the tighter the better!
I don't believe the pure ignorance and incompetance of our Government. They have already worked hard to insure that we are (and will remain) a third world country broadband wise for many years to come. NOW they want to destroy the Internet's commercial possibilities. UNBELIEVABLE
I looked at Google and they won't even consider you without an advanced degree. How can thay claim to be SO entreprenaurial when they EXCLUDE half the entreprenaurs out of hand? There's MUCH more to life then "book learning", something that Google (obviously) hasn't figured out yet.
I was told by one of my mentors (a PHD that worked for Harvard/Smithsonian Astrophysics - He has an orbiting telescope named after him) that "sometimes schooling INTERFERES with your education". I guess that Google hasn't figured that one out either!
What I'd like to know is what happens to the money that ISN'T claimed by the non RIAA artists. I'll take odds that it becomes RIAA property after a certain time.....
Jeff Pulver has come forward claiming that he published a book called "The VOIP Toolkit" that has all of verizon's patent stuff in it. The problem for Verizon is that the book was published MONTHS before they filed for their first patent. he used name translation for Free World Dialup back in 1995.
It also looks like Dialpad predated Verizon's use of this technology as well...
"In this case it is clear that there was a substantial basis to conclude that evidence of criminal activity would be found at 7608 Scenic Brook Drive," wrote the Court. "[T]hough it was possible that the transmissions originated outside of the residence to which the IP address was assigned, it remained likely that the source of the transmissions was inside that residence."
Anyone else seeing reasonable doubt flying out the window with this crap decision?. The slope just got one HELL of bit more slippery!
What everyone should do is buy all of these DVD's, open them, then bring them back for a refund. If the store wants to exchange them, that's fine...open those then bring THEM back as well! If Sony gets a few million opened DVD's from a bunch of pissed off retailers...well you get the picture (pun intended).
You'd think tha Sony would have learned something from that rootkit fiasco they did last year...but I guess they're TOO stupid to learn ANYTHNG...so let's teach them (again!).
When I was in college in the early 1970's, I participated in the Students for a Democratic Socciety (SDS). I was involved in the Boston area, and helped The Socialist Workers Party do a radio show on the MIT and Northeastern Univ. radio stations there.
Some years later I did a Freedom of Information Act request for any FBI stuff. A bunch of it came back, primarily from my activities with the radio show. Now, remember, nothing I did was illegal or even immoral. Nor was I charged with any crime or even ever contacted by the FBI. All this was doe secretly without my knowledge.
I have a real problem with any bored local police officer sitting in his cruiser anywhere to be able to simply type in my name and get information about me from over 30 years ago! Frankly, it's none of their business!. Something similar to this actually has already happened to me. I was driving a car I had just bought with my old plates attached (perfectly legal in Massachusetts for 48 hours provided you have the bill of sale, etc.).
I stopped for gas and when I came back from paying a cop was there who wanted to know why my plate number came up with a different car. Turns out he was bored and so he begain typing in license plates of nearby cars int his terminal in the cruiser. What's to stop him turning around and typing my name (which he got from the license plate) into the FBI search?
This gives the cops WAY too much information and power to pry into our private affairs!!
It's been almost ten years since Napster. How come the record industry has yet to offer their own digital downloads? If they dragged their feet like this with conventional media. we'd probably still all be playing 78's instead of CD's!
"David Geffen, the media omniboss, is quoted: 'Each of these devices is used to store unpaid-for material...' The new business rationale is that stolen music should be paid for by profit sharing of newly sold Zune music players".
Should I then assume that since I've PRE PAID for it, music from Universal that I download on Kazaa for use on my Zune is exempt from lawsuits by the RIAA?
Seriously, at this rate, ALL the good (read: well paying) jobs will be gone from the USA.....
Don't think so? Consider this: If you lose 7.5% of these jobs a year in ten years, 75% of them are gone. Don't believe me? Ask the people who still live in Pittsburgh, Buffalo or Allentown.....they know!
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1. Steal an idea.
2. Use it.3. Patent it (so no onelelse can use it, INCLUDING the one you stole it from!
4. Profit!We'd better break it then.....
This doesn't surprise me at all. Kansas is the most backward thinking, Republican, pro big business, conservative state in the USA! I married a Kansan and let me tell you something-you can take the girl off the farm, but you can't take the farm off the girl! Fortunately, it's fixed now.. :)
Frigging herd of hypocrites!
Kathryn Ford of Louisville, Ky., the gambler who alerted the casino, said going after the other patrons was unfair. When a slot machine jams and gamblers lose money, they don't get it back, she said. "It doesn't work in the reverse," Ford said. "They need to forget it and move on."This is exactly the reason why so many capitulate and take the RIAA $3000.00 settlement. maybe, just maybe people will begin fighting these RIAA thugs in suits because of this ruling.
My brother (who is in the Boston area) has their standard service. He's been getting 15,000/3000 Internet for quite some time now. It even bursts to almost 30,000. he's getting amazingly fast speeds. I saw download speeds on his computer well in excess of 2 mB/sec. I wish I had those speeds here in L.A. with Road Runner. On a good day I get 9600/960 and I have their extreme service (which costs an extra 10 dollars a month).
Especially where the URL in question links to an email message! Many webmail services use URLs to access individual emails. Snooping these addresses can actually OPEN email messages. How can this be allowed?
Read above where they have determined that the average temp. in an underground tank is 64.7 degrees F. That means that the temps. are almost 8% higher then they calculate for. In other words, they should reduce gas prices by 8% on average. It's likely even WORSE where I live (California) and in places like Nevada, Arizona and New Mexico.
Also, Insurance is subsidized for most of the state's population. People living below the federal poverty line got it FREE and it's still heavily subsidized for others until they reach THREE TIMES the federal poverty income (about $62,000 for a family of four in MA).
What this DOESN'T get rid of is deductibles and co-pays. Those can be THOUSANDS of dollars for the simplest thing. However, it IS a step in the right direction-and if they had required this LAST year, I and my family would have probably not been homeless in Massachusetts this past year.The 3 Stooges did this in one of their comedy skits 60 years ago.
My health insurance payments made my family HOMELESS! We spent last year living in Extended Stays for 45 dollars a night. I didn't QUIT my job, I got LAID OFF. I didn't consult by choice, I consulted BECAUSE I COULD NOT FIND A JOB! It took me two years to find one and I STILL don't have health insurance because my employer doesn't offer it until you've been here 90 days.
NO ONE should have to choose between food, housing and their health. NO ONE!! None of you ASSHOLES do!I'm 52. My only regret is that I wasn't YOUR father. You'd have grown up with a bit more empathy and a bit less hypocracy...and your butt would have been a bit pinker along the way too!
But this is okay for most of you, RIGHT? After all, YOU have company health insurance, and you're single..RIGHT? Well, so did I, until one day when I was LAID OFF!
Don't you DARE say that the health care system in the USA is fair or equitable! It isn't...and I'm LIVING PROOF OF IT!!Of course, it goes without saying that encryption should always be used, the tighter the better!
So much for the conservative republican President's desire to keep govt. out of our lives. What a lying sack of shit he is!
I don't believe the pure ignorance and incompetance of our Government. They have already worked hard to insure that we are (and will remain) a third world country broadband wise for many years to come. NOW they want to destroy the Internet's commercial possibilities. UNBELIEVABLE
I was told by one of my mentors (a PHD that worked for Harvard/Smithsonian Astrophysics - He has an orbiting telescope named after him) that "sometimes schooling INTERFERES with your education". I guess that Google hasn't figured that one out either!
Pathetic.What I'd like to know is what happens to the money that ISN'T claimed by the non RIAA artists. I'll take odds that it becomes RIAA property after a certain time.....
Here: http://pulverblog.pulver.com/archives/006846.html
Verizon is looking more and more screwed every day....Anyone else seeing reasonable doubt flying out the window with this crap decision?. The slope just got one HELL of bit more slippery!
What everyone should do is buy all of these DVD's, open them, then bring them back for a refund. If the store wants to exchange them, that's fine...open those then bring THEM back as well! If Sony gets a few million opened DVD's from a bunch of pissed off retailers...well you get the picture (pun intended). You'd think tha Sony would have learned something from that rootkit fiasco they did last year...but I guess they're TOO stupid to learn ANYTHNG...so let's teach them (again!).
Shareza should sue them for hacking their program without permission.
When I was in college in the early 1970's, I participated in the Students for a Democratic Socciety (SDS). I was involved in the Boston area, and helped The Socialist Workers Party do a radio show on the MIT and Northeastern Univ. radio stations there. Some years later I did a Freedom of Information Act request for any FBI stuff. A bunch of it came back, primarily from my activities with the radio show. Now, remember, nothing I did was illegal or even immoral. Nor was I charged with any crime or even ever contacted by the FBI. All this was doe secretly without my knowledge.
I have a real problem with any bored local police officer sitting in his cruiser anywhere to be able to simply type in my name and get information about me from over 30 years ago! Frankly, it's none of their business!. Something similar to this actually has already happened to me. I was driving a car I had just bought with my old plates attached (perfectly legal in Massachusetts for 48 hours provided you have the bill of sale, etc.). I stopped for gas and when I came back from paying a cop was there who wanted to know why my plate number came up with a different car. Turns out he was bored and so he begain typing in license plates of nearby cars int his terminal in the cruiser. What's to stop him turning around and typing my name (which he got from the license plate) into the FBI search?
This gives the cops WAY too much information and power to pry into our private affairs!!
All in the cause of TERRORISM, of courser!! :(
It's been almost ten years since Napster. How come the record industry has yet to offer their own digital downloads? If they dragged their feet like this with conventional media. we'd probably still all be playing 78's instead of CD's!
Should I then assume that since I've PRE PAID for it, music from Universal that I download on Kazaa for use on my Zune is exempt from lawsuits by the RIAA?
I didn't think so..........Seriously, at this rate, ALL the good (read: well paying) jobs will be gone from the USA.....
Don't think so? Consider this: If you lose 7.5% of these jobs a year in ten years, 75% of them are gone. Don't believe me? Ask the people who still live in Pittsburgh, Buffalo or Allentown.....they know!