There is a phone number to call... (let me grab it) 703.265.4670. If you call that number, you talk to some actually intelligent and customer service minded AOL people. They will give you a call ticket number if not solve the issue right on the phone, and will follow through (read: call you back) if they can't solve it right away. Miami University got blocked recently, we solved it in this manner. Hope this helps!
A cluster of i-pods perhaps. I have ~ 90 gigs of MP3's. The I-pod is an amazing piece of work - intuitive, georgous design. Only problem is that there is no very large one, I-tunes is slow especially with tens of thousands of songs, and there are no good audio outs to hook it into my car stereo. Oh and it's FREAKING expensive. But I do love those things. I would buy a MUVO for a small mp3 player and an I-pod for a big one.
for one of these for some time now. I would like to put it with wifi in the back of my car and run a custom (read: linux) mp3 server. Now all I need to tack down is the touch screen LCD interface for it (seriously). A little LCD (must be at least 300 whatever brightness units to see in the sunlight of a car interior) isn't bad on it's own, but with touchscreen it's a bit more pricy. Oh, and I don't yet understand how to interface it with a normal OS like a desktop linux or windows (god forbid). Any suggestions? Anybody done anything like this? This appears to be the perfect 'puter for it though::grin::
From reading this discussion it seems as though only people who share are both doing something illegal and can be caught. People who download content are harder to catch (the RIAA has to make files avalible to take, and that's entrapment. You can't leave a truck on the street doors wide open full of big screen TV's all night and bust people who take them).
So I have a solution: Someone who writes those annoying self replicating viruses that don't do anything or do bad things should code one that shares all of your content on a peer to peer network. (movies, mp3's). Those of us who want to share simply don't install virus protection software. Those who don't want their stuff shared install virus protection software!
When the RIAA comes after you for sharing copyrighted material, you have a case for ignorance. Woah! I had a virus. They don't bust people that unknowingly have Code Red on their boxen causing network problems. If you did that knowingly you'd be in jail though. What do you think?
Shit, my mom doesn't pass the Windows XP mom test, she wouldn't stand a chance. Then again, I get confused on how to make programs run on a mac. Like that download to make them go thing is hard. Linux, you compile or unpack, easy enough. Windows you install. Apple, what.. this un-stuffing and copying around.... I don't understand how programs don't run with only one big file either. Come to think of it, when you screw up your configuration, how can you delete the.ini or.conf to start over and get the programming running.
Oh jeez, I don't doubt it. We had direct connect running on a private network... about 1000 users connected on average, 15 or 16 TB of data, and we averaged over two searches per second. Every day. All day. So if each search resulted in only one download (which most resulted in "download everything, I am connected at 100 mbps") that'd be 172,800 downloads a day and thus ~63,000,000 theoretical downloads per year. On our piddly little 1000 (but blindingly fast;)) network.
Oh! You mean downloading music without paying anybody for it is illegal?! Oh!! In that case I think I'll just stop.
I'm glad that education campaign is there, jeez, I didn't know that on my own. It hurts::gasp:: the RIAA. And it hurts the artists. Well, it would if the music industry stays in it's current form. For the hundreth time, the market is changing. Perhaps, RIAA, you are no longer required. Please, Senate, don't ruin the industry squelching a change simply to support a company that makes large campign contributions.
I agree they should block Pr0n in schools. (I mean, what's the point anyway; kids fapping under the desks (not that I haven't seen that)) Personal e-mail, perhaps. Kids supposed to be doing research or in computer / programming class waste time on that stuff instead of paying attention. Either it should be policed better by teachers or perhaps in fact blocked. Entertainment (video trailers, games, etc) the same thing.
But political sites and "hate sites" I honestly don't think should fall under this same policy. At my place of employment, much like school's filtered i-net, Rush's streaming conservative talk show is blocked. But NPR isn't. You can't read the drudge report (in the high school I graduated from two years ago) but you can read the NYT. Something's wrong when political and "hate" reasons (IE anti-gay... I mean, that's a political choice! that's like blocking atheist sites (which they do!) but not blocking catholics-r-us.com (wonder if that exists)) are chosen by the blocking company as to which are acceptable and which aren't. And that's where blocking sites no longer protects but censors. Only blocks certain opinions. What if (I don't) I feel that pro gay sites are as if not more offensive than anti-gay sites?
Outside of Beijing anyway. Have you seen the standard of living? The Soviet Union was in a even better state when they got into the space race. The United States was in far better shape. But considering China is having problems controlling disease in their own country, India has it's own bevy of problems (which I'm not even going to address)... It's bad enough they are spending money that could be spent other places building nuclear arms (well, Clinton helped out with his donation of the ICBM plans to China, so I guess that's more cost effective now).
They're trying to prove a point of technological prowess, probably largely from the defense anglge, just as the Soviet Union did. I don't want to tell people how to run their countries (well, perhaps I do) but I simply don't see this as the best idea. Leave it to the US, EU and new former Soviet Union.
Actually, they are discussing making it illegal to sell weed in coffee shops as it is currently. Too many rediculous Americans (I'm American, I'm not America bashing, I'm American out of control teen druggie bashing, I'm not pot smoker bashing, I'm pot-head bashing) are causing problems in Amsterdam apparently.
This is a brand new spectacular idea! It would be a computer program that is meant to DESTROY your data! I could spread from computer to computer by itself so people don't have to do it manually! Then it would monitor what you do on your computer, and if that was download illegal materials it could just ruin your partition table!
Wow. So they've reinvented the virus. Does Sen. I Have No Idea How Computers Work understand that these malicious programs have been around for years and don't take out people's computers? It'd just be a new reason to run McAfee.
I'll bet he's read Siddhartha a half dozen times. Consume less, spend more time getting in touch with roots, people; i-net chat is bad, real face to face... bla bla bla. Sounds like an anti-progressivist (sp?) (think Amish, fundemantalist Muslim, old school Hindu, etc.) The golf cart takes away a would be great source of excercise... And allows my 84 year old grandfather to golf at all. There's another side to most of these things, they don't all lead to sloth and a decrease in human interaction. It's a change, deal with it. And, Siddhartha, if you have a problem with how we like to consume sell your worldly belongings and get in touch with yourself. But you're not going to influence me to do it.
I simply won't. How profitable or economic (company and consumer perspective, respectively) is it to vent your Hydrogen into the atmosphere? Correct: it's not. There is no practical reason why people would allow leaks as large as 10 - 20 percent to exist, as it's simply wasting money. The market will keep this from happening. Hydrogen venters will be poor, and can't afford more hydrogen to vent. Even evil plotters trying to give universal skin cancer. Hey, I should try that and buy bananna boat stock...::toddles off::
First the bullshit: "'They've got good handwriting now, and they love cursive,' Bolton says as her students filter in from recess." --I haven't met a child that likes cursive. That's a load of crock.
And the brainwashing: "The truth is, boys and girls, even if you write a lot of e-mail on the computer, you will always need to write things down on paper at some point in your life," Boell says. "The letters you write to people are beautiful, and they'll cherish them forever. Have any of you ever received an e-mail that you cherished?"
The students eagerly shout, "No!" and return to loops and curves. --Hey; I have e-mails saved from years ago that I cherish. I have them in an imap folder or printed out.
A better conversation, perhaps, is how kids can't spell anymore becuase spellcheck (and particularly autocorrect type things) make it unnecessary to do so. If I type nieghbor instead of neighbor and it gets automatically and invisibly changed each and every time, I'm not a slave to the red wavy underline and have no reason to realize or correct my false use of the i before e rule. What should be done about that? Perhaps a plug in into Word and clones that proactively helps correct the spelling of the user not just the document. I'm serious about this.
First of all the foam piece was part of the shuttle. So it broke off and hit the shuttle a little further down. In a "near vacuum" (sp?). So if the piece was traveling as fast as the shuttle before it broke off, didn't have much air resistance to slow it down and hit the shuttle a few tens of feet away how did it accelerate (well, decellerate, same difference, opposite vector direction) to 500 mph less than the velocity of the shuttle?!
Also why are NASA engineers surprised about Ek=1/2mv^2?! I think the reporter meant he didn't think the foam would do much damage, and the NASA guy couldn't think of anything simpler than Ek=1/2mv^2 to explain it to his dumb reporter ass. (sorry, small rant)
I wonder if we've broken the scratch bot yet. You know, like if it's backlogged with seven years of scratching to do from all the/.'ers e-mail. I don't think we ever pointed the slashdot DoS cannon at a musician before;)
If peopeople believe implausible claims without LOTS of proof then they are morons best weeded out of the genetic pool. Oh you mean like religous people? That leaves the vast majority of people "morons best weeded out of the genetic pool." I'd tend to agree;)
Succinct translation: "Watch Fox News." Fox News?! Tits and guns like the rest of the news? Perhaps I fail to notice the distinction between that and any other sensationalist leftist "for ratings" news program. I can watch 17 black people shoot white people, cops wacking off on the job, the janitor that sleeps with the kid in middle school and the mom who puts her babies in the washing machine. Why? Because it feeds into the stereotypes, enrages people, is entertaining and MAKES MONEY. I have better ways to waste my time.
The major media hasn't had the slightest hint of a liberal leaning in some decades. Oh my gosh! Are you freaking serious? I hope my sarcasm detector is just fubar. Read "Bias," that'll put that into perspective! Perhaps you don't notice because there barely is a facet of the media not lefwardly biased anymore. The only conservative pieces of media are things like the WSJ, USA Today (too bad it's a picturebook), and that crazy dude on TV who's name slips my mind at the moment who yells at people he interviews... Plus we actually have weapons of mass destruction.
We aren't disallowed from having WMD like Iraq is. Nor is England, Canada, Australia, etc. Yeah, US violating things. The contries which we violate may retalliate. If Iraq, Afghanistan etc would like to bop over here and attack us... wait, that was the World Trade Center. Yep, I think I'm aware of that. And finally: So which are you, a lying hypocrite, or an ignorant tool?
I fail to see what else it is possible for you to be given your statements. Like with the rest of your statements, you only see one side. You don't consider the possibility that you *may* be, in fact, fallible (sp?). Look at this issue objectively. You may reconsider when you tune out the sensationalism and emotion and look at the facts, which you should base decisions on. Push aside the bleeding heart and see what you see.
If you don't want to see/. further ruled by the oppressive censors (negatively modding dissent) from leftist Europe and Canada mod the parent up. Yes, it's a shameless plug, but my karma is fine, I'm doing this for the love of things Right (get it, a pun) and reasonable. Or if you agree that it's off topic mod the parent of the parent down instead, as that's offtopic also!
The twenty something direct violations of international law were the provocation, and, oh, btw, that made it completely internationally legal for the United States to attack Iraq. Their violoation of one of any of those parameters of ceasefire (from the first Gulf War) makes our attack legal. Try ignoring all the players and looking at the issue without label. That is, without bias. Then reconsider your opinion based on only the facts, not the emotion please.
By daring to allow inspections You, like so many others, only started paying attention to Iraq just before the war started. When it became a big deal. Saddam disallowed inspectors for years before the threat of war forced him to comply. Too little too late. Iraq didn't use WMD because: 1. The U.S. would have nuked them. 2. France, Russia, et. al., the Iraqi supporters against a US war, couldn't have remained neutral anymore. If they don't use WMD they make the US look bad on the world front. Saddam can do this becuase he doesn't care if his people are killed to make a political statement.
It'll be interesting if they make it there... They can then confirm or deny, once and for all, the United States' landing on the moon. Find the rover, the other half of the Eagle... That'd be something to either reveal a gigantic cover-up (unlikely and inprobable) or to quiet down those conspiracy theorists once and for all. On a side note,/. needs spellcheck. I can't spell anymore. I wonder if that's grounds for a lawsuit against Microsoft. Word's damn paperclip ruined my spelling ability. Oh, the trauma...
"Without provocation?" ?! Are you really that ignorant? Fuck you. I don't give a shit what this does to my Karma, you, sir, are an asshole. Stop believing what the democrats feed you on the evening news and look reality in the eyes. I consider acts of terrorism and twenty something direct violations of international law and cease fire treaty reasonable fucking provocation. Troll.
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There is a phone number to call... (let me grab it) 703.265.4670. If you call that number, you talk to some actually intelligent and customer service minded AOL people. They will give you a call ticket number if not solve the issue right on the phone, and will follow through (read: call you back) if they can't solve it right away. Miami University got blocked recently, we solved it in this manner. Hope this helps!
A cluster of i-pods perhaps. I have ~ 90 gigs of MP3's. The I-pod is an amazing piece of work - intuitive, georgous design. Only problem is that there is no very large one, I-tunes is slow especially with tens of thousands of songs, and there are no good audio outs to hook it into my car stereo. Oh and it's FREAKING expensive. But I do love those things. I would buy a MUVO for a small mp3 player and an I-pod for a big one.
for one of these for some time now. I would like to put it with wifi in the back of my car and run a custom (read: linux) mp3 server. Now all I need to tack down is the touch screen LCD interface for it (seriously). A little LCD (must be at least 300 whatever brightness units to see in the sunlight of a car interior) isn't bad on it's own, but with touchscreen it's a bit more pricy. Oh, and I don't yet understand how to interface it with a normal OS like a desktop linux or windows (god forbid). Any suggestions? Anybody done anything like this? This appears to be the perfect 'puter for it though ::grin::
From reading this discussion it seems as though only people who share are both doing something illegal and can be caught. People who download content are harder to catch (the RIAA has to make files avalible to take, and that's entrapment. You can't leave a truck on the street doors wide open full of big screen TV's all night and bust people who take them).
So I have a solution:
Someone who writes those annoying self replicating viruses that don't do anything or do bad things should code one that shares all of your content on a peer to peer network. (movies, mp3's). Those of us who want to share simply don't install virus protection software. Those who don't want their stuff shared install virus protection software!
When the RIAA comes after you for sharing copyrighted material, you have a case for ignorance. Woah! I had a virus. They don't bust people that unknowingly have Code Red on their boxen causing network problems. If you did that knowingly you'd be in jail though. What do you think?
Shit, my mom doesn't pass the Windows XP mom test, she wouldn't stand a chance. Then again, I get confused on how to make programs run on a mac. Like that download to make them go thing is hard. Linux, you compile or unpack, easy enough. Windows you install. Apple, what.. this un-stuffing and copying around.... I don't understand how programs don't run with only one big file either. Come to think of it, when you screw up your configuration, how can you delete the .ini or .conf to start over and get the programming running.
Oh jeez, I don't doubt it. We had direct connect running on a private network... about 1000 users connected on average, 15 or 16 TB of data, and we averaged over two searches per second. Every day. All day. So if each search resulted in only one download (which most resulted in "download everything, I am connected at 100 mbps") that'd be 172,800 downloads a day and thus ~63,000,000 theoretical downloads per year. On our piddly little 1000 (but blindingly fast ;)) network.
Oh! You mean downloading music without paying anybody for it is illegal?! Oh!! In that case I think I'll just stop.
::gasp:: the RIAA. And it hurts the artists. Well, it would if the music industry stays in it's current form. For the hundreth time, the market is changing. Perhaps, RIAA, you are no longer required. Please, Senate, don't ruin the industry squelching a change simply to support a company that makes large campign contributions.
I'm glad that education campaign is there, jeez, I didn't know that on my own. It hurts
I agree they should block Pr0n in schools. (I mean, what's the point anyway; kids fapping under the desks (not that I haven't seen that)) Personal e-mail, perhaps. Kids supposed to be doing research or in computer / programming class waste time on that stuff instead of paying attention. Either it should be policed better by teachers or perhaps in fact blocked. Entertainment (video trailers, games, etc) the same thing.
But political sites and "hate sites" I honestly don't think should fall under this same policy. At my place of employment, much like school's filtered i-net, Rush's streaming conservative talk show is blocked. But NPR isn't. You can't read the drudge report (in the high school I graduated from two years ago) but you can read the NYT. Something's wrong when political and "hate" reasons (IE anti-gay... I mean, that's a political choice! that's like blocking atheist sites (which they do!) but not blocking catholics-r-us.com (wonder if that exists)) are chosen by the blocking company as to which are acceptable and which aren't. And that's where blocking sites no longer protects but censors. Only blocks certain opinions. What if (I don't) I feel that pro gay sites are as if not more offensive than anti-gay sites?
Outside of Beijing anyway. Have you seen the standard of living? The Soviet Union was in a even better state when they got into the space race. The United States was in far better shape. But considering China is having problems controlling disease in their own country, India has it's own bevy of problems (which I'm not even going to address)... It's bad enough they are spending money that could be spent other places building nuclear arms (well, Clinton helped out with his donation of the ICBM plans to China, so I guess that's more cost effective now).
They're trying to prove a point of technological prowess, probably largely from the defense anglge, just as the Soviet Union did. I don't want to tell people how to run their countries (well, perhaps I do) but I simply don't see this as the best idea. Leave it to the US, EU and new former Soviet Union.
They even put their paper through the fax machine sideways.
:-P
Get it... heh. OK, yea, that was bad, but you laughed
Actually, they are discussing making it illegal to sell weed in coffee shops as it is currently. Too many rediculous Americans (I'm American, I'm not America bashing, I'm American out of control teen druggie bashing, I'm not pot smoker bashing, I'm pot-head bashing) are causing problems in Amsterdam apparently.
This is a brand new spectacular idea! It would be a computer program that is meant to DESTROY your data! I could spread from computer to computer by itself so people don't have to do it manually! Then it would monitor what you do on your computer, and if that was download illegal materials it could just ruin your partition table!
Wow. So they've reinvented the virus. Does Sen. I Have No Idea How Computers Work understand that these malicious programs have been around for years and don't take out people's computers? It'd just be a new reason to run McAfee.
I'll bet he's read Siddhartha a half dozen times.
Consume less, spend more time getting in touch with roots, people; i-net chat is bad, real face to face... bla bla bla. Sounds like an anti-progressivist (sp?) (think Amish, fundemantalist Muslim, old school Hindu, etc.)
The golf cart takes away a would be great source of excercise... And allows my 84 year old grandfather to golf at all. There's another side to most of these things, they don't all lead to sloth and a decrease in human interaction. It's a change, deal with it.
And, Siddhartha, if you have a problem with how we like to consume sell your worldly belongings and get in touch with yourself. But you're not going to influence me to do it.
I simply won't. How profitable or economic (company and consumer perspective, respectively) is it to vent your Hydrogen into the atmosphere? Correct: it's not. There is no practical reason why people would allow leaks as large as 10 - 20 percent to exist, as it's simply wasting money. The market will keep this from happening. Hydrogen venters will be poor, and can't afford more hydrogen to vent. Even evil plotters trying to give universal skin cancer. Hey, I should try that and buy bananna boat stock... ::toddles off::
First the bullshit:
"'They've got good handwriting now, and they love cursive,' Bolton says as her students filter in from recess."
--I haven't met a child that likes cursive. That's a load of crock.
And the brainwashing:
"The truth is, boys and girls, even if you write a lot of e-mail on the computer, you will always need to write things down on paper at some point in your life," Boell says. "The letters you write to people are beautiful, and they'll cherish them forever. Have any of you ever received an e-mail that you cherished?"
The students eagerly shout, "No!" and return to loops and curves.
--Hey; I have e-mails saved from years ago that I cherish. I have them in an imap folder or printed out.
A better conversation, perhaps, is how kids can't spell anymore becuase spellcheck (and particularly autocorrect type things) make it unnecessary to do so. If I type nieghbor instead of neighbor and it gets automatically and invisibly changed each and every time, I'm not a slave to the red wavy underline and have no reason to realize or correct my false use of the i before e rule. What should be done about that?
Perhaps a plug in into Word and clones that proactively helps correct the spelling of the user not just the document. I'm serious about this.
First of all the foam piece was part of the shuttle. So it broke off and hit the shuttle a little further down. In a "near vacuum" (sp?). So if the piece was traveling as fast as the shuttle before it broke off, didn't have much air resistance to slow it down and hit the shuttle a few tens of feet away how did it accelerate (well, decellerate, same difference, opposite vector direction) to 500 mph less than the velocity of the shuttle?!
Also why are NASA engineers surprised about Ek=1/2mv^2?! I think the reporter meant he didn't think the foam would do much damage, and the NASA guy couldn't think of anything simpler than Ek=1/2mv^2 to explain it to his dumb reporter ass. (sorry, small rant)
I wonder if we've broken the scratch bot yet. You know, like if it's backlogged with seven years of scratching to do from all the /.'ers e-mail. I don't think we ever pointed the slashdot DoS cannon at a musician before ;)
If peopeople believe implausible claims without LOTS of proof then they are morons best weeded out of the genetic pool. ;)
Oh you mean like religous people? That leaves the vast majority of people "morons best weeded out of the genetic pool." I'd tend to agree
Succinct translation: "Watch Fox News."
Fox News?! Tits and guns like the rest of the news? Perhaps I fail to notice the distinction between that and any other sensationalist leftist "for ratings" news program. I can watch 17 black people shoot white people, cops wacking off on the job, the janitor that sleeps with the kid in middle school and the mom who puts her babies in the washing machine. Why? Because it feeds into the stereotypes, enrages people, is entertaining and MAKES MONEY. I have better ways to waste my time.
The major media hasn't had the slightest hint of a liberal leaning in some decades.
Oh my gosh! Are you freaking serious? I hope my sarcasm detector is just fubar. Read "Bias," that'll put that into perspective! Perhaps you don't notice because there barely is a facet of the media not lefwardly biased anymore. The only conservative pieces of media are things like the WSJ, USA Today (too bad it's a picturebook), and that crazy dude on TV who's name slips my mind at the moment who yells at people he interviews...
Plus we actually have weapons of mass destruction.
We aren't disallowed from having WMD like Iraq is. Nor is England, Canada, Australia, etc.
Yeah, US violating things. The contries which we violate may retalliate. If Iraq, Afghanistan etc would like to bop over here and attack us... wait, that was the World Trade Center. Yep, I think I'm aware of that.
And finally: So which are you, a lying hypocrite, or an ignorant tool? I fail to see what else it is possible for you to be given your statements.
Like with the rest of your statements, you only see one side. You don't consider the possibility that you *may* be, in fact, fallible (sp?). Look at this issue objectively. You may reconsider when you tune out the sensationalism and emotion and look at the facts, which you should base decisions on. Push aside the bleeding heart and see what you see.
If you don't want to see /. further ruled by the oppressive censors (negatively modding dissent) from leftist Europe and Canada mod the parent up. Yes, it's a shameless plug, but my karma is fine, I'm doing this for the love of things Right (get it, a pun) and reasonable. Or if you agree that it's off topic mod the parent of the parent down instead, as that's offtopic also!
The twenty something direct violations of international law were the provocation, and, oh, btw, that made it completely internationally legal for the United States to attack Iraq. Their violoation of one of any of those parameters of ceasefire (from the first Gulf War) makes our attack legal.
Try ignoring all the players and looking at the issue without label. That is, without bias. Then reconsider your opinion based on only the facts, not the emotion please.
By daring to allow inspections
You, like so many others, only started paying attention to Iraq just before the war started. When it became a big deal.
Saddam disallowed inspectors for years before the threat of war forced him to comply. Too little too late.
Iraq didn't use WMD because:
1. The U.S. would have nuked them.
2. France, Russia, et. al., the Iraqi supporters against a US war, couldn't have remained neutral anymore. If they don't use WMD they make the US look bad on the world front. Saddam can do this becuase he doesn't care if his people are killed to make a political statement.
It'll be interesting if they make it there... They can then confirm or deny, once and for all, the United States' landing on the moon. Find the rover, the other half of the Eagle... That'd be something to either reveal a gigantic cover-up (unlikely and inprobable) or to quiet down those conspiracy theorists once and for all. /. needs spellcheck. I can't spell anymore. I wonder if that's grounds for a lawsuit against Microsoft. Word's damn paperclip ruined my spelling ability. Oh, the trauma...
On a side note,
"Without provocation?" ?! Are you really that ignorant? Fuck you. I don't give a shit what this does to my Karma, you, sir, are an asshole. Stop believing what the democrats feed you on the evening news and look reality in the eyes. I consider acts of terrorism and twenty something direct violations of international law and cease fire treaty reasonable fucking provocation. Troll.