"Wiretaps for that year cost taxpayers $69.5 million, and approximately 80 per cent were related to drug investigations."
This would, of course, be a terrific argument in my mind, to just get over ourselves and find a better way to deal with drugs; i.e. make them legal in such a way so that people can have a good time and not pose too much of a threat to society (such as the laws pertaining to alcohol). 'Course that's just my opinion, I could be wrong.
As much as it pains me to say it, I really can't make up my mind. My work and main home PC's are running XP, but I also have a PC at home running Linux that handles my Ogg repository, and my laptop is a TiBook running OS X 10.2.2. And, as much as it pains me to say, they all have their strengths and weaknesses. If I could have a machine that could boot XP, Linux, and Mac OS, then I think I would be truly happy, but that's a pipe dream. Oris it?
There are 250 Million blank CDRs and tapes bought and used this year for copying music in comparison to 213 Million prerecorded audio media. This means the owners are only being paid for 46 per cent of the musical content. For a comparison: In 1998 almost 90% of all audio media was paid for. Even without a degree in economics everyone should realise that such trends will result in the music industry ceasing to exist.
So if I'm to understand this correctly, the music industry can not even fathom the idea of someone making data backups onto a CD-R that doesn't contain any music at all? I guess this makes me a pirate for backing up my resume last week...
Yes, Europe and most of the Asian land mass are using GSM as a standard on either 900MHz or 1800MHz, however Japan didn't go with GSM. They opted for PDC (Personal Digital Cellular) waaaay before any of us had digital cell phones becuase of the staggering population density. They needed to be able to get more calls onto one channel than analogue could provide.
Also, VoiceStream here in the USA is using a GSM network, but unfortunately it resides on the 1900MHz band, so we all have to have tri-mode phones just to be able to use one handset worldwide. If I have heard correctly, AT&T and Cingular are switching from their TDMA based networks to GSM (part of AT&T's $5 billion dollar budget this year) because TDMA didn't have the capacity they were hoping for. (Cingular is already GSM in California and Nevada because of their acquisition of PacBell.)
Despite what the article says, I like to think that my phone is pretty cool.
I have RCN and all of a sudden in the last week or so I can't SSH or FTP back to my Linux box at home from work, so maybe the do consider SSH a VPN service. Why do the rest of us have to suffer just because the world is too stupid to be using Windoze?;)
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The vote was unanimous at the March 18th faculty meeting: http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2009/open-access-0320.html
Am I the only person who read that headline as "UK Judge Rules Curse Of Agony is Not Evidence of a License"?
Here ya go. (The same article is also available in The Ledger)
Linus Torvalds Interview
This would, of course, be a terrific argument in my mind, to just get over ourselves and find a better way to deal with drugs; i.e. make them legal in such a way so that people can have a good time and not pose too much of a threat to society (such as the laws pertaining to alcohol). 'Course that's just my opinion, I could be wrong.
You'll get your wish. The developers release of 10.3 (Panther) uses Postfix by default.
Zaphod Beebelbrox is going to be all over this stuff.
So this is why the Microsoft Home Of The Future has no bathroom. They can't afford it anymore. Sweet.
As much as it pains me to say it, I really can't make up my mind. My work and main home PC's are running XP, but I also have a PC at home running Linux that handles my Ogg repository, and my laptop is a TiBook running OS X 10.2.2. And, as much as it pains me to say, they all have their strengths and weaknesses. If I could have a machine that could boot XP, Linux, and Mac OS, then I think I would be truly happy, but that's a pipe dream. Or is it?
Seriously, I was trying to find something funny to say, but once again I have failed miserably. D'oh.
So if I'm to understand this correctly, the music industry can not even fathom the idea of someone making data backups onto a CD-R that doesn't contain any music at all? I guess this makes me a pirate for backing up my resume last week...
Also, VoiceStream here in the USA is using a GSM network, but unfortunately it resides on the 1900MHz band, so we all have to have tri-mode phones just to be able to use one handset worldwide. If I have heard correctly, AT&T and Cingular are switching from their TDMA based networks to GSM (part of AT&T's $5 billion dollar budget this year) because TDMA didn't have the capacity they were hoping for. (Cingular is already GSM in California and Nevada because of their acquisition of PacBell.)
Despite what the article says, I like to think that my phone is pretty cool.
Just my $0.02.
I have RCN and all of a sudden in the last week or so I can't SSH or FTP back to my Linux box at home from work, so maybe the do consider SSH a VPN service. Why do the rest of us have to suffer just because the world is too stupid to be using Windoze? ;)