This doesn't address the new breed of private ATM's. They just use a dedicated line to call direct to a network.
I know this because the guy my wife works for owns a few. The really funny thing about this is that the people who run some of the stores he puts his machines in, will unplug the phone line to it, and make long distance calls on his dime.
Yea, but for the most part non-corporate people don't pay for it now. When this will really hurt normal people is when MS finally forces people to properly register to install. They just haven't done it yet because the cage still has a key (Open Office, Star Office, etc.). DRM throws away the key.
You say extortion. I say it's more like blackmail. I wonder if the local cops would sit up and take notice if you wanted them formally charged. If they 'offer' you a chance to pay instead of 'informing' on you and all it's consiquences, thats blackmail. Just like a freelance 'investigator' following guys around and then 'offering' not to 'inform' the wife if only you pay X or deliver this package to X.
I wonder which one would have the best chance in a court.
If you have the resources, buy a hard drive bay and only put games on a particular drive. That way you can just swap drives and keep everything tidy. Also let the kids know if they do happen to install anything nasty, they get to reinstall the whole works themselfs. A Couple of times of that and they will learn not to install crap.
Well where I work we have a Lan game twice a day. Durring lunch instead of yapping in the lunch room, and one after work. I also spend some time at home playing. We kind of move from game to game as new ones are released, and had 6 months waiting between games we wanted to try, (or would run on our systems) when WC3 came out. It's a follow the crowd thing, so when the office is playing one game, we kinda all have to play it, even if we don't like it much.
I did like WC3 for about 75-85% of the time we played it, and it had a longer office life than many of the games we have tried, but it wore out a lot quicker than say AOE, or AOM appears to be lasting.
Teething. I remember being given a Football player doll. I still have him. I remember teething and chewing on his nose made me feel better. He still has the marks. I also remember sucking on the football during this time, but not being satisfied because my teeth kept slipping off it. There is paint off the ball where I did this.
I could theorize that those memories were first triggered in my adult life, by the fact the doll is still around. Much like a smell will remind you of a place or a person. I think we store more than we are able to recall, and it is the ability to recall things that we think of when we discuss our earliest memories.
Have you done any research on hypnosis and memory recall?
Yea there is a strategy, get lucky and get the elves, get to starfall, and win the game. I have no idea how this game won. I have played it through the entire single player, and logged over 100 multi player games with close friends, (up to 6 way FFA's) and in all our opinions this just was not the game it could have been. Good but not great. Best of the year, no.
Have a system that requires you to send value with each e-mail. Have this system close to revenue neutral. When you receive letters with a fee attached, that value gets added to your account. So if you have an even amount of traffic, you pay nothing. That way mailing lists to things like bake sales etc, can simply request a reply, and re-fill their account.
It would also at least give people something for all the spam in their boxes, as a person could withdraw from the system at any time.
Oh my. I just got it. This is a troll. To bad I was stupid enough to fall for it, TWICE! Shows that some people just arn't ready for the wide open net.
True the responsibility ultimately lies with the parent, however many parents don't even know where to start with monitoring their kids on the net. Are you saying that the children of technically challenged parents should have no guidance at all, and be thrown into the fray without any protection? You may personally think it gives a false sense of security, and it does to some extent. It is still better than pushing a kid into the deep end of the pool and walking away, just to see if he can swim.
And what is to stop a predator from showing up at some message board on a.kids.us site?
Nothing more that would stop a predator from stalking kids on a play ground.
The point is this kind of censorship is more like requiring an adult video store to block its windows so kids can't easily look in, rather than letting them put the words "Kids Candy Play Palace" in bright letters with cartoons of naked people on all the windows.
People need to stop raising such gullible children, The world contains bad things, and everyone has to learn how to deal with them.
Simple question, at what age do you figure kids will know how to deal with bad things. Kids are innocent in general, and have to be told "look both ways before crossing the street" and "don't talk to strangers". The simple fact is that a majority of parents aren't cluefull enough about the internet to know to say "don't click the warning banners" or "don't just type in URL's, you must use google to make sure it's safe to go". There are plenty of examples of predators on the counting on clueless behavior and innocent mistakes like mistyping a friendly URL.
Kids need to be protected without infringing on everyone elses right to view what they want, this is a very good attempt to do just that.
Up here in Canada, I had a similar experience with Shaw. In order to prevent them putting whatever software they wanted to install on my system, I had to sign a waiver for each component they wanted to install, saying that I took personal responsibility for the installation. I wasn't required to install them, but if things didn't work it was my problem.
Now I'm on DSL, and those guys just hand you a box, a disk, and if you want, with a call to customer support, a webpage. This lets you set up the hookup without any of their software installed. You even get to dictate/change the MAC address the modem recognizes as valid.
This will never work.
I looked into this once and it is impossible. Because of ISP's like AOL, and the cable modem people, there is no way to authenticate any IP address. Their cache systems are so bad. I had a friend of mine on cable hit a test page, and the cable company accessed the data from a different IP address for EACH GRAPHIC, and dumped it into their cache, before sending it to my friend. I had 9 different IP addresses from one page request. Not exactly a unique way of identifying someone.
It does not require that the govenment step it, it requires they step out. It's only because of the government sanctioned IP restrictions that patents like this exist. If the govenment dissolved these types of patents they would be less involved in the process, not more.
Sure they may cut developers. Who knows RH and IBM and every other business that develops for Linux could tank. That is not critical.
As long as people continue to contribute, and they will for quite some time regardless of the $$ involved, Linux will grow and mature. As long as Linux continues to develop, it gets closer to certainty, that someone will build a business model that uses the advantages of free software, to turn a proffit with a complementary product.
Pairing with a high value, low price complementary product is a standard tool for successfull business models everywhere. How much would you pay for a burner if blank CD's we $20 each. How much will you pay for your PC when you can't avoid paying Microsoft for every line of code on your system?
This Link shows the timeline for Narnia. I have no idea if C.S. Lewis thought the books should be read out of chronological order or not, but the current order is in the correct chronology.
One more point to put in line with this. The GNP was burned up in 1984 to hold people in a repressed state and unable to resist the will of the government. It also allowed for clear class distinction for members of the inner party who had the wealth of a larger flat, servants, etc. War emphasized the need for people to have "someone in control".
This class distinction and repressed state is now totally possible without the unnecessary burning of GNP. In fact the opposite is true. The fault in Orwell's assumption was that you required direct repression to hold down those of a lower class. That once wealth was nearly universal the purpose of a high class was eliminated and would be naturally removed.
This is not the case.
You rebel against a system that you feel you have cause to rebel against, but if few feel the need to rebel, the high class will remain intact. When harm is only apparent to a few and the rest of the society is allowed to have a high level of wealth, the apathy will keep the people more in line than scarcity of wealth and force ever could.
Just what percent of the US even votes anymore, and how many people even care about it?
Lets take this just one level higher/lower, however you want to look at it.
Where does Encryption come into play with say snail mail? If anything is being tracked it is the source and destination of the package. I have not heard (Yet) of any attempt by the government to let the post office open every snail mail, and read it's contents. Why? Perhaps they don't need to, until they decide your really worth looking at, and get a court order.
Even non-tech people fully understand how much of an intrusion the opening of their letters to Aunt Sally would be, they would never support it.
Encryption is just not main stream enough, and is missunderstood by most people. This makes it is easier to convince people that it is dangerous, and needs to be regulated.
As a Point of referance, I was watching up here in Canada on the TLC (The Learning Channel), that quite regularly the shuttle missions will have to re-direct course, or rotate the ship for component/people safety when approching space debris. According to the show, any object larger than say a computer mouse is currently being tracked.
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I know this because the guy my wife works for owns a few. The really funny thing about this is that the people who run some of the stores he puts his machines in, will unplug the phone line to it, and make long distance calls on his dime.
Yea, but for the most part non-corporate people don't pay for it now. When this will really hurt normal people is when MS finally forces people to properly register to install.
They just haven't done it yet because the cage still has a key (Open Office, Star Office, etc.). DRM throws away the key.
Also of mention was the saturday morning cartoon and the merchandice. Looks like a franchise to me.
There is a "malpractice" insurance for software, it's call "errors and omissions". Our company had to get it just to rent space.
You say extortion. I say it's more like blackmail. I wonder if the local cops would sit up and take notice if you wanted them formally charged. If they 'offer' you a chance to pay instead of 'informing' on you and all it's consiquences, thats blackmail. Just like a freelance 'investigator' following guys around and then 'offering' not to 'inform' the wife if only you pay X or deliver this package to X. I wonder which one would have the best chance in a court.
If you have the resources, buy a hard drive bay and only put games on a particular drive. That way you can just swap drives and keep everything tidy. Also let the kids know if they do happen to install anything nasty, they get to reinstall the whole works themselfs. A Couple of times of that and they will learn not to install crap.
I did like WC3 for about 75-85% of the time we played it, and it had a longer office life than many of the games we have tried, but it wore out a lot quicker than say AOE, or AOM appears to be lasting.
I remember being given a Football player doll. I still have him. I remember teething and chewing on his nose made me feel better. He still has the marks. I also remember sucking on the football during this time, but not being satisfied because my teeth kept slipping off it. There is paint off the ball where I did this.
I could theorize that those memories were first triggered in my adult life, by the fact the doll is still around. Much like a smell will remind you of a place or a person. I think we store more than we are able to recall, and it is the ability to recall things that we think of when we discuss our earliest memories.
Have you done any research on hypnosis and memory recall?
Yea there is a strategy, get lucky and get the elves, get to starfall, and win the game.
I have no idea how this game won. I have played it through the entire single player, and logged over 100 multi player games with close friends, (up to 6 way FFA's) and in all our opinions this just was not the game it could have been. Good but not great. Best of the year, no.
Have a system that requires you to send value with each e-mail. Have this system close to revenue neutral. When you receive letters with a fee attached, that value gets added to your account. So if you have an even amount of traffic, you pay nothing. That way mailing lists to things like bake sales etc, can simply request a reply, and re-fill their account.
It would also at least give people something for all the spam in their boxes, as a person could withdraw from the system at any time.
Just a thought
Oh my. I just got it.
This is a troll.
To bad I was stupid enough to fall for it, TWICE!
Shows that some people just arn't ready for the wide open net.
True the responsibility ultimately lies with the parent, however many parents don't even know where to start with monitoring their kids on the net. Are you saying that the children of technically challenged parents should have no guidance at all, and be thrown into the fray without any protection? You may personally think it gives a false sense of security, and it does to some extent. It is still better than pushing a kid into the deep end of the pool and walking away, just to see if he can swim.
And what is to stop a predator from showing up at some message board on a .kids.us site?
Nothing more that would stop a predator from stalking kids on a play ground.
The point is this kind of censorship is more like requiring an adult video store to block its windows so kids can't easily look in, rather than letting them put the words "Kids Candy Play Palace" in bright letters with cartoons of naked people on all the windows.
People need to stop raising such gullible children, The world contains bad things, and everyone has to learn how to deal with them.
Simple question, at what age do you figure kids will know how to deal with bad things.
Kids are innocent in general, and have to be told "look both ways before crossing the street" and "don't talk to strangers".
The simple fact is that a majority of parents aren't cluefull enough about the internet to know to say "don't click the warning banners" or "don't just type in URL's, you must use google to make sure it's safe to go".
There are plenty of examples of predators on the counting on clueless behavior and innocent mistakes like mistyping a friendly URL.
Kids need to be protected without infringing on everyone elses right to view what they want, this is a very good attempt to do just that.
Up here in Canada, I had a similar experience with Shaw. In order to prevent them putting whatever software they wanted to install on my system, I had to sign a waiver for each component they wanted to install, saying that I took personal responsibility for the installation. I wasn't required to install them, but if things didn't work it was my problem.
Now I'm on DSL, and those guys just hand you a box, a disk, and if you want, with a call to customer support, a webpage. This lets you set up the hookup without any of their software installed. You even get to dictate/change the MAC address the modem recognizes as valid.
This will never work.
I looked into this once and it is impossible. Because of ISP's like AOL, and the cable modem people, there is no way to authenticate any IP address. Their cache systems are so bad. I had a friend of mine on cable hit a test page, and the cable company accessed the data from a different IP address for EACH GRAPHIC, and dumped it into their cache, before sending it to my friend. I had 9 different IP addresses from one page request.
Not exactly a unique way of identifying someone.
It does not require that the govenment step it, it requires they step out. It's only because of the government sanctioned IP restrictions that patents like this exist. If the govenment dissolved these types of patents they would be less involved in the process, not more.
As long as people continue to contribute, and they will for quite some time regardless of the $$ involved, Linux will grow and mature. As long as Linux continues to develop, it gets closer to certainty, that someone will build a business model that uses the advantages of free software, to turn a proffit with a complementary product.
Pairing with a high value, low price complementary product is a standard tool for successfull business models everywhere.
How much would you pay for a burner if blank CD's we $20 each.
How much will you pay for your PC when you can't avoid paying Microsoft for every line of code on your system?
Here is a link to a clip of a "User who attacked".
This Link shows the timeline for Narnia.
I have no idea if C.S. Lewis thought the books should be read out of chronological order or not, but the current order is in the correct chronology.
This class distinction and repressed state is now totally possible without the unnecessary burning of GNP. In fact the opposite is true. The fault in Orwell's assumption was that you required direct repression to hold down those of a lower class. That once wealth was nearly universal the purpose of a high class was eliminated and would be naturally removed.
This is not the case.
You rebel against a system that you feel you have cause to rebel against, but if few feel the need to rebel, the high class will remain intact. When harm is only apparent to a few and the rest of the society is allowed to have a high level of wealth, the apathy will keep the people more in line than scarcity of wealth and force ever could.
Just what percent of the US even votes anymore, and how many people even care about it?
Where does Encryption come into play with say snail mail? If anything is being tracked it is the source and destination of the package. I have not heard (Yet) of any attempt by the government to let the post office open every snail mail, and read it's contents. Why? Perhaps they don't need to, until they decide your really worth looking at, and get a court order.
Even non-tech people fully understand how much of an intrusion the opening of their letters to Aunt Sally would be, they would never support it. Encryption is just not main stream enough, and is missunderstood by most people. This makes it is easier to convince people that it is dangerous, and needs to be regulated.
As a Point of referance, I was watching up here in Canada on the TLC (The Learning Channel), that quite regularly the shuttle missions will have to re-direct course, or rotate the ship for component/people safety when approching space debris. According to the show, any object larger than say a computer mouse is currently being tracked.