I can't speak for all the US, but my at the time ISP's sysadmin said that napster (this was back before they became the RIAA's prison bitch) alone was chewing up 1/3 of the total bandwidth used.
Whichever "police" agency they have the most monitary influence in, in whatever country. Ain't corporate policing grand? It may be the first system to establish world wide rule. To bad it'll be simply a corporate twist on a global police state.
I pleadge alegence to the flag, which is copywrited, patented, and trademarked by Liberty OmniCorp, 2002, of the United Corporate States of America, and to the corporate republic, for which it stands, one nation, under CEO, with power and profits for big business.
...an hyperbole, yes. But it seems to be getting closer and closer to the hyperbole with frightening speed.
...got bought by universal after universal successfully sued the crap out of it with the other labels. Then they jacked the prices to regular low end CD prices. I consider mp3.com tainted now. I have not purchased any more CD's since universal's aquasition of it.
For the record, I do pay attention to slashdot banner ads and have clicked on them before when I was interested in what was advertised. This is one of the few sites where I actually do click on ads because they don't go out of their way to annoy the fuck out of me by trying to:
1. Popup 2. Popunder 3. Resize to full screen and hide all buttons 4. Spawn even more ads 5. Move around the screen so I can't click the close button 6. Eat up 90% of my system resourses and often crashing windows by using some shitty flash/java advertisement 7. Attempt to autoinstall spyware repeatedly 8. Play sound at the loudest posible volume and keep the distortion just low enough to where you can understand what is being said. 9. Follow my mouse around 10. Reset my homepage/searchpage 11. Flash bright, highcontrast colors and jitters.
Heh, unemployed since May(May was when I last went to college). Plenty of people want help fixing/troubleshooting/upgrading their PCs and coding custom apps/utilities. No one seems to want to pay me for it though.:/
I might just have to take a job at the campus food courts or something for $5.50 an hour part time. Something has to pay the rent.
I've noticed, since being at Virginia Tech for a few years, that when the CS and CPE students fail, they transfer and graduate with a Management Science diploma. In, addition, the people that are just at college to party, but want something other than a Liberal Arts diploma also take this route.
Anyone else find it funny that these are the people that end up managing the CS and CPE graduates when they get a job after college? Maybe this is the reason why management sucks so much.
OK, don't bother with the ICP flames, I'm only using this as an example...
...anyways, they claim that after everyone finishes taking their cut of the money on the t-shirts, they actually end up _paying_ ~$2.50 on every ICP t-shirt sold.
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Disgusting. I can say I will never think of Cisco the same way again. What if the US decided they needed to "monitor" citizen Internet communications? Would Cisco step up with one of their enterprise level solutions?
Umm...since when did the US _not_ monitor its communications to spy on its own citizens? Cellphone, telephone, and very likely a large portion of inter and trans-US internet traffic is monitored by varius intelligence agencies.
...then there is the european one(I can't remember the name right off, "Echelon" maybe?), and god only knows how many others. If you ever catch the interest of anyone in your gov, your privacy is basically phucked.
Maybe I'm just fundamentally stupid or something but...
I'd be much more concerned about voting for MS if I worked there and my boss had a good chance of finding out, and I'd end up being laid off for not "being a team player." I feel alot more comfortable voting anti-nix in some anonymous poll and worked on an open source project. This is because I doubt the project leader is monitoring my net activity. And I don't have to worry that he might be looking over my shoulder. Even then, its not like its _my source of income_ at stake. Is my point plain enough now?
Oh, and before you call me some Linux zealot or something, I typing this in IE 5.0 on Windows 98SE on my personal box communicating to the internet via an NT 4.0 Firewall I administrate. To my left is a Windows 95 box and to my right is a MacOS 9 box with Debian for PPC installed on it as well.
Yeah, but Linus or one other high up people in the Linux/Unix community isn't looking over your shoulder, waiting to boot you out of the community for "voting the wrong way."
1. I'd join some underground group that messes with the source code...probably to debug it. It would be nice to have a version of windows that if it does something to piss me off I can actually fix the code itself....maybe help WINE out, too.
2. I wonder how long MS will put it off either to just make the Judge give up with infinate appeals or just to modify the source code to hide the crap they put in it. Oh, and which version of windows would they release the code for.
3. I wonder how much is written in VB.;P
After the Comlimbine(SP?) + varius others school scare thing a while back, I recall seeing on the news about some kid who joked about wanting to burn down his school on his website. The feddies raided his house, swipped his box, and told the news they found "bomb making materials" in his house. And I also recall the half a second flash on the TV screen of those "Bomb making materials" which looked like only a small box with a few loose wires and batteries in it. I might be wrong, but I didn't have time to analize the entire contents of the box in that half a second flash. Never mind the news spent at least a minute on the story and apparently only had enough time to flash what the kid actually had on the screen so fast people couldn't ID what the stuff even was.;P
If you have these items in your house, you have bomb making materials:
Batteries
Wire
bottles
pvc pipe
anything remotely flamable, as itself or in combination
anything remotely toxic, that can be easily publically distributed. (bleach and ammonia for example, never mix them)
Illegal firecrackers
The Alien Sedition Acts made the advocation of the violent overthrough of the government illegal. If I recall the information of the acts correctly, the language used is broad enough to basically make it illegal to say anything that pisses the government off; And it makes it punishable by imprisonment, and when the US is in a war, execution.This law was passed to give the police the legal right to squash anti-government protesters at the time who believed they had the 1st Amendment right to do so.
The idea basically is, one has the right to say whatever they want, but must take responcibility for it, and then basically likening such speach to a weapon.
...except for the individual programmers and small companies that can't afford to pay the $20,000+ per patent.
I have some ideas for inventions myself. But, since I can't patent them, I'm not even willing to test them, or try to get a investor to help with the patent, because some big corp would probably patent it out from under me if it had any real value; And then it sue me into the ground because I can't afford any kind of legal despute if I tried to make my own invention.
God bless America, Land of the Free (Corporations)
I'd say, "One can only hope..." except that AOL/Time Warner would probably buy the rights and then we'd all end up with the same problem under a different name.;P
Oh, so you have nothing to hide from anyone else? Ok, give me your credit card #'s, bank account #'s, a high resolution copy of your written signature, your ID#, your photo, and your address so I can put a spycam in your shower.;P
Oh, as for my contact information, just ask your friends in the government. I'm the pervert that complains everytime a new censorship law is passed.
It is also possible Joe and Jane Blow don't want to register a domain and having every company with a trademark/product/copyright that even comes close to the domain name from sueing the crap out of them?
If its one thing I've learned after pissing away $20,000 after 2.5 years, its that college has very little to do with the aquasistion of knowledge. What you already know will be of little help, and in fact will make the classes that much more boring. The main thing college CS is designed for is to see how much BS you can put up with, not what you know. This makes it unlikely that you will be able to get out of much more that 1 and a half semesters of classes by cleping out of them.
I finally decided to quit after realizing the majority of the time that I was supposed to be using on doing homework was being used instead by me going info-mining looking for some scrap of new information, especially information the professors and TA's out-right refused to even talk about, even though the information would be on topic for the class.
It seems like University CS departments have become corporate meat-grinders, they just happen to teach a little along the way. I have been told by people in the feild the corps spend about 9 months teaching the grads what they universities _should_ have taught them.
Maybe the diplomas should say "I can put up with 4 years of BS in CS without losing it.":/
Configurable logic boards have been around for a while, the main problem is cost. Last I heard, you could get one that could be configured into a 386 for about $2000 but that was a few years ago.
It would be great if they could do stuff like program the chip into a divx decoder when you play a divx or an processor dedicated to executeing the 3d graphics engine when playing a game.
Slashdot Mirror
I can't speak for all the US, but my at the time ISP's sysadmin said that napster (this was back before they became the RIAA's prison bitch) alone was chewing up 1/3 of the total bandwidth used.
I pleadge alegence to the flag, which is copywrited, patented, and trademarked by Liberty OmniCorp, 2002, of the United Corporate States of America, and to the corporate republic, for which it stands, one nation, under CEO, with power and profits for big business.
...an hyperbole, yes. But it seems to be getting closer and closer to the hyperbole with frightening speed.
...got bought by universal after universal successfully sued the crap out of it with the other labels. Then they jacked the prices to regular low end CD prices. I consider mp3.com tainted now. I have not purchased any more CD's since universal's aquasition of it.
For the record, I do pay attention to slashdot banner ads and have clicked on them before when I was interested in what was advertised. This is one of the few sites where I actually do click on ads because they don't go out of their way to annoy the fuck out of me by trying to:
;P
1. Popup
2. Popunder
3. Resize to full screen and hide all buttons
4. Spawn even more ads
5. Move around the screen so I can't click the close button
6. Eat up 90% of my system resourses and often crashing windows by using some shitty flash/java advertisement
7. Attempt to autoinstall spyware repeatedly
8. Play sound at the loudest posible volume and keep the distortion just low enough to where you can understand what is being said.
9. Follow my mouse around
10. Reset my homepage/searchpage
11. Flash bright, highcontrast colors and jitters.
Am I forgetting anything?
I might just have to take a job at the campus food courts or something for $5.50 an hour part time. Something has to pay the rent.
Anyone else find it funny that these are the people that end up managing the CS and CPE graduates when they get a job after college? Maybe this is the reason why management sucks so much.
...anyways, they claim that after everyone finishes taking their cut of the money on the t-shirts, they actually end up _paying_ ~$2.50 on every ICP t-shirt sold.
They're only honest and fair when they can make/save more money by doing so.
Umm...since when did the US _not_ monitor its communications to spy on its own citizens? Cellphone, telephone, and very likely a large portion of inter and trans-US internet traffic is monitored by varius intelligence agencies.
...then there is the european one(I can't remember the name right off, "Echelon" maybe?), and god only knows how many others. If you ever catch the interest of anyone in your gov, your privacy is basically phucked.
Now I feel sorry for all those emails I undoubtedly caused by registering as "blow@me.org" ;P
I'd be much more concerned about voting for MS if I worked there and my boss had a good chance of finding out, and I'd end up being laid off for not "being a team player." I feel alot more comfortable voting anti-nix in some anonymous poll and worked on an open source project. This is because I doubt the project leader is monitoring my net activity. And I don't have to worry that he might be looking over my shoulder. Even then, its not like its _my source of income_ at stake. Is my point plain enough now?
Oh, and before you call me some Linux zealot or something, I typing this in IE 5.0 on Windows 98SE on my personal box communicating to the internet via an NT 4.0 Firewall I administrate. To my left is a Windows 95 box and to my right is a MacOS 9 box with Debian for PPC installed on it as well.
Goodbye. Have a nice day.
Yeah, but Linus or one other high up people in the Linux/Unix community isn't looking over your shoulder, waiting to boot you out of the community for "voting the wrong way."
1. I'd join some underground group that messes with the source code...probably to debug it. It would be nice to have a version of windows that if it does something to piss me off I can actually fix the code itself. ...maybe help WINE out, too.
2. I wonder how long MS will put it off either to just make the Judge give up with infinate appeals or just to modify the source code to hide the crap they put in it. Oh, and which version of windows would they release the code for.
3. I wonder how much is written in VB. ;P
*wonders if over 50% of the pro-ms votes originate from the Remond, Washington area _again_.*
If you have these items in your house, you have bomb making materials:
Batteries
Wire
bottles
pvc pipe
anything remotely flamable, as itself or in combination
anything remotely toxic, that can be easily publically distributed. (bleach and ammonia for example, never mix them)
Illegal firecrackers
The idea basically is, one has the right to say whatever they want, but must take responcibility for it, and then basically likening such speach to a weapon.
I have some ideas for inventions myself. But, since I can't patent them, I'm not even willing to test them, or try to get a investor to help with the patent, because some big corp would probably patent it out from under me if it had any real value; And then it sue me into the ground because I can't afford any kind of legal despute if I tried to make my own invention.
God bless America, Land of the Free (Corporations)
...and good luck! :)
The com.com does seem fishy, but then why would the actual zdnet.com website link to it?
I'd say, "One can only hope..." except that AOL/Time Warner would probably buy the rights and then we'd all end up with the same problem under a different name. ;P
Oh, so you have nothing to hide from anyone else? Ok, give me your credit card #'s, bank account #'s, a high resolution copy of your written signature, your ID#, your photo, and your address so I can put a spycam in your shower. ;P
Oh, as for my contact information, just ask your friends in the government. I'm the pervert that complains everytime a new censorship law is passed.
It is also possible Joe and Jane Blow don't want to register a domain and having every company with a trademark/product/copyright that even comes close to the domain name from sueing the crap out of them?
If its one thing I've learned after pissing away $20,000 after 2.5 years, its that college has very little to do with the aquasistion of knowledge. What you already know will be of little help, and in fact will make the classes that much more boring. The main thing college CS is designed for is to see how much BS you can put up with, not what you know. This makes it unlikely that you will be able to get out of much more that 1 and a half semesters of classes by cleping out of them.
:/
I finally decided to quit after realizing the majority of the time that I was supposed to be using on doing homework was being used instead by me going info-mining looking for some scrap of new information, especially information the professors and TA's out-right refused to even talk about, even though the information would be on topic for the class.
It seems like University CS departments have become corporate meat-grinders, they just happen to teach a little along the way. I have been told by people in the feild the corps spend about 9 months teaching the grads what they universities _should_ have taught them.
Maybe the diplomas should say "I can put up with 4 years of BS in CS without losing it."
...between 5 and 5:30 am EDT. Anyone else care to take a shot at about how many they saw per hour at peak?
Configurable logic boards have been around for a while, the main problem is cost. Last I heard, you could get one that could be configured into a 386 for about $2000 but that was a few years ago. It would be great if they could do stuff like program the chip into a divx decoder when you play a divx or an processor dedicated to executeing the 3d graphics engine when playing a game.