Really. NSI would be pissed about a world government only if it wasn't them. NSI and its current and former lackeys are just upset about having their authority challenged. They like their big, fat monopoly and will run over your grandmother to keep it. The CTO's name wasn't "Montgomery C. Burns," was it?
Just look at how they're "managing" the.us domain, and then think about switching to any other registrar on the planet. Email contact only, their forms don't fill out themselves from WHOIS, and "please allow six weeks for a response." Even if the response is "you forgot a field, try again." Their phone number says all transactions will be conducted via email only, and then hangs up. It would take me less time to drive up there (from N.C.) and kick someone's ass than to wait for their email "process" to work itself out. Lately, I had to call into the regular Verisign/NSI number and hound my way up the chain of command to get a simple change made to a.us domain -- adding a secondary name server.
Contrast that with DomainMonger, where I can make changes in five minutes by myself. And pay less for being able to do so than with an NSI.com/net/org domain. Heck, NSI should turn the.us domain over to OpenSRS/Tucows. It would be better, even with a fee attached to.us domains. Hell, I'd be HAPPY to pay a fee if OpenSRS took it over.
II Kings 6:28,29 "And the king said unto her, What aileth thee? And she answered, This woman said unto me, Give thy son, that we may eat him to day, and we will eat my son to morrow. So we boiled my son, and did eat him: and I said unto her on the next day, Give thy son, that we may eat him: and she hath hid her son."
Luke 14:26 (Jesus speaking) "If any man come to me, and hate not his father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brethren, and sisters, yea, and his own life also, he cannot be my disciple."
Matthew 10:34-36 "Think not that I am come to send peace on earth: I came not to send peace, but a sword. For I am come to set a man at variance against his father, and the daughter against her mother, and the daughter in law against her mother in law. And a man's foes shall be they of his own household."
Judges 19:24-29 "Behold, here is my daughter a maiden, and his concubine; them I will bring out now, and humble ye them, and do with them what seemeth good unto you: but unto this man do not so vile a thing. But the men would not hearken to him: so the man took his concubine, and brought her forth unto them; and they knew her, and abused her all the night until the morning: and when the day began to spring, they let her go. Then came the woman in the dawning of the day, and fell down at the door of the man's house where her lord was, till it was light. And her lord rose up in the morning, and opened the doors of the house, and went out to go his way: and behold, the woman his concubine was fallen down at the door of the house, and her hands were upon the threshold. And he said unto her, Up, and let us be going. But none answered. Then the man took her up upon an ass, and the man rose up, and gat him unto his place. And when he was come into his house, he took a knife, and laid hold on his concubine, and divided her, together with her bones, into twelve pieces, and sent her into all the coasts of Israel."
Genesis 38:8-10 "And Judah said unto Onan, Go in unto thy brother's wife, and marry her, and raise up seed to thy brother. And Onan knew that the seed should not be his; and it came to pass, when he went in unto his brother's wife, that he spilled it on the ground, lest that he should give seed to his brother. And the thing which he did displeased the Lord: wherefore he slew him also."
Numbers 31:18 (Moses to his soldiers) "But all the women children, that have not known a man by lying with him, keep alive for yourselves."
Solomon's Song 5:4 "My beloved put in his hand by the hole of the door, and my bowels were moved for him. I rose up to open to my beloved; and my hands dropped with myrrh, and my fingers with sweet smelling myrrh, upon the handles of the lock. I opened to my beloved; but my beloved had withdrawn himself, and was gone: my soul failed when he spake: I sought him, but I could not find him; I called him, but he gave me no answer."
Has anyone here read The Transparent Society by David Brin? He presents the interesting tactic of demanding "reciprocal transparency." I.e., if the state/a company/a person/etc. demands that you give up some personal information, demand that they do as well.
He covered the idea of ubiquitous cameras in some of his other books -- his version of cheap cameras were called "TruVue."
Essentially, the idea is, i the government gets to spy on you, you get to spy on the government.
He also advocated citizen teams that were given free passes into any area of government, at any time, for six month (or was it week) periods. See and hear whatever you want. Surprise people. Ater all, the government gave itself the authority to do that to you.
I was at "DollyWorld" the first month or so that Dolly Parton owned it. It used to be "Silver Dollar City." For those of you not from the southern U.S., it's a theme park. Anyway, Dolly Parton songs were being radiated continuously from the park's hidden sound systems.
Dolly had a new water ride installed. When they fired it up the first time, it knocked out power for the whole park. Which caused the music to go silent. Which caused everyone to cheer:)
Most US users see.com and.org as US TLDs and have never heard of.us.
Well, that's at least in part because the.us domain is administered very poorly. Network Solutions "runs" it, and they quite simply don't give a shit about it. Their turn-around time is six weeks per email request.
Plus, the.US domain has a rigid heirarchy forced onto it, where than smallest domain name available to a business is something like eds-paint-shop.ithaca.ny.us... plus, the.us domain is required to be run for free. Not just non-profit, but free. You have to delegate to anyone who wants a domain, at no charge. I'm not opposed to this on a personal level (as a.us domain registrar), but it does remove any profit motive. Also, if they allowed shorter domains, like "eds-paint.com.us" as other countries do, it might be more popular.
Plus, the Internet began in the U.S., so people have grown accustomed to it being an American network. Our federal government uses.gov, not.gov.us, etc. Not ideal, but historical.
But as long as name.city.state.us is enforced as the only legit use of t he.us domain, it's probably remain that way.
Oh, LORDY, is Verisign/Netsol SLACK about dealing with the.US domain. I'm the registrar for one domain, and they hav a single email form, which no longer fills itself out from whois, for all chanes of any type. All requests must be made by email, and will be answered within six weeks! The service is 1000% poorer than when one secretary ran it at ISU. Netsol makes no money from the.US domain, and therefore doesn't give a fried fart about maintaining it.
Suppose you make a mistake on the form. Wait up to six weeks for feedback, and then resubmit. Repeat! Fuckers! I have a situation right now where the primary DNS for a.us domain is located in a company that's undergoing bankruptcy. I have to get it moved out. Moving the equipment and/or zone is easy. But I have to wait up to six weeks for Network Delusions to yank their coporate thumb out of their subsidized butthole for the domain to be fixed. Contrast this to pretty much ANY OpenSRS registrar (such as DomainMomnger), where I could make the change in 5 minutes by myself. I even called NetSol's US domain "department" and the only help available is a recorded message saying everything must be handled via email. WHAT A PATHETIC COMPANY!
Verisign/Netsol needs to be voted off the island! With a baseball bat!
Has Slashdot been contacted by THEM or something? Suddenly we're worrying about whether THEY get civil rights, how to integrate with THEIR technology, "politics without geographic boundaries" (clearly a reference to the impending colinial government of earth), "Slashdot during wartime," and even "What PDA do you think the Alien Overlords will prefer?"
WILL SOMEBODY CLUE ME IN, or at least get me a job with the Alien I.T. Department? My company just went bankrupt... or did it? MAYBE it's a plot by THEM to get me to turn against MY PLANET! BASTARDS!
Uh, Xenex, the GPL means they cannot simply copy the CODE, without also GPLing their version of it.
As fasr as looking at it and using the information about the hardware it enshrines, anyone can do that, without any encumberance by the GPL, or any other license.
If it wasn't for them marketing people who you think do nothing your company would not have any customers and you wouldn't have a job
Ah, yes, the sales people are useful. But no one ever accuses Marketing of "doing nothing." It's usually accusations of doing too much of the wrong thing. Most of the boneheaded things that a company does seem to come from the marketing department. There seems to be a lot of hubris in most marketing departments.
It's not as if "Marketing" hasn't earned their reputation over and over again by rushing product, lying about product, spending a zillion dollars on 6-color glossy ads for unfinished products while engineering lacks resources to finish them, calling up competitors and alerting them early to the company's new product, etc.
But Hey! They're beautiful people making beautiful things, and they know better than the engineers and finance people what should be going on.
I know of a certain marketing department for an ISP that designed the company website to work only with IE5.5+ and Netscape 6 with flash plugins. The whole thing was basically a powerpoint presentation. Fixed layout, annoying navigation, the whole package. When the engineers pointed out that they were effectively shutting out 20% of the company's customer base, and probably annoying the rest, the response was, simply, "we don't care; the website is for CEOs. They all have Windows with IE and want presentations."
Engineering produced a version of the website's HTML that was also backwards compatible in an afternoon, and forced marketing to use it.
Nobody can access it, nobody can steal it (presumably), and nobody can copy it. It's a resource (a 'currency' file) that sits there, on your own system, ad infinitum
Ugh... barf. And if my hard drive goes bad, or my memory goes bad, or my processor goes bad, etc. I've lot.. what was it? $54,000. And because these "secure PCs" cannot be backed up, it is simply gone forever. Trust, me, if I was forced to use this thing, and it lost $54,000 irretrievably, or even inconveniently, I would load the thing up with explosives and hand-deliver it through the front window at Microsoft.
Secure PC is a bad idea, no matter how you cut it. They are offering to sell you less freedom. For the low, low price of $bondage!
It's not useless because it has a small screen. Palms aren't useless. People even buy Nokias and little WiNCE and EPOC devices with miniature keyboards and tiny screens.
The price they charged for the things was too high. Just like the article said, "There's an emachine, cheaper, right next to the Audrey display." But "close-out prices" may make it worthwhile. Any leads? Email me or post them!
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Are you also "religion major" and "ethics major"?
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Heh. It's about time we all admitted that the Palm Pilot is a game boy in business attire. :)
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Yeah! In fact, I graduated from NC State, used to work there, and may work there again shortly. :) I'm interviewing for "Systems Programmer II"...
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I'm guessing that's because RMS isn't the absolutist zealot that a lot of people make him out to be. :)
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Oh wait. "Former NSI CTO". I Have Been Trolled.
.us domain, and then think about switching to any other registrar on the planet. Email contact only, their forms don't fill out themselves from WHOIS, and "please allow six weeks for a response." Even if the response is "you forgot a field, try again." Their phone number says all transactions will be conducted via email only, and then hangs up. It would take me less time to drive up there (from N.C.) and kick someone's ass than to wait for their email "process" to work itself out. Lately, I had to call into the regular Verisign/NSI number and hound my way up the chain of command to get a simple change made to a .us domain -- adding a secondary name server.
.com/net/org domain. Heck, NSI should turn the .us domain over to OpenSRS/Tucows. It would be better, even with a fee attached to .us domains. Hell, I'd be HAPPY to pay a fee if OpenSRS took it over.
Really. NSI would be pissed about a world government only if it wasn't them. NSI and its current and former lackeys are just upset about having their authority challenged. They like their big, fat monopoly and will run over your grandmother to keep it. The CTO's name wasn't "Montgomery C. Burns," was it?
Just look at how they're "managing" the
Contrast that with DomainMonger, where I can make changes in five minutes by myself. And pay less for being able to do so than with an NSI
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Mmmm... vi with clippy. Wasn't there a User Friendly cartoon series about Pitr doing just that?
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Look what I found on the Internet! ;)
II Kings 6:28,29 "And the king said unto her, What aileth thee? And she answered, This woman said unto me, Give thy son, that we may eat him to day, and we will eat my son to morrow. So we boiled my son, and did eat him: and I said unto her on the next day, Give thy son, that we may eat him: and she hath hid her son."
Luke 14:26 (Jesus speaking) "If any man come to me, and hate not his father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brethren, and sisters, yea, and his own life also, he cannot be my disciple."
Matthew 10:34-36 "Think not that I am come to send peace on earth: I came not to send peace, but a sword. For I am come to set a man at variance against his father, and the daughter against her mother, and the daughter in law against her mother in law. And a man's foes shall be they of his own household."
Judges 19:24-29 "Behold, here is my daughter a maiden, and his concubine; them I will bring out now, and humble ye them, and do with them what seemeth good unto you: but unto this man do not so vile a thing. But the men would not hearken to him: so the man took his concubine, and brought her forth unto them; and they knew her, and abused her all the night until the morning: and when the day began to spring, they let her go. Then came the woman in the dawning of the day, and fell down at the door of the man's house where her lord was, till it was light. And her lord rose up in the morning, and opened the doors of the house, and went out to go his way: and behold, the woman his concubine was fallen down at the door of the house, and her hands were upon the threshold. And he said unto her, Up, and let us be going. But none answered. Then the man took her up upon an ass, and the man rose up, and gat him unto his place. And when he was come into his house, he took a knife, and laid hold on his concubine, and divided her, together with her bones, into twelve pieces, and sent her into all the coasts of Israel."
Genesis 38:8-10 "And Judah said unto Onan, Go in unto thy brother's wife, and marry her, and raise up seed to thy brother. And Onan knew that the seed should not be his; and it came to pass, when he went in unto his brother's wife, that he spilled it on the ground, lest that he should give seed to his brother. And the thing which he did displeased the Lord: wherefore he slew him also."
Numbers 31:18 (Moses to his soldiers) "But all the women children, that have not known a man by lying with him, keep alive for yourselves."
Solomon's Song 5:4 "My beloved put in his hand by the hole of the door, and my bowels were moved for him. I rose up to open to my beloved; and my hands dropped with myrrh, and my fingers with sweet smelling myrrh, upon the handles of the lock. I opened to my beloved; but my beloved had withdrawn himself, and was gone: my soul failed when he spake: I sought him, but I could not find him; I called him, but he gave me no answer."
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Has anyone here read The Transparent Society by David Brin? He presents the interesting tactic of demanding "reciprocal transparency." I.e., if the state/a company/a person/etc. demands that you give up some personal information, demand that they do as well.
He covered the idea of ubiquitous cameras in some of his other books -- his version of cheap cameras were called "TruVue."
Essentially, the idea is, i the government gets to spy on you, you get to spy on the government.
He also advocated citizen teams that were given free passes into any area of government, at any time, for six month (or was it week) periods. See and hear whatever you want. Surprise people. Ater all, the government gave itself the authority to do that to you.
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Julian Jaynes has an interesting take on the creation of religion in his book, The Origins of Conciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind.
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I was at "DollyWorld" the first month or so that Dolly Parton owned it. It used to be "Silver Dollar City." For those of you not from the southern U.S., it's a theme park. Anyway, Dolly Parton songs were being radiated continuously from the park's hidden sound systems.
:)
Dolly had a new water ride installed. When they fired it up the first time, it knocked out power for the whole park. Which caused the music to go silent. Which caused everyone to cheer
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Er... okay.
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Most US users see .com and .org as US TLDs and have never heard of .us.
.us domain is administered very poorly. Network Solutions "runs" it, and they quite simply don't give a shit about it. Their turn-around time is six weeks per email request.
.US domain has a rigid heirarchy forced onto it, where than smallest domain name available to a business is something like eds-paint-shop.ithaca.ny.us ... plus, the .us domain is required to be run for free. Not just non-profit, but free. You have to delegate to anyone who wants a domain, at no charge. I'm not opposed to this on a personal level (as a .us domain registrar), but it does remove any profit motive. Also, if they allowed shorter domains, like "eds-paint.com.us" as other countries do, it might be more popular.
.gov, not .gov.us, etc. Not ideal, but historical.
.us domain, it's probably remain that way.
Well, that's at least in part because the
Plus, the
Plus, the Internet began in the U.S., so people have grown accustomed to it being an American network. Our federal government uses
But as long as name.city.state.us is enforced as the only legit use of t he
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Well, well, well... looks like the free economy doesn't work at all
ACTUALLY, when John Postel and the universities ran it -- "for free" -- it worked great.
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Oh, LORDY, is Verisign/Netsol SLACK about dealing with the .US domain. I'm the registrar for one domain, and they hav a single email form, which no longer fills itself out from whois, for all chanes of any type. All requests must be made by email, and will be answered within six weeks! The service is 1000% poorer than when one secretary ran it at ISU. Netsol makes no money from the .US domain, and therefore doesn't give a fried fart about maintaining it.
.us domain is located in a company that's undergoing bankruptcy. I have to get it moved out. Moving the equipment and/or zone is easy. But I have to wait up to six weeks for Network Delusions to yank their coporate thumb out of their subsidized butthole for the domain to be fixed. Contrast this to pretty much ANY OpenSRS registrar (such as DomainMomnger), where I could make the change in 5 minutes by myself. I even called NetSol's US domain "department" and the only help available is a recorded message saying everything must be handled via email. WHAT A PATHETIC COMPANY!
Suppose you make a mistake on the form. Wait up to six weeks for feedback, and then resubmit. Repeat! Fuckers! I have a situation right now where the primary DNS for a
Verisign/Netsol needs to be voted off the island! With a baseball bat!
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Hey -- he's right. The only danger I see here -- in "wave power" or anything else -- is that my eyes are going to stab my brain to death.
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Has Slashdot been contacted by THEM or something? Suddenly we're worrying about whether THEY get civil rights, how to integrate with THEIR technology, "politics without geographic boundaries" (clearly a reference to the impending colinial government of earth), "Slashdot during wartime," and even "What PDA do you think the Alien Overlords will prefer?"
WILL SOMEBODY CLUE ME IN, or at least get me a job with the Alien I.T. Department? My company just went bankrupt... or did it? MAYBE it's a plot by THEM to get me to turn against MY PLANET! BASTARDS!
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Uh, Xenex, the GPL means they cannot simply copy the CODE, without also GPLing their version of it.
As fasr as looking at it and using the information about the hardware it enshrines, anyone can do that, without any encumberance by the GPL, or any other license.
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It's unix-like, but single user only. Forks, execs, etc. all there.
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If it wasn't for them marketing people who you think do nothing your company would not have any customers and you wouldn't have a job
Ah, yes, the sales people are useful. But no one ever accuses Marketing of "doing nothing." It's usually accusations of doing too much of the wrong thing. Most of the boneheaded things that a company does seem to come from the marketing department. There seems to be a lot of hubris in most marketing departments.
It's not as if "Marketing" hasn't earned their reputation over and over again by rushing product, lying about product, spending a zillion dollars on 6-color glossy ads for unfinished products while engineering lacks resources to finish them, calling up competitors and alerting them early to the company's new product, etc.
But Hey! They're beautiful people making beautiful things, and they know better than the engineers and finance people what should be going on.
I know of a certain marketing department for an ISP that designed the company website to work only with IE5.5+ and Netscape 6 with flash plugins. The whole thing was basically a powerpoint presentation. Fixed layout, annoying navigation, the whole package. When the engineers pointed out that they were effectively shutting out 20% of the company's customer base, and probably annoying the rest, the response was, simply, "we don't care; the website is for CEOs. They all have Windows with IE and want presentations."
Engineering produced a version of the website's HTML that was also backwards compatible in an afternoon, and forced marketing to use it.
Marketing should not run the show.
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> a driver for my Netmate USB -> Ethernet
Since it's 10Mbps only, it's probably kawasaki-based. Try the "kaweth" driver at http://kaweth.sourceforge.net/
... there is also an updated version in the 2.4 "ac" series of kernels.
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Nobody can access it, nobody can steal it (presumably), and nobody can copy it. It's a resource (a 'currency' file) that sits there, on your own system, ad infinitum
Ugh... barf. And if my hard drive goes bad, or my memory goes bad, or my processor goes bad, etc. I've lot.. what was it? $54,000. And because these "secure PCs" cannot be backed up, it is simply gone forever. Trust, me, if I was forced to use this thing, and it lost $54,000 irretrievably, or even inconveniently, I would load the thing up with explosives and hand-deliver it through the front window at Microsoft.
Secure PC is a bad idea, no matter how you cut it. They are offering to sell you less freedom. For the low, low price of $bondage!
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Not a shadow of a doubt. The question I have is,
Where do I buy one at "close-out prices?"
It's not useless because it has a small screen. Palms aren't useless. People even buy Nokias and little WiNCE and EPOC devices with miniature keyboards and tiny screens.
The price they charged for the things was too high. Just like the article said, "There's an emachine, cheaper, right next to the Audrey display." But "close-out prices" may make it worthwhile. Any leads? Email me or post them!
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There's always Red Carpet, as well... I wonder if it will continue to work for free.
I would encourage people to pay free software companies when possible, so that they stay in business. It's good for us all.
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It is common practice to produce 'estimated-will-look-like' graphics for games as the first stage of greasing the media hype machine
... is it common practice to label doctored images with the legend "Yes, these are actual screenshots?"
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> Xbox isn't out... So what if they paste in trees?
Well, maybe it's because their Xbox site says "Yes, these are actual acreenshots" below the pictures...
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