At first glance, it seems that way. But upon examining the scheme a bit closer, I noticed the caller-ID flaw in the scheme. By exploiting contracts with other local companies to avoid paying their competitors, it looked like local traffic in many cases. The modified ones that made competitors pay, though, were likely slowly increased as time went on. It's definitely a case of severe forgery or fraud of some sort, but it's hard to detect that on a packet. How is one to tell whether a packet was really sent from 214.123.44.53 and not from 23.45.54.138 when on the internet if the packet header was modified? the records of this alone would take up incredible amounts of space per day, not to mention the resources matching up each call daily would take. That'd be like checking the route of every IP packet sent through a point on the backbone each day. Sheer volume gave them enough obfuscation for a long time.
You know, that's actually not a half-bad idea. I'm sure there's at least one space program somewhere that'd love to have it, like the EU. Keep in mind that our "used up" warships after WWII were often sold to other nations to whom they were practically good as new compared to what they had...
I didn't phrase my post very well. Basically, since I'm a Gentoo user, it just makes it even less likely that I'll ever pay much attention to those distros, since not only am I happy where I am, but they don't make it any more difficult than any other program to install it.
I haven't had stability problems with it, and I rather like it better than Mozilla itself. I know it could use some work, but I find it disappointing to know that my favorite browser is being dropped...
That's true, but when you look at the resources required to refine the stuff...(from this site):
Although it is so widely used today, aluminium has only recently come into use. This is because aluminium is so strongly attracted to oxygen that it can only berefined using huge amounts of electrical energy and electricity did not become readily available until this century. Thus, it is sometimes known as the metal of the 20th century, just as iron was the metal of the 19th century.
Although electricity is relatively more plentiful and less expensive than it used to be,refining aluminium from its ore is still a costly process. This is why aluminium is often recycled. This way we do not have to "waste" energy refining more of the metal than we need to.
I don't even have cable anymore. Occasional episode of Daria or M*A*S*H over at the inlaws' house while I'm there, but even then I bring my laptop along and spend the time mostly online anyway...TV just isn't worth my time anymore.
i never said you were. I use a plugin to do it myself, in fact, with my emails. pgp4pine. there are similar for some other programs i'm told. There's more to pgp and gnupg than just command line pain in the ass.
wow. obviously, for windows the gnu zip (gz) is available, as well as for Mac/Linux/BSD natively. Secure? encrypt it with PGP or GnuPG. Problem solved. I'm sure a plugin can be written for the lazy, though.
I liked old school rap, I listened to old school rap. Rock-influenced, rock-sampled, funk-based old school rap. Remember those days? Everyone from the smallest underground to the Beastie Boys' Licensed to Ill used samples like crazy. I don't think anyone would consider Slow Ride to have been Low Rider, but it relied heavily on the signature horn sequence. She's Crafty was based on a Led Zeppelin riff. But it was far from a Led Zeppelin song.
Even Beck, who got a grammy for "Best Album" for his sample-packed album Odelay. He swore he'd never use samples like that again after the pain in the ass of licensing them all. Who can blame him?
You're just being greedy. Just because you won a battle over this subject about 10 to 15 years ago doesn't make your side right, nor does it mean you've won the war. Sampling is a good example of a use under the constitution's "for the advancement of the useful arts" clause for copyright, since they've not stolen your work as a whole, but used a part that inspired them to create more.
This has been a long time coming. Man makes machines to do his work, and man runs out of work to do himself. But the problem is that in a capitalist society, it becomes a way to save money instead of a way to improve life for the people it's relieving. Thus, unless people get a shortened work week or a lightened load as a result of the automation, it's doing far more damage to society than it is good. So it's truly become another case of business versus people.
The only real comfort is that if people can't afford to buy things, the businesses still won't profit. But at that point it becomes a pure absorb-and-consume market rather than a real swirling/flowing capitalist economy...
What we really want is proper manufacturers' drivers for all the chipsets on the board, included on the CD that comes with the motherboard.
No it isn't. What I want are drivers in my kernel, that I can compile with the rest of my kernel, and that I don't have to go to every component's manufacturer's site to get. And in case you haven't noticed, Soyo has been making their boards linux-compliant for a long time now. It's OEM companies that need to be more linux-compliant, and less troublesome with their drivers.
Even reinstalling Windows on a computer which came with a restore partition without using said restore partition to do it is a hassle due to drivers...
is how overall performance compares. I can get a refurbished IBM ThinkPad coming off corporate lease with a Pentium III circa 700MHz, and know for a fact that the motherboard is fast. I've seen too many motherboards not able to handle their speed to give it a lot of credence without proving it. Thinkpad, on the other hand, has been consistently rugged and reliable for me.
Hopefully, the collective mindset that makes americans fear their government will be turned-around, and they will realize that they have far more to fear from the croporations who rule than from their pet minion government...
And MAYBE they will take back democracy from those who have stolen it.
And maybe We The People don't have deep enough pockets to make that happen.
not true. the recipient of email has the right to do with that email as they please. The difference between email and postal mails is that postal mail has a name and address. Without the name portion mandated, the address is all that matters.
the problem is that medical science wants a piece of every pie. By labelling every quirk, they can make people fear that they have something serious and therefore need to go to a doctor. I'm mildly obsessive compulsive, but I don't feel the need to get medical attention for it. In the same way, if i'm using my AIM and IRC while waiting for an email, that doesn't make me any more an addict than someone who gardens while he waits for his lumber for a new fence to arrive.
For some hardware there still is this issue...I'm sitting here on an IBM ThinkPad 600E and my sound doesn't work due to some quirky hardware bug involving how the sound chips were integrated in this model motherboard. Sometime this week I plan to spend an afternoon in #gentoo praying that someone else knows what they're doing and get it running.
thumb buttons on mice suck. They're clumsy and easy to knock. So until you make a mouse that you don't need thumbs to hold steady, it'll never win me over.
you are correct...someone in power needs to remember that if corporations are to be people before the law, they must be equally accountable. Due to not being able to imprison a corporation, one must find a way to do something equally damaging. Perhaps disbanding, or liquidating, or suspending the operations of a company would do the trick. it's time that not only the government, but corporations were by the people for the people. Not in the communist sense, but in the sense that if a company is to exist it must be serving the people's greater good.
less people actually need a new desktop, and more people want a laptop to go to college, to haul around for business, etc. I know since getting my thinkpad (used, not retail) i rarely use my desktop.
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also, they don't compare Windows with how well it works with Linux...so why should I care that the opposite is equally inoperative?
At first glance, it seems that way. But upon examining the scheme a bit closer, I noticed the caller-ID flaw in the scheme. By exploiting contracts with other local companies to avoid paying their competitors, it looked like local traffic in many cases. The modified ones that made competitors pay, though, were likely slowly increased as time went on. It's definitely a case of severe forgery or fraud of some sort, but it's hard to detect that on a packet. How is one to tell whether a packet was really sent from 214.123.44.53 and not from 23.45.54.138 when on the internet if the packet header was modified? the records of this alone would take up incredible amounts of space per day, not to mention the resources matching up each call daily would take. That'd be like checking the route of every IP packet sent through a point on the backbone each day. Sheer volume gave them enough obfuscation for a long time.
You know, that's actually not a half-bad idea. I'm sure there's at least one space program somewhere that'd love to have it, like the EU. Keep in mind that our "used up" warships after WWII were often sold to other nations to whom they were practically good as new compared to what they had...
I didn't phrase my post very well. Basically, since I'm a Gentoo user, it just makes it even less likely that I'll ever pay much attention to those distros, since not only am I happy where I am, but they don't make it any more difficult than any other program to install it.
I haven't had stability problems with it, and I rather like it better than Mozilla itself. I know it could use some work, but I find it disappointing to know that my favorite browser is being dropped...
I don't even have cable anymore. Occasional episode of Daria or M*A*S*H over at the inlaws' house while I'm there, but even then I bring my laptop along and spend the time mostly online anyway...TV just isn't worth my time anymore.
i never said you were. I use a plugin to do it myself, in fact, with my emails. pgp4pine. there are similar for some other programs i'm told. There's more to pgp and gnupg than just command line pain in the ass.
wow. obviously, for windows the gnu zip (gz) is available, as well as for Mac/Linux/BSD natively. Secure? encrypt it with PGP or GnuPG. Problem solved. I'm sure a plugin can be written for the lazy, though.
i've had that many of my ATTEMPTS at installing windows crash, or more. And not even due to user error.
I liked old school rap, I listened to old school rap. Rock-influenced, rock-sampled, funk-based old school rap. Remember those days? Everyone from the smallest underground to the Beastie Boys' Licensed to Ill used samples like crazy. I don't think anyone would consider Slow Ride to have been Low Rider, but it relied heavily on the signature horn sequence. She's Crafty was based on a Led Zeppelin riff. But it was far from a Led Zeppelin song.
Even Beck, who got a grammy for "Best Album" for his sample-packed album Odelay. He swore he'd never use samples like that again after the pain in the ass of licensing them all. Who can blame him?
You're just being greedy. Just because you won a battle over this subject about 10 to 15 years ago doesn't make your side right, nor does it mean you've won the war. Sampling is a good example of a use under the constitution's "for the advancement of the useful arts" clause for copyright, since they've not stolen your work as a whole, but used a part that inspired them to create more.
This has been a long time coming. Man makes machines to do his work, and man runs out of work to do himself. But the problem is that in a capitalist society, it becomes a way to save money instead of a way to improve life for the people it's relieving. Thus, unless people get a shortened work week or a lightened load as a result of the automation, it's doing far more damage to society than it is good. So it's truly become another case of business versus people.
The only real comfort is that if people can't afford to buy things, the businesses still won't profit. But at that point it becomes a pure absorb-and-consume market rather than a real swirling/flowing capitalist economy...
What we really want is proper manufacturers' drivers for all the chipsets on the board, included on the CD that comes with the motherboard.
No it isn't. What I want are drivers in my kernel, that I can compile with the rest of my kernel, and that I don't have to go to every component's manufacturer's site to get. And in case you haven't noticed, Soyo has been making their boards linux-compliant for a long time now. It's OEM companies that need to be more linux-compliant, and less troublesome with their drivers.
Even reinstalling Windows on a computer which came with a restore partition without using said restore partition to do it is a hassle due to drivers...
That'd explain why you've resorted to the porn industry (as noted in your sig)
is how overall performance compares. I can get a refurbished IBM ThinkPad coming off corporate lease with a Pentium III circa 700MHz, and know for a fact that the motherboard is fast. I've seen too many motherboards not able to handle their speed to give it a lot of credence without proving it. Thinkpad, on the other hand, has been consistently rugged and reliable for me.
insightful, informative, interesting, anything!
sure, you may. But good luck not being arrested as a terrorist...
Hopefully, the collective mindset that makes americans fear their government will be turned-around, and they will realize that they have far more to fear from the croporations who rule than from their pet minion government...
And MAYBE they will take back democracy from those who have stolen it.
And maybe We The People don't have deep enough pockets to make that happen.
not true. the recipient of email has the right to do with that email as they please. The difference between email and postal mails is that postal mail has a name and address. Without the name portion mandated, the address is all that matters.
the problem is that medical science wants a piece of every pie. By labelling every quirk, they can make people fear that they have something serious and therefore need to go to a doctor. I'm mildly obsessive compulsive, but I don't feel the need to get medical attention for it. In the same way, if i'm using my AIM and IRC while waiting for an email, that doesn't make me any more an addict than someone who gardens while he waits for his lumber for a new fence to arrive.
For some hardware there still is this issue...I'm sitting here on an IBM ThinkPad 600E and my sound doesn't work due to some quirky hardware bug involving how the sound chips were integrated in this model motherboard. Sometime this week I plan to spend an afternoon in #gentoo praying that someone else knows what they're doing and get it running.
thumb buttons on mice suck. They're clumsy and easy to knock. So until you make a mouse that you don't need thumbs to hold steady, it'll never win me over.
you are correct...someone in power needs to remember that if corporations are to be people before the law, they must be equally accountable. Due to not being able to imprison a corporation, one must find a way to do something equally damaging. Perhaps disbanding, or liquidating, or suspending the operations of a company would do the trick. it's time that not only the government, but corporations were by the people for the people. Not in the communist sense, but in the sense that if a company is to exist it must be serving the people's greater good.
dude. the article was about retail, not corporate bulk
less people actually need a new desktop, and more people want a laptop to go to college, to haul around for business, etc. I know since getting my thinkpad (used, not retail) i rarely use my desktop.