To Those It May Concern, I was reading the news this morning and came across a particularly disturbing article from Reuters News. It had to do with telephone companies sharing customer information with "affiliates" and requiring no consumer consent. I find this a RIDICULOUS breach of my privacy. Although I can "opt-out", I SHOULD NOT (let me reiterate, SHOULD NOT) have to take extra measures to ensure that who I call, and when I do so does not become a commodity item.
Chairman Powell, I hope that this quote is terribly out of context, but it reads:
"consumers have a reduced expectation of privacy" regarding that data when their carriers use it "to market services customarily offered by telephone companies, such as voicemail and Internet access."
I find this statement both criminal and unconstitutional.
America is built on the premise that personal privacy is an unalienable right.
I DO NOT want any of my information sold or transferred to other parties to use for their own gain.
However, because of this ruling, I must contact my telephone company, and opt-out of marketing schemes. This will in turn WASTE MY VALUABLE TIME.
I urge all of you to rethink this ruling about sharing personal identifiable data. Privacy is the most important right we have.
Pushing a button to kill a peasant halfway around the world?
No Thanks.
I'll just stick to Black and White, where I can throw my peasants as I please. Its definitely more fun when you roll them down a hill to your waiting creature.
Lightning bolts and floods work well also.
So, a 25+ year old satellite wakes from the dead, drifting out in the cold darkness of space.
I find it amazing that a hunk of metal orbiting our planet for longer than I have been alive still functions, yet a modern webserver with possibly more advanced components succombs to slashdotting in minutes.
Solution: Build webservers out of 1974 satellite components. (Although that large gap of 20 years downtime may pose a problem.)
A DOORSTOP!
Gotta let the coeds know you are home, and available.
Brita Water Filter
Dorm water sucks.
Umbrella
Rain water sucks.
Tums
Cafeteria food does a number on your stomach. They are my only friend.
Band-aids
Bleeding is just unfashionable.
Disposable Dinnerware
Dishes are no fun when you don't have a dishwasher.
Maybe include a little bit of spending money for those essentials that you forget. I spend the first week of a semester buying things I forget to bring.
I recall something about invalidating the firmware on a floppy drive, in a slightly different manner. I think the trick was to paint the inside of a floppy with nail polish and the powder from inside caps. The drive heats up to read the disk, and in a flash of fire, the floppy drive is no longer functional. Now that's copy protection.
Greene needs to get his data straight. He specifically points to the usage of Napster, P2P, etc...as a direct correlation to record sales.(i.e. if Kazaa downloads increase, sales go down.) This is in fact not the case, since when downloads go up, their revenues follow the upward trend. Their sales have been higher than ever until 2001, and obviously economic factors and the 9/11 disaster accounted for this loss of revenue. The industry finally had a down year to blame downloads which have seemed to "help" record sales. But the question remains...Is the industry losing money that was never going to be spent in the first place?
I'm at UCONN...and our network is ridiculous. Everyone is run on a 10MBps connection that is unswitched...yes...unswitched. Anyone got a packet sniffer? There are hundreds of fiber lines running beneath the streets, but none do any good because of all of the packet collisions. (My hub's orange light stays on constantly) I got kicked off the network for using too much of the network's INTERNAL bandwidth, nothing off campus, just inter-dorm transfers...Anyone got a hundred extra 64 port managed switches I could borrow? It might help...
Slashdot Mirror
hmm...it seems my Mozilla browser it not retarded
but thanks anyways for asking
Email Subject Header: DAVID! INCREASE YOUR BREAST SIZE NOW!
No....this is not a joke, I have received 3 emails like this in the past month.
To Those It May Concern,
I was reading the news this morning and came across a particularly disturbing article from Reuters News. It had to do with telephone companies sharing customer information with "affiliates" and requiring no consumer consent. I find this a RIDICULOUS breach of my privacy. Although I can "opt-out", I SHOULD NOT (let me reiterate, SHOULD NOT) have to take extra measures to ensure that who I call, and when I do so does not become a commodity item.
Chairman Powell, I hope that this quote is terribly out of context, but it reads:
"consumers have a reduced expectation of privacy" regarding that data when their carriers use it "to market services customarily offered by telephone companies, such as voicemail and Internet access."
I find this statement both criminal and unconstitutional.
America is built on the premise that personal privacy is an unalienable right.
I DO NOT want any of my information sold or transferred to other parties to use for their own gain.
However, because of this ruling, I must contact my telephone company, and opt-out of marketing schemes. This will in turn WASTE MY VALUABLE TIME.
I urge all of you to rethink this ruling about sharing personal identifiable data. Privacy is the most important right we have.
Excellent, now we can use the OWL to finally see the ROUS (Rodents of Unusual Size).
Hopefully this will keep Princess Buttercup safe.
The Russians should swing by Venus as well and pick up some of those women I've heard about.
There must be adequate demand in the Slashdot community.
Acutally, Freon was proven to be harmful to the environment. The CFC's do a number on that lovely canopy we call our atmosphere.
Substances such as R12 and R134 do not have the detremental effect.
Sure the cost of conversion for older freon systems is a little pricy, but for a few new O-rings and tubes, I'll dump that harmful stuff.
I'm also wondering how it has saved lives.
And I'm also assuming cuz = because. I could be wrong.
Pushing a button to kill a peasant halfway around the world?
No Thanks.
I'll just stick to Black and White, where I can throw my peasants as I please. Its definitely more fun when you roll them down a hill to your waiting creature.
Lightning bolts and floods work well also.
I have had a few bugs.
They mostly go by the names Windows and IIS.
Happliy they are updated every so often to keep us all on our toes.
So, a 25+ year old satellite wakes from the dead, drifting out in the cold darkness of space.
I find it amazing that a hunk of metal orbiting our planet for longer than I have been alive still functions, yet a modern webserver with possibly more advanced components succombs to slashdotting in minutes.
Solution: Build webservers out of 1974 satellite components. (Although that large gap of 20 years downtime may pose a problem.)
Come on, we all employ a doomsday device on a daily basis.
It's called The Slashdot Effect.
"Free speech is only free if you own a printing press" - Unk
Say something that is unpopular, and free speech becomes much more costly.
I've gotta get more friends like you. Nobody sends me care packages.
Printer cartridges Way to expensive to justify the manufacturing.
Eyeglass screwdrivers So many things with little screws.
Computer paper On the 4th draft of a 10 page research paper, it will come in handy.
Christmas lights (a definite need) The only suitable lighting for a dorm room.
Needlenose pliers Better than your fingers.
Duct tape...all duct tape Duct tape fixes everything. EVERYTHING!
A DOORSTOP! Gotta let the coeds know you are home, and available.
Brita Water Filter Dorm water sucks.
Umbrella Rain water sucks.
Tums Cafeteria food does a number on your stomach. They are my only friend.
Band-aids Bleeding is just unfashionable.
Disposable Dinnerware Dishes are no fun when you don't have a dishwasher.
Maybe include a little bit of spending money for those essentials that you forget. I spend the first week of a semester buying things I forget to bring.
I recall something about invalidating the firmware on a floppy drive, in a slightly different manner. I think the trick was to paint the inside of a floppy with nail polish and the powder from inside caps. The drive heats up to read the disk, and in a flash of fire, the floppy drive is no longer functional. Now that's copy protection.
Even cheaper than bookpool...
r e-3941_isbn-0201702711,00.html
http://vig.pearsoned.com/store/product/1,3498,sto
$32.49
Greene needs to get his data straight. He specifically points to the usage of Napster, P2P, etc...as a direct correlation to record sales.(i.e. if Kazaa downloads increase, sales go down.) This is in fact not the case, since when downloads go up, their revenues follow the upward trend. Their sales have been higher than ever until 2001, and obviously economic factors and the 9/11 disaster accounted for this loss of revenue. The industry finally had a down year to blame downloads which have seemed to "help" record sales. But the question remains...Is the industry losing money that was never going to be spent in the first place?
I'm at UCONN...and our network is ridiculous. Everyone is run on a 10MBps connection that is unswitched...yes...unswitched. Anyone got a packet sniffer? There are hundreds of fiber lines running beneath the streets, but none do any good because of all of the packet collisions. (My hub's orange light stays on constantly) I got kicked off the network for using too much of the network's INTERNAL bandwidth, nothing off campus, just inter-dorm transfers...Anyone got a hundred extra 64 port managed switches I could borrow? It might help...