I'm shocked to see how many people are blindly in approval of this. Think "big picture" and think "long term"...
There are plenty of channels that I watch on occassion or very unpredictably (like TNT when they have a sporting event I want to watch). Do I want to pay what they'll charge (noone's even said what an individual channel would even cost yet) to watch one or two shows a month? Sure, there are a handful of channels that are "must haves", but out of the rest in the package, there are a TON of them that are "on occassion" viewing.
How pissed will you be when owners of channels shuffle popular shows between their channels just to raise funds on the less popular channels? If sales of Discovery Kids is low, who is to stop Discovery Channel from moving Mythbusters over there to increase sales?
In the long run, ala-carte will probably end up costing most of us MORE (due to increased fees), and we're going to be upset when we can't watch half the shows we used to because they get shuffled to less popular channels.
Throw in the death of many of the "fringe" interest shows and you end up with satelite/cable being just another Network TV paradise of reality shows all vying for more mass viewership instead of quality programming.
Depends entirely on the evidence that they had to present. The problem here is that it's much easier to prove the existance of interference than the lack of. The burden of proof has been met by ARRL and until these concerns are answered (not dodged as they have been) by power companies, there is a problem. I'm sorry, but radio interference is intollerable (not to mention against FCC regulations). Power lines simply were not designed for this application.
As far as anonymous posting, I'm guessing you haven't been around much. People tend to use anonymous posts to troll and avoid being modded down. It's also difficult to know if you're talking to the same individual each time or someone else. It's not the pseudonym that matters, it's the fact that the pseudonym doesn't change during the discussion that matters. Plus it's a way of lowering the shield and showing that you're willing to stand behind your comments and make a positive contribution to the/. community without fear of mod retribution.:)
From the article: Mullen says that increasing Dell's market share in portable music players isn't the point of the project. He stressed Dell's position as the leading provider of technology to higher education and said the company is simply giving its customers what they want.
Somehow, I find this to be highly unlikely. Apple has the majority of the market share with the ipod. Add in the fact that Napster wants to cut into itunes share in the "legal music download" market.
If they truly want to give their customers what they want, they'd lower pricing on the music download. There's no real motivation to pay existing prices for a digital only (meaning no media included) copy of music. Throw in restricted rights on said music and it's not a sensible purchase for most users.
Making some basic assumptions (the wireless was using an SSID, was unencrypted, and a DHCP server was available), any lawyer can make the valid claim that the wireless access point was intended for the public to use:
- SSID was advertising the availability of the access point.
- Absense of encryption re-enforces the fact that this was not a private network.
- DHCP giving an IP address is as good as saying "have a seat, enjoy the connection".
A good analogy would be to have a big sign in front of your house saying "Cookies inside!" (SSID). You leave the door propped open (lack of encryption). You have someone inside pull up a chair and invite the person to sit down and enjoy said cookies (DHCP).
If you don't want people on your wireless, take appropriate steps to protect yourself. Someone breaking encryption to get access to a network is illegal. Connecting to an unprotected network should not be.
They estimate the amount of software on each PC and then subtract sales revenues. What is left is pirated software? Talk about a loophole in their logic! Based on their logic, any piece of freeware that is installed on a computer is revenue that BSA considers lost.
Though if you consider who is partners with the BSA, it's not surprising they'd consider Linux and Openoffice to be "warez"!
I could just see me pull out my wallet and have it just be in range of the reader. I intend it to charge to one card and...whoops, it charges to the card I'm almost over limit on.
Heck, if they want to put driving sims on the list, you'd think they'd put Nascar Sim Racing on the list (Yeah, it's EA, but there's a lot of good people on the development team).
Since when are console games considered simulations?/scoff
Not everyone has, or even wants an XBox or Playstation. EA is the only option for a lot of games when it comes to PC gaming.
I'm not sure if it's contractual agreements or what, but until some of the other 'competitive' companies provide alternatives to EA on the PC, their monopoly will continue to feed their beast.
I, for one, miss Sierra's sports line (Front Page Sports and the NASCAR series in particular)!
With the child tax credit ALONE, I get that. Throw in the marriage penalty relief and I get even more. Add in the fact I've never been hired by a poor man, and it's a no-brainer that Bush has done GOOD considering the recession he inherited.
Kerry wants to raise taxes on people that own small businesses. The owner of the company I work for would be directly hit by Kerry's tax hike plan. If it affects my employer, it will affect my paycheck as well.
People who support tax hikes on the "rich" are extremely shortsighted.
Amateur radio is still needed
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Extra class here as well.
Let me just say that events like 9/11 and the massive power outage we recently had help people realize that cell phones aren't infalliable. During those events, what was the most reliable modes of communication? Big media satelite, and, you guessed it... Amateur radio!
Add in things like amateur storm chasers (which I do as well) saving lives every year, and you've got a field that cannot ever die. At worst, all it will do is become a small niche.
The need for amateur radio (beyond simply a hobby) is still here, and it won't go away anytime soon.
Stop with the Bush bashing, pick up any Econ 101 book, and read the section on "supply and demand". Things such as 9/11 and Clinton's dot-com bubble killed demand for IT. Those of us that work in IT took the risk that the bubble would burst. It burst, time to lick our wounds and move on! Either find another IT job (like myself and others that used to work with me did), or change your career field!
Honestly, the Patriot Act is so fucked
I'd still like to hear from *ONE* person that the Patriot Act has adversely affected. Everyone that I hear bitch about it, I ask how it has affected them and they cannot answer. I even ask them to give me an example of someone they know that it's affected... Still... No answer...
Amazing thing is that most of the people that bitch about it haven't taken the time to read it (it's a fairly long read, but it's worth it to quell your paranoid fears). There are checks and balances in it, contrary to what the media wants people to believe.
By the way... Your tinfoil hat is on crooked, better adjust it!:P
It'll be interesting to see how closely the wireless access is monitored. A government-provided portal to the Internet. Scary thought.
It's got to be monitored to some degree, right? Otherwise it's simply a great open portal for spammers.
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I'm shocked to see how many people are blindly in approval of this. Think "big picture" and think "long term"... There are plenty of channels that I watch on occassion or very unpredictably (like TNT when they have a sporting event I want to watch). Do I want to pay what they'll charge (noone's even said what an individual channel would even cost yet) to watch one or two shows a month? Sure, there are a handful of channels that are "must haves", but out of the rest in the package, there are a TON of them that are "on occassion" viewing. How pissed will you be when owners of channels shuffle popular shows between their channels just to raise funds on the less popular channels? If sales of Discovery Kids is low, who is to stop Discovery Channel from moving Mythbusters over there to increase sales? In the long run, ala-carte will probably end up costing most of us MORE (due to increased fees), and we're going to be upset when we can't watch half the shows we used to because they get shuffled to less popular channels. Throw in the death of many of the "fringe" interest shows and you end up with satelite/cable being just another Network TV paradise of reality shows all vying for more mass viewership instead of quality programming.
Depends entirely on the evidence that they had to present. The problem here is that it's much easier to prove the existance of interference than the lack of. The burden of proof has been met by ARRL and until these concerns are answered (not dodged as they have been) by power companies, there is a problem. I'm sorry, but radio interference is intollerable (not to mention against FCC regulations). Power lines simply were not designed for this application.
/. community without fear of mod retribution. :)
As far as anonymous posting, I'm guessing you haven't been around much. People tend to use anonymous posts to troll and avoid being modded down. It's also difficult to know if you're talking to the same individual each time or someone else. It's not the pseudonym that matters, it's the fact that the pseudonym doesn't change during the discussion that matters. Plus it's a way of lowering the shield and showing that you're willing to stand behind your comments and make a positive contribution to the
Evidence is evidence, the evidence they give isn't something that can be biased.
BTW, no need to post anonymously. If you have proof that the provided evidence is false, please provide it.
For those who are looking for data on BPL and its effects on radio transmissions, this is a good place to start:
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http://www.arrl.org/tis/info/HTML/plc/aud-vid.htm
There is more than ample evidence to show that turning power lines into radiating antennae is a bad idea. Need evidence? Start here:
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http://www.arrl.org/tis/info/HTML/plc/aud-vid.htm
No, what I am doing is stating common sense.
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You hide behind the "Anonymous Coward" tag, that shows what shaky ground you are on.
Yeah yeah, I know. I shouldn't feed the trolls.
By advertising your network with an SSID and by not encrypting said network, you are making the invitation to use it.
From the article:
Mullen says that increasing Dell's market share in portable music players isn't the point of the project. He stressed Dell's position as the leading provider of technology to higher education and said the company is simply giving its customers what they want.
Somehow, I find this to be highly unlikely. Apple has the majority of the market share with the ipod. Add in the fact that Napster wants to cut into itunes share in the "legal music download" market.
If they truly want to give their customers what they want, they'd lower pricing on the music download. There's no real motivation to pay existing prices for a digital only (meaning no media included) copy of music. Throw in restricted rights on said music and it's not a sensible purchase for most users.
Making some basic assumptions (the wireless was using an SSID, was unencrypted, and a DHCP server was available), any lawyer can make the valid claim that the wireless access point was intended for the public to use:
- SSID was advertising the availability of the access point.
- Absense of encryption re-enforces the fact that this was not a private network.
- DHCP giving an IP address is as good as saying "have a seat, enjoy the connection".
A good analogy would be to have a big sign in front of your house saying "Cookies inside!" (SSID). You leave the door propped open (lack of encryption). You have someone inside pull up a chair and invite the person to sit down and enjoy said cookies (DHCP).
If you don't want people on your wireless, take appropriate steps to protect yourself. Someone breaking encryption to get access to a network is illegal. Connecting to an unprotected network should not be.
Sometimes it's nice to have a TV along on a camping trip. Time to say buh-bye to that as well. :(
They estimate the amount of software on each PC and then subtract sales revenues. What is left is pirated software? Talk about a loophole in their logic! Based on their logic, any piece of freeware that is installed on a computer is revenue that BSA considers lost.
Though if you consider who is partners with the BSA, it's not surprising they'd consider Linux and Openoffice to be "warez"!
I could just see me pull out my wallet and have it just be in range of the reader. I intend it to charge to one card and...whoops, it charges to the card I'm almost over limit on.
Spammers seem to be able to find thousands of places to host their Viagra websites (blackhosts), so why don't more Torrent seed sites go this route?
After all, if spammers can violate CAN-SPAM with little chance of being cought, why can't torrent seed sites do the same?
Heck, if they want to put driving sims on the list, you'd think they'd put Nascar Sim Racing on the list (Yeah, it's EA, but there's a lot of good people on the development team).
/scoff
Since when are console games considered simulations?
It took forever for InsightBB to raise from their base 128kbps up speed to 256kbps. Let's hope cable stops being so greedy with up speeds!
/would still switch from cable to DSL if he could get DSL in his area
Not everyone has, or even wants an XBox or Playstation. EA is the only option for a lot of games when it comes to PC gaming.
I'm not sure if it's contractual agreements or what, but until some of the other 'competitive' companies provide alternatives to EA on the PC, their monopoly will continue to feed their beast.
I, for one, miss Sierra's sports line (Front Page Sports and the NASCAR series in particular)!
With the child tax credit ALONE, I get that. Throw in the marriage penalty relief and I get even more. Add in the fact I've never been hired by a poor man, and it's a no-brainer that Bush has done GOOD considering the recession he inherited.
Kerry wants to raise taxes on people that own small businesses. The owner of the company I work for would be directly hit by Kerry's tax hike plan. If it affects my employer, it will affect my paycheck as well.
People who support tax hikes on the "rich" are extremely shortsighted.
Extra class here as well.
Let me just say that events like 9/11 and the massive power outage we recently had help people realize that cell phones aren't infalliable. During those events, what was the most reliable modes of communication? Big media satelite, and, you guessed it... Amateur radio!
Add in things like amateur storm chasers (which I do as well) saving lives every year, and you've got a field that cannot ever die. At worst, all it will do is become a small niche.
The need for amateur radio (beyond simply a hobby) is still here, and it won't go away anytime soon.
*applaud* Very well put, Styopia! Someone mod this guy up, I don't have any points!!!
*ROTFL* That was hilarious!!! Someone mod the anonymous up as funny!!! I nearly pissed my pants!
Wow, an AC trolling... Imagine that!!!
Stop with the Bush bashing, pick up any Econ 101 book, and read the section on "supply and demand". Things such as 9/11 and Clinton's dot-com bubble killed demand for IT. Those of us that work in IT took the risk that the bubble would burst. It burst, time to lick our wounds and move on! Either find another IT job (like myself and others that used to work with me did), or change your career field!
-1 Troll Enough with the Bush-bashing, do some research and discover something called "supply and demand".
Honestly, the Patriot Act is so fucked I'd still like to hear from *ONE* person that the Patriot Act has adversely affected. Everyone that I hear bitch about it, I ask how it has affected them and they cannot answer. I even ask them to give me an example of someone they know that it's affected... Still... No answer... Amazing thing is that most of the people that bitch about it haven't taken the time to read it (it's a fairly long read, but it's worth it to quell your paranoid fears). There are checks and balances in it, contrary to what the media wants people to believe. By the way... Your tinfoil hat is on crooked, better adjust it! :P
They actually had this on Navy:NCIS a couple weeks ago. A terrorist was hiding messages inside of porn images.
It'll be interesting to see how closely the wireless access is monitored. A government-provided portal to the Internet. Scary thought. It's got to be monitored to some degree, right? Otherwise it's simply a great open portal for spammers.