>"Cable giants might not be in dire straits, but they're clearly focusing on their most lucrative customers as others jump ship for the internet."
"Focusing on"? How? By holding on to more and more useless channels? By raising prices continuously? By offering only deceptive "introductory" pricing models? By constantly fighting and making life difficult for TiVo and other third-party box owners? If this is their "focus", they are doing to be in dire straits before they know it.
They don't necessarily have to stream to compete (because DVRs can provide an excellent experience), but one thing they need to do soon is to offer a pay-for-each-channel-wanted model and allow customers to customize what they want to watch. I am BEYOND SICK of paying for crap I don't want and subsidizing others' channels. Sports is perfect example. I bet a HUGE portion of my cable TV bill is poured into sports, something I have ZERO interest in, but yet comprises probably 30 or more channels. Now throw out all religious channels, infomercial channels, game show channels, non-English channels, and reality TV channels. I bet I am now up to about 85%.
Oh, and when they do offer streaming, it is just the same crap content on their existing channels, but with the bonus of being only in stereo not Dolby 5.1, with a crappy low-bandwidth picture, and often forced commercials. All with silly time limits, a poor interface, and sometimes flaky as hell.
Focus, indeed.
13 channels of shit...
Here's another thing, commercials. Interstellar is a great movie and runs 2hr 49 min. 1 hr 11 min of commercials? Nope and that is the biggest reason I won't watch cable. Between Netflix and Amazon Prime I'm happy and have more disposable income. Just over $200 a year for both = 1.5 months of cable.
"You can afford it" is not a valid reason why you should have to do something for free.
Even if you can afford it, you shouldn't be required to pay $100k to provide evidence the prosecution wants for a fishing expedition.
If the prosecution wants it, they can pay for it.
Then if you're guilty, maybe the judge will order you to pay that amount in addition to whatever other punishment you get.
Please explain why you think this is a fishing expedition?
Besides the government can always get a subpoena.
How much will that cost everybody then?
Google will certainly pay much more than $100,000 defending their stance and the taxpayers will pay more for attempting to make it happen.
I'm with the government on this one (for a change) so they get my vote for spending the money here as the results of what they could potentially find could very well end up benefiting those who need it most... the working American.
Avantare
Why are you afraid of honoring the request?
That amount is a pittance to you and the WORLD knows it. The only thing I can think of is that you have been underpaying women since the very first one that was hired and by giving this information to the US government you'll have to come clean and pay a pittance of a fine. Boo hoo...
Companies are making record profit from what I see on the Internet and they are not paying their help as they should. Then these companies complain they are unable to hire replacements. It's because the companies don't want to pay the potential employees what they are worth.
It takes money to make money and companies that don't want to pay their potential employees are only shooting themselves in the foot.
Avantare
Brian: Mark, why don't you make all user submitted video\audio autoplay?
Mark: Great idea Brian. I could then sell 10 second slots to advertisers and precede the user submitted videos.
Later that evening at a different meeting.
Brian: Gentlemen, I want the cap lowered to 768GB's effective immediately in all our markets.
I've been using adblock+ and NoScript for quite a few years now. The reason is all the ANNOYING ADS!!! Stuff it. Ads are the biggest reason I QUIT watching TV. If I want something that's what Google, eBay, etc are for. Thank you, I'll find it myself. And now there's this reason as well.
A co-worker asked which browser I used at home.
Firefox I replied.
How many add-ons?
About 30.
Your favorite?
Adblock+ and NoScript.
You know sites make money with ads.
I know.
Why use them then?
When the advertisers start paying a portion of my Internet bill for them using my bandwidth I'll quit using AdBlock+ and NoScript.
Nuff said.
PS. AT&T... FUCK YOU.
My take on this is in order to keep people from viewing the source they need to disable all browsers right click capabilities AND the context menu portion of view source. After all, if they don't do that they are leaving their doors and windows unlocked. How do you expect to keep a thief out of your house?
Dumb asses.
Thousands can be serious with what you said. But my reply to them would be...
1) Do you have children? Yes. See 2. No. You're clueless.
2) You're not a REAL parent and don't really care, whether you realize it or not.
Chuck
An excellent point and I agree with it. Here's a story of what has happened within the past week here. (Wife and I are both geeks. Daughter is one in progress. SWEET !!!)
We have a 12 year old daughter. She has full access to the internet and still has. But we check out the sites she goes to and check her email twice a day as well as her myspace account every day. We have her password. That was a requirement for her to become a member. The other day my wife discovered that her myspace page AND email address had been hijacked. We had myspace delete her account, our ISP kill her email addy. Our daughter had seen both the emails she was getting as well as her myspace account before we had caught on. Both were XXX rated by this time.
We had a CALM heart to heart talk with her about what had happened. We were calm, cool and collected, all three of us. We explained what had happened and how/why. The three of us also had a frank talk about the content of what she had seen and read. Hentai, oral sex, anal sex, etc. Whatever the content was we discussed it. I feel we are RESPONSIBLE parents. We COMMUNICATE with our daughter. It is OUR responsibility to educate her in the way of life. It is NO OTHERS responsibility. We have always strived to do this with her.
So... why wasn't the teacher aquited? She needs to be. But it seems the powers that be always want to shrug off their responsibility and put it on others.
This is interesting to me as I have just recently did a clean install of XP Pro on my home computer from behind a router at home. (I have DSL at 1.5/256 with static IP.) I then up dated the OS completely, then installed Office and updated it. (No firewall. No AV protection. Just the router.)
After I had this done I installed NAV, updated and did a complete scan. Nothing found. I then installed SpyBot, AdAware Pro and MS Anti-Spyware. Running each one after the respective install. All 3 found different things that needed to be fixed and was. Nothing was alarming to me using a Google search. After the cleaning I rebooted, installed TDS-3 (rebooted because it was required). Then I ran all 4 apps and NAV and found NOTHING amiss. I then used Registry Mechanic and deleted all it found. I then rebooted so the new registry would be loaded. Next I ran ALL of these apps again and ALL came up **CLEAN**. I am VERY confident that my pc and the LAN is secure as I do this with all the computers on my LAN. I am in the process of installing Tiny firewall on each computer on the LAN as another layer of defense. Oh, We also use Firefox exclusively unless I need to update Office or Windows. IE does NOT get used other than that.
I don't seem to have any problems at all on my 7 pc LAN. I realize that I used a whole day to do this on one computer but that is fine by me because I have a secure network with no problems at all. I also run regular maitenance on the LAN. Defrag, AV scans everynight and checking for updates every night, MS Anti-Spyware every night with SpyBot and Adaware once every week or less.
You need to be proactive and anal about security or you will be had by all that shit out there.
Or even better create a WORKING backup application for TB. I used one and don't remember what it was. I installed an FTP client and then rebooted and ALL my email in TB was gone!! Profile, settings, everything. Spent hours on the net looking for a solution and found out that if you don't back up the registry.dat file in TB you're screwed. Mine was gone, the backup app did not back it up. I was able to restore the backup but TB would not read it in any way, shape or form. I guess this might be a downfall of open source. Someone needs to make a backup app that actually backs up TB and not just the email. Other than this incident I LOVE FF and TB. Although I won't use TB again in the forseeable future due to lost emails. Outlook sucks but at least I can back it up and restore at will.
No, I am not Brian Berger and I never claimed to be. There is a planned de-orbiting mission and I OPPOSE that unless the new hardware that has already been build is included in a new Hubble mission. If we waste this then why wasn't the money originally put to save? This is absolutely assinine by all accords. Especially when we spend millions a day supporting the war.
Like most write-ups for/. they seem to consist of a couple or so paragraphs with links to the original article. Obviously, for a while now, the current plan is to ditch Hubble in the Pacific regardless of anyones opinion. This a POLITICAL opinion. I wish to incite a PUBLIC opinion for saving the Hubble and will do so where I can. This seems to be a very good forum to further that end regardless whether you agree or disagree with my point of view (or my posting).
I desire to either have Hubble saved or the current hardware that is ready for it included in a *new* Hubble. I feel either of these options NEEDS to be made available for the world and not just the US as the worlds scientific community gets a lot of benefit from this telescope that has made history and is a passion of the people the world over.
There has been so much scientific knowledge gathered by Hubble it would be ashamed to waste it until it dies of it's own accord. We need to either save Hubble or send another JUST like it with NEWER instruments back to orbit. Some of the hardware is already built!! Don't throw it away (what a waste of $$$$$$$). DO SOMETHING WITH IT!! Please.
I have gone to Senator Mikulski's web site. and sent her an email explaining to her how I feel about this subject and I'm not even a constituant!! How many more of you readers/posters are willing to support this cause? Even if she is not in your district WRITE HER and tell her how you feel. The more ammo she has the better this might wind up in favor of a Hubble, whether it be 1 or 2.
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That wall was painted years ago and they're just now realizing this?
Nope. The FCC has them in the NN comments left by the public.
>"Cable giants might not be in dire straits, but they're clearly focusing on their most lucrative customers as others jump ship for the internet."
"Focusing on"? How? By holding on to more and more useless channels? By raising prices continuously? By offering only deceptive "introductory" pricing models? By constantly fighting and making life difficult for TiVo and other third-party box owners? If this is their "focus", they are doing to be in dire straits before they know it.
They don't necessarily have to stream to compete (because DVRs can provide an excellent experience), but one thing they need to do soon is to offer a pay-for-each-channel-wanted model and allow customers to customize what they want to watch. I am BEYOND SICK of paying for crap I don't want and subsidizing others' channels. Sports is perfect example. I bet a HUGE portion of my cable TV bill is poured into sports, something I have ZERO interest in, but yet comprises probably 30 or more channels. Now throw out all religious channels, infomercial channels, game show channels, non-English channels, and reality TV channels. I bet I am now up to about 85%.
Oh, and when they do offer streaming, it is just the same crap content on their existing channels, but with the bonus of being only in stereo not Dolby 5.1, with a crappy low-bandwidth picture, and often forced commercials. All with silly time limits, a poor interface, and sometimes flaky as hell.
Focus, indeed.
13 channels of shit... Here's another thing, commercials. Interstellar is a great movie and runs 2hr 49 min. 1 hr 11 min of commercials? Nope and that is the biggest reason I won't watch cable. Between Netflix and Amazon Prime I'm happy and have more disposable income. Just over $200 a year for both = 1.5 months of cable.
"You can afford it" is not a valid reason why you should have to do something for free.
Even if you can afford it, you shouldn't be required to pay $100k to provide evidence the prosecution wants for a fishing expedition. If the prosecution wants it, they can pay for it.
Then if you're guilty, maybe the judge will order you to pay that amount in addition to whatever other punishment you get.
Please explain why you think this is a fishing expedition? Besides the government can always get a subpoena. How much will that cost everybody then? Google will certainly pay much more than $100,000 defending their stance and the taxpayers will pay more for attempting to make it happen. I'm with the government on this one (for a change) so they get my vote for spending the money here as the results of what they could potentially find could very well end up benefiting those who need it most... the working American. Avantare
Why are you afraid of honoring the request? That amount is a pittance to you and the WORLD knows it. The only thing I can think of is that you have been underpaying women since the very first one that was hired and by giving this information to the US government you'll have to come clean and pay a pittance of a fine. Boo hoo... Companies are making record profit from what I see on the Internet and they are not paying their help as they should. Then these companies complain they are unable to hire replacements. It's because the companies don't want to pay the potential employees what they are worth. It takes money to make money and companies that don't want to pay their potential employees are only shooting themselves in the foot. Avantare
Brian: Mark, why don't you make all user submitted video\audio autoplay?
Mark: Great idea Brian. I could then sell 10 second slots to advertisers and precede the user submitted videos.
Later that evening at a different meeting.
Brian: Gentlemen, I want the cap lowered to 768GB's effective immediately in all our markets.
"13 channels of shit on the TV to choose from."
I've been using adblock+ and NoScript for quite a few years now. The reason is all the ANNOYING ADS!!! Stuff it. Ads are the biggest reason I QUIT watching TV. If I want something that's what Google, eBay, etc are for. Thank you, I'll find it myself. And now there's this reason as well. A co-worker asked which browser I used at home. Firefox I replied. How many add-ons? About 30. Your favorite? Adblock+ and NoScript. You know sites make money with ads. I know. Why use them then? When the advertisers start paying a portion of my Internet bill for them using my bandwidth I'll quit using AdBlock+ and NoScript. Nuff said. PS. AT&T... FUCK YOU.
My take on this is in order to keep people from viewing the source they need to disable all browsers right click capabilities AND the context menu portion of view source. After all, if they don't do that they are leaving their doors and windows unlocked. How do you expect to keep a thief out of your house? Dumb asses.
Thousands can be serious with what you said. But my reply to them would be... 1) Do you have children? Yes. See 2. No. You're clueless. 2) You're not a REAL parent and don't really care, whether you realize it or not. Chuck
An excellent point and I agree with it. Here's a story of what has happened within the past week here. (Wife and I are both geeks. Daughter is one in progress. SWEET !!!)
We have a 12 year old daughter. She has full access to the internet and still has. But we check out the sites she goes to and check her email twice a day as well as her myspace account every day. We have her password. That was a requirement for her to become a member. The other day my wife discovered that her myspace page AND email address had been hijacked. We had myspace delete her account, our ISP kill her email addy. Our daughter had seen both the emails she was getting as well as her myspace account before we had caught on. Both were XXX rated by this time.
We had a CALM heart to heart talk with her about what had happened. We were calm, cool and collected, all three of us. We explained what had happened and how/why. The three of us also had a frank talk about the content of what she had seen and read. Hentai, oral sex, anal sex, etc. Whatever the content was we discussed it. I feel we are RESPONSIBLE parents. We COMMUNICATE with our daughter. It is OUR responsibility to educate her in the way of life. It is NO OTHERS responsibility. We have always strived to do this with her.
So... why wasn't the teacher aquited? She needs to be. But it seems the powers that be always want to shrug off their responsibility and put it on others.
BS I say.
Chuck
ummm... turn the monitor off?
Chuck
I also bcc them 100+ copies of the same message with a 10 MB Word attachment as a measure. Guess what! No more spam from them!
Chuck
What will happen when the UN has control of the Internet. Chuck
Hmmm... I wonder how net-neutrality will affect them?
Chuck
who gets the money? Chuck
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That might be true. But what about this spin? WASHINGTON - Responding to outrage from consumers whose personal information has been stolen from companies, Congress is primed to pass new laws to try to prevent break-ins and to require businesses to confess to customers when private data is taken. How is this any different?
This is interesting to me as I have just recently did a clean install of XP Pro on my home computer from behind a router at home. (I have DSL at 1.5/256 with static IP.) I then up dated the OS completely, then installed Office and updated it. (No firewall. No AV protection. Just the router.)
After I had this done I installed NAV, updated and did a complete scan. Nothing found. I then installed SpyBot, AdAware Pro and MS Anti-Spyware. Running each one after the respective install. All 3 found different things that needed to be fixed and was. Nothing was alarming to me using a Google search. After the cleaning I rebooted, installed TDS-3 (rebooted because it was required). Then I ran all 4 apps and NAV and found NOTHING amiss. I then used Registry Mechanic and deleted all it found. I then rebooted so the new registry would be loaded. Next I ran ALL of these apps again and ALL came up **CLEAN**. I am VERY confident that my pc and the LAN is secure as I do this with all the computers on my LAN. I am in the process of installing Tiny firewall on each computer on the LAN as another layer of defense. Oh, We also use Firefox exclusively unless I need to update Office or Windows. IE does NOT get used other than that.
I don't seem to have any problems at all on my 7 pc LAN. I realize that I used a whole day to do this on one computer but that is fine by me because I have a secure network with no problems at all. I also run regular maitenance on the LAN. Defrag, AV scans everynight and checking for updates every night, MS Anti-Spyware every night with SpyBot and Adaware once every week or less.
You need to be proactive and anal about security or you will be had by all that shit out there.
Chuck
You make a very good point and are correct. I make no excuses for what I did but will endeavor to correct this in the future.
Or even better create a WORKING backup application for TB. I used one and don't remember what it was. I installed an FTP client and then rebooted and ALL my email in TB was gone!! Profile, settings, everything. Spent hours on the net looking for a solution and found out that if you don't back up the registry.dat file in TB you're screwed. Mine was gone, the backup app did not back it up. I was able to restore the backup but TB would not read it in any way, shape or form. I guess this might be a downfall of open source. Someone needs to make a backup app that actually backs up TB and not just the email. Other than this incident I LOVE FF and TB. Although I won't use TB again in the forseeable future due to lost emails. Outlook sucks but at least I can back it up and restore at will.
No, I am not Brian Berger and I never claimed to be. There is a planned de-orbiting mission and I OPPOSE that unless the new hardware that has already been build is included in a new Hubble mission. If we waste this then why wasn't the money originally put to save? This is absolutely assinine by all accords. Especially when we spend millions a day supporting the war. Like most write-ups for /. they seem to consist of a couple or so paragraphs with links to the original article. Obviously, for a while now, the current plan is to ditch Hubble in the Pacific regardless of anyones opinion. This a POLITICAL opinion. I wish to incite a PUBLIC opinion for saving the Hubble and will do so where I can. This seems to be a very good forum to further that end regardless whether you agree or disagree with my point of view (or my posting).
I desire to either have Hubble saved or the current hardware that is ready for it included in a *new* Hubble. I feel either of these options NEEDS to be made available for the world and not just the US as the worlds scientific community gets a lot of benefit from this telescope that has made history and is a passion of the people the world over.
There has been so much scientific knowledge gathered by Hubble it would be ashamed to waste it until it dies of it's own accord. We need to either save Hubble or send another JUST like it with NEWER instruments back to orbit. Some of the hardware is already built!! Don't throw it away (what a waste of $$$$$$$). DO SOMETHING WITH IT!! Please.
I have gone to Senator Mikulski's web site. and sent her an email explaining to her how I feel about this subject and I'm not even a constituant!! How many more of you readers/posters are willing to support this cause? Even if she is not in your district WRITE HER and tell her how you feel. The more ammo she has the better this might wind up in favor of a Hubble, whether it be 1 or 2.
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