I know some navigation functions are disabled if the vehicle is moving, why not other functions?
I personally think this is a bad idea.. the one in my car will disable the ability to input an address, but why can't a passenger input the address while we are moving?
Also when you are stopped the ability to scroll and input your destination is very easy to use and is very fine grained inputs, meaning you can move from one address on a street to another to get the exact on you want. But when you start moving (over 5 mph), it goes into course mode, skipping about a 1/4 mile each time you move. This has caused me to spend much more time trying to get the thing to do what I want that being able to do it while trying to drive also.
1) consumers are entitled to access the lawful Internet content of their choice,
Who defines what is lawful? The UN, the Feds, the State, your local County? What if your local County decides that it is illegal to view anything against its currently elected officials?
2) consumers are entitled to run the applications and services of their choice, subject to the needs of law enforcement
Subject to the needs of law enforcement? Does this mean that they get the keys to everything so that they can do their warrantless searches?
3) consumers are entitled to connect their choice of legal devices that do not harm the network
Once again who defines what is a legal device? Can I have linux running on a home pc running a small website? Or is that deemed illegal?
4) consumers are entitled to competition among network providers, application and service providers, and content providers.
Haven't we already seen what having multiple networks really does? Take mobile phones for example. I can't use certain handsets on certain networks, I basically don't have a choice to switch from one company to another without going through a lot of hassles, including large termination fees, new handsets, moving my number over, reprogramming my phone lists into the new handset, etc. The whole idea of competing on the network level is a dumb idea. How I use my network connection should be decided by me. Not some suit in a congressional meeting.
And if they mean we should be able to choose which ISP we want, make it possible to get some company other than your local cable/telephone provider and make sure that they don't get a kick back when I choose the other company. Right now for me to select speakeasy as my ISP, I have to pay SBC ~$15/month for a phone line that I don't use for voice, just so I can get a connetion to speakeasy's network.
The best and only advice I can give you is to find a good accountant and a good lawyer. If it makes sense to turn it into a business, they will let you know.
Slashdot is good for somethings, this is not one of them.
This is not a crimal statute, it is a civil statute that is being broken, so how do you end up in jail exactly? Oh, thats right buy your very own Senator or Congress person and you are half way there.
40 american dollars per month? Either you 'murikans are getting ripped off or dollar has really plummeted lately.
See what the wonderful 'competition' we have here in 'murika does, it creates multiple completing standards all giving us pretty much the same quality at an inflated price.
So instead of competing on price and/or service, we compete on what technology to use.
Actually to comment on your second point, if you are talking about iTunes, you can have upto 5 machines at one time that are authorized to play your music. If however you upgrade or replace a machine, you can deauthorize that machine and then authorize your new machine. I think this is fair. Also if you really want you can burn to CD and then rip it to whatever format you would like.
If you were not talking about iTunes, then please disregard.
The management console on the switches use linux to configure the switch. So if it is so insecure, why would they use linux?
The company that I work for, is currently moving everything they can over to smaller faster machines running linux instead of the larger more expensive and slower Sun equipment.
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I know some navigation functions are disabled if the vehicle is moving, why not other functions?
I personally think this is a bad idea.. the one in my car will disable the ability to input an address, but why can't a passenger input the address while we are moving?
Also when you are stopped the ability to scroll and input your destination is very easy to use and is very fine grained inputs, meaning you can move from one address on a street to another to get the exact on you want. But when you start moving (over 5 mph), it goes into course mode, skipping about a 1/4 mile each time you move. This has caused me to spend much more time trying to get the thing to do what I want that being able to do it while trying to drive also.
1) consumers are entitled to access the lawful Internet content of their choice,
Who defines what is lawful? The UN, the Feds, the State, your local County? What if your local County decides that it is illegal to view anything against its currently elected officials?
2) consumers are entitled to run the applications and services of their choice, subject to the needs of law enforcement
Subject to the needs of law enforcement? Does this mean that they get the keys to everything so that they can do their warrantless searches?
3) consumers are entitled to connect their choice of legal devices that do not harm the network
Once again who defines what is a legal device? Can I have linux running on a home pc running a small website? Or is that deemed illegal?
4) consumers are entitled to competition among network providers, application and service providers, and content providers.
Haven't we already seen what having multiple networks really does? Take mobile phones for example. I can't use certain handsets on certain networks, I basically don't have a choice to switch from one company to another without going through a lot of hassles, including large termination fees, new handsets, moving my number over, reprogramming my phone lists into the new handset, etc. The whole idea of competing on the network level is a dumb idea. How I use my network connection should be decided by me. Not some suit in a congressional meeting.
And if they mean we should be able to choose which ISP we want, make it possible to get some company other than your local cable/telephone provider and make sure that they don't get a kick back when I choose the other company. Right now for me to select speakeasy as my ISP, I have to pay SBC ~$15/month for a phone line that I don't use for voice, just so I can get a connetion to speakeasy's network.
The best and only advice I can give you is to find a good accountant and a good lawyer. If it makes sense to turn it into a business, they will let you know.
Slashdot is good for somethings, this is not one of them.
A geek website
1024x768 - 52%
1280x1024 - 18%
800x600 - 15%
A non-geek website
1024x768 - 68%
800x600 - 11%
1280x1024 - 10%
So, I would say that you are pretty safe with 1024x768, but don't make it impossible to use at 800x600.
-Ryan
This is not a crimal statute, it is a civil statute that is being broken, so how do you end up in jail exactly? Oh, thats right buy your very own Senator or Congress person and you are half way there.
Come on, payroll is not all that important.. it just needs to be up once every two weeks.
One minor problem with the corel cache. I can't use it from work. They are content filtered. So please don't do that!
Why is an ammendment allowed on a bill that has nothing to do with the original bill?
I wish we had line item veto at the national level. It would keep crap like this from ever seeing the light of day.
If you can't pass a law without being sneeking behind peoples backs, you should really rethink your usefulness within society.
40 american dollars per month? Either you 'murikans are getting ripped off or dollar has really plummeted lately.
See what the wonderful 'competition' we have here in 'murika does, it creates multiple completing standards all giving us pretty much the same quality at an inflated price.
So instead of competing on price and/or service, we compete on what technology to use.
Actually to comment on your second point, if you are talking about iTunes, you can have upto 5 machines at one time that are authorized to play your music. If however you upgrade or replace a machine, you can deauthorize that machine and then authorize your new machine. I think this is fair. Also if you really want you can burn to CD and then rip it to whatever format you would like.
If you were not talking about iTunes, then please disregard.
The management console on the switches use linux to configure the switch. So if it is so insecure, why would they use linux?
The company that I work for, is currently moving everything they can over to smaller faster machines running linux instead of the larger more expensive and slower Sun equipment.