This is the greatest threat that US labor has ever seen.
How could we ever hope to become anything more than minimum labor slaves by this? Since when did employeers give a shit about their employees without being named Paul Newmann?
I for one am glad that it is actually law enforcement enforcing the law instead of RIAA. It just seems to me that things that are illegal should be policed by police, and not by corporate lawyers.
It is my belief that the Internet is surpassingly threatening to the various dictators and tyrants of the world. While we can not associate the Internet directly, since it's conception, the world's dictators and tyrants have been changing their tunes.
Syria stopped being a putz - Cuba is inviting open market reforms - China can't seem to block things fast enough and seems to be on the fast track to an open market society with elections around the corner - South America is making leaps and bounds in creating fair government -
Again, while we can't hail the internet for all of this, I would find all this change hard to believe if we were without it.
David
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Who needs hubble when we have a base on the MOON?!
Heck, it's probably far more cost effective. (once we're there)
I am 21. It was not so long ago that I was a teenage high school kid myself. I was a honor student (50% of the time), a boy scout, and an ROTC cadet.
I did not try drinking.
But I did try alcohol, after asking my parents what they thought of it.
I did not have sex.
I believed that sex was a sacred thing to share between soulmates. I thought that I had found the one girl, once or twice, but I know she's out there and I want to meet her without regret.
I never thought about trying drugs.
I spent much of my high school life advocating a drug-free life.
I was not always a good kid. There are those who say that restrictive, controlling parents cause this teenaged, rebellious behavior, but I'm going to tell you that they're wrong. My parents were the most restrictive, controlling parents that you could imagine. I spent half of my high school life grounded under jackboot for insufficient school performance. I was always to be home before 9, nor was I allowed to go out in the evenings for any unapproved events. Even my friends were subject to their judgement.
I spent most of high school fighting with my parents, just as any other rebellious teenager. We fought over just about any thing you could think of, so long as it had to do with my parent's control over me.
However,
I never hated my parents. I never did horrible unspeakable things, or developed detestable morals. There are a few reasons for these things.
I was brought up by parents who made sure I had a few things.
Judgement Pride Capability Compassion Awaren ess Strength Courage Honor
and above all, A Hard Head.
These are the things you should worry about your children developing, NOT poor Internet habits.
For those of you unsatisfied with that whole shplop, I'll tell you about my parents and the computer.
When I was five, my father decided that computers were the wave of the future, and that I was going to grow up with them. My first PC was a Commodore 64, and it was a beaut. 4 Color monitor, and the programs that I could get for it were limited to only a few, all of which were in good taste. It's hard to show violence and sex in text-mode.
Secondly, there was the IBM PS/2. I don't know how my parents scraped and pinched for it at the time, but it was there. The most exciting thing was that typing game where you blew up the falling letters. It was here I was being introduced to such vile immoral programs such as wordperfect.
Next, came the 386. Programs were widespread, and I was copying my friends games onto floppy and bringing them home to play with all the time. My parents were beginning to take notice. They would come down to the basement every once in a while, and tell me to go do something not on the computer for a while. I still read at this point in time, I was only 10. You know, Catch 22, a Tale of Two Cities, The Color Purple, and other light classics. My parents always encouraged reading.
The advent of the real hard drive, Windows 9x, and CDROMS brought the next revolution in computing. The internet. It was a must-have. Loading up AOL 3.0 and figuring out how to use a "modem" was quite an adventure. I soon found that I could hack my way into just about anything. Parentals became incredibly suspicious about my activities on the Internet. They started watching. We had trust, but they were constantly asking about what I was doing. They watched the Nightline programs about the shady Underground of Internet Chatrooms and other lecherous places that were available to all those kids who wanted to participate. At the time, I was trying to learn C++, the only resources available to me being on the Internet. I was learning to program databases on telnet and object-oriented programming and user interfaces. My parents put a quick end to this. They put a clamp down on what I could do, where I could go, an
Seeing as how he or his representatives haven't set foot on the property in over three years, doesn't this technically make the property public domain?
Hippocritical? As an American, you are born with so many rights and privilages without having to so much as pop out of the womb (and now you get them as long as you're half way out!). You exercise them and expect them without lifting a finger, yet most people wouldn't support fighting for other people's rights and priviladges. I'm sorry, but apparantly, there's nothing wrong with being a hippocrite.
For that matter, how do you get a well-regulated militia together if no one has a gun. Are we going to maintain facilities around the nation stockpiling M-16's like they do with AK-47's in Communist China?
It is constitutionally protected. How in heck do you plan to form a well-regulated militia when you need it if NO ONE knows how to shoot a gun?!
Starting off in the ROTC, I could tell immediatly which kids came from the liberal families. The ones that had absolutly no idea what they were doing. Ever.
Not mentioned is the only way to change the foreign policy of the US is to reduce it's reliance on oil. It's doubtful that the US would be so interested in middle-eastern politics if we didn't need the crack they were offering.
Oh, and here you are:
"We did not tune any of the software to improve performance."
Well, well, well. This benchmark is accurate if you are hiring monkies for your IT department. If you do that I can guarantee that your costs will go through the roof, 2.5 times more 'performance' or not.
After all, who needs incredible high user count scalability for only simple file sharing on aging hardware?
And what the heck was the setup? Anything setup slightly incorrectly can suffer incredibly major performance hits.
I for one would like to point out the obvious reason why one percent of Comcast's network users are utilizing thirty percent of their network capacity.
Their network sucks.
That being said, a 1% - 30% ratio isn't that bad. In the last network I managed, small, 50 users, I found that the top user dominated the network's bandwidth by 50% on average. The thing is, that the last 50% was plenty for use by everyone else.
Now Comcast isn't admitting that it's signed up more people, and promised more than I could deliver.
This would be, quite clearly, one of those cases.
I would also like to point out that I am a Comcast Cable Internet and Television Subscriber. I'm currently using 56k. In the eight months I've been a good paying subscriber, I've only been able to be online through my coax for six of those months.
All technical support calls have lead to nothing. I've had to fix every single problem and connectivity issue myself, or at least get the technician on the other end of the phone to do what I think should be done.
So when they say that 1% of their users are utilizing 30% of their network resources, they must mean that only 10% of their users can actually get online.
Well, Comcast, try, try, try again. If all else fails, blame the users and charge the scapegoats more money.
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This is the greatest threat that US labor has ever seen.
How could we ever hope to become anything more than minimum labor slaves by this? Since when did employeers give a shit about their employees without being named Paul Newmann?
And how many of these so called 'linux' units are being immediatly wiped out and replaced with easy-to-copy free2k?
Wait until IT starts switching to a version of Windows with some actual piracy control.
I for one am glad that it is actually law enforcement enforcing the law instead of RIAA. It just seems to me that things that are illegal should be policed by police, and not by corporate lawyers.
It is my belief that the Internet is surpassingly threatening to the various dictators and tyrants of the world. While we can not associate the Internet directly, since it's conception, the world's dictators and tyrants have been changing their tunes.
Syria stopped being a putz -
Cuba is inviting open market reforms -
China can't seem to block things fast enough and seems to be on the fast track to an open market society with elections around the corner -
South America is making leaps and bounds in creating fair government -
Again, while we can't hail the internet for all of this, I would find all this change hard to believe if we were without it.
David
Who needs hubble when we have a base on the MOON?!
Heck, it's probably far more cost effective. (once we're there)
that dumb people use powerpoint as well?
At least, I chalk up dumb powerpoint presentations to dumb people.
Look at the project inventory list. 1.5 watt bidirectional amps.
Sheesh.
This one is going to be a tough one...
I am 21. It was not so long ago that I was a teenage high school kid myself. I was a honor student (50% of the time), a boy scout, and an ROTC cadet.
I did not try drinking.
But I did try alcohol, after asking my parents what they thought of it.
I did not have sex.
I believed that sex was a sacred thing to share between soulmates. I thought that I had found the one girl, once or twice, but I know she's out there and I want to meet her without regret.
I never thought about trying drugs.
I spent much of my high school life advocating a drug-free life.
I was not always a good kid. There are those who say that restrictive, controlling parents cause this teenaged, rebellious behavior, but I'm going to tell you that they're wrong. My parents were the most restrictive, controlling parents that you could imagine. I spent half of my high school life grounded under jackboot for insufficient school performance. I was always to be home before 9, nor was I allowed to go out in the evenings for any unapproved events. Even my friends were subject to their judgement.
I spent most of high school fighting with my parents, just as any other rebellious teenager. We fought over just about any thing you could think of, so long as it had to do with my parent's control over me.
However,
I never hated my parents. I never did horrible unspeakable things, or developed detestable morals. There are a few reasons for these things.
I was brought up by parents who made sure I had a few things.
Judgement
Pride
Capability
Compassion
Awaren ess
Strength
Courage
Honor
and above all, A Hard Head.
These are the things you should worry about your children developing, NOT poor Internet habits.
For those of you unsatisfied with that whole shplop, I'll tell you about my parents and the computer.
When I was five, my father decided that computers were the wave of the future, and that I was going to grow up with them. My first PC was a Commodore 64, and it was a beaut. 4 Color monitor, and the programs that I could get for it were limited to only a few, all of which were in good taste. It's hard to show violence and sex in text-mode.
Secondly, there was the IBM PS/2. I don't know how my parents scraped and pinched for it at the time, but it was there. The most exciting thing was that typing game where you blew up the falling letters. It was here I was being introduced to such vile immoral programs such as wordperfect.
Next, came the 386. Programs were widespread, and I was copying my friends games onto floppy and bringing them home to play with all the time. My parents were beginning to take notice. They would come down to the basement every once in a while, and tell me to go do something not on the computer for a while. I still read at this point in time, I was only 10. You know, Catch 22, a Tale of Two Cities, The Color Purple, and other light classics. My parents always encouraged reading.
The advent of the real hard drive, Windows 9x, and CDROMS brought the next revolution in computing. The internet. It was a must-have. Loading up AOL 3.0 and figuring out how to use a "modem" was quite an adventure. I soon found that I could hack my way into just about anything. Parentals became incredibly suspicious about my activities on the Internet. They started watching. We had trust, but they were constantly asking about what I was doing. They watched the Nightline programs about the shady Underground of Internet Chatrooms and other lecherous places that were available to all those kids who wanted to participate. At the time, I was trying to learn C++, the only resources available to me being on the Internet. I was learning to program databases on telnet and object-oriented programming and user interfaces. My parents put a quick end to this. They put a clamp down on what I could do, where I could go, an
Seeing as how he or his representatives haven't set foot on the property in over three years, doesn't this technically make the property public domain?
Hippocritical? As an American, you are born with so many rights and privilages without having to so much as pop out of the womb (and now you get them as long as you're half way out!). You exercise them and expect them without lifting a finger, yet most people wouldn't support fighting for other people's rights and priviladges. I'm sorry, but apparantly, there's nothing wrong with being a hippocrite.
For that matter, how do you get a well-regulated militia together if no one has a gun. Are we going to maintain facilities around the nation stockpiling M-16's like they do with AK-47's in Communist China?
It is constitutionally protected. How in heck do you plan to form a well-regulated militia when you need it if NO ONE knows how to shoot a gun?! Starting off in the ROTC, I could tell immediatly which kids came from the liberal families. The ones that had absolutly no idea what they were doing. Ever.
Guns don't kill people. People with guns kill people.
Not mentioned is the only way to change the foreign policy of the US is to reduce it's reliance on oil. It's doubtful that the US would be so interested in middle-eastern politics if we didn't need the crack they were offering.
the method of putting a sheep and a cow within 100 feet of another for good sheep-cow proximity. Are you infringing on my invention?
I wonder how cheap an Intel cluster would become using discounted Pentium 4's or even the celerons.
Oh, and here you are: "We did not tune any of the software to improve performance." Well, well, well. This benchmark is accurate if you are hiring monkies for your IT department. If you do that I can guarantee that your costs will go through the roof, 2.5 times more 'performance' or not.
After all, who needs incredible high user count scalability for only simple file sharing on aging hardware? And what the heck was the setup? Anything setup slightly incorrectly can suffer incredibly major performance hits.
Clearly, 50 million subscribers to the No Call List is AUTHORITY ENOUGH.
Last time I looked at this, public law enforcement was more or less responsible for enforcing the public law...
Has something changed? Or is it just not really a law worth enforcing at all?
"promised more than I could deliver" *promised more than it could deliver
I for one would like to point out the obvious reason why one percent of Comcast's network users are utilizing thirty percent of their network capacity.
Their network sucks.
That being said, a 1% - 30% ratio isn't that bad. In the last network I managed, small, 50 users, I found that the top user dominated the network's bandwidth by 50% on average. The thing is, that the last 50% was plenty for use by everyone else.
Now Comcast isn't admitting that it's signed up more people, and promised more than I could deliver.
This would be, quite clearly, one of those cases.
I would also like to point out that I am a Comcast Cable Internet and Television Subscriber. I'm currently using 56k. In the eight months I've been a good paying subscriber, I've only been able to be online through my coax for six of those months.
All technical support calls have lead to nothing. I've had to fix every single problem and connectivity issue myself, or at least get the technician on the other end of the phone to do what I think should be done.
So when they say that 1% of their users are utilizing 30% of their network resources, they must mean that only 10% of their users can actually get online.
Well, Comcast, try, try, try again. If all else fails, blame the users and charge the scapegoats more money.