This seems like an easy problem to solve. The block links coming from you, but not others? Just rip off their content... err... I mean mirror their content for them, and post a link to the mirror. Or better yet, post a link to the Google cache.
As a U.S. taxpayer, I'm all for giving the Russians a chance. Heck, who's stopping them? What I'm not in favor of is taxing Americans and then GIVING the money to the Russians to build the thing. We've outsourced and sent enough jobs overseas. Hasn't anyone noticed there are fewer and fewer of us taxpayers not on unemployment here? Personally I have nothing against Russia at all, but I have something against anyone who holds out their hands and expects Americans having enough problems making a buck here to send them our tax money and our jobs.
I've seen a lot of figures that show how the space race in the 60's helped grow the economy here. Personally I think we should take the time to help ourselves. If we don't and we all starve to death, you can be sure that no one is going to help us.
What I want to know is how long it will be before we have AI clients that can carry on conversations with these sales people and how long will they be able to keep them talking before the sales monkey figures out they are talking to an AI 'bot that doesn't have the authority or capability to buy anything.
Of course, the other question is how long before the salespeople are replaced by AI 'bots themselves. But it seems more likely that they will just be outsourced to India.
From the website:
Over 27,000 HTML eBooks
Over 60,000 PDF eBooks
Sure looks to me like the effort people put into making these books free has been subverted into making more than half of these book more available to paying customers, err I mean "members", than to the generaal public. I too think it stinks.
There is plenty of very good information out there that isn't indexed. For example, I found a lot about the top level finances of my company, including compensation of the president and vice presidents, that was made a matter of public record when they filed the information as part of an IPO. However, unless I had found the IPO on the SEC website because I found a financial site that let me search for IPOs, I would have never known that the information was available to the public. No search engine would find it, even when given the name of the company and the names of the people involved, or the company name and the term IPO (and, interestingly, the copy of the IPO file documents that had been provided to myself and other managers were doctored to omit this information). At the very least, I would want all government information to be searchable on common search engines like Google. Not that I think they should be able to publish all of the information on the web that they do; but if they are going to publish it, then it should be easily searchable.
Yes, they are arriving at much heat, which is what they deserve. Fortunately, they are far from receiving too much heat, which sounds like what you said but is complete different.
So when some of us, after plenty of good reason, don't trust our government, we're made fun of and told to put on our tin-foil hats. But when Al Qaeda is beaten even after taking precautions of using phone "chips" that they bought anonymously, we laugh at them for not being cautious enough.
I don't really think this would happen so easily. Normal people have no glue...
Sure, many Windows users don't have a glue, but it doesn't take many. If the source were open, then someone would recompile it without the spy software installed, and on a p2p network it wouldn't take long before the other users had it too. After all, one thing the RIAA has done a good job of is make it well know that you don't want them tracking what you do with your computer, since apparently even innocent people have been targets of their expensive lawsuits.
But the point isn't really if many people will do it, it's if any people will be able to do it. If they can mandate RIAA code in p2p software, then the next step is certainly to be to put a stop to open source code, since open source could allow a work-around.
Of course, there would be no point in putting this code in the p2p software if someone could just comment it out before they recompiled it. So evil open source code must be outlawed. Hail Microsoft.
researchers from the Washington University in St. Louis have found carbon older than the Solar System.
Is not almost all carbon on Earth older than the Sun? I was under the impression that it was pretty much accepted that all elements heavier than hydrogen were made in stars. Since I doubt that much (relatively speaking) made on Sol gets out of the gravity well, that pretty much says our carbon (and all of our other elements, save the little we made outselves or that is the result of natural fision of other elements) comes from older stars.
sure, one can come up with a logical explination for it. That doesn't make it any less real that sensors can be set up in places (like airports) that detect when you're carrying a moderate amount of cash with you. Unlike me, you might not resent the government doing this. Might you resent street thugs doing this to help pick a ripe "vic"? Personally, I resent that it can be done with out money at all.
Don't forget that SCO has a PIPE deal with BayStar Capital and the Royal Bank of Canada that gives them priority over most claimants in any liquidation deal.
Boy, this reeks of corruption. You partner up with people who likely know you're crooked, bankroll you, and somehow you manage to set up a deal that when you're finally caught, they get to take all of your stolen loot (except what you've given Daryl in wages and bonuses)? Are the courts really likely to let this go on?
I'm not sure about abandoned applications, though. In addition, the full text of every patent since the mid-1970's is available online at www.uspto.gov.
Look at the site's URL. Alaxender isn't in the United States. Why assume he filed the patent with the uspto? Still, the "secret" may be a matter of public record, but not likely at the link you gave.
You're missing the point. In this case Microsoft doesn't give a damn about hackers. They want to own the industry like they own the desktop, and they want to strengthen their hold on the desktop. Microsoft pattented property being required for playing a HD-DVD will be the tool they need to be sure that no official Linux release ever has a HD-DVD player. Sure, a few hackers may add on after the fact, but for the masses Windows software will be able to play HD-DVDs and Linux will not.
Just the opposite. It wouldn't stand up as an alibi, but there was at least one well publicised case where the store used the information against a customer. He was trying to bring a lawsuit against the store for injuries sustained in the store, and they used the database to show the jury how much alcohol he had purchased since the card program started (although there was no evidence he was under the influence at the time).
Use a phony name and ssn when getting the card in the first place?
Here, since they have obviously figured out that people don't really want to be tracked, they mail you the card. Do the have to have your address. Even if I were going to get a card I would never give them my SS#, but a wrong name and your address might not get delivered (and a good database with all of the public information on you could likely cross to your real name from your address anyway).
The card being referred to is just a "savings card" (they go by many names).
Here one chain calls the the VIC card, slang for victim. And Food Liein', in their first ads for the card, called it the moron card when the store spokesman was telling everyone that there was another crap privacry invading card that they should carry in their wallets with the phrase "Save, moron, hundreds of Food Liein' items."
Just pay with cash and they'll never know it was you!
Unfortunately, at a growing number of stores, including every single grocery store in my area, thay want you to carry and use a card that identifies you to the system even if you do pay cash. Of course, you can not cary a card, but then you don't get any of the sale prices, and more and more items seem to be "on sale". Of course, the sale prices are still higher than the items were before the cards, and higher than the items are in areas where they don't have the cards. So yes, you can pay cash, but be prepaired to pay a few bucks extra if you want to retain your privacy.
If it is only a miniscule percentage then it would have little impact on this big ISP, so there would be no reason to go to the extra effort to add extra complexity do this to people. No, the very action of doing it shows they know they are affecting a significant percentage of users. And what is acomplished by offering unlimited service and then choking it off this way? At least the news servers use only bandwidth that is local to Earthlink; that is, once the article is on the Earthlink server, any number of Earthlink users can download it without adding to the bandwidth to the rest of the Internet (the bandwidth that Earthlink should be more concerned about).
Why should the news group user have his bandwidth limited to dial up speeds, when the p2p user can use full bandwidth that extends outside of just Earthlink all month, or the FTP user, or someone who uses their unlimited always-on connection to listen to Internet radio 24/7, or any other application that uses large amounts of bandwidth, but doesn't use it as efficently as news groups do?
Slashdot Mirror
This seems like an easy problem to solve. The block links coming from you, but not others? Just rip off their content ... err... I mean mirror their content for them, and post a link to the mirror. Or better yet, post a link to the Google cache.
I've seen a lot of figures that show how the space race in the 60's helped grow the economy here. Personally I think we should take the time to help ourselves. If we don't and we all starve to death, you can be sure that no one is going to help us.
Of course, the other question is how long before the salespeople are replaced by AI 'bots themselves. But it seems more likely that they will just be outsourced to India.
From the website: Over 27,000 HTML eBooks Over 60,000 PDF eBooks Sure looks to me like the effort people put into making these books free has been subverted into making more than half of these book more available to paying customers, err I mean "members", than to the generaal public. I too think it stinks.
So you're saying that, much like the UFOs, this really is true but it's being covered up?
There is plenty of very good information out there that isn't indexed. For example, I found a lot about the top level finances of my company, including compensation of the president and vice presidents, that was made a matter of public record when they filed the information as part of an IPO. However, unless I had found the IPO on the SEC website because I found a financial site that let me search for IPOs, I would have never known that the information was available to the public. No search engine would find it, even when given the name of the company and the names of the people involved, or the company name and the term IPO (and, interestingly, the copy of the IPO file documents that had been provided to myself and other managers were doctored to omit this information). At the very least, I would want all government information to be searchable on common search engines like Google. Not that I think they should be able to publish all of the information on the web that they do; but if they are going to publish it, then it should be easily searchable.
Bullshit.
What's scary to me is the belief that Sony somehow owns the idea of robot dogs, just because they built one.
Hey, slick, it can memorize a SpeedPass code. Gee, what could posiably go wrong with this?
Now we gotta wrap our speed pass in tin foil too!
Yes, they are arriving at much heat, which is what they deserve. Fortunately, they are far from receiving too much heat, which sounds like what you said but is complete different.
So when some of us, after plenty of good reason, don't trust our government, we're made fun of and told to put on our tin-foil hats. But when Al Qaeda is beaten even after taking precautions of using phone "chips" that they bought anonymously, we laugh at them for not being cautious enough.
Sure, many Windows users don't have a glue, but it doesn't take many. If the source were open, then someone would recompile it without the spy software installed, and on a p2p network it wouldn't take long before the other users had it too. After all, one thing the RIAA has done a good job of is make it well know that you don't want them tracking what you do with your computer, since apparently even innocent people have been targets of their expensive lawsuits. But the point isn't really if many people will do it, it's if any people will be able to do it. If they can mandate RIAA code in p2p software, then the next step is certainly to be to put a stop to open source code, since open source could allow a work-around.
Of course, there would be no point in putting this code in the p2p software if someone could just comment it out before they recompiled it. So evil open source code must be outlawed. Hail Microsoft.
Is not almost all carbon on Earth older than the Sun? I was under the impression that it was pretty much accepted that all elements heavier than hydrogen were made in stars. Since I doubt that much (relatively speaking) made on Sol gets out of the gravity well, that pretty much says our carbon (and all of our other elements, save the little we made outselves or that is the result of natural fision of other elements) comes from older stars.
sure, one can come up with a logical explination for it. That doesn't make it any less real that sensors can be set up in places (like airports) that detect when you're carrying a moderate amount of cash with you. Unlike me, you might not resent the government doing this. Might you resent street thugs doing this to help pick a ripe "vic"? Personally, I resent that it can be done with out money at all.
You shouldn't talk about Bill that way.
I mean, OH! Who could that be?
Boy, this reeks of corruption. You partner up with people who likely know you're crooked, bankroll you, and somehow you manage to set up a deal that when you're finally caught, they get to take all of your stolen loot (except what you've given Daryl in wages and bonuses)? Are the courts really likely to let this go on?
Look at the site's URL. Alaxender isn't in the United States. Why assume he filed the patent with the uspto? Still, the "secret" may be a matter of public record, but not likely at the link you gave.
You're missing the point. In this case Microsoft doesn't give a damn about hackers. They want to own the industry like they own the desktop, and they want to strengthen their hold on the desktop. Microsoft pattented property being required for playing a HD-DVD will be the tool they need to be sure that no official Linux release ever has a HD-DVD player. Sure, a few hackers may add on after the fact, but for the masses Windows software will be able to play HD-DVDs and Linux will not.
Just the opposite. It wouldn't stand up as an alibi, but there was at least one well publicised case where the store used the information against a customer. He was trying to bring a lawsuit against the store for injuries sustained in the store, and they used the database to show the jury how much alcohol he had purchased since the card program started (although there was no evidence he was under the influence at the time).
Here, since they have obviously figured out that people don't really want to be tracked, they mail you the card. Do the have to have your address. Even if I were going to get a card I would never give them my SS#, but a wrong name and your address might not get delivered (and a good database with all of the public information on you could likely cross to your real name from your address anyway).
Here one chain calls the the VIC card, slang for victim. And Food Liein', in their first ads for the card, called it the moron card when the store spokesman was telling everyone that there was another crap privacry invading card that they should carry in their wallets with the phrase "Save, moron, hundreds of Food Liein' items."
Unfortunately, at a growing number of stores, including every single grocery store in my area, thay want you to carry and use a card that identifies you to the system even if you do pay cash. Of course, you can not cary a card, but then you don't get any of the sale prices, and more and more items seem to be "on sale". Of course, the sale prices are still higher than the items were before the cards, and higher than the items are in areas where they don't have the cards. So yes, you can pay cash, but be prepaired to pay a few bucks extra if you want to retain your privacy.
Sounds like we now know who to send the mobs with torches and pickforks after.
If it is only a miniscule percentage then it would have little impact on this big ISP, so there would be no reason to go to the extra effort to add extra complexity do this to people. No, the very action of doing it shows they know they are affecting a significant percentage of users. And what is acomplished by offering unlimited service and then choking it off this way? At least the news servers use only bandwidth that is local to Earthlink; that is, once the article is on the Earthlink server, any number of Earthlink users can download it without adding to the bandwidth to the rest of the Internet (the bandwidth that Earthlink should be more concerned about).
Why should the news group user have his bandwidth limited to dial up speeds, when the p2p user can use full bandwidth that extends outside of just Earthlink all month, or the FTP user, or someone who uses their unlimited always-on connection to listen to Internet radio 24/7, or any other application that uses large amounts of bandwidth, but doesn't use it as efficently as news groups do?