The FCC should be working in the interests of American consumers
The FCC has nothing to do with the American consumer. They don't control the price of black eyed peas at the supermarket or get to set the prime lending rate.
They ruled based on law, they couldn't find anything in the law that would prevent the bundling of services.
Bitch to your congressman, support some consumer advocacy and awareness groups.
Spouting off about how 'evil' the FCC is, just makes you look like yet another asshat who slept through civics in junior high.
Just policy based on law, and based on the mandate given them by congress.
That is to say, write your congressman if you have a beef, don't sit around whining about how much of an asshole you think Powell is.
That's like bitching about the judge who sends you up the river for selling pot, or the cop who busted. They just interpret and enforce the law, they don't write it.
Well, Xerox makes pocket calculators, but that's not what you'd think of if I suggested you run out and buy a "Xerox machine" to help you with your math homework.
My point being, "Airstream" == "Trailer" to most folk.
Of course, the RV you linked too ain't cheap, like the submitter suggests an Airstream would be.
What are you rights when you're no longer able to make your own decisions, etc.?
Your legal next of kin makes the decisions for you. That's the law, has always been the law, and despite "emergency sessions of congress" to change it, every court that there is upheld that that is, indeed, the law.
It was the husbands decision to make, a decision that's made thousands of times every single day. The only difference is that most families have a little more tact and respect for their loved ones to turn their death into a media event.
Terri Schaivo was a political pawn. Just another source of soundbites. A chance for every ambulance chasing quack to get on TV to give his professional medical opinion about a patient they'd never examined (any doctor who does that should have their license pulled on principle alone). No one will remember her in a year or two.
Remember Elian Gonzalez? I didn't think so. The whole nation "cared" about him once.
Ever make a call to Japan (or the other side of the world) that bounced through satellites? The echoing and delay.
All your calls would sound like that.. Yech.
I'd imagine the dude having a cell for regular talkin', 802.11 hookups for when he drives into a hotspot, and satellite for a data link when nothing else is available.
As much as the OSS community talks about "oh just fork it", or how there are so many choices, and that's what makes the code strong, well, they're wrong.
There isn't much in the OSS world to compete with OO.o. Just like there's only one Samba, only one Apache, etc..
There's very little "competition" in the land of FOSS, and the various maintainers and developers have every right to bitch about stuff like this if they want.
For years there was XFree86, and that was it for FOSS X window systems. Finally, they screwed with it enough to fork off X.Org, but still, that's just one main project we all wind up looking to.
OO.o was to be a part of the little turnkey linux distro we're putting together for our clients (govt setting), but now we have to rethink it, rewrite it, or find an alternative, to get around potential Java licensing issues.
The.NET SDK (compilers and everything else you need) is free from MSFT.
For everything else, there's Mono and dotGNU, and plently of fledgeling C# compilers.
Blackdown isn't open source:
We each are dedicated to the professional development of the Java platform for Linux based on the community source concept. We see participation in the Blackdown project as a cutting-edge opportunity for intellectual cooperation between the open source community and the commercial software industry. We each are committed to abiding by the agreements we've made with Sun and other technology vendors. We aim to use their good will to further the cause of independence for software developers around the world. A bridge between the open source community and the commercial software development world is to everyone's advantage, and we would like to exemplify that relationship. We believe that the vendors with whom we partner are committed to the same ideals.
It's a free-for-non-commercial-use linux port of Java. It's stillborn in the corporate world.
Theater tickets, not cinema tickets. Submitter is just an asshole.
Tickets to something like Phantom can cost from hundreds to thousands of dollars for good seats, depending on the city. However, they will almost certainly get you laid.
I wouldn't even stop walking for free movie tickets.
Someone summon congress to hold an emergency session to create a special law that will allow us to reinsert Trek's feeding tube, despite the wishes of it's legal caretaker.
A multiproc desktop monster doesn't fit in the carry on compartment of an airplane.
I would use a tablet for all those things, but in a pinch, if I needed to fix something on site, I'd expect it to be able to churn out a working.exe once in awhile.
Don't be so friggin defensive.. Sheesh. You'd think this stupid little computer was your kid or something.
Not all of us do data entry or network support, sparky.
One of our companies' apps takes a half hour or so to compile on my 2.4ghz P4M laptop, that's an long, awkward, span of time to sit there drumming your fingers in front of a client.
They do not do e911, enhanced 911, the very subject of TFA. Think of it as a fancy kind of a caller id signal that encapsulates your location info.
What they do is a cheesy kludge that redirects your call to the local PD, which may or may not be the dispatch center. The dispatch center does not automatically recieve your location, like it would with POTS or newer mobile phones.
To make things worse, sometimes the dispatcher will recieve e911 info - from whatever address that the local VOIP-to-POTS box is sitting at. So not only do you bleed to death from a gunshot wound, half the cities emergency services are no flying off to the wrong address.
It's not an acceptable alternative, even when it does work. And they shouldn't be advertising that people can just drop the old phone system, like they do, because they cannot. The family in TFA found out the hard way.
I've tried to mention this on slashdot many times, but am modded down flamebait or troll, because I guess Vonage is a darling of slashdot (like Apple or TiVo), and you can't "badmouth" them here.
If you get Vonage, DO NOT DITCH POTS. Don't leave one pots phone hooked up in some obscure corner, rather the one vonage handset hidden away for making LD calls. That way, when company is over, and you have a heart attack, they can pick up just any phone that's handy and dial 911 - that's how the system is supposed to work. You should be able to pick up any phone that's plugged in, dial 911, and not say a word, and the cops will find you.
Even if they say they support local 911 - they dont.
They need to tax VOIP, as much as slashbots don't like it. 911 needs to work, from every phone in the country.
I don't care about your lives per se, if you want to risk it, fine. But if I'm in an emergency, and the closest phone is yours, 911 better damn well work on it, and work properly.
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Congrats! I knew some asshat would post "MacMini's are better!" for some arbitrary reason. That person is you.
I guess you're saying Macs are built to last forever? Heh.. They look like worse than an XBox on the inside.
Good work, and keep up the slashdot groupthink and Apple astroturfing.
"Toothing" sounds exactly like the type of sexual encounter you're likely to find in the UK.
Every zealot should read it.
Maybe for the kids block "toonami", but CN shelled out at least for the translation of Big O, and IIRC, they co-produced it.
/. is just parroting another press release.
That was for the Adult Swim action block (Cowboy Bebop, Trigun, Big O). This is Toonami (Dragonball, Pokemon, Teen Titans).
Frankly, I'd say that Teen Titans anime' style would qualify it as the "first".
There's nothing special about this announcement,
The FCC should be working in the interests of American consumers
The FCC has nothing to do with the American consumer. They don't control the price of black eyed peas at the supermarket or get to set the prime lending rate.
They ruled based on law, they couldn't find anything in the law that would prevent the bundling of services.
Bitch to your congressman, support some consumer advocacy and awareness groups.
Spouting off about how 'evil' the FCC is, just makes you look like yet another asshat who slept through civics in junior high.
Just policy based on law, and based on the mandate given them by congress.
That is to say, write your congressman if you have a beef, don't sit around whining about how much of an asshole you think Powell is.
That's like bitching about the judge who sends you up the river for selling pot, or the cop who busted. They just interpret and enforce the law, they don't write it.
Well, Xerox makes pocket calculators, but that's not what you'd think of if I suggested you run out and buy a "Xerox machine" to help you with your math homework.
My point being, "Airstream" == "Trailer" to most folk.
Of course, the RV you linked too ain't cheap, like the submitter suggests an Airstream would be.
What are you rights when you're no longer able to make your own decisions, etc.?
Your legal next of kin makes the decisions for you. That's the law, has always been the law, and despite "emergency sessions of congress" to change it, every court that there is upheld that that is, indeed, the law.
It was the husbands decision to make, a decision that's made thousands of times every single day. The only difference is that most families have a little more tact and respect for their loved ones to turn their death into a media event.
Terri Schaivo was a political pawn. Just another source of soundbites. A chance for every ambulance chasing quack to get on TV to give his professional medical opinion about a patient they'd never examined (any doctor who does that should have their license pulled on principle alone). No one will remember her in a year or two.
Remember Elian Gonzalez? I didn't think so. The whole nation "cared" about him once.
Ever make a call to Japan (or the other side of the world) that bounced through satellites? The echoing and delay.
All your calls would sound like that.. Yech.
I'd imagine the dude having a cell for regular talkin', 802.11 hookups for when he drives into a hotspot, and satellite for a data link when nothing else is available.
You know, you still have to buy and maintain a vehicle to pull around your TRAILER.
A trailer/camper/popup is no substitute for a jacked out RV. One is a home with wheels, the other is a tent with pressboard and vinyl walls.
You lazy fuckstick.
Go to google, try it, go to msn, try it, go to yahoo, try it, go to teoma, try it, go to Ask Jeeves, try it.
It's called DOING YOUR OWN FUCKING WORK, and it's the latest craze outside of the US.
or a plug for the EyeToy addon for the PS2?
As much as the OSS community talks about "oh just fork it", or how there are so many choices, and that's what makes the code strong, well, they're wrong.
There isn't much in the OSS world to compete with OO.o. Just like there's only one Samba, only one Apache, etc..
There's very little "competition" in the land of FOSS, and the various maintainers and developers have every right to bitch about stuff like this if they want.
For years there was XFree86, and that was it for FOSS X window systems. Finally, they screwed with it enough to fork off X.Org, but still, that's just one main project we all wind up looking to.
OO.o was to be a part of the little turnkey linux distro we're putting together for our clients (govt setting), but now we have to rethink it, rewrite it, or find an alternative, to get around potential Java licensing issues.
The .NET SDK (compilers and everything else you need) is free from MSFT.
For everything else, there's Mono and dotGNU, and plently of fledgeling C# compilers.
Blackdown isn't open source:
We each are dedicated to the professional development of the Java platform for Linux based on the community source concept. We see participation in the Blackdown project as a cutting-edge opportunity for intellectual cooperation between the open source community and the commercial software industry. We each are committed to abiding by the agreements we've made with Sun and other technology vendors. We aim to use their good will to further the cause of independence for software developers around the world. A bridge between the open source community and the commercial software development world is to everyone's advantage, and we would like to exemplify that relationship. We believe that the vendors with whom we partner are committed to the same ideals.
It's a free-for-non-commercial-use linux port of Java. It's stillborn in the corporate world.
And that's news you can use.
.NET, ironically, since it's much more free than Java is.
They should have used
File->Preferences->Grammar
Uncheck "Yoda Mode".
I don't see how MSFT can take the blame, grammar and spelling, and proper English simply are not taught in US schools anymore.
Theater tickets, not cinema tickets. Submitter is just an asshole.
Tickets to something like Phantom can cost from hundreds to thousands of dollars for good seats, depending on the city. However, they will almost certainly get you laid.
I wouldn't even stop walking for free movie tickets.
Who the fuck are the Dallas Mavericks?
Soccer team or something?
Someone summon congress to hold an emergency session to create a special law that will allow us to reinsert Trek's feeding tube, despite the wishes of it's legal caretaker.
Only the code he adds.
Kernel 2.6.(whatever today's is) will be free for everyone 25 years after the last contributing author dies.
That is, the source tree that exists right now, this very second.
And if the guy who wrote some obscure little MIPS compatable just won't kick off, you can take his chunks out.
Had to make up all the results in the end, just so I'd have something to report.
Heh, heh.. Been there, done that!
TTYL, Dan Rather
Because if you're right, Apple will sue you.
A multiproc desktop monster doesn't fit in the carry on compartment of an airplane.
.exe once in awhile.
I would use a tablet for all those things, but in a pinch, if I needed to fix something on site, I'd expect it to be able to churn out a working
Don't be so friggin defensive.. Sheesh. You'd think this stupid little computer was your kid or something.
Not all of us do data entry or network support, sparky.
One of our companies' apps takes a half hour or so to compile on my 2.4ghz P4M laptop, that's an long, awkward, span of time to sit there drumming your fingers in front of a client.
They do not do e911, enhanced 911, the very subject of TFA. Think of it as a fancy kind of a caller id signal that encapsulates your location info.
What they do is a cheesy kludge that redirects your call to the local PD, which may or may not be the dispatch center. The dispatch center does not automatically recieve your location, like it would with POTS or newer mobile phones.
To make things worse, sometimes the dispatcher will recieve e911 info - from whatever address that the local VOIP-to-POTS box is sitting at. So not only do you bleed to death from a gunshot wound, half the cities emergency services are no flying off to the wrong address.
It's not an acceptable alternative, even when it does work. And they shouldn't be advertising that people can just drop the old phone system, like they do, because they cannot. The family in TFA found out the hard way.
I've tried to mention this on slashdot many times, but am modded down flamebait or troll, because I guess Vonage is a darling of slashdot (like Apple or TiVo), and you can't "badmouth" them here.
If you get Vonage, DO NOT DITCH POTS. Don't leave one pots phone hooked up in some obscure corner, rather the one vonage handset hidden away for making LD calls. That way, when company is over, and you have a heart attack, they can pick up just any phone that's handy and dial 911 - that's how the system is supposed to work. You should be able to pick up any phone that's plugged in, dial 911, and not say a word, and the cops will find you.
Even if they say they support local 911 - they dont.
They need to tax VOIP, as much as slashbots don't like it. 911 needs to work, from every phone in the country.
I don't care about your lives per se, if you want to risk it, fine. But if I'm in an emergency, and the closest phone is yours, 911 better damn well work on it, and work properly.