That's the wonders of having a federal agency. If they're not corrupt, they can actually do things for the benefit of the people.
On a related note, there's an old story on PBS about a Canadian who became his own cable company. FTFA:
With the exception of local channels, which come from an antenna, all of Andrew's video content comes from a C-band (big dish) satellite receiver (receivers, actually), and is fully paid for. "I buy the channels just like a cable system does or a motel that wants to offer HBO, from the National Programming Service," says Andrew. "And as a result I pay wholesale prices. People don't realize how much of a markup there in is the cable business. The Discovery Networks, for example, cost me $0.26 per customer per month. The IP laws in both the U.S. and Canada say that if I have legal access to this content I can store and use it. And the over-the-air channels, of course, are free."
Imagine of the FCC allowed people to be their own cable companies. At $.26 per channel per household, that's a hell of a steal. And that's also how you can see how much cable companies and DirectTV mark up their prices (don't forget, they also get advertising revenues.)
On a serious note, since I've got nothing else to do at work (as it's mind-numbingly boring), I was trying to figure out how many electrical plugs I would actually need to live a happy life (note, this is an extreme).
My answer: 2
One for the fridge, the other for a radio. Of course, it would be nice to have ceiling fans too, but those don't require power plugs, just direct wiring. Think about how many things you have plugged in to your house (e.g. those cell phone chargers you forget to unplug, how many clocks do you have in your house?, that entertainment system that never actually gets turned off but switched into standby) and compare that to what your parents went through when they were your age. And yet, somehow they managed without all of these doohickies that we have today.
The thing though, is that XP isn't really a 7-year-old OS. It *would* be if Microsoft quit development on it, but they're continuing to patch it and add more support for it. I suppose you could call it a 3-year-old OS, since SP2 came out in 2004, and SP3 apparently is only adding support for more registration keys.
Calling Windows XP a 7-year-old OS is like calling modern Linux systems nearly 4 years old because the 2.6 branch was released in late 2003. Or that servers are running 6-year-old OS's because the 2.4 branch was released in 2001.
Isn't this basically what AOL did? When they first started out, they could cope with the demand. But once they were really popular, their tubes weren't fat enough to handle all the people calling in?
What I was referring to is when really religious people keep talking to me about how great their religion is after I repeatedly tell them to shut up because I don't care. Us Catholics learned our lesson from the Inquisition, and the Jews learned long before that. I hope it takes less time for the evangicals (Not necessarily Anglicans, I'm thinking the stereotypicial Southern Baptist minister) and the Mormons.
The real damage being done is by people playing their music so loud and for such a long period of time. I can't recall any sources, but I do remember hearing about earbuds being especially bad, as the speakers are so close to the eardrums, compared to headphones, where the ear and ear canal can block and mute more of the soundwaves.
What good is sound quality when people are half-deaf already?
You decide whether to play your Playstation Portable at 333Mhz or using WiFi capabilities. You choose to:
1) play at 333 Mhz. Page 108 2) play with WiFi capabilities. Page 42 3) do both! Page 36
p36. "Your PSP reads 'Emergency shut down. Battery dead.' You go to plug in your PSP to recharge it and the bettery explodes. You die. p42. You experience a decrease in graphics quality but are happy to be playing with people instead of on your own. p108. You run to your room, lock the door, and admire the 333Mhz in all their glory. You forget where you place the key for the door and die of starvation. One week after your death, your PSP spontaneously turns on, its battery explodes, and your corpse is set on fire.
...and what do you mean is a functioning model? I specifically bought this phone because of bluetooth and camera. And would SE actually replace a phone that I bought off of ebay?
If the whole planet switched to hydrogen, what would be the overall effect of running a billion humidifiers on our roads? Would Arizona suddenly become as humid as Florida?
Not if we can actually get some laws to take away their drivers licenses. But seeing as they're the majority of people who actually go out and vote, that's not likely to happen any time soon....
Damn, misread the title. Although, maybe if I got enough people to petition, I could get one of those. But then all/. users would become expatriots of the United States, and I don't think Canada wants them either....
A while ago, I purposely downloaded the Bagle virus from one of my old yahoo accounts. That's when I found out the media was messing up every time they refered to it as the Beagle virus. How did I find out it was really Bagel? Because I opened it in vi, vi went into hex mode, and I found a bunch of registry strings containing Bagle instead of Beagle. In order to download it (because the online filters caught it as a virus,) I had to supply the direct URL that bypassed Yahoo's antivirus. It wasn't hard, all I had to do was delete a section of the URL string.
Someone asked me to send them a copy of the virus because they wanted to have a look at it too. I think I just renamed it to something like Bagle.jpg or something along those lines. But then again, that was years ago.
...lots of Universities also have a Law Faculty as well, and these are the guys who taught those lawyers.
Don't forget the IP lawyers the universities have. You know, the ones that 'protect' all those patents and copyrights that the Universities own? I know the WARF is not a body to be reckoned with.
But then again, the people being prosecuted here are the students. And why the hell would anyone like WARF want to waste resources on a handful of students when they've got other things to do?
But what happens when that little machine becomes the newest novelty bar game?
"Hey Joe, betcha I can get wasted before you can..."
Then you end up with someone who would have probably been drinking and driving anyway, but they have now consumed much more than they may have planned, in a much shorted timeframe. That's just asking for problems, and it is actually viewed as a liability by a lot of bars.
Then the bartenders, bouncers, and owners should do their job and refuse service to those individuals? Remember, being able to go to the bars is a privilege, not a right. All bars have the right to refuse service.
As far as I knew, GPL only covered copyright. If this is the case, then Sun would still be protected by patent law. Unless GPL covers patents too.... Anyone know?
Remember, people that are underweight are also unhealthy. And why the hell would someone stand for them charging you more if you go to the gym regularly and are 1 pt. over the BMI limit, even though your body fat percentage is comfortably within a safe range?
The BMI is a piece of shit instrument that has been outdated by body fat indecies, and even then, is often abused by focusing on one end of the spectrum instead of both ends.
my intution is that there are a LOT of people out there that only have 2-year degrees and get picked up for the low-end stuff. Meanwhile, the number of people going to 4-year programs for Computer Science or getting a Masters is shrinking because, well, the stereotypes aren't too appealing and many have heard plenty of rumors about work environments like Initech. Also, managers are becoming more concerned about costs rather than quality, and hence created waves like the pandemic outsourcing trend.
Except that, statistically, people who keep guns for 'protection' against robbers are more often victims of their guns rather than the burglars. I know this is ignoring the fact that the GP was making a joke. It's much more effective to have an alarm system than it is to back up your deadbolt locks with a gun. For starters, a burglar wouldn't know you have a gun in your house, while simply having a sign in the front window or the front yard saying "This house is protected by ADT" would make someone think twice about going into your house.
Personally, I'd have a sign that says "Beware of Dog" with an appropriate picture on the sign.
I think managers, who are mostly business school educated, don't see the world the same way the rest of us (developers) do. They probably don't understand why someone would work for free or why someone would volunteer at a soup kitchen. Most of the managers would never think that work could be fun unless it payed lots of money.
This, of course, explains why someone who has no community service or volunteer service gets hired by a company before someone who does something like join the Peace Corps or something stupid like that.....
It doesn't surprise me either. It would surprise me if my university system (Wisconsin) wasn't doing this by copying to other campuses within the state. From what I've gathered from our IT department, we have IPv6 backbones running throughout the UW system (but oddly, not "used" for anywhere outside of the system). Unfortunately, they have not taken them further than the server rooms. The only way I could get IPv6 to work when I lived on campus was through tunnelling....
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On a related note, there's an old story on PBS about a Canadian who became his own cable company. FTFA:
With the exception of local channels, which come from an antenna, all of Andrew's video content comes from a C-band (big dish) satellite receiver (receivers, actually), and is fully paid for. "I buy the channels just like a cable system does or a motel that wants to offer HBO, from the National Programming Service," says Andrew. "And as a result I pay wholesale prices. People don't realize how much of a markup there in is the cable business. The Discovery Networks, for example, cost me $0.26 per customer per month. The IP laws in both the U.S. and Canada say that if I have legal access to this content I can store and use it. And the over-the-air channels, of course, are free."Imagine of the FCC allowed people to be their own cable companies. At $.26 per channel per household, that's a hell of a steal. And that's also how you can see how much cable companies and DirectTV mark up their prices (don't forget, they also get advertising revenues.)
Can you say Enron?
...if ./ and Digg went offline for a week?
On a serious note, since I've got nothing else to do at work (as it's mind-numbingly boring), I was trying to figure out how many electrical plugs I would actually need to live a happy life (note, this is an extreme).
My answer: 2
One for the fridge, the other for a radio. Of course, it would be nice to have ceiling fans too, but those don't require power plugs, just direct wiring. Think about how many things you have plugged in to your house (e.g. those cell phone chargers you forget to unplug, how many clocks do you have in your house?, that entertainment system that never actually gets turned off but switched into standby) and compare that to what your parents went through when they were your age. And yet, somehow they managed without all of these doohickies that we have today.
The thing though, is that XP isn't really a 7-year-old OS. It *would* be if Microsoft quit development on it, but they're continuing to patch it and add more support for it. I suppose you could call it a 3-year-old OS, since SP2 came out in 2004, and SP3 apparently is only adding support for more registration keys.
Calling Windows XP a 7-year-old OS is like calling modern Linux systems nearly 4 years old because the 2.6 branch was released in late 2003. Or that servers are running 6-year-old OS's because the 2.4 branch was released in 2001.
Isn't this basically what AOL did? When they first started out, they could cope with the demand. But once they were really popular, their tubes weren't fat enough to handle all the people calling in?
What I was referring to is when really religious people keep talking to me about how great their religion is after I repeatedly tell them to shut up because I don't care. Us Catholics learned our lesson from the Inquisition, and the Jews learned long before that. I hope it takes less time for the evangicals (Not necessarily Anglicans, I'm thinking the stereotypicial Southern Baptist minister) and the Mormons.
The real damage being done is by people playing their music so loud and for such a long period of time. I can't recall any sources, but I do remember hearing about earbuds being especially bad, as the speakers are so close to the eardrums, compared to headphones, where the ear and ear canal can block and mute more of the soundwaves.
What good is sound quality when people are half-deaf already?
You decide whether to play your Playstation Portable at 333Mhz or using WiFi capabilities. You choose to:
1) play at 333 Mhz. Page 108
2) play with WiFi capabilities. Page 42
3) do both! Page 36
p36. "Your PSP reads 'Emergency shut down. Battery dead.' You go to plug in your PSP to recharge it and the bettery explodes. You die.
p42. You experience a decrease in graphics quality but are happy to be playing with people instead of on your own.
p108. You run to your room, lock the door, and admire the 333Mhz in all their glory. You forget where you place the key for the door and die of starvation. One week after your death, your PSP spontaneously turns on, its battery explodes, and your corpse is set on fire.
...and what do you mean is a functioning model? I specifically bought this phone because of bluetooth and camera. And would SE actually replace a phone that I bought off of ebay?
Not if we can actually get some laws to take away their drivers licenses. But seeing as they're the majority of people who actually go out and vote, that's not likely to happen any time soon....
Where's Sony in all of this? Oh a serious note: I hope this isn't related at all to the Sony Ericsson T637 I just bought....
It's not just the anti-religious bigots that want to outlaw public evanglism. Well, maybe not outlaw, but definately prevent them from harassing.
Damn, misread the title. Although, maybe if I got enough people to petition, I could get one of those. But then all /. users would become expatriots of the United States, and I don't think Canada wants them either....
A while ago, I purposely downloaded the Bagle virus from one of my old yahoo accounts. That's when I found out the media was messing up every time they refered to it as the Beagle virus. How did I find out it was really Bagel? Because I opened it in vi, vi went into hex mode, and I found a bunch of registry strings containing Bagle instead of Beagle. In order to download it (because the online filters caught it as a virus,) I had to supply the direct URL that bypassed Yahoo's antivirus. It wasn't hard, all I had to do was delete a section of the URL string.
Someone asked me to send them a copy of the virus because they wanted to have a look at it too. I think I just renamed it to something like Bagle.jpg or something along those lines. But then again, that was years ago.
Bah, forget it....
...lots of Universities also have a Law Faculty as well, and these are the guys who taught those lawyers.Don't forget the IP lawyers the universities have. You know, the ones that 'protect' all those patents and copyrights that the Universities own? I know the WARF is not a body to be reckoned with.
But then again, the people being prosecuted here are the students. And why the hell would anyone like WARF want to waste resources on a handful of students when they've got other things to do?
Sweet, so now I have an excuse for only going to work once every few weeks. "Sorry sir, I had to refill my gas tank!"
"Hey Joe, betcha I can get wasted before you can..."
Then you end up with someone who would have probably been drinking and driving anyway, but they have now consumed much more than they may have planned, in a much shorted timeframe. That's just asking for problems, and it is actually viewed as a liability by a lot of bars.
Then the bartenders, bouncers, and owners should do their job and refuse service to those individuals? Remember, being able to go to the bars is a privilege, not a right. All bars have the right to refuse service.
As far as I knew, GPL only covered copyright. If this is the case, then Sun would still be protected by patent law. Unless GPL covers patents too.... Anyone know?
Remember, people that are underweight are also unhealthy. And why the hell would someone stand for them charging you more if you go to the gym regularly and are 1 pt. over the BMI limit, even though your body fat percentage is comfortably within a safe range?
The BMI is a piece of shit instrument that has been outdated by body fat indecies, and even then, is often abused by focusing on one end of the spectrum instead of both ends.
my intution is that there are a LOT of people out there that only have 2-year degrees and get picked up for the low-end stuff. Meanwhile, the number of people going to 4-year programs for Computer Science or getting a Masters is shrinking because, well, the stereotypes aren't too appealing and many have heard plenty of rumors about work environments like Initech. Also, managers are becoming more concerned about costs rather than quality, and hence created waves like the pandemic outsourcing trend.
...Everyone will have methods of transportation like in The Jetsons. Also, we will be fishing for mermaids on the moon.
Personally, I'd have a sign that says "Beware of Dog" with an appropriate picture on the sign.
This, of course, explains why someone who has no community service or volunteer service gets hired by a company before someone who does something like join the Peace Corps or something stupid like that.....
It doesn't surprise me either. It would surprise me if my university system (Wisconsin) wasn't doing this by copying to other campuses within the state. From what I've gathered from our IT department, we have IPv6 backbones running throughout the UW system (but oddly, not "used" for anywhere outside of the system). Unfortunately, they have not taken them further than the server rooms. The only way I could get IPv6 to work when I lived on campus was through tunnelling....