"How can we get our Iranian friends back in the Web?"
I was going to say, "Liberate them", but someone beat me to it.
This would never happen in a system like here in the US. Corporations would never stand for blocking of site sthat they could advertise on. Besides, big money in convincing people that they need faster, bigger, more expensive machines and services so they can "stay connected" and all that.
http://pittsburgh.indymedia.org/news/2004/10/15699.php http://www.tnimc.org/feature/display/2762/in dex.ph p http://santacruz.indymedia.org/feature/display/ 115 95/index.php http://www.indybay.org/archives/arch ive_by_id.php? id=1407&category_id=12
From http://pittsburgh.indymedia.org: " Two community radio stations, one in Knoxville, TN and the second in Santa Cruz, CA have been raided in the last 2 weeks by armed US Marshalls (and/or FBI) and the FCC. Last October, San Francisco Police and the FCC raided a popular Bay Area radio station. Despite the federal government's war on community media, radio activists across the US are operating community stations in open defiance of FCC regulations. The FCC strives to squelch community radio so that the airwaves remain free for media conglomerates like right-wing ClearChannel Communications, which owns 1,250 radio stations (six in Pittsburgh), and Viacom-owned Infinty Broadcasting, which owns 180 stations (four in Pittsburgh).
Also, in Pittsburgh, two broadcasters were shut down in the past week due to FCC intimidation. South Side Radio broadcasting at very low power on 102.9FM, and "WCSA Radio" in Plum, PA (Allegheny County, east of Pittsburgh near Oakmont). Indymedia Rustbelt Radio, our biweekly news program on (licensed) WRCT 88.3FM, will feature reports on these actions in Pittsburgh and around the US this week on Tuesday, October 5th at 6pm.
Next week the National Association of Broadcasters, a powerful lobby group, will meet in San Diego. In opposition to their corporate agenda, independent media activists will be holding a four day convergence of workshops, speakers, and actions to tell the NAB "We Want Our Airwaves Back!"."
Now we're really scraping the bottom of the barrel here.
What's next?
=) Installing cars with accelerators encourages drivers to speed? =) Wrapping burgers in paper encourages people to litter? =) Putting two idiots on the ballot in November encourages voters to make idiotic decisions?
Soon they'll want to implant RFID tags (or something similar) in your left molar. Everyone will be able to be traced from a simpe computer terminal. Great for parents who's kids are kidnapped, or hikers lost in the mountains, bad for everyone else.
Exactly. I have in my home a old Sony Vaio Pentium 200Mhz, 64MB mem, machine running Debian. It currently holds as a webserver (apache), ftp server (vsftpd), database server (postgresql), and a few other things. What MS product could do all this on that box at ANY price? Let alone free!
In an age where the world is becoming ever increasingly dependent on
computers, we must take a step back and formulate a strategy to make
sure history does not repeat itself in the most disaterous way.
It was not too long ago that Ireland suffered its infamous "potato
famine" that devistated its population that was, in its day, dependent
on the crop.
One of the key reasons why the famine was so intense was the fact that
the Irish were repeatedly planting the same type of potato throughout
the country. By doing this, and not realizing that nature provided
diversification in the form of hundreds of varieties of potatos to make
sure that one set of circumstances could never decimate the potato
population, the Irish learned a very valuable, if not painful, lesson
indeed.
In the land of computers, this form of "biodiversity" only makes sense.
If 90% of all nodes on the network are of one kind of "potato" (namely
Microsoft) than it's very easy for one plague (or virus) to have
incredibly devestating results.
We have already seen the damage caused by recent Windows viruses. Each
of these have been relatively small and harmless annoyances compared to
what a committed and intelligent person could create should such a
someone be so inclined and motivated.
However, if the world's computers were not so heavily tilted towards a
single OS, such attacks wouldn't stand nearly as much of a chance in
succeeding to harm a large section of the world's network population.
In conclusion, not only do operating systems such as Mac and Linux (as
well as Solaris, Unix, etc) represent an excellent freedom of choice for
consumers, they represent an enlightened strategy to prevent a
cataclysmic disaster to our networks that we've come so dependent on.
I'd just about shit myself if I'm in Wendy's, munchin on some fries and I hear one of my tunes being pumped through the dining room.
Just as long as I don't hear one of my songs being background music for a Fox News story!
Well geez dude. It's not like we chatted, I proposed, and she flew out for the wedding.
We met in #pittsburgh. We chatted for a while. We started hanging out, seeing each other at #pittsburgh gatherings, dated for 3 years THEN got married.
I met lots of people through #pittsburgh actually.
What the hell is wrong with that?
I got a wife and kid now.:)
Met my wife on IRC 6 years ago. We now have our first kid and have been married 3.5 years.
And I probably spend 10 hours a day online.:P
I'm right there with you. I actually have taken a Pentium 200MHz with 64 MB Ram and turned it into a Debian Webserver with PHP, Postgresql, Postfix, Apache, etc. And it runs great!
So long as I don't put X on it, it should handle whatever I need.
My one buddy has a Pentium 90 at his work as the only machine running Linux on the network and it's doing half the load cause he can't stand the Windows clients.
I agree with you on what a consumer should do given this situation, but I think the bigger problem here is the judges ruling.
Once businesses get wind of this, you might find all sorts of new problems to deal with.
It sets a terrible precident that will come back to bite us all in the @$$.
In an age where the world is becoming ever increasingly dependent on computers, we must take a step back and formulate a strategy to make sure history does not repeat itself in the most disaterous way.
It was not too long ago that Ireland suffered its infamous "potato famine" that devistated its population that was, in its day, dependent on the crop.
One of the key reasons why the famine was so intense was the fact that the Irish were repeatedly planting the same type of potato throughout the country. By doing this, and not realizing that nature provided diversification in the form of hundreds of varieties of potatos to make sure that one set of circumstances could never decimate the potato population, the Irish learned a very valuable, if not painful, lesson indeed.
In the land of computers, this form of "biodiversity" only makes sense. If 90% of all nodes on the network are of one kind of "potato" (namely Microsoft) than it's very easy for one plague (or virus) to have incredibly devestating results.
We have already seen the damage caused by recent Windows viruses. Each of these have been relatively small and harmless annoyances compared to what a committed and intelligent person could create should such a someone be so inclined and motivated.
However, if the world's computers were not so heavily tilted towards a single OS, such attacks wouldn't stand nearly as much of a chance in succeeding to harm a large section of the world's network population.
In conclusion, not only do operating systems such as Mac and Linux (as well as Solaris, Unix, etc) represent an excellent freedom of choice for consumers, they represent an enlightened strategy to prevent a cataclysmic disaster to our networks that we've come so dependent on.
Being an old Deadhead/Phish Phan I can tell you I've had tape of shows I've been to for a long time. Many of the bands I liked allowed taping, and you could always find a taper to give you a tape for free. Hell, my old band allowed taping and I posted a bunch online http://www.sugapablo.com/mmg and continue my new music to be free for download at my homepage. (electronica).
My big concern is the copyright status of these CDs. Tapes of shows have always been freely tradable, but now that clear channel has their mits in this, I'm afraid those days might soon be over.
It IS cool to be able to get a recording of a show, don't get me wrong, but I'm always weary of companies like clear channel mixing with the arts. --
They'd just bitch and moan and I'm sure whoever was running the network would make it more and more restrictive, start making advertisements more pervasive, and begin charging for "expanded services" that were at one time gratis.
Slashdot Mirror
"Microsoft's entry into the anti-virus and anti-spyware businesses will be a disaster for users."
What does Microsoft do that ISN'T a disaster for its users?
'this sentiment presumes that at least part of our government is still "of the people."'
When you PRESUME you make a PRES out of U and ME...
wait a minute?
"How can we get our Iranian friends back in the Web?"
/. is blocked?
I was going to say, "Liberate them", but someone beat me to it.
This would never happen in a system like here in the US. Corporations would never stand for blocking of site sthat they could advertise on. Besides, big money in convincing people that they need faster, bigger, more expensive machines and services so they can "stay connected" and all that.
I wonder if
[ping: Iran, can you hear me now?]
"Free Open-Source Software is not the brainchild of latter-day hippies, nor is it the doom of Western commerce."
It's not?!?
Damn!
http://pittsburgh.indymedia.org/news/2004/10/15699 .phpn dex.ph p/ 115 95/index.phph ive_by_id.php? id=1407&category_id=12
:
http://www.tnimc.org/feature/display/2762/i
http://santacruz.indymedia.org/feature/display
http://www.indybay.org/archives/arc
From http://pittsburgh.indymedia.org
" Two community radio stations, one in Knoxville, TN and the second in Santa Cruz, CA have been raided in the last 2 weeks by armed US Marshalls (and/or FBI) and the FCC. Last October, San Francisco Police and the FCC raided a popular Bay Area radio station. Despite the federal government's war on community media, radio activists across the US are operating community stations in open defiance of FCC regulations. The FCC strives to squelch community radio so that the airwaves remain free for media conglomerates like right-wing ClearChannel Communications, which owns 1,250 radio stations (six in Pittsburgh), and Viacom-owned Infinty Broadcasting, which owns 180 stations (four in Pittsburgh).
Also, in Pittsburgh, two broadcasters were shut down in the past week due to FCC intimidation. South Side Radio broadcasting at very low power on 102.9FM, and "WCSA Radio" in Plum, PA (Allegheny County, east of Pittsburgh near Oakmont). Indymedia Rustbelt Radio, our biweekly news program on (licensed) WRCT 88.3FM, will feature reports on these actions in Pittsburgh and around the US this week on Tuesday, October 5th at 6pm.
Next week the National Association of Broadcasters, a powerful lobby group, will meet in San Diego. In opposition to their corporate agenda, independent media activists will be holding a four day convergence of workshops, speakers, and actions to tell the NAB "We Want Our Airwaves Back!"."
Now we're really scraping the bottom of the barrel here.
What's next?
=) Installing cars with accelerators encourages drivers to speed?
=) Wrapping burgers in paper encourages people to litter?
=) Putting two idiots on the ballot in November encourages voters to make idiotic decisions?
People need to RELAX.
First recall notices appear on /., next thing you'll know you'll start having legal notices and estate sale notices on here.
;))
I'm waiting for the garage sale posting. I figure if they're selling a bunch of TSR-80's, it'll get posted. (I actually have one for sale myself
Soon they'll want to implant RFID tags (or something similar) in your left molar. Everyone will be able to be traced from a simpe computer terminal. Great for parents who's kids are kidnapped, or hikers lost in the mountains, bad for everyone else.
Exactly. I have in my home a old Sony Vaio Pentium 200Mhz, 64MB mem, machine running Debian. It currently holds as a webserver (apache), ftp server (vsftpd), database server (postgresql), and a few other things. What MS product could do all this on that box at ANY price? Let alone free!
In an age where the world is becoming ever increasingly dependent on computers, we must take a step back and formulate a strategy to make sure history does not repeat itself in the most disaterous way. It was not too long ago that Ireland suffered its infamous "potato famine" that devistated its population that was, in its day, dependent on the crop. One of the key reasons why the famine was so intense was the fact that the Irish were repeatedly planting the same type of potato throughout the country. By doing this, and not realizing that nature provided diversification in the form of hundreds of varieties of potatos to make sure that one set of circumstances could never decimate the potato population, the Irish learned a very valuable, if not painful, lesson indeed. In the land of computers, this form of "biodiversity" only makes sense. If 90% of all nodes on the network are of one kind of "potato" (namely Microsoft) than it's very easy for one plague (or virus) to have incredibly devestating results. We have already seen the damage caused by recent Windows viruses. Each of these have been relatively small and harmless annoyances compared to what a committed and intelligent person could create should such a someone be so inclined and motivated. However, if the world's computers were not so heavily tilted towards a single OS, such attacks wouldn't stand nearly as much of a chance in succeeding to harm a large section of the world's network population. In conclusion, not only do operating systems such as Mac and Linux (as well as Solaris, Unix, etc) represent an excellent freedom of choice for consumers, they represent an enlightened strategy to prevent a cataclysmic disaster to our networks that we've come so dependent on.
I'd just about shit myself if I'm in Wendy's, munchin on some fries and I hear one of my tunes being pumped through the dining room. Just as long as I don't hear one of my songs being background music for a Fox News story!
Well geez dude. It's not like we chatted, I proposed, and she flew out for the wedding. We met in #pittsburgh. We chatted for a while. We started hanging out, seeing each other at #pittsburgh gatherings, dated for 3 years THEN got married. I met lots of people through #pittsburgh actually. What the hell is wrong with that?
I got a wife and kid now. :)
Met my wife on IRC 6 years ago. We now have our first kid and have been married 3.5 years.
And I probably spend 10 hours a day online. :P
I'm right there with you. I actually have taken a Pentium 200MHz with 64 MB Ram and turned it into a Debian Webserver with PHP, Postgresql, Postfix, Apache, etc. And it runs great!
So long as I don't put X on it, it should handle whatever I need.
My one buddy has a Pentium 90 at his work as the only machine running Linux on the network and it's doing half the load cause he can't stand the Windows clients.
Not that I would act on it of course. ;)
Hell, I know I feel like "disabling" these spammers who refuse to take you off their lists.
I agree with you on what a consumer should do given this situation, but I think the bigger problem here is the judges ruling. Once businesses get wind of this, you might find all sorts of new problems to deal with. It sets a terrible precident that will come back to bite us all in the @$$.
In an age where the world is becoming ever increasingly dependent on computers, we must take a step back and formulate a strategy to make sure history does not repeat itself in the most disaterous way.
It was not too long ago that Ireland suffered its infamous "potato famine" that devistated its population that was, in its day, dependent on the crop.
One of the key reasons why the famine was so intense was the fact that the Irish were repeatedly planting the same type of potato throughout the country. By doing this, and not realizing that nature provided diversification in the form of hundreds of varieties of potatos to make sure that one set of circumstances could never decimate the potato population, the Irish learned a very valuable, if not painful, lesson indeed.
In the land of computers, this form of "biodiversity" only makes sense. If 90% of all nodes on the network are of one kind of "potato" (namely Microsoft) than it's very easy for one plague (or virus) to have incredibly devestating results.
We have already seen the damage caused by recent Windows viruses. Each of these have been relatively small and harmless annoyances compared to what a committed and intelligent person could create should such a someone be so inclined and motivated.
However, if the world's computers were not so heavily tilted towards a single OS, such attacks wouldn't stand nearly as much of a chance in succeeding to harm a large section of the world's network population.
In conclusion, not only do operating systems such as Mac and Linux (as well as Solaris, Unix, etc) represent an excellent freedom of choice for consumers, they represent an enlightened strategy to prevent a cataclysmic disaster to our networks that we've come so dependent on.
Being an old Deadhead/Phish Phan I can tell you I've had tape of shows I've been to for a long time. Many of the bands I liked allowed taping, and you could always find a taper to give you a tape for free. Hell, my old band allowed taping and I posted a bunch online http://www.sugapablo.com/mmg and continue my new music to be free for download at my homepage. (electronica).
My big concern is the copyright status of these CDs. Tapes of shows have always been freely tradable, but now that clear channel has their mits in this, I'm afraid those days might soon be over.
It IS cool to be able to get a recording of a show, don't get me wrong, but I'm always weary of companies like clear channel mixing with the arts.
--
They'd just bitch and moan and I'm sure whoever was running the network would make it more and more restrictive, start making advertisements more pervasive, and begin charging for "expanded services" that were at one time gratis.
:)
Anyone ever use Yahoo?