That's only if Bills like Canada's now dead C-60 don't pass, requiring ISPs to keep logs of their user's activities.
This whole FBI threat reminds me of the "I'm phoning the FBI.com" threat that several hundred eBay users are familiar with after someone auction was put up for ridicule on a message board, and he took it badly and flipped out.
Just a side note, but you meant the CRIA I think, since the CIRA does.ca registrations.
Be sure to write your MP and tel them you like Canada's copyright law as it is and expect them to vote down changes that are endorsed by the CRIA.
We all realized how far down in quality Slashdot has sunk when the first thought on everyone's mind when they saw this title was, "I can think of way more married stars than single ones."
In astronomy class 4 years ago I learned that most solar systems were binary or more complex, so this is very interesting news indeed. I wonder if this improves the chances of more solar systems having planetary companions, since I'd think it less likely for binary or trinary systems to have planets since more matter in the system is taken up in star mass.
This might also increase the calculable possibility for habitible planets in our galzaxy too.
If Vista is susceptible to 99% of known viruses today, it's got a big problematic future ahead of it.
They hopefully told their designers: "Throw Blaster, and Melissa, and Norvag at this new system, and if it dies or allows itself to be infected, FIX IT!" "Anything related to fix compression/decompression, image file interpretation, or anything that opens a port, must be reviewed against all known viruses attacking those vectors."
Will they, or have they done that? No, but we'll see.
The downside to satellite phones is the distance the signal travels to reach the satellite and bounce back to the destination, is great enough to cause a noticible delay. Geo-stationary [ery? I don't remember which witch is which] satellites I think can introduce a 2000ms ping time in Internet based systems for instance.
Balloons would add fantastic redundancy, but I dont think would make a great primary server. They could however be great for people stuck where a tower can't give service thanks to hills.
"He believes the genes which make someone analytical may also impair their social and communication skills."
In an attempt to not be just like the other 11 posts so far, I'd like to talk about... aw screw it, we're all Slashdot geeks and we know it. Communication when a keyboard is not involved is our nemesis, and we'd probably have been considered autistic 500 years ago had they known what that was.
" partly in an effort to push legislation that would prevent telephone companies from charging Internet companies for guaranteed fast delivery of Internet content."
Bandwidth or QoS, I really don't see the difference as a consumer. Both will make certain Internet connections undesirable and other ones desirable. The companies who can control who gets which type of connection will be able to control the message since the "media is the message". Censorship in other words can be accomplished by withholding service to certain groups when the technology is available to provide equal service to all groups.
So you're telling me that someone on dialup can still get good service like downloading the new Ubuntu Linux, as well as their broadband cousin? Some things will just be out of reach for all but the extremely crafty or determined, and it will be an economic barrier where a technological barrier no longer should exist.
It's not completely different, actually it's just an economic barrier to service instead of a technological or political one like Google is implementing with China's government.
Do you think the average poor sap on AOL is going to invest or even know to invest in premium Internet tiers? A tiered Internet will be as good as a censored one.
"Company shitting all over US law = BAD COMPANY! NO! STAY! Company shitting all over China law = GO DEMOCRACY!"
I think maybe you misunderstood me. Google is the hypocrite here, they are in the USA saying that carrier control of the Internet will stifle capitalism [which most people equate with democracy]. Yet just this week in China they were willing to censor the world's Internet content that they are [essentially the monoploy] carrier of.
How exactly is my view of this hypocritical, and why isn't Google's as you see it?
" A telecom lawyer hired by Google last summer to build the company's Washington office tells the WSJ, 'Carrier control over Internet activity is bad for consumers. "
Oh, so controling the content delivery is bad for consumers, is it Google? This rule doesn't apply in censoring content delivered in China?
Yes of course I remember that. The song is singing about the 1980s, and Columbia fell out of the sky in 2003[?] February. I remember waking up and hearing about it. Not quite as traumatic as 9/11, but shocking and sad none the less.
The other week I sent abuse@hotmail.com a Nigerian scammer email with some details of their scam, and it was coming from a hotmail account. The message said it would be looked into, then I got another email saying that my report was undeliverable to abuse@hotmail.com since whatever address it forwarded to wasn't working.
I tried emailing a week later, and it got through this time to get another automated message saying it was being looked into. Weeks later, and the scammer still has their email account working, and is still bugging me at my throw away address, for money.
It's 20 years later, and the first Shuttle disaster is still making it into pop culture. There's a country song from just last year with the line, "The Space Shuttle fell out of the sky, and the whole world cried" - 19 Something.
I remember that someone made a movie a few years after called Challenger I think, and I begged my parents to let me stay up to watch it. It turned out to be a really lame movie though, I thought it would have stuff on what happened after the disaster, but the whole movie led up to the explosion and nothing after.
I'm not sure I understand the problem well enough to know if an alternative OS like Linux wouldn't have the same problem. Can anyone dig into that a bit?
Note the: "I couldn't bear to read tripe", clause.
Delving further in: "What's more, there are some illegal drugs that are completely harmless. Cannabis, for example."
If you smoke anything, you smoke damage your lungs, it's that simple. Smoke is an irritant that can eventually cause lung cancer among other things. That's not taking into accout the effect THC has on your brain chemistry and function, and who knows what other organs... Home grown pot might not be as dangerous or deadly as tobacco, but why bother with something that will kill, or impede normal life anyway?
I read at a 0 threshold, and didn't bother loading the "true" FP, since it didn't matter for my point. CFCs are not the significant greenhouse gas, although as some people pointed out to me they do contribute to it as well. Any particulate matter ought to trap heat in the atmosphere.
That makes sense, since they are a carbon as well, if their name isn't a misnomer. Acording to a less graceful poster below your comment, they only account for ~20% of global warming gasses, so they are the least of our problems as far as global warming is concerned.
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That's only if Bills like Canada's now dead C-60 don't pass, requiring ISPs to keep logs of their user's activities.
This whole FBI threat reminds me of the "I'm phoning the FBI.com" threat that several hundred eBay users are familiar with after someone auction was put up for ridicule on a message board, and he took it badly and flipped out.
Just a side note, but you meant the CRIA I think, since the CIRA does .ca registrations.
Be sure to write your MP and tel them you like Canada's copyright law as it is and expect them to vote down changes that are endorsed by the CRIA.
Wow, the mods really didn't like a paraplegic, sex based, hot grits Xbox joke. Slashdot has jumped the shark moderator-wise.
"Are you new here?"
It's funnier if *I* ask *You* the user with a much lower user ID, that question.
The headline byeline could have been:
From the "there are 10 kinds of binary" department.
Oh great now we're in for a bunch of Chris Reeve naked and petrified troll comments, aren't we?
Who's bringing the hot grits?
You laugh now, but when video game sex comes to the XXXbox 720, it'll be pretty damn important for the disabled to operate a "joystick".
We all realized how far down in quality Slashdot has sunk when the first thought on everyone's mind when they saw this title was, "I can think of way more married stars than single ones."
In astronomy class 4 years ago I learned that most solar systems were binary or more complex, so this is very interesting news indeed. I wonder if this improves the chances of more solar systems having planetary companions, since I'd think it less likely for binary or trinary systems to have planets since more matter in the system is taken up in star mass.
This might also increase the calculable possibility for habitible planets in our galzaxy too.
If Vista is susceptible to 99% of known viruses today, it's got a big problematic future ahead of it.
They hopefully told their designers: "Throw Blaster, and Melissa, and Norvag at this new system, and if it dies or allows itself to be infected, FIX IT!"
"Anything related to fix compression/decompression, image file interpretation, or anything that opens a port, must be reviewed against all known viruses attacking those vectors."
Will they, or have they done that? No, but we'll see.
The downside to satellite phones is the distance the signal travels to reach the satellite and bounce back to the destination, is great enough to cause a noticible delay. Geo-stationary [ery? I don't remember which witch is which] satellites I think can introduce a 2000ms ping time in Internet based systems for instance.
Balloons would add fantastic redundancy, but I dont think would make a great primary server. They could however be great for people stuck where a tower can't give service thanks to hills.
"He believes the genes which make someone analytical may also impair their social and communication skills."
In an attempt to not be just like the other 11 posts so far, I'd like to talk about... aw screw it, we're all Slashdot geeks and we know it. Communication when a keyboard is not involved is our nemesis, and we'd probably have been considered autistic 500 years ago had they known what that was.
My cat has already learned how to defeat this brain scan. He puts on his foil hat.
"Is there something about the USA that causes its geeks to become overweight?"
That would be "Burger King" you're wondering about.
" partly in an effort to push legislation that would prevent telephone companies from charging Internet companies for guaranteed fast delivery of Internet content."
Bandwidth or QoS, I really don't see the difference as a consumer. Both will make certain Internet connections undesirable and other ones desirable. The companies who can control who gets which type of connection will be able to control the message since the "media is the message". Censorship in other words can be accomplished by withholding service to certain groups when the technology is available to provide equal service to all groups.
"You still get all of the content."
So you're telling me that someone on dialup can still get good service like downloading the new Ubuntu Linux, as well as their broadband cousin? Some things will just be out of reach for all but the extremely crafty or determined, and it will be an economic barrier where a technological barrier no longer should exist.
It's not completely different, actually it's just an economic barrier to service instead of a technological or political one like Google is implementing with China's government.
Do you think the average poor sap on AOL is going to invest or even know to invest in premium Internet tiers? A tiered Internet will be as good as a censored one.
"Company shitting all over US law = BAD COMPANY! NO! STAY!
Company shitting all over China law = GO DEMOCRACY!"
I think maybe you misunderstood me. Google is the hypocrite here, they are in the USA saying that carrier control of the Internet will stifle capitalism [which most people equate with democracy]. Yet just this week in China they were willing to censor the world's Internet content that they are [essentially the monoploy] carrier of.
How exactly is my view of this hypocritical, and why isn't Google's as you see it?
" A telecom lawyer hired by Google last summer to build the company's Washington office tells the WSJ, 'Carrier control over Internet activity is bad for consumers. "
Oh, so controling the content delivery is bad for consumers, is it Google? This rule doesn't apply in censoring content delivered in China?
Yes of course I remember that. The song is singing about the 1980s, and Columbia fell out of the sky in 2003[?] February. I remember waking up and hearing about it. Not quite as traumatic as 9/11, but shocking and sad none the less.
The other week I sent abuse@hotmail.com a Nigerian scammer email with some details of their scam, and it was coming from a hotmail account. The message said it would be looked into, then I got another email saying that my report was undeliverable to abuse@hotmail.com since whatever address it forwarded to wasn't working.
I tried emailing a week later, and it got through this time to get another automated message saying it was being looked into. Weeks later, and the scammer still has their email account working, and is still bugging me at my throw away address, for money.
It's 20 years later, and the first Shuttle disaster is still making it into pop culture. There's a country song from just last year with the line, "The Space Shuttle fell out of the sky, and the whole world cried" - 19 Something.
I remember that someone made a movie a few years after called Challenger I think, and I begged my parents to let me stay up to watch it. It turned out to be a really lame movie though, I thought it would have stuff on what happened after the disaster, but the whole movie led up to the explosion and nothing after.
" Court Rules Burning Porn = Making Porn "
Who'd have thought that the average Slashdotter was a porn star?
I'm with you completely on UT original. There's something to be said for such a detailed game that will run on a Celeron 433MHz.
Is this a BIOS bug perhaps?
I'm not sure I understand the problem well enough to know if an alternative OS like Linux wouldn't have the same problem. Can anyone dig into that a bit?
Note the: "I couldn't bear to read tripe", clause.
Delving further in:
"What's more, there are some illegal drugs that are completely harmless. Cannabis, for example."
If you smoke anything, you smoke damage your lungs, it's that simple. Smoke is an irritant that can eventually cause lung cancer among other things. That's not taking into accout the effect THC has on your brain chemistry and function, and who knows what other organs...
Home grown pot might not be as dangerous or deadly as tobacco, but why bother with something that will kill, or impede normal life anyway?
I read at a 0 threshold, and didn't bother loading the "true" FP, since it didn't matter for my point. CFCs are not the significant greenhouse gas, although as some people pointed out to me they do contribute to it as well. Any particulate matter ought to trap heat in the atmosphere.
That makes sense, since they are a carbon as well, if their name isn't a misnomer. Acording to a less graceful poster below your comment, they only account for ~20% of global warming gasses, so they are the least of our problems as far as global warming is concerned.