consider- the first ISP to BLOCK XXX system wide? Say AOL blocks XXX, and a lawsuit by a user is created..
perhaps that would have repurcussions that the US government might not want to have to deal with?
It isn't right to bind the Internet -- undeniably an international entity now -- by American laws. I refer you to the TITLE of this slashdot IT: The Letter That Won US Internet Control
but if we could get everyone to use Gaim it would probably cut down on some of that crap people try to pass off as english like foreign languages or street names in european countries
better perhaps, would be a FORCED spell check, that made you acknowledge the changes.. People might craft their messages more carefully just so as not to have to perform the extra step of accepting the changes....
Spell checkers used to confirm every change.. now they do it as you type, no beep, no flash, with really bad end results sometimes.
Say they build XXX.. what then do you do about all the millions of smut websites in existence? force them to move? what if someone has MUFFDIVER.COM and someone else has MUFFDIVE.NET.
My guess? the government took a good long look at the first amendment, and other legal issues, and realized, it would not solve any problem, and perhaps, a court case would arise (which they realize they would have to lose) embarrisingly enough.
Maybe that same case would open up a whole 'nuther mess of worms that would not be something they would have to face.
it was an original thought.. formed when I read that post. some people have those. it's a different thought- perhaps it's not a contributor to warming, but rather a detractor to destined cooling/balnce....
Yes, if I burn a tree, I only release carbon that was in the atmosphere over the last few (20-100) years... but perhaps the natural geologic process expected that carbon to be subsumed under the planet. To continue a cycle of removal from the atmosphere/temperature. Perhaps if it stayed bound up in the organic matter, it would not be in the atmosphere.
I happen to think there is a flaw in your statement, not a major one, just an assumptive mistake.
it's one of two things, either, carbon going into the ground is indeed part of the "carbon cycle of the planet". (only on a grander scale than most think about) or the error lies in think that no tree 'burned down' was not destined for the 'greater carbon cycle' and burning it steals the carbon from becoming fossil fuels.
perhaps the day will come when beings with intelligence will realize the real disruption to the carbon cycle was in not allowing more of it to be laid to deep rest through natural means....
My presumption has always been that WE WILL make this planet unihabitable, my hope has been that we would be able to advance ourselves enough that we can spore off the planet before the point of no return eliminates the species. Hopefully in multiple directions
if they advertise a 400$ laptop.. and you get there 2nd in line, and they are all gone because I bought ten(all of them)--
are you going to go back the next time? no...... and neither is the guy who arrived 30 minutes after opening or at 2pm...
the goal of the store is not to sell the "item on sale" but everything else you buy at the same time, and to get you in the store to look around.
It's like this. I have a wife, and other family members. To save a buck on a 2l bottle of soda, I'm not gonna cycle all my family through twice in one day.
to buy a cheap laptop I will, enter best buy, purchase a 400$ laptop, have my wife & brother do the same, go out to lunch, come back, and get three more.
Now however, to achieve that 400$ price, limit one rebate per household (address) I can't get six.. only one.
Yes, I can keep going and getting the 69 cent coke, (unless it's tied to my frequent shopper card, in which case it just won't ring up that way) but I can't keep mailing off the rebate forms...
in some decks, if the gears aren't there, the tape assumes no motion=end of tape and auto stops or flips.
having two toothed wheels geared together and in motion (twist one- does the other move?) keeps some decks from making false assumptions about the "casette" poisition.
1st- sometimes when a firmware flash goes bad, the hardware is DEAD. not repairable. trash.
for that occurence, a common remedy is going to customer service/support, lying, and asking for an exchange under warranty.
2nd- they could NOT release a router where the firmware is not flashable, and stay competitive.
they've closed the loophole, that undoubtedly cost them money unfairly. I applaud the thought.. I think it's cool because it serves two purposes, keeps hardware out there for hackers (original not media definition) and keeps them from getting burned for experimental failures for which they shouldn't be responsible.
previously, if I had a standard model, try the svea firmware, and fuck it up... I call linksys and say "it stopped working" and "I didn't do pnuthin" I ship it in, they send a refurb almost immediately. This costs them money.
now-- they can keep a few bucks by asking pointed and expected questions, upgrading the firmware is WHY this machine exists- but undoubtedly not a covered by warranty use. As buying it implies intended use that is not covered by warranty--- and denying the claim entirely.
better (likely) represented by the fact that anyone who buys the more expensive model is 90% more likely to load their own firmware *since that is the market it's for*
and Linksys will be a whole lot less responsive to people making warranty claims when they fuckup the firmware flash.
calling tech support and saying "I dunno" what happened is not gonna cut it on these models.. void the warranty, no service for you... that will undoubtedly keep a few bucks in their pockets from less repairs....
christ on a cruch.. do you subscribe to slashdot? look at the entirety of my post history
Look, I like OSS, I like the ideals, I use a lot of it, and I've sent out a lotta beerware payments in my life. I also-realistically realize, it's not there yet! why is this concept so hard for folks to grasp.
The offerings of linux, do not presently meet enough of the needs of business world for FOSS to rule. make them be so, and it will rule. In the meantime, it's a little collie nipping at the heels of the Microsoft boeuf it does keep MS on their toes, & I'd hate to be in a computing enviroment where the competition did not exist, but FOSS offerings are too complex, spottily supported, and fractured as to their individual implementations to serve the need of the market.
ask yourself If MS office cost 20$ a copy.. would ANYONE use open office? would it even exist? ask yourself, if open office did not exist (and corel, and all other wp's) how much more would office cost?
having BOTH, consumers (including myself) derive both the benefit of keeping costs competitive, and functional growth & advancement.
Make OSS groupware better than exchange, and perhaps, just perhaps, the tech world will be an even better place than it is.
yes, I have to understand IT- singluar. not the mail app completely and the calendar app completely and the groupware app completely and the Vnc app completely and the NNTP app and the webserver, and every other component, that in the FOSS world would be a different interface and structure per item. I'm not an MCSE nor do I aspire to be one, but I know where to find the answers to my problems when they crop up, and I don't have to think where the "view" menu is in each program, nor the "backup" subset of each nor the "add a user" 7 or 8 times
I run a cute little wizard, and add a user.. bing, they have access to all the servers apps. that simplicity has VALUE to large & small orginizations both.
look into OWA it's included in exchange, it's a webmail client, and provides via the web 90% of the functionality a user gets sitting to outlook on their work PC
yeah. SBS for home.. (NERD HERE/I'm on slashdot right?) I expect to be buying and installing a better one at work next year. this 1400$ dell server was my personal continuing education project for the year.. I bought it in June, and didn't take it online until 3 months later.. took me that long to feel up to it.. between day one and today, I've reinstalled the OS three times.
There is serious value in running your own exchange server, especially if you have family all around the country that rarely gets together and have busy lives.
('course, I'm gonna scream when I have to buy my next 5 cals, but for corporate purposes, the amount is a pittance compared to the benefits)
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consider- the first ISP to BLOCK XXX system wide?
Say AOL blocks XXX, and a lawsuit by a user is created..
perhaps that would have repurcussions that the US government might not want to have to deal with?
It isn't right to bind the Internet -- undeniably an international entity now -- by American laws.
I refer you to the TITLE of this slashdot
IT: The Letter That Won US Internet Control
but if we could get everyone to use Gaim it would probably cut down on some of that crap people try to pass off as english
like foreign languages
or street names in european countries
better perhaps, would be a FORCED spell check, that made you acknowledge the changes.. People might craft their messages more carefully just so as not to have to perform the extra step of accepting the changes....
Spell checkers used to confirm every change.. now they do it as you type, no beep, no flash, with really bad end results sometimes.
Say they build XXX.. what then do you do about all the millions of smut websites in existence? force them to move?
what if someone has MUFFDIVER.COM and someone else has MUFFDIVE.NET.
My guess? the government took a good long look at the first amendment, and other legal issues, and realized, it would not solve any problem, and perhaps, a court case would arise (which they realize they would have to lose) embarrisingly enough.
Maybe that same case would open up a whole 'nuther mess of worms that would not be something they would have to face.
you decide exactly what slashdot should be, and go make that happen-- slashcode is available for free.
I like a random spattering of weirdass topics.
I just hate roland pipsqueaks stuff....
but, patents don't cover use off-planet.
if they use the design-or one loosley based on it- on mars.. whaddya gonna do?
spurn them for their individual USE of patents/enforcement/licensing terms.
if I patent software and publically license it as beerware ad infinitium, do you chastise me for patenting?
We have to live within the system we have for now.. so- patent does not mean MUST be evil.. it can work two ways.
it was an original thought.. formed when I read that post. ....
some people have those. it's a different thought- perhaps it's not a contributor to warming, but rather a detractor to destined cooling/balnce
Yes, if I burn a tree, I only release carbon that was in the atmosphere over the last few (20-100) years... but perhaps the natural geologic process expected that carbon to be subsumed under the planet. To continue a cycle of removal from the atmosphere/temperature. Perhaps if it stayed bound up in the organic matter, it would not be in the atmosphere.
off topic my ass! ya beat me to the post!
I happen to think there is a flaw in your statement, not a major one, just an assumptive mistake.
it's one of two things, either, carbon going into the ground is indeed part of the "carbon cycle of the planet". (only on a grander scale than most think about) or the error lies in think that no tree 'burned down' was not destined for the 'greater carbon cycle' and burning it steals the carbon from becoming fossil fuels.
perhaps the day will come when beings with intelligence will realize the real disruption to the carbon cycle was in not allowing more of it to be laid to deep rest through natural means....
My presumption has always been that WE WILL make this planet unihabitable, my hope has been that we would be able to advance ourselves enough that we can spore off the planet before the point of no return eliminates the species. Hopefully in multiple directions
if they advertise a 400$ laptop.. and you get there 2nd in line, and they are all gone because I bought ten(all of them)--
are you going to go back the next time? no...... and neither is the guy who arrived 30 minutes after opening or at 2pm...
the goal of the store is not to sell the "item on sale" but everything else you buy at the same time, and to get you in the store to look around.
It's like this.
I have a wife, and other family members. To save a buck on a 2l bottle of soda, I'm not gonna cycle all my family through twice in one day.
to buy a cheap laptop I will, enter best buy, purchase a 400$ laptop, have my wife & brother do the same, go out to lunch, come back, and get three more.
Now however, to achieve that 400$ price, limit one rebate per household (address) I can't get six.. only one.
Yes, I can keep going and getting the 69 cent coke, (unless it's tied to my frequent shopper card, in which case it just won't ring up that way) but I can't keep mailing off the rebate forms...
so one person can't buy them all and ruin it for the rest of the customers?
yea, I was actually referring to the crypto nerds getting killed..
picture it, you develop a quantum computer, how hard are you going to push someone like Mr. Baldwins character for a raise?
"ya know, I could take this commercial and make millions"
Likely response?
being FORCED to have flash in order to have acrobat. decisions decisions,
Did you ever see "Mercury Rising"?
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120749/
in some decks, if the gears aren't there, the tape assumes no motion=end of tape and auto stops or flips.
having two toothed wheels geared together and in motion (twist one- does the other move?) keeps some decks from making false assumptions about the "casette" poisition.
1st- sometimes when a firmware flash goes bad, the hardware is DEAD. not repairable. trash.
for that occurence, a common remedy is going to customer service/support, lying, and asking for an exchange under warranty.
2nd- they could NOT release a router where the firmware is not flashable, and stay competitive.
they've closed the loophole, that undoubtedly cost them money unfairly. I applaud the thought..
I think it's cool because it serves two purposes, keeps hardware out there for hackers (original not media definition)
and keeps them from getting burned for experimental failures for which they shouldn't be responsible.
no, the point is-
previously, if I had a standard model, try the svea firmware, and fuck it up... I call linksys and say "it stopped working" and "I didn't do pnuthin" I ship it in, they send a refurb almost immediately. This costs them money.
now-- they can keep a few bucks by asking pointed and expected questions, upgrading the firmware is WHY this machine exists- but undoubtedly not a covered by warranty use. As buying it implies intended use that is not covered by warranty--- and denying the claim entirely.
better (likely) represented by the fact that
anyone who buys the more expensive model is 90% more likely to load their own firmware *since that is the market it's for*
and Linksys will be a whole lot less responsive to people making warranty claims when they fuckup the firmware flash.
calling tech support and saying "I dunno" what happened is not gonna cut it on these models.. void the warranty, no service for you...
that will undoubtedly keep a few bucks in their pockets from less repairs....
On this one topic, they are.
christ on a cruch..
do you subscribe to slashdot? look at the entirety of my post history
Look, I like OSS, I like the ideals, I use a lot of it, and I've sent out a lotta beerware payments in my life.
I also-realistically realize, it's not there yet! why is this concept so hard for folks to grasp.
The offerings of linux, do not presently meet enough of the needs of business world for FOSS to rule.
make them be so, and it will rule. In the meantime, it's a little collie nipping at the heels of the Microsoft boeuf
it does keep MS on their toes, & I'd hate to be in a computing enviroment where the competition did not exist, but FOSS offerings are too complex, spottily supported, and fractured as to their individual implementations to serve the need of the market.
ask yourself If MS office cost 20$ a copy.. would ANYONE use open office? would it even exist?
ask yourself, if open office did not exist (and corel, and all other wp's) how much more would office cost?
having BOTH, consumers (including myself) derive both the benefit of keeping costs competitive, and functional growth & advancement.
Make OSS groupware better than exchange, and perhaps, just perhaps, the tech world will be an even better place than it is.
but it ain't there yet. not even close.
yes, I have to understand IT- singluar.
not
the mail app completely
and the calendar app completely
and the groupware app completely
and the Vnc app completely
and the NNTP app and the webserver, and every other component, that in the FOSS world would be a different interface and structure per item.
I'm not an MCSE nor do I aspire to be one, but I know where to find the answers to my problems when they crop up,
and I don't have to think where the "view" menu is in each program, nor the "backup" subset of each nor the "add a user" 7 or 8 times
I run a cute little wizard, and add a user.. bing, they have access to all the servers apps.
that simplicity has VALUE to large & small orginizations both.
look into OWA
it's included in exchange, it's a webmail client, and provides via the web 90% of the functionality a user gets sitting to outlook on their work PC
hit control N
open in another window,
alt tab between the windows.
it works.
yeah. SBS for home.. (NERD HERE/I'm on slashdot right?) I expect to be buying and installing a better one at work next year.
this 1400$ dell server was my personal continuing education project for the year.. I bought it in June, and didn't take it online until 3 months later.. took me that long to feel up to it.. between day one and today, I've reinstalled the OS three times.
There is serious value in running your own exchange server, especially if you have family all around the country that rarely gets together and have busy lives.
('course, I'm gonna scream when I have to buy my next 5 cals, but for corporate purposes, the amount is a pittance compared to the benefits)
I forgot one, I have not implemented it as yet.
it has it's own built in NNTP server as well.