Read closely on their Vision website -- using a USB cable with the phone (instead of their 'PCS Connection Card') is a definite no-no.
Enjoy your service while it lasts, eventually you'll get a phonecall from Sprint saying 'Mr. So and So, you have three options, we can cancel your vision outright, you can purchase a monthly service plan (20MB for $$, 40MB for $$$, etc) for business connections, or you can pay a per kilobyte charge on your data.
It's a product with a specific end-use, dude. They're not selling you a wrench (or a pen) and telling you not to use it. They're selling you their product, a game system. They're not selling you a computer for you to use at your discretion -- even though that's what it's made of.
They're not saying "Here! Compute all you want! Oops, hah hah, not unless we say so!" They're saying "Here, use our product." Doesn't matter if the game's made of old Atari 2600 cartridges or a G5 -- they're not selling you the hardware to use as you'd like, they are selling you what they have done with the hardware.
'Fair Use' is a policy regarding quoting printed word in another printed word application. There is no such thing as fair use doctrine regarding how a private business -- a product seller -- has to sell their product.
is Garrison's poor unwitting server, slashdotted to a smoking ruin within mere MINUTES of story posting. That is what I call a proper and most righteous slashdotting.
Here here!
Woohoo! Bandwidth annilhilation commences
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Geez dude, it's one thing for/. to link to the site, but to go out and pull a bandwidth gatling gun? That poor guy's bill.. *sniff*
First of all, I just hate scare talk, it's the same talk that makes me loathe anything Ashcroft says. Clear Channel owns about a thousand radio stations in the USA -- so that's about 1 out of 10 or 11. Okay, that's a bunch -- BUT, for instance, in my area, my 3 favorite radio stations (or is that less despised?) are all COX and VIACOM. There are other ugly companies out there, I am afraid if we keep putting the spotlight on Clear Channel the other 2 or 3 media companies will be able to get away with more without the attention.
Having said that, the idea of 'insta-CDs' sounds cool, but also worrisome. Are these audio feeds from the soundboards??? That would be great, you bet I'd pay $10 for that. BUT.. I have a feeling they will try to sell these as a "novelty".. with the "Crowd feeling".. so it will be one shitty SHURE mic in the back of the house plugged into maybe a DAT recorder. Ewww... value drop..
Novelty == Bad Sweet Bootleg == Good Artist rights == Where are they?? SFX Promoters (the company CC bought, that is doing this) == Profit!
You must not be 20 seconds into the future....
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Mmmm... C-C-C-Catch the Wave, Coke.
-i eat green eggs and ham, b00yah i am.
Unions are just looking to save their jobs
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This is just a simple case of a radio station using technology to bring high profile talent into a market.
It's been done for tens of years. Ok, so technology now allows them to fine tune it up to every tiny little word -- that's kind of cool, actually -- but anyway, do you really think Casey Casem or Dick Clark knew anything about half the cities they were broadcasting in?
It's America's Top 40 Dance Band Stand! Broadcasting right here in Minnoke!
The union's just looking to save their local DJs some jobs. Carson Daly is not going to appear on every radio dial. The fear is, though, if people tune into this, maybe they would like more high profile talent on their other radio shows.. not local talent. Good luck unions! ugh, would hate to fight that fight..
It would be cool to hear Carson Daly stuttering over his words digitally and repeating a star's name over and over and over again.
How can you talk smugly about pathetic losers
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When your typing in 40 columns? Hello, 1978 called, they want their vterms back.
I start to fire up/. -- a lengthy process due to my dumbass ISP not having reverse DNS entries -- so I sniff around my logs.
*clickity click*
1434? The hell is 1434. Worm?
*slashdot shows*
Ah ha! Ve haf comprehension.
*groggily shuffle off to get coffee, oooo black gold*
For what it's worth, a majority of the packets so far have been mostly US servers --.edu's with cute names like 'staging3', 'testing1', and, no joke, 'snoogans'.
The page cannot be displayed The page you are looking for is currently unavailable. The Web site might be experiencing technical difficulties, or you may need to adjust your browser settings.
YHBT. YHL. HAND.
Re:Slashdotted.... I've mirrored the PDF
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Bless you, sir! Bless you and the bits you rode in on!
Hark, Exploding Drones Land on Ground go Boom
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Federal Aviator cry "These are not the drones you are looking for."
BA DUM CHA!
For my next joke,
In Soviet Russia, Commercial Sectors Fly You!
Thank you, thank you, THANK YOU, GOOD NIGHT! *Fingers*
I am a lameness filter remover. I am a lameness filter remover. I am a lameness filter remover. This is not the karma you are looking for.
Does it have an ending?
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That's my only problem with Crichton. It seems every book of his -- from Andromeda to Sphere to Jurassic Park -- suffers from the same abrupt ending.
I respect that the stories do end and that it's over -- but you have to look at it from a story arc. You can run the arc a number of ways, but essentially in a mystery/suspense you've got this curve that's going up and up and up, and then has a climax or two, then comes down.
I always got the feeling from his books of the curve going up, up, up, and then... flatline. No climax, just like "Oh, 300 pages, time's up." Sort of thing.
I thought it might just have been my problem with one or two of his stories, but after reading a few of them I started to feel it something more like the "Crichton Climax"(tm), (or anti-climax, if you will).
Well, er, right, sorry, I was referring to the ISPs as the last mile to the user. Realizing that Qwest, Worldcom, Sprint, et al, *actually do* control the internet.. grin.. I was referring to service providers as the individual consumer level where they are redirecting the pipe to your house.
If UUNet suddenly died, ahem.. uh, let's try another example, if all the QWest lines suddenly died -- yes, I could see some potential networking issues!
As long as you are on the internet, and can connect to IPv4 or IPv6, you cannot be stopped. The technology inherently allows you to move around blockages or outage points.
Now, if you say "Wait! 3 Media Companies control 80% of the US Internet usage", I say 'Duh!' Like AOL, Compuserve, GEnie, controlled the dialup networks back in the day. It's economy of scale -- you're never going to have enough mom and pop goodie two shoe's scattered around the globe to make every locale capable of having yippie friendly internet access. The big companies with the big bank accounts are the ones that leverage access. Nothing new here.
STILL, the technology they provide allows you to sidestep any potential blockages they make. Ok, ok, so they block at the router your attempt at reaching 555.12.12.12. So? You want to get ther badly enough, you arrange with someone for a proxy.... lather, wash, rinse, repeat
So go go audio books, yay books want to be free, or some such.
But what the heck is the deal with that "news" site? Is the online reporter trying to be a cheap text newspaper? Soundbites of articles and to get the full thing you have to *call a phone number*? Wooooooooah...
He probably has not responded to it, and even so, they won't give this question to him.
John Gilmore was not seeking a response. The time for that has long passed.
This is Mr. Gilmore going 'RASPBERRY!! THBPPPTTTTTPTTTT!!' it's an up raised arm at a 90 degree angle with a hand on the upper arm. It's not a call for a debate, it's a last ditch "Hey buddy, screw you, you suck."
Not that I DISAGREE with Mr. Gilmore about the state of ICANN, just the idea of this being a request for dialog. ICANN is going to be dragged down to its knees, pompous and proud the whole way.
SOMEBODY out there in/. land has to have a logical correlation rant on how the Stones are evil because they came into all their new billions by becoming Microsoft's little bitch for the 'Start' me up campaign.
>Please be sure to read the EULA before installing the patch.
Okay, quick overview of the obvious:
1. Slashdot was born as Rob's blog.
2. Rob's blog was so neat that people told their friends who told their friends who told their friends who told there friends which means
3. Slashdot grows into a meta-geek-culture site.
(Funny to use 'a' there considering slashdot was probably the first, but I digress.)
4. Slashdot the hobby becomes Slashdot the business because Slashdot has juicy eyeball potential and everybody who's anybody is getting a web presence. Rob brings friends aboard to ride the train and help keep it big.
5..com economy goes KABLOOEY!
6. Slashdot, struggling as a business model, reinvents its advertising model to essentially become OSDN's advertiser. Not enough banner ads purchased == put the owner's product on every page the eyeballs see.
(Trolls at this point would yell 'unless they pay to get out of it! HA ha ha!' Ahem. Behave.)
7. Slashdot still retains a sizable chunk of the eyeballs it originally grew in step 3. They can still produce the (in)famous/. effect, but with no viable evolution occurring
8. Slashdot becomes (reverts to?) Rob and Friend's blog.
Kay. Overview done. ONTO the comment..
>Please be sure to read the EULA before installing the patch.
Well, yeah. It's the same EULA that was in the last security update. That was in the update before that. That was in the update before that. I know, I got bored and started saving them. All of them say the same thing:
'All your microsoft belong to us.'
What I mean is, there's nothing new, nothing earth shatteringly different, it's the same old crap. You run Microsoft on your computer, Microsoft wants you to know that they pretty much own your computer.
Where is the news there? Precisely, what is it worth nothing about the EULA?
Then again, well, who cares? It's not a news site, it's Rob + Friends blog! If you don't like it, don't come back here. Is that it?
I just think it's odd that nearly every article michael posts starts off as a news piece, and then turns into a vehement OpEd. I mean, make up your mind, are you news, or are you a teenage blog?
Of course.. I could ignore michael in my preferences, but without Jon Katz around, I find I need somebody new to keep my testosterone pumping.
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Enjoy your service while it lasts, eventually you'll get a phonecall from Sprint saying 'Mr. So and So, you have three options, we can cancel your vision outright, you can purchase a monthly service plan (20MB for $$, 40MB for $$$, etc) for business connections, or you can pay a per kilobyte charge on your data.
reference 1 reference 2
It's a product with a specific end-use, dude. They're not selling you a wrench (or a pen) and telling you not to use it. They're selling you their product, a game system. They're not selling you a computer for you to use at your discretion -- even though that's what it's made of.
They're not saying "Here! Compute all you want! Oops, hah hah, not unless we say so!" They're saying "Here, use our product." Doesn't matter if the game's made of old Atari 2600 cartridges or a G5 -- they're not selling you the hardware to use as you'd like, they are selling you what they have done with the hardware.
'Fair Use' is a policy regarding quoting printed word in another printed word application. There is no such thing as fair use doctrine regarding how a private business -- a product seller -- has to sell their product.
is Garrison's poor unwitting server, slashdotted to a smoking ruin within mere MINUTES of story posting. That is what I call a proper and most righteous slashdotting.
Here here!
Geez dude, it's one thing for /. to link to the site, but to go out and pull a bandwidth gatling gun? That poor guy's bill.. *sniff*
I'm Ice Stormy! I'm regular Stormy! I'm Ice Stormy! -=-iamnotlameiamnotlameiamnotlame-=-
First of all, I just hate scare talk, it's the same talk that makes me loathe anything Ashcroft says. Clear Channel owns about a thousand radio stations in the USA -- so that's about 1 out of 10 or 11. Okay, that's a bunch -- BUT, for instance, in my area, my 3 favorite radio stations (or is that less despised?) are all COX and VIACOM. There are other ugly companies out there, I am afraid if we keep putting the spotlight on Clear Channel the other 2 or 3 media companies will be able to get away with more without the attention.
Having said that, the idea of 'insta-CDs' sounds cool, but also worrisome. Are these audio feeds from the soundboards??? That would be great, you bet I'd pay $10 for that. BUT.. I have a feeling they will try to sell these as a "novelty".. with the "Crowd feeling".. so it will be one shitty SHURE mic in the back of the house plugged into maybe a DAT recorder. Ewww... value drop..
Novelty == Bad
Sweet Bootleg == Good
Artist rights == Where are they??
SFX Promoters (the company CC bought, that is doing this) == Profit!
Tentacle Rape.
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Step 1. Conservative culture
Step 2. Lonely horny animators.
Step 3. ????
Step 3. Tentacle rape
Step 4. Profit!
Mmmm... C-C-C-Catch the Wave, Coke.
-i eat green eggs and ham, b00yah i am.
This is just a simple case of a radio station using technology to bring high profile talent into a market.
It's been done for tens of years. Ok, so technology now allows them to fine tune it up to every tiny little word -- that's kind of cool, actually -- but anyway, do you really think Casey Casem or Dick Clark knew anything about half the cities they were broadcasting in?
It's America's Top 40 Dance Band Stand! Broadcasting right here in Minnoke!
The union's just looking to save their local DJs some jobs. Carson Daly is not going to appear on every radio dial. The fear is, though, if people tune into this, maybe they would like more high profile talent on their other radio shows.. not local talent. Good luck unions! ugh, would hate to fight that fight..
It would be cool to hear Carson Daly stuttering over his words digitally and repeating a star's name over and over and over again.
When your typing in 40 columns? Hello, 1978 called, they want their vterms back.
Uhuh. Yeee.
*this yesman tagline brought to you by the number 8*
I groggily stumble up to my computer, it being a normal enough sort of Saturday AM, and as I sit down I cast a lazy eye at my firewall counter.
/. -- a lengthy process due to my dumbass ISP not having reverse DNS entries -- so I sniff around my logs.
.edu's with cute names like 'staging3', 'testing1', and, no joke, 'snoogans'.
Woah! What's.. uh.. 150 inbound requests.. doing.. today.. worm?
I start to fire up
*clickity click*
1434? The hell is 1434. Worm?
*slashdot shows*
Ah ha! Ve haf comprehension.
*groggily shuffle off to get coffee, oooo black gold*
For what it's worth, a majority of the packets so far have been mostly US servers --
The page cannot be displayed
The page you are looking for is currently unavailable. The Web site might be experiencing technical difficulties, or you may need to adjust your browser settings.
YHBT. YHL. HAND.
Bless you, sir! Bless you and the bits you rode in on!
Federal Aviator cry "These are not the drones you are looking for."
BA DUM CHA!
For my next joke,
In Soviet Russia, Commercial Sectors Fly You!
Thank you, thank you, THANK YOU, GOOD NIGHT! *Fingers*
I am a lameness filter remover. I am a lameness filter remover. I am a lameness filter remover. This is not the karma you are looking for.
That's my only problem with Crichton. It seems every book of his -- from Andromeda to Sphere to Jurassic Park -- suffers from the same abrupt ending.
I respect that the stories do end and that it's over -- but you have to look at it from a story arc. You can run the arc a number of ways, but essentially in a mystery/suspense you've got this curve that's going up and up and up, and then has a climax or two, then comes down.
I always got the feeling from his books of the curve going up, up, up, and then... flatline. No climax, just like "Oh, 300 pages, time's up." Sort of thing.
I thought it might just have been my problem with one or two of his stories, but after reading a few of them I started to feel it something more like the "Crichton Climax"(tm), (or anti-climax, if you will).
Banjo? BANJO!O !!!
BaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaNNNNNNNNNNNjjjjjjjjjjjjjOOOOOOOOO
Adult Swim
Laughing my ass off. Well done. A KARMA BOUQET FOR JOO!
Well, er, right, sorry, I was referring to the ISPs as the last mile to the user. Realizing that Qwest, Worldcom, Sprint, et al, *actually do* control the internet.. grin.. I was referring to service providers as the individual consumer level where they are redirecting the pipe to your house.
If UUNet suddenly died, ahem.. uh, let's try another example, if all the QWest lines suddenly died -- yes, I could see some potential networking issues!
Thank you for clarifying.
Repeat after me
... lather, wash, rinse, repeat
ISPs do not control the content.
ISPs do not control the content.
ISPs do not control the content.
As long as you are on the internet, and can connect to IPv4 or IPv6, you cannot be stopped. The technology inherently allows you to move around blockages or outage points.
Now, if you say "Wait! 3 Media Companies control 80% of the US Internet usage", I say 'Duh!' Like AOL, Compuserve, GEnie, controlled the dialup networks back in the day. It's economy of scale -- you're never going to have enough mom and pop goodie two shoe's scattered around the globe to make every locale capable of having yippie friendly internet access. The big companies with the big bank accounts are the ones that leverage access. Nothing new here.
STILL, the technology they provide allows you to sidestep any potential blockages they make. Ok, ok, so they block at the router your attempt at reaching 555.12.12.12. So? You want to get ther badly enough, you arrange with someone for a proxy.
So go go audio books, yay books want to be free, or some such.
But what the heck is the deal with that "news" site? Is the online reporter trying to be a cheap text newspaper? Soundbites of articles and to get the full thing you have to *call a phone number*? Wooooooooah...
He probably has not responded to it, and even so, they won't give this question to him.
John Gilmore was not seeking a response. The time for that has long passed.
This is Mr. Gilmore going 'RASPBERRY!! THBPPPTTTTTPTTTT!!' it's an up raised arm at a 90 degree angle with a hand on the upper arm. It's not a call for a debate, it's a last ditch "Hey buddy, screw you, you suck."
Not that I DISAGREE with Mr. Gilmore about the state of ICANN, just the idea of this being a request for dialog. ICANN is going to be dragged down to its knees, pompous and proud the whole way.
SOMEBODY out there in /. land has to have a logical correlation rant on how the Stones are evil because they came into all their new billions by becoming Microsoft's little bitch for the 'Start' me up campaign.
>Please be sure to read the EULA before installing the patch.
.com economy goes KABLOOEY!
/. effect, but with no viable evolution occurring
Okay, quick overview of the obvious:
1. Slashdot was born as Rob's blog.
2. Rob's blog was so neat that people told their friends who told their friends who told their friends who told there friends which means
3. Slashdot grows into a meta-geek-culture site.
(Funny to use 'a' there considering slashdot was probably the first, but I digress.)
4. Slashdot the hobby becomes Slashdot the business because Slashdot has juicy eyeball potential and everybody who's anybody is getting a web presence. Rob brings friends aboard to ride the train and help keep it big.
5.
6. Slashdot, struggling as a business model, reinvents its advertising model to essentially become OSDN's advertiser. Not enough banner ads purchased == put the owner's product on every page the eyeballs see.
(Trolls at this point would yell 'unless they pay to get out of it! HA ha ha!' Ahem. Behave.)
7. Slashdot still retains a sizable chunk of the eyeballs it originally grew in step 3. They can still produce the (in)famous
8. Slashdot becomes (reverts to?) Rob and Friend's blog.
Kay. Overview done. ONTO the comment..
>Please be sure to read the EULA before installing the patch.
Well, yeah. It's the same EULA that was in the last security update. That was in the update before that. That was in the update before that. I know, I got bored and started saving them. All of them say the same thing:
'All your microsoft belong to us.'
What I mean is, there's nothing new, nothing earth shatteringly different, it's the same old crap. You run Microsoft on your computer, Microsoft wants you to know that they pretty much own your computer.
Where is the news there? Precisely, what is it worth nothing about the EULA?
Then again, well, who cares? It's not a news site, it's Rob + Friends blog! If you don't like it, don't come back here. Is that it?
I just think it's odd that nearly every article michael posts starts off as a news piece, and then turns into a vehement OpEd. I mean, make up your mind, are you news, or are you a teenage blog?
Of course.. I could ignore michael in my preferences, but without Jon Katz around, I find I need somebody new to keep my testosterone pumping.