all those poor ISP's shouldn't have sold me and everyone else Broadband internet connections with marketing that suggested we would be able to stream high quality music and videos and get d/l music files...etc
if they didn't have the infastructure to support it.
the ISP's just want google and yourtube to pay for their poor business model / marketing.
for years and fucking years this (much video/audio content) is what everyone said the interent was moving towards....now when it starts getting here... the ISP's suddenly realize they have not built the infastructure to support it?
umm?? question going to buy a new laptop soon
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soo... i get that i can't buy a thinkpad w/ linux on it.
but i'm not entirely sure what IBM was doing before for Linux in general
does this annoucement mean it will be harder/not possible to to get my new thinkpad working correctly with various linux distro's... does it mean it will just take longer for the linux commuity to get the new thinkpads working w/ linux??
i.e. was ibm actively contributing to Linux to help ensure their (ibm) hardware worked w/ linux...or were they just saying...yeah we like linux..and if you want will sell you thinkpads w/ linux loaded.
actually when your trying to start a pirate political party DoSing teh police may not hurt at all really... plus does anyone seriously suggest that the operators of TPB actually launched the DoS attack???
it's like saying Linus launched one of the many DoS attacks on SCO in the past...(well maybe not that extreme...) but i'd be F%#%'ing amazed if anyone from TPB had anything to do with the DoS.
this made me go read the terms and conditions of my cable internet service.
basically nothing is their fault if anything goes wrong... and i'm not even sure i'm allowed to post this??? after reading the restrictions =p
just wondering?
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for everyone that says it is "wrong"..illegal..etc for the buyer to have posted the pics?
the Seller sold the buyer the equipment... the harddrive thusly becoming the property of the "buyer"....Didn't the contents of the harddrive also became the property of the buyer????
Assuming that is correct... would it really be "wrong" for the buyer to utilize the contents of the drive to his choosing????
i certainly hope no action is taken agaist the "buyer" (assuming of course the lappy was as described broken and otherwise not as advertised).
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I don't use Firefox always (because I'm currently using Windows), I don't make daily backups because they can sometimes waste a lot of time, and I let my virus scanner scan regularly even after I know my computer has no viruses (luckily I use AVG which doesn't hog resources).
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ummm..... you do realize they make firefox for windows too right =p
Well.... you should be making money getting people to sign up for Internet access from your pipes (paying various amounts for given service speed levels).
I mean fucking BILLIONS of dollars have been made by people making business deals on the phone.... are you saying the phone company is somehow entitled to a percentage of real estate deals made on the telephone???
I call bullshite on you, and you have ignored the main point of his argument... the service providers have been shielded from prosecution for illegal content crossing their (your) networks by their status as common carriers.
if ISP's are going to adopt this new model and decided what content gets to whom, and at what speed, well then sir they (ISP's) are no longer "common carriers" and could and fucking well should be criminally liable for illegal content crossing their networks.
If ISP can't make money by providing the pipe to the customers, then they are not very smart.... And honestly since all the broadband providers touted all the "streaming"..blah blah heavy load traffic to sell their product w/out actually having the infrastructure is their fucking problem... and they shouldn't be allowed to destroy the very basic foundation the internet was built upon to cover up their mistaken business model.
a channel that hasn't played music in a decade???(i don't remember) i guess in fairness mtv2 or 3 or whatever the fuck there other channel is may play music occasionally?? Anyway were was i, oh right anyway how does MTV still manage to make popular music worse.... even when they don't play any.
of course it seems to me, m$ is trying to make everything about computing kinda suck more for their part.
what is funny is the time that the Napster mp3 free for all was going on was the time I bought the most music ever in my life...
when all the Lawsuit/RIAA...DRM...etc bullshite started i really just stopped giving a damn... I now buy 1/8th maybe if that as many CD's as before.
I will not use itunes, URGE or any other DRM'd d/l service... fuck em...
I don't mind eMusic however DRM free mp3... downloads...
consumers really need to reject this DRM garbage.... people are not.. not buying CD's cause they can get free illegal downloads... they are not buying music because the the major labels keep making total CRAP.
pretty satisfied,
we've missed some calls because of having VOIP (Vonage) but it wasn't vonage's fault it was Adelphia's fucking inability to correct line problems to our house despite 4 trips to our house... which kept making my internet connection drop out.
maybe the real terrorists have just said FUCK it!!!
and are sending their communications on tourist postcards with special codes
or sneaker netting it
meanwhile the NSA now knows I have a strange fixation on Japanese upskirt sites....OH WAIT!!!!
seriously how much more spying on the American people do we have to see, before we realize something is seriously F_cked in the land of free and home of the brave?
ummm... maybe i believe if you RTFA the argument of the lawsuit is that it was actually not legal.
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The legal experts said consumers could sue the phone service providers under communications privacy legislation that dates back to the 1930s. Relevant laws include the Communications Act, first passed in 1934, and a variety of provisions of the Electronic Communications and Privacy Act, including the Stored Communications Act, passed in 1986.
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was it because qwest alone was smart enough to realize it would be a litigation disaster / public relations nightmare if it came out that they had given the gov the records without a court order???
i have to wonder how verizon, AT&T and BellSouth could have been stupid enough to volentarily agree to give their customers info to the gov without a court order?
I'm amazed that the legal depts for these companies could not see the nightmare senario and demand the the gov obtain court orders to get the info.... or who knows maybe the legal depts did try to stop them and the boards of these companies overrode them?
fucking madness either way.... i wonder what else the gov is upto that we are as yet unaware of....mind kinda boggles...
THINK PATRIOTIC THOUGHTS THEY COULD BE READING YOUR MIND????
you'd best not be planning to go to a LAN or move your computer much for anyreason with that thing installed...because unlike some external watercooling kits, It does not seem to have any quick disconnects at the PCI slot hose entry points.
thus it looks like you'd have to remove the thing before you could transport the PC anyhere...
and i'm not trying to flamebait or anything... and I don't overclock... so maybe that's part of the reason why... but even these watercooling in a box kits...seem like more trouble than they are worth.
I think i'd always be too afraid of leaks to use one of them?
but i'd have to step foot into a wallmart....which i'd never do!!!!
additionally i'm willing to guess that the Wallmart employees will make the guys at compUSA look like NASA scientists if you actually had a question?
considering how well some of the online suppliers do at getting me what i want at a very good price (newegg/ mwave /..etc) i'll be in no big hurry to wade thru the chubby walmart customrs to get a motherboard and proc.
it's shaping up more to be like windows ME 2007...or 8 hard to say yet.
I can hardly wait to be DRM'd to death by this new OS.....no really..... actually i'm very sad that all the corp win2k users haven't been able to presuade m$ to bring more of the security enhancements from XP SP2 and IE7..etc to 2k...
Give my choice i'd rather just run 2k....... the first thing i do with XP is turn off all the BS and try to make it as much like 2k as possible anyway.
how long do you think it will be before comcast...etc throttle / block this traffic?
or start charging you per mb easily costing more than any credit the apple store might give?
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all those poor ISP's shouldn't have sold me and everyone else Broadband internet connections with marketing that suggested we would be able to stream high quality music and videos and get d/l music files...etc
....now when it starts getting here... the ISP's suddenly realize they have not built the infastructure to support it?
if they didn't have the infastructure to support it.
the ISP's just want google and yourtube to pay for their poor business model / marketing.
for years and fucking years this (much video/audio content) is what everyone said the interent was moving towards
cause... that way... when you first get the game it makes it more fun unlocking the levels.
2yrs l8tr when you just wanna play your favorite level...you look up the cheat (which is generally pretty trivial to find) and off you go.
that's what "cheat codes" are for.
soo... i get that i can't buy a thinkpad w/ linux on it.
... does it mean it will just take longer for the linux commuity to get the new thinkpads working w/ linux??
but i'm not entirely sure what IBM was doing before for Linux in general
does this annoucement mean it will be harder/not possible to to get my new thinkpad working correctly with various linux distro's
i.e. was ibm actively contributing to Linux to help ensure their (ibm) hardware worked w/ linux...or were they just saying...yeah we like linux..and if you want will sell you thinkpads w/ linux loaded.
thanx
actually when your trying to start a pirate political party DoSing teh police may not hurt at all really... plus does anyone seriously suggest that the operators of TPB actually launched the DoS attack???
it's like saying Linus launched one of the many DoS attacks on SCO in the past...(well maybe not that extreme...) but i'd be F%#%'ing amazed if anyone from TPB had anything to do with the DoS.
this made me go read the terms and conditions of my cable internet service.
basically nothing is their fault if anything goes wrong... and i'm not even sure i'm allowed to post this??? after reading the restrictions =p
for everyone that says it is "wrong" ..illegal ..etc for the buyer to have posted the pics?
the Seller sold the buyer the equipment... the harddrive thusly becoming the property of the "buyer"....Didn't the contents of the harddrive also became the property of the buyer????
Assuming that is correct... would it really be "wrong" for the buyer to utilize the contents of the drive to his choosing????
i certainly hope no action is taken agaist the "buyer" (assuming of course the lappy was as described broken and otherwise not as advertised).
~~~ I don't use Firefox always (because I'm currently using Windows), I don't make daily backups because they can sometimes waste a lot of time, and I let my virus scanner scan regularly even after I know my computer has no viruses (luckily I use AVG which doesn't hog resources). ~~~
ummm..... you do realize they make firefox for windows too right =p
Well.... you should be making money getting people to sign up for Internet access from your pipes (paying various amounts for given service speed levels).
..blah blah heavy load traffic to sell their product w/out actually having the infrastructure is their fucking problem... and they shouldn't be allowed to destroy the very basic foundation the internet was built upon to cover up their mistaken business model.
I mean fucking BILLIONS of dollars have been made by people making business deals on the phone.... are you saying the phone company is somehow entitled to a percentage of real estate deals made on the telephone???
I call bullshite on you, and you have ignored the main point of his argument... the service providers have been shielded from prosecution for illegal content crossing their (your) networks by their status as common carriers.
if ISP's are going to adopt this new model and decided what content gets to whom, and at what speed, well then sir they (ISP's) are no longer "common carriers" and could and fucking well should be criminally liable for illegal content crossing their networks.
If ISP can't make money by providing the pipe to the customers, then they are not very smart.... And honestly since all the broadband providers touted all the "streaming"
like this....
http://www2.foxsearchlight.com/theringer/
in non crippled HD.....
YAY!!!!!! no really.....
the should worry less about image tokens and more about not making crappy movies
on the other hand they are making it easier for me to say no to DRM since there is almost nothing i wanna listen to or watch right about now.
a channel that hasn't played music in a decade???(i don't remember) i guess in fairness mtv2 or 3 or whatever the fuck there other channel is may play music occasionally?? Anyway were was i, oh right anyway how does MTV still manage to make popular music worse.... even when they don't play any.
...DRM ...etc bullshite started i really just stopped giving a damn... I now buy 1/8th maybe if that as many CD's as before.
... fuck em...
... downloads...
of course it seems to me, m$ is trying to make everything about computing kinda suck more for their part.
what is funny is the time that the Napster mp3 free for all was going on was the time I bought the most music ever in my life...
when all the Lawsuit/RIAA
I will not use itunes, URGE or any other DRM'd d/l service
I don't mind eMusic however DRM free mp3
consumers really need to reject this DRM garbage.... people are not.. not buying CD's cause they can get free illegal downloads... they are not buying music because the the major labels keep making total CRAP.
ummm or you could just get All Sound Recorder XP and just capture the audio output from the soundcard.
Only outlaws will have
#!usr/bin/perl
tshirts http://andrewhitchcock.org/index.pl?page=perl
pretty satisfied, we've missed some calls because of having VOIP (Vonage) but it wasn't vonage's fault it was Adelphia's fucking inability to correct line problems to our house despite 4 trips to our house... which kept making my internet connection drop out.
maybe the real terrorists have just said FUCK it!!!
and are sending their communications on tourist postcards with special codes
or sneaker netting it
meanwhile the NSA now knows I have a strange fixation on Japanese upskirt sites....OH WAIT!!!!
seriously how much more spying on the American people do we have to see, before we realize something is seriously F_cked in the land of free and home of the brave?
yes but Xerox can sue apple for making a GUI interface that they made first =p
http://arstechnica.com/articles/paedia/gui.ars/3
apple invented the GUI......please...
ummm... maybe i believe if you RTFA the argument of the lawsuit is that it was actually not legal.
~~~~
The legal experts said consumers could sue the phone service providers under communications privacy legislation that dates back to the 1930s. Relevant laws include the Communications Act, first passed in 1934, and a variety of provisions of the Electronic Communications and Privacy Act, including the Stored Communications Act, passed in 1986.
~~~~~~
was it because qwest alone was smart enough to realize it would be a litigation disaster / public relations nightmare if it came out that they had given the gov the records without a court order???
i have to wonder how verizon, AT&T and BellSouth could have been stupid enough to volentarily agree to give their customers info to the gov without a court order?
I'm amazed that the legal depts for these companies could not see the nightmare senario and demand the the gov obtain court orders to get the info.... or who knows maybe the legal depts did try to stop them and the boards of these companies overrode them?
fucking madness either way.... i wonder what else the gov is upto that we are as yet unaware of....mind kinda boggles...
THINK PATRIOTIC THOUGHTS THEY COULD BE READING YOUR MIND????
~~~ For instance, a T-shirt could be solid blue one day and striped the next, she said. ~~~
all i need is the smelly nerds at work wearing the same tshirt (albiet with different colors/patterns) all week...
you'd best not be planning to go to a LAN or move your computer much for anyreason with that thing installed...because unlike some external watercooling kits, It does not seem to have any quick disconnects at the PCI slot hose entry points.
... but even these watercooling in a box kits...seem like more trouble than they are worth.
thus it looks like you'd have to remove the thing before you could transport the PC anyhere...
and i'm not trying to flamebait or anything... and I don't overclock... so maybe that's part of the reason why
I think i'd always be too afraid of leaks to use one of them?
that way sooner or later i'd get sued by apple...
DON'T SUE ME APPLE
but
www.apple.com
http://www.bearshare.com/
d/l of bs clinet still active too.. as of 12:37PM PST
but i'd have to step foot into a wallmart....which i'd never do!!!!
..etc) i'll be in no big hurry to wade thru the chubby walmart customrs to get a motherboard and proc.
additionally i'm willing to guess that the Wallmart employees will make the guys at compUSA look like NASA scientists if you actually had a question?
considering how well some of the online suppliers do at getting me what i want at a very good price (newegg/ mwave /
of Duke Nukem Forever???
...or 8 hard to say yet.
....... the first thing i do with XP is turn off all the BS and try to make it as much like 2k as possible anyway.
oh wait, I guess not
it's shaping up more to be like windows ME 2007
I can hardly wait to be DRM'd to death by this new OS.....no really..... actually i'm very sad that all the corp win2k users haven't been able to presuade m$ to bring more of the security enhancements from XP SP2 and IE7..etc to 2k...
Give my choice i'd rather just run 2k
how long do you think it will be before comcast...etc throttle / block this traffic? or start charging you per mb easily costing more than any credit the apple store might give?