I do not know the name of the Australian version of this extortion group is, but are they required to pay up? I mean the sharks are an audience and they are listening and being entertained by a public performance...
Wait until they(Aussie ASCAP) realizes that music travels farther and faster underwater and the fees will really increase.
The "massive backlash" honestly comes from the noisy minority;
Are you just calling it a minority because you do not agree with it? I am still using FF 3.6 because I use the status bar a lot and I don't want to be without it and the addon does not serve my needs.
What gets me going is that they are removing the bars without giving users the choice, when prior versions you could always turn them off. While typing this right now (in 3.6) I can go to the view menu and unclick "Status Bar" or View >> Toolbars and unclick "Navigation ToolBar" which would effectively remove the status bar and/or url toolbar from the display. I have the choice now, removing my choice will only annoy me.
Maybe instead of listening to some UI person with his head up his a$$, maybe they should eliminate the feature and performance bloat. I thought the point of add-ons was to provide an open architecture to allow me to do things the browser didn't --- when did add-ons become required in order to return the browser to the way I liked it before?
I agree with you, the current taxes encourage fuel efficient vehicles. (which is a very good thing.)
However, the problem is how do we pay for roads as we decrease the number of gas powered vehicles. Eventually most of the vehicles on the road will be hybrids, alternate fuel, and pure electric vehicles. When this happens is it fair to have the minority of drivers paying the road taxes for everyone?
Of course the current suggestion of using a device adds additional problems. What prevents this device from being hacked? Will this device work in older cars? (especially pre-1996 cars without ODB ports.) Will it be GPS based and be an invasion to privacy? And the other problem with devices is who will pay for them? How much of the revenue generated will end up paying for the infrastructure of enforcing the tax?
I propose we keep and even increase the gas tax as the main source of road revenue. We eliminate all subsidies to by fuel efficient vehicles and spend that money on the actual roads instead. (High gas prices alone should encourage people to switch to better efficiency.)
We will still need to tax efficient vehicles and I propose we add a tire tax. A tire tax will be analogous to a usage (and distance) tax. It will also increase based on how heavy a vehicle is... larger cars and trucks use larger (and more) tires. If a person is harder on the roads with quick acceleration and hard stops, it will also wear his tires quicker. The only problem with this, is how to deal with blowouts. (Maybe the answer to that is to pro-rate a tax refund based on remaining tread after a blowout similar to tire warranties.)
As time goes on and more people move to fuel efficient vehicles, we start shifting the taxes off of fuel and on to tires so that the minority of gasoline users do not pay for everything.
In linux, you can change your mac address with 3 simple lines:
ifconfig {device} down ifconfig {device} hw ether 01:02:03:04:05:06 ifconfig {device} up
Where {device} is the device name (usually wlan0 or eth0) A simple google search will tell any user this information. When you reboot, your MAC address is reset back to the hardware default.
Plus, Setiguy already explained that it is even easier to change a router's MAC address.
If the police (or federal authorites) find child porn being transmitted to/from an IP address that is registered to your hardware, they should be allowed to find out who you are and subsequently interview you. In addition to interviewing you, they should be allow to further their investigation.
When they interview you, you have a right to get an attorney and/or decline to speak with them. This occurs before charges are filed against you.
A private company (or lawyers working for one) should not have the right to bypass all of this and file a lawsuit against you without a proper investigation.
As for the car analogy, My license plate is not used for only a few days just to go back into a pool of license plates which would be reissued to someone else later. In addition, a video with my car running over children would most likely also capture the make/model and color of my vehicle which would count as more evidence.
Even if the above proves that it is my car, it would still need to be proven that I drove the car. If I can show a reasonable doubt that I was not the driver, I should be found innocent. IP addresses are copied, open routers are used by other people, and password protected routers can be cracked.
Why should a file sharer have fewer rights than a child molester?
I also still hate the various windows flavors. However the first thing I do uninstall all the bs I can, defragment and then shrink the partition. Then I install linux.
The only reason why I leave a base windows install is so that I can still get warranty service when I have a hardware problem. (I only get laptops with windows. For desktops, I will build a barebones desktop system to avoid the "windows tax.")
For those one or two applications that I need to use for work that require IE/windows, I use a virtualbox session with XP (also set to classic mode without theming.) I find a vm less intrusive than rebooting into windows; this way I can still run everything else on the linux host.
I agree with you. I use to like Mandrake/Mandriva and I was using it almost 10 years and I was even paying to be in the "Mandriva Club" then it was ruined in 2008 when they forced KDE 4.0 on everyone. Even if you are one of those that currently likes KDE4, you have to admit it was still very buggy when it was first released.
On a serious note, this could work... But only make them invisible to normal users. (i.e. let trolls see other trolls' comments.) This way, one troll can reply a different troll's comment and normal users get to see a good board.
In addition, put spam in the same category as trolls.
If all this works well, your normal users will have a good experience and your trolls will end up being frustrated.
I agree with you, but one of your facts is incorrect.
It is not available in every market, but AT&T offers digital tv (over IP) that competes with cable. It is owned by AT&T and not a branded satellite product. (AT&T offers this in parts of Georgia and I am sure they offer it elsewhere.)
In addition I know that Verizon offers a similiar IP-based tv service in parts of New Jersey.
True, but Netflix is going to eventually force Comcast to lower their prices significantly.
Not true... More than likely, broadcasters and networks will continue to increase the carry fee that they charge Comcast to carry their channel(s). This will force Comcast to continue to increase fees for cable. While Comcast can decrease their profit margin, I think most people realize that Comcast will only do this as a desperate last resort.
While I am one of the minority of people to cut the cable connection, It will be a very long time before most people do the same. Some people will wrongly assume that it is too difficult to use Netflix or other resources, but many more people are just too reluctant to change -- they will just stay with the status quo.
Even if Comcast is forced to lower cable prices in order to retain customers, they will just increase internet fees. If they don't extract their money one way, they will adjust their pricing to take even more money from you a different way.
Unfortunately, there is no set price for our elected officials; we all know they are each sold to the highest bidder. Even google does not have enough money to get more than a few minutes of time from small handful.
By creating this new "road use fee" they do not raise the gas tax and can say that they did not raise taxes during their next election.
Of course I also read about this a few weeks back and someone mentioned that a company making a GPS unit that can track the cars mileage was in the home state of one of the bills sponsors.
If you ask me, raise the gas tax. This is essentially the same thing and it still encourages fuel economy. In the long term it will also lower oil demand offsetting some (not all) of the tax increase. Using gas taxes also eliminates the costs involved with buying/implementing the new program.
You can also save money by eliminating all subsidies to consumers/businesses in order to buy hybrid and electric vehicles. If higher gas prices are not enough to encourage this behavior anyway you are just giving your tax money away. You may say that people can not afford the upfront cost of a car without a subsidy, but most people get an auto loan anyway, and the gas savings from using a hybrid can pay for the increase in the monthly loan payment.
Of course congress is impotent when it comes to almost anything, especially something that increases taxes and the cost of gas. Even if it is good for the long term.
BTW: before you consider me a troll for my suggestion, my "fuel-efficient" car gets 25mpg on the highway, so a gas tax will hit me harder than mileage based usage.
Compare the lives lost in the earthquake and tsunami to the number that are killed in the resulting aftermath. I suspect that when the final count is completed (even after estimating the future deaths from the radiation,) that nature will be the bigger killer. And it kills a lot more often than major nuke accidents.
Religious groups have long been in favor of Net Neutrality; they need to get their message out to the masses just like individuals. Many of them fear not being heard if censorship is allowed. In addition, many would not like paying exorbitant fees like the access fees that network providers want to to charge to carry their traffic.
It is the mass media and the corporate executives that want to drown out any voice but their own. They want to drive up the price of access to for their own greed and to avoid having to compete on a level playing field. How can anyone afford Netflix if Comcast forces their bandwidth costs to skyrocket. The same goes for VOIP services or any future idea that may compete with their monopoly (or duopoly as is the case.)
That "detailed analysis" of the Gawker breach needs to be stricken from the web.
You are absolutely right. It was gawker... While I did not have a gawker account, I use the same password among multiple sites on the web and I still feel secure. For blog, news aggregate, and log-in-just-to-view sites, I use a relatively weak password. For email accounts, I use a much stronger individual password. For my home banking site, I use another unique and strong password.
Seriously, How will my life be affected if someone stole my slashdot account? Wow, I would need to post more to get excellent karma again. But will my financial data be at risk? Will someone be able to steal my identity and slander my name? In the grand scheme, my slashdot password is one of the weak ones (Still not on the gawker Top 50) because I do not lose anything if it is ever compromised. On sites that I would go through hell if someone accessed it maliciously, I actually give a damn. For those sites I create a unique non-word based strong password.
In addition, even if my slashdot (or other weak password sites) are ever compromised, it still will not matter much and affect other sites. I use different email addresses (I own a few different domains) for registrations. I create unique email address to see which sites spam me; so, even knowing my weak password will not get you access to other sites posing as me.
The C64's operating system is stored on ROM chips (which by definition can not be written to.)
While I do not think it is immune to viruses, The above points should mean that a hard-reboot (i.e. power reset) would wipe the virus out of memory severely hampering the ability of a virus to linger.
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Correlation does not imply causation.
You believe what you want to and I will believe what I want.
Just remember this...
Number of Nuclear Wars before woman's suffrage: 0
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I do not know the name of the Australian version of this extortion group is, but are they required to pay up? I mean the sharks are an audience and they are listening and being entertained by a public performance...
Wait until they(Aussie ASCAP) realizes that music travels farther and faster underwater and the fees will really increase.
The "massive backlash" honestly comes from the noisy minority;
Are you just calling it a minority because you do not agree with it? I am still using FF 3.6 because I use the status bar a lot and I don't want to be without it and the addon does not serve my needs.
What gets me going is that they are removing the bars without giving users the choice, when prior versions you could always turn them off. While typing this right now (in 3.6) I can go to the view menu and unclick "Status Bar" or View >> Toolbars and unclick "Navigation ToolBar" which would effectively remove the status bar and/or url toolbar from the display. I have the choice now, removing my choice will only annoy me.
Maybe instead of listening to some UI person with his head up his a$$, maybe they should eliminate the feature and performance bloat. I thought the point of add-ons was to provide an open architecture to allow me to do things the browser didn't --- when did add-ons become required in order to return the browser to the way I liked it before?
I agree with you, the current taxes encourage fuel efficient vehicles. (which is a very good thing.)
However, the problem is how do we pay for roads as we decrease the number of gas powered vehicles. Eventually most of the vehicles on the road will be hybrids, alternate fuel, and pure electric vehicles. When this happens is it fair to have the minority of drivers paying the road taxes for everyone?
Of course the current suggestion of using a device adds additional problems. What prevents this device from being hacked? Will this device work in older cars? (especially pre-1996 cars without ODB ports.) Will it be GPS based and be an invasion to privacy? And the other problem with devices is who will pay for them? How much of the revenue generated will end up paying for the infrastructure of enforcing the tax?
I propose we keep and even increase the gas tax as the main source of road revenue. We eliminate all subsidies to by fuel efficient vehicles and spend that money on the actual roads instead. (High gas prices alone should encourage people to switch to better efficiency.)
We will still need to tax efficient vehicles and I propose we add a tire tax. A tire tax will be analogous to a usage (and distance) tax. It will also increase based on how heavy a vehicle is... larger cars and trucks use larger (and more) tires. If a person is harder on the roads with quick acceleration and hard stops, it will also wear his tires quicker. The only problem with this, is how to deal with blowouts. (Maybe the answer to that is to pro-rate a tax refund based on remaining tread after a blowout similar to tire warranties.)
As time goes on and more people move to fuel efficient vehicles, we start shifting the taxes off of fuel and on to tires so that the minority of gasoline users do not pay for everything.
In linux, you can change your mac address with 3 simple lines:
ifconfig {device} down
ifconfig {device} hw ether 01:02:03:04:05:06
ifconfig {device} up
Where {device} is the device name (usually wlan0 or eth0) A simple google search will tell any user this information. When you reboot, your MAC address is reset back to the hardware default.
Plus, Setiguy already explained that it is even easier to change a router's MAC address.
If the police (or federal authorites) find child porn being transmitted to/from an IP address that is registered to your hardware, they should be allowed to find out who you are and subsequently interview you. In addition to interviewing you, they should be allow to further their investigation.
When they interview you, you have a right to get an attorney and/or decline to speak with them. This occurs before charges are filed against you.
A private company (or lawyers working for one) should not have the right to bypass all of this and file a lawsuit against you without a proper investigation.
As for the car analogy, My license plate is not used for only a few days just to go back into a pool of license plates which would be reissued to someone else later. In addition, a video with my car running over children would most likely also capture the make/model and color of my vehicle which would count as more evidence.
Even if the above proves that it is my car, it would still need to be proven that I drove the car. If I can show a reasonable doubt that I was not the driver, I should be found innocent. IP addresses are copied, open routers are used by other people, and password protected routers can be cracked.
Why should a file sharer have fewer rights than a child molester?
I also still hate the various windows flavors. However the first thing I do uninstall all the bs I can, defragment and then shrink the partition. Then I install linux.
The only reason why I leave a base windows install is so that I can still get warranty service when I have a hardware problem. (I only get laptops with windows. For desktops, I will build a barebones desktop system to avoid the "windows tax.")
For those one or two applications that I need to use for work that require IE/windows, I use a virtualbox session with XP (also set to classic mode without theming.) I find a vm less intrusive than rebooting into windows; this way I can still run everything else on the linux host.
I agree with you. I use to like Mandrake/Mandriva and I was using it almost 10 years and I was even paying to be in the "Mandriva Club" then it was ruined in 2008 when they forced KDE 4.0 on everyone. Even if you are one of those that currently likes KDE4, you have to admit it was still very buggy when it was first released.
Your absolutely right. This is worse. How long before they tell your insurance company?
"We're sorry, we are doubling your rates...." (or dropping you completely.)
On a serious note, this could work... But only make them invisible to normal users. (i.e. let trolls see other trolls' comments.) This way, one troll can reply a different troll's comment and normal users get to see a good board.
In addition, put spam in the same category as trolls.
If all this works well, your normal users will have a good experience and your trolls will end up being frustrated.
I agree with you, but one of your facts is incorrect.
It is not available in every market, but AT&T offers digital tv (over IP) that competes with cable. It is owned by AT&T and not a branded satellite product. (AT&T offers this in parts of Georgia and I am sure they offer it elsewhere.)
In addition I know that Verizon offers a similiar IP-based tv service in parts of New Jersey.
True, but Netflix is going to eventually force Comcast to lower their prices significantly.
Not true... More than likely, broadcasters and networks will continue to increase the carry fee that they charge Comcast to carry their channel(s). This will force Comcast to continue to increase fees for cable. While Comcast can decrease their profit margin, I think most people realize that Comcast will only do this as a desperate last resort.
While I am one of the minority of people to cut the cable connection, It will be a very long time before most people do the same. Some people will wrongly assume that it is too difficult to use Netflix or other resources, but many more people are just too reluctant to change -- they will just stay with the status quo.
Even if Comcast is forced to lower cable prices in order to retain customers, they will just increase internet fees. If they don't extract their money one way, they will adjust their pricing to take even more money from you a different way.
Funny?!? If I had mod points I would have marked it as "+1, Insightful". Of course it really needs to marked as "-1, Sad (but too true)"
Unfortunately, there is no set price for our elected officials; we all know they are each sold to the highest bidder. Even google does not have enough money to get more than a few minutes of time from small handful.
As proof, here is what congress really thinks of google: As a shakedown target.
http://www.businessinsider.com/the-real-reason-dc-wants-to-hold-google-hearings-2011-3
By creating this new "road use fee" they do not raise the gas tax and can say that they did not raise taxes during their next election.
Of course I also read about this a few weeks back and someone mentioned that a company making a GPS unit that can track the cars mileage was in the home state of one of the bills sponsors.
If you ask me, raise the gas tax. This is essentially the same thing and it still encourages fuel economy. In the long term it will also lower oil demand offsetting some (not all) of the tax increase. Using gas taxes also eliminates the costs involved with buying/implementing the new program.
You can also save money by eliminating all subsidies to consumers/businesses in order to buy hybrid and electric vehicles. If higher gas prices are not enough to encourage this behavior anyway you are just giving your tax money away. You may say that people can not afford the upfront cost of a car without a subsidy, but most people get an auto loan anyway, and the gas savings from using a hybrid can pay for the increase in the monthly loan payment.
Of course congress is impotent when it comes to almost anything, especially something that increases taxes and the cost of gas. Even if it is good for the long term.
BTW: before you consider me a troll for my suggestion, my "fuel-efficient" car gets 25mpg on the highway, so a gas tax will hit me harder than mileage based usage.
I agree with you, but I have a better comparison.
Compare the lives lost in the earthquake and tsunami to the number that are killed in the resulting aftermath. I suspect that when the final count is completed (even after estimating the future deaths from the radiation,) that nature will be the bigger killer. And it kills a lot more often than major nuke accidents.
1) He writes an (admittedly large) expensive $625 cookbook.
2) He gets free advertising on slahsdot.
3) Profit ($$$)
No need to question any steps here...
with graphics and UI as convenience features.
Heck if you look at the way people talk about slashdot whenever it changes its style, you would think that the UI and graphics are annoyance features.
Religious groups have long been in favor of Net Neutrality; they need to get their message out to the masses just like individuals. Many of them fear not being heard if censorship is allowed. In addition, many would not like paying exorbitant fees like the access fees that network providers want to to charge to carry their traffic.
It is the mass media and the corporate executives that want to drown out any voice but their own. They want to drive up the price of access to for their own greed and to avoid having to compete on a level playing field. How can anyone afford Netflix if Comcast forces their bandwidth costs to skyrocket. The same goes for VOIP services or any future idea that may compete with their monopoly (or duopoly as is the case.)
Does anyone know of where I can get the service that cleans out the porn from my house before my relatives find my body?
Yes, The C64 used a 6510. Its predecessor, the Vic-20 used a 6502. FWIW, I believe the C128 used a 2mhz 8502 which was compatible.
The brand-new http://www.commodoreusa.net/CUSA_C64.aspxCommodore64 uses a Dual Core 525 Atom processor and Nvidia Ion2 graphics chipset.
That "detailed analysis" of the Gawker breach needs to be stricken from the web.
You are absolutely right. It was gawker... While I did not have a gawker account, I use the same password among multiple sites on the web and I still feel secure. For blog, news aggregate, and log-in-just-to-view sites, I use a relatively weak password. For email accounts, I use a much stronger individual password. For my home banking site, I use another unique and strong password.
Seriously, How will my life be affected if someone stole my slashdot account? Wow, I would need to post more to get excellent karma again. But will my financial data be at risk? Will someone be able to steal my identity and slander my name? In the grand scheme, my slashdot password is one of the weak ones (Still not on the gawker Top 50) because I do not lose anything if it is ever compromised. On sites that I would go through hell if someone accessed it maliciously, I actually give a damn. For those sites I create a unique non-word based strong password.
In addition, even if my slashdot (or other weak password sites) are ever compromised, it still will not matter much and affect other sites. I use different email addresses (I own a few different domains) for registrations. I create unique email address to see which sites spam me; so, even knowing my weak password will not get you access to other sites posing as me.
Personally, I prefer to spell his name starting with a "F"
Could the Commodore 64 possibly be immune? ;)
The C64 does not have an internal hard drive.
The C64 does not utilize boot sectors.
The C64's operating system is stored on ROM chips (which by definition can not be written to.)
While I do not think it is immune to viruses, The above points should mean that a hard-reboot (i.e. power reset) would wipe the virus out of memory severely hampering the ability of a virus to linger.