I do not pay for streaming, I will not pay for XM, and I will not pay for digital files.
If I am looking for a one-off song listen, I go to YouTube, or SoundCloud. If I want to listen to a random playlist that I like, I go to my local Alternative Rock FM radio station. They also stream. They also break in for local weather and local emergencies. If I get tired of my local Alt station, then I can also stream KRBZ out of Kansas City, or KNDD from Seattle.... all for free. (Yes, Advertising supported)
If I am going to PAY for music, then it will be a LIVE show, or on physical media - preferably vinyl LP records, but I do collect CDs as well.
If I am not around an area with a good radio station, then I use Folder Player on my phone to play my own collection that I have recorded from my vinyl & CDs.
Most of the anti gun crowd, has never seen or held a gun in their lives.
And are happy to keep it that way.
Disclaimer: I live in urban Europe, not rural US.
And there is part of the problem. We out here in Rural USA do not like the liberal idiots in urban USA, or any of Europe who think they know what is best for us. We tired of their stupid "One Size Fits All" laws that may be great in the big city, but suck for us in the country. For instance, a.222 high-power rifle with a 20 round magazine might be an "assault weapon" in New York, and totally not needed there... BUT our here in rural Nebraska, if I am working with cattle out in the pasture, and a mountain lion comes charging, then YES I DO NEED to have this tool, with a lot of high powered rounds available to shoot quickly. City idiots do not understand that this is NOT a cute little kitty kitty, it is a killing muscle machine that thinks I am its next lunch. How about a rattle snake? Am I supposed to walk up and grab it?..throw it off to the side? That only happens in the movies. A 12-guage shotgun is the better tool for that job. What about in rural Wyoming, where one might encounter a wild bear? These are NOT cuddly teddy bears. Maybe I should just ask it to be friends, like some of my college educated idiot friends might suggest.
Guns are just tools, and like any tool, can be deadly if misused. I can kill you very quickly with a #2 Phillips screwdriver, or a ball-peen hammer, but I won't, because I respect, and do not misuse my tools.
We are also tired of city idiots referring to all of us as bible thumping toothless redneck uneducated hillbillies. That is exactly why I refer to all of them as big city liberal idiots. Education does NOT equal intelligence, and in many cases, is inversely proportional. Keep your "great ideas" to yourself. Your shitty ideas do not apply to all areas of this country, or this world. If people in the big city use ARs to kill people, then that is a big city problem, not my problem. Fix it in the city, we don't need or want your advice out here... and no, we do NOT want to be more like Europe. If you USA big city liberal idiots think Europe is so great, then pick a country in Europe, and move there. I'm tired of paying so much in taxes to support your sorry entitled ass.
btw, I don't support or believe in ANYONE'S brand of sky fairy, I do have an advanced education, and I have all my teeth. Go huskers!
Is any user ID below 1,000,000 considered low these days? Hmm... I guess maybe I have been here for a while, but I too was wondering: What the hell is an immobilizer chip? Nevermind, I know how to use Google.
Actually, some fan of the show Frazier snuck her way onto the set and ended up being prosecuted for crimes against Kelsey Grammar.
...and now we're back on the topic of cholesterol.
Hey baby, I hear the blues a-callin', Tossed salad and scrambled eggs Mercy And maybe I seem a bit confused, Yeah maybe, but I got you pegged! Ha, Ha, Ha, Ha! But I don't know what to do with those tossed salads and scrambled eggs. They're callin' again.
Oh Crap!! The cops just shot the Jazz band drummer!!
Cop: Well, the gunshot detector for this room was going off, and this kid was in here swinging sticks violently in the air... I thought they were nun-chucks, so I had to protect my fellow officers.
Yes, a good rim-shot hit on a short Yamaha snare drum is just as loud as a Ruger.22-LR. Don't put these stupid sensors in the band room. In fact, just scrap this whole idea before it goes anywhere. It won't work.
People are foolish to rely on a mobile phone for anything during a disaster or wide-area emergency.
If you want reliable information in those times, get a battery powered AM radio, and tune to your local station.
Forget about the FM music stations, they are all automated, and will just keep on playing "more music per hour than..." No one is there.
Your locally owned, small-market, analog AM station will have someone there giving you needed information.
Radios are still available starting at around $10. More expensive models also have the VHF NOAA weather band - a big plus, as in many states, the weather service radio stations are also authorized to provide emergency information, weather related or not.
(OLD) Slackware, Red Hat 8, Mandrake 8, (CURRENTLY) Ubuntu on desktops, MontaVista on my embedded systems.
Yes... MontaVista. NO, not Windows Vista, which was a turd. MontaVista really should have sued Microsoft for soiling their good name. http://www.mvista.com/
Its not like its TV stations are going to pop up messages saying "ALERT! EMERGENCY! OH MY GOD! EVERYTHINGS OVER!" with no additional information. Its going to be like the EAS test that happens every single week. Not overriding video is IIRC tolerable under the FCC requirements. The audio message will be there like always.
Part of the problem, and the reason the FCC and FEMA are trying to get the work out early, is that the video text crawl will NOT indicate that it is a test. The audio portion will, but the text portion will say "A Primary Entry Point station has issued a National Emergency Action Notification for the United States beginning at 2:00 PM EST, valid until 3:00 PM EST"
This automatically generated text will show up on every TV screen whether connected to cable, satellite, or off-air antenna. If you are not listening to the sound, how would you know it is only a test? This is also the same text message you will see if you subscribe to one of the internet or cell phone text EAS services. There will be no indication of "only a test" anywhere on it.
As a valued U.S. Bank customer, we want to make you aware of a situation that has occurred related to your email address.
We have been informed by Epsilon Interactive, a vendor based in Dallas, Texas, that files containing your email address were accessed by unauthorized entry into their computer system. Epsilon helps us send you emails about products and services that may be of interest to you.
We want to assure you that U.S. Bank has never provided Epsilon with financial information about you. For your security, however, we wanted to call this matter to your attention. We ask that you remain alert to any unusual or suspicious emails.
Please remember that U.S. Bank will never request information such as your personal ID, password, social security number, PIN or account number via email. For your safety, never share this or similar information in response to an email request at any time. To learn more about recognizing online fraud issues, visit: http://www.usbank.com/cgi_w/cfm/about/online_security/online_fraud.cfm
In addition, if you receive any suspicious looking emails, please tell us immediately. Call U.S. Bank Customer Service at 800-US-BANKS (800-872-2657).
The security of your information is important to us, and we apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused you. As always, if you have any questions, or need any additional information, please do not hesitate to contact us.
die "til we both break down and cry" if($honesty > $toomuch);
Nice AC. I wonder how many/.ers will recognize that old Dan Hill reference from 1977. Well, maybe the Canadians, or the old timers who used to listen to AM radio. Now, get off my lawn.
If you use haft-inch and one inch do describe coax cables maybe your not the best guy for the job.
Half inch, 1 inch, and "625" (which stands for 0.625", or 5/8 inch) are all industry-standard ways to specify the different sizes of 75 Ohm CATV coax Mr. anonymous dumbass. Yes, I am a CATV engineer.
I also use BlueHost. I consider their service to be A+. The only time I ever had a problem, I called the toll-free support number at about 9:00 in the evening, and it was answered by a real technician in Utah who spoke ENGLISH! We traced the problem to a bad router in Colorado that was no fault of BlueHost, but he said he would take care of contacting the router service provider, and get it fixed. My site was back on line by the next morning. Technically, it was never "off-line" it just was not available to the Eastern US.
I still have an original Pentium 100 MHz box, with 96 MB of RAM, and a 4GB IDE hard drive, running Windows 98SE.
Yes, it IS still in service, although I only turn it on when needed.
I call it my "Antique Media" server. Drives "A", "B", and "E" are all shared on the network, and all I use it for is when I need to get something off from a 1.44M or 720K 3.5" floppy, a 1.2M or 360K 5.25" floppy, or a 100MB Iomega ZIP disk.
Sounds like Twitter is trying to cover their butts.
"No officer lawman sir, That is not our terrorist message, and we don't have anything to do with it. All the messages belong to the person who wrote them."
"I think someone has unplugged the anode while touching a ground..."
But he HAD to unplug the anode. It was the only way to upgrade to the new $600 "MonsterWire SuperMegaGold" videophile/audiophile/pedophile grade anode cables!
"You forgot one important justification for the DTV changeover: ending a massively wasteful use of spectrum. A single analog TV channel uses a 6 Mhz of spectrum."
Uh... In case you didn't notice, a single DIGITAL TV channel also uses the same 6 MHz of spectrum.
Sure, with digital compression you can put 4 or 5 "channels" of SD programming in that single 6 MHz chunk, or 1 HD program with 1 or 2 SD programs, but you will NOT have competing stations like CBS, NBC, and ABC all sharing the same DTV channel. There MAY be more programming available than there once was, but there are NOT going to be less channels in use. If there are currently 5 stations in your market using 30 MHz of bandwidth, there will still be 5 stations using 30 MHz. They are just re-locating some of the stations to different channels on the dial to pack them in closer, which could have, and should have been done with analog TV back in the mid 80's when all the tube-type sets with the old sloppy tuners finally vanished.
(Yes, I was still repairing tube-type TV sets in 1983, and tube-type sets were sold new up until the early 1970s.)(..now get off my lawn!)
(note to Brit friends... "tube-type" is American for "valve circuitry")
"I'm guessing that the number prefixed to the domain name is so that they can figure out which channels and time slots result in the most hits for their website."
Slashdot Mirror
I do not pay for streaming, I will not pay for XM, and I will not pay for digital files.
If I am looking for a one-off song listen, I go to YouTube, or SoundCloud. If I want to listen to a random playlist that I like, I go to my local Alternative Rock FM radio station. They also stream. They also break in for local weather and local emergencies. If I get tired of my local Alt station, then I can also stream KRBZ out of Kansas City, or KNDD from Seattle.... all for free. (Yes, Advertising supported)
If I am going to PAY for music, then it will be a LIVE show, or on physical media - preferably vinyl LP records, but I do collect CDs as well.
If I am not around an area with a good radio station, then I use Folder Player on my phone to play my own collection that I have recorded from my vinyl & CDs.
Microsoft has a Smartphone business?
Never heard of it. Which does it run... iOS or Android?
Most of the anti gun crowd, has never seen or held a gun in their lives.
And are happy to keep it that way.
Disclaimer: I live in urban Europe, not rural US.
And there is part of the problem. We out here in Rural USA do not like the liberal idiots in urban USA, or any of Europe who think they know what is best for us. We tired of their stupid "One Size Fits All" laws that may be great in the big city, but suck for us in the country. For instance, a .222 high-power rifle with a 20 round magazine might be an "assault weapon" in New York, and totally not needed there... BUT our here in rural Nebraska, if I am working with cattle out in the pasture, and a mountain lion comes charging, then YES I DO NEED to have this tool, with a lot of high powered rounds available to shoot quickly. City idiots do not understand that this is NOT a cute little kitty kitty, it is a killing muscle machine that thinks I am its next lunch. How about a rattle snake? Am I supposed to walk up and grab it? ..throw it off to the side? That only happens in the movies. A 12-guage shotgun is the better tool for that job. What about in rural Wyoming, where one might encounter a wild bear? These are NOT cuddly teddy bears. Maybe I should just ask it to be friends, like some of my college educated idiot friends might suggest.
Guns are just tools, and like any tool, can be deadly if misused. I can kill you very quickly with a #2 Phillips screwdriver, or a ball-peen hammer, but I won't, because I respect, and do not misuse my tools.
We are also tired of city idiots referring to all of us as bible thumping toothless redneck uneducated hillbillies. That is exactly why I refer to all of them as big city liberal idiots. Education does NOT equal intelligence, and in many cases, is inversely proportional. Keep your "great ideas" to yourself. Your shitty ideas do not apply to all areas of this country, or this world. If people in the big city use ARs to kill people, then that is a big city problem, not my problem. Fix it in the city, we don't need or want your advice out here... and no, we do NOT want to be more like Europe. If you USA big city liberal idiots think Europe is so great, then pick a country in Europe, and move there. I'm tired of paying so much in taxes to support your sorry entitled ass.
btw, I don't support or believe in ANYONE'S brand of sky fairy, I do have an advanced education, and I have all my teeth. Go huskers!
Is any user ID below 1,000,000 considered low these days?
Hmm... I guess maybe I have been here for a while, but I too was wondering: What the hell is an immobilizer chip?
Nevermind, I know how to use Google.
Actually, some fan of the show Frazier snuck her way onto the set and ended up being prosecuted for crimes against Kelsey Grammar.
...and now we're back on the topic of cholesterol.
Hey baby, I hear the blues a-callin',
Tossed salad and scrambled eggs
Mercy
And maybe I seem a bit confused,
Yeah maybe, but I got you pegged!
Ha, Ha, Ha, Ha!
But I don't know what to do with those tossed salads and scrambled eggs.
They're callin' again.
Oh Crap!! The cops just shot the Jazz band drummer!!
Cop: Well, the gunshot detector for this room was going off, and this kid was in here swinging sticks violently in the air... I thought they were nun-chucks, so I had to protect my fellow officers.
Yes, a good rim-shot hit on a short Yamaha snare drum is just as loud as a Ruger .22-LR. Don't put these stupid sensors in the band room. In fact, just scrap this whole idea before it goes anywhere. It won't work.
Posted by timothy on Thursday October 09, 2014 @02:20PM
Sorry Timothy, you're a couple of hours too early to get posted. ..or perhaps we are not in the same time zone.
People are foolish to rely on a mobile phone for anything during a disaster or wide-area emergency.
If you want reliable information in those times, get a battery powered AM radio, and tune to your local station.
Forget about the FM music stations, they are all automated, and will just keep on playing "more music per hour than..." No one is there.
Your locally owned, small-market, analog AM station will have someone there giving you needed information.
Radios are still available starting at around $10. More expensive models also have the VHF NOAA weather band - a big plus, as in many states, the weather service radio stations are also authorized to provide emergency information, weather related or not.
I'll even sign in to post this. I HATE the new layout. It is obviously designed by the same type of idiots who shoot vertical video.
(OLD) Slackware, Red Hat 8, Mandrake 8,
(CURRENTLY) Ubuntu on desktops, MontaVista on my embedded systems.
Yes... MontaVista. NO, not Windows Vista, which was a turd. MontaVista really should have sued Microsoft for soiling their good name. http://www.mvista.com/
Its not like its TV stations are going to pop up messages saying "ALERT! EMERGENCY! OH MY GOD! EVERYTHINGS OVER!" with no additional information. Its going to be like the EAS test that happens every single week. Not overriding video is IIRC tolerable under the FCC requirements. The audio message will be there like always.
Part of the problem, and the reason the FCC and FEMA are trying to get the work out early, is that the video text crawl will NOT indicate that it is a test. The audio portion will, but the text portion will say "A Primary Entry Point station has issued a National Emergency Action Notification for the United States beginning at 2:00 PM EST, valid until 3:00 PM EST"
This automatically generated text will show up on every TV screen whether connected to cable, satellite, or off-air antenna. If you are not listening to the sound, how would you know it is only a test? This is also the same text message you will see if you subscribe to one of the internet or cell phone text EAS services. There will be no indication of "only a test" anywhere on it.
YIAABE (Yes, I am a broadcast engineer)
As a valued U.S. Bank customer, we want to make you aware of a situation that has occurred related to your email address.
We have been informed by Epsilon Interactive, a vendor based in Dallas, Texas, that files containing your email address were accessed by unauthorized entry into their computer system. Epsilon helps us send you emails about products and services that may be of interest to you.
We want to assure you that U.S. Bank has never provided Epsilon with financial information about you. For your security, however, we wanted to call this matter to your attention. We ask that you remain alert to any unusual or suspicious emails.
Please remember that U.S. Bank will never request information such as your personal ID, password, social security number, PIN or account number via email. For your safety, never share this or similar information in response to an email request at any time. To learn more about recognizing online fraud issues, visit:
http://www.usbank.com/cgi_w/cfm/about/online_security/online_fraud.cfm
In addition, if you receive any suspicious looking emails, please tell us immediately.
Call U.S. Bank Customer Service at 800-US-BANKS (800-872-2657).
The security of your information is important to us, and we apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused you. As always, if you have any questions, or need any additional information, please do not hesitate to contact us.
die "til we both break down and cry" if($honesty > $toomuch);
Nice AC. I wonder how many /.ers will recognize that old Dan Hill reference from 1977. Well, maybe the Canadians, or the old timers who used to listen to AM radio. Now, get off my lawn.
If you use haft-inch and one inch do describe coax cables maybe your not the best guy for the job.
Half inch, 1 inch, and "625" (which stands for 0.625", or 5/8 inch) are all industry-standard ways to specify the different sizes of 75 Ohm CATV coax Mr. anonymous dumbass. Yes, I am a CATV engineer.
What's with the naming convention?...the iPad, the wePad, next the usPad following soon the youPad and finally for you women, the maxiPad.
I just want to turn down the volume on all of this noise. I guess I need... an L-Pad.
KJ6BSO.. Hey Carl, You're 5-9 in Nebraska.
KB0HAW
Yep, I should have logged in. Not very anonymous. Oh well.
73 - Bart
I also use BlueHost. I consider their service to be A+. The only time I ever had a problem, I called the toll-free support number at about 9:00 in the evening, and it was answered by a real technician in Utah who spoke ENGLISH! We traced the problem to a bad router in Colorado that was no fault of BlueHost, but he said he would take care of contacting the router service provider, and get it fixed. My site was back on line by the next morning. Technically, it was never "off-line" it just was not available to the Eastern US.
I still have an original Pentium 100 MHz box, with 96 MB of RAM, and a 4GB IDE hard drive, running Windows 98SE.
Yes, it IS still in service, although I only turn it on when needed.
I call it my "Antique Media" server. Drives "A", "B", and "E" are all shared on the network, and all I use it for is when I need to get something off from a 1.44M or 720K 3.5" floppy, a 1.2M or 360K 5.25" floppy, or a 100MB Iomega ZIP disk.
Xfinity sounds like it should be the name of a sports car company... or perhaps an adult film company.
Sounds like Twitter is trying to cover their butts.
"No officer lawman sir, That is not our terrorist message, and we don't have anything to do with it. All the messages belong to the person who wrote them."
"I think someone has unplugged the anode while touching a ground..."
But he HAD to unplug the anode. It was the only way to upgrade to the new $600 "MonsterWire SuperMegaGold" videophile/audiophile/pedophile grade anode cables!
Over the air digital converters will NOT work with digital cable.
OTA digital broadcast in the USA uses Vestigial Side-Band modulation, where cable uses Quadrature Amplitude Modulation. Not compatible.
YIAABE - (Yes, I am a broadcast engineer)
"You forgot one important justification for the DTV changeover: ending a massively wasteful use of spectrum. A single analog TV channel uses a 6 Mhz of spectrum."
Uh... In case you didn't notice, a single DIGITAL TV channel also uses the same 6 MHz of spectrum.
Sure, with digital compression you can put 4 or 5 "channels" of SD programming in that single 6 MHz chunk, or 1 HD program with 1 or 2 SD programs, but you will NOT have competing stations like CBS, NBC, and ABC all sharing the same DTV channel. There MAY be more programming available than there once was, but there are NOT going to be less channels in use. If there are currently 5 stations in your market using 30 MHz of bandwidth, there will still be 5 stations using 30 MHz. They are just re-locating some of the stations to different channels on the dial to pack them in closer, which could have, and should have been done with analog TV back in the mid 80's when all the tube-type sets with the old sloppy tuners finally vanished.
(Yes, I was still repairing tube-type TV sets in 1983, and tube-type sets were sold new up until the early 1970s.)(..now get off my lawn!)
(note to Brit friends... "tube-type" is American for "valve circuitry")
"I'm guessing that the number prefixed to the domain name is so that they can figure out which channels and time slots result in the most hits for their website."
Mod this AC up. He's got it right.