Best advice I can offer is... buy and run armored innerduct for your fiber because it's too expensive to lose. It's expensive, but so is replacing fiber and having it terminated.
Was the University of Delaware responsible for the technology behind that TED talk on multitouch interfaces? I recall seeing that long before Apple used it. In fact, wasn't the Surface project announced before Apple did it?
I get the impression you don't work for one of these sites? I did, and generally speaking, they didn't care. If 1 in 5,000 people decide to never return because of the intrusiveness of an ad... they more-or-less said, "screw em". The money speaks louder than the very, very small dent you'd see from an obnoxious ad.
They only cared that we had content worth having people show up at the site for. To overquote a movie, "if you build it, they will come".
Blame sloppy developers that use JavaScript for duties that they shouldn't.
Seriously? Nobody has figured out a way to stop the obnoxious jerks from doing shitty things with javascript, therefore it's the regular developers we should be mad at?
This is great, I'm sending this link around to friends and family on different networks now.
Not because I want to know, but because I want them to read it, see their problems in b&w, and be aware of what their ISP's are doing... without me preaching to the deaf.
I think it's obvious that that's exactly what he meant.
Do the best you can with what you have today, pursue new technologies, don't sit around waiting for someone to just invent a silver bullet for your problems or you'll find yourself in an irreversible situation with no solution.
I realize/. isn't the best place to ask this, but I don't know where the right place is.
Is there a serious debate still going on about whether or not man is the cause (or significant contributor) to GW? I ask because I know I frequently hear, "the debate is over". I'm always suspicious of those words.
Is it just a squabble between the vast majority and a fringe element of dissenters or is this really something we don't know?
even if we could immediately cease our impact on pollution and greenhouse gasses emissions, global climate change would continue for more than a thousand years
Nah, here's the CliffsNotes... someone musta broke a whole lot of mirrors, cause humanity has "more than a thousand years" bad luck a-comin'.
I don't know any Republicans that want to get rid of all welfare programs. Maybe some of the more obnoxious neocons out there do.
What the people I know want is for someone to make the system work sanely. It's supposed to be a temporary crutch, something to fall back on, not a chosen way of life. I want it available for my neighbor when he gets laid off and is out of work for a couple months. I do not want some shitbag living off it, pumping out children they can't afford, draining the system of resources so my neighbor can't use it when [s]he needs it.
It's such that I almost want to see a neighborhood welfare program that's contributed to, and managed by, other people that live in our neighborhood. Now if only we could get our tax dollars back to fund it...
Oh, and you'll notice I didn't say anything about the invasion of privacy. Depending on the school and the conditions under which you attend it, you may not have a reasonable expectation of privacy.
Either way, if you're really that upset, talk to you parents, then maybe talk to a lawyer. Slashdot really isn't a great place to ask these questions.
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Best advice I can offer is... buy and run armored innerduct for your fiber because it's too expensive to lose. It's expensive, but so is replacing fiber and having it terminated.
Starbucks.
Though the nice part for them is Starbucks doesn't operate a comms company in Egypt.
The closest example I can think of is buying a Harry Potter book and reading it to your kids.
As one of my old bosses used to say so frequently, "Fuck you, sue me."
The video makes it look like it's solar.
Was the University of Delaware responsible for the technology behind that TED talk on multitouch interfaces? I recall seeing that long before Apple used it. In fact, wasn't the Surface project announced before Apple did it?
Card systems, thumbprint readers, keys, etc. cost money in both hardware and software... both up-front and recurring.
Password systems are built in, cost nothing, and have done the job pretty damn well for decades.
That's not to say it's a perfect solution of course.
I get the impression you don't work for one of these sites? I did, and generally speaking, they didn't care. If 1 in 5,000 people decide to never return because of the intrusiveness of an ad... they more-or-less said, "screw em". The money speaks louder than the very, very small dent you'd see from an obnoxious ad.
They only cared that we had content worth having people show up at the site for. To overquote a movie, "if you build it, they will come".
Blame sloppy developers that use JavaScript for duties that they shouldn't.
Seriously? Nobody has figured out a way to stop the obnoxious jerks from doing shitty things with javascript, therefore it's the regular developers we should be mad at?
I think it's probably a situation where it's cheaper, safer and more productive to send robots for most everything we're interested in right now.
Disappointing, I know.
Particularly when they can hop on something infinitely more complicated and swear all they like... like XBox Live.
I was thinking we could use this to turn poor, worthless, dry areas into working agrarian areas.
You know, like the middle east. It would be nice if those people could stop fighting for once and focus on producing something other than oil.
I encountered this scenario when I replaced a previous employee.
With hostnames like "mackdaddy" (not kidding), I had to pick everything apart to figure out what each machine was actually doing.
I mean, I was going to have to do it anyway, but a little heads-up from the naming would have been nice.
That's loser talk!
Your product costs hundreds more than theirs. ;)
This is great, I'm sending this link around to friends and family on different networks now.
Not because I want to know, but because I want them to read it, see their problems in b&w, and be aware of what their ISP's are doing... without me preaching to the deaf.
I think it's obvious that that's exactly what he meant.
Do the best you can with what you have today, pursue new technologies, don't sit around waiting for someone to just invent a silver bullet for your problems or you'll find yourself in an irreversible situation with no solution.
I realize /. isn't the best place to ask this, but I don't know where the right place is.
Is there a serious debate still going on about whether or not man is the cause (or significant contributor) to GW? I ask because I know I frequently hear, "the debate is over". I'm always suspicious of those words.
Is it just a squabble between the vast majority and a fringe element of dissenters or is this really something we don't know?
even if we could immediately cease our impact on pollution and greenhouse gasses emissions, global climate change would continue for more than a thousand years
Nah, here's the CliffsNotes... someone musta broke a whole lot of mirrors, cause humanity has "more than a thousand years" bad luck a-comin'.
You're going to hell.
I don't know any Republicans that want to get rid of all welfare programs. Maybe some of the more obnoxious neocons out there do.
What the people I know want is for someone to make the system work sanely. It's supposed to be a temporary crutch, something to fall back on, not a chosen way of life. I want it available for my neighbor when he gets laid off and is out of work for a couple months. I do not want some shitbag living off it, pumping out children they can't afford, draining the system of resources so my neighbor can't use it when [s]he needs it.
It's such that I almost want to see a neighborhood welfare program that's contributed to, and managed by, other people that live in our neighborhood. Now if only we could get our tax dollars back to fund it...
No, all it brought forward was a 9:1 ratio of "Why aren't you legalizing marijuana??!?!?!" questions.
Change.gov was informational in some respects, worthless for the user questions and responses.
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Thanks, it was a fun distraction.
Oh, and you'll notice I didn't say anything about the invasion of privacy. Depending on the school and the conditions under which you attend it, you may not have a reasonable expectation of privacy.
Either way, if you're really that upset, talk to you parents, then maybe talk to a lawyer. Slashdot really isn't a great place to ask these questions.
You wrote them? They belong to you.
That conversation ends quickly with, "a PS wazzat?"