The purpose might not to be prevent specific email addresses and nicks to access the websites, since they can be easily circumvented by just getting another email address.
Instead, the purpose could (or should) be to deter the use of the services in wrong ways. If a sex offender is caught (search warrant, data traffic logging or whatever) to be using an unregistered ID, severe penalties would apply.
In reality the traffic will not get logged.
In reality sex offenders' drive will make them repeat their offences despite attempts like these.
Pretty much everyone I know (living in cities) have 100Mbit/s with five IP-adresses, option for fixed ip-adresses instead of from DHCP. About $40/month. Some houses have cable-connections for a bit less, but also a bit slower unless you pick some "fast" option.
My parents live in countryside and have to make do with 24 with one IP adress, for a bit less/month.
The same situation in most areas in Finland, although it seems they have more cable in the cities, and better DSL in the rural areas.
Yep, ABLOY (pr ASSA-ABLOY as they are called now) locks are near impossible to pick, even though they are normal domestic locks quite usual in this area (Nordic countries).
We lost a keychain and had a professional pick all the doors, even doors costing a fortune with some really odd-looking keys. But when the locksmith saw the Abloy locks, he laughed, gave us a long stick, and told us to use it to get in. Stood there dumbfounded until he pointed at the window:D
When we got in after breaking the window, I just remembered that the lock is a double-side one, with a key needed on both sides... DOH! They had to disassemble the door frame to be able to get the door to open. Luckily it was the type of Abloy lock that has a "hook" that wraps around a metal pin in the door frame, or we would have had to break parts of the wall:O
That was an expensive boat trip (dropped the keychain into the sea)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colemak...and of course the multitude of methods to remapping the CAPS key tome something more useful, such as a second backspace key (just as in the Colemak keyboard layout)
For those geographically and commonsensically challenged:
1. The distance is at a par as swimming across the American continent... 2....in water that would kill you in minutes to hours depending on the season. 3. The gulf stream (albeit slower than people think) would work against him and take him to the north coast of Norway and north Siberia faster than he could swim
If he would make it somehow to a warmer area, with no currents he would still need months, if not a year to swim across, with a raft to sleep and rest on, and a steady supply of food, water, heat, cooling, sun shelter, perhaps even protection from the random shark etc.
It is all a marketing ploy, and I am very surprised to see slashdotters seriously discussing his chances of success!
I am not so familiar to the dial-up ISPs in Sweden now, but a few years ago they got all their incomes from the calls. For example, Tele2 had modem pools with free Intenet access. One would use Telia's (the now partly privatised national phone company) phone lines to call them. Telia would charge you per minute (about 1$ per hour for a normal call across the entire country) and pay Tele2 a bit to receive the call on their lines leading to the modem pool.
Prior to this the way to make money was to have a prequisite on these "free of charge" services - you had to sign up on their international and long distance calls services.
In Sweden a governmental organisation called Post- och Telegrafistyrelsen, PTS regulates how much teh different networks and telcos can charge for their calls and call transfers, and telcos' business schemes adapt to these rates, but in short the general idea is to distribute the end user's money to the companies offering different parts of the phone/computer -> destination services.
That way you would use Telia's phone lines to connect to the ISP/phone operator's lines that would in their turn do the final long distance or international call.
Internet access has always been cheap in Sweden even in the dial-up times. I currently pay about 300kr (40$) a month for a 10Mbit/s Ethenet connection, the house is connected to a X GBit/s city network, with an option for 100Mbit/s for around 10$ more a month, but with a cap at 800GB transferred a month at that rate, after which it falls back to a slower speed.
Frankly the necessary modifications should be made in the companies and governmental organisations' brain matter more than in GPL, but any change that would make them less scared of the perceived threat of GPL is what I believe will be enough to tip the scales over.
Already some interesting studies are happening in my company and elsewhere where it is investigated whether Open Source software can be part of, or fully take over after Microsoft and closed source software. Of course the MCPs and middle level bosses are scared of it which acts as a brake, with the main arguments being that 'anyone can just take our code' and other silly arguments like that.
This is not a day too early, and a bit modified GPL version might be enough to make it possible to implement and develop open source software in my Swedish (but with 80% of the operation in other European countries) mastodont government organisation. The other branches of the corporation have already a pro-GPL and OS attitude, but the anti-OS, pro-MS main coproration has this far been against it because of GPL's actual (but mostly perceived) restrictions.
Nice with some good news at the end of a work day. =)
I am not pointing out ONE single thing that needs to change, just giving my thoughts on why the PDAs are not cutting it. I think they are trying to be too many things at once, while not excelling at any, and not being attractive enough as they are.
For example, I say that they need to be smaller - if they want to compete with smartphones, or be more feature-rich and have a longer battery life when it comes to communication possibilities, if they are to stand their ground in their current configuration.
I think you are wrong about the need of a less bloated operating system. It is a fact that PDAs are slower and buggier and drain the power now, and packed with features that noone will want (why would I want to have 3D graphics on a PDA unless I want to play with one, another exampel of trying to be too many things at once). More efficient OSes, like PalmOS exist although their newer versions have also started getting huge and slow, with corresponding lower battery duration. I did point out that the battery duration has gotten worse with time, and I have experience travelling with and using PDAs since the late 90es.
And I can not do more things with a modern PDA than with my 5 year old Jornada. Instead I do the same stuff, for half the duration.
I am very much aware of the smartphones, better batteries and different apps. I am just saying that they came too late, and PDAs never found their killer app before the bloat of PocketPC and the competition from smartphones and mobile phones.
PDAs need to be smaller if they want to compete with smartphones.
OR
PDAs need to be a LOT better if they are to retain their current sizes with their nice screens etc.
They simply are not good enough, and that is why the sales drop.
I am currently workign on a project where PDAs would be used in the industry. I helped a student with a thesis and attached project a year ago and I've had a HP Jornada 620 since 2000.
For every generation of the PDA the operating systems have gotten much slower, bloated, hiding necessary functions, doing the usual MS oversimplification of the interface (hiding file extensions, not actually closing the apps etc).
Add more crashes, data loss and an abysmal battery duration and I'd say it's no wonder why the PDA sales drop, especially with phones getting more and more PDA functionality.
PDAs never got their killer application, which could have been a few of: phone capability, superior data input method compared to phones, instant messaging, mail, cheaper packet based data transfer or porn.
I can only see one way PDAs can go, and that is to be smaller, have a longer battery duration and have phone and instant messaging support and by that definitely Edge/GPRS/UMTS or other 3G telephony and data transfer capability, in effect becoming a lot of things at once.
The only way this can be achieved is with a total rewrite or replacement of PocketPC/WindowsCE
The pages are outdated, archaic and written in a way that takes too much time to find out anything useful and of course teh few existign exampels vaailable in Unix and Linux documentation are totally irrelevant.
I do not want to read a cool example of how to use a potato as a galvanic element in order to create a serial connection to a tomato - I want to find out how to use my serial modem to connect to Internet.
Most people don't want to read gibberish, or manuals at all. If Linux can't be made as easy to use as Linux, at least the instructions should be made usable.
When I build together a IKEA furniture I rarely look at the instructions, and when I do it is for a quick reference. I do not wish to read a 10 page book describing the philosophy behind the use of screwdrivers and cool things you can do with a screwdriver, like using it as a throwing knife on the cardboards that the furniture came wrapped in.
The elitistic attitudes and documentation does nothing but harm Linux and delays its introduction to the mass market. And it doesn't make you that cool either to point out the 'man' command.
man how do I connect to to Internet? No such page.
Living in Sweden, with an English operating syste, Firefix etc. I still get only Swedish results on my searches, despite half an hour of attempts to include searches from all over the world and in any language. Cleared cookies, tried again etc. No change.
Cluttered and bloated looks.
Worse search results.
But it will take a big chunk of the market because it will be force fed to the Joe Sixpacks that don't know anything else but the browsers start-upscreen and its search function, or other browsers.
Of course one can be bull headed and say that one does not accept anything that is not debated at all and totally accepted all over.
A simple google, reading scientific publications etc will give you both sides of a story. It is up to you who to believe.
Following your logic god does exist because one can not prove or disprove god's existence, as little as Spock can not prove or disprove Roddenberry's existence.
I happen to believe average temperature graphs, melting ice caps and the holes in the ozone layer. If you decide to believe the oil industry is up to you, it is your freedom.
Checking up the DNS entries of some of the sites claiming everything is all right is interesting, by the way;)
Then why do people like you care about news like this, when you claim the world is only a few thousand years old? You have to decide what to believe in: creationist or scientific lore.
In either way, assuming you are a supporter of the latter theory you should also know that global warming can have several different reasons.
The global warming that has happened since the widespread introduction of the car and petroleum products in the energy industry, as well as industrialised cattle farming, is real, in a very short time span. This is a thing we can do something about, but can't due to greed.
The global warming from natural reasons work on a much longer time span. This, on the other hand, is something we can't do anything about, and here GWB sure can't be blamed.
Just because the global temperature varies in a very long time span of thousands of years does not mean that the man-made environmental catastrophy that is happening is not real.
This sounds nice and all, but it is a move Sony only would have taken if they make more money out of it.
DVD region encoding, the Blueray/HD DVD wars (as they did with Betamax/VHS) and other issues where they are more bull headed will go on... until they jump the train where they will once again make more money.
It is all part of normal business, but do not for a moment think Sony has changed.
>> If there is so much demand for being able to download movies/tv episodes, then why the hell don't the distribution companies take advantage of it and let poeple downlaod things legally at a fair price?
> Quick economics lesson : Demand is a function of price. There is a lot of demand, because the illegal copies are FREE.
Lesson two: Demand is a function of price. There is a lot of demand, because the legal copies are 1: legal 2: better quality 3: affordable
Don't give them any ideas;) They will just spread the development costs of the nano-robots on their entire product line as usual, and everyone will lose.:)
We have found this to be true with OKI laser printers that come with coal cartridges with half the capacity, and marked as such on the printer specifications.
I should check into the ink cartridges, though, so I can tell this to those who I have not been able to convince skipping ink printers altogether.
Of course, there is a market for ink printers when it comes to design preview and home photo production, and as said above, many manufacturers often have separate tanks for each colour, and at a lower cost because of no control electronics involved.
I want to pay for good ink, not twice the money for HP's and others' control electronics.
In Sweden HP and a few other manufacturers set the prices on the replacement cartridges so high that there exists a huge market in refillables as well refill kits for existing ones.
It is quite obvious HP makes more money off their expensive cartridges than the printer sales themselves. If you are smart you actually buy new printer for 40 including a cartridge instead of... just a refill cartridge for 40.
I can see a trend where HP and other manufacturers odify their ink:
- harder to refill - have even tougher to crack IDs (to precent the use of refillable third party cartridges) DMCA and the European equivalents will surely be used some day as a move - country or region coded
I for one avoid HP and Lexmark inkjets, and this aversion for these brands has also lead to many purchase decisions affecting HPs computer, laptop and laser printer sales in organisations where I am involved.
You seem to think that everyone who do not think or act like you are wrong.
I am 30+ myself, and know many parents and spend time with my relatives children, and although they are not exposed to nudity more than the normal (although you might not think so) occasions like dressing rooms, 2000 year old statues;), beach etc, they are not sheltered from it either.
If for some reason they are exposed to unwelcome sexual images things are explained in a mature way, and generally they do not make such a big deal out if it.
Oversheltering young people from it makes them unprepared when it counts; birth control, handling sexual invites, menstruation. It also makes them ashamed of their own body and feelings, and can also lead to perverted desires as a reaction to normal feelings that are forbidden from them and that makes them feel ashamed of it.
We do not the next generation to become obese Wacko Jackos, do we?
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The purpose might not to be prevent specific email addresses and nicks to access the websites, since they can be easily circumvented by just getting another email address.
Instead, the purpose could (or should) be to deter the use of the services in wrong ways. If a sex offender is caught (search warrant, data traffic logging or whatever) to be using an unregistered ID, severe penalties would apply.
In reality the traffic will not get logged.
In reality sex offenders' drive will make them repeat their offences despite attempts like these.
Pretty much everyone I know (living in cities) have 100Mbit/s with five IP-adresses, option for fixed ip-adresses instead of from DHCP. About $40/month. Some houses have cable-connections for a bit less, but also a bit slower unless you pick some "fast" option.
My parents live in countryside and have to make do with 24 with one IP adress, for a bit less/month.
The same situation in most areas in Finland, although it seems they have more cable in the cities, and better DSL in the rural areas.
Yep, ABLOY (pr ASSA-ABLOY as they are called now) locks are near impossible to pick, even though they are normal domestic locks quite usual in this area (Nordic countries).
:D
:O
We lost a keychain and had a professional pick all the doors, even doors costing a fortune with some really odd-looking keys. But when the locksmith saw the Abloy locks, he laughed, gave us a long stick, and told us to use it to get in. Stood there dumbfounded until he pointed at the window
When we got in after breaking the window, I just remembered that the lock is a double-side one, with a key needed on both sides... DOH! They had to disassemble the door frame to be able to get the door to open. Luckily it was the type of Abloy lock that has a "hook" that wraps around a metal pin in the door frame, or we would have had to break parts of the wall
That was an expensive boat trip (dropped the keychain into the sea)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colemak ...and of course the multitude of methods to remapping the CAPS key tome something more useful, such as a second backspace key (just as in the Colemak keyboard layout)
A midget MILF?
:)
Does she have a website?
For those geographically and commonsensically challenged:
...in water that would kill you in minutes to hours depending on the season.
1. The distance is at a par as swimming across the American continent...
2.
3. The gulf stream (albeit slower than people think) would work against him and take him to the north coast of Norway and north Siberia faster than he could swim
If he would make it somehow to a warmer area, with no currents he would still need months, if not a year to swim across, with a raft to sleep and rest on, and a steady supply of food, water, heat, cooling, sun shelter, perhaps even protection from the random shark etc.
It is all a marketing ploy, and I am very surprised to see slashdotters seriously discussing his chances of success!
I share around 80GB of pirated crap and legal suff also in order to get into good Direct Connect hubs. A busy month I approach about half of that cap.
Busy pirates use a lot of bandwidth and send/receive a lot more than those 800GB per month.
I am not so familiar to the dial-up ISPs in Sweden now, but a few years ago they got all their incomes from the calls. For example, Tele2 had modem pools with free Intenet access. One would use Telia's (the now partly privatised national phone company) phone lines to call them. Telia would charge you per minute (about 1$ per hour for a normal call across the entire country) and pay Tele2 a bit to receive the call on their lines leading to the modem pool.
Prior to this the way to make money was to have a prequisite on these "free of charge" services - you had to sign up on their international and long distance calls services.
In Sweden a governmental organisation called Post- och Telegrafistyrelsen, PTS regulates how much teh different networks and telcos can charge for their calls and call transfers, and telcos' business schemes adapt to these rates, but in short the general idea is to distribute the end user's money to the companies offering different parts of the phone/computer -> destination services.
That way you would use Telia's phone lines to connect to the ISP/phone operator's lines that would in their turn do the final long distance or international call.
Internet access has always been cheap in Sweden even in the dial-up times. I currently pay about 300kr (40$) a month for a 10Mbit/s Ethenet connection, the house is connected to a X GBit/s city network, with an option for 100Mbit/s for around 10$ more a month, but with a cap at 800GB transferred a month at that rate, after which it falls back to a slower speed.
Frankly the necessary modifications should be made in the companies and governmental organisations' brain matter more than in GPL, but any change that would make them less scared of the perceived threat of GPL is what I believe will be enough to tip the scales over. Already some interesting studies are happening in my company and elsewhere where it is investigated whether Open Source software can be part of, or fully take over after Microsoft and closed source software. Of course the MCPs and middle level bosses are scared of it which acts as a brake, with the main arguments being that 'anyone can just take our code' and other silly arguments like that.
This is not a day too early, and a bit modified GPL version might be enough to make it possible to implement and develop open source software in my Swedish (but with 80% of the operation in other European countries) mastodont government organisation. The other branches of the corporation have already a pro-GPL and OS attitude, but the anti-OS, pro-MS main coproration has this far been against it because of GPL's actual (but mostly perceived) restrictions.
Nice with some good news at the end of a work day. =)
I am not pointing out ONE single thing that needs to change, just giving my thoughts on why the PDAs are not cutting it. I think they are trying to be too many things at once, while not excelling at any, and not being attractive enough as they are.
For example, I say that they need to be smaller - if they want to compete with smartphones, or be more feature-rich and have a longer battery life when it comes to communication possibilities, if they are to stand their ground in their current configuration.
I think you are wrong about the need of a less bloated operating system. It is a fact that PDAs are slower and buggier and drain the power now, and packed with features that noone will want (why would I want to have 3D graphics on a PDA unless I want to play with one, another exampel of trying to be too many things at once). More efficient OSes, like PalmOS exist although their newer versions have also started getting huge and slow, with corresponding lower battery duration. I did point out that the battery duration has gotten worse with time, and I have experience travelling with and using PDAs since the late 90es.
And I can not do more things with a modern PDA than with my 5 year old Jornada. Instead I do the same stuff, for half the duration.
I am very much aware of the smartphones, better batteries and different apps. I am just saying that they came too late, and PDAs never found their killer app before the bloat of PocketPC and the competition from smartphones and mobile phones.
PDAs need to be smaller if they want to compete with smartphones.
OR
PDAs need to be a LOT better if they are to retain their current sizes with their nice screens etc.
They simply are not good enough, and that is why the sales drop.
I am currently workign on a project where PDAs would be used in the industry. I helped a student with a thesis and attached project a year ago and I've had a HP Jornada 620 since 2000.
For every generation of the PDA the operating systems have gotten much slower, bloated, hiding necessary functions, doing the usual MS oversimplification of the interface (hiding file extensions, not actually closing the apps etc).
Add more crashes, data loss and an abysmal battery duration and I'd say it's no wonder why the PDA sales drop, especially with phones getting more and more PDA functionality.
PDAs never got their killer application, which could have been a few of: phone capability, superior data input method compared to phones, instant messaging, mail, cheaper packet based data transfer or porn.
I can only see one way PDAs can go, and that is to be smaller, have a longer battery duration and have phone and instant messaging support and by that definitely Edge/GPRS/UMTS or other 3G telephony and data transfer capability, in effect becoming a lot of things at once.
The only way this can be achieved is with a total rewrite or replacement of PocketPC/WindowsCE
This of course will get its breakthrough (as with VHS, Internet, DVD, P2P) when pornn pics can be printed with flavour.
'man' is absolutely not the solution.
The pages are outdated, archaic and written in a way that takes too much time to find out anything useful and of course teh few existign exampels vaailable in Unix and Linux documentation are totally irrelevant.
I do not want to read a cool example of how to use a potato as a galvanic element in order to create a serial connection to a tomato - I want to find out how to use my serial modem to connect to Internet.
Most people don't want to read gibberish, or manuals at all. If Linux can't be made as easy to use as Linux, at least the instructions should be made usable.
When I build together a IKEA furniture I rarely look at the instructions, and when I do it is for a quick reference. I do not wish to read a 10 page book describing the philosophy behind the use of screwdrivers and cool things you can do with a screwdriver, like using it as a throwing knife on the cardboards that the furniture came wrapped in.
The elitistic attitudes and documentation does nothing but harm Linux and delays its introduction to the mass market. And it doesn't make you that cool either to point out the 'man' command.
man how do I connect to to Internet?
No such page.
Living in Sweden, with an English operating syste, Firefix etc. I still get only Swedish results on my searches, despite half an hour of attempts to include searches from all over the world and in any language. Cleared cookies, tried again etc. No change.
Cluttered and bloated looks.
Worse search results.
But it will take a big chunk of the market because it will be force fed to the Joe Sixpacks that don't know anything else but the browsers start-upscreen and its search function, or other browsers.
Of course one can be bull headed and say that one does not accept anything that is not debated at all and totally accepted all over.
;)
A simple google, reading scientific publications etc will give you both sides of a story. It is up to you who to believe.
Following your logic god does exist because one can not prove or disprove god's existence, as little as Spock can not prove or disprove Roddenberry's existence.
I happen to believe average temperature graphs, melting ice caps and the holes in the ozone layer. If you decide to believe the oil industry is up to you, it is your freedom.
Checking up the DNS entries of some of the sites claiming everything is all right is interesting, by the way
Then why do people like you care about news like this, when you claim the world is only a few thousand years old? You have to decide what to believe in: creationist or scientific lore.
In either way, assuming you are a supporter of the latter theory you should also know that global warming can have several different reasons.
The global warming that has happened since the widespread introduction of the car and petroleum products in the energy industry, as well as industrialised cattle farming, is real, in a very short time span. This is a thing we can do something about, but can't due to greed.
The global warming from natural reasons work on a much longer time span. This, on the other hand, is something we can't do anything about, and here GWB sure can't be blamed.
Just because the global temperature varies in a very long time span of thousands of years does not mean that the man-made environmental catastrophy that is happening is not real.
This sounds nice and all, but it is a move Sony only would have taken if they make more money out of it.
DVD region encoding, the Blueray/HD DVD wars (as they did with Betamax/VHS) and other issues where they are more bull headed will go on... until they jump the train where they will once again make more money.
It is all part of normal business, but do not for a moment think Sony has changed.
>> If there is so much demand for being able to download movies/tv episodes, then why the hell don't the distribution companies take advantage of it and let poeple downlaod things legally at a fair price?
> Quick economics lesson : Demand is a function of price. There is a lot of demand, because the illegal copies are FREE.
Lesson two: Demand is a function of price. There is a lot of demand, because the legal copies are 1: legal 2: better quality 3: affordable
Don't give them any ideas ;) They will just spread the development costs of the nano-robots on their entire product line as usual, and everyone will lose. :)
You are right about this.
:(
I'd like to add, though, that the fall of the american currency and finances will continue as long as we will be using inkjet printers.
Oh, and for those that didn't know, today's beige book that was released only describes the US economy on a short and local scale.
Globally and deficit-wise it alas looks like the $ will fall and only be upheld by the common will of the market to not let it fall further.
We have found this to be true with OKI laser printers that come with coal cartridges with half the capacity, and marked as such on the printer specifications.
I should check into the ink cartridges, though, so I can tell this to those who I have not been able to convince skipping ink printers altogether.
Of course, there is a market for ink printers when it comes to design preview and home photo production, and as said above, many manufacturers often have separate tanks for each colour, and at a lower cost because of no control electronics involved.
I want to pay for good ink, not twice the money for HP's and others' control electronics.
In Sweden HP and a few other manufacturers set the prices on the replacement cartridges so high that there exists a huge market in refillables as well refill kits for existing ones.
It is quite obvious HP makes more money off their expensive cartridges than the printer sales themselves. If you are smart you actually buy new printer for 40 including a cartridge instead of... just a refill cartridge for 40.
I can see a trend where HP and other manufacturers odify their ink:
- harder to refill
- have even tougher to crack IDs (to precent the use of refillable third party cartridges) DMCA and the European equivalents will surely be used some day as a move
- country or region coded
I for one avoid HP and Lexmark inkjets, and this aversion for these brands has also lead to many purchase decisions affecting HPs computer, laptop and laser printer sales in organisations where I am involved.
This reeks of greed.
You seem to think that everyone who do not think or act like you are wrong.
;), beach etc, they are not sheltered from it either.
I am 30+ myself, and know many parents and spend time with my relatives children, and although they are not exposed to nudity more than the normal (although you might not think so) occasions like dressing rooms, 2000 year old statues
If for some reason they are exposed to unwelcome sexual images things are explained in a mature way, and generally they do not make such a big deal out if it.
Oversheltering young people from it makes them unprepared when it counts; birth control, handling sexual invites, menstruation. It also makes them ashamed of their own body and feelings, and can also lead to perverted desires as a reaction to normal feelings that are forbidden from them and that makes them feel ashamed of it.
We do not the next generation to become obese Wacko Jackos, do we?