It must be nice living in an idealistic dream world. The problem with people like yourself is that you assume life follows a certain set of norms. You never account for exceptional circumstances; what if that ambulance gets stuck in traffic? Or what if there's a backlog, and it takes 15 minutes for it to arrive?
Just FYI, GPS is a one-way protocol. There's no way to track the location of any receiver, unless a secondary method of communication has been implemented on the receiver.
I'm not sure if GPS is what this system is using; for starters, it'd be quite unusual for the UK to rely on a US system for something as major as this.
I'm all for a healthy dose of paranoia, but ignorant, factless comments like this make the paranoid look like a group of lunatics.
Sure, ad banners have no place on government-run websites, which are supported by my tax dollars.
However, explore the links on the main site, and you will discover gem. This kind of monitoring is the truly scary thing here. As technology plays a greater role in our society, the ways our government can check up on us become ever larger and more threatening.
1984? It could never happen...
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Many people, even those who aren't religious, consider abortion murder. Are you therefore considering murder to be a 'religious' thing?
In your rush to demonize cellular companies, try to remember one thing; noone's forcing you to sign that contract so you can get a free cell phone. Remember that all businesses get their power and money from you, the consumer.
For those of us who don't fall for gimmicks (A phone for a penny? What a deal!), companies such as Sprint PCS will be happy to provide you with service for only as long as you need it. Their phones aren't necessairly the cheapest, but their contracts are only necessary to get a better plan.
As much as you'd love to pick and choose what our government gets involved in, it's one way or the other. You can either have them get involved with everything, from copyright and copy protection to antitrust proceedings, or you can choose to have the government keep its hands off as much as possible.
First you grumble about the Bush administration and its likelyhood of abandoning the MS case. Then you whine about the government getting involved in such things as the DMCA and the CDA.
If you dislike what Microsoft does, make it your personal mission to make an impact in their bottom line. Don't rely on your mismanaged, out of touch government to "make things right". Vote with your dollars, and convince others to do likewise. Corporations don't own you. Remember, i the end they derive every last bit of their power from you, the individual.
The GPL is in it's most simple for a legally-enforced virus. It's a nasty way of spreading the socialist ideals of a certain organization run by Richard M. Stallman.
In an ideal world there'd be nothing wrong with this. Unfortunately, many developers (and non-developers alike) are obsessed with the idea of "information wants to be free", and related mantra. Information doesn't want to be free. Information doesn't want anything. People want information to be free, just like people would like everything to be free. That isn't how things work. Confirmed by the growing popularity of napster and friends, the world wants information to be free, consequences be damned.
Yet there is perhaps more theatre than practicality in the Cube. Apart from the basic electronics, everything else, such as monitor, keyboard, speakers and even the amplifier and power supply, have to sit outside the box.
How on earth can the cube be considered impractical because they didn't shove a monitor, keyboard and speakers into it?
Enough bullshit about how corporations are taking away your freedoms. Corporations only have the power that we as a society give them. The real fear is the power that our government has in restricting our freedoms. Does gun control ring a bell?
Nothing is quite as frightening as giving our government more power. If you think corporations abuse the power we've given them, you haven't seen the power of government.
First of all, kudos to the "Napster is just a search engine" crowd. Based on your reaction, Last Home Networks is proud to announce our revolutionary new product, 666ster.
While most programs of it's genre are only useful for trading crappy, incomplete Xing rips from CDs scratched to oblivion, 666ster does oh-so-much more. Using our revolutionary "HyperSatanShare technology(tm)", you can share child porn, snuff films, photos of little children being sacrificed to whatever dark lord you desire, as well as software that violates the GPL, all thanks to our exciting new software.
How can we get away with it? Simple! We justify it the same way geeks and slashdot readers everywhere justify programs such as Napster! You see, 666ster and Last Home Networks don't actually store or transmit the morally reprehensible material on our servers. We simply give you, the user, a full featured search engine for finding the material of your wishes.
The next time you're looking for full screen MPEGs of people being savagely and mortally beaten, fret not! Thanks to the power of the internet and 666ster, your hideous, terrible urges can be satisfied in the time it takes to click your mouse. Download it today!
(Please note: The above message was a joke. If you don't get it, that's just too bad. Last Home Networks is entirely against the activities mentioned above. Except for the part about GPL violating software... yum!)
First of all, I hope this man gets countersued by the companies he is claiming caused him such misery. He serves at the very least to pay these companies for their legal fees.
Second, this man is an example of when natual selection gone wrong. By all logic, this man should have died long ago. All I can assume is this man is a leech to society who has done it absolutely no good. But thanks to welfare and a society whre people don't have to accept responsibility for their actions, this man is still around, using up my tax money in court for a frivolous lawsuit.
Take a moment from your drop-of-a-hat Microsoft hatred to actually read the article. The issue at hand is that the Scientology 'church' operates a suspected intelligence organization (WISE) that the German government does not want to risk contaminationg German affairs. It's not about Microsoft hatred. It's about paranoia.
Alright... first you're worried about someone keeping track of the websites you viait, and in the next line you advertise that you're a member of All Advantage... a service that pays you to TRACK YOUR WEB SURFING? I'm detecting a serious glut of bogosity here...
Rob, you should probably watch the sarcasm here. The only 'real' power that NSI has over domains now is the fact they run the central repository, the one that actually keeps the root servers inline.
No matter what registrar registers a name (even NSI), NSI gets just $6 out of them, and it's the registrar's responsibility to run the WHOIS server for the domains of their customers.
Can you come up with a better way to make whois work with multiple servers without totally revamping the utility and breaking everything out ther? The way things are now, (rs.internic.net just telling what WHOIS server to query for more information) is a fine solution, and it does little to 'prop up' NSI's perceived monopoly status.
No matter what, someone's got to be in charge, and since NSI has had the most experience running (or screwing) things, this is probably the best way for things to be.
I suppose some people just don't understand this concept of "independent Christians". And I can't help but feel rather apologetic for your less-than-enjoyable religious experience.
But that doesn't give you the right to lambast Christians everywhere just because of what you went through. I suppose when you give your example of some Christian high-schooler shooting his less-than-holy classmates, that somehow the whole entire Christian religion would support that? I'm afraid not. Hell, the bible itself says "Thou shalt not kill". Period. It says nothing about the wiccan down the street, or (more likely) those heathenistic Jews that live down the street who just won't accept the later half of the bible.
Therefore, I have to say, your point of calling all of Christianity a hypocritic, two-headed religion is invalid, thanks to simple logic. I won't deny the existance of fundamentalist Chrisan-types out there who might be willing to pull off a stunt. But I will always be convinced that they are wrong, and I will never support their viewpoint.
Your assumption that al Christians are the same is fundamentally incorrect, and if it weren't so prevalent, I would almost be offended by it. However, the fact remains that for every Christian out there, there is an individual interpretation of the religion, and not every interpretation is based in reality.
Also, just for the sake of being pedantic, the odds of these exact people having endured a stint as door-knockers is probably very unlikely. You should probably have verified that before you made your second point.
Get your facts straight. The little 'hotmail fiasco' you refer to was caused by an actual security hole (a rather large one, I must say) that has existed since Hotmail was first put online. It's only a wonder it wasn't abused publically until recently.
There's plenty wrong with Microsoft technologies by themselves. No need to make stuff up- leave that to Microsoft's marketing team.
You've managed to forget one of the 'other' things about the MP3 format. Not only does it nuke extraneous information from the actual audio stream, but it ALSO compresses the resulting data which is, by the very nature of audio, extremely compressible. (Have you ever tried gzipping a WAV file? It's amazing. Now try the same with an MP3. No banana. Therefore, your statement of losing 9/10ths of the original audio stream is entirely incorrect.
Would you please reconsider the ramifications of what you just said? Any CS major has to have had experience with UNIX, at least though programming courses (and probably more) at their school. Don't give us this crap about Linux being 'too hard' to install. I'll be one of may people to say it didn't take a college degree (or even a high school degree at the time) to install Linux.
Congratulations, you've made yourself sound like a Microsoft PR lackey.
Alright. I'm getting sick and tired of listening to all of these MS conspiracy freaks blow 'facts' out of their a$$es.
For the record, get it straight. MICROSOFT DID NOT INVENT DDNS! In my (not so) humble opinin, this is a great move! Finally we are getting rid of WINS (which was TRULY a Microsoft-only thing) and replacing it with a decent 'standard'.
Stop looking for reasons to berate Microsoft, especially when the lot of you haven't even tried to check on the facts. I have to be one of the few people here who knows what WINS was, and to realize that it deserved all of the negative feelings that DDNS is getting.
Get a life. Go read Linux-Advocacy-HOWTO. Stop being a bunch of conspiracy-driven punks.
Um. In case you ahven't realized, the BSA (Business Software Alliance) has been known on many occasions to but entire employers for piracy. Hefty fines, hardware confiscation. It's not pretty. On top of that, it's usually the innocent Sysadmin who gets the book thrown at them the worst.
Heh. No, more likely, the bird would instantly be burned into it's respective unique chemical components and vaporize itself on the spot, causing almost no interference with dsaid laser beam. Keep in mind these aren't the kind of lasers you use to point out things douring presentations.:)
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It must be nice living in an idealistic dream world. The problem with people like yourself is that you assume life follows a certain set of norms. You never account for exceptional circumstances; what if that ambulance gets stuck in traffic? Or what if there's a backlog, and it takes 15 minutes for it to arrive?
Just FYI, GPS is a one-way protocol. There's no way to track the location of any receiver, unless a secondary method of communication has been implemented on the receiver.
I'm not sure if GPS is what this system is using; for starters, it'd be quite unusual for the UK to rely on a US system for something as major as this.
I'm all for a healthy dose of paranoia, but ignorant, factless comments like this make the paranoid look like a group of lunatics.
Sure, ad banners have no place on government-run websites, which are supported by my tax dollars.
However, explore the links on the main site, and you will discover gem. This kind of monitoring is the truly scary thing here. As technology plays a greater role in our society, the ways our government can check up on us become ever larger and more threatening.
1984? It could never happen...
Many people, even those who aren't religious, consider abortion murder. Are you therefore considering murder to be a 'religious' thing?
In your rush to demonize cellular companies, try to remember one thing; noone's forcing you to sign that contract so you can get a free cell phone. Remember that all businesses get their power and money from you, the consumer.
For those of us who don't fall for gimmicks (A phone for a penny? What a deal!), companies such as Sprint PCS will be happy to provide you with service for only as long as you need it. Their phones aren't necessairly the cheapest, but their contracts are only necessary to get a better plan.
It's 'sponsors'.
As much as you'd love to pick and choose what our government gets involved in, it's one way or the other. You can either have them get involved with everything, from copyright and copy protection to antitrust proceedings, or you can choose to have the government keep its hands off as much as possible.
First you grumble about the Bush administration and its likelyhood of abandoning the MS case. Then you whine about the government getting involved in such things as the DMCA and the CDA.
If you dislike what Microsoft does, make it your personal mission to make an impact in their bottom line. Don't rely on your mismanaged, out of touch government to "make things right". Vote with your dollars, and convince others to do likewise. Corporations don't own you. Remember, i the end they derive every last bit of their power from you, the individual.
The GPL is in it's most simple for a legally-enforced virus. It's a nasty way of spreading the socialist ideals of a certain organization run by Richard M. Stallman.
In an ideal world there'd be nothing wrong with this. Unfortunately, many developers (and non-developers alike) are obsessed with the idea of "information wants to be free", and related mantra. Information doesn't want to be free. Information doesn't want anything. People want information to be free, just like people would like everything to be free. That isn't how things work. Confirmed by the growing popularity of napster and friends, the world wants information to be free, consequences be damned.
I present the following quote from the article:
Yet there is perhaps more theatre than practicality in the Cube. Apart from the basic electronics, everything else, such as monitor, keyboard, speakers and even the amplifier and power supply, have to sit outside the box.
How on earth can the cube be considered impractical because they didn't shove a monitor, keyboard and speakers into it?
That's lovely. But veggies don't taste like meat, and humans are carnivores, so stop making us feel sorry for the inefficiency of cattle.
Enough bullshit about how corporations are taking away your freedoms. Corporations only have the power that we as a society give them. The real fear is the power that our government has in restricting our freedoms. Does gun control ring a bell?
Nothing is quite as frightening as giving our government more power. If you think corporations abuse the power we've given them, you haven't seen the power of government.
First of all, kudos to the "Napster is just a search engine" crowd. Based on your reaction, Last Home Networks is proud to announce our revolutionary new product, 666ster.
While most programs of it's genre are only useful for trading crappy, incomplete Xing rips from CDs scratched to oblivion, 666ster does oh-so-much more. Using our revolutionary "HyperSatanShare technology(tm)", you can share child porn, snuff films, photos of little children being sacrificed to whatever dark lord you desire, as well as software that violates the GPL, all thanks to our exciting new software.
How can we get away with it? Simple! We justify it the same way geeks and slashdot readers everywhere justify programs such as Napster! You see, 666ster and Last Home Networks don't actually store or transmit the morally reprehensible material on our servers. We simply give you, the user, a full featured search engine for finding the material of your wishes.
The next time you're looking for full screen MPEGs of people being savagely and mortally beaten, fret not! Thanks to the power of the internet and 666ster, your hideous, terrible urges can be satisfied in the time it takes to click your mouse. Download it today!
(Please note: The above message was a joke. If you don't get it, that's just too bad. Last Home Networks is entirely against the activities mentioned above. Except for the part about GPL violating software... yum!)
Here's a great idea for you. Why don't you stop pirating music like some lameassed warez kiddie and get a life?
First of all, I hope this man gets countersued by the companies he is claiming caused him such misery. He serves at the very least to pay these companies for their legal fees.
Second, this man is an example of when natual selection gone wrong. By all logic, this man should have died long ago. All I can assume is this man is a leech to society who has done it absolutely no good. But thanks to welfare and a society whre people don't have to accept responsibility for their actions, this man is still around, using up my tax money in court for a frivolous lawsuit.
This is sick.
Take a moment from your drop-of-a-hat Microsoft hatred to actually read the article. The issue at hand is that the Scientology 'church' operates a suspected intelligence organization (WISE) that the German government does not want to risk contaminationg German affairs. It's not about Microsoft hatred. It's about paranoia.
Alright... first you're worried about someone keeping track of the websites you viait, and in the next line you advertise that you're a member of All Advantage... a service that pays you to TRACK YOUR WEB SURFING? I'm detecting a serious glut of bogosity here...
Rob, you should probably watch the sarcasm here. The only 'real' power that NSI has over domains now is the fact they run the central repository, the one that actually keeps the root servers inline.
No matter what registrar registers a name (even NSI), NSI gets just $6 out of them, and it's the registrar's responsibility to run the WHOIS server for the domains of their customers.
Can you come up with a better way to make whois work with multiple servers without totally revamping the utility and breaking everything out ther? The way things are now, (rs.internic.net just telling what WHOIS server to query for more information) is a fine solution, and it does little to 'prop up' NSI's perceived monopoly status.
No matter what, someone's got to be in charge, and since NSI has had the most experience running (or screwing) things, this is probably the best way for things to be.
I suppose some people just don't understand this concept of "independent Christians". And I can't help but feel rather apologetic for your less-than-enjoyable religious experience.
But that doesn't give you the right to lambast Christians everywhere just because of what you went through. I suppose when you give your example of some Christian high-schooler shooting his less-than-holy classmates, that somehow the whole entire Christian religion would support that? I'm afraid not. Hell, the bible itself says "Thou shalt not kill". Period. It says nothing about the wiccan down the street, or (more likely) those heathenistic Jews that live down the street who just won't accept the later half of the bible.
Therefore, I have to say, your point of calling all of Christianity a hypocritic, two-headed religion is invalid, thanks to simple logic. I won't deny the existance of fundamentalist Chrisan-types out there who might be willing to pull off a stunt. But I will always be convinced that they are wrong, and I will never support their viewpoint.
Your assumption that al Christians are the same is fundamentally incorrect, and if it weren't so prevalent, I would almost be offended by it. However, the fact remains that for every Christian out there, there is an individual interpretation of the religion, and not every interpretation is based in reality.
Also, just for the sake of being pedantic, the odds of these exact people having endured a stint as door-knockers is probably very unlikely. You should probably have verified that before you made your second point.
Get your facts straight. The little 'hotmail fiasco' you refer to was caused by an actual security hole (a rather large one, I must say) that has existed since Hotmail was first put online. It's only a wonder it wasn't abused publically until recently.
There's plenty wrong with Microsoft technologies by themselves. No need to make stuff up- leave that to Microsoft's marketing team.
I should order one of these and bring it to the next LAN party I attend.
:)
It's sure to make me the hit of the crowd, especially as the refrigeration unit will be sure to cause circuit breakers to trip at random.
You've managed to forget one of the 'other' things about the MP3 format. Not only does it nuke extraneous information from the actual audio stream, but it ALSO compresses the resulting data which is, by the very nature of audio, extremely compressible. (Have you ever tried gzipping a WAV file? It's amazing. Now try the same with an MP3. No banana. Therefore, your statement of losing 9/10ths of the original audio stream is entirely incorrect.
Would you please reconsider the ramifications of what you just said? Any CS major has to have had experience with UNIX, at least though programming courses (and probably more) at their school. Don't give us this crap about Linux being 'too hard' to install. I'll be one of may people to say it didn't take a college degree (or even a high school degree at the time) to install Linux.
Congratulations, you've made yourself sound like a Microsoft PR lackey.
Alright. I'm getting sick and tired of listening to all of these MS conspiracy freaks blow 'facts' out of their a$$es.
For the record, get it straight. MICROSOFT DID NOT INVENT DDNS! In my (not so) humble opinin, this is a great move! Finally we are getting rid of WINS (which was TRULY a Microsoft-only thing) and replacing it with a decent 'standard'.
Stop looking for reasons to berate Microsoft, especially when the lot of you haven't even tried to check on the facts. I have to be one of the few people here who knows what WINS was, and to realize that it deserved all of the negative feelings that DDNS is getting.
Get a life. Go read Linux-Advocacy-HOWTO. Stop being a bunch of conspiracy-driven punks.
Um. In case you ahven't realized, the BSA (Business Software Alliance) has been known on many occasions to but entire employers for piracy. Hefty fines, hardware confiscation. It's not pretty. On top of that, it's usually the innocent Sysadmin who gets the book thrown at them the worst.
Heh. No, more likely, the bird would instantly be burned into it's respective unique chemical components and vaporize itself on the spot, causing almost no interference with dsaid laser beam. Keep in mind these aren't the kind of lasers you use to point out things douring presentations. :)