Except Google didnt walk in any doors - they drove down the street. If you want to leave your front door open, don't bitch when someone drives by and sees you sitting on the crapper.
This is not "shady." I operate an open wifi hub myself and I live in town. One neighbor is almost always connected via his iphone. What neighbor? I haven't a clue - that's the whole point of providing anonymous and free bandwidth to my community. I hope that person is using it to save money on their phone bill cuz, as a homeowner, the better off my neighbor is the better off I am.
People are not idiots. When it is called "wifi" and "wireless" and you can network comupters without wires, anyone who understands technology of the last century knows it's using radio. They may choose to remain ignorant to the details, but it's simple common sense that when I am using "radio" others can hear shit I say unless I do something about it. The government and the media powerhouses have done their part in making the public scared enough of this technology that most now attempt to lock them down using wep, again demonstrating that most have a basic understanding of the technology.
Making shit public and then bitching about someone for using the information YOU CHOSE TO MAKE PUBLIC is a synthetic dismissal of responsibility (or...ummmm.. just a lie). The only thing Google is guilty of here is having enough money and resources to gather this data on a larger scale than I and my neighbor are capable of.
Whoops... except for that last one. ANONYMOUS single passenger vehicle traffic? Every car on the highway is required by law to bear a tag registered to its owner. We can agree the police don't know EXACTLY who is in every car, but you must also agree it is trivial for them to discover the identity of any driver in any vehicle when travelling public roads.
Well, at least trains are relatively anonymous... more so than cars, anyway.
We don't need smarter cars; we need smarter travellers, taxpayers, and politicians; We need more access to light rail transport.
We have every right to criticize anyone we want. It saddens me the only free venues of the internet are falling by the wayside to be replaced by corporate websites where shit like this runs rampant.
OH NO! Hey look everyone, it's MUHAMMED waving at us!
I could rob that bank with a knife or baseball bat if I was so inclined. Do you regard those items as dangerous?
Sssh that's next. Actually, the UK has already taken on the task of outlawing chef's knives because no one really needs them except chefs...
Once again australia makes the increasingly insane US look rational in comparison. What would we here in america do without you? Thanks again for proving no matter how nuts our society becomes there's another that's ready to prove things could be worse...
Ayup. I AM a southerner, and I'm sick to death of this nonsense about how the civil war was nto about slavery. I don't condone slavery but I also hate revisionist history.
It has been a conviction of pressing necessity, it has been a belief that we are to be deprived in the Union of the rights which our fathers bequeathed to us, which has brought Mississippi into her present decision. She has heard proclaimed the theory that all men are created free and equal, and this made the basis of an attack upon her social institutions; and the sacred Declaration of Independence has been invoked to maintain the position of the equality of the races. That Declaration of Independence is to be construed by the circumstances and purposes for which it was made. The communities were declaring their independence; the people of those communities were asserting that no man was born--to use the language of Mr. Jefferson--booted and spurred to ride over the rest of mankind; that men were created equal--meaning the men of the political community; that there was no divine right to rule; that no man inherited the right to govern; that there were no classes by which power and place descended to families, but that all stations were equally within the grasp of each member of the body-politic. These were the great principles they announced; these were the purposes for which they made their declaration; these were the ends to which their enunciation was directed. They have no reference to the slave; else, how happened it that among the items of arraignment made against George III was that he endeavored to do just what the North has been endeavoring of late to do--to stir up insurrection among our slaves? Had the Declaration announced that the negroes were free and equal, how was the Prince to be arraigned for stirring up insurrection among them? And how was this to be enumerated among the high crimes which caused the colonies to sever their connection with the mother country? When our Constitution was formed, the same idea was rendered more palpable, for there we find provision made for that very class of persons as property; they were not put upon the footing of equality with white men--not even upon that of paupers and convicts; but, so far as representation was concerned, were discriminated against as a lower caste, only to be represented in the numerical proportion of three fifths.
--Jefferson Davis, in his farewell address to the Senate, 1861.
Wrong. Felons are punished by being removed from society and contained, but when they are allowed to return to society we do NOT restore "all rights" to them. In most states felons are still denied the right to vote, and are denied the right to bear arms. Additionally they may remain on probation for an extended period during which they have only a portion of their rights restored and a violation of this probation can land them right back in the pokey.
Perhaps one can serve usenet in a rack, but that's so very not likely. Daily usenet traffic is measured in the hundreds of gigabytes and maintaining a local cache of that traffic means hundreds of gigabytes of traffic even if NO ONE ACCESSES IT. Whether you have one subscriber or 1000 using that local cache of traffic, the very act of maintaining a local cache means more inbound/0 traffic, more overhead in the form of support costs and maintenance costs, and dealing with an ever spiraling demand for more space.
Anyone who thinks usenet is dead is seriously uninformed. Easynews has gajillions of subscribers and they provide access to binaries groups directly via the browser - no need to learn t use nzbs or nntp clients unless you really want to. Easynews, Giganews and even Astraweb provide access to usenet in a way no other local ISP likely has for a decade now. I understand Cox has had very good usenet service but that just makes the point ever more: it costs real money to provide this service! Cox also has the problem of serving as an illicit gateway - a good bit of the illegal stuff posted to usenet has come through rooted windows machines sitting on the Cox network. By eliminating their pool of nntp resources they shift that security problem off onto Giganews, an ISP that focuses directly on providing this service.
Don't speak that in public! The PITA toolkit install was one of the prime motivating factors for me personally to migrate from the hell that is windows a decade ago now. I'm proud of the contributions I made to avisynth, but the problems with brittleness and cleaning up from infections and having to spend two freaking days trying to rebuild a development system after a reload was just too much to endure.
Not to mention the problems with dependancies. It seemed like every six months MS would release some new jscript revision that broke previous jscript features, meaning anything I tried developing using those tools was so tied to one specific configuration it became a support nightmare.
This project seems to me like it's a decade late. Good luck with all this, but I can assure this is one former Windows OSS contributor who will never go back to the dark side.
Are you talking about the US or India? If you're talking about the US, this would easily fall under that whole 4th ammendment thing: I have the right to protection from unreasonable searches and/or confinement. Taking my fingerprints when I have done nothing and without my consent is a violation of my person no different than walking into my house uninvited and without warrant.
OK, here's all you gotta do: get a netbook (or maybe a pocket PC device like an old compaq); install a minimal linux and alsa, buy a pair of high quality earbuds and hook it all up. Now you got a $400 digital hearing aid you can carry in your pocket. If you're really a geek maybe you can even get into the whole "box with wires" thing - think Gordon Cole... and, hopefully, it would work better for you than it did for him.
WHAT THE HELL DID HE SAY, THERE, ALBERT? THAT'S SPECIAL AGENT DALE COOPER!
The ultimate goal might be that illegals aren't allowed to work here, but the ultimate RESULT of anything like this will simply be to create an even larger underground economy. Many native borns simply will refuse to get the cards and end up working at stupid shit like selling on ebay and doing local jobs for cash or barter. Illegals will still be here and working, only now they'll be truly indentured servants living in the homes of their employers (or homes paid for by them) and given a paltry stipend each week for "spending money."
This is class warfare at its finest, and we need to vote out every knucklehead sonofabitch that would support such an elitist economy.
I have owned a G1 nearly a year. My brother has an iphone. While he was screwing around with jailbreaking it and trying (and never managing to) use it tethered, I didn't have such issues. About the only "cool" thing he could do that I did not find at first was the geolocation GPS thingy - and google maps has worked a long time now.
I don't own a mac, will never own one. I have my own picture host service that affords me plenty of online storage, and I use gmail and the contacts list and so never have to worry about having access to all my data. In short, my gphone is hella lot more convenient for me than my bro's iphone seems to be for him, and neither of us are what I would call "power users."
You are right about one part though: I really don't give a flying fuck what cpu my phone uses, or how many GB or mhz it has - all I care about is the end to end experience. And for that, from my phone to my gnome desktop and evolution integration, the gphone rocks. The ONLY thing I find lacking is integration of bookmarks, and I'll bet there's an app for that I simply haven't found because I never thought to look until just now. hmmm.
Ah, except that "sweet little sixteen" is neither child nor illegal. As an uncle who has recently dealt with this issue involving a niece I can assure you "sweet little sixteen" is fair game in most states... just so long as no one is sharing pictures of the deed.
Also, pederasty does not involve young women, it involves children. A 12 year old may be sexually mature but (s)he is in no way emotionally mature enough to provide an informed consent - (s)he is a "child." Ergo, this entire subthread is moot.
There are SCADS of "plans" in place to afford you all the control you could want - right up to and including NOT putting a computer in your kid's room or even NOT having an internet connection to the house. On the shiny side of that there's DNS solutions, filtering software and even learning to use the goddamn HOSTS file in your own computer.
Your right to raise your kids does not trump another's right to indulge in whatever perversion tickles their fancy nor does it trump yet another's right to express said perversions. Deal with it.
My experience with transcends has been they are absolute crap. This is based on a sample of a mere three devices, but none of them worked properly. One lasted only an hour or so, the other two were spectacularly slow. I've also had bad experience with transcend sd cards, one in my first Canon was just way too slow. It was faster than the uber crappy adata that came with the camera, but still not fast enough to record video reliably.
I bought 4 Sandisk sata 5000s to use in a raid0 and they were ok, but even in this application where they were attached to a dedicated hardware RAID card (the goal was to see if I could make a deliciously fast drive) it was little better in real world use than my 300GB WD. Yes it was noticeably faster when booting, and applications launched like 4 times faster, but for most everything else there was little diff. Even running filters on very large images in gimp was only perhaps twice as fast. Maybe if I compiled my kernel five times a day it would be worth it, otherwise just not. I sold three of the sandisks on ebay and kept one for my cnc machine, where the solid state ruggedized nature is actually of some use.
The CNC requires pretty good timing to operate smoothly. The steppers are driven from parallel port drivers and timing jitter on that line equates to milling marks and other inaccuracies. I chose the motherboard with the hardware to provide the lowest measured jitter, and it just happened to have a 330 on it.
If all this works as it sounds I wish someone would stop cheaping out on the netbooks. My freaking telephone plays youtube better than my $350 netbook and it's the same on my friend's $500 HP netbook. Intel keeps talking about all the improvements they've made, but even after five years of promises their graphics are still the suck.
True enough. What would be most interesting is to see a study comparing the total energy efficiency of different model cars - comparing that VW for example (which typically have very long lives) vs most any american "fleet" car... town cars, and those horrid late model GMs like the Impotent... er, Impala. Those things are so cheaply made in ten years they're at that final tier, next stop the wrecking yard.
Old PIII machines are the way to go. Get an old Vectra - those things were built like tanks and have 120W power supplies in them. You'll need a SATA card to do internal drives (2-3W) but their energy outlay was paid back years ago and they'll probably outlast cockroaches.
The suck. I use one to run my CNC machine, it works great for that. But how is 30W at 100% dual core usage efficient when it spends SO MUCH of its time at just that? I cannot imagine the hell of using one of these things as a set top box - you must surely never watch hulu or youtube or any remotely HD content. My netbook has one of these and my 900MHz PIII first generation eee netbook is scads faster - it's the only netbook I've seen, in fact, that WILL do full screen flash smoothly.
Atoms have their place, but they are the suck for desktops. I like my little red asus but I often wish it had something a bit more powerful in it... like, say, a decade old 1GHz PIII.
So you buy a new computer, get it home, unpack it, call Acer, REPACK it, send your BRAND NEW laptop off to never-never land to be "repaired," then wait while it comes back to you... all for 58 bucks? And how much did you spend on shipping?
You truly must be one of those folks living in mom's basement with nothing else to do - cuz I marginally have anything to do (besides try to pay for this house) and there's just no way I would consider that much work worth 58 stinking dollars. And that's why it's rigged this way - you can "opt out" but it's so much effort as to be not worth it. And while it's essentially chump change to most folks, 58 bucks times a 100,000 machines adds up to... well, almost enough to pay Ballboy's salary.
What you are doing is making excuses for the special interests. I use a wireless router on my home network and ANYONE ELSE in the area is free to use it as well. For me having an open hotspot is a political statement as much as it is a matter of utility - what you are saying is I no longer should have that right. Well, you wouldn't be the first - the various **AAs have voiced the same views as well as the governemnt for all sorts of reasons.
Fuck all y'all: I use encryption on MY devices, what others use is up to them.
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geequie (or gqview) is almost exactly the same as irfanview. But it's better, cuz it's not windows.
Except Google didnt walk in any doors - they drove down the street. If you want to leave your front door open, don't bitch when someone drives by and sees you sitting on the crapper.
This is not "shady." I operate an open wifi hub myself and I live in town. One neighbor is almost always connected via his iphone. What neighbor? I haven't a clue - that's the whole point of providing anonymous and free bandwidth to my community. I hope that person is using it to save money on their phone bill cuz, as a homeowner, the better off my neighbor is the better off I am.
People are not idiots. When it is called "wifi" and "wireless" and you can network comupters without wires, anyone who understands technology of the last century knows it's using radio. They may choose to remain ignorant to the details, but it's simple common sense that when I am using "radio" others can hear shit I say unless I do something about it. The government and the media powerhouses have done their part in making the public scared enough of this technology that most now attempt to lock them down using wep, again demonstrating that most have a basic understanding of the technology.
Making shit public and then bitching about someone for using the information YOU CHOSE TO MAKE PUBLIC is a synthetic dismissal of responsibility (or...ummmm.. just a lie). The only thing Google is guilty of here is having enough money and resources to gather this data on a larger scale than I and my neighbor are capable of.
Wow! You just invented mass transit.
Whoops... except for that last one. ANONYMOUS single passenger vehicle traffic? Every car on the highway is required by law to bear a tag registered to its owner. We can agree the police don't know EXACTLY who is in every car, but you must also agree it is trivial for them to discover the identity of any driver in any vehicle when travelling public roads.
Well, at least trains are relatively anonymous... more so than cars, anyway.
We don't need smarter cars; we need smarter travellers, taxpayers, and politicians; We need more access to light rail transport.
I wanted to mod you up, but there's no option for "drug induced rambling."
We have every right to criticize anyone we want. It saddens me the only free venues of the internet are falling by the wayside to be replaced by corporate websites where shit like this runs rampant.
OH NO! Hey look everyone, it's MUHAMMED waving at us!
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We're gonna get banned!
Sssh that's next. Actually, the UK has already taken on the task of outlawing chef's knives because no one really needs them except chefs...
Once again australia makes the increasingly insane US look rational in comparison. What would we here in america do without you? Thanks again for proving no matter how nuts our society becomes there's another that's ready to prove things could be worse...
It has been a conviction of pressing necessity, it has been a belief that we are to be deprived in the Union of the rights which our fathers bequeathed to us, which has brought Mississippi into her present decision. She has heard proclaimed the theory that all men are created free and equal, and this made the basis of an attack upon her social institutions; and the sacred Declaration of Independence has been invoked to maintain the position of the equality of the races. That Declaration of Independence is to be construed by the circumstances and purposes for which it was made. The communities were declaring their independence; the people of those communities were asserting that no man was born--to use the language of Mr. Jefferson--booted and spurred to ride over the rest of mankind; that men were created equal--meaning the men of the political community; that there was no divine right to rule; that no man inherited the right to govern; that there were no classes by which power and place descended to families, but that all stations were equally within the grasp of each member of the body-politic. These were the great principles they announced; these were the purposes for which they made their declaration; these were the ends to which their enunciation was directed. They have no reference to the slave; else, how happened it that among the items of arraignment made against George III was that he endeavored to do just what the North has been endeavoring of late to do--to stir up insurrection among our slaves? Had the Declaration announced that the negroes were free and equal, how was the Prince to be arraigned for stirring up insurrection among them? And how was this to be enumerated among the high crimes which caused the colonies to sever their connection with the mother country? When our Constitution was formed, the same idea was rendered more palpable, for there we find provision made for that very class of persons as property; they were not put upon the footing of equality with white men--not even upon that of paupers and convicts; but, so far as representation was concerned, were discriminated against as a lower caste, only to be represented in the numerical proportion of three fifths.
--Jefferson Davis, in his farewell address to the Senate, 1861.
Wrong. Felons are punished by being removed from society and contained, but when they are allowed to return to society we do NOT restore "all rights" to them. In most states felons are still denied the right to vote, and are denied the right to bear arms. Additionally they may remain on probation for an extended period during which they have only a portion of their rights restored and a violation of this probation can land them right back in the pokey.
Perhaps one can serve usenet in a rack, but that's so very not likely. Daily usenet traffic is measured in the hundreds of gigabytes and maintaining a local cache of that traffic means hundreds of gigabytes of traffic even if NO ONE ACCESSES IT. Whether you have one subscriber or 1000 using that local cache of traffic, the very act of maintaining a local cache means more inbound /0 traffic, more overhead in the form of support costs and maintenance costs, and dealing with an ever spiraling demand for more space.
Anyone who thinks usenet is dead is seriously uninformed. Easynews has gajillions of subscribers and they provide access to binaries groups directly via the browser - no need to learn t use nzbs or nntp clients unless you really want to. Easynews, Giganews and even Astraweb provide access to usenet in a way no other local ISP likely has for a decade now. I understand Cox has had very good usenet service but that just makes the point ever more: it costs real money to provide this service! Cox also has the problem of serving as an illicit gateway - a good bit of the illegal stuff posted to usenet has come through rooted windows machines sitting on the Cox network. By eliminating their pool of nntp resources they shift that security problem off onto Giganews, an ISP that focuses directly on providing this service.
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Not to mention the problems with dependancies. It seemed like every six months MS would release some new jscript revision that broke previous jscript features, meaning anything I tried developing using those tools was so tied to one specific configuration it became a support nightmare.
This project seems to me like it's a decade late. Good luck with all this, but I can assure this is one former Windows OSS contributor who will never go back to the dark side.
Are you talking about the US or India? If you're talking about the US, this would easily fall under that whole 4th ammendment thing: I have the right to protection from unreasonable searches and/or confinement. Taking my fingerprints when I have done nothing and without my consent is a violation of my person no different than walking into my house uninvited and without warrant.
OK, here's all you gotta do: get a netbook (or maybe a pocket PC device like an old compaq); install a minimal linux and alsa, buy a pair of high quality earbuds and hook it all up. Now you got a $400 digital hearing aid you can carry in your pocket. If you're really a geek maybe you can even get into the whole "box with wires" thing - think Gordon Cole... and, hopefully, it would work better for you than it did for him. WHAT THE HELL DID HE SAY, THERE, ALBERT? THAT'S SPECIAL AGENT DALE COOPER!
The ultimate goal might be that illegals aren't allowed to work here, but the ultimate RESULT of anything like this will simply be to create an even larger underground economy. Many native borns simply will refuse to get the cards and end up working at stupid shit like selling on ebay and doing local jobs for cash or barter. Illegals will still be here and working, only now they'll be truly indentured servants living in the homes of their employers (or homes paid for by them) and given a paltry stipend each week for "spending money."
This is class warfare at its finest, and we need to vote out every knucklehead sonofabitch that would support such an elitist economy.
I don't own a mac, will never own one. I have my own picture host service that affords me plenty of online storage, and I use gmail and the contacts list and so never have to worry about having access to all my data. In short, my gphone is hella lot more convenient for me than my bro's iphone seems to be for him, and neither of us are what I would call "power users."
You are right about one part though: I really don't give a flying fuck what cpu my phone uses, or how many GB or mhz it has - all I care about is the end to end experience. And for that, from my phone to my gnome desktop and evolution integration, the gphone rocks. The ONLY thing I find lacking is integration of bookmarks, and I'll bet there's an app for that I simply haven't found because I never thought to look until just now. hmmm.
Ah, except that "sweet little sixteen" is neither child nor illegal. As an uncle who has recently dealt with this issue involving a niece I can assure you "sweet little sixteen" is fair game in most states... just so long as no one is sharing pictures of the deed.
Also, pederasty does not involve young women, it involves children. A 12 year old may be sexually mature but (s)he is in no way emotionally mature enough to provide an informed consent - (s)he is a "child." Ergo, this entire subthread is moot.
There are SCADS of "plans" in place to afford you all the control you could want - right up to and including NOT putting a computer in your kid's room or even NOT having an internet connection to the house. On the shiny side of that there's DNS solutions, filtering software and even learning to use the goddamn HOSTS file in your own computer.
Your right to raise your kids does not trump another's right to indulge in whatever perversion tickles their fancy nor does it trump yet another's right to express said perversions. Deal with it.
My experience with transcends has been they are absolute crap. This is based on a sample of a mere three devices, but none of them worked properly. One lasted only an hour or so, the other two were spectacularly slow. I've also had bad experience with transcend sd cards, one in my first Canon was just way too slow. It was faster than the uber crappy adata that came with the camera, but still not fast enough to record video reliably.
I bought 4 Sandisk sata 5000s to use in a raid0 and they were ok, but even in this application where they were attached to a dedicated hardware RAID card (the goal was to see if I could make a deliciously fast drive) it was little better in real world use than my 300GB WD. Yes it was noticeably faster when booting, and applications launched like 4 times faster, but for most everything else there was little diff. Even running filters on very large images in gimp was only perhaps twice as fast. Maybe if I compiled my kernel five times a day it would be worth it, otherwise just not. I sold three of the sandisks on ebay and kept one for my cnc machine, where the solid state ruggedized nature is actually of some use.
The CNC requires pretty good timing to operate smoothly. The steppers are driven from parallel port drivers and timing jitter on that line equates to milling marks and other inaccuracies. I chose the motherboard with the hardware to provide the lowest measured jitter, and it just happened to have a 330 on it.
If all this works as it sounds I wish someone would stop cheaping out on the netbooks. My freaking telephone plays youtube better than my $350 netbook and it's the same on my friend's $500 HP netbook. Intel keeps talking about all the improvements they've made, but even after five years of promises their graphics are still the suck.
True enough. What would be most interesting is to see a study comparing the total energy efficiency of different model cars - comparing that VW for example (which typically have very long lives) vs most any american "fleet" car... town cars, and those horrid late model GMs like the Impotent... er, Impala. Those things are so cheaply made in ten years they're at that final tier, next stop the wrecking yard.
Old PIII machines are the way to go. Get an old Vectra - those things were built like tanks and have 120W power supplies in them. You'll need a SATA card to do internal drives (2-3W) but their energy outlay was paid back years ago and they'll probably outlast cockroaches.
The suck. I use one to run my CNC machine, it works great for that. But how is 30W at 100% dual core usage efficient when it spends SO MUCH of its time at just that? I cannot imagine the hell of using one of these things as a set top box - you must surely never watch hulu or youtube or any remotely HD content. My netbook has one of these and my 900MHz PIII first generation eee netbook is scads faster - it's the only netbook I've seen, in fact, that WILL do full screen flash smoothly.
Atoms have their place, but they are the suck for desktops. I like my little red asus but I often wish it had something a bit more powerful in it... like, say, a decade old 1GHz PIII.
So you buy a new computer, get it home, unpack it, call Acer, REPACK it, send your BRAND NEW laptop off to never-never land to be "repaired," then wait while it comes back to you... all for 58 bucks? And how much did you spend on shipping?
You truly must be one of those folks living in mom's basement with nothing else to do - cuz I marginally have anything to do (besides try to pay for this house) and there's just no way I would consider that much work worth 58 stinking dollars. And that's why it's rigged this way - you can "opt out" but it's so much effort as to be not worth it. And while it's essentially chump change to most folks, 58 bucks times a 100,000 machines adds up to... well, almost enough to pay Ballboy's salary.
No, but there is a mini. Looks like our yahoo dancers are feminists, so what's the problem?
What you are doing is making excuses for the special interests. I use a wireless router on my home network and ANYONE ELSE in the area is free to use it as well. For me having an open hotspot is a political statement as much as it is a matter of utility - what you are saying is I no longer should have that right. Well, you wouldn't be the first - the various **AAs have voiced the same views as well as the governemnt for all sorts of reasons.
Fuck all y'all: I use encryption on MY devices, what others use is up to them.