And since there is no current law or regulation prohibiting such techniques, it's unclear what Vonage's complaints to the FCC might accomplish. But Powell said the FCC might indeed have some enforcement options, specifically if carriers are found to be violating anti-competitive statutes.
So? Unfortunately the ISPs *can* have their cake and eat it too. They can block and permit traffic as they see fit regardless of how their users feel about it.
If the users don't like it they can choose another ISP/connection.
ISPs routinely block traffic they don't like for whatever reason. Unless you are contracted with that ISP and you have a signed agreement with them they can start and stop whatever services they want.
They have these loopholes to stop spam, P2P, servers, etc. Yeah, it's annoying, and yeah it sucks, but unfortunately they have that right as private carriers.
Find an ISP that doesn't have those restrictions and use them instead.
So as long as you have a TV that supports the 16:9 you are good to go?
Thanks for the info. While I 100% disagree with HDTV (as many of you well know) I also disagree with the broadcast flag and because TV is going HDTV and I know I should be allowed to do whatever I want with what comes over the lines (regardless of what companies have paid the FCC to say we can) I want to make sure I am covered.
I am no fan of the DSL / cable duopoly, but not giving them or other commercial interests a chance would be a disservice to tax payers due to the potential for waste and stifles competition from viable alternatives.
And creates a system, where due to immediate and widespread acceptance because of price, long reaching privacy violations and centralized censorship are likely to occur all at taxpayer expense.
"The operator of that site, Edward Webber, agreed to not only pay a substantial settlement with even greater financial penalties for any further such actions, but by Court Order must provide the MPAA with access to and copies of all logs and server data related to his illegal BitTorrent activities, which will provide a roadmap to others who have used LokiTorrent to engage in illegal activities," the MPAA said in a statement.
Why would the site owner keep these records? They should be sent directly to/dev/null. It's not only incriminating for HIM but for everyone that uses that site.
Didn't people learn anything from all those gangster movies?
(9) A common machine-readable technology, with defined minimum data elements.
I'm not worried about that. I'm worried about businesses that use ID card readers to store your personal information (ie liquor stores and bars) and then can share that information as they see fit.
Both lawsuits have hinged on Google's signature keyword-advertising system, Adwords, which pairs text ads with related search results. For example, a Nike ad appears after a search for running shoes. Through the system, Google allows marketers to bid for such search-related keywords, including common branded and trademarked terms.
Louis Vuitton applauded the ruling, highlighting the danger that some sponsored search results tied to its name can promote counterfeits. "It was absolutely unthinkable that a company like Google be authorized, in the scope of its advertising business, to sell the Louis Vuitton trademark to third parties, specifically to Web sites selling counterfeits," a company representative said in a statement via e-mail.
So Google was allowing other companies to bid on extremely vague search terms that display ads for companies related and somehow Vuitton thinks thats dangerous?
Give me a break. Make your product superior to the others and people will see the alternative and buy yours. I'm sorry if the "counterfeits" will end up beating you out. Maybe yours isn't worth 100x as much as theirs just because of your name.
Personally I don't even see the ads. They are there but they are in the corner of my eye. I have certainly never clicked on one and I don't know of anyone who has. Get over it.
I'm not necessarily complaining, as I can use Firefox, but it is too bad that even Google can't get a webpage to render properly on any modern browser, such as Safari.
I assume you are saying that Firefox isn't modern? I really don't see how your complaint is any different than those posting yesterday from outside of the US (and lower.ca) that Google Maps didn't support their countries.
This is a BETA. They are going to target the largest group of surfers possible. In order to do that they are going to program the software to interface with the browsers that are most widely used (thus IE and Firefox). Yeah, Safari is great and all and I try to use it daily but Mac users (and nevermind those using Safari) are in the minority.
Just hold on tight and wait for Google to get to you. They will get around to it (just like they did for GMail) but you just have to be patient while they work through the Beta.
what about plotting waypoints on the map?
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What I would like to see them add is something like what GPSVisualizer does. It will allow you to upload a GPX or LOC file of waypoints (from your GPS or various other programs) and plot them on a map. Because GPSVisualizer requires the SVG plugin (or native support) it would be nice to have an advanced application like Google has that doesn't require such support yet is as smooth/speedy as Google Maps is.
It would be awesome if Google could completely take over the commercial mapping software application market (ie Streets and Trips/Mappoint and Street Atlas) by enabling routing/directions between the points on the map. Hell, allow us to then download the planned route back to the GPSs via a GPX and that would really rock. I mean web-based applications such as maps.google.com and maps.yahoo.com have already taken over from older programs like Automap which just gave text directions and simple maps. Why can't they add even more features? I don't know anyone that asks for directions anymore. Everyone just uses the web-based software.
For now I'm just happy being impressed by the pretty scrolling. I'm excited to see what comes of this after the finish up the Beta.
3. aggregate statistics (what percentage of my customers are based in Europe?)
I know that webalizer keeps these statistics itself. You don't need to keep the rotated logs for that long. I would assume that you would use utlities that keep that extract that data and use it away from the actual logs themselves.
Like log files are really intrusive anyway.
Depends on what's being logged I guess.
I appreciate the effort but...
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I would seriously hope that:
a) the sysadmins are competent enough to handle this themselves. I would think that a sysadmin would know how to use some sort of local file search.
b) the EFF understands that it's not always up to the sysadmins to determine the amount of time to keep logs that might be used against an individual.
Re:He had a chance, he apparently blew it.
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You know what happens if people shut up and just do their work and never tell to the outside what is going on? Especially in large companies it eventually creates an atmosphere of repression, and the feeling in the back of your head that you need to be carefull with what you say.
Hey, they are free to express their opinions just as Google is free to fire them for expressing them. As long as you are ok with the employee being terminated and you aren't in the camp that says "he was just blogging outside of work!" then we're fine. If you really think that what Google did was wrong then that's a whole other ball game.
Who the fuck cares if companies lose touch with reality? Is that really our problem? No. That's the company and their employees problem. Don't like it? Leave. You can complain all you like after you're gone.
He had a chance, he apparently blew it.
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Don't piss off your employer or when it's time for people to go you're the first one. I worked with a woman who was quite vocal at work about how she hated her job and she was looking for another and blah blah blah.
I was only there 6 months when the layoffs came up and she got the slip and I didn't. She flew off the handle that I should have went before she did. She didn't appreciate it when I mentioned she probably shouldn't have been so vocal about how she didn't like her job.
hi everyone, sorry my site has been down for the past day or so. i goofed and put some stuff up on my blog that's not supposed to be there. nothing serious and they didn't ask me to take anything down (even the stuff where i'm critical about the company). i'm learning that google is understandably careful about disclosing sensitive information, even vague financial-related things. the quickest way for me to fix the situation at the time was to take it all down. now i'm back up. just so you know, google was pretty cool about all this. thanks for and sorry for the frenzy of speculation.
It's obvious that Google had been aware of this guy's blog and while they didn't ask him to take anything down and they didn't ask him to stop he should have seen the writing on the wall and kept it down. He had a choice and he decided to bring it back up, but I am not about to speculate what would have happened if he hadn't.
Keep your opinions about work to yourself. If you don't like your job don't work there anymore. If you can't find a new job keep your mouth shut (to the Internet as well especially when you work for a firm full of Internet connected people that run THE search engine) until you do.
Just do your job and go home. Personally, I don't want to hear about anyone's work life outside of work and I certainly wouldn't want to describe mine to anyone else in my free time. Free time is exactly that. Time away from work!
I never said anything about how great Coal was. Please don't put words in my mouth.
In your original post you were saying how unsafe nuclear was without offering alternatives. I offered an alternative. Sorry for putting words in your mouth.
Since your brought up Coal, if I was given the choice, I would suggest using Natural Gas as a fuel to power electricity. It is cleaner AFAIK, it is much more efficient. However, try to ask citizens to pay the costs of replacing coal fired plants with Natural Gas fired plants and most will be willing to live with coal.
Have you looked at your gas bill recently? Could you imagine what electricity would cost if we were using natural gas to create it? Sorry but nuclear (especially if meltdown "proof") would be the way to go.
I have never felt more unhealthy than when I was living within two miles of a COAL burning plant. Why the fuck are we still burning COAL for energy?
I lived within 35 miles (as the crow files) of a nuclear power plant. You know which one I felt safer around? The one that wasn't spewing tons of shit into the air.
Yeah, there's a small possiblity of something happening and people getting sick with a nuclear plant. It might even spread to other areas and affect those people's lives for generations. What bothers me is that there is a 100% possibility that the coal burning plant I was living near was spewing shit into the air that was unhealthy.
Since you are so afraid of nuclear power plants why don't you move yourself and your family within two miles of a coal burning plant?
I pay $50/mo for DirecTV (three receivers). $50/mo will buy you two shows on DVD? Is that all you watch a month?
I'm no TV hound and I have 5 or 6 shows recording with season passes on Tivo that are ones I watch religiously. I have another 10+ that are either not mine or I just watch infrequently.
I highly doubt your monthly DirecTV bill would cover 5 shows/mo.
I don't give a shit if they include the commercials and I certainly don't care about the quality being better than what is available online (as it was always just as good as what I could already see on TV anyway)
I just want to be able to fast forward through the commercials.
They might have to go back to it though. With marketing being the force behind the clock inflation rather than actual speed people might start noticing that upgrading to the latest and greatest CPU might not improve anything except the speed at which money flies from your wallet while paying your electric bill.
Yeah, I wasn't so concerned about the price of the chips themselves but in the increase of your electric bill.
Either the machines will be sucking so much power that your lights will dim while running RC5-72 or your AC will have to be cranking in order to keep the room cool.
Should private companies have to compete with a body that has limitless funds, manpower and preferential access to sell their product?
Should private companies be continuously allowed to hold a monopoly on an entire market and thus be able to charge whatever they see fit and treat customers in a manner that is the most economically feasible?
No. They should not. No one should be able to hold a monopoly on high-speed Internet services in an area (including the local municipality). Everyone should be able to freely compete. Sadly, that's not how it works.
While I love the theory of munipalities offering low-cost Internet service wirelessly I am worried about the implications of the local government then mandating what is and is not appropriate to traverse that transmission medium.
Actually, this might be interesting to use for underclocking. Take your Mac Mini 1.42, underclock it a bit to 1.25, and it's even less likely that the included fan will turn on. Makes it all the more of a silent computing solution.
Or you could pay the $100 less for the 1.25 and not have to void your warranty or fool around with pinhead sized jumpers.
Or even better yet you could buy a 1.42 and realize that they are unbelievably quiet all the time as long as you aren't using the CD/DVD drive.
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Problem is that they usually aren't spelled out and you just have to use common sense. Sadly most people don't have common sense and certainly don't think of the consequences of their actions until it's too late.
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And since there is no current law or regulation prohibiting such techniques, it's unclear what Vonage's complaints to the FCC might accomplish. But Powell said the FCC might indeed have some enforcement options, specifically if carriers are found to be violating anti-competitive statutes.
So? Unfortunately the ISPs *can* have their cake and eat it too. They can block and permit traffic as they see fit regardless of how their users feel about it.
If the users don't like it they can choose another ISP/connection.
ISPs routinely block traffic they don't like for whatever reason. Unless you are contracted with that ISP and you have a signed agreement with them they can start and stop whatever services they want.
They have these loopholes to stop spam, P2P, servers, etc. Yeah, it's annoying, and yeah it sucks, but unfortunately they have that right as private carriers.
Find an ISP that doesn't have those restrictions and use them instead.
So as long as you have a TV that supports the 16:9 you are good to go?
Thanks for the info. While I 100% disagree with HDTV (as many of you well know) I also disagree with the broadcast flag and because TV is going HDTV and I know I should be allowed to do whatever I want with what comes over the lines (regardless of what companies have paid the FCC to say we can) I want to make sure I am covered.
Thanks for the info.
So say I buy a HDTV tuner card to avoid future issues w/the broadcast flag. Will I only be able to watch the HDTV content on an HDTV capable monitor?
Does that mean that I need to have both a regular TV-in card and a HDTV-in card to record both types?
I am no fan of the DSL / cable duopoly, but not giving them or other commercial interests a chance would be a disservice to tax payers due to the potential for waste and stifles competition from viable alternatives.
And creates a system, where due to immediate and widespread acceptance because of price, long reaching privacy violations and centralized censorship are likely to occur all at taxpayer expense.
"The operator of that site, Edward Webber, agreed to not only pay a substantial settlement with even greater financial penalties for any further such actions, but by Court Order must provide the MPAA with access to and copies of all logs and server data related to his illegal BitTorrent activities, which will provide a roadmap to others who have used LokiTorrent to engage in illegal activities," the MPAA said in a statement.
/dev/null. It's not only incriminating for HIM but for everyone that uses that site.
Why would the site owner keep these records? They should be sent directly to
Didn't people learn anything from all those gangster movies?
What I want to know is if we can all be forced to wear yellow "I" patches pinned to our shirts to identify us as the Illegal Downloaders group.
(9) A common machine-readable technology, with defined minimum data elements.
I'm not worried about that. I'm worried about businesses that use ID card readers to store your personal information (ie liquor stores and bars) and then can share that information as they see fit.
Both lawsuits have hinged on Google's signature keyword-advertising system, Adwords, which pairs text ads with related search results. For example, a Nike ad appears after a search for running shoes. Through the system, Google allows marketers to bid for such search-related keywords, including common branded and trademarked terms.
Louis Vuitton applauded the ruling, highlighting the danger that some sponsored search results tied to its name can promote counterfeits. "It was absolutely unthinkable that a company like Google be authorized, in the scope of its advertising business, to sell the Louis Vuitton trademark to third parties, specifically to Web sites selling counterfeits," a company representative said in a statement via e-mail.
So Google was allowing other companies to bid on extremely vague search terms that display ads for companies related and somehow Vuitton thinks thats dangerous?
Give me a break. Make your product superior to the others and people will see the alternative and buy yours. I'm sorry if the "counterfeits" will end up beating you out. Maybe yours isn't worth 100x as much as theirs just because of your name.
Personally I don't even see the ads. They are there but they are in the corner of my eye. I have certainly never clicked on one and I don't know of anyone who has. Get over it.
Perhaps the patches were released in yesterday's (2/9/05) update that I got?
I'm not necessarily complaining, as I can use Firefox, but it is too bad that even Google can't get a webpage to render properly on any modern browser, such as Safari.
.ca) that Google Maps didn't support their countries.
I assume you are saying that Firefox isn't modern? I really don't see how your complaint is any different than those posting yesterday from outside of the US (and lower
This is a BETA. They are going to target the largest group of surfers possible. In order to do that they are going to program the software to interface with the browsers that are most widely used (thus IE and Firefox). Yeah, Safari is great and all and I try to use it daily but Mac users (and nevermind those using Safari) are in the minority.
Just hold on tight and wait for Google to get to you. They will get around to it (just like they did for GMail) but you just have to be patient while they work through the Beta.
What I would like to see them add is something like what GPSVisualizer does. It will allow you to upload a GPX or LOC file of waypoints (from your GPS or various other programs) and plot them on a map. Because GPSVisualizer requires the SVG plugin (or native support) it would be nice to have an advanced application like Google has that doesn't require such support yet is as smooth/speedy as Google Maps is.
It would be awesome if Google could completely take over the commercial mapping software application market (ie Streets and Trips/Mappoint and Street Atlas) by enabling routing/directions between the points on the map. Hell, allow us to then download the planned route back to the GPSs via a GPX and that would really rock. I mean web-based applications such as maps.google.com and maps.yahoo.com have already taken over from older programs like Automap which just gave text directions and simple maps. Why can't they add even more features? I don't know anyone that asks for directions anymore. Everyone just uses the web-based software.
For now I'm just happy being impressed by the pretty scrolling. I'm excited to see what comes of this after the finish up the Beta.
3. aggregate statistics (what percentage of my customers are based in Europe?)
I know that webalizer keeps these statistics itself. You don't need to keep the rotated logs for that long. I would assume that you would use utlities that keep that extract that data and use it away from the actual logs themselves.
Like log files are really intrusive anyway.
Depends on what's being logged I guess.
I would seriously hope that:
a) the sysadmins are competent enough to handle this themselves. I would think that a sysadmin would know how to use some sort of local file search.
b) the EFF understands that it's not always up to the sysadmins to determine the amount of time to keep logs that might be used against an individual.
You know what happens if people shut up and just do their work and never tell to the outside what is going on? Especially in large companies it eventually creates an atmosphere of repression, and the feeling in the back of your head that you need to be carefull with what you say.
Hey, they are free to express their opinions just as Google is free to fire them for expressing them. As long as you are ok with the employee being terminated and you aren't in the camp that says "he was just blogging outside of work!" then we're fine. If you really think that what Google did was wrong then that's a whole other ball game.
Who the fuck cares if companies lose touch with reality? Is that really our problem? No. That's the company and their employees problem. Don't like it? Leave. You can complain all you like after you're gone.
Don't piss off your employer or when it's time for people to go you're the first one. I worked with a woman who was quite vocal at work about how she hated her job and she was looking for another and blah blah blah.
I was only there 6 months when the layoffs came up and she got the slip and I didn't. She flew off the handle that I should have went before she did. She didn't appreciate it when I mentioned she probably shouldn't have been so vocal about how she didn't like her job.
hi everyone, sorry my site has been down for the past day or so. i goofed and put some stuff up on my blog that's not supposed to be there. nothing serious and they didn't ask me to take anything down (even the stuff where i'm critical about the company). i'm learning that google is understandably careful about disclosing sensitive information, even vague financial-related things. the quickest way for me to fix the situation at the time was to take it all down. now i'm back up. just so you know, google was pretty cool about all this. thanks for and sorry for the frenzy of speculation.
It's obvious that Google had been aware of this guy's blog and while they didn't ask him to take anything down and they didn't ask him to stop he should have seen the writing on the wall and kept it down. He had a choice and he decided to bring it back up, but I am not about to speculate what would have happened if he hadn't.
Keep your opinions about work to yourself. If you don't like your job don't work there anymore. If you can't find a new job keep your mouth shut (to the Internet as well especially when you work for a firm full of Internet connected people that run THE search engine) until you do.
Just do your job and go home. Personally, I don't want to hear about anyone's work life outside of work and I certainly wouldn't want to describe mine to anyone else in my free time. Free time is exactly that. Time away from work!
I never said anything about how great Coal was. Please don't put words in my mouth.
In your original post you were saying how unsafe nuclear was without offering alternatives. I offered an alternative. Sorry for putting words in your mouth.
Since your brought up Coal, if I was given the choice, I would suggest using Natural Gas as a fuel to power electricity. It is cleaner AFAIK, it is much more efficient. However, try to ask citizens to pay the costs of replacing coal fired plants with Natural Gas fired plants and most will be willing to live with coal.
Have you looked at your gas bill recently? Could you imagine what electricity would cost if we were using natural gas to create it? Sorry but nuclear (especially if meltdown "proof") would be the way to go.
I have never felt more unhealthy than when I was living within two miles of a COAL burning plant. Why the fuck are we still burning COAL for energy?
I lived within 35 miles (as the crow files) of a nuclear power plant. You know which one I felt safer around? The one that wasn't spewing tons of shit into the air.
Yeah, there's a small possiblity of something happening and people getting sick with a nuclear plant. It might even spread to other areas and affect those people's lives for generations. What bothers me is that there is a 100% possibility that the coal burning plant I was living near was spewing shit into the air that was unhealthy.
Since you are so afraid of nuclear power plants why don't you move yourself and your family within two miles of a coal burning plant?
I pay $50/mo for DirecTV (three receivers). $50/mo will buy you two shows on DVD? Is that all you watch a month?
I'm no TV hound and I have 5 or 6 shows recording with season passes on Tivo that are ones I watch religiously. I have another 10+ that are either not mine or I just watch infrequently.
I highly doubt your monthly DirecTV bill would cover 5 shows/mo.
I don't give a shit if they include the commercials and I certainly don't care about the quality being better than what is available online (as it was always just as good as what I could already see on TV anyway)
I just want to be able to fast forward through the commercials.
They might have to go back to it though. With marketing being the force behind the clock inflation rather than actual speed people might start noticing that upgrading to the latest and greatest CPU might not improve anything except the speed at which money flies from your wallet while paying your electric bill.
Yeah, I wasn't so concerned about the price of the chips themselves but in the increase of your electric bill.
Either the machines will be sucking so much power that your lights will dim while running RC5-72 or your AC will have to be cranking in order to keep the room cool.
Should private companies have to compete with a body that has limitless funds, manpower and preferential access to sell their product?
Should private companies be continuously allowed to hold a monopoly on an entire market and thus be able to charge whatever they see fit and treat customers in a manner that is the most economically feasible?
No. They should not. No one should be able to hold a monopoly on high-speed Internet services in an area (including the local municipality). Everyone should be able to freely compete. Sadly, that's not how it works.
While I love the theory of munipalities offering low-cost Internet service wirelessly I am worried about the implications of the local government then mandating what is and is not appropriate to traverse that transmission medium.
Actually, this might be interesting to use for underclocking. Take your Mac Mini 1.42, underclock it a bit to 1.25, and it's even less likely that the included fan will turn on. Makes it all the more of a silent computing solution.
Or you could pay the $100 less for the 1.25 and not have to void your warranty or fool around with pinhead sized jumpers.
Or even better yet you could buy a 1.42 and realize that they are unbelievably quiet all the time as long as you aren't using the CD/DVD drive.
Problem is that they usually aren't spelled out and you just have to use common sense. Sadly most people don't have common sense and certainly don't think of the consequences of their actions until it's too late.