E-mail is another good example. I have been using it since the late 1970s. During the 1985-1995 time frame it may have actually been a net productivity gain. Today? Probably the biggest productivity destroyer out there.
Really? Personally, I don't use email that much. It's too slow. The only place that I use email on a regular basis is work and that's because I don't allow my phone to ring.
Need to send me something important at work? It better be formatted correctly (as I sort on subject and author) and it better have all the information necessary. I don't want to play e-mail tag with you and I certainly do not want to have to call you. All that does is waste your time and mine as you have to now write two or more emails when you could have done it all at once.
Because I don't use email much it's hardly distracting. I find that phone calls and personal chats are much more distracting for me. I can't do 5 things at once when I'm on the phone. At least with email I am able to get the answers you need, format it, and fire it off w/o having the other person wait in real-time and have me respond as well.
It's a fact. Most people are sheep and will go along with anything forced to them, but DRM acceptance has it's limits. I know a lot of people who asked me for help on making their DVD players zone-free, for instance.
Well, I don't know who you are dealing with but NO ONE that I know has a fucking clue what region encoding is and they certainly don't ask me how to get rid of it.
You know why they don't care? Because it doesn't affect them one bit... People I know go to the video or retail store, pick out a movie, and watch it. Region encoding doesn't stop that.
Perhaps if you said that they asked you how to remove "the color fades when they record to other media from DVD" I would be more likely to believe you.
For DRM done (arguably) right, check Apple and iTunes.
How do you figure? Because you can easily get around it? Or because you agree with their DRM? Personally, Apple's DRM is to support lockin to their portable music player and to their store. Yeah, you can play MP3s on the device but if you want to get music legally you are probably going to go to iTMS (most people don't know about other alternatives such as allofmp3).
From the article, I couldn't make this shit up if I tried:
Bobby: It's probably because the Nazis felt bad having a cement fighting place, so they put little trampolines under-
Parker: Wait. What do Nazi's have to do with it?
Bobby: Because Zangief is a Nazi.
EGM: He's Russian. Not German.
Garret: He's a communist.
Bobby: Then why is Zangief's place a Nazi place?
EGM: It's not.
Bobby: Yes it is-it had a Nazi sign on the cement.
Parker: It couldn't have been. They wouldn't have let that in videogames.
Bobby: Whatever.
This proves it... Video games DO rot the brains of young and impressionable children. They wouldn't have allowed a swastika in a video game? Pure blasphemy I say, plain and simple. We need to bring back video games that teach children some history. They should at least be able to recognize a swastika in a video game!
If your child's video games aren't teaching them valuable lessons about World History who is?
We get a lot of older widowers selling books that they would probably dearly love to keep... and employees often don't take the time to assess the actual value of the books, which means a lot of older widowers are taken advantage of.
Apparently you've never had a collection assessed by a "reputable" appraiser either. After my grandmother passed away and my grandfather became incapacitated we had their valuables assessed by four different appraisers. Three of the four told us they would give us $500 or less for the entire lot (actual value after sorting and selling individually was nearly $12k and we didn't even try that hard).
So if you think that HPB is the only one that isn't taking the time to properly assess stuff you're wrong.
Save your christmas money or spend it in a store that doesn't rip it's customers off.
I don't care how Barnes and Noble gets their books. I certainly don't give a shit if some moron sold a book worth $450 to a store for $1. That's not my problem and it certainly isn't HPB's either. That's like going to a garage sale and buying a rare book for a.25 b/c the seller didn't know any better. I consider it "dumb luck" or a "good deal".
Don't buy into the feel good facade they spout in the press, as an ex-employee, I'm well aware of the drama and resentment a lot of employees have for the store. (Which is slowly becoming more and more corporate.
Of course it is corporate. They have multiple stores in multiple states. They aren't a local chain and you shouldn't think that they should act like they are. Otherwise they are nothing more than the facade you claim the media created for them.
I suggested going straight for the $1 clearance racks and buying those books. I have never received a book that was in poor shape, was unreadable, or was worth whining about.
If I had a more local used book store that was as clean and full of stuff I'm interested in as HPB I'd shop there but unfortunately where I live I don't. I'd have to drive 25+ miles downtown to do so. Personally, it's not worth it.
Wash that Old Navy sweater twice and it will melt away in the dryer -- and you probably thought your neighbors were stealing your shit.
Yup, you are absolutely correct. Their clothing is poorly made but will hold up if you take the time to wash and dry it carefully (read manually), but you shouldn't dry sweaters in a dryer anyway.
Depending on the piece of clothing they are usually washed in the washer and dryed hanging up. This limits wear and tear on the fabric. Delicates (like sweaters) are washed manually and dried flat. Works like a charm.
I'm still hearing conflicting reports on the holiday season overall - it was great, it was terrible, it was tepid... I'm still not sure how things went down; I know this year my wife and I probably spent a little less than last year despite our earning over 40% more than last year.
I'll tell you how it went for me... Fucking incredible. We basically bought DVDs (used mostly) and candy. After Christmas (yesterday) we did our most shopping.
I went to Old Navy armed with holiday gift cards. They were having 75% off sales. I got a fleece, a hooded sweatshirt, a nice sweater, a winter hat, two shirts for the fiance, and a scarf for $50. The sweater alone would have been $65 at AF or AE.
We then went and raided Half Price Books during their 20% off sale. We picked up two DVDs, seven books, and two magazines for $25. If you have one of these in your area I really suggest at least visiting once. Head right for the back and clear out their $1 clearance racks (there are some pics on my mobile pics from yesterday if you're interested;))
We have already decided that we are not going to be doing any clothing shopping prior to Christmas next year. Why bother when I can save 75% afterwards?
causing friction with the "get away from it all" crew
You don't go to a state park and stay within wifi range (I assume their RV/tent sites in the main campground) if you want to "get away from it all". If you want to get away from it all you go backpacking in remote areas of the park or the State. Amenities like showers, flush toilets, electric hookups, and swimming pools doesn't exactly put you in the "roughing it" category.
So far, the vast majority of users are conducting business, and have both the tools and the ability to pay the average daily service fee of $10 to $20, says Phillip Redman, a research vice president at Gartner. But there are also a growing number of free Wi-Fi hot spots, which make the cost of connectivity irrelevant. And with proliferating access and declining price, the user's physical location has become less important than ever before.
I see a lot of RVs in campgrounds with DirecTV. Why not Direcwav while you're at it? It's $100 setup and $50/month and all you need is a direct view of the southern sky (in TX I doubt that would be a problem - and no, I'm not even a customer of theirs). If you're a serious "snow bird" RV fan it would sound like the best way to go. Hell, you could undercut TX State Parks and offer wifi for $5 or less. I can't see the $15/day pricetag honestly... The article mentions that they realize that putting wifi into the wilderness would be difficult due to terrain/etc and would require numerous antennae throughout the park but they mention that TX state parks have great RV/tent campsites that will have coverage... So why the high cost?
I bring my hiptop with me when we go "camping" but I generally only check my email twice a day from it and make phone calls only when necessary. It is nice to have along but I'm more for enjoying my freedom when I'm "camping".
I just can't see businessmen making it a regular practice of saving money on their overnight stays by using a state park campground and firing up their $15/day wifi when they can probably pay $15/night more (with parking fees, camping fees, and wifi fee) at a hotel and get it free.
Or allow you to access the internet with someone elses credentials.
I would estimate that 98%+ of people using cable modems are doing so with the basic level of service. Even if you did sniff a valid modem MAC off the network and changed your modem's to that you'd have to be pretty lucky to find one that was at a "higher level" than you.
So? You can do that w/o a hardware hack using a TFTP server and a text editor. Most cable ISPs already scan their networks for modified cable modem config files and disable them for ToS violations.
Remember these cable modem tweakers that were raided by the FBI?
Those individuals were "uncapping" their cable modems by changing their modem config file and uploading it to their modems. That could be labeled theft of service as you are effectively stealing bandwith that you didn't pay for.
Modifying the firmware on your cable modem doesn't necessarily have to mean uncapping your modem config file and upping your possible bathwidth.
In fact, this method is quite a bit more difficult than just editing the modem config file (as it requires a hardware interface not just a TFTP server).
Until they are discovered and those modified cable modems are de-serviced?
I was wondering if people could use a modified firmware that would report a valid modem config file back to the ISP when the ISP scans for ones that were not sanctioned.
The ISP could powercycle the modems remotely and push new firmware to all the modems rather easily. I would assume that the pushed firmware would include a way to block unauthorized firmware from connecting to the network.
Just remember that some cable ISPs use modem MAC authentication and changing your MAC address could possibly disable your access to the Internet. Some cable ISPs use "bottom-up" provisioning which allows you to re-register your modem's MAC address and tie it to your account (useful if you buy your own modem) but others could still be using manual provisioning which could cause delays in regaining block-sync.
Personally, don't fuck around w/your cable modem. It works just fine the way it is. Hacks are a wonderful educational/mental exercise but I wouldn't exactly be trying this if you don't want to lose connectivity to your ISP.
After that, you simply need to track ip addresses (assumming DHCP will be in iuse), keep mail logs (if you provide smtp/pop service) and generally ensure that you can track illicit activity back to the source if requested to do so by a court order.
Or don't and say that the logs aren't kept. There are no laws that say that logs are a requirement and there is no reason to keep them for longer than a short period of time anyway.
Personally I think that Delta was being a bunch of assholes about the whole thing...
Seeing that my 7pm flight was cancelled for the 23rd I spent 20 minutes redialing from two different phones until I got past a busy signal. After 50 minutes on hold I got through to a representative who scheduled me for the 24th's 7pm flight. I spent the rest of the time rearranging time off from work, the dog's time to be spent at the kennel, car rental stuff, and phone calls to my fiance who would meet me at the airport, and to family we were supposed to see.
At 7am on the 24th the flight was already cancelled. At this point I didn't give a shit anymore. Delta was saying I would have to use my tickets by the 15th of January because "it wasn't their fault". I knew it wasn't the fucking weather down there as plenty of people were saying it was fine in the area. So I call again and get through after redialing for 65 minutes. I get through to a rep after 50 more minutes in queue. She tells me she can't do anything but schedule me for the 25th at 7pm so I'd have to get in queue for the reissue desk. Fine...
After 2 hours and 11 minutes in queue (with no hold music or sound for that matter) someone calls on my home line at 5:15pm from Delta to tell me my 7pm flight is cancelled (cute, I would have been at the airport by then). I tell that rep to get me into the reissue queue as I've been on hold with them for 2 hours.
I finally get through and tell them I want my money back. They tell me I need to speak to customer service. After waiting on hold (with the reissue rep) for 25 minutes the reissue rep offers to refund my money.
We can't fly out for New Years as the kennel is booked and I'd feel horrible asking someone to watch our dog in our house for me than 1 night. So basically we have to wait quite some time to fly down there again.
It was a little bit of a pain in the ass to wait on hold and be jerked around for two days for something that was their fault when they continually claimed wasn't. BAD WAY TO TRY AND PLEASE A CUSTOMER.
I'm really curious. Why would anyone get an Archos? You can get a Laptop (from Walmart argg) for under $600 now, with a 14" screen, DVD-ROM, etc. Why spend MORE for something infinitely less capable? Weight is all I can think of, and that's not very significant to me.
I can't walk around with a laptop in my pocket without someone asking me the infamous "is that a laptop in your pocket" joke.
Weight may not be an issue to you but size is an issue to me. I don't want something large and bulky. I also don't want to wait for the OS to boot to listen to music and watch a video.
Personally, I disagree. I just got an Archos AV400 (80GB) for Xmas and I can't say that I would appreciate anything less.
Right now I have 6 TV episodes on there (all recorded from Tivo for playback on the plane tomorrow) and I'm currently recording Star Wars DVD trilogy to it for the same thing.
I have my entire music collection on there along with a backup of my "important" files from my network and I'm still at 45GB remaining.
Yeah, the battery life probably isn't the best (I get about 12 hours out of it playing MP3s all day long). I don't know what it will be like with video going but hopefully long enough to last the 2.5 hour flight from MSP to CVG...
I consider myself to have a "small" music collection at a little over 5GB of MP3s (as it doesn't seem to play SHN/FLAC so I can't add those into the total) and those are "must haves". I certainly wouldn't want to have any less than that.
In trying to identify the identity of worker bee (ex-contractor, Juan Gutierrez), Apple basically had to confirm that there was some truth to the rumors that he was posting--namely the details of a revision to the iBook laptop. Apple eventually did release a laptop whose details matched worker bee's description. In 2001, Apple settled with Gutierrez after he promised to turn over any remaining Apple confidential information and not divulge any further details.
Honestly this seems to be little more than drumming up even more buzz over up-in-coming products. Yeah, they probably were going to keep it a secret for a while longer but now that it's out why not milk it a bit and get the word out?
I have no interest in most of what Apple does or makes. I certainly wouldn't be perusing the three sites mentioned in the lawsuit but what I do peruse are news sites and other non-Apple sites (news.google.com, Slashdot, etc). Would I have heard about this through Slashdot? Perhaps. Would I have heard about the lawsuit through news.google.com AND Slashdot? Yup, in fact, I did.
So, I'm a PC/Windows user. Never surf the Apple rumor sites. I hear about this lawsuit that stems from the leaking of information about a piece of hardware that I can hook my computer up to my instruments and record shit. Sounds cool...
Worth filing some papers and getting someone to promise they will never leak information again? Yeah, I think so.
The old media is nearly useless these days - corrupt and driven by greed, spin and fear.
You neglect to mention that bloggers are just as greedy, full of spin, and willing to be either for the "fear" or diametrically opposed to it.
I don't have any faith in new media though because the truth doesn't naturally win out - the story that is accepted is that which has the best presentation and most nearly matches what the hearer wants to be true.
Sorry but I just don't trust the bloggers at all. Most of the time they are full of shit and break "stories" that are nothing more than trash.
I read "new media" with a grain of salt and pour over stories from several outlets. After that you might get a better representation of what actually happened before it was filtered through the various outlets (including the government).
If you have very large numbers of processes, the O(1) scheduler alone is enough of a reason. For personal use, I find the low latency quite a good reason to change.
I suppose it depends on what you use the machine for. Linux isn't ready for the desktop so I don't run a GUI on it. Thus I really have no latency issues running maild/httpd/sshd/etcd.
Apache 1.3 has been working flawlessly for me. Until I have a compelling need to switch to Apache 2.0, I'm not going to. I understand that there are some nifty new features in Apache 2.0, but not a single one of them is something that I want/need.
Exactly. This is happening with a lot of free software lately, namely the Linux kernel... I used to keep up-to-date on the kernel just because it was always getting better.
2.4.x has been rock solid for me and 2.6.x just doesn't offer anything to me that makes me compelled to move to it (in fact I had issues w/my ethernet cards working under it).
Apache 1.3.x has been absolutely fine and continues to update via apt-get/aptitude. Why should I bother with 2.0.x? Give me one reason why this needs to be an issue? PHP people think that PHP runs better under 1.3.x and Apache continues to develop that version. I don't see the problem.
Apache, if you don't want people to use 1.3.x stop development and give people a good reason to switch.
First, to clear up a misconception about Wi-Fi detectors in general: though they can be used to find and (usually illegally) hop onto someone else's wireless connection, that's not their only use. It's a pet peeve of mine to see technology vilified because it can be put to nefarious or even semi-nefarious use; in the case of hand-held wireless detectors, there are plenty of "non-infringing uses" to which they can be put.
Duh, this device doesn't really help you connect to a network. It just tells you that one is there. Anyone with a laptop/PCMCIA card or a wifi CF card can "Stumble" onto any network with any number of WEP encryption cracking programs/MAC sniffers.
This device is a tool, plain and simple. To use it "nefariously" would be a waste of money.
Actually, just because it was running on Linux doesn't mean that the "attacker" couldn't redirect the results to a page other than Google.
Personally I thought it was a problem with the program itself and not Windows. Then again I read the article so I might be more confused than someone who apparently didn't and is trying to make a lame joke.
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E-mail is another good example. I have been using it since the late 1970s. During the 1985-1995 time frame it may have actually been a net productivity gain. Today? Probably the biggest productivity destroyer out there.
Really? Personally, I don't use email that much. It's too slow. The only place that I use email on a regular basis is work and that's because I don't allow my phone to ring.
Need to send me something important at work? It better be formatted correctly (as I sort on subject and author) and it better have all the information necessary. I don't want to play e-mail tag with you and I certainly do not want to have to call you. All that does is waste your time and mine as you have to now write two or more emails when you could have done it all at once.
Because I don't use email much it's hardly distracting. I find that phone calls and personal chats are much more distracting for me. I can't do 5 things at once when I'm on the phone. At least with email I am able to get the answers you need, format it, and fire it off w/o having the other person wait in real-time and have me respond as well.
It's a fact. Most people are sheep and will go along with anything forced to them, but DRM acceptance has it's limits. I know a lot of people who asked me for help on making their DVD players zone-free, for instance.
Well, I don't know who you are dealing with but NO ONE that I know has a fucking clue what region encoding is and they certainly don't ask me how to get rid of it.
You know why they don't care? Because it doesn't affect them one bit... People I know go to the video or retail store, pick out a movie, and watch it. Region encoding doesn't stop that.
Perhaps if you said that they asked you how to remove "the color fades when they record to other media from DVD" I would be more likely to believe you.
For DRM done (arguably) right, check Apple and iTunes.
How do you figure? Because you can easily get around it? Or because you agree with their DRM? Personally, Apple's DRM is to support lockin to their portable music player and to their store. Yeah, you can play MP3s on the device but if you want to get music legally you are probably going to go to iTMS (most people don't know about other alternatives such as allofmp3).
From the article, I couldn't make this shit up if I tried:
Bobby: It's probably because the Nazis felt bad having a cement fighting place, so they put little trampolines under-
Parker: Wait. What do Nazi's have to do with it?
Bobby: Because Zangief is a Nazi.
EGM: He's Russian. Not German.
Garret: He's a communist.
Bobby: Then why is Zangief's place a Nazi place?
EGM: It's not.
Bobby: Yes it is-it had a Nazi sign on the cement.
Parker: It couldn't have been. They wouldn't have let that in videogames.
Bobby: Whatever.
This proves it... Video games DO rot the brains of young and impressionable children. They wouldn't have allowed a swastika in a video game? Pure blasphemy I say, plain and simple. We need to bring back video games that teach children some history. They should at least be able to recognize a swastika in a video game!
If your child's video games aren't teaching them valuable lessons about World History who is?
We get a lot of older widowers selling books that they would probably dearly love to keep... and employees often don't take the time to assess the actual value of the books, which means a lot of older widowers are taken advantage of.
Apparently you've never had a collection assessed by a "reputable" appraiser either. After my grandmother passed away and my grandfather became incapacitated we had their valuables assessed by four different appraisers. Three of the four told us they would give us $500 or less for the entire lot (actual value after sorting and selling individually was nearly $12k and we didn't even try that hard).
So if you think that HPB is the only one that isn't taking the time to properly assess stuff you're wrong.
Save your christmas money or spend it in a store that doesn't rip it's customers off.
.25 b/c the seller didn't know any better. I consider it "dumb luck" or a "good deal".
I don't care how Barnes and Noble gets their books. I certainly don't give a shit if some moron sold a book worth $450 to a store for $1. That's not my problem and it certainly isn't HPB's either. That's like going to a garage sale and buying a rare book for a
Don't buy into the feel good facade they spout in the press, as an ex-employee, I'm well aware of the drama and resentment a lot of employees have for the store. (Which is slowly becoming more and more corporate.
Of course it is corporate. They have multiple stores in multiple states. They aren't a local chain and you shouldn't think that they should act like they are. Otherwise they are nothing more than the facade you claim the media created for them.
I suggested going straight for the $1 clearance racks and buying those books. I have never received a book that was in poor shape, was unreadable, or was worth whining about.
If I had a more local used book store that was as clean and full of stuff I'm interested in as HPB I'd shop there but unfortunately where I live I don't. I'd have to drive 25+ miles downtown to do so. Personally, it's not worth it.
YMMV.
Wash that Old Navy sweater twice and it will melt away in the dryer -- and you probably thought your neighbors were stealing your shit.
Yup, you are absolutely correct. Their clothing is poorly made but will hold up if you take the time to wash and dry it carefully (read manually), but you shouldn't dry sweaters in a dryer anyway.
Depending on the piece of clothing they are usually washed in the washer and dryed hanging up. This limits wear and tear on the fabric. Delicates (like sweaters) are washed manually and dried flat. Works like a charm.
I'm still hearing conflicting reports on the holiday season overall - it was great, it was terrible, it was tepid... I'm still not sure how things went down; I know this year my wife and I probably spent a little less than last year despite our earning over 40% more than last year.
;))
I'll tell you how it went for me... Fucking incredible. We basically bought DVDs (used mostly) and candy. After Christmas (yesterday) we did our most shopping.
I went to Old Navy armed with holiday gift cards. They were having 75% off sales. I got a fleece, a hooded sweatshirt, a nice sweater, a winter hat, two shirts for the fiance, and a scarf for $50. The sweater alone would have been $65 at AF or AE.
We then went and raided Half Price Books during their 20% off sale. We picked up two DVDs, seven books, and two magazines for $25. If you have one of these in your area I really suggest at least visiting once. Head right for the back and clear out their $1 clearance racks (there are some pics on my mobile pics from yesterday if you're interested
We have already decided that we are not going to be doing any clothing shopping prior to Christmas next year. Why bother when I can save 75% afterwards?
causing friction with the "get away from it all" crew
You don't go to a state park and stay within wifi range (I assume their RV/tent sites in the main campground) if you want to "get away from it all". If you want to get away from it all you go backpacking in remote areas of the park or the State. Amenities like showers, flush toilets, electric hookups, and swimming pools doesn't exactly put you in the "roughing it" category.
So far, the vast majority of users are conducting business, and have both the tools and the ability to pay the average daily service fee of $10 to $20, says Phillip Redman, a research vice president at Gartner. But there are also a growing number of free Wi-Fi hot spots, which make the cost of connectivity irrelevant. And with proliferating access and declining price, the user's physical location has become less important than ever before.
I see a lot of RVs in campgrounds with DirecTV. Why not Direcwav while you're at it? It's $100 setup and $50/month and all you need is a direct view of the southern sky (in TX I doubt that would be a problem - and no, I'm not even a customer of theirs). If you're a serious "snow bird" RV fan it would sound like the best way to go. Hell, you could undercut TX State Parks and offer wifi for $5 or less. I can't see the $15/day pricetag honestly... The article mentions that they realize that putting wifi into the wilderness would be difficult due to terrain/etc and would require numerous antennae throughout the park but they mention that TX state parks have great RV/tent campsites that will have coverage... So why the high cost?
I bring my hiptop with me when we go "camping" but I generally only check my email twice a day from it and make phone calls only when necessary. It is nice to have along but I'm more for enjoying my freedom when I'm "camping".
I just can't see businessmen making it a regular practice of saving money on their overnight stays by using a state park campground and firing up their $15/day wifi when they can probably pay $15/night more (with parking fees, camping fees, and wifi fee) at a hotel and get it free.
YMMV.
Or allow you to access the internet with someone elses credentials.
I would estimate that 98%+ of people using cable modems are doing so with the basic level of service. Even if you did sniff a valid modem MAC off the network and changed your modem's to that you'd have to be pretty lucky to find one that was at a "higher level" than you.
So? You can do that w/o a hardware hack using a TFTP server and a text editor. Most cable ISPs already scan their networks for modified cable modem config files and disable them for ToS violations.
Remember these cable modem tweakers that were raided by the FBI?
Those individuals were "uncapping" their cable modems by changing their modem config file and uploading it to their modems. That could be labeled theft of service as you are effectively stealing bandwith that you didn't pay for.
Modifying the firmware on your cable modem doesn't necessarily have to mean uncapping your modem config file and upping your possible bathwidth.
In fact, this method is quite a bit more difficult than just editing the modem config file (as it requires a hardware interface not just a TFTP server).
Until they are discovered and those modified cable modems are de-serviced?
I was wondering if people could use a modified firmware that would report a valid modem config file back to the ISP when the ISP scans for ones that were not sanctioned.
The ISP could powercycle the modems remotely and push new firmware to all the modems rather easily. I would assume that the pushed firmware would include a way to block unauthorized firmware from connecting to the network.
Who knows if they'd be that interested though?
Just remember that some cable ISPs use modem MAC authentication and changing your MAC address could possibly disable your access to the Internet. Some cable ISPs use "bottom-up" provisioning which allows you to re-register your modem's MAC address and tie it to your account (useful if you buy your own modem) but others could still be using manual provisioning which could cause delays in regaining block-sync.
Personally, don't fuck around w/your cable modem. It works just fine the way it is. Hacks are a wonderful educational/mental exercise but I wouldn't exactly be trying this if you don't want to lose connectivity to your ISP.
After that, you simply need to track ip addresses (assumming DHCP will be in iuse), keep mail logs (if you provide smtp/pop service) and generally ensure that you can track illicit activity back to the source if requested to do so by a court order.
Or don't and say that the logs aren't kept. There are no laws that say that logs are a requirement and there is no reason to keep them for longer than a short period of time anyway.
Personally I think that Delta was being a bunch of assholes about the whole thing...
Seeing that my 7pm flight was cancelled for the 23rd I spent 20 minutes redialing from two different phones until I got past a busy signal. After 50 minutes on hold I got through to a representative who scheduled me for the 24th's 7pm flight. I spent the rest of the time rearranging time off from work, the dog's time to be spent at the kennel, car rental stuff, and phone calls to my fiance who would meet me at the airport, and to family we were supposed to see.
At 7am on the 24th the flight was already cancelled. At this point I didn't give a shit anymore. Delta was saying I would have to use my tickets by the 15th of January because "it wasn't their fault". I knew it wasn't the fucking weather down there as plenty of people were saying it was fine in the area. So I call again and get through after redialing for 65 minutes. I get through to a rep after 50 more minutes in queue. She tells me she can't do anything but schedule me for the 25th at 7pm so I'd have to get in queue for the reissue desk. Fine...
After 2 hours and 11 minutes in queue (with no hold music or sound for that matter) someone calls on my home line at 5:15pm from Delta to tell me my 7pm flight is cancelled (cute, I would have been at the airport by then). I tell that rep to get me into the reissue queue as I've been on hold with them for 2 hours.
I finally get through and tell them I want my money back. They tell me I need to speak to customer service. After waiting on hold (with the reissue rep) for 25 minutes the reissue rep offers to refund my money.
We can't fly out for New Years as the kennel is booked and I'd feel horrible asking someone to watch our dog in our house for me than 1 night. So basically we have to wait quite some time to fly down there again.
It was a little bit of a pain in the ass to wait on hold and be jerked around for two days for something that was their fault when they continually claimed wasn't. BAD WAY TO TRY AND PLEASE A CUSTOMER.
Thanks for ruining our Christmas.
Does it display the album cover from the tag?
Yeah it supports that but I have it set to blank the LCD when it is on battery power.
I'm really curious. Why would anyone get an Archos? You can get a Laptop (from Walmart argg) for under $600 now, with a 14" screen, DVD-ROM, etc. Why spend MORE for something infinitely less capable? Weight is all I can think of, and that's not very significant to me.
I can't walk around with a laptop in my pocket without someone asking me the infamous "is that a laptop in your pocket" joke.
Weight may not be an issue to you but size is an issue to me. I don't want something large and bulky. I also don't want to wait for the OS to boot to listen to music and watch a video.
Personally, I disagree. I just got an Archos AV400 (80GB) for Xmas and I can't say that I would appreciate anything less.
Right now I have 6 TV episodes on there (all recorded from Tivo for playback on the plane tomorrow) and I'm currently recording Star Wars DVD trilogy to it for the same thing.
I have my entire music collection on there along with a backup of my "important" files from my network and I'm still at 45GB remaining.
Yeah, the battery life probably isn't the best (I get about 12 hours out of it playing MP3s all day long). I don't know what it will be like with video going but hopefully long enough to last the 2.5 hour flight from MSP to CVG...
I consider myself to have a "small" music collection at a little over 5GB of MP3s (as it doesn't seem to play SHN/FLAC so I can't add those into the total) and those are "must haves". I certainly wouldn't want to have any less than that.
5GB just doesn't seem like enough to me.
In trying to identify the identity of worker bee (ex-contractor, Juan Gutierrez), Apple basically had to confirm that there was some truth to the rumors that he was posting--namely the details of a revision to the iBook laptop. Apple eventually did release a laptop whose details matched worker bee's description. In 2001, Apple settled with Gutierrez after he promised to turn over any remaining Apple confidential information and not divulge any further details.
Honestly this seems to be little more than drumming up even more buzz over up-in-coming products. Yeah, they probably were going to keep it a secret for a while longer but now that it's out why not milk it a bit and get the word out?
I have no interest in most of what Apple does or makes. I certainly wouldn't be perusing the three sites mentioned in the lawsuit but what I do peruse are news sites and other non-Apple sites (news.google.com, Slashdot, etc). Would I have heard about this through Slashdot? Perhaps. Would I have heard about the lawsuit through news.google.com AND Slashdot? Yup, in fact, I did.
So, I'm a PC/Windows user. Never surf the Apple rumor sites. I hear about this lawsuit that stems from the leaking of information about a piece of hardware that I can hook my computer up to my instruments and record shit. Sounds cool...
Worth filing some papers and getting someone to promise they will never leak information again? Yeah, I think so.
The old media is nearly useless these days - corrupt and driven by greed, spin and fear.
You neglect to mention that bloggers are just as greedy, full of spin, and willing to be either for the "fear" or diametrically opposed to it.
I don't have any faith in new media though because the truth doesn't naturally win out - the story that is accepted is that which has the best presentation and most nearly matches what the hearer wants to be true.
Sorry but I just don't trust the bloggers at all. Most of the time they are full of shit and break "stories" that are nothing more than trash.
I read "new media" with a grain of salt and pour over stories from several outlets. After that you might get a better representation of what actually happened before it was filtered through the various outlets (including the government).
If you have very large numbers of processes, the O(1) scheduler alone is enough of a reason. For personal use, I find the low latency quite a good reason to change.
I suppose it depends on what you use the machine for. Linux isn't ready for the desktop so I don't run a GUI on it. Thus I really have no latency issues running maild/httpd/sshd/etcd.
What about the revenue for the Doom movie? Video game industry? Movie industry?
Neither? It isn't out yet.
Apache 1.3 has been working flawlessly for me. Until I have a compelling need to switch to Apache 2.0, I'm not going to. I understand that there are some nifty new features in Apache 2.0, but not a single one of them is something that I want/need.
Exactly. This is happening with a lot of free software lately, namely the Linux kernel... I used to keep up-to-date on the kernel just because it was always getting better.
2.4.x has been rock solid for me and 2.6.x just doesn't offer anything to me that makes me compelled to move to it (in fact I had issues w/my ethernet cards working under it).
Apache 1.3.x has been absolutely fine and continues to update via apt-get/aptitude. Why should I bother with 2.0.x? Give me one reason why this needs to be an issue? PHP people think that PHP runs better under 1.3.x and Apache continues to develop that version. I don't see the problem.
Apache, if you don't want people to use 1.3.x stop development and give people a good reason to switch.
First, to clear up a misconception about Wi-Fi detectors in general: though they can be used to find and (usually illegally) hop onto someone else's wireless connection, that's not their only use. It's a pet peeve of mine to see technology vilified because it can be put to nefarious or even semi-nefarious use; in the case of hand-held wireless detectors, there are plenty of "non-infringing uses" to which they can be put.
Duh, this device doesn't really help you connect to a network. It just tells you that one is there. Anyone with a laptop/PCMCIA card or a wifi CF card can "Stumble" onto any network with any number of WEP encryption cracking programs/MAC sniffers.
This device is a tool, plain and simple. To use it "nefariously" would be a waste of money.
Actually, just because it was running on Linux doesn't mean that the "attacker" couldn't redirect the results to a page other than Google.
Personally I thought it was a problem with the program itself and not Windows. Then again I read the article so I might be more confused than someone who apparently didn't and is trying to make a lame joke.