I don't know where you are getting/watching your pirated copies but I have seen some INCREDIBLE copies of movies (Matrix2 and T3 are the most recent).
For FREE instead of $20 (which is what it costs for two people to goto the movies these days) I can deal w/any deviation from the "excellent" quality that is shown in the theatres.
Stop downloading TMD releases from Kazaa/IRC and get some BT downloads going from better sources.
as a dorm resident for three years during college (I was too lazy to find an apartment) I found it really fucking annoying that the network connection sucked ass...
I was a quake player. When I first came to college the pings were ok (100ms on average). By the time my Junior year rolled around they were well over 150ms during the weekdays and sometimes into the 200+ range on weekends (only during the day on Sunday, I was out getting wasted the rest of the time). I was actually playing as an HPB during clan matches.
Most of this was prior to the P2P explosion caused by Napster. We were doing some IRC DCC's of.asf's back then but nothing on the scale that there is now...
Explain to me why *I* have a stick in my ass when I couldn't get better than 10kB/s on any download, nothing better than 150ms pings, and I was paying just as much as everyone else?
IT does give a shit about the students. They are allowing everyone to use the bandwith for legitimate purposes.
You are receiving what you are paying for... AN EDUCATION. I didn't realize that paying for college necessitated a fast P2P pipe for getting porn, movies, and music.
I guess things have changed since I graduated way back in 2001.
Last spring, the university received about 40 notices of copyright violations per month. At peak file-trading periods, 90 percent of the traffic on the housing network was peer-to-peer. In an average 24-hour period, 3,500 of the 7,500 students in the residence halls would use P2P services like Kazaa.
Unfortunately you are on their network, thus your computer becomes part of their network (on campus). If you don't like the policy (and you are warned when you sign up for the DHCP access) don't connect to the network. If you don't think that ISPs are scanning computers for viruses, trojans, etc, you're wrong. I worked for ATTBI and there were quite a few people (calling in to me alone) that were infected with some sort of trojan/virus and they had been automatically disabled.
P2P applications should be blocked at colleges. Colleges are not houses of endless bandwith... 40 copyright violations a month is a pain in the ass to deal w/ (especially in this day and age). 90% of the traffic was P2P? What about Quake pings (when I was in college that's what I was concerned with) what about downloads of legitimate software? Hah, nope, just get your P2P porn movies and the latest DiVX of The Matrix Trilogy...
School to Avoid??? I would have avoided it when 90% of the bandwith was being sucked up by people sharing MP3s and porn, now maybe the bandwith is reliable and useful for stuff other than loading Google.
As far as it is detering students from living in the dorms... I have heard nothing but problems with overcrowding in dorms (3 to a room instead of 2, people living in converted lounges, being housed in hotels/motels until space becomes available, etc). You think that Universities really care about not having people in the dorms?
This is not an invasion. This is reality. College editorials are always biased bullshit. Please move along.
And those pockets are in small and mid-size businesses -- those of 1,000 employees or less -- where paying top dollar for Microsoft's very expensive productivity suite does not make much sense. In conducting research for a new report, Wilcox found that open-source productivity suites did "surprisingly well" in the mid-size business market, with the OpenOffice suite alone claiming a share of about 6 percent. Furthermore, he found that some 19 percent of small businesses ran Linux on their desktop, and a whopping 26 percent ran Linux on their servers.
I want to know some more detail... What state? What area of business? 26% server share, sure, believeable, 6% OO share, eh, not too believeable, but I will go with it based on the fact that they have shown no data to back up this claim... 19% on the desktop? Uh, no way, that's just too unbelievable for me.
I love Linux and I think it has great potentional but I think this "research" is just as skewed as anything that is funded by MS...
that's why they didn't even bother to send them out. They knew that they would be immediately scanned and hung up around cubicles. Even the PHB's would point and laugh.
winners will be located by satellites tracking GPS devices implanted in the winning cans....
Is this where my 1.25 goes each time I buy a 20oz. Coke? Funding expensive marketing ploys? How about the old way? Why can't that be the way we do contests?
"Excuse me ma'am, I see you are holding a Coke, you won the contest, now come with me into this dark alley to claim your prize." - that scares me, there ARE people out there that would do that...
Well, as a Coke lover, it looks like I am not going to be drinking Coke anytime soon. I would rather lose (or be dead in the case of GPS in cell phones which I have complained about before) a contest than be tracked by a third-party.
Oooh, it's just for the promotion. Oh, it's just to make sure they don't leave the store w/o being bought. Oh, it's just to see how many ARE leaving the store w/o having to track the money. Oh, it's for your own good. Oh, wait.
They have ignored the GPL from the beginning (and still are).
None of their press releases have made any sense (we have tried to make sense out of them ourselves by wondering if they are trying to make money off the deal before the stock goes into deeper shit than it already is).
They are claiming that Linux is their property because it is a derivitave work of their IP.
FREQUENT spelling errors, BLATANT pro-Linux/anti-Microsoft attitudes, FREQUENT repeats of the same exact stories, BLANTANT favoritism towards certain news sites (ahem, NYT), no REAL journalism, BLATANT plugs allowed (book reviews), I can continue...
My GF uses the Metro Transit here in the Greater Minneapolis area. She has a U of MN busspass now but for a short time she was using a Metropass (or whatever they are called).
It obviously tracked when you used it but through clever marketing it was USEFUL! You got to ride the bus system for 150 mins without paying again!
So if you have to switch busses, you ride them for free. Ingenious. They probably make more finding out where you ride and selling it than they would if you paid again...
The Minnesota Twins (doing well currently) ask you for your phone number and zipcode when you purchase tickets. I always use 90210 for the zipcode (regardless of what company asks)... It either gets a double-take, a question like "can I have your real zipcode", or a smirk. Phone number is simple, 911.
I don't consider myself a wearer of a thick tin-foil hat or anything, but I think maybe the people taking this information will learn not to give it away to others... It could spread, you never know.
But these "secure digital" tracks cannot be played on another computer should they be uploaded to the Net. "The whole concept was to create a legally licensed structure" for computer use of recorded music, says William Whitmore of SunnComm, which designed the anti-copy technology.
FREE USE! I buy a music CD. I want to listen to it in multiple computers... One of these computer does not have a CDROM drive, only a network connection (floppy would be out of the question).
I say, cool, WMAs (if I am a Windows person), I will just copy them over the network to the other computer (via Internet if I am at work) and listen to them. Whoops, can't do that, because someone thinks that free-use is a bunch of bullshit while piracy is JUST WRONG!
I will continue to ONLY SUPPORT those bands that allow the freedom of recording, distributing, and listening of their songs, until the rest of them figure out that fair-use is fair.
maybe the US government could have better IT departments...
Instead of wasting time being completely down, take the time to patch these system (either with distributed patching or even individuals taking the time to patch EACH machine -- oh the horror).
It's much better than not being able to issue Visas or do any other work while you have to keep your PC powered down until it is certified clean by IT.
First of all, this is WAY old news. Comcast had been sending out bandwith notices quite a while ago.
Second, this has nothing to do with RIAA pressure. It has to do with tricky marketing, bait-and-switch, and money. Comcast likes to claim they are an unlimited service yet they want to give you an UNKNOWN limit of bandwith you can use (subjective to those users in your immediate area it seems - so if you are in Podunk and 5 people have cable and you are using X amount of bandwith above the average of the other 4, you are busted and lose your service).
Third, Comcast has a monopoly and almost 25 million subscribers. Like *I* have a choice of another provider for broadband (no DSL, wireless is cost prohibitive). I loved the note on my door on Friday: "Please note that we will be inspecting your cable outlets on Monday with your landlords permission, please move all furniture out of the way." How about no. Glad that the landlord changed my locks when I moved in and forgot to keep a key for themselves. I don't appreciate Comcast coming in in the first place, nevermind when I am not at home.
Comcast is real cute. Takeover a monopolized market, raise prices even higher if you don't have CATV, create bandwith caps if you go over some mysterious number, etc.
I prefer it to any RIM BlackBerry model I have tested, and it blows away any of the PDA/phones based on Microsoft's Pocket PC operating system.
At $550 I expect that this phone would be compatible with other software and hardware accessories out there already. Palm (while having a nice software base) is not even close to what is available for PocketPC.
Digital camera, phone, PDA, MP3 player. I want this thing compatible with my CF cards (wlan and microdrive) - I want space AND wireless networking (so I don't have to be on the providers network at all times for connectivity).
The ISPs involved (according to the article) claim that they are upset that this stops their spam detection.
While that is all well and good, as a CUSTOMER, I could care less about SPAM detection. What I care about is when I suffer from the Slashdot effect (transposing of letters when I type) and I get some sponsered advertising, I would be pretty pissed off.
So BIND blocks this won't Verisign just make another "patch" and fix the glitch?
How about I don't want 1 single company delivering broadband to my door?
I already have a SINGLE option where I live. That's right, town of 60k+ people and no cost effective option other than Comcast Cable.
How about the fact that I don't want CATV, I just want Internet. They are apparently tied and it costs MORE to have just Internet than both basic cable and Internet??!?!
How does that make sense?
More competition, more options, less money. That's what I want.
it doesn't amaze me. Forgive me for my hatred of PDAs but I just can't resist.
I own an iPaq (3635 or something). It has been upgraded to PocketPC 2002 because the original version it shipped with just sucked. I have the CF card sleeve so that I can use CF cards (IBM 1GB microdrives (2 of them), and an AmbiCom Wireless CF wlan card).
The battery life absolutely SUCKS. Even if I leave it OFF in my bag while I am out Geocaching all day, by the time I get home it is warning me that my battery is near dead. Great.
Without using a program to orient the screen landscape the version of IE that ships w/the PPC 2002 is worthless (and the Landscape program doesn't come as a part of PocketPC 2002???!?).
I can't open multiple IE windows w/o an additional pay-for application. No thanks.
The speed is near awful. Try loading some files in Pocket Word or any other application. 32K files actually bring up a "clock" while you wait. WHAT?
PDAs are basically glorified At-A-Glance Calendars that play MP3s and MAME games.
I use it every day for calendar syncing and Geocaching but I think it's nearly worthless for useful things.
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They already tend to look and sound bad.
I don't know where you are getting/watching your pirated copies but I have seen some INCREDIBLE copies of movies (Matrix2 and T3 are the most recent).
For FREE instead of $20 (which is what it costs for two people to goto the movies these days) I can deal w/any deviation from the "excellent" quality that is shown in the theatres.
Stop downloading TMD releases from Kazaa/IRC and get some BT downloads going from better sources.
as a dorm resident for three years during college (I was too lazy to find an apartment) I found it really fucking annoying that the network connection sucked ass...
.asf's back then but nothing on the scale that there is now...
I was a quake player. When I first came to college the pings were ok (100ms on average). By the time my Junior year rolled around they were well over 150ms during the weekdays and sometimes into the 200+ range on weekends (only during the day on Sunday, I was out getting wasted the rest of the time). I was actually playing as an HPB during clan matches.
Most of this was prior to the P2P explosion caused by Napster. We were doing some IRC DCC's of
Explain to me why *I* have a stick in my ass when I couldn't get better than 10kB/s on any download, nothing better than 150ms pings, and I was paying just as much as everyone else?
Get fucking real idiot.
IT does give a shit about the students. They are allowing everyone to use the bandwith for legitimate purposes.
You are receiving what you are paying for... AN EDUCATION. I didn't realize that paying for college necessitated a fast P2P pipe for getting porn, movies, and music.
I guess things have changed since I graduated way back in 2001.
Last spring, the university received about 40 notices of copyright violations per month. At peak file-trading periods, 90 percent of the traffic on the housing network was peer-to-peer. In an average 24-hour period, 3,500 of the 7,500 students in the residence halls would use P2P services like Kazaa.
Unfortunately you are on their network, thus your computer becomes part of their network (on campus). If you don't like the policy (and you are warned when you sign up for the DHCP access) don't connect to the network. If you don't think that ISPs are scanning computers for viruses, trojans, etc, you're wrong. I worked for ATTBI and there were quite a few people (calling in to me alone) that were infected with some sort of trojan/virus and they had been automatically disabled.
P2P applications should be blocked at colleges. Colleges are not houses of endless bandwith... 40 copyright violations a month is a pain in the ass to deal w/ (especially in this day and age). 90% of the traffic was P2P? What about Quake pings (when I was in college that's what I was concerned with) what about downloads of legitimate software? Hah, nope, just get your P2P porn movies and the latest DiVX of The Matrix Trilogy...
School to Avoid??? I would have avoided it when 90% of the bandwith was being sucked up by people sharing MP3s and porn, now maybe the bandwith is reliable and useful for stuff other than loading Google.
As far as it is detering students from living in the dorms... I have heard nothing but problems with overcrowding in dorms (3 to a room instead of 2, people living in converted lounges, being housed in hotels/motels until space becomes available, etc). You think that Universities really care about not having people in the dorms?
This is not an invasion. This is reality. College editorials are always biased bullshit. Please move along.
And those pockets are in small and mid-size businesses -- those of 1,000 employees or less -- where paying top dollar for Microsoft's very expensive productivity suite does not make much sense. In conducting research for a new report, Wilcox found that open-source productivity suites did "surprisingly well" in the mid-size business market, with the OpenOffice suite alone claiming a share of about 6 percent. Furthermore, he found that some 19 percent of small businesses ran Linux on their desktop, and a whopping 26 percent ran Linux on their servers.
I want to know some more detail... What state? What area of business? 26% server share, sure, believeable, 6% OO share, eh, not too believeable, but I will go with it based on the fact that they have shown no data to back up this claim... 19% on the desktop? Uh, no way, that's just too unbelievable for me.
I love Linux and I think it has great potentional but I think this "research" is just as skewed as anything that is funded by MS...
that's why they didn't even bother to send them out. They knew that they would be immediately scanned and hung up around cubicles. Even the PHB's would point and laugh.
how about being brought to places by other people (that you would have never known otherwise) to find a cache that is full of wildlife?
I moved here last year (about 10 months ago). I have seen more of my area than people who have lived here their whole lives.
In fact, people come to me asking me where they should go camping, hiking, or exploring.
Does that better answer it?
wow, he's a good troll!
previous post by this idiot.
winners will be located by satellites tracking GPS devices implanted in the winning cans....
Is this where my 1.25 goes each time I buy a 20oz. Coke? Funding expensive marketing ploys? How about the old way? Why can't that be the way we do contests?
"Excuse me ma'am, I see you are holding a Coke, you won the contest, now come with me into this dark alley to claim your prize." - that scares me, there ARE people out there that would do that...
Well, as a Coke lover, it looks like I am not going to be drinking Coke anytime soon. I would rather lose (or be dead in the case of GPS in cell phones which I have complained about before) a contest than be tracked by a third-party.
Oooh, it's just for the promotion. Oh, it's just to make sure they don't leave the store w/o being bought. Oh, it's just to see how many ARE leaving the store w/o having to track the money. Oh, it's for your own good. Oh, wait.
No thanks.
blah blah blah and more blah.
They have ignored the GPL from the beginning (and still are).
None of their press releases have made any sense (we have tried to make sense out of them ourselves by wondering if they are trying to make money off the deal before the stock goes into deeper shit than it already is).
They are claiming that Linux is their property because it is a derivitave work of their IP.
Slashdot has no credibility...
FREQUENT spelling errors, BLATANT pro-Linux/anti-Microsoft attitudes, FREQUENT repeats of the same exact stories, BLANTANT favoritism towards certain news sites (ahem, NYT), no REAL journalism, BLATANT plugs allowed (book reviews), I can continue...
My GF uses the Metro Transit here in the Greater Minneapolis area. She has a U of MN busspass now but for a short time she was using a Metropass (or whatever they are called).
It obviously tracked when you used it but through clever marketing it was USEFUL! You got to ride the bus system for 150 mins without paying again!
So if you have to switch busses, you ride them for free. Ingenious. They probably make more finding out where you ride and selling it than they would if you paid again...
The Minnesota Twins (doing well currently) ask you for your phone number and zipcode when you purchase tickets. I always use 90210 for the zipcode (regardless of what company asks)... It either gets a double-take, a question like "can I have your real zipcode", or a smirk. Phone number is simple, 911.
I don't consider myself a wearer of a thick tin-foil hat or anything, but I think maybe the people taking this information will learn not to give it away to others... It could spread, you never know.
But these "secure digital" tracks cannot be played on another computer should they be uploaded to the Net. "The whole concept was to create a legally licensed structure" for computer use of recorded music, says William Whitmore of SunnComm, which designed the anti-copy technology.
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FREE USE! I buy a music CD. I want to listen to it in multiple computers... One of these computer does not have a CDROM drive, only a network connection (floppy would be out of the question).
I say, cool, WMAs (if I am a Windows person), I will just copy them over the network to the other computer (via Internet if I am at work) and listen to them. Whoops, can't do that, because someone thinks that free-use is a bunch of bullshit while piracy is JUST WRONG!
I will continue to ONLY SUPPORT those bands that allow the freedom of recording, distributing, and listening of their songs, until the rest of them figure out that fair-use is fair.
My worthless
maybe the US government could have better IT departments...
Instead of wasting time being completely down, take the time to patch these system (either with distributed patching or even individuals taking the time to patch EACH machine -- oh the horror).
It's much better than not being able to issue Visas or do any other work while you have to keep your PC powered down until it is certified clean by IT.
nope, I have rabbit ear antennas and no cable TV, in fact, they have the line filtered.
I don't want people in my apartment when I am not there. Even with 24+ hours notice. I just don't trust people enough.
First of all, this is WAY old news. Comcast had been sending out bandwith notices quite a while ago.
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Second, this has nothing to do with RIAA pressure. It has to do with tricky marketing, bait-and-switch, and money. Comcast likes to claim they are an unlimited service yet they want to give you an UNKNOWN limit of bandwith you can use (subjective to those users in your immediate area it seems - so if you are in Podunk and 5 people have cable and you are using X amount of bandwith above the average of the other 4, you are busted and lose your service).
Third, Comcast has a monopoly and almost 25 million subscribers. Like *I* have a choice of another provider for broadband (no DSL, wireless is cost prohibitive). I loved the note on my door on Friday: "Please note that we will be inspecting your cable outlets on Monday with your landlords permission, please move all furniture out of the way." How about no. Glad that the landlord changed my locks when I moved in and forgot to keep a key for themselves. I don't appreciate Comcast coming in in the first place, nevermind when I am not at home.
Comcast is real cute. Takeover a monopolized market, raise prices even higher if you don't have CATV, create bandwith caps if you go over some mysterious number, etc.
See here and here for more info.
Just my worthless
Why would you want to do this? We have already had people complaining about the use of Windows on ATMs elsewhere...
Goto such and such a street and look at the screen, it's seriously got the BSOD!
Excuse me but why, when we already know that there are major security issues with Windows, are we going to use it on ATMs?
I prefer it to any RIM BlackBerry model I have tested, and it blows away any of the PDA/phones based on Microsoft's Pocket PC operating system.
At $550 I expect that this phone would be compatible with other software and hardware accessories out there already. Palm (while having a nice software base) is not even close to what is available for PocketPC.
Digital camera, phone, PDA, MP3 player. I want this thing compatible with my CF cards (wlan and microdrive) - I want space AND wireless networking (so I don't have to be on the providers network at all times for connectivity).
No thanks, at least not for now.
The ISPs involved (according to the article) claim that they are upset that this stops their spam detection.
While that is all well and good, as a CUSTOMER, I could care less about SPAM detection. What I care about is when I suffer from the Slashdot effect (transposing of letters when I type) and I get some sponsered advertising, I would be pretty pissed off.
So BIND blocks this won't Verisign just make another "patch" and fix the glitch?
nope. You are wrong. They USED to offer it for free. Now it's filtered at the box.
How about I don't want 1 single company delivering broadband to my door?
I already have a SINGLE option where I live. That's right, town of 60k+ people and no cost effective option other than Comcast Cable.
How about the fact that I don't want CATV, I just want Internet. They are apparently tied and it costs MORE to have just Internet than both basic cable and Internet??!?!
How does that make sense?
More competition, more options, less money. That's what I want.
it doesn't amaze me. Forgive me for my hatred of PDAs but I just can't resist.
I own an iPaq (3635 or something). It has been upgraded to PocketPC 2002 because the original version it shipped with just sucked. I have the CF card sleeve so that I can use CF cards (IBM 1GB microdrives (2 of them), and an AmbiCom Wireless CF wlan card).
The battery life absolutely SUCKS. Even if I leave it OFF in my bag while I am out Geocaching all day, by the time I get home it is warning me that my battery is near dead. Great.
Without using a program to orient the screen landscape the version of IE that ships w/the PPC 2002 is worthless (and the Landscape program doesn't come as a part of PocketPC 2002???!?).
I can't open multiple IE windows w/o an additional pay-for application. No thanks.
The speed is near awful. Try loading some files in Pocket Word or any other application. 32K files actually bring up a "clock" while you wait. WHAT?
PDAs are basically glorified At-A-Glance Calendars that play MP3s and MAME games.
I use it every day for calendar syncing and Geocaching but I think it's nearly worthless for useful things.
PDAs are far from powerful IMHO.
Bah. While I am a HSD user and haven't used analog since 1997 I don't see it making much of a difference on /.
You can change your prefs to be pretty easy-going on your bandwith...
I have OpenSSH 3.6pwhatever and the debian security mirrors in my sources.list and there is no update available at this time from what I can see.
"upgrade" to GNU lsh or block SSH from everyone except known hosts (the VPN option does basically the same thing).