And, of course, the AOL 56k modem crowd is really looking forward to downloading music over 56k because that's not the 21st century's version of Chineese Water Torture.
Fortunatly for AOL most of their users are on it for one of several reasons. I will list the ones that I have seen most recently:
1. They want to connect w/o surcharge to a national ISP.
2. They don't know any better, dialup is what they have had since 1999 and DSL/Cable is foreign and/or too expensive for them.
3. They like keeping the same email address (why this bothers people I have absolutely no idea). They feel that it is a big hassle to email the 21 people on their addressbook to tell them that it has changed.
before you go spouting off like you are maybe you should have asked a question or two...
first, do I really care about what the RIAA is doing?
second, does the RIAA affect me in any way, shape, or form?
I am a Grateful Dead fan and I support bands who allow the free taping and distribution of their shows. I am NOT a supporter of artists that disallow this practice, and I am NOT a supporter of their music.
how many of the 22 million people that use AOL are either doing AOL High Speed or using it over a TCP/IP connection from another broadband provider? Is it really a good move for them to do this when they have such a large dialup userbase? There already seems to be financial trouble ahead for the ISP as the appeal of dialup dwindles even further...
No thanks, I am not paying $23 + $4 - $x for songs when Kazaa is still fucking free.
ok, so he removes it from his lexicon so what?
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is Google going to stop everyone else from using the seemingly more popular "go google for it"? Wouldn't Google want this sort of publicity? Become a common-place-word?
Does it hurt Kleenex that people refer to facial tissue as Kleenexes? Yeah, I didn't think so.
I was compromised at one point in time my freshman year and had a smurf attack originate from my machine. They were able to track it down in under 2 hours to my specific port. They shut me down immediately. I had to contact the head of IT directly for reinstatement.
Although it was pretty obvious who was using the most bandwith even w/a tool like iptraf.
at BGSU they started doing registration for the DHCP server via MAC in 1999 or 2000. When you started up after connecting your computer to the ethernet jack you would get a registration page. You would enter your student ID and your email login/passwd. Your MAC was recorded and a hostname that included your email id was given along w/a static IP. If you logged on from another other port on campus it would show as a "roam" address but it still knew you were authenticated so it still knew your MAC.
If you wanted to register another computer you would either have to use someone else's student ID + login/passwd or call up the people for help.
A side note, they were less than familiar about doing it w/alternative OSs that did not automatically bring up the registration page. You either had to use Windows to do it or have them do it manually. I used Windows;)
granted I graduated a couple years ago, but I came from a decently funded district...
We had a single person that took care of ALL the computers at all the schools. He was a Mac person and most of the computers were Macs (except the libraries which had IBMs and in my senior year I believe they replaced all the Mac Classics w/IBMs)
So if a single person is going to be administering these systems anyway, I don't see how it could be more expensive in the long run (considering that there has to be at least one administrator/staff member that knows Linux).
It's going to be cheaper to share Mac/Windows files, it's going to be cheaper for hardware, and software costs are going to go down (as far as Windows is concerned).
Apple made a big footprint in schools, why not Linux?
a fucking moon colony? Are you serious? With $50 billion dollars a lot more useful items could be researched, designed, and implemented.
Yeah, great, so you can have a room w/a view that you see nothing better than if you were in a cinderblocked room.
This post was FAR from interesting. The $50 billion should be funding AIDS, Cancer, and Mad Cow disease research. It should be funding hundreds of thousands of kids to goto school. It should be solving the Minnesota State Budget deficit so I don't lose pay raises for 24 months and so I don't lose my benefits.
That's what the money should be going to. Not the fucking moon.
ok, so what did line-sharing do for me anyway? I am in, what I consider to be, a large suburb of Minneapolis. We have about 60k people. I was unable to get QWest DSL b/c I am over 8 miles from the CO (don't ask me how).
My two other options were (ATTBI which is now over $60 w/o CATV, or IDSL through IIRC Covad for $90).
So what did it do for me? Nothing. I am still stuck with a service I am not entirely pleased with (the speeds are fine, it's the price increases and the conversion to Comcast that I am not happy about).
not only that, but could a federal agent (of any kind) get information from me via illegal means and then use it against the individual?
So they get a fake ID and they get the information from me. Then they try to use it, when the court finds out how it was obtained it would be thrown out.
I work in Student Records at a technical college in MN. I will NOT allow anyone to request information over the phone. They must either MAIL or FAX me a request with a hand written signature in order for me to release this information to them (a picture ID in person will be acceptable as well but due to my secure location in the building it is more difficult to reach me that way).
State and Federal law states that people can request information over the phone if it is going directly to them and *I* feel that it is really that person. Problem here is that I cannot verify if it is really them and the social engineering thing comes into play. So basically I won't accept any phone requests. I feel that I cannot safely determine who the person is if I don't see a handwritten request.
FERPA and State Laws will protect the information bearer in the case that information is given to an individual that should not have it. Would I want to be responsible if someone's life is ruined (identity theft, murder, among others) b/c I was neglegent and said "oh the laws will protect me"?
I know that other people in the world have no problems giving out this information. I suggest that if you are a person that is nervous have them add to your account a "DO NOT RELEASE INFORMATION" tag.
While the DNR can be haunting if you lose everything due to fire, flood, etc, it is your safest way of protecting yourself. w/o a court order you cannot release information so a Fax would not do.
6. Will it get stolen as soon as you park it next to your local trendy cafe? YES
No. first of all, there aren't going to be enough of these for people not to notice the damn thing. second, no self-respecting thief would dare steal this thing. The resale value is fucking $0.
Even the thieves are smart enough not to take this fucking thing when the price is right.
I have actually heard that NT ran better on the Alpha UDB than other OSs that run on it. The Alpha UDB was designed to be a small NT workstation.
Linux runs fine on mine but from what I hear NT also runs on it fairly well. I guess we would have had to be running it when the UDB first came out to make any sort of educated descision on that.
Anyone have first-hand experience w/NT on the UDB?
and of course it wasn't the plain fact that his invention sucked ass. He's going to blame the poor economy as the reason it failed...
I have absolutely no desire to ride around on this thing. The videos I watched were a) scary, made me feel like I was watching a bunch of motorized lemmings, b) stupid as hell, everyone looked like a fucking dork riding on them.
Let's appeal to human laziness! Yah, that doesn't work all the time.
at the time Altavista was the best out there. We didn't have another option. Now that we do we find that it has a lot to do w/programming. Imagine if computer programmers would see that today instead of relying on the fucking hardware to pull their shit coding through.
am I going to have to start asking Google to put Slashcode on their news site? Why should I ever bother to read this when it is WAY old news compared to Google News? I saw this yesterday afternoon and though to myself, "wow, I wonder how long this will take to get posted twice on/.";-)
ok, so you can't use it. The options I just read about were spray ons. Go ahead and prove *I* put it there.
Also, here in the suburbs of Minneapolis I haven't seen more than 5 cars pulled over since moving here 3 months ago.
When I lived in NEPA I would see 5 cars a day pulled over (only the State Police in PA can use radar, the local cops use VASCAR -- unstoppable unless you know where the white lines are painted).
So it's illegal? I drive 100mph when I can (not often due to high traffic volumes) and I am less than worried.
get an interest free checking account. They are usually quite limitless. I use a savings account for interest. Most banks allow unlimited transfers between accounts while using webbanking.
I have no fees unless I use an ATM that is out of the network. There are so many of these ATMs here that I rarely have a problem unless I go out of state.
and? They don't want you doing exactly that. They want to attract Mom and Pop people who use their broadband for nothing more than they used their 28.8k for... Surfing the web, checking email.
Broadband isn't as profitable when you have 10% of your userbase downloading 1GB+ a day when 90% of the other people are downloading less than 1GB a month.
while I would love the "services" that DSL offers (static IP, allowed to run servers), I don't have the money to pay for it (or the availability of the service).
I live in a city of 60k people right outside Minneapolis. For whatever reason Qwest doesn't service this area. My only choice is IDSL (haha), or ATTBI/Comcast.
If I could have Qwest I would be at 640/160 (which is COMPLETELY unacceptable for broadband). I would have to find a more friendly ISP (no download limits, static IPs, and a geekish servers policy). Now, for the cost I have the option of ATTBI/Comcast at 1800/256. So three times the downstream (with basically a static IP, it hasn't changed since I started here in November 2002) for the same cost? Where am I going to go?
I am not pleased at the prospect of a 4GB transfer limit w/ATTBI/Comcast. I am one of the people that they would be trying to get rid of (I run servers, I download 1+GB a day on average), and I hate them. I don't have a choice once they put it in place though. Qwest doesn't service this area (I don't understand how in a city of 60k they don't but that's another story). I can't understand IDSL at 89.95/mo at some ridiculously slow speed that shouldn't even be considered broadband...
It's not overhyped, it's bullshit that we have to put up w/this. Unlimited means exactly that. If you don't like it, tough fucking shit, get out of the business.
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And, of course, the AOL 56k modem crowd is really looking forward to downloading music over 56k because that's not the 21st century's version of Chineese Water Torture.
Fortunatly for AOL most of their users are on it for one of several reasons. I will list the ones that I have seen most recently:
1. They want to connect w/o surcharge to a national ISP.
2. They don't know any better, dialup is what they have had since 1999 and DSL/Cable is foreign and/or too expensive for them.
3. They like keeping the same email address (why this bothers people I have absolutely no idea). They feel that it is a big hassle to email the 21 people on their addressbook to tell them that it has changed.
4. AOL users are just casual Internet users.
before you go spouting off like you are maybe you should have asked a question or two...
first, do I really care about what the RIAA is doing?
second, does the RIAA affect me in any way, shape, or form?
I am a Grateful Dead fan and I support bands who allow the free taping and distribution of their shows. I am NOT a supporter of artists that disallow this practice, and I am NOT a supporter of their music.
Please refrain from your trolls, thanks.
how many of the 22 million people that use AOL are either doing AOL High Speed or using it over a TCP/IP connection from another broadband provider? Is it really a good move for them to do this when they have such a large dialup userbase? There already seems to be financial trouble ahead for the ISP as the appeal of dialup dwindles even further...
No thanks, I am not paying $23 + $4 - $x for songs when Kazaa is still fucking free.
is Google going to stop everyone else from using the seemingly more popular "go google for it"? Wouldn't Google want this sort of publicity? Become a common-place-word?
Does it hurt Kleenex that people refer to facial tissue as Kleenexes? Yeah, I didn't think so.
I was compromised at one point in time my freshman year and had a smurf attack originate from my machine. They were able to track it down in under 2 hours to my specific port. They shut me down immediately. I had to contact the head of IT directly for reinstatement.
Although it was pretty obvious who was using the most bandwith even w/a tool like iptraf.
at BGSU they started doing registration for the DHCP server via MAC in 1999 or 2000. When you started up after connecting your computer to the ethernet jack you would get a registration page. You would enter your student ID and your email login/passwd. Your MAC was recorded and a hostname that included your email id was given along w/a static IP. If you logged on from another other port on campus it would show as a "roam" address but it still knew you were authenticated so it still knew your MAC.
;)
If you wanted to register another computer you would either have to use someone else's student ID + login/passwd or call up the people for help.
A side note, they were less than familiar about doing it w/alternative OSs that did not automatically bring up the registration page. You either had to use Windows to do it or have them do it manually. I used Windows
granted I graduated a couple years ago, but I came from a decently funded district...
We had a single person that took care of ALL the computers at all the schools. He was a Mac person and most of the computers were Macs (except the libraries which had IBMs and in my senior year I believe they replaced all the Mac Classics w/IBMs)
So if a single person is going to be administering these systems anyway, I don't see how it could be more expensive in the long run (considering that there has to be at least one administrator/staff member that knows Linux).
It's going to be cheaper to share Mac/Windows files, it's going to be cheaper for hardware, and software costs are going to go down (as far as Windows is concerned).
Apple made a big footprint in schools, why not Linux?
a fucking moon colony? Are you serious? With $50 billion dollars a lot more useful items could be researched, designed, and implemented.
Yeah, great, so you can have a room w/a view that you see nothing better than if you were in a cinderblocked room.
This post was FAR from interesting. The $50 billion should be funding AIDS, Cancer, and Mad Cow disease research. It should be funding hundreds of thousands of kids to goto school. It should be solving the Minnesota State Budget deficit so I don't lose pay raises for 24 months and so I don't lose my benefits.
That's what the money should be going to. Not the fucking moon.
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does VISI sell telephone service? If not, no.
Wi-Fi is far from affordable. Sure, the monthly price is the same, but the setup costs are astronomical ($500).
Cable upstream sucks? You have Qwest DSL. 640k/160k. I have ATTBI, 1800/256k. Looks more attractive to me as far as bandwith goes.
that wasn't what my post was about. READ please.
The post was about ME not giving out information via phone.
EBay isn't breaking the law of privacy unless you request a DNR information tag.
ok, so what did line-sharing do for me anyway? I am in, what I consider to be, a large suburb of Minneapolis. We have about 60k people. I was unable to get QWest DSL b/c I am over 8 miles from the CO (don't ask me how).
My two other options were (ATTBI which is now over $60 w/o CATV, or IDSL through IIRC Covad for $90).
So what did it do for me? Nothing. I am still stuck with a service I am not entirely pleased with (the speeds are fine, it's the price increases and the conversion to Comcast that I am not happy about).
not only that, but could a federal agent (of any kind) get information from me via illegal means and then use it against the individual?
So they get a fake ID and they get the information from me. Then they try to use it, when the court finds out how it was obtained it would be thrown out.
Negates any of the previous comments posted.
Social Engineering doesn't work here.
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I work in Student Records at a technical college in MN. I will NOT allow anyone to request information over the phone. They must either MAIL or FAX me a request with a hand written signature in order for me to release this information to them (a picture ID in person will be acceptable as well but due to my secure location in the building it is more difficult to reach me that way).
State and Federal law states that people can request information over the phone if it is going directly to them and *I* feel that it is really that person. Problem here is that I cannot verify if it is really them and the social engineering thing comes into play. So basically I won't accept any phone requests. I feel that I cannot safely determine who the person is if I don't see a handwritten request.
FERPA and State Laws will protect the information bearer in the case that information is given to an individual that should not have it. Would I want to be responsible if someone's life is ruined (identity theft, murder, among others) b/c I was neglegent and said "oh the laws will protect me"?
I know that other people in the world have no problems giving out this information. I suggest that if you are a person that is nervous have them add to your account a "DO NOT RELEASE INFORMATION" tag.
While the DNR can be haunting if you lose everything due to fire, flood, etc, it is your safest way of protecting yourself. w/o a court order you cannot release information so a Fax would not do.
That's my
6. Will it get stolen as soon as you park it next to your local trendy cafe? YES
No. first of all, there aren't going to be enough of these for people not to notice the damn thing. second, no self-respecting thief would dare steal this thing. The resale value is fucking $0.
Even the thieves are smart enough not to take this fucking thing when the price is right.
I have actually heard that NT ran better on the Alpha UDB than other OSs that run on it. The Alpha UDB was designed to be a small NT workstation.
Linux runs fine on mine but from what I hear NT also runs on it fairly well. I guess we would have had to be running it when the UDB first came out to make any sort of educated descision on that.
Anyone have first-hand experience w/NT on the UDB?
The stuffed mascot in the background looks an awful lot like someone else we know ;)
and of course it wasn't the plain fact that his invention sucked ass. He's going to blame the poor economy as the reason it failed...
I have absolutely no desire to ride around on this thing. The videos I watched were a) scary, made me feel like I was watching a bunch of motorized lemmings, b) stupid as hell, everyone looked like a fucking dork riding on them.
Let's appeal to human laziness! Yah, that doesn't work all the time.
Smithsonian Folkways Recordings saw a 33% increase in sales...
Woohoo, they are up to 9 customers!
at the time Altavista was the best out there. We didn't have another option. Now that we do we find that it has a lot to do w/programming. Imagine if computer programmers would see that today instead of relying on the fucking hardware to pull their shit coding through.
am I going to have to start asking Google to put Slashcode on their news site? Why should I ever bother to read this when it is WAY old news compared to Google News? I saw this yesterday afternoon and though to myself, "wow, I wonder how long this will take to get posted twice on /." ;-)
Type your phone # in google as it is (ie: 555-555-5555), if you are listed it's going to show who you are and where you live.
My gf used it to track down the location of a harassing caller.
ok, so you can't use it. The options I just read about were spray ons. Go ahead and prove *I* put it there.
Also, here in the suburbs of Minneapolis I haven't seen more than 5 cars pulled over since moving here 3 months ago.
When I lived in NEPA I would see 5 cars a day pulled over (only the State Police in PA can use radar, the local cops use VASCAR -- unstoppable unless you know where the white lines are painted).
So it's illegal? I drive 100mph when I can (not often due to high traffic volumes) and I am less than worried.
get an interest free checking account. They are usually quite limitless. I use a savings account for interest. Most banks allow unlimited transfers between accounts while using webbanking.
I have no fees unless I use an ATM that is out of the network. There are so many of these ATMs here that I rarely have a problem unless I go out of state.
and? They don't want you doing exactly that. They want to attract Mom and Pop people who use their broadband for nothing more than they used their 28.8k for... Surfing the web, checking email.
Broadband isn't as profitable when you have 10% of your userbase downloading 1GB+ a day when 90% of the other people are downloading less than 1GB a month.
while I would love the "services" that DSL offers (static IP, allowed to run servers), I don't have the money to pay for it (or the availability of the service).
.02.
I live in a city of 60k people right outside Minneapolis. For whatever reason Qwest doesn't service this area. My only choice is IDSL (haha), or ATTBI/Comcast.
If I could have Qwest I would be at 640/160 (which is COMPLETELY unacceptable for broadband). I would have to find a more friendly ISP (no download limits, static IPs, and a geekish servers policy). Now, for the cost I have the option of ATTBI/Comcast at 1800/256. So three times the downstream (with basically a static IP, it hasn't changed since I started here in November 2002) for the same cost? Where am I going to go?
I am not pleased at the prospect of a 4GB transfer limit w/ATTBI/Comcast. I am one of the people that they would be trying to get rid of (I run servers, I download 1+GB a day on average), and I hate them. I don't have a choice once they put it in place though. Qwest doesn't service this area (I don't understand how in a city of 60k they don't but that's another story). I can't understand IDSL at 89.95/mo at some ridiculously slow speed that shouldn't even be considered broadband...
It's not overhyped, it's bullshit that we have to put up w/this. Unlimited means exactly that. If you don't like it, tough fucking shit, get out of the business.
That's my