Would a ruling like this tie the hands of companies like Comcast so that they're in a "damned if you do damned if you don't" position, or would one ruling likely supercede the other?
After all the government has given to the telecommunication companies, like Comcast, such as permitting monopolies (which Comcast is in many of its markets), I couldn't give a flying rats fucking ass what position they're in. As far as I'm concerned, they should be fined and then regulated to reduce cost to their subscribers (note: I'm not a Comcast subscriber but I have been one in the past and they are not in my market, we have Charter which is just as bad -- if not worse) for at least 15 years.
If they don't like it, they can sell off their shares and get out of the business. Make it a lose-lose-lose situation for the bastards. I'm glad that the FCC commission wasn't swayed by the money I'm sure Comcast was trying to bribe them with.
The subject says it all. For years, we've seen stories like this. Things aren't getting better. What can readers do about it? What are you going to do about it?
What can you do other that start rioting and get thrown in jail for eternity for being a terrorist? It's not like Obama is any fucking better now that he's changed sides on the telecom immunity deal because, well, his advisers probably told him, "dude, we need the money."
What I found funny was that I got an e-mail in my inbox thanking me for my participation in the download day but the name was already filled out for me.
So, Mr. Gates, please explain what the hell happened w/r/t Vista. Are you saying it flopped because you didn't have enough MBAs and bean counters on the team?
It flopped because it's now difficult to improve the OS enough for people to care. Win95 over Win3.1x was pretty much revolutionary and 2000/XP was even a leap from 9x but because the OS isn't crashing anymore and it does what people need it to do on a regular basis, they just don't have an urge to upgrade.
Vista was basically more of the same and with the mass media and corporations pretty much panning it (much like WindowsME I suppose) why would anyone be interested in running it at home unless it was forced upon them. I don't see it changing much with whatever the next rushed version of Windows is because whatever they come up with, it won't be worth the upgrade like it was in the past.
You know, I visit a lot of sites that feed me stuff based on geolocation and none of it I'm interested in. I'm quite confused as to why you would be at all concerned with targeted ads. Is there a reason you aren't blocking them in the first place? I don't know anyone that is concerned about advertisements because, well, most people use AdBlock Plus. The rest of the population just ignores ads.
Why are you so interested in ensuring that the ads you see are being shown properly? If anything, you should be thrilled that some asshole company is putting out ads, at a cost, that are not worth clicking on.
Of course, once the spam bots start leaving ads in my voicemail, then I'm getting violent.
You mean like Justice A Clothing Store for Girls already does? They aren't alone however, most of the time I have a message from some carpet cleaner or other douchebag company that leaves no contact information except a reminder to get my fucking carpets cleaned.
I am seriously considering unplugging the fucking answering machine now too.
I've dealt with a lot of people who think IM makes them productive, and I tend to disagree.
And that's about as worthy as the interpreted results of this survey:) I find that IM, used solely for workplace issues, is faster in some instances than an e-mail or a phone call. In my last job I was down the hall from the rest of the team and they were always busy on the phone with external customers. Many of them had no e-mail notification (Groupwise requires an additional Notifier that wasn't installed or enabled by default) so we used AIM to communicate between some people. In that instance, it worked great. Where I work now, I'm over a cube wall from everyone and thus it makes no sense to use IM unless we're off-site.
The war in Iraq is going well--in fact Baghdad is having a housing market boom.
Oh fucking goody!
My house is worth $50k less than it was in 2004 when I bought it, everything is more expensive on a weak dollar, I'm glad I now have the option to use public transportation to work because I'd be paying 2x as much as I did last year, I'm really glad I work in higher education due to the slow job market -- one of the few industries that doesn't get hit as hard during economic downturn, I'm thrilled at grain and rice prices and the fact that distributors are not permitting buyers to hoard it as the prices skyrocket while our National Grain Reserves fall on our humanitarian efforts abroad, and I'm really excited that we're still pumping billions upon billions of dollars into a country that's 1000s of miles away so that they can have a housing boom while we fucking suffer here.
While these worthless articles of impeachment are nothing more than words -- the same as those against Cheney -- and we're doing such great things for those in other countries (including bombing them with bombs purchased on credit we can't back for at least 25 years), I'm wondering when someone is going to bail the United States out.
The Republicans will only vote for an R, unless their own candidate is so bad that they have to stay home. McCain may or may not be be that bad, but it remains to be seen.
Obama is full of shit just like an other politician and because Hillary again proved, with her inaction re: retroactive immunity for telecoms (she didn't even vote), that she's a fence riding cunt trying to pander to everyone -- I cannot vote for her either. This is going to be a very difficult decision for me.
So I loaded it and watched it work -- reminiscent of ANSI BBSs but with AJAX instead. It was quick on my laptop but on my mobile device it took longer to load that Google did itself and while I could enter search terms I couldn't submit them. But it's in BETA and it's a Google side project so we should all bow before its greatness.
Yeah, if you like super lagged conditions and continual disconnects it's fucking awesome for remote administration! Using the hiptop for any sort of SSH connection over a few commands long would be miserable. You would have to use screen or else the continual connection drops would fuck you over too much.
Danger's devices have a terrible build quality, especially with heavy use. While the Sidekick3 is the first Danger device that has lasted more than 6 months without a handset replacement, you know it's bad when T-mobile disallows free handset replacements without additional warranty packages for Sidekick users.
I just went to the used bookstore, enjoying the smells, the sight, and the interaction with a person who was able to tell me based on a loose idea of what I told him I liked several books I should read. I'm currently reading a paperback copy of Patricia Cornwell's Post-Mortem and it's something that there's no way I'd have read any other way and it's something I'm really enjoying for a quick and relaxing read. Yeah, Amazon gives me recommendations (and one's I have taken them up on before) but Amazon smells like my living room and the recommendations just feel stale.
Now, the price. I paid.75 for this particular paperback and $2 for two others (John Sandford, a Minneapolis-based author). I didn't have to front load the cost of these books by purchasing an expensive reader that only helps another big corporation make its stockholders happy rather than a local guy a few miles from my house.
Wow, really? You were able to identify after the fact? Great! Real useful -- that and the fact that it's much easier to find that information when you are looking for a specific result. If this guy had come out and said, "hey, I was able to find those people before the fact," then I'd be impressed.
What if I don't know their e-mail address? To be honest, I rarely give mine out these days because it's the last place I want to be contacted. It's almost become as sacred as my phone number.
I think it is one of the most usless things on the face of the earth but it seems popular for some strange reason.
It depends on what you use it for. For what I use it for it's quite useless but if you're into notifying groups of friends what you happen to be doing and want it to be delivered by their preferred method of receiving that information, then it's great.
I want to tell 10+ people that I'm going away for the weekend and I don't want to deal with two SMSs, three e-mails, four IMs and one phone call so I just fire off a message on twitter and it's all done and everyone gets the information quickly and easily.
While I could definitely see why he would kill that thieving bitch of a ex-wife of his, I don't think they proved beyond a reasonable doubt that he definitely killed her.
I'm sorry but a missing car seat, wet car carpet, and a single drop of blood in a house they at one time shared along with random books about murder (I have about 15 of them on my bookshelves and at least one in my car because I like to read) doesn't mean someone killed someone else.
His kid said he saw his mother leave and there's no body. The bitch probably is back in Russia and from what I have read, and please correct me if I missed something as I was only watching what Threat Level was providing, no one even took the time to see if she was over in Russia like Hans' defense claimed.
Sounds like there was proof beyond a reasonable doubt that the jury was bored with his testimony (more that I read via Threat Level) and not the prosecutor's. If anything, this has more to do with juries being fucking stupid than Hans killing her.
That all said, he probably did do it -- she stole tons of money from him and seemed to come to the US just because she was now "married" and didn't do it for love -- I just don't think they proved that he did actually do it.
I can appreciate the reason they're taking such extreme measures, but wouldn't it be better for everybody if they just let the people goofing off in class fail?
You have to remember that the generation that's currently attending various institutions of higher education (the Millennials or Gen-Y or whatever the fuck they are referred to by other out-of-touch generations) have, for the most part, been hovered over by their parents for the majority of their lives and have a lot less personal interest in their own affairs than many other generations. I see this shit every day: a prospective student stands behind his parents and lets them speak on their behalf (even at 25+) even though I clearly ignore their parents and speak directly to them.
When you get into a situation like that where those that are allowed to fail, do, you find that their parents are all up in arms that the institution of higher education isn't doing what they should to protect their poor innocent babies from themselves.
Honestly, it's a tough spot to be in and yes, they shouldn't fucking bother with this nursery school type babying but they do because those parents are the same parents that will end up paying big bucks to build yet another parking structure, library, or lecture hall if Johnny gets his JD.
The best way to compete with Google Analytics would be to set it up somehow so that I never see "Waiting for Google Analytics" in my browser while a page is blank, stalled and not loading.
IMHO, Yahoo isn't exactly the best at having speedy web applications. I *pay* for my Flickr account (yes, it's fairly inexpensive for the benefits) and I find that the interface is slow as hell most of the time and that any sort of long loading (editing a set, placing photos on their map which is also very slow loading, moving items around, or loading all your sets when you have 100s of them) is absolutely fucking painful.
Depends on the company but generally because they were told to have one, not because the department itself operates well. Honestly, while I could fully be a "rogue superuser" I prefer to let them do most of their work because I just don't get paid to do what they get paid to do.
Will I install applications, use applications and write applications as necessary to get *my own* job done? Yes. Will I go out of my way to do it so that others can do their job better? No. I am the first to tell someone who sends me an IM that asks, "Bill, can you come down and help with foo?" to go and submit an IT work order and wait it out. But I'm certainly not going to wait for them to come and fix my machine when I know full well I can do it myself without watching work backup for minutes, hours or days.
Offhand I'd think they're making a good-faith effort to comply. If they haven't been getting the notices up I'd attribute it to general chaos and cluelessness, not to any systematic attempt to unload analog sets on unsuspecting customers.
Is there some famous quote about malice and incompetence? I'm sure it applies to any of the retail chain stores that were fined.
That said, I want to know where these fines are going. That's our money after all, just like all the money that they are collecting by selling off the open bandwidth created by forcing us to pay anything for these boxes. I won't go into one of my long rants about how this is another fleecing but I couldn't find anything on the web, yet, about where the funds raised by these fines is going to end up... Anyone else?
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Would a ruling like this tie the hands of companies like Comcast so that they're in a "damned if you do damned if you don't" position, or would one ruling likely supercede the other?
After all the government has given to the telecommunication companies, like Comcast, such as permitting monopolies (which Comcast is in many of its markets), I couldn't give a flying rats fucking ass what position they're in. As far as I'm concerned, they should be fined and then regulated to reduce cost to their subscribers (note: I'm not a Comcast subscriber but I have been one in the past and they are not in my market, we have Charter which is just as bad -- if not worse) for at least 15 years.
If they don't like it, they can sell off their shares and get out of the business. Make it a lose-lose-lose situation for the bastards. I'm glad that the FCC commission wasn't swayed by the money I'm sure Comcast was trying to bribe them with.
The subject says it all. For years, we've seen stories like this. Things aren't getting better. What can readers do about it? What are you going to do about it?
What can you do other that start rioting and get thrown in jail for eternity for being a terrorist? It's not like Obama is any fucking better now that he's changed sides on the telecom immunity deal because, well, his advisers probably told him, "dude, we need the money."
We're fucked for another 24 years at least.
There is a difference between merely advertising, and knowingly participating in a company's targeted manipulation of your friend to extract money.
If you haven't already suggested that they run AdBlockPlus you aren't much of a friend anyway, are you?
What I found funny was that I got an e-mail in my inbox thanking me for my participation in the download day but the name was already filled out for me.
So, Mr. Gates, please explain what the hell happened w/r/t Vista. Are you saying it flopped because you didn't have enough MBAs and bean counters on the team?
It flopped because it's now difficult to improve the OS enough for people to care. Win95 over Win3.1x was pretty much revolutionary and 2000/XP was even a leap from 9x but because the OS isn't crashing anymore and it does what people need it to do on a regular basis, they just don't have an urge to upgrade.
Vista was basically more of the same and with the mass media and corporations pretty much panning it (much like WindowsME I suppose) why would anyone be interested in running it at home unless it was forced upon them. I don't see it changing much with whatever the next rushed version of Windows is because whatever they come up with, it won't be worth the upgrade like it was in the past.
Good luck to Microsoft.
You know, I visit a lot of sites that feed me stuff based on geolocation and none of it I'm interested in. I'm quite confused as to why you would be at all concerned with targeted ads. Is there a reason you aren't blocking them in the first place? I don't know anyone that is concerned about advertisements because, well, most people use AdBlock Plus. The rest of the population just ignores ads.
Why are you so interested in ensuring that the ads you see are being shown properly? If anything, you should be thrilled that some asshole company is putting out ads, at a cost, that are not worth clicking on.
Of course, once the spam bots start leaving ads in my voicemail, then I'm getting violent.
You mean like Justice A Clothing Store for Girls already does? They aren't alone however, most of the time I have a message from some carpet cleaner or other douchebag company that leaves no contact information except a reminder to get my fucking carpets cleaned.
I am seriously considering unplugging the fucking answering machine now too.
I've dealt with a lot of people who think IM makes them productive, and I tend to disagree.
:) I find that IM, used solely for workplace issues, is faster in some instances than an e-mail or a phone call. In my last job I was down the hall from the rest of the team and they were always busy on the phone with external customers. Many of them had no e-mail notification (Groupwise requires an additional Notifier that wasn't installed or enabled by default) so we used AIM to communicate between some people. In that instance, it worked great. Where I work now, I'm over a cube wall from everyone and thus it makes no sense to use IM unless we're off-site.
And that's about as worthy as the interpreted results of this survey
The war in Iraq is going well--in fact Baghdad is having a housing market boom.
Oh fucking goody!
My house is worth $50k less than it was in 2004 when I bought it, everything is more expensive on a weak dollar, I'm glad I now have the option to use public transportation to work because I'd be paying 2x as much as I did last year, I'm really glad I work in higher education due to the slow job market -- one of the few industries that doesn't get hit as hard during economic downturn, I'm thrilled at grain and rice prices and the fact that distributors are not permitting buyers to hoard it as the prices skyrocket while our National Grain Reserves fall on our humanitarian efforts abroad, and I'm really excited that we're still pumping billions upon billions of dollars into a country that's 1000s of miles away so that they can have a housing boom while we fucking suffer here.
While these worthless articles of impeachment are nothing more than words -- the same as those against Cheney -- and we're doing such great things for those in other countries (including bombing them with bombs purchased on credit we can't back for at least 25 years), I'm wondering when someone is going to bail the United States out.
Sure, bandwidth is cheap, but the whole reason that they're having problems that require traffic shaping is that their bandwidth is NOT unlimited.
We paid for their build out and have yet to see the benefits of that tax break. I call it even.
You just have to choose between him and McCain, or vote a third party.
That's what I was referring to but thanks for helping to state the obvious.
The Republicans will only vote for an R, unless their own candidate is so bad that they have to stay home. McCain may or may not be be that bad, but it remains to be seen.
I'm a Republican and I will not vote for McCain. I haven't decided who I would vote for otherwise but because he'd spy on Americans secretly too and because he voted to illegally permit a retroactive law to proceed there is no way I can support him for President.
Obama is full of shit just like an other politician and because Hillary again proved, with her inaction re: retroactive immunity for telecoms (she didn't even vote), that she's a fence riding cunt trying to pander to everyone -- I cannot vote for her either. This is going to be a very difficult decision for me.
So I loaded it and watched it work -- reminiscent of ANSI BBSs but with AJAX instead. It was quick on my laptop but on my mobile device it took longer to load that Google did itself and while I could enter search terms I couldn't submit them. But it's in BETA and it's a Google side project so we should all bow before its greatness.
:)
So here: <bow></bow>
Yeah, if you like super lagged conditions and continual disconnects it's fucking awesome for remote administration! Using the hiptop for any sort of SSH connection over a few commands long would be miserable. You would have to use screen or else the continual connection drops would fuck you over too much.
Danger's devices have a terrible build quality, especially with heavy use. While the Sidekick3 is the first Danger device that has lasted more than 6 months without a handset replacement, you know it's bad when T-mobile disallows free handset replacements without additional warranty packages for Sidekick users.
There are better options out there, I promise.
Naw, the new data center is in Chicago, not Texas.
How did they perform this survey? I would have a feeling that the majority of people in China are in three or more similar categories:
1. Afraid to answer anything "anonymously" as they know better.
2. Afraid to answer anything other than what they think the State wants them to say (see #1).
3. Are so ingrained in the sheep mentality that they just don't know any better.
4. Are just like Americans and don't really care but don't lie about it.
I just went to the used bookstore, enjoying the smells, the sight, and the interaction with a person who was able to tell me based on a loose idea of what I told him I liked several books I should read. I'm currently reading a paperback copy of Patricia Cornwell's Post-Mortem and it's something that there's no way I'd have read any other way and it's something I'm really enjoying for a quick and relaxing read. Yeah, Amazon gives me recommendations (and one's I have taken them up on before) but Amazon smells like my living room and the recommendations just feel stale.
.75 for this particular paperback and $2 for two others (John Sandford, a Minneapolis-based author). I didn't have to front load the cost of these books by purchasing an expensive reader that only helps another big corporation make its stockholders happy rather than a local guy a few miles from my house.
Now, the price. I paid
Wow, really? You were able to identify after the fact? Great! Real useful -- that and the fact that it's much easier to find that information when you are looking for a specific result. If this guy had come out and said, "hey, I was able to find those people before the fact," then I'd be impressed.
What if I don't know their e-mail address? To be honest, I rarely give mine out these days because it's the last place I want to be contacted. It's almost become as sacred as my phone number.
I think it is one of the most usless things on the face of the earth but it seems popular for some strange reason.
It depends on what you use it for. For what I use it for it's quite useless but if you're into notifying groups of friends what you happen to be doing and want it to be delivered by their preferred method of receiving that information, then it's great.
I want to tell 10+ people that I'm going away for the weekend and I don't want to deal with two SMSs, three e-mails, four IMs and one phone call so I just fire off a message on twitter and it's all done and everyone gets the information quickly and easily.
While I could definitely see why he would kill that thieving bitch of a ex-wife of his, I don't think they proved beyond a reasonable doubt that he definitely killed her.
I'm sorry but a missing car seat, wet car carpet, and a single drop of blood in a house they at one time shared along with random books about murder (I have about 15 of them on my bookshelves and at least one in my car because I like to read) doesn't mean someone killed someone else.
His kid said he saw his mother leave and there's no body. The bitch probably is back in Russia and from what I have read, and please correct me if I missed something as I was only watching what Threat Level was providing, no one even took the time to see if she was over in Russia like Hans' defense claimed.
Sounds like there was proof beyond a reasonable doubt that the jury was bored with his testimony (more that I read via Threat Level) and not the prosecutor's. If anything, this has more to do with juries being fucking stupid than Hans killing her.
That all said, he probably did do it -- she stole tons of money from him and seemed to come to the US just because she was now "married" and didn't do it for love -- I just don't think they proved that he did actually do it.
I can appreciate the reason they're taking such extreme measures, but wouldn't it be better for everybody if they just let the people goofing off in class fail?
You have to remember that the generation that's currently attending various institutions of higher education (the Millennials or Gen-Y or whatever the fuck they are referred to by other out-of-touch generations) have, for the most part, been hovered over by their parents for the majority of their lives and have a lot less personal interest in their own affairs than many other generations. I see this shit every day: a prospective student stands behind his parents and lets them speak on their behalf (even at 25+) even though I clearly ignore their parents and speak directly to them.
When you get into a situation like that where those that are allowed to fail, do, you find that their parents are all up in arms that the institution of higher education isn't doing what they should to protect their poor innocent babies from themselves.
Honestly, it's a tough spot to be in and yes, they shouldn't fucking bother with this nursery school type babying but they do because those parents are the same parents that will end up paying big bucks to build yet another parking structure, library, or lecture hall if Johnny gets his JD.
The best way to compete with Google Analytics would be to set it up somehow so that I never see "Waiting for Google Analytics" in my browser while a page is blank, stalled and not loading.
IMHO, Yahoo isn't exactly the best at having speedy web applications. I *pay* for my Flickr account (yes, it's fairly inexpensive for the benefits) and I find that the interface is slow as hell most of the time and that any sort of long loading (editing a set, placing photos on their map which is also very slow loading, moving items around, or loading all your sets when you have 100s of them) is absolutely fucking painful.
So, don't count on it.
Remind me why we even have an IT dept. again?
Depends on the company but generally because they were told to have one, not because the department itself operates well. Honestly, while I could fully be a "rogue superuser" I prefer to let them do most of their work because I just don't get paid to do what they get paid to do.
Will I install applications, use applications and write applications as necessary to get *my own* job done? Yes. Will I go out of my way to do it so that others can do their job better? No. I am the first to tell someone who sends me an IM that asks, "Bill, can you come down and help with foo?" to go and submit an IT work order and wait it out. But I'm certainly not going to wait for them to come and fix my machine when I know full well I can do it myself without watching work backup for minutes, hours or days.
Offhand I'd think they're making a good-faith effort to comply. If they haven't been getting the notices up I'd attribute it to general chaos and cluelessness, not to any systematic attempt to unload analog sets on unsuspecting customers.
Is there some famous quote about malice and incompetence? I'm sure it applies to any of the retail chain stores that were fined.
That said, I want to know where these fines are going. That's our money after all, just like all the money that they are collecting by selling off the open bandwidth created by forcing us to pay anything for these boxes. I won't go into one of my long rants about how this is another fleecing but I couldn't find anything on the web, yet, about where the funds raised by these fines is going to end up... Anyone else?