I agree, and the public should be involved in the process directly if they so choose, not limited to an elected oligarchy of "representatives" who rarely represent anything other than themselves or campaign contributors.
Unfortunately, only those with big campaign budgets get noticed. So, it's usually a choice between guy #1's "keep this law" and guy #2's "keep this law".
Note: For the average user, it takes approximately an hour and a half to run through the windows installer. No, it's not secure when you first install it, but this is not what I'm talking about. I'm talking about driver availability, and ease of installation. Windows finds it all (or most) for you, especially with your HP Gray Box, and non-standard systems often come with a driver CD for windows. You plug something new into Windows, and it searches online for a good driver. I'm glad you're a linux fanatic, and, as I said, in almost all ways it's superior to Windows, but please don't bash me just because I said something you didn't like.
The problem is, fighting a large force with a concentrated force never wins. The trick, both here and in the real world, is guerilla warfare. At the bluefrogfanclub site, talks are underway about rebuilding the Frog in a P2P form. Since P2P is much more decentralized than a single bluesecurity.com site, hopefully it will be harder to hit by spammers.
If you built a warp drive, you'd have bigger problems than the Star Trek franchise. G-men from every major country would be knocking at your door, pockets bulging with "persuasion."
I like Linux. I think it's a wonderful project, and I've run it myself before. However, with Windows, you install it and go. There's no "oh, well you have to recompile the kernel with these minor changes, and find special driver fixes for your particular hardware" that comes along with most distributions. Linux just requires a high initial config/setup time, and saying that a standard Windows user is stupid or lazy because they don't automagically know that a gnarly 50-character shell command could solve their problems, or don't want to spend hours trying to find a solution online, is just usual fanboy/fanatic talk. I'm a fairly experienced programmer/computer geek, and my opinion is that, while much better than Windows from almost every standpoint, Linux fights me every step of the way. What am I going to use, an operating system that fights me and randomly eats my boot sector (apparently, guess what, a hardware compatibility issue), or a throwaway system with plug-and-play Windows? For those of you that would say "You probably use XP and are a loser," I prefer 2k.
If they didn't want us using the full pipe, they should have advertised it as "Latency as low as a 3-5Mbps pipe". They seem to think they mean latency when advertising these things, saying "oh, users are only supposed to do burst traffic", but if they mean latency, they should put it in their contracts. So far, all the contracts say "unlimited".
No, I could understand paying per gig or meg (look at cellphone providers!). The problem is, they've said "Unlimited Bandwidth! High Speed DSL!!!" to get customers. Now that people are actually trying to use what they've bought, the ISPs are trying to back out of it.
Step 1. Take apart a microwave
Step 2. Assemble guts into simple microwave projector
Step 3. Go around pointing magnetron aperture at cameras
Step 4....
Step 5. Profit?
The good thing about Bush is, you know where he stands pretty much. He's not really bright enough to keep too many hidden agendas. However, think about Kerry. He, on the other hand, probably had plenty of interesting little tricks up his sleeves.
The bad thing about Bush is, you know where he stands. Right in the middle of "nukular" and "porliferation".
Question is, are we going to know what the next guy is up to? That scares me worse than what Bush is doing now.
Well, the way I see it, a government could perform executions by requesting 10,000 copies of a DNA sample, if a person is required to give DNA to any government person that wants it. It's kind of hard to kill someone with 10,000 index finger print copies... It'd just waste a lot of time.
So, since mosquitoes will eventually be immune to DDT anyway, I propose that we dedicate funding to creating a new alternative - massive high-powered mosquito shredders, with intake fans. Let's see you mutate out of THIS one.
My point was not to advocate a specific technology such as mesh networking. I was trying to illustrate the fact that, if the demand is there, we WILL find a way to do it...
Sure, be my guest. Start charging extra for access to big name sites. Then watch your little consumer base get ticked off. And then, when we build a wireless mesh network and quit buying from you, don't come crying to me. All I'll give you is the finger.
Did anyone catch this? It's always BUSH's policies when something marginally good happens anywhere, for any reason. If anything bad happens, it's always because of the UN or the evil media (that should be replaced by government-controlled media to "go over the heads" of the American people, as Bush so frankly put it).
Except on Slashdot, where it's always Bush's fault when something bad happens, and it's always our heroes (EFF, cowboyneal, Dark Helmet, take your pick) who save the day when something good happens. Seems to me, there's poo to fling on both sides, and the muslims aren't the only fanatics in this game.
Are immunosupressants such an on-or-off thing? You'd think a little bit would just keep the immune system throttled back enough to avoid killing the person, while still fighting off the virus. Once you fight it off once, you're immune.
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I agree, and the public should be involved in the process directly if they so choose, not limited to an elected oligarchy of "representatives" who rarely represent anything other than themselves or campaign contributors.
Unfortunately, only those with big campaign budgets get noticed. So, it's usually a choice between guy #1's "keep this law" and guy #2's "keep this law".
They have robots, we have Chuck Norris.
Note: For the average user, it takes approximately an hour and a half to run through the windows installer. No, it's not secure when you first install it, but this is not what I'm talking about. I'm talking about driver availability, and ease of installation. Windows finds it all (or most) for you, especially with your HP Gray Box, and non-standard systems often come with a driver CD for windows. You plug something new into Windows, and it searches online for a good driver. I'm glad you're a linux fanatic, and, as I said, in almost all ways it's superior to Windows, but please don't bash me just because I said something you didn't like.
The problem is, fighting a large force with a concentrated force never wins. The trick, both here and in the real world, is guerilla warfare. At the bluefrogfanclub site, talks are underway about rebuilding the Frog in a P2P form. Since P2P is much more decentralized than a single bluesecurity.com site, hopefully it will be harder to hit by spammers.
If you built a warp drive, you'd have bigger problems than the Star Trek franchise. G-men from every major country would be knocking at your door, pockets bulging with "persuasion."
I like Linux. I think it's a wonderful project, and I've run it myself before. However, with Windows, you install it and go. There's no "oh, well you have to recompile the kernel with these minor changes, and find special driver fixes for your particular hardware" that comes along with most distributions. Linux just requires a high initial config/setup time, and saying that a standard Windows user is stupid or lazy because they don't automagically know that a gnarly 50-character shell command could solve their problems, or don't want to spend hours trying to find a solution online, is just usual fanboy/fanatic talk. I'm a fairly experienced programmer/computer geek, and my opinion is that, while much better than Windows from almost every standpoint, Linux fights me every step of the way. What am I going to use, an operating system that fights me and randomly eats my boot sector (apparently, guess what, a hardware compatibility issue), or a throwaway system with plug-and-play Windows? For those of you that would say "You probably use XP and are a loser," I prefer 2k.
If they didn't want us using the full pipe, they should have advertised it as "Latency as low as a 3-5Mbps pipe". They seem to think they mean latency when advertising these things, saying "oh, users are only supposed to do burst traffic", but if they mean latency, they should put it in their contracts. So far, all the contracts say "unlimited".
No, I could understand paying per gig or meg (look at cellphone providers!). The problem is, they've said "Unlimited Bandwidth! High Speed DSL!!!" to get customers. Now that people are actually trying to use what they've bought, the ISPs are trying to back out of it.
Step 1. Take apart a microwave Step 2. Assemble guts into simple microwave projector Step 3. Go around pointing magnetron aperture at cameras Step 4. ...
Step 5. Profit?
ZOMG teh soylent green r teh peoples!!!1
The bad thing about Bush is, you know where he stands. Right in the middle of "nukular" and "porliferation".
Question is, are we going to know what the next guy is up to? That scares me worse than what Bush is doing now.
Well, the way I see it, a government could perform executions by requesting 10,000 copies of a DNA sample, if a person is required to give DNA to any government person that wants it. It's kind of hard to kill someone with 10,000 index finger print copies... It'd just waste a lot of time.
So, since mosquitoes will eventually be immune to DDT anyway, I propose that we dedicate funding to creating a new alternative - massive high-powered mosquito shredders, with intake fans. Let's see you mutate out of THIS one.
My point was not to advocate a specific technology such as mesh networking. I was trying to illustrate the fact that, if the demand is there, we WILL find a way to do it...
Sure, be my guest. Start charging extra for access to big name sites. Then watch your little consumer base get ticked off. And then, when we build a wireless mesh network and quit buying from you, don't come crying to me. All I'll give you is the finger.
Except on Slashdot, where it's always Bush's fault when something bad happens, and it's always our heroes (EFF, cowboyneal, Dark Helmet, take your pick) who save the day when something good happens. Seems to me, there's poo to fling on both sides, and the muslims aren't the only fanatics in this game.
Note to self: Do not give brother access to account.
zomg fp pro?
Ooooh, burn :P
Are immunosupressants such an on-or-off thing? You'd think a little bit would just keep the immune system throttled back enough to avoid killing the person, while still fighting off the virus. Once you fight it off once, you're immune.
That sounds messy...
If the problem is peoples' immune systems, why don't they just give the victims some immunosupressants?
Why destroy what you can 419 scam away from the spammers? :P
No, no, you have it all wrong... Those warheads are for the Orion Drive project!