You've been able to turn it off "the cashew" for the last 2 or 3 releases. Of course if it still looks like a cashew on your desktop, you are using a old version and wouldn't be able to turn if off. On the newer releases the cashew looks like a hamburger icon like everything seems to be going to. To get rid of it on the newer Plasma releases: Right click on the desktop and select "Configure Desktop" Then select "Tweaks" from the Desktop Settings window and then uncheck "Show the desktop toolbox"
KDE is NOT bloated. It was once, but it hasn't been in a long time. People keep carrying on this myth and making people miss out on a really great desktop.
I was going to do a line count on various calculators source code, but I think just the size of the source packages fropm ubuntu wily tell it like it is: out of kcalc (KDE), gnome-calculator (GNOME) and galculator (LXDE), KDE's Kcalc is the smallest.
The above is totally correct, I use a separate recorder all the time so that I get better quality audio than my video recorder will supply, and then use Kdenlive to align the audio to the camera's reference audio.
I've actually made a video that includes how to do it (among other features), and the video itself uses the Align Audio to Reference feature: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eIO73t228k0
Here's a short text version: https://userbase.kde.org/Kdenlive/Manual/Timeline/Right_Click_Menu
You said "Granted I was one of the self-motivated students while a lot of my classmates wasted time" which clearly points out that you probably didn't fall into the high percentage of students that can't resist doing things in class that they should be, while acknowledging that it wouldn't work for "a lot" of your classmates. There are a lot of rules/laws in society that effect 100% of the people, but are there to make sure that a smaller percentage of the population isn't hurt or taken advantage of in some way. In a perfect world where we have nothing but self motivated students who aren't easily distracted, there would be not be a need for filters. Even if it was just a small portion of the population, there could be alternative means to control, but with the vast majority of students it's just too much of a temptation not to screw around instead of doing what they are there for, which is to get an education.
Of course there are exceptions to every rule and we had them as well. There were times we allowed games in the classroom and we had the ability to turn them on for just single computers, a room full of computer, a whole school or anything in between. I would bet that if you were to ask your teachers if s/he would mind if their students as a whole were capable of free access to the Internet while they were trying to teach a class, they would almost universally say no, and the ones who said yes, would probably be low on the list of teachers if the principal were to rank them.
Imagine this, a very smart self motivated student finishes up whatever they are working on and the teacher allows them to play video games till the end of class. Meanwhile you happen to be the unlucky student next to them that had to deal with a video game going on out of the corner of your eye while you finish up your work. I would bet that you would find that situation more than just a little distracting... how would you like to get a C instead of an A because of being forced into situation...
I was the tech director of a school district for 13 years. I've run schools with very restrictive Internet filters and everything in between to schools with no restrictions at all. What I've found over the years is that the more you restrict the Internet the more the school's grade average goes up, and the nicer the students are to deal with. Our schools consisted of about 75% to 100% of the classes,depending on the school, being delivered though distance learning courses. If you give the kids open access to the Internet 90% of the kids will just chat, play games and watch non educational videos all day every day. They get away with this by leaving a window with their school work up and when the teachers comes to check on them they bring it to front, or by making the offending browser window very very small, so that you can't tell without looking very closely that they aren't doing your work. Left unchecked, at the end of the year, 90% of the students would need to be held back a grade. A couple of side effects of kids that aren't on task is they tend to have very bad classroom behavior that disturbs the students that are trying to stay on task, and most of the time wasters the kids like to use are also HUGE bandwidth hogs, so you end up having to buy 10X the Internet connection that you actually need for the school to function, which only deprives the school of much needed funds that could better be spend on something else.
The extreme other side of the coin, and the way the school is currently running is to completely block the Internet except for a select few websites that the school needs for their distance learning courses. There are some "research" or "library" computers that the kids need special permission to use when they need to look things up for papers and such. By blocking everything, the grade average of the entire schools district has shot up to record highs, and the classrooms are a lot more quiet and easier to control. When it comes down to it, schools are a closed environment that is specially designed for education. When you introduce distractions into that environment that level of education that the kids are getting goes down significantly. It's not a matter of free speech or the school snooping in on private things, it's a matter of making sure that your kids get a certain level of education. As for using school computers for personal activities and the school snooping in on them... you weren't supposed to use the computers for personal activities at all. Everyone, teachers and students alike, sign off on the school's computer use policy at the beginning of every year, and I don't know of a school that doesn't require one in some form. We didn't give the teachers computers so that they could maintain contact with their family while they were supposed to be working, and we didn't give the students computers so that they could keep in touch with all their friends on facebook. To argue that it is violating their rights not to be given unfettered Internet access would be like arguing that the school should provide every student with a cell phone so that they could keep in touch with their family and perhaps call people for help on research for papers... even if you could figure out a good reason to give students a cell phone, it would ultimately be a complete flop and a total distraction for an education environment.
In a traditional school, the students time on a school provided computer would be a lot less and therefore a lot less of noticeable on their overall grades, but the problems are still there.
All that being said, I am completely against any kind of censorship when it comes to my personal Internet, or anyone else's personal Internet, but when you get into a school/business environment, it's no longer YOUR Internet and the owners of the Internet connection can do with it what they like... you have to remember, they don't HAVE to give Internet access at all, and whining that they are blocking access to things that are not in keeping with the task at hand... well maybe you should think about what you are saying before you start whining. After all, you are probably 1 step away from being expelled/fired, and the block is their way protecting you from yourself.
If you will forgive the use of a stereotype for a moment. With this thinking in mind, why don't we just block Jews from the sites as well, since they tend to be more frugal with their money and won't generate a lot of ad revenue either.
In the same way that the above is offensive, you will always run into problems when lumping whole classes of people into one pool. I would guess that they will do a lot more damage to their business than what they have calculated from their statistics. A great many websites are recommended by the Firefox using, tech savvy, friends of people. Just what do they think will happen when their friends start recommending other websites.
I for instance use firefox, and I have 10,000 people at work that tend to use IE, and listen to my recommendations for websites to use.
I've got flood lights on motion sensors. The idea is to drive off the theives from stealing stuff around my house. With these LED lights my stuff would be further protected by having the light itself worth more than anything else lying around worth stealing. Hmmm, maybe I should get motion lights for my motion lights.
I run AzGeocaching.com where we try and provide way to many stats on geocaching in the state of arizona. One of those stats shows a graph of the amount of traffic going to a particular cache, and in every case the cashes are being visited the exact same amount today as they were being visited 2 years ago.
The people running the various land departments keep looking at the growth in people and automatically translate that to mean that there will be a corresponding rise in visits to a particular cache, but they failed to take into account that there is also a corresponding rise in the number of actual caches, so the rate ISN'T rising. The land officials also fail to look at the few number of people actually do go to these caches. for most rural caches, which seem to be the ones people are worried about the most, they tend to have a visitor every couple months... once a month if it's extremely easy to get to. You can hardly say that someone walking to a particular site once every other month is destroying the country side. I actually own a cache that is a short distance from the road that gets a average number of visitors, and the amount of "destruction" to the site is so unnoticable that people started to mistake an old rusty container (read litter) that has been out there for many years for the geocache container. I wish the land managers would do a bit more research before making their ultimate decisions, or ar least ask a few questions about geocaching first. We just had one of land manager ban caches from their land, and it sounds like they are under the impression that geocaching encourages taking motorized vehicles to the cache locations.... That gets me soooooooooo mad. It's a hiking sport for crying out loud! They could have figured that out with 30 seconds worth of research.
Forgeting for a second about any paranoid feelings we might have about what the govt wants to put on our computer. Can we expect every software house that writes incredibly insecure software in the future to get a free security patch from the govt. If so, that could really cut down on the programing time for everyone in the future if we don't have to worry about security and just let the govt put out tax dollars to work!
Looks like it has some form of PCMCIA slot for the hard drive. I wonder who will be the first person to hack a wireless card into it. That would definatly kick ass for listening to tunes around the work place or other location that you don't have too move around too much.
The real address of the mailing list is lists.plug.phoenix.az.us. I setup an alias a while ago of "plug.mybutt.net", and later "pluglist.mybutt.net" mainly because it was incredibly funny. I guess it's been catching on a bit:) I know people have a hard time remembering the real one and a hard time forgetting plug.mybutt.net:)
I use napster, and I have downloaded tons of stuff. I also buy tons of CD's.
The reason that I buy the CDs nobody seems to point out other than they were able to get the full CD off of napster. I usually buy CDs even if I manage to get the whole thing... if the CD doesn't suck. The reason that I do this is that I want the added value of the liner notes, the lyrics, and goofy pictures of the artists in strange place, or weird art that they have chosen to put on the cover, I want the silk screened CD, and the possible collectors value of the whole thing, and last but very far from least. I want my money to go to the artist so that they will live on and make another CD that I can enjoy in the future.
None of that I get with Napster. What I do get is to discover a new artist, or to enjoy something that is out of print and totally unavailable.
If you watch the music industry, they like to buy up all the right to popular artists that have saturated the market place and are therefore selling their CDs for a very low price, and take them off the market and sit on it for a while. They when people have lost, warn out their records/tapes/cds/8-tracks/reel to reels, whatever. they are more than happy to put it back on the market at full price and people get excited to buy it because it was "hard to find" or "out of print" for a long time. Or even better. They tack a song that was prevously left on the cutting room floor because it was lowsy, onto the end of the CD and then charge full price again for it. The fans still buy it up.... anyway.. enough of that slight tangent.
I don't see any real harm that napster is doing. The people that are just leaching off of napster are the same people that were borrowing CD's off their friends and tapeing them, never to buy the CD.
I'm still wating for major label CD's to start coming with some lawyerease on them that says "by opening this CD to are granted the sole right to listen to this CD. It may only be listed to by you and nobody else. If you play this CD for anyone else besides yourself, you will be punished to the furthest extent of the law... which we will write.
Anyway, I depend on napster to find new music. I refuse to listen to the radio so that I can be forced into listening to whatever has been deemed "good" at the time, and maybe I am getting old (28) but the music the kids are listening to today has way less talent (listen to the quality of the singing with the cracking voices..etc..etc) The recording quality is crap. All this adds up to more money for the Big music industry that can sway what we all listen to. The acceptance of low quality in the music industry means more money for them because of less money paid for recording time and less practice to get anything right...etc..etc..
OK, I'm going to take my home sick in bed mind back to bed and stop typeing disjoined thoughts.
People in the linux community keep talking about new killer file managers and what features they will have, but I have already used a file managers that has all the features that people are talking about putting in file manager X with alot more than they haven't thought about putting in.
Since the days that I have left my good old amiga I have never felt as productive as I was with Directory Opus 5 (4 was good and I now have gentoo on my desktop that does a VERY nice job at replacing the functionality of DOpus 4). I loved the way that I could easitly make a button bank that could become a nice front end to a command line only program.. Just select all the files that I wanted to run through program X and click my custom button.... No exprert knowledge required and out would come the nice processed files.... or got a bunch of files that are more than one file type... just write a scipt that knows how to process each file type and bind it to a convert funtion... also need to to go to 2 destination at once... no problem, make it to that you have 2 destination windows and it will coppied to both.... arrrrg... this is the same thing that happened to me on that amiga with people actually looking at the software.... there is waaaaay too much that this software does to even start to decribe it. The 3/4 inch manual that it shipped with was just page after page of nothing but features, with little to no howto stuff in it. I keep hopeing that gentoo will turn itself into a clone of DOpus 5, I would even pay money for a nice clone, but I think I wont hold my breath. I doubt if I will ever see the best file manager on the best OS unfortunatly:(
I got the EIDE version a little over a month ago. It installs into a linux machine flawlessly. The only problem that I had was couple weeks after I got the drive I heard a grinding noise. Turned out that linux never spun the drive down even once in that first 2 weeks and I never used it, so it ended up grinding off the cylinders off the far edge of the platter. I promptly exchanged it and set a spindown with hdparm and its been working beautifully ever since.
I would definatly recommend this drive, just make sure that you either use the drive a lot or get it to spin down. Seems like the drive should move the head around all by itself to avoid damage like what happened to me though.
Im work for one of the compaines that no longer has access to these. They gave me a nice letter stating that using their list doesn't benifit the net so I can't have access. Now I have to craw the net looking for the same information. That seems to me to be alot worse for the net to me. I heard rhumors that just about everyone will be denied access... seems to be true to me since I was withing acceptable use 6 months ago.
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You've been able to turn it off "the cashew" for the last 2 or 3 releases. Of course if it still looks like a cashew on your desktop, you are using a old version and wouldn't be able to turn if off. On the newer releases the cashew looks like a hamburger icon like everything seems to be going to.
To get rid of it on the newer Plasma releases:
Right click on the desktop and select "Configure Desktop" Then select "Tweaks" from the Desktop Settings window and then uncheck "Show the desktop toolbox"
KDE is NOT bloated. It was once, but it hasn't been in a long time. People keep carrying on this myth and making people miss out on a really great desktop.
I was going to do a line count on various calculators source code, but I think just the size of the source packages fropm ubuntu wily tell it like it is:
out of kcalc (KDE), gnome-calculator (GNOME) and galculator (LXDE), KDE's Kcalc is the smallest.
152022 kcalc_15.08.2-0ubuntu1_amd64.deb
261882 gnome-calculator_3.16.2-1ubuntu1_amd64.deb
159468 galculator_2.1.4-1_amd64.deb
The above is totally correct, I use a separate recorder all the time so that I get better quality audio than my video recorder will supply, and then use Kdenlive to align the audio to the camera's reference audio.
I've actually made a video that includes how to do it (among other features), and the video itself uses the Align Audio to Reference feature:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eIO73t228k0
Here's a short text version:
https://userbase.kde.org/Kdenlive/Manual/Timeline/Right_Click_Menu
You said "Granted I was one of the self-motivated students while a lot of my classmates wasted time" which clearly points out that you probably didn't fall into the high percentage of students that can't resist doing things in class that they should be, while acknowledging that it wouldn't work for "a lot" of your classmates. There are a lot of rules/laws in society that effect 100% of the people, but are there to make sure that a smaller percentage of the population isn't hurt or taken advantage of in some way. In a perfect world where we have nothing but self motivated students who aren't easily distracted, there would be not be a need for filters. Even if it was just a small portion of the population, there could be alternative means to control, but with the vast majority of students it's just too much of a temptation not to screw around instead of doing what they are there for, which is to get an education.
Of course there are exceptions to every rule and we had them as well. There were times we allowed games in the classroom and we had the ability to turn them on for just single computers, a room full of computer, a whole school or anything in between. I would bet that if you were to ask your teachers if s/he would mind if their students as a whole were capable of free access to the Internet while they were trying to teach a class, they would almost universally say no, and the ones who said yes, would probably be low on the list of teachers if the principal were to rank them.
Imagine this, a very smart self motivated student finishes up whatever they are working on and the teacher allows them to play video games till the end of class. Meanwhile you happen to be the unlucky student next to them that had to deal with a video game going on out of the corner of your eye while you finish up your work. I would bet that you would find that situation more than just a little distracting... how would you like to get a C instead of an A because of being forced into situation...
I was the tech director of a school district for 13 years. I've run schools with very restrictive Internet filters and everything in between to schools with no restrictions at all. What I've found over the years is that the more you restrict the Internet the more the school's grade average goes up, and the nicer the students are to deal with. Our schools consisted of about 75% to 100% of the classes,depending on the school, being delivered though distance learning courses. If you give the kids open access to the Internet 90% of the kids will just chat, play games and watch non educational videos all day every day. They get away with this by leaving a window with their school work up and when the teachers comes to check on them they bring it to front, or by making the offending browser window very very small, so that you can't tell without looking very closely that they aren't doing your work. Left unchecked, at the end of the year, 90% of the students would need to be held back a grade. A couple of side effects of kids that aren't on task is they tend to have very bad classroom behavior that disturbs the students that are trying to stay on task, and most of the time wasters the kids like to use are also HUGE bandwidth hogs, so you end up having to buy 10X the Internet connection that you actually need for the school to function, which only deprives the school of much needed funds that could better be spend on something else.
The extreme other side of the coin, and the way the school is currently running is to completely block the Internet except for a select few websites that the school needs for their distance learning courses. There are some "research" or "library" computers that the kids need special permission to use when they need to look things up for papers and such. By blocking everything, the grade average of the entire schools district has shot up to record highs, and the classrooms are a lot more quiet and easier to control.
When it comes down to it, schools are a closed environment that is specially designed for education. When you introduce distractions into that environment that level of education that the kids are getting goes down significantly. It's not a matter of free speech or the school snooping in on private things, it's a matter of making sure that your kids get a certain level of education.
As for using school computers for personal activities and the school snooping in on them... you weren't supposed to use the computers for personal activities at all. Everyone, teachers and students alike, sign off on the school's computer use policy at the beginning of every year, and I don't know of a school that doesn't require one in some form. We didn't give the teachers computers so that they could maintain contact with their family while they were supposed to be working, and we didn't give the students computers so that they could keep in touch with all their friends on facebook. To argue that it is violating their rights not to be given unfettered Internet access would be like arguing that the school should provide every student with a cell phone so that they could keep in touch with their family and perhaps call people for help on research for papers... even if you could figure out a good reason to give students a cell phone, it would ultimately be a complete flop and a total distraction for an education environment.
In a traditional school, the students time on a school provided computer would be a lot less and therefore a lot less of noticeable
on their overall grades, but the problems are still there.
All that being said, I am completely against any kind of censorship when it comes to my personal Internet, or anyone else's personal Internet, but when you get into a school/business environment, it's no longer YOUR Internet and the owners of the Internet connection can do with it what they like... you have to remember, they don't HAVE to give Internet access at all, and whining that they are blocking access to things that are not in keeping with the task at hand... well maybe you should think about what you are saying before you start whining. After all, you are probably 1 step away from being expelled/fired, and the block is their way protecting you from yourself.
If you will forgive the use of a stereotype for a moment. With this thinking in mind, why don't we just block Jews from the sites as well, since they tend to be more frugal with their money and won't generate a lot of ad revenue either.
In the same way that the above is offensive, you will always run into problems when lumping whole classes of people into one pool. I would guess that they will do a lot more damage to their business than what they have calculated from their statistics. A great many websites are recommended by the Firefox using, tech savvy, friends of people. Just what do they think will happen when their friends start recommending other websites.
I for instance use firefox, and I have 10,000 people at work that tend to use IE, and listen to my recommendations for websites to use.
I've got flood lights on motion sensors. The idea is to drive off the theives from stealing stuff around my house.
With these LED lights my stuff would be further protected by having the light itself worth more than anything else lying around worth stealing.
Hmmm, maybe I should get motion lights for my motion lights.
I run AzGeocaching.com where we try and provide way to many stats on geocaching in the state of arizona. One of those stats shows a graph of the amount of traffic going to a particular cache, and in every case the cashes are being visited the exact same amount today as they were being visited 2 years ago.
The people running the various land departments keep looking at the growth in people and automatically translate that to mean that there will be a corresponding rise in visits to a particular cache, but they failed to take into account that there is also a corresponding rise in the number of actual caches, so the rate ISN'T rising.
The land officials also fail to look at the few number of people actually do go to these caches. for most rural caches, which seem to be the ones people are worried about the most, they tend to have a visitor every couple months... once a month if it's extremely easy to get to. You can hardly say that someone walking to a particular site once every other month is destroying the country side.
I actually own a cache that is a short distance from the road that gets a average number of visitors, and the amount of "destruction" to the site is so unnoticable that people started to mistake an old rusty container (read litter) that has been out there for many years for the geocache container.
I wish the land managers would do a bit more research before making their ultimate decisions, or ar least ask a few questions about geocaching first. We just had one of land manager ban caches from their land, and it sounds like they are under the impression that geocaching encourages taking motorized vehicles to the cache locations.... That gets me soooooooooo mad. It's a hiking sport for crying out loud! They could have figured that out with 30 seconds worth of research.
Forgeting for a second about any paranoid feelings we might have about what the govt wants to put on our computer.
Can we expect every software house that writes incredibly insecure software in the future to get a free security patch from the govt. If so, that could really cut down on the programing time for everyone in the future if we don't have to worry about security and just let the govt put out tax dollars to work!
Looks like it has some form of PCMCIA slot for the hard drive. I wonder who will be the first person to hack a wireless card into it. That would definatly kick ass for listening to tunes around the work place or other location that you don't have too move around too much.
WOW! now thats a really crappy porno filter. Mybutt holds no pron and never has!
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Anyway, you can reach the message at the REAL address for the list at:
http://lists.plug.phoenix.az.us/pipermail/pl
The real address of the mailing list is lists.plug.phoenix.az.us. I setup an alias a while ago of "plug.mybutt.net", and later "pluglist.mybutt.net" mainly because it was incredibly funny. I guess it's been catching on a bit :) :)
I know people have a hard time remembering the real one and a hard time forgetting plug.mybutt.net
I use napster, and I have downloaded tons of stuff. I also buy tons of CD's.
The reason that I buy the CDs nobody seems to point out other than they were able to get the full CD off of napster. I usually buy CDs even if I manage to get the whole thing... if the CD doesn't suck. The reason that I do this is that I want the added value of the liner notes, the lyrics, and goofy pictures of the artists in strange place, or weird art that they have chosen to put on the cover, I want the silk screened CD, and the possible collectors value of the whole thing, and last but very far from least. I want my money to go to the artist so that they will live on and make another CD that I can enjoy in the future.
None of that I get with Napster. What I do get is to discover a new artist, or to enjoy something that is out of print and totally unavailable.
If you watch the music industry, they like to buy up all the right to popular artists that have saturated the market place and are therefore selling their CDs for a very low price, and take them off the market and sit on it for a while. They when people have lost, warn out their records/tapes/cds/8-tracks/reel to reels, whatever. they are more than happy to put it back on the market at full price and people get excited to buy it because it was "hard to find" or "out of print" for a long time. Or even better. They tack a song that was prevously left on the cutting room floor because it was lowsy, onto the end of the CD and then charge full price again for it. The fans still buy it up.... anyway.. enough of that slight tangent.
I don't see any real harm that napster is doing. The people that are just leaching off of napster are the same people that were borrowing CD's off their friends and tapeing them, never to buy the CD.
I'm still wating for major label CD's to start coming with some lawyerease on them that says "by opening this CD to are granted the sole right to listen to this CD. It may only be listed to by you and nobody else. If you play this CD for anyone else besides yourself, you will be punished to the furthest extent of the law... which we will write.
Anyway, I depend on napster to find new music. I refuse to listen to the radio so that I can be forced into listening to whatever has been deemed "good" at the time, and maybe I am getting old (28) but the music the kids are listening to today has way less talent (listen to the quality of the singing with the cracking voices..etc..etc) The recording quality is crap. All this adds up to more money for the Big music industry that can sway what we all listen to. The acceptance of low quality in the music industry means more money for them because of less money paid for recording time and less practice to get anything right...etc..etc..
OK, I'm going to take my home sick in bed mind back to bed and stop typeing disjoined thoughts.
People in the linux community keep talking about new killer file managers and what features they will have, but I have already used a file managers that has all the features that people are talking about putting in file manager X with alot more than they haven't thought about putting in.
:(
Since the days that I have left my good old amiga I have never felt as productive as I was with Directory Opus 5 (4 was good and I now have gentoo on my desktop that does a VERY nice job at replacing the functionality of DOpus 4). I loved the way that I could easitly make a button bank that could become a nice front end to a command line only program.. Just select all the files that I wanted to run through program X and click my custom button.... No exprert knowledge required and out would come the nice processed files.... or got a bunch of files that are more than one file type... just write a scipt that knows how to process each file type and bind it to a convert funtion... also need to to go to 2 destination at once... no problem, make it to that you have 2 destination windows and it will coppied to both.... arrrrg... this is the same thing that happened to me on that amiga with people actually looking at the software.... there is waaaaay too much that this software does to even start to decribe it. The 3/4 inch manual that it shipped with was just page after page of nothing but features, with little to no howto stuff in it. I keep hopeing that gentoo will turn itself into a clone of DOpus 5, I would even pay money for a nice clone, but I think I wont hold my breath. I doubt if I will ever see the best file manager on the best OS unfortunatly
I got the EIDE version a little over a month ago. It installs into a linux machine flawlessly.
The only problem that I had was couple weeks after I got the drive I heard a grinding noise. Turned out that linux never spun the drive down even once in that first 2 weeks and I never used it, so it ended up grinding off the cylinders off the far edge of the platter. I promptly exchanged it and set a spindown with hdparm and its been working beautifully ever since.
I would definatly recommend this drive, just make sure that you either use the drive a lot or get it to spin down.
Seems like the drive should move the head around all by itself to avoid damage like what happened to me though.
Im work for one of the compaines that no longer has access to these.
They gave me a nice letter stating that using their list doesn't benifit the net so I can't have access. Now I have to craw the net looking for the same information. That seems to me to be alot worse for the net to me.
I heard rhumors that just about everyone will be denied access... seems to be true to me since I was withing acceptable use 6 months ago.