My first online service. I had the pimp setup with my luggable NEC Powermate Portable that I could dial up Prodigy from whichever friend's house I was at to get video game help or cheat codes.
I remember one stupid prank that got a surprising number of people all worked up. I said that I had a trick to turn 'N's into 'Z's in any video game... and that I would post the trick once 50 people had replied. So 50 anxious replies later, I told them to turn their TV sideways. I couldn't believe how many people first got so excited about such a stupid code, and second got so upset and felt they'd been cheated.
Remember those crappy vector graphic maze games they had? Good times.
Especially on FreeBSD. It recognized my Orinoco card right away, I configured the interface for DHCP just like it were any other NIC, and it worked right off the bat. My experience with booting some live Linux CDs (L.A.S., Knoppix) was just as smooth. They recognized and auto-configured without any intervention.
One is just a comparison of retail access points, and the other is a tutorial on how to set up your own broadband connection for free WiFi access to the general public. Neither mention anything about a city-wide, institutionalized network installation.
I saw an interview with those responsible for implementing Seattle's WiFi system, and they were showing off large banks of antennae that were even larger than cell sites. They even commented on how they had to specially design much of the system, since there were no acceptable off-the-shelf solutions.
No, you're probably just the first one not to realize what an asinine waste of money it would be to use consumer-grade hardware for an industrial-grade job like this.
Only if everyon'e using maximum bandwidth continuously (highly unlikey). And even then, you can have multiple networks on multiple channels in the same geographic area.
Not only is this a non-story...
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People will want to know who the elector will vote for before they will choose them. So you'll have the same voting problems voting for someone who promises to vote for X instead of directly voting for X.
No, it's not. A few seconds multiplied by the 50+ lists I'm subscribed to, plust the fact that I subscribe to and unsubscribe from lists frequently means it's more hassle than I care to deal with. I don't see how hard it would be for them to let me sort by subject. Honestly, how hard would/that/ be to implement? If people don't want to sort by subject, they don't have to, but I don't see why they're so dead set against the idea.
I do have 5 or so filters for my most commonly accessed lists, but it would be SO much easier to click one button and sort by subject.
Just because it would take more time than it's worth. I use the account to keep up with mailing lists only, not as my main account, so I can't justify putting that much time into the project. Plus, for the most part, I hate dealing with web mail interfaces.
and they'd be unstoppable. Seriously, the main problem I have with Gmail is the inability to sort by subject. I'm subscribed to about 50 mailing lists, and I don't want to search for each of them individually to find the latest posts for a particular group. It's silly.
Videotaped copies of films in theaters often are digitized or burned off DVDs and then distributed on file-sharing networks.
I just got done writing off of that article, and I'm wondering how exactly you burn something off of a DVD?
The movie industry has also tried to battle piracy by running ads in movie theaters and elsewhere designed to dissuade people from file-sharing films by stressing the risks of identity theft and liability.
What does movie piracy have to do with identity theft? Are they threatening to get credit cards in my name and ruin my credit if I share movies?
It's definitely an influential tool, but it's just one tool used to spread the hatred, the message would get out anyway. I'm sure that a good amount of USA bashing happens verbally and via other media, and censoring textbooks wouldn't fix the problem anyway not to mention the moral and backlash issues with censorship.
We let them print anti-american garbage in their textbooks.
I don't think the content of their textbooks is in our jurisdiction. Somehow, I don't think censoring their speech is going to win us any favors or help the situation at all. Textbooks are hardly the root of the problem.
Why don't you try it? If you configure it not to delete your messages off the server, or if you use IMAP, it's a no-risk trial. It's never crashed on me, the spam filter works well, and I've switched to using it almost exclusively.
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My first online service. I had the pimp setup with my luggable NEC Powermate Portable that I could dial up Prodigy from whichever friend's house I was at to get video game help or cheat codes.
I remember one stupid prank that got a surprising number of people all worked up. I said that I had a trick to turn 'N's into 'Z's in any video game... and that I would post the trick once 50 people had replied. So 50 anxious replies later, I told them to turn their TV sideways. I couldn't believe how many people first got so excited about such a stupid code, and second got so upset and felt they'd been cheated.
Remember those crappy vector graphic maze games they had? Good times.
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Especially on FreeBSD. It recognized my Orinoco card right away, I configured the interface for DHCP just like it were any other NIC, and it worked right off the bat. My experience with booting some live Linux CDs (L.A.S., Knoppix) was just as smooth. They recognized and auto-configured without any intervention.
One is just a comparison of retail access points, and the other is a tutorial on how to set up your own broadband connection for free WiFi access to the general public. Neither mention anything about a city-wide, institutionalized network installation.
I saw an interview with those responsible for implementing Seattle's WiFi system, and they were showing off large banks of antennae that were even larger than cell sites. They even commented on how they had to specially design much of the system, since there were no acceptable off-the-shelf solutions.
Someone's not telling the full truth.
No, you're probably just the first one not to realize what an asinine waste of money it would be to use consumer-grade hardware for an industrial-grade job like this.
I don't know of any, but I'm sure it can be done. At the very least, I'd bet they could use multiple transmitters with the same bank of antennae.
Only if everyon'e using maximum bandwidth continuously (highly unlikey). And even then, you can have multiple networks on multiple channels in the same geographic area.
but Slashdot was beat out by Fark for god's sake.
Slow news day?
jack shit, I personally won't mourn the loss.
Laptops.
People will want to know who the elector will vote for before they will choose them. So you'll have the same voting problems voting for someone who promises to vote for X instead of directly voting for X.
No, it's not. A few seconds multiplied by the 50+ lists I'm subscribed to, plust the fact that I subscribe to and unsubscribe from lists frequently means it's more hassle than I care to deal with. I don't see how hard it would be for them to let me sort by subject. Honestly, how hard would /that/ be to implement? If people don't want to sort by subject, they don't have to, but I don't see why they're so dead set against the idea.
I do have 5 or so filters for my most commonly accessed lists, but it would be SO much easier to click one button and sort by subject.
n/t
Just because it would take more time than it's worth. I use the account to keep up with mailing lists only, not as my main account, so I can't justify putting that much time into the project. Plus, for the most part, I hate dealing with web mail interfaces.
You can access Hotmail through Outlook Express.
and they'd be unstoppable. Seriously, the main problem I have with Gmail is the inability to sort by subject. I'm subscribed to about 50 mailing lists, and I don't want to search for each of them individually to find the latest posts for a particular group. It's silly.
http://games.slashdot.org/games/04/05/01/1837215.s html?tid=127&tid=133&tid=186&tid=202
It's definitely an influential tool, but it's just one tool used to spread the hatred, the message would get out anyway. I'm sure that a good amount of USA bashing happens verbally and via other media, and censoring textbooks wouldn't fix the problem anyway not to mention the moral and backlash issues with censorship.
And the site's fine now, BTW.
Why don't you try it? If you configure it not to delete your messages off the server, or if you use IMAP, it's a no-risk trial. It's never crashed on me, the spam filter works well, and I've switched to using it almost exclusively.
"Hardware-based network worm filtering"
Do they mean a firewall? Yeah, that's a good start. You'd think they would have implemented that from day one.