They just legislated that I must pay, and pay dearly, for a device I, and the majority of Americans, will never use. These will ONLY be used for over the air decoding. The majority of Americans get their TV signals from cable or satellite, which do their own decoding.
It would be more cost effective to levy a small fee to the broadcast stations on the air spectrum (owned by the public anyways!) and simply give the damn decoders away to the minority of TV watchers that will need them.
Stats:
107 million TV households.
94 million cable or satellite subscribing households.
13 million only use it for VCR/DVD or maybe they watch broadcast TV with rabbit ears.
Why are 94 million people paying an extra $200-$500 PER TV SET for the benefit of less than 10 million broadcast TV viewers?
Maybe compile a list of such spammers, then a list of the advertised sites. I'd like a checkbox on my google searches that says, "Ignore results on sites whose page rank is mostly due to asshole tactics."
Yes please! And also, a button after your search term that says "Report this search result as being full of search engine spammers."
Technology won't solve the problem. Spammers are sociopaths that take things free to the public and abuse them until the things are worthless. That's not a technology problem, it's a social problem.
The best technology has for blogs is stuff that makes it difficult or inconvenient to spam. That doesn't help the marketplace of ideas. Or else it provides automated cleanup, which still means people have to garbage collect after sociopaths.
Tell you what, since technology has Roomba vacuum bots, you're going to let me invite frat boys over to your house, right? I mean, technology can clean it up for you.
The point of laws is enforcement of a social contract. Since spamming and abuse of the commons is a social problem, it's a tool in solvig the problem.
Oh please. Save me the libertarian rants about eroding freedom. These people have no respect for the social contract we need to live in a free society. To be free, you can't be harrassed. If your private spaces are always plastered with unwanted advertising, you aren't free.
The law is protection and easy enforcement of simple harrasment and abuse of the commons. The tragedy of the commons is old as society itself. Law is the basis of protection of private property and protection of the commons.
As well, I should be able to make my case to a judge and say "Hey, we as a society have declared this to be a no-brainer case of invasion of my private space." Of course spam of all these sorts is already illegal, but proving it to a judge via all the indirect statutes is slower and allows the weasels their weasel space.
Or do you think these weasels have some 'right' to invade my pursuit of happiness?
This isn't that new but it's becoming a nuisance because spammers now have automated tools.
It's taken eight years since email spam became an issue for signifigant legislation to pass.
We need an easily amendable federal law that simply says unwanted, unsolicited, uncompensated advertising is simply illegal.
Usenet, fax, email, public chat, blogs, RPC messenger, any forum that allows public input for free has become a spammer magnet. They don't own it, get them out.
We need a law that says this, as a statement that to live under our social contract you can't be an annoying louse.
Are you forgetting that cable operators in almost all areas have municipal charters? Government granted monopolies designed decades ago to spur investment. They've got their ROI. They can still charge for the lines use, but it's about time (and it shouldn't have taken a court to do it) that someone stood up and said it's time to end the cable monopolies.
Man, I'd love the reverse! I have a DC/AC inverter in my car, but I'd love it if I could just get molex plugs out of the cigarette lighter. Half the devices I plug into the inverter do another AC/DC conversion.
As I noted in my last post higher in the thread, USB2 hubs use a TT controller for 1.1 devices that essentially gives attached 1.1 devices their own seperate bus. You absolutely DO NOT revert the bus to a lower speed.
Also, if you put a USB1 device on a hub with USB2 devices, ALL of them will run at USB1 speeds.
Nitpick, and grossly untrue. As a matter of fact USB2 hubs have a TT controller (transaction tuba or some crap) each port of a USB2 hub acts as a seperate controller to 1.1 devices. That means 4 11Mpbs USB1.1 devices plugged into a USB2 hub each have the full 11Mbps of a seperate bus.
You seem to think that version numbers should be used in marketing. The USB-IF has said multiple times that USB2 is not a marketing term. Low Speed. High Speed. Full Speed. Those are marketing terms, and those are the terms on the USB-IF approved logos. Do you ever wonder why some companies market without logos? Maybe their devices are so broken in their implementation that they can't get a logo. But they go to market anyways. Ouch to you, have fun with your non-compliant devices.
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This piques me. I'd love a process that evaluates proposed security processes. Every place I have ever been, but especially workplaces, have had some sort of "Security" organization. In all cases the goal of that organization has just been to make up insane new practices or arbitrary restrictions that serve to enhance the power of the security organization.
This came true on a national scale with 9/11 of course. The public went whole hog for the idea of airport screeners but those airport screeners have the brains of a mall security guard.
I'd love to see a simple process for evaluating new proposed 'security' practices in my organization to help debunk the idea that these proposals provide any security at all.
Nobody cares that it's a master slave relationship. Especially for HID. Why would you want a keyboard that had a special peering relationship with the box?
Bandwidth is not limited for the purpose. He has 400Mbps to play with for hi-speed devices. If he's only got full speed, he's got 12Mbps, which (since it's pretty much dedicated) is enough to stream several uncompressed audio channels.
USB uses a single IRQ for the host controller. Devices don't use any irq or dma resources on the host machine. On any modern machine with a decent chipset (not *cough* via) you've got IRQ steering and APIC. I deal with IRQ issues on USB about once a year. And I develop USB device drivers, so I'm talking about a few thousand test boxes.
The other tie-in to 303, is that I live in apartment 303. Across town, an ex-girlfriend also lives in apartment 303. Since she is an ex, we split. 303/2 is 151.5 151 is obviously the reference to the rum everyone must have been drinking getting this much relevance out of a movie. The remainder of.5 is a reference to the social life of the average slashdot thread poster.
The original thread poster would have an aneurysm if Illuminatus was made into a movie.
No, they won't get tripped up by prohibition against state regulation of interstate commerce. Been there, done that. Spammers lost. SCOTUS refused to hear the case.
There is no freedom lost banning spam. And 'moving overseas' is not an answer either. The majority of the world's spam originates in the United States. The senders, and their assets, are in the United States. Just because a fictitious entity (read: business) is setup in a foreign country with some hardware doing the sending, follow the money back to the US. That's your perp.
By sending email to do business to a state resident they have put themselves under the jurisdiction of the state.
Don't just trust me, trust my lawyer. We have several cases going for WA law now. Federal courts decide issues of state law all the time.
And if you don't trust my lawyer, trust Microsoft and AOL's. Read their most recent spammer suits, filed in federal courts and part of their cases include violation of state laws.
See, part of the reason the United States is a Federal Republic and not a confederacy (which we were until the Constitution was signed) is that states have implicit reciprical agreements on matters like these. WA and CA law can and does apply to FL spammers.
You also seem to mistake civil law for criminal law. That detail doesn't matter but pay attention and learn the difference. States won't be arresting any kids for misconfiguring a server.
Not even a custom hack. That's what 4-track recording is. 4 track is still a staple of garage bands everywhere. The interface is so ingrained in the heads of many professional producers that many modern consoles present a tape like interface to digital consoles.
A cassette tape is 4 tracks. Forward left, forward right, reverse left, reverse right. A four track console just has a head that writes to all four tracks in one direction.
Also for lo-fi, and the data rates of old 8-bit machines that loaded from tape certainly qualify... you can slow down the tape speed to record even longer. Books on tape for the blind do this, because voice doesn't need the fidelity that music does. So a specialized recorder using all four tracks on a 90 minute audio cassette could conceivably hold 8 times as much data as standard audio gear.
WSDOT does so have traffic monitoring elsewhere in the state. They have them in Tacoma, Spokane and Vancouver as well. Seattle also has a few of it's own on city streets.
Every geek I know has something else rigged up. PDA or laptop or whatever. This is something for the non-technical.
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It would be more cost effective to levy a small fee to the broadcast stations on the air spectrum (owned by the public anyways!) and simply give the damn decoders away to the minority of TV watchers that will need them.
Stats:
107 million TV households.
94 million cable or satellite subscribing households.
13 million only use it for VCR/DVD or maybe they watch broadcast TV with rabbit ears.
Why are 94 million people paying an extra $200-$500 PER TV SET for the benefit of less than 10 million broadcast TV viewers?
GRR! bureaucrats!
Yes please! And also, a button after your search term that says "Report this search result as being full of search engine spammers."
The best technology has for blogs is stuff that makes it difficult or inconvenient to spam. That doesn't help the marketplace of ideas. Or else it provides automated cleanup, which still means people have to garbage collect after sociopaths.
Tell you what, since technology has Roomba vacuum bots, you're going to let me invite frat boys over to your house, right? I mean, technology can clean it up for you.
The point of laws is enforcement of a social contract. Since spamming and abuse of the commons is a social problem, it's a tool in solvig the problem.
The law is protection and easy enforcement of simple harrasment and abuse of the commons. The tragedy of the commons is old as society itself. Law is the basis of protection of private property and protection of the commons.
As well, I should be able to make my case to a judge and say "Hey, we as a society have declared this to be a no-brainer case of invasion of my private space." Of course spam of all these sorts is already illegal, but proving it to a judge via all the indirect statutes is slower and allows the weasels their weasel space.
Or do you think these weasels have some 'right' to invade my pursuit of happiness?
It's taken eight years since email spam became an issue for signifigant legislation to pass.
We need an easily amendable federal law that simply says unwanted, unsolicited, uncompensated advertising is simply illegal.
Usenet, fax, email, public chat, blogs, RPC messenger, any forum that allows public input for free has become a spammer magnet. They don't own it, get them out.
We need a law that says this, as a statement that to live under our social contract you can't be an annoying louse.
Windows 95 was release five years before the Athlon. Wouldn't any Athlon motherboard manufacturer check that kind of thing?
Um, you're connecting to a server that uses ATT bandwidth, not an ATT server.
Your links are to crackpots. That's why.
None of the offerings to buy music through WMP are run by Microsoft.
Are you forgetting that cable operators in almost all areas have municipal charters? Government granted monopolies designed decades ago to spur investment. They've got their ROI. They can still charge for the lines use, but it's about time (and it shouldn't have taken a court to do it) that someone stood up and said it's time to end the cable monopolies.
Man, I'd love the reverse! I have a DC/AC inverter in my car, but I'd love it if I could just get molex plugs out of the cigarette lighter. Half the devices I plug into the inverter do another AC/DC conversion.
As I noted in my last post higher in the thread, USB2 hubs use a TT controller for 1.1 devices that essentially gives attached 1.1 devices their own seperate bus. You absolutely DO NOT revert the bus to a lower speed.
Nitpick, and grossly untrue. As a matter of fact USB2 hubs have a TT controller (transaction tuba or some crap) each port of a USB2 hub acts as a seperate controller to 1.1 devices. That means 4 11Mpbs USB1.1 devices plugged into a USB2 hub each have the full 11Mbps of a seperate bus. You seem to think that version numbers should be used in marketing. The USB-IF has said multiple times that USB2 is not a marketing term.
Low Speed.
High Speed.
Full Speed.
Those are marketing terms, and those are the terms on the USB-IF approved logos. Do you ever wonder why some companies market without logos? Maybe their devices are so broken in their implementation that they can't get a logo. But they go to market anyways. Ouch to you, have fun with your non-compliant devices.
This came true on a national scale with 9/11 of course. The public went whole hog for the idea of airport screeners but those airport screeners have the brains of a mall security guard.
I'd love to see a simple process for evaluating new proposed 'security' practices in my organization to help debunk the idea that these proposals provide any security at all.
Bandwidth is not limited for the purpose. He has 400Mbps to play with for hi-speed devices. If he's only got full speed, he's got 12Mbps, which (since it's pretty much dedicated) is enough to stream several uncompressed audio channels.
USB uses a single IRQ for the host controller. Devices don't use any irq or dma resources on the host machine. On any modern machine with a decent chipset (not *cough* via) you've got IRQ steering and APIC. I deal with IRQ issues on USB about once a year. And I develop USB device drivers, so I'm talking about a few thousand test boxes.
The original thread poster would have an aneurysm if Illuminatus was made into a movie.
There is no freedom lost banning spam. And 'moving overseas' is not an answer either. The majority of the world's spam originates in the United States. The senders, and their assets, are in the United States. Just because a fictitious entity (read: business) is setup in a foreign country with some hardware doing the sending, follow the money back to the US. That's your perp.
So far it's been challenged on First Amendment grounds and interstate commerce grounds.
"Declined" says the Supremes
"Judgement stands" says the local court.
Don't just trust me, trust my lawyer. We have several cases going for WA law now. Federal courts decide issues of state law all the time.
And if you don't trust my lawyer, trust Microsoft and AOL's. Read their most recent spammer suits, filed in federal courts and part of their cases include violation of state laws.
See, part of the reason the United States is a Federal Republic and not a confederacy (which we were until the Constitution was signed) is that states have implicit reciprical agreements on matters like these. WA and CA law can and does apply to FL spammers.
You also seem to mistake civil law for criminal law. That detail doesn't matter but pay attention and learn the difference. States won't be arresting any kids for misconfiguring a server.
If you want a geek car, you want the Mazda RX-8.
Slate posted an article explaining why it's the geekiest car on the road a month or so ago, so I won't re-has the articles.
http://slate.msn.com/id/2087172/
Of course, if all you want is a slug car then go all out with your bad self and those hybrids. Hybrids are for suburban mommies, not geeks.
Put a poster up of the cutaway for a rotary engine - then watch your workmates come talk engineering with you.
A cassette tape is 4 tracks. Forward left, forward right, reverse left, reverse right. A four track console just has a head that writes to all four tracks in one direction. Also for lo-fi, and the data rates of old 8-bit machines that loaded from tape certainly qualify... you can slow down the tape speed to record even longer. Books on tape for the blind do this, because voice doesn't need the fidelity that music does. So a specialized recorder using all four tracks on a 90 minute audio cassette could conceivably hold 8 times as much data as standard audio gear.
Every geek I know has something else rigged up. PDA or laptop or whatever. This is something for the non-technical.