Here's the thing nobody gets. This is not an issue about blocking spam. What's at issue here is the ability of a privately owned business to provide whatever service or feature they want to for it's cutomers.
If people want to get E-mail from 360, they can call the ISP and complain, they can switch providers, or they can use an alternatvie service. None of which require courts threatening people at gunpoint.
Why does the US seem to think it rules the world and can tell everyone what's acceptable behavior?
Governemnt is always the problem, never the solution.
No kidding, especially since in 2005 the Teleco's pushed bills in most of the states outlawing new entrants from providing wireless service to communities. The Telecos wanted 1-2 years notice so they could deploy the service and bar any competition.
The link is a map showing cities that have setup municipal broadband access BECAUSE the laws were defeated in many states.
Not that I want my Internet service coming from the government. I'm sure my civil rights would be a top priority for the bureaucrats when the NSA comes looking for my data from the city government!
Think about it, Smaller less intrusive government is the solution. Big governement has no business regulating the Internet in the first place. Without the guaranteed monopoly, I would probably have 4 fiber lines running to my house providing me with 10-20 service plans. Other countries are getting 100Mb service, what has kept the US free market from doing the same?
Oh, so your telling me Brazilian courts would have jurisdiction over an American company which no longer operates in Brazil? Firther, they could then force them to turn over records?
Of course they have a CHOICE! It's absolutely absurd to think otherwise as the article suggests. They could pull the plug on Okrut, and say, "Sorry, but your government wants us to violate your privacy. We have decided not to do that, and are therefore eliminating the service until government changes it's policy."
That way the people of Brazil would clearly know what the government is doing. Unfortunately that hurts Goggle, and they don't want to loose the revenue, so they trample peoples' rights. Google is again clearly stating, making a buck is more important than protecting our users.
I don't think they are thinking this through. Right now they only see Access charges (what LD companies pay them) in decline, and VoIP is eating their lunch. With the FCC taking years to fix the problem they are trying to find an alternative.
I find it odd that the main arguement DSL used in early 2000 was the connection is not shared as it is with cable. Now as a subscriber, I can apparently pay for 1M service, but only get 500K unless the service provider is paying Bellsouth (and if this flys, every other telco) for the extra bandwidth?
When customers realize Bellsouth is not providing the service they are paying for, there's going to be some backlash. This is what happens when the stock market is running a company. Executives do stupid things to try and make their bouns.
I've been running raid arrays for my music collection for about +7 years now. I've carried the data across multiple new machines several times. I've used onboard controllers (no good, because you're stuck if the MB fails. I've used the promise cards, which are ok unless you use more than one. They conflict, and locked up my PC. Promise wouldn't investigate the issue. Similar issues with the other cheap drivers.
I even got a mesh 3U rack blank, mounted a 3-bay unit on it that would hold 5 SATA drives, and got an E-bay power supply to run it. I ran cables from that down to the PC.
Currently I'm using the Kingwin SATA drive trays. I bought 3 bays and 10 extra trays. That way I could put 2 in one PC to transfer files between drives, and have on in another machine just in case. The advantages over a raid or SATA controller is that I'm only powering 1-2 disks at a time. While with raid I have all the disks going, and I'm not using them. This should help them last a lot longer as well. When it comes to backup, you could just manually do raid 1 with insync or something similar.
It works ok, I run XP which picks up the drives automatically, and sometimes I have to reactivate them. I always have to re-share them. Other than that it's working pretty well for me.
I still have my music on a mirrored drive, and a backup on one of the inter-changeable drives.
Come on, this can't be serious? Let me get this straight . . .
They have people keys to expensive high performance cars, put them on a test track with no speed limit, in a car they don't own or pay to fix, with absolutely no consequences, and it's NEWS when some of them spin out? It's the evil technology that's to blame?
Put it all on the table. By Cellphone Company, they mean Cingular/ATT. I just switched to T-Mobile for this very reason. T-mobile provided me an unlock code so I could get a local number while in Brazil for 10 days.
It just so happens Cingular/ATT have the lowest raitings for service and customer satisfaction in the industry. Who is surprised they want to lock customers into their network?
(I'm not affiliated with any of the companies above, I work for a vendor who sells equipment to all of them so their networks can run better!)
"VoIP service providers such as Vonage, Skype and Packet 8 have eighteen months to comply with the new law."
Should Say:
VoIP service providers such as Vonage, Packet 8, and have eighteen months to move operations to the caribbean."
The regulation also only applies to VoIP to POTS (standard voice line), and not VoIP to VoIP. It's a way to get the protocol changed now to enable a second stream. Then later they can ease in the VoIP to VoIP taping as well, without drawing too much attention.
This is yet another stupit attempt by LE to create a law to stop terrorists they are supposedly after. The terrorists will easily skirt by using a non US provider. Meanwhile average citizens like you and I using Comcast or another US VoIP provider, will loose a little more freedom.
I bought a MSI K8N Neo board, and the PS2 keyboard didn't work. Not only that it was a known defect and MSI refused to do anything about it. Newegg rejected every attemp to post this bit of information. I started using competitors and ignoring the newegg reviews ever since.
They changed the review comment also. Here it is from the old site:
Newegg.com is not a forum for product reviews. For product reviews, we recommend sites such as www.cnet.com, www.anandtech.com, and www.tomshardware.com. Newegg.com is a private site that conducts the business of selling computer hardware and as such, any specifications and information posted by Newegg.com regarding products for sale must be factual. However, customer comments in regards to their experience with said products are the opinions of the user. The customer opinion reviews are used at the discretion of Newegg.com as a marketing device for positive and constructive ways to share the benefit of the product. It is not used as a source for negative commentary as we cannot endorse the validity of any negative comment. Therefore, the Newegg.com site is moderated to remove any unproven biased negative comments. It is not the intention of Newegg.com to mislead any customer and therefore all purchase decisions should not be solely based on the customer review.
Here's the problem with that:
A) The laptop won't work anymore so they would probably figure that out before the flight
B) You still send the laptop through X-ray! They would see that it doesn't look like the 1,000's of other laptops that go through the machine.
WiFi doesn't give them anything they couldn't do today. The FBI is just obcessed with tapping anything communication related. Even if it makes no sense at all, and terrorists have encryption tools to adequately protect communications in their possesion today.
That's really the problem. It's how it's used. The Patriot Act "sneak an peak" provision have been used +1,600 times and not one of them has been turned down by a judge. (Come on, the government is not that perfect)
I have a friend who is an American Citizen, born here, white as can be. He's a private pilot in his late 20's. He bought a 1 way ticket in advance to get home after flying for work. He had an Air Marshal sitting next to him because he was one of the highest risk passangers for that day. (And it happens a lot) Folks, that's what we are spending money on.
What is tapping WiFi really going to give someone? Are they plannign to detonate a bomb in the cargo hold via Wifi? Why couldn't they just use a timer or Altemiter to detonate? What else, coordinate with other terrorists? Why can't they use raido and code words worked out beforehand. Or simply fly the plane low over a city and use random passanger's cell phones. (Yes they work)
I wish GOP backers would actually consider how these laws are actually put into practice, and how they are combined with other provisions to make them even worse.
He had no evidence that this was possible, no supporting facts. There were lots of people just like you saying it coulnd't be done.
It's a good thing there are dreamers and visionaries. If everyone was like you, we would still be living in caves, running animials off clifs for food.
"Even if AMD is beating Intel, it has nothing in the consumer electronics domain"
Humm, I thought the AMD symbol had to do with a memory gate, because their core business is CE memory NOT processors.
I have a friend that works for Gulfstream. The FCC is looking at revising the ban on supersonic flight over the US.
Gulfstream has already developed a supersonic jet, and right now they have the sonic boom reduced to the noise level of a car door slamming.
It's not so much the shape of the wing, as the overall shape of the plane. The sound is louder when more of it hits you at the same time. Gulfstream's plane extends the nose several feet to help break up the resulting sound wave people hear on the ground as it flies overhead.
I think it's a perfect example of why any custom software developed with taxpayer dollars should be required by law to be open source!
You wouldn't get into this mess if states would pass a law like that. Look at the figures, 104M for a transportation manageent system? Most of us know that probably could have been done for close to $20M.
He's DivX a young supposedly hip in-touch company. Then up walks this guy with a camera, shooting legal video people want to watch, and it was almost like this:
Hey what the hell are you doing? Why are you making video of my booth? Is this going to come back to haunt me?
I suspect it will when a DivX executive sees the immage you just put out to thousands of/. readers.
I had the previous single processor VIA mini ITX boad as a car computer running media engine in my company car. (Ford Escape) It was very cool. I pulled the radio and put a 7" Lillput widescreen touchscreen monitor where the radio used to sit.
I ran 2-MTX amps to the door speakers with a 12" Sub in the back. I had a USB hub that ran the Wifi bridge to sync things up when I pulled into the garage. I also had the Audigy USB processor, and USB GPS receiver. I had 13,000 MP3's at my fingertips, music videos (a sort of MTV on demand), GPS navigation, Outlook contacts, solitare, games, etc. All in 5.1 Surround sound rollin down the street.
The board could barely keep up with a DVD, and couldn't run Daemon tools to mount an image and play the movie from the HD(important because laptop DVD-RW would skip a lot).
Two processors would probably solve that problem. However, for some reason my board just stopped working. Need to figure out what happened. Overall a fun time consuming project that works fairly well. Still some integration that needs to happen, but Media Engine is Open source and actively developed. (Dev team are jerks most of the time though)
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Here's the thing nobody gets. This is not an issue about blocking spam. What's at issue here is the ability of a privately owned business to provide whatever service or feature they want to for it's cutomers.
If people want to get E-mail from 360, they can call the ISP and complain, they can switch providers, or they can use an alternatvie service. None of which require courts threatening people at gunpoint.
Why does the US seem to think it rules the world and can tell everyone what's acceptable behavior?
Governemnt is always the problem, never the solution.
No kidding, especially since in 2005 the Teleco's pushed bills in most of the states outlawing new entrants from providing wireless service to communities. The Telecos wanted 1-2 years notice so they could deploy the service and bar any competition.
The link is a map showing cities that have setup municipal broadband access BECAUSE the laws were defeated in many states.
Not that I want my Internet service coming from the government. I'm sure my civil rights would be a top priority for the bureaucrats when the NSA comes looking for my data from the city government!
Think about it, Smaller less intrusive government is the solution. Big governement has no business regulating the Internet in the first place. Without the guaranteed monopoly, I would probably have 4 fiber lines running to my house providing me with 10-20 service plans. Other countries are getting 100Mb service, what has kept the US free market from doing the same?
Oh, so your telling me Brazilian courts would have jurisdiction over an American company which no longer operates in Brazil? Firther, they could then force them to turn over records?
Of course they have a CHOICE! It's absolutely absurd to think otherwise as the article suggests. They could pull the plug on Okrut, and say, "Sorry, but your government wants us to violate your privacy. We have decided not to do that, and are therefore eliminating the service until government changes it's policy."
That way the people of Brazil would clearly know what the government is doing. Unfortunately that hurts Goggle, and they don't want to loose the revenue, so they trample peoples' rights. Google is again clearly stating, making a buck is more important than protecting our users.
You call that high quality nugs?!? How about some Sensimilia!
I don't think they are thinking this through. Right now they only see Access charges (what LD companies pay them) in decline, and VoIP is eating their lunch. With the FCC taking years to fix the problem they are trying to find an alternative.
I find it odd that the main arguement DSL used in early 2000 was the connection is not shared as it is with cable. Now as a subscriber, I can apparently pay for 1M service, but only get 500K unless the service provider is paying Bellsouth (and if this flys, every other telco) for the extra bandwidth?
When customers realize Bellsouth is not providing the service they are paying for, there's going to be some backlash. This is what happens when the stock market is running a company. Executives do stupid things to try and make their bouns.
I've been running raid arrays for my music collection for about +7 years now. I've carried the data across multiple new machines several times. I've used onboard controllers (no good, because you're stuck if the MB fails. I've used the promise cards, which are ok unless you use more than one. They conflict, and locked up my PC. Promise wouldn't investigate the issue. Similar issues with the other cheap drivers.
I even got a mesh 3U rack blank, mounted a 3-bay unit on it that would hold 5 SATA drives, and got an E-bay power supply to run it. I ran cables from that down to the PC.
Currently I'm using the Kingwin SATA drive trays. I bought 3 bays and 10 extra trays. That way I could put 2 in one PC to transfer files between drives, and have on in another machine just in case. The advantages over a raid or SATA controller is that I'm only powering 1-2 disks at a time. While with raid I have all the disks going, and I'm not using them. This should help them last a lot longer as well. When it comes to backup, you could just manually do raid 1 with
insync or something similar.
It works ok, I run XP which picks up the drives automatically, and sometimes I have to reactivate them. I always have to re-share them. Other than that it's working pretty well for me.
I still have my music on a mirrored drive, and a backup on one of the inter-changeable drives.
Come on, this can't be serious? Let me get this straight . . .
They have people keys to expensive high performance cars, put them on a test track with no speed limit, in a car they don't own or pay to fix, with absolutely no consequences, and it's NEWS when some of them spin out? It's the evil technology that's to blame?
You have GOT to be kidding me!
Ether I have supernatatural powers or it's a really slow news day.
Cyper Tuesday didn't exist until 20 seconds ago when I typed it into Google and I got back 3,390,000 hits.
Now if only I could use my powers to eliminate dupes from Slashdot. Nah, I'll stick with useing them to get girls.
>Your Search
You searched for 21 - 29 year old females.
No matching profiles.
Put it all on the table. By Cellphone Company, they mean Cingular/ATT. I just switched to T-Mobile for this very reason. T-mobile provided me an unlock code so I could get a local number while in Brazil for 10 days.
It just so happens Cingular/ATT have the lowest raitings for service and customer satisfaction in the industry. Who is surprised they want to lock customers into their network?
(I'm not affiliated with any of the companies above, I work for a vendor who sells equipment to all of them so their networks can run better!)
Wait, is that a 52X CD-ROM? Thoes have to be counted as 7 because they are much faster than normal CD-ROMs.
Exactly!
"VoIP service providers such as Vonage, Skype and Packet 8 have eighteen months to comply with the new law."
Should Say:
VoIP service providers such as Vonage, Packet 8, and have eighteen months to move operations to the caribbean."
The regulation also only applies to VoIP to POTS (standard voice line), and not VoIP to VoIP. It's a way to get the protocol changed now to enable a second stream. Then later they can ease in the VoIP to VoIP taping as well, without drawing too much attention.
This is yet another stupit attempt by LE to create a law to stop terrorists they are supposedly after. The terrorists will easily skirt by using a non US provider. Meanwhile average citizens like you and I using Comcast or another US VoIP provider, will loose a little more freedom.
I bought a MSI K8N Neo board, and the PS2 keyboard didn't work. Not only that it was a known defect and MSI refused to do anything about it. Newegg rejected every attemp to post this bit of information. I started using competitors and ignoring the newegg reviews ever since.
They changed the review comment also. Here it is from the old site:
Newegg.com is not a forum for product reviews. For product reviews, we recommend sites such as www.cnet.com, www.anandtech.com, and www.tomshardware.com. Newegg.com is a private site that conducts the business of selling computer hardware and as such, any specifications and information posted by Newegg.com regarding products for sale must be factual. However, customer comments in regards to their experience with said products are the opinions of the user. The customer opinion reviews are used at the discretion of Newegg.com as a marketing device for positive and constructive ways to share the benefit of the product. It is not used as a source for negative commentary as we cannot endorse the validity of any negative comment. Therefore, the Newegg.com site is moderated to remove any unproven biased negative comments. It is not the intention of Newegg.com to mislead any customer and therefore
all purchase decisions should not be solely based on the customer review.
Wow, you live in a very small world and play a very small game in life.
Just think, with a little programming to group keys, you could have porn on screen and on the keyboard at the same time.
Here's the problem with that: A) The laptop won't work anymore so they would probably figure that out before the flight B) You still send the laptop through X-ray! They would see that it doesn't look like the 1,000's of other laptops that go through the machine. WiFi doesn't give them anything they couldn't do today. The FBI is just obcessed with tapping anything communication related. Even if it makes no sense at all, and terrorists have encryption tools to adequately protect communications in their possesion today.
That's really the problem. It's how it's used. The Patriot Act "sneak an peak" provision have been used +1,600 times and not one of them has been turned down by a judge. (Come on, the government is not that perfect)
I have a friend who is an American Citizen, born here, white as can be. He's a private pilot in his late 20's. He bought a 1 way ticket in advance to get home after flying for work. He had an Air Marshal sitting next to him because he was one of the highest risk passangers for that day. (And it happens a lot) Folks, that's what we are spending money on.
What is tapping WiFi really going to give someone? Are they plannign to detonate a bomb in the cargo hold via Wifi? Why couldn't they just use a timer or Altemiter to detonate? What else, coordinate with other terrorists? Why can't they use raido and code words worked out beforehand. Or simply fly the plane low over a city and use random passanger's cell phones. (Yes they work)
I wish GOP backers would actually consider how these laws are actually put into practice, and how they are combined with other provisions to make them even worse.
Absolutely right. We should switch to a national ID card. That would stop identity theft and terrorism in one fail swoop!
JFK declared, Man on the moon, end of the decade.
He had no evidence that this was possible, no supporting facts. There were lots of people just like you saying it coulnd't be done.
It's a good thing there are dreamers and visionaries. If everyone was like you, we would still be living in caves, running animials off clifs for food.
"Even if AMD is beating Intel, it has nothing in the consumer electronics domain" Humm, I thought the AMD symbol had to do with a memory gate, because their core business is CE memory NOT processors.
I have a friend that works for Gulfstream. The FCC is looking at revising the ban on supersonic flight over the US.
Gulfstream has already developed a supersonic jet, and right now they have the sonic boom reduced to the noise level of a car door slamming.
It's not so much the shape of the wing, as the overall shape of the plane. The sound is louder when more of it hits you at the same time. Gulfstream's plane extends the nose several feet to help break up the resulting sound wave people hear on the ground as it flies overhead.
I think it's a perfect example of why any custom software developed with taxpayer dollars should be required by law to be open source!
You wouldn't get into this mess if states would pass a law like that. Look at the figures, 104M for a transportation manageent system? Most of us know that probably could have been done for close to $20M.
He's DivX a young supposedly hip in-touch company. Then up walks this guy with a camera, shooting legal video people want to watch, and it was almost like this:
/. readers.
Hey what the hell are you doing? Why are you making video of my booth? Is this going to come back to haunt me?
I suspect it will when a DivX executive sees the immage you just put out to thousands of
I had the previous single processor VIA mini ITX boad as a car computer running media engine in my company car. (Ford Escape) It was very cool. I pulled the radio and put a 7" Lillput widescreen touchscreen monitor where the radio used to sit.
I ran 2-MTX amps to the door speakers with a 12" Sub in the back. I had a USB hub that ran the Wifi bridge to sync things up when I pulled into the garage. I also had the Audigy USB processor, and USB GPS receiver. I had 13,000 MP3's at my fingertips, music videos (a sort of MTV on demand), GPS navigation, Outlook contacts, solitare, games, etc. All in 5.1 Surround sound rollin down the street.
The board could barely keep up with a DVD, and couldn't run Daemon tools to mount an image and play the movie from the HD(important because laptop DVD-RW would skip a lot).
Two processors would probably solve that problem. However, for some reason my board just stopped working. Need to figure out what happened. Overall a fun time consuming project that works fairly well. Still some integration that needs to happen, but Media Engine is Open source and actively developed. (Dev team are jerks most of the time though)