As I see it, the solution to this is wireless. The phone company only has a monopoly because they happen to own the line going to your house, and it is cost prohibitive for a competitor to string their own. Wireless neatly gets around this issue.
I see nothing but dark clouds in the future of cell phones in America unless we take back control from the corporations. We must divorce the hardware from the service, just like we did for wired telephone service. You should be able to buy whatever phone YOU want, with whatever feature set YOU want, and connect to whatever carrier YOU want. Verizon in particular has already shown us exactly how they want to control us.
After getting screwed over by writing an application in VB6, I'm sure as hell not rewriting it into VB7. I'm going to write it in something that will likely be around years from now and still supported. And on the plus side, it'll be multi-platform. I can't believe all the people who not only got screwed over by MS with VB6, but then turned around and did all the work again in another proprietary MS product. How many times do you have to get burned before you learn?
b) Apple hardware is desired over your Average Joe's box from Dell or HP.
Oh really? He got the silly box for free. Ask him if he would have actually paid money to get a dual G5 mac? The hardware is great & all, but you can get more power from a PC, for less money. I would take a Mac too if it was given to me, but if it's my money paying for it, give me a PC.
In democratic, sue-happy nations, we will litigate open source out of existence. China will take over development and we will have to import Linux to use it over here. Illegally of course.
We are providing a textbook case for future generations to look at -- how to commit technological suicide.
My credit card company gives me zero liability for fraudulent charges. So this doesn't scare me at all -- if Visa thinks they can do this securely, so be it. It's THEIR risk, not mine...
Nah, skip Linux and get Solaris 10. Call it Slowlaris if you like, but I'm so sick of my Linux boxes crashing for no apparent reason, with no warning, and with no logs at all that suggest why. My Solaris boxes are rock solid stable, with uptime measured in the hundreds of days.
Solaris and Opteron. The combination is killer.
I run one of my Linux boxes directly on the 'net, and have never had any trouble. It only exposes SSH to the world and I can't run IE on it, so (wonder of wonders) it has never been compromised.
The last time I put an XP box on the 'net without firewall protection (my firewall was malfunctioning and I needed to get some information off the web).... it was compromised in under 30 seconds.
So I agree that Windows users should never have their computer connected to the 'net without being protected by a firewall. Everyone else is optional but recommended for extra protection.
Or perhaps it's just business. Some ISP's don't want the hassle that comes with hosting a controversial web site. It costs money and time to do so, and may not be profitable. I can't argue with The Planet if they just decided they weren't making enough money on the deal for it to be worth keeping.
I agree that Solaris is something you put on servers that are critical, Linux is something you put on servers that are redundant.
I love Linux, and use it for a lot of things, but to this day Linux *still* does not multitask as well as Solaris does. Given identical hardware, and a lightly loaded server, the Linux box will have a faster peak speed. However, the Solaris box will degrade gently under high load, and the Linux box will crash & burn. About once a year I introduce Linux into my mix of servers to see how it does, and invariably I find myself taking it out and replacing it with Solaris, because Linux does not handle our peak loads gracefully. And that means unhappy customers, which I don't want.
And isn't Microsoft making the majority of its money nowadays from return on investments? Yes, money is money, but I do not view that situation as being as healthy as a company that is growing legitimately.
The point, I believe, was that for the price of the OGO you can send 360 messages on your regular cell phone. That is important to consider, because the OGO cannot replace your cell phone, it is only a SMS/IM/E-Mail device.
The company that provides the infrastructure should be prohibited from offering services on it.
By that I mean there should be a regulated, subsidized (as necessary) company that just provides the copper/fiber/whatever to your home/business, and the physical location where these lines terminate (CO). Everything else -- dial tone, broadband, you name it -- will be offered by some other company. Basically one big colo, no incumbent provider
Okay, how about this. I will stand outside my house and throw rocks at the planes passing over. My intent is to bring one of them down. It's about as likely as doing it with a laser pointer, so should I not also receive a stiff prison sentence?
It's not all just about intent, you have to have the means as well.
An observation, after reading the article...
They said green laser, and $100. That means it was a garden variety laser pointer, or something similar. 5 mw probably. That kind of laser from 3000 ft away will not blind anywone. Unless he got a heck of a deal on a really big laser, I think this story is bunk -- the pilots made a big deal over nothing, and the feds are running with it. Great use of the Patriot Act, folks...
Dave
A green laser pointer will make a beam visible to the naked eye at night, which actually makes it handy for pointing out different stars to someone who is standing with you. I didn't RTFA, so I do not know what kind of laser this guy used.
It's one thing to be required to carry a drivers license when you're driving, totally different than being required to carry identification 24x7.
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I have yet to see anyone show any conclusive evidence that "global warming" exists, or that any change in climate is actually occuring as a direct result of human intervention. As usual, in our arrogance we automatically assume that any change in climate can only be caused by us. This planet has been around many times longer than our species, and I am willing to bet this is not the first time it has undergone a warming cycle.
I use TMDA. Sure, it sends one e-mail back to the alleged sender of the message, attempting to verify their authenticity, but it's effective. I went from ~1000 spam messages a day, and a virtually unusable e-mail account, to 0 spam messages a day. And to anyone that worries about the complexity of TMDA from the end user's point of view -- my own 80 year old grandmother figured out how to get an e-mail to me by following TMDA's instructions. Then I whitelisted her... oops:-)
Maybe we should tell people that the google bar is available for Mozilla? http://googlebar.mozdev.org. They should partner with Google to make it available on Google's own web site.
If the nameless software company in the Pacific Northwest keeps deleting features from their browser, and making it less and less standards compliant, then Mozilla WILL take off.
At my company, users are switching in droves today, as a direct result of the IE patch our helpdesk pushed out yesterday.
That same research also indicates that in-car conversations with a passenger are just as distracting as cell phone conversations on speakerphone.
Maybe we should ban passengers, too.
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As I see it, the solution to this is wireless. The phone company only has a monopoly because they happen to own the line going to your house, and it is cost prohibitive for a competitor to string their own. Wireless neatly gets around this issue.
I see nothing but dark clouds in the future of cell phones in America unless we take back control from the corporations. We must divorce the hardware from the service, just like we did for wired telephone service. You should be able to buy whatever phone YOU want, with whatever feature set YOU want, and connect to whatever carrier YOU want. Verizon in particular has already shown us exactly how they want to control us.
After getting screwed over by writing an application in VB6, I'm sure as hell not rewriting it into VB7. I'm going to write it in something that will likely be around years from now and still supported. And on the plus side, it'll be multi-platform. I can't believe all the people who not only got screwed over by MS with VB6, but then turned around and did all the work again in another proprietary MS product. How many times do you have to get burned before you learn?
And unless this is a recent change, the military does not as a whole use NSA-designed builds. When I was in the USAF we used off-the-shelf Windows.
b) Apple hardware is desired over your Average Joe's box from Dell or HP. Oh really? He got the silly box for free. Ask him if he would have actually paid money to get a dual G5 mac? The hardware is great & all, but you can get more power from a PC, for less money. I would take a Mac too if it was given to me, but if it's my money paying for it, give me a PC.
In democratic, sue-happy nations, we will litigate open source out of existence. China will take over development and we will have to import Linux to use it over here. Illegally of course.
We are providing a textbook case for future generations to look at -- how to commit technological suicide.
My credit card company gives me zero liability for fraudulent charges. So this doesn't scare me at all -- if Visa thinks they can do this securely, so be it. It's THEIR risk, not mine...
Nah, skip Linux and get Solaris 10. Call it Slowlaris if you like, but I'm so sick of my Linux boxes crashing for no apparent reason, with no warning, and with no logs at all that suggest why. My Solaris boxes are rock solid stable, with uptime measured in the hundreds of days. Solaris and Opteron. The combination is killer.
How does this have anything to do with my rights online?
I run one of my Linux boxes directly on the 'net, and have never had any trouble. It only exposes SSH to the world and I can't run IE on it, so (wonder of wonders) it has never been compromised.
.... it was compromised in under 30 seconds.
The last time I put an XP box on the 'net without firewall protection (my firewall was malfunctioning and I needed to get some information off the web)
So I agree that Windows users should never have their computer connected to the 'net without being protected by a firewall. Everyone else is optional but recommended for extra protection.
Or perhaps it's just business. Some ISP's don't want the hassle that comes with hosting a controversial web site. It costs money and time to do so, and may not be profitable. I can't argue with The Planet if they just decided they weren't making enough money on the deal for it to be worth keeping.
I agree that Solaris is something you put on servers that are critical, Linux is something you put on servers that are redundant. I love Linux, and use it for a lot of things, but to this day Linux *still* does not multitask as well as Solaris does. Given identical hardware, and a lightly loaded server, the Linux box will have a faster peak speed. However, the Solaris box will degrade gently under high load, and the Linux box will crash & burn. About once a year I introduce Linux into my mix of servers to see how it does, and invariably I find myself taking it out and replacing it with Solaris, because Linux does not handle our peak loads gracefully. And that means unhappy customers, which I don't want.
And isn't Microsoft making the majority of its money nowadays from return on investments? Yes, money is money, but I do not view that situation as being as healthy as a company that is growing legitimately.
Pantyhose makes great filter material for any openings in the case.
The point, I believe, was that for the price of the OGO you can send 360 messages on your regular cell phone. That is important to consider, because the OGO cannot replace your cell phone, it is only a SMS/IM/E-Mail device.
The company that provides the infrastructure should be prohibited from offering services on it. By that I mean there should be a regulated, subsidized (as necessary) company that just provides the copper/fiber/whatever to your home/business, and the physical location where these lines terminate (CO). Everything else -- dial tone, broadband, you name it -- will be offered by some other company. Basically one big colo, no incumbent provider
Okay, how about this. I will stand outside my house and throw rocks at the planes passing over. My intent is to bring one of them down. It's about as likely as doing it with a laser pointer, so should I not also receive a stiff prison sentence? It's not all just about intent, you have to have the means as well.
An observation, after reading the article... They said green laser, and $100. That means it was a garden variety laser pointer, or something similar. 5 mw probably. That kind of laser from 3000 ft away will not blind anywone. Unless he got a heck of a deal on a really big laser, I think this story is bunk -- the pilots made a big deal over nothing, and the feds are running with it. Great use of the Patriot Act, folks... Dave
A green laser pointer will make a beam visible to the naked eye at night, which actually makes it handy for pointing out different stars to someone who is standing with you. I didn't RTFA, so I do not know what kind of laser this guy used.
It's one thing to be required to carry a drivers license when you're driving, totally different than being required to carry identification 24x7.
I have yet to see anyone show any conclusive evidence that "global warming" exists, or that any change in climate is actually occuring as a direct result of human intervention. As usual, in our arrogance we automatically assume that any change in climate can only be caused by us. This planet has been around many times longer than our species, and I am willing to bet this is not the first time it has undergone a warming cycle.
I use TMDA. Sure, it sends one e-mail back to the alleged sender of the message, attempting to verify their authenticity, but it's effective. I went from ~1000 spam messages a day, and a virtually unusable e-mail account, to 0 spam messages a day. And to anyone that worries about the complexity of TMDA from the end user's point of view -- my own 80 year old grandmother figured out how to get an e-mail to me by following TMDA's instructions. Then I whitelisted her... oops :-)
Maybe we should tell people that the google bar is available for Mozilla? http://googlebar.mozdev.org. They should partner with Google to make it available on Google's own web site.
If the nameless software company in the Pacific Northwest keeps deleting features from their browser, and making it less and less standards compliant, then Mozilla WILL take off.
At my company, users are switching in droves today, as a direct result of the IE patch our helpdesk pushed out yesterday.
That same research also indicates that in-car conversations with a passenger are just as distracting as cell phone conversations on speakerphone. Maybe we should ban passengers, too.