Look, I like the environment. I like to recycle. I like high efficiency bulbs. I like to attend local river cleanups. I like to walk for short trips. I like to ride my bicycle for slightly longer ones.
But do you know what else I like?
I like the way my boxer beats at idle. I like the gentle growl when I feather the clutch. I like running through my gears. I like the way my turbo whines at 6 grand.
You can have my internal combustion engine when you pry it from my cold dead hands.
Oh oh oh, look at me! I'm talking about OpenOffice.org (TM)!!! I'm a super smart geek! No, really, you know what? None of this matters. None of you have any say whatsoever in any standard that comes out of the ISO. So just shut the fuck up, and let the people with actual power do their damn jobs,
If you all hate John Dvorak so damn much, why the hell do you keep posting his articles? Why the fuck do you keep posting in threads related to his articles? Everyone knows he's an asshole, if you'd just ignore his stupid fucking ramblings, his column would stop making money and GO AWAY.
You know what? You are all a bunch of elitist shitheads. I'd rather hold a conversation with any one of the "uneducated" / "white trash" individuals that you bash for shopping at Wal-Mart than any one of you. Seriously... fuck off and die. The world would be a better place without you.
Will Wal-Mart shoppers migrate to Linux in order to save a hundred bucks or more
No...
or will they even have the chance?... and no.
Anyone taking more than that amount of text to discuss, and / or debate this question is horribly deluded.
I'm glad you brought up the CANDU reactors. Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't the big deal with certain countries developing nuclear energy the fact that they need to enrich uranium for use in the reactors, but that process would allow them to make weapons grade uranium as well? Wouldn't mandating the use of CANDU style reactors in those countries mitigate that risk?
Texas Instruments also has a pretty extensive line of RFID products. We ordered one of their evaluation kits for a graduate course project, and it's pretty neat stuff.
You people don't even pretend to have read the fucking article.
From the fucking article...
U.S. customers who sign up for OnStar Vehicle Diagnostics, which is free
See, sign up. Did you catch that? You have to sign up. It is OPT-IN.
What I'm wondering is whether the service is free on top of an already paid subscription to OnStar, or if it is free regardless of whether you subscribe the full OnStar service.
The point is, the levy isn't just "so damn important to people in New Orleans"... it's really damn important to the entire country. Witness the gas hikes, because a great deal of our nation's gasoline enters through the Port of New Orleans.
What? Are you serious? Dude, I just happen to live in Pittsburgh too. We've got 3 rivers. They tend to flood sometimes. Hell, last year leftovers from Ivan caused some pretty major damage here - no where near the devasation in New Orleans, but still. No one was telling us to abandon the Golden Triangle then, and no one told us to abandon it in 1996 or 1936 either.
Although perhaps we should just abandon the Pirates...
Thank you. Thank you, thank you, thank you. I was getting progressively more frustrated by the utter insensitivity shown by the posters in this article. "Wah wah tax dollars, wah wah floodplain, wah wah just move." I suppose you all live somewhere where a natural disaster couldn't possibly ever happen?
Google uses proprietary code to power the search application, gmail, etc. HTML just displays the results. People haven't flocked to google because they have amazing HTML technology...
Despite the fact that they're speakeasy's customers- they'll probably still come to you first. That means less calls for "oh, wait, the cord popped out". $.
They won't probably come to you first, they will come to you first. Speakeasy's FAQ says:
I lost my WiFi connection? Who should I call? What should I do?
If you lose connection to your Wi-Fi service, you should immediately contact your NetShare Admin. They are your sole support contact for your Wi-fi service.
All other concerns about email, dialup, or news issues should be referred to the Personal Technology Assistant assigned to your account.
So for connectivity issues, you're the point man. That could get very annoying very quickly.
I just started a grad program in information security offered through the Information Networking Institute at Carnegie Mellon University. It's a unique program, because along with a very solid technology core, we also take some policy and business classes to better prepare for industry. I think alot of problems still stem from the tech/security guys not being able to communicate with management and vice versa, so hopefully having this background will allow us to bridge that gap more effectively - and even fill some of those management positions ourselves. A few potential employers I've spoken with seem to agree. The general consensus is that it is easier to teach the geeks policy and management than it is to teach tech to the MBA's.
Where do you get that 75% number from? Have a look here. Penn State's state appropriate made up about 28% of their operating budget in 2002-2003, while student tuition makes up around 66%. PSU, like the University of Pittsburgh, is not state owned or operated but rather "state-related". Basically, the state related universities in PA are private entities which are given some state appropriation each year - but the bulk of the cost of education is picked up by the students (or their parents). The amount of the state appropriation each year has gone down as well, resulting in significant tuition increases.
I highly doubt giving the students free access to music is going to harm them academically, so what exactly is the big deal? The taxpayers aren't paying for this anyway, it is coming right out of the student's fees - which aren't being raised and also cover things like software, network access, student activities, transportation and the like. These things all benefit the student body as the whole and add to the overall university experience.
OK, on one hand you've got a point... especially seeing as how this comes on the heels of the largest tuition increase at PSU in over 20 years.
Then again, lets look at the numbers. Napster charges $9.95 a month for unlimited streaming. The deal is only for the 13,000 or so students in the dorms. So that's around $130,000 a month, not including any discounts the University is getting. So for the 8 months of regular sessions we're looking at around $1 million dollars (again not including discounts) to keep the kids streaming. Penn State's operating budget for 2000-2001 was over $2 billion dollars, so that million bucks or so is really only a drop in the bucket. At my school we got "free" buss passes and "free" software all paid for through liscensing agreements negotiated by the unversity, so why not "free" music as well, especially if it helps the university avoid hassles from the RIAA?
I live in Pennsylvania, and like a number of other states we've had a state-wide DNC list for over a year now. I put my number of the list shortly after it was announced, and unsolicited calls to my apartment since the list went in effect have almost all stopped - one or two a month at most, and even those are from bonafide non profits (Pittsburgh Symphony, etc). Pre-list, I would say we got 2 or 3 calls each morning. Although on the upside I didn't need to remember to set my alarm before...
It looks like our Attorney General has even tried his hand at enforcing the law by suing Liberty One Financial, Inc. The press release states that they are seeking damages of $1000 per violation, $3000 if the violation involves a complainant over 60 years of age, and a ban on the company's right to do business in PA.
If you want to share a file, you pack in into a.zaa file and submit it for community approval before it's checksum is added to a global database as "trusted."
Wouldn't having a "global database" be completely contrary to the decentralized nature of the P2P network? I'm assuming that any search would have to check this database at some point before returning results. If there was a global database of trusted files, then it wouldn't take much for the RIAA to insist on a database of copyrighted files. If a file appears in the database, it returns no results - or logs the IP and handle of the user searching for it, since they insist on suing users now.
It just really seems like this would completely refute the argument that decentralized networks like KaZaA have no control over the content which is shared, and give the RIAA even more legal ammo.
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Look, I like the environment. I like to recycle. I like high efficiency bulbs. I like to attend local river cleanups. I like to walk for short trips. I like to ride my bicycle for slightly longer ones. But do you know what else I like? I like the way my boxer beats at idle. I like the gentle growl when I feather the clutch. I like running through my gears. I like the way my turbo whines at 6 grand. You can have my internal combustion engine when you pry it from my cold dead hands.
There is no version 7 for Mac available yet.
No, it hasn't. Open source will never help anyone commercially ever. Stop trying. Fucktards.
Oh oh oh, look at me! I'm talking about OpenOffice.org (TM)!!! I'm a super smart geek! No, really, you know what? None of this matters. None of you have any say whatsoever in any standard that comes out of the ISO. So just shut the fuck up, and let the people with actual power do their damn jobs,
Fuck off and die. I hate you all.
If you all hate John Dvorak so damn much, why the hell do you keep posting his articles? Why the fuck do you keep posting in threads related to his articles? Everyone knows he's an asshole, if you'd just ignore his stupid fucking ramblings, his column would stop making money and GO AWAY.
Too bad you're all a bunch of sheep.
Douchebags.
You know what? You are all a bunch of elitist shitheads. I'd rather hold a conversation with any one of the "uneducated" / "white trash" individuals that you bash for shopping at Wal-Mart than any one of you. Seriously... fuck off and die. The world would be a better place without you.
I'm glad you brought up the CANDU reactors. Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't the big deal with certain countries developing nuclear energy the fact that they need to enrich uranium for use in the reactors, but that process would allow them to make weapons grade uranium as well? Wouldn't mandating the use of CANDU style reactors in those countries mitigate that risk?
Texas Instruments also has a pretty extensive line of RFID products. We ordered one of their evaluation kits for a graduate course project, and it's pretty neat stuff.
From the fucking article...
See, sign up. Did you catch that? You have to sign up. It is OPT-IN. What I'm wondering is whether the service is free on top of an already paid subscription to OnStar, or if it is free regardless of whether you subscribe the full OnStar service.The point is, the levy isn't just "so damn important to people in New Orleans"... it's really damn important to the entire country. Witness the gas hikes, because a great deal of our nation's gasoline enters through the Port of New Orleans.
What? Are you serious? Dude, I just happen to live in Pittsburgh too. We've got 3 rivers. They tend to flood sometimes. Hell, last year leftovers from Ivan caused some pretty major damage here - no where near the devasation in New Orleans, but still. No one was telling us to abandon the Golden Triangle then, and no one told us to abandon it in 1996 or 1936 either. Although perhaps we should just abandon the Pirates...
Thank you. Thank you, thank you, thank you. I was getting progressively more frustrated by the utter insensitivity shown by the posters in this article. "Wah wah tax dollars, wah wah floodplain, wah wah just move." I suppose you all live somewhere where a natural disaster couldn't possibly ever happen?
Well, SNAP beats them all... and gives new meaning to the term "Snail Mail".
Google uses proprietary code to power the search application, gmail, etc. HTML just displays the results. People haven't flocked to google because they have amazing HTML technology...
Who would you rather have break the scheme first... a team of university researchers, or an organized crime ring?
Despite the fact that they're speakeasy's customers- they'll probably still come to you first. That means less calls for "oh, wait, the cord popped out". $.
They won't probably come to you first, they will come to you first. Speakeasy's FAQ says:So for connectivity issues, you're the point man. That could get very annoying very quickly.
I just started a grad program in information security offered through the Information Networking Institute at Carnegie Mellon University. It's a unique program, because along with a very solid technology core, we also take some policy and business classes to better prepare for industry. I think alot of problems still stem from the tech/security guys not being able to communicate with management and vice versa, so hopefully having this background will allow us to bridge that gap more effectively - and even fill some of those management positions ourselves. A few potential employers I've spoken with seem to agree. The general consensus is that it is easier to teach the geeks policy and management than it is to teach tech to the MBA's.
We're also affiliated with a number of research centers, which allows for some pretty interesting research opportunities. CERT/CC, Carnegie Mellon CyLab, and the Center for Wireless and Broadband Networking are the main three.
One of these might help too...
There are 11,800 for Vampire shemale beastiality bondage...
Where do you get that 75% number from? Have a look here. Penn State's state appropriate made up about 28% of their operating budget in 2002-2003, while student tuition makes up around 66%. PSU, like the University of Pittsburgh, is not state owned or operated but rather "state-related". Basically, the state related universities in PA are private entities which are given some state appropriation each year - but the bulk of the cost of education is picked up by the students (or their parents). The amount of the state appropriation each year has gone down as well, resulting in significant tuition increases.
I highly doubt giving the students free access to music is going to harm them academically, so what exactly is the big deal? The taxpayers aren't paying for this anyway, it is coming right out of the student's fees - which aren't being raised and also cover things like software, network access, student activities, transportation and the like. These things all benefit the student body as the whole and add to the overall university experience.
OK, on one hand you've got a point... especially seeing as how this comes on the heels of the largest tuition increase at PSU in over 20 years.
Then again, lets look at the numbers. Napster charges $9.95 a month for unlimited streaming. The deal is only for the 13,000 or so students in the dorms. So that's around $130,000 a month, not including any discounts the University is getting. So for the 8 months of regular sessions we're looking at around $1 million dollars (again not including discounts) to keep the kids streaming. Penn State's operating budget for 2000-2001 was over $2 billion dollars, so that million bucks or so is really only a drop in the bucket. At my school we got "free" buss passes and "free" software all paid for through liscensing agreements negotiated by the unversity, so why not "free" music as well, especially if it helps the university avoid hassles from the RIAA?
I live in Pennsylvania, and like a number of other states we've had a state-wide DNC list for over a year now. I put my number of the list shortly after it was announced, and unsolicited calls to my apartment since the list went in effect have almost all stopped - one or two a month at most, and even those are from bonafide non profits (Pittsburgh Symphony, etc). Pre-list, I would say we got 2 or 3 calls each morning. Although on the upside I didn't need to remember to set my alarm before...
It looks like our Attorney General has even tried his hand at enforcing the law by suing Liberty One Financial, Inc. The press release states that they are seeking damages of $1000 per violation, $3000 if the violation involves a complainant over 60 years of age, and a ban on the company's right to do business in PA.
If you want to share a file, you pack in into a .zaa file and submit it for community approval before it's checksum is added to a global database as "trusted."
Wouldn't having a "global database" be completely contrary to the decentralized nature of the P2P network? I'm assuming that any search would have to check this database at some point before returning results. If there was a global database of trusted files, then it wouldn't take much for the RIAA to insist on a database of copyrighted files. If a file appears in the database, it returns no results - or logs the IP and handle of the user searching for it, since they insist on suing users now.
It just really seems like this would completely refute the argument that decentralized networks like KaZaA have no control over the content which is shared, and give the RIAA even more legal ammo.