The interesting part is that they don't say how old the son is.. Or at least by the time i hit the static page they didn't i couldn't find it.
If you look in the "Personal" section of his blog there's a post from Feb 8, 2005 where he discusses a particular a particular incident involving his 1.5 yr old named "Ollie."
Good home or not selling a person for things that will be discarded or replaced in 6-12 months is deplorable. I hope it is a joke, because if not as a society we just degrated another level.
What about the people adopting his son? They've probably been on waitinglists for years and will now finally get to have the family they've always wanted.
from you're link "A North-Of-Bombay-Hill woman was arrested on 1st April, after her intention to sell her son, Jason, for NZ$1.95 (US$1.40) was made known to the internet community at Slashdot.org."
The guy's son's name is Ollie according to the "Personal Section" of his blog, not Jason.
or, rather, it would if I was in Kenai, Alaska instead of Carrollton, Texas.
Ha! Well, it's correctly identified me both places I've been at since I've known about it.
And even if it doesn't correctly identify, at least it can tell there's a change in location and prompt the user immediately to update the E911 information.
When I go to www.showmyip.com it shows me both the city and state of my ISP and has when I used to live in a smaller town with access from Charter Cable, as well. I'm sure it doesn't work everywhere, and I'm not entirely sure how they do it, but I think Vonage could look at that and if that information changes flag some sort of warning as soon as you pick up the phone in a new location to at least remind you to update where your E911 service should route to. Either that or there could be an option that will flag a prompt:
"You may need to update your 911 service. We notice your Internet address has changed. This could happen normally over a course of time, or this could me you've changed your location. If you have not changed your location please press 1 to continue to a dial tone. Otherwise, please press 2 to update your 911 calling information."
The should then tell you how to log into Vonage.com to change your E911 routing information. They don't do this or anything at all like this right now (they just hope you remember on your own) but I think this would be a good way to do it. Chances are as soon as you move your phone to a new location you'll pick it up as soon as you plug in to check and see if you have a dial tone. Since your IP has almost definately changed, you'll get the prompt long BEFORE you ever try to call 911.
They still make LPs. They're the highest quality format. Listen to a CD of a live concert and then listen to the LP of the live concert the CD was made from and you'll hear audience voices that were just crackles and whisps on the CD.
You just have to know where to find them, but you can still find most new still on LPs if you look hard enough.
How much good all this tilting and stuff does the hard drive. I'd think it caused some undue wear and tear, if not a head crash
Most Hard drives are rated for physical crashes in the hundreds of Gs of force. Tilting a laptop probably won't even cause 1G. Even dropping a laptop off a desk while it's in use won't nessicarily damage the drive, and I'd say most certainly won't damage the drive if the heads are locked (like if it's off). I'd be more concerned about the screen durring an accidental drop, but tilting won't do anything.
That's why you can shake your iPod while you run or jog with it. That has a HD, too, you know.
For instance, the whole "God created the Earth in seven days." Seven days could mean seven million years, or seven billion years. It's worded in a way that man can understand. Why do people reject Evolution, when it could have been God that kickstarted the whole thing?
This is how I always saw it and was explained to me by one of my Catholic School teachers (although I'm not certain the entire catholic faith follows these views, but as far as I know they do) I was taught that evolution was the manner through which God created the earth and all of it's creations. The New Testimate stories, however, I was told were to be taken extremely literally.
I do find this method of teaching interesting and easier to grasp. Look at Genesis, for example. It says there was first darknes, and then light (big bang). Sure the stars are created on a later day, but if God was telling this story to someone in a dream fashion of time-lapsed images (which is how I think most people would expect him to do) it does follow pretty well with the order of things and the interpretaion in the bible could very well be the misinterpretation of the events by an uneducated human some 6000+ years ago. What were really "scene changes" in the dream could have been seen as seperate days by the observer.
That's been my view, at least, since about 3rd or 4th grade, although my faith has dwindled a great deal since then...
This is shamelessly copy/pasted directly from dictionary.com. Mind the history: ain't Audio pronunciation of "ain't" ( P ) Pronunciation Key (nt) Nonstandard
1. Contraction of am not.
2. Used also as a contraction for are not, is not, has not, and have not.
Usage Note: Ain't has a long history of controversy. It first appeared in 1778, evolving from an earlier an't, which arose almost a century earlier as a contraction of are not and am not. In fact, ain't arose at the tail end of an era that saw the introduction of a number of our most common contractions, including don't and won't. But while don't and won't eventually became accepted at all levels of speech and writing, ain't was to receive a barrage of criticism in the 19th century for having no set sequence of words from which it can be contracted and for being a "vulgarism," that is, a term used by the lower classes, although an't at least had been originally used by the upper classes as well. At the same time ain't's uses were multiplying to include has not, have not, and is not, by influence of forms like ha'n't and i'n't. It may be that these extended uses helped fuel the negative reaction. Whatever the case, criticism of ain't by usage commentators and teachers has not subsided, and the use of ain't is often regarded as a sign of ignorance. But despite all the attempts to ban it, ain't continues to enjoy extensive use in speech. Even educated and upper-class speakers see no substitute in folksy expressions such as Say it ain't so and You ain't seen nothin' yet. The stigmatization of ain't leaves us with no happy alternative for use in first-person questions. The widely used aren't I? though illogical, was found acceptable for use in speech by a majority of the Usage Panel in an earlier survey, but in writing there is no acceptable substitute for the stilted am I not?
I'm pretty sure I know the answer already, but there's no way vonage could just insert a priority tag into the header so that the next router after the cable modem would think it's a highest priority packet? Or would the cable modem strip anything like that out and replace it with the best-effort tag automatically?
VoIP is going to take over eventually. These attempts at preventing it will only slow it down a little bit. In the face of progress, businesses have to figure out when to begin adopting the new standards or they don't stand a chance.
RTFA. They aren't trying to prevent VOIP. They're trying to ensure that the only decent VOIP comes from in house so they can continue to sell phone and internet access on the same bill, only this time it'll be VOIP phone.
end it encrypted either over port 80, or some randomization across ports, an have a large rolling bank if IP #'s through which traffic is routed.
You obviously don't understand what's going on...
They aren't determining what type of packet is a Vonage packet based on source or destination ports, or even singling out Vonage or other VOIP providers at all.
What they're probably going to do is setting the packet priority of their in house to it's highest setting. Their internal routers will then see this priority flag and route the packets down a special high-speed shunt where they'll reach the home faster. 3rd part VOIP packets (Vonage, et al) will remain lumped in with all of the other data packets that exist on the interweb.
How does this differ from the current situation? Well, right now all of the packets on the interweb are lumped into the same pile both on your ISPs network and off, so the fact that their giving themselves priority isn't a big deal and won't directly effect the 3rd party VOIPs. But what will effect them is if they start purposly slowing down that lump of "everything else" just enough to cause Quality of Service issues for users of the 3rd party services. Sure, they'll be slowing down all web traffic that enters their building on purpose, but most traffic isn't as time sensitive as VOIP traffic and it won't really matter at all.
Also, since the Cringley article was just supposition anyway, I'll add my own opinion: The major ISPs will probably also ONLY do this to their home subscribers. The way I see it working is give most priority (with a seperate highspeed network) to the house brand VOIP. Then on the everything else network, us QOS to give business grade lines the next level of priority. This leaves the home users with the lowest priority and also allows them to throttle a little more to put pressure on home users's VOIP packets attempting to fight through without affecting the business subscribers where the profit margins are higher.
When our call service can't reach me in order to help the world's largest retailer (you figure it out), then we'll see what ISP gets what heated phone call from whom. Hint: it won't be me, rather someone at bit less friendly with a much bigger bat.
If you're using a home Cable or DSL Modem for a mission critical application like this then I think you have bigger issues to deal with (such as your ISPs TOS). Otherwise this probably isn't going to affect you a whole lot. I don't foresee this causing too much trouble on people with T1 and larger pipes supplying their connections...
Doing stuff like this just makes legal online music downloading look like it will always fail, because hackers will continue to keep cracking it.
Hackers will continue to keep cracking it but online music is not doomed to fail (nor will it look that way).
Pirates long ago copied Tape Cassettes and more recently CDs. It's in a large part due to the number of music CDs sold each year that are ripped to MP3 and traded online that online music is a must. If songs are available legally online, even at a cost to the consumer, consumers will be more likely to seek out legal music (provided they can use the music how they need to and/or it isn't grossly more expensive) iTunes, for example, would be ideal if it didn't prohobit users from listening to music with third party MP3 players...
Ripping an audio CD and posting the MP3s on Kazaa is way easier than installing a Python based iTunes substitute with it's 5 or required python libraries, but for people who would rather purchase music from iTunes than Walmart, this complicated solution that could allow them place the music onto a non-Apple branded MP3 player might look like a pretty nice solution. It's at least easier than recording from the Wave-Out with SoundForge or Nero WaveEdit or something...
No, online DRMs will continue to be cracked, but this won't hurt online music sales in the long run. More likely it will put downward pressure on prices as lower prices will help consumers choose legal over illegal means.
In early 2006, a TiVo is coming out that allows this. CableCARD is what you desire. A dual tuner CableCARD TiVo will be released that will be compatible with all cable/digital cable standards, QAM.
From the Article Brief: The ban would prevent the largest cable companies from integrating their digital content security devices with their navigation devices, allowing consumers to 'mix and match' the navigation or DVR set-top-box of their choice with a standard CableCARD security interface device.
If I understand the situation, this is exactly what the FCC announcement is about. CableCard won't be mandated until 2007, meaning that TIVOs box won't work with anybody's system if they haven't switched yet. (It used to be mandated by 2006, the same time that TIVO was comming out with their box...)
Every time I even think of the scene where Queen Amidala is speaking to the leader of the Naboo amphibians, I just cringe. "Please I ask you no I beg you . . . " Ack
Oh, god.. I guess I had blanked that out with the rest of Episode 1.
Look down in the Slashdot comments for a post titled "Mirror (be nice)" for a good mirror of the trailer if you like pain.
The new movies also lack patience in its story develop, almost as if Lucas is trying to cram in to much crap. Mark my words, the new star wars trilogy will never become classics. However, the original trilogy is classic cinema. at least will always have those to enjoy.
I agree with you 100%. What's even worse is all the changes Lucas made to the origional trilogy when they re-released it on DVD.
However, nothing compares to the bad acting I just witnessed in today's independantly produced trailer. Computer actors or not, at least the Lucas films have paid actors... that really adds a lot. I'm sure their story line is a million times better than Lucas's Ep 1 and Ep 2, but I don't think I'd be able to sit through enough to find out.
users of Wordperfect who are only transferring files to other users of Wordperfect don't need to put MS Word files in
BUT, if you're transfering you're entire business (or branch of the government) from MS Word to something else it would be really, really nice if all of your old MS Word files opened without a hitch. This has not been my experience with the WordPerfect Dell put on my machine a year and a half ago... Having the ability to open MS Office files natively (such as with OO.o/StarOffice) would certainly help the transition. WordPerfect opening Word files isn't much better than saving Word Docs to RTF first and them opening them with something... quite a bit is lost.
Slashdot Mirror
You need to learn HTML, buddy...
The article summary clearly states:
"<br>
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There's a whole word on that last line before the quotation mark. The word is <br>
Then I grumble something about a "dead horse" and pledge to ignore Slashdot the rest of the day.
;)
But you never do, do you? You posting finger has given you away
I also hear they are going to introduce a new alien species that look a lot like fish...
Yeah... they're gonna call them "Fish"
SCO doesn't have the balls :)
They have the balls. What they don't have is a case.
The interesting part is that they don't say how old the son is.. Or at least by the time i hit the static page they didn't i couldn't find it.
If you look in the "Personal" section of his blog there's a post from Feb 8, 2005 where he discusses a particular a particular incident involving his 1.5 yr old named "Ollie."
Good home or not selling a person for things that will be discarded or replaced in 6-12 months is deplorable. I hope it is a joke, because if not as a society we just degrated another level.
;)
What about the people adopting his son? They've probably been on waitinglists for years and will now finally get to have the family they've always wanted.
Oh, and happy april 1st
from you're link "A North-Of-Bombay-Hill woman was arrested on 1st April, after her intention to sell her son, Jason, for NZ$1.95 (US$1.40) was made known to the internet community at Slashdot.org."
The guy's son's name is Ollie according to the "Personal Section" of his blog, not Jason.
or, rather, it would if I was in Kenai, Alaska instead of Carrollton, Texas.
Ha! Well, it's correctly identified me both places I've been at since I've known about it.
And even if it doesn't correctly identify, at least it can tell there's a change in location and prompt the user immediately to update the E911 information.
When I go to www.showmyip.com it shows me both the city and state of my ISP and has when I used to live in a smaller town with access from Charter Cable, as well. I'm sure it doesn't work everywhere, and I'm not entirely sure how they do it, but I think Vonage could look at that and if that information changes flag some sort of warning as soon as you pick up the phone in a new location to at least remind you to update where your E911 service should route to. Either that or there could be an option that will flag a prompt:
"You may need to update your 911 service. We notice your Internet address has changed. This could happen normally over a course of time, or this could me you've changed your location. If you have not changed your location please press 1 to continue to a dial tone. Otherwise, please press 2 to update your 911 calling information."
The should then tell you how to log into Vonage.com to change your E911 routing information. They don't do this or anything at all like this right now (they just hope you remember on your own) but I think this would be a good way to do it. Chances are as soon as you move your phone to a new location you'll pick it up as soon as you plug in to check and see if you have a dial tone. Since your IP has almost definately changed, you'll get the prompt long BEFORE you ever try to call 911.
just as they no longer make LPs
They still make LPs. They're the highest quality format. Listen to a CD of a live concert and then listen to the LP of the live concert the CD was made from and you'll hear audience voices that were just crackles and whisps on the CD.
You just have to know where to find them, but you can still find most new still on LPs if you look hard enough.
"They" have.
From TFA:
"So sue me" refers to Apple. We all know about the movie industry. He's DVD Jon after all...
How much good all this tilting and stuff does the hard drive. I'd think it caused some undue wear and tear, if not a head crash
Most Hard drives are rated for physical crashes in the hundreds of Gs of force. Tilting a laptop probably won't even cause 1G. Even dropping a laptop off a desk while it's in use won't nessicarily damage the drive, and I'd say most certainly won't damage the drive if the heads are locked (like if it's off). I'd be more concerned about the screen durring an accidental drop, but tilting won't do anything.
That's why you can shake your iPod while you run or jog with it. That has a HD, too, you know.
For instance, the whole "God created the Earth in seven days." Seven days could mean seven million years, or seven billion years. It's worded in a way that man can understand. Why do people reject Evolution, when it could have been God that kickstarted the whole thing?
This is how I always saw it and was explained to me by one of my Catholic School teachers (although I'm not certain the entire catholic faith follows these views, but as far as I know they do) I was taught that evolution was the manner through which God created the earth and all of it's creations. The New Testimate stories, however, I was told were to be taken extremely literally.
I do find this method of teaching interesting and easier to grasp. Look at Genesis, for example. It says there was first darknes, and then light (big bang). Sure the stars are created on a later day, but if God was telling this story to someone in a dream fashion of time-lapsed images (which is how I think most people would expect him to do) it does follow pretty well with the order of things and the interpretaion in the bible could very well be the misinterpretation of the events by an uneducated human some 6000+ years ago. What were really "scene changes" in the dream could have been seen as seperate days by the observer.
That's been my view, at least, since about 3rd or 4th grade, although my faith has dwindled a great deal since then...
What's in your wallet?
If I had something in my wallet I wouldn't need a FREE iPod, now, would I?
This is shamelessly copy/pasted directly from dictionary.com. Mind the history:
ain't Audio pronunciation of "ain't" ( P ) Pronunciation Key (nt)
Nonstandard
1. Contraction of am not.
2. Used also as a contraction for are not, is not, has not, and have not.
Usage Note: Ain't has a long history of controversy. It first appeared in 1778, evolving from an earlier an't, which arose almost a century earlier as a contraction of are not and am not. In fact, ain't arose at the tail end of an era that saw the introduction of a number of our most common contractions, including don't and won't. But while don't and won't eventually became accepted at all levels of speech and writing, ain't was to receive a barrage of criticism in the 19th century for having no set sequence of words from which it can be contracted and for being a "vulgarism," that is, a term used by the lower classes, although an't at least had been originally used by the upper classes as well. At the same time ain't's uses were multiplying to include has not, have not, and is not, by influence of forms like ha'n't and i'n't. It may be that these extended uses helped fuel the negative reaction. Whatever the case, criticism of ain't by usage commentators and teachers has not subsided, and the use of ain't is often regarded as a sign of ignorance. But despite all the attempts to ban it, ain't continues to enjoy extensive use in speech. Even educated and upper-class speakers see no substitute in folksy expressions such as Say it ain't so and You ain't seen nothin' yet. The stigmatization of ain't leaves us with no happy alternative for use in first-person questions. The widely used aren't I? though illogical, was found acceptable for use in speech by a majority of the Usage Panel in an earlier survey, but in writing there is no acceptable substitute for the stilted am I not?
I'm pretty sure I know the answer already, but there's no way vonage could just insert a priority tag into the header so that the next router after the cable modem would think it's a highest priority packet? Or would the cable modem strip anything like that out and replace it with the best-effort tag automatically?
VoIP is going to take over eventually. These attempts at preventing it will only slow it down a little bit. In the face of progress, businesses have to figure out when to begin adopting the new standards or they don't stand a chance.
RTFA. They aren't trying to prevent VOIP. They're trying to ensure that the only decent VOIP comes from in house so they can continue to sell phone and internet access on the same bill, only this time it'll be VOIP phone.
end it encrypted either over port 80, or some randomization across ports, an have a large rolling bank if IP #'s through which traffic is routed.
You obviously don't understand what's going on...
They aren't determining what type of packet is a Vonage packet based on source or destination ports, or even singling out Vonage or other VOIP providers at all.
What they're probably going to do is setting the packet priority of their in house to it's highest setting. Their internal routers will then see this priority flag and route the packets down a special high-speed shunt where they'll reach the home faster. 3rd part VOIP packets (Vonage, et al) will remain lumped in with all of the other data packets that exist on the interweb.
How does this differ from the current situation? Well, right now all of the packets on the interweb are lumped into the same pile both on your ISPs network and off, so the fact that their giving themselves priority isn't a big deal and won't directly effect the 3rd party VOIPs. But what will effect them is if they start purposly slowing down that lump of "everything else" just enough to cause Quality of Service issues for users of the 3rd party services. Sure, they'll be slowing down all web traffic that enters their building on purpose, but most traffic isn't as time sensitive as VOIP traffic and it won't really matter at all.
Also, since the Cringley article was just supposition anyway, I'll add my own opinion: The major ISPs will probably also ONLY do this to their home subscribers. The way I see it working is give most priority (with a seperate highspeed network) to the house brand VOIP. Then on the everything else network, us QOS to give business grade lines the next level of priority. This leaves the home users with the lowest priority and also allows them to throttle a little more to put pressure on home users's VOIP packets attempting to fight through without affecting the business subscribers where the profit margins are higher.
When our call service can't reach me in order to help the world's largest retailer (you figure it out), then we'll see what ISP gets what heated phone call from whom. Hint: it won't be me, rather someone at bit less friendly with a much bigger bat.
If you're using a home Cable or DSL Modem for a mission critical application like this then I think you have bigger issues to deal with (such as your ISPs TOS). Otherwise this probably isn't going to affect you a whole lot. I don't foresee this causing too much trouble on people with T1 and larger pipes supplying their connections...
Running Linux is like owning a Lightsaber. It's "a more elegant weapon for a more civilized time."
And it cauterizes as it cuts off your arm...
Doing stuff like this just makes legal online music downloading look like it will always fail, because hackers will continue to keep cracking it.
Hackers will continue to keep cracking it but online music is not doomed to fail (nor will it look that way).
Pirates long ago copied Tape Cassettes and more recently CDs. It's in a large part due to the number of music CDs sold each year that are ripped to MP3 and traded online that online music is a must. If songs are available legally online, even at a cost to the consumer, consumers will be more likely to seek out legal music (provided they can use the music how they need to and/or it isn't grossly more expensive) iTunes, for example, would be ideal if it didn't prohobit users from listening to music with third party MP3 players...
Ripping an audio CD and posting the MP3s on Kazaa is way easier than installing a Python based iTunes substitute with it's 5 or required python libraries, but for people who would rather purchase music from iTunes than Walmart, this complicated solution that could allow them place the music onto a non-Apple branded MP3 player might look like a pretty nice solution. It's at least easier than recording from the Wave-Out with SoundForge or Nero WaveEdit or something...
No, online DRMs will continue to be cracked, but this won't hurt online music sales in the long run. More likely it will put downward pressure on prices as lower prices will help consumers choose legal over illegal means.
In early 2006, a TiVo is coming out that allows this. CableCARD is what you desire. A dual tuner CableCARD TiVo will be released that will be compatible with all cable/digital cable standards, QAM.
From the Article Brief:
The ban would prevent the largest cable companies from integrating their digital content security devices with their navigation devices, allowing consumers to 'mix and match' the navigation or DVR set-top-box of their choice with a standard CableCARD security interface device.
If I understand the situation, this is exactly what the FCC announcement is about. CableCard won't be mandated until 2007, meaning that TIVOs box won't work with anybody's system if they haven't switched yet. (It used to be mandated by 2006, the same time that TIVO was comming out with their box...)
Every time I even think of the scene where Queen Amidala is speaking to the leader of the Naboo amphibians, I just cringe. "Please I ask you no I beg you . . . " Ack
Oh, god.. I guess I had blanked that out with the rest of Episode 1.
Look down in the Slashdot comments for a post titled "Mirror (be nice)" for a good mirror of the trailer if you like pain.
The new movies also lack patience in its story develop, almost as if Lucas is trying to cram in to much crap. Mark my words, the new star wars trilogy will never become classics. However, the original trilogy is classic cinema. at least will always have those to enjoy.
I agree with you 100%. What's even worse is all the changes Lucas made to the origional trilogy when they re-released it on DVD.
However, nothing compares to the bad acting I just witnessed in today's independantly produced trailer. Computer actors or not, at least the Lucas films have paid actors... that really adds a lot. I'm sure their story line is a million times better than Lucas's Ep 1 and Ep 2, but I don't think I'd be able to sit through enough to find out.
users of Wordperfect who are only transferring files to other users of Wordperfect don't need to put MS Word files in
BUT, if you're transfering you're entire business (or branch of the government) from MS Word to something else it would be really, really nice if all of your old MS Word files opened without a hitch. This has not been my experience with the WordPerfect Dell put on my machine a year and a half ago... Having the ability to open MS Office files natively (such as with OO.o/StarOffice) would certainly help the transition. WordPerfect opening Word files isn't much better than saving Word Docs to RTF first and them opening them with something... quite a bit is lost.