The US Libertarian party is marginalized here because they are very socially conservative
I wasn't aware that the legalization of drugs was a socially conservative position. Other than abortion, which Paul and Barr seemed to be against (does the party itself have a position on this?), what socially conservative positions would you identify with the libertarians?
If you allow them to step in your house then you deserve to go to jail for stupidity. I don't have anything in my house worth hiding but I still wouldn't let a law enforcement officer enter.
You don't create jobs by adding unfair competition to struggling companies(how can companies compete with someone getting guaranteed money with no need to turn a profit?)
Sounds like the best argument I've heard for letting GM and Chrysler fail. Hardly seems fair to Ford, Honda, VW, etc that their competitors are being rewarded for failure.
I'd be worried that my neighbours would be able to listen in over their power lines.
If your using cable and your cable provider doesn't bother to use BPI (Time Warner doesn't, in my area anyway) then they have a much more direct way to listen to your communications -- the downstream portion anyway.
tried some tests using computers at opposite ends of the house and was able to get around 3 or 4 MB/s transfer between them. My 802.11n wireless network usually peaks at around 6-8 MB/s
You should translate those hard to understand units into something more intuitive like "minutes to transfer 8.06GB of data";)
I don't even worry about encryption. WiFi range isn't 10 acres with the standard antennas
Fixed that for you. You might want to rethink your policy about not encrypting your connection because you are out in the middle of nowhere.
I used to work for a WISP. One day I was out in the field doing tests with a 24db directional antenna. My laptop automatically associated to my home network before I could direct it to connect to the network I was trying to troubleshoot. My house was a little over a mile away and the AP at home had the standard issue dipole antennas on it. Had enough signal strength to surf the web at full speed and transfer files off my server.
Moral of the story: Don't underestimate what someone can do with a high gain antenna. Encrypt your network or don't come crying to us when the Feds kick down your door after someone uses your network to download kiddie porn, pirate software or threaten to kill the President.
Then again, I think you put your heavy draw devices on one buss and the room outlets on the other, meaning it would prolly work. Then again, I'm not an electrician.
I'm not an electrician either but that's most defiantly not the standard practice in any application that I've ever seen. Most of your heavy draw devices are going to be 240V and will hit both legs by default -- the other circuits are usually divided as equally as possible between the two legs. Open up your circuit box sometime -- you'll see how it's arranged internally.
How about they try turning on a toaster, microwave, dish washer, space heater or some other high consumption device as well? I played around with these back in the day and somebody turning on a toaster in the different room on a completely different circuit was enough to murder my connection.
There are still a few hitches. Here in the U.S., we tend to run split-phase wiring. The electrical service enters our homes as 240 volts made up of two 120V lines (or legs). Our 120V outlets are derived from tapping off one or the other of those 120V legs. As a result, you may not be able to network devices that are plugged into outlets on different legs.
Good catch on the different legs of split phase. Always wondered about that. Guess they can't use the ground wiring for some reason?
Gun control doesn't worry me too much, even if a lot of Democrats want it, they're not in a position to make it happen right now... The backlash would be too much, there is no way they'd push for it
I don't think they care about the backlash. The only reason I don't see it happening is that a lot of the Democratic gains have come in gun-friendly areas (VA, CO, MT, NC, etc) and their own membership might wind up voting against it. Personally I'm more worried about Albany than Washington -- us New Yorkers are fucked -- but I guess that's my problem and not yours.
There have still been raids, but it's a bit too early to say that it's business as usual. Give it a few months, and if that's still going on, I'll be pissed.
It'll still be going on. There's too much investment in the "War on Drugs" to turn back now. No politician is going to lose votes by going tough on drugs. Until that changes we can look forward to more raids on those evil cancer patients and 8-time gold medal winners.....
If you bothered to read what I had written, you'd also see that I voted third party (Libertarian, in this case, even though I think Barr is a dick).
Who said I didn't? I was responding to your statement of them being equal, not to whom you voted for.
just that I believe his administration is an improvement over McCain/Palin
If you asked me a year ago I would have agreed with you. Now I'm not really convinced of that. It seems to me that the Democrats are using the exact same playbook that Bush used ("Pass my legislation or catastrophe will strike!") and somehow keeping a straight face while doing so. From where I stand they aren't really any better and may turn out to be worse.
As an example, just look at the nomination of Dr. Chu - do you really believe that a McCain administration would have made such a wise choice?
I see your Dr. Chu and raise you a Eric "pro war on drugs/pro gun control" Holder;)
That said, do you really think that McCain/Palin and Obama/Biden are equal?
I guess that depends on which freedoms you'd rather lose. If you'd rather lose your 2nd and 4th amendment freedoms then Obama/Biden is your team. If you'd rather lose your 1st and 4th amendment freedoms then McCain/Palin should have gotten your vote. If you'd rather not lose any freedoms then I hope you found someone else to vote for.
I'll take someone with a constitutional law degree
Who supported the FISA bill and wants to pass a dubious assault weapons ban? Interesting way to look at the constitution.
Where do you live that it is illegal to give guns to strangers? I can't imagine anyone wanting to just give one away, but, if you can sell a gun to a perfect stranger, why can you not just give one to them?
You can give guns away. I've both received and given them as birthday gifts. What isn't legal is straw purchasing, i.e: I buy a gun on your behalf from a dealer so you don't have to go through the standard background checks.
The DRMs are starting to be omnipresent and this is really bad
Says who? Apple and Amazon both offer DRM free music for download.
Content publishers, hardware manufacturers and software publishers are working hands in hands to lock the cultural content in DRMs
Again, says who? The only reason DRM is at all successful is because people continue to buy it. Stop buying DRM'ed products and they'll disappear pretty quickly.
but I would think that access to culture should be a civil right and that any civil right should be part of the constitution of every countries.
You can access culture. You just can't access some parts of culture because of the intentions of the publisher of that culture. Don't do business with him and he'll stop doing it or go out of business. Problem solved.
Just think of what you are not advocating for a minute.
I'm not advocating changing a 200 year old document over a software issue.
Sure, over a tied in internet browser. If you think the Government is going to get involved over measures theoretically designed to protect media from all those evil pirates then I'd like to remind you that half of the Democratic Party is a wholly owned subsidiary of Hollywood. The other half doesn't understand the issues well and does what the first half tells them to do.
Vote with your feet. There are alternatives available to Windows.
If you think you can get 38 states to sign off on a DRM banning amendment then I guess all the power to you. Personally I think the GP's was a rather absurd suggestion. A better suggestion would be encouraging people to vote with their wallet and not give Microsoft the business. I certainly won't be buying it if the summary is accurate.
For the sake of civil liberties, culture and sanity and as weird as it may seems I am not joking. Laws are made by the people for the people and some disconnected tenants of some ivory towers need to be reminded of it.
The Constitution doesn't regulate transactions between private parties. It regulates the powers granted to the Government. If you don't like the DRM in Windows 7/Vista/XP/whatever then vote with your feet and wallet. It's not like there aren't alternatives available.
You want to amend a document that's only been changed 27 times in ~200 years over computer software? Just think about what you are advocating for a minute.
Now, whether or not the entire NY State Congress should be first against the wall when the revolution comes is another matter entirely *grin*.
If you want to put the New York State Legislature up against the wall after the revolution you'd have a lot of New Yorkers volunteering to serve on the firing squad. Can we start with Sheldon Silver?
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Providing the MAC to law enforcement will only tell them what kind of device the hacker wants you to think it is
Fixed that for you.
The US Libertarian party is marginalized here because they are very socially conservative
I wasn't aware that the legalization of drugs was a socially conservative position. Other than abortion, which Paul and Barr seemed to be against (does the party itself have a position on this?), what socially conservative positions would you identify with the libertarians?
If you allow them to step in your house at all
If you allow them to step in your house then you deserve to go to jail for stupidity. I don't have anything in my house worth hiding but I still wouldn't let a law enforcement officer enter.
You don't create jobs by adding unfair competition to struggling companies(how can companies compete with someone getting guaranteed money with no need to turn a profit?)
Sounds like the best argument I've heard for letting GM and Chrysler fail. Hardly seems fair to Ford, Honda, VW, etc that their competitors are being rewarded for failure.
I'd be worried that my neighbours would be able to listen in over their power lines.
If your using cable and your cable provider doesn't bother to use BPI (Time Warner doesn't, in my area anyway) then they have a much more direct way to listen to your communications -- the downstream portion anyway.
tried some tests using computers at opposite ends of the house and was able to get around 3 or 4 MB/s transfer between them. My 802.11n wireless network usually peaks at around 6-8 MB/s
You should translate those hard to understand units into something more intuitive like "minutes to transfer 8.06GB of data" ;)
I don't even worry about encryption. WiFi range isn't 10 acres with the standard antennas
Fixed that for you. You might want to rethink your policy about not encrypting your connection because you are out in the middle of nowhere.
I used to work for a WISP. One day I was out in the field doing tests with a 24db directional antenna. My laptop automatically associated to my home network before I could direct it to connect to the network I was trying to troubleshoot. My house was a little over a mile away and the AP at home had the standard issue dipole antennas on it. Had enough signal strength to surf the web at full speed and transfer files off my server.
Moral of the story: Don't underestimate what someone can do with a high gain antenna. Encrypt your network or don't come crying to us when the Feds kick down your door after someone uses your network to download kiddie porn, pirate software or threaten to kill the President.
Just make sure that a 240V device, like an oven or dryer
Shit, I have a gas oven and dryer. Guess I'm stuck with this crappy Cat5e infrastructure instead ;)
Then again, I think you put your heavy draw devices on one buss and the room outlets on the other, meaning it would prolly work. Then again, I'm not an electrician.
I'm not an electrician either but that's most defiantly not the standard practice in any application that I've ever seen. Most of your heavy draw devices are going to be 240V and will hit both legs by default -- the other circuits are usually divided as equally as possible between the two legs. Open up your circuit box sometime -- you'll see how it's arranged internally.
How about they try turning on a toaster, microwave, dish washer, space heater or some other high consumption device as well? I played around with these back in the day and somebody turning on a toaster in the different room on a completely different circuit was enough to murder my connection.
There are still a few hitches. Here in the U.S., we tend to run split-phase wiring. The electrical service enters our homes as 240 volts made up of two 120V lines (or legs). Our 120V outlets are derived from tapping off one or the other of those 120V legs. As a result, you may not be able to network devices that are plugged into outlets on different legs.
Good catch on the different legs of split phase. Always wondered about that. Guess they can't use the ground wiring for some reason?
What I wouldn't give for a "lock screen orientation" button.
If you needed such a button then Steve Jobs would have provided it for you. Clearly you aren't using your iPod in the correct manner ;)
And what's the advantage over using a single "surface sensor" (i.e. a button)?
It's more hip ;)
Battered wives should talk to abusive husband thru lawyers, police officers and large caliber pistols only.
Fixed that for you ;)
Gun control doesn't worry me too much, even if a lot of Democrats want it, they're not in a position to make it happen right now... The backlash would be too much, there is no way they'd push for it
I don't think they care about the backlash. The only reason I don't see it happening is that a lot of the Democratic gains have come in gun-friendly areas (VA, CO, MT, NC, etc) and their own membership might wind up voting against it. Personally I'm more worried about Albany than Washington -- us New Yorkers are fucked -- but I guess that's my problem and not yours.
There have still been raids, but it's a bit too early to say that it's business as usual. Give it a few months, and if that's still going on, I'll be pissed.
It'll still be going on. There's too much investment in the "War on Drugs" to turn back now. No politician is going to lose votes by going tough on drugs. Until that changes we can look forward to more raids on those evil cancer patients and 8-time gold medal winners.....
If you bothered to read what I had written, you'd also see that I voted third party (Libertarian, in this case, even though I think Barr is a dick).
Who said I didn't? I was responding to your statement of them being equal, not to whom you voted for.
just that I believe his administration is an improvement over McCain/Palin
If you asked me a year ago I would have agreed with you. Now I'm not really convinced of that. It seems to me that the Democrats are using the exact same playbook that Bush used ("Pass my legislation or catastrophe will strike!") and somehow keeping a straight face while doing so. From where I stand they aren't really any better and may turn out to be worse.
As an example, just look at the nomination of Dr. Chu - do you really believe that a McCain administration would have made such a wise choice?
I see your Dr. Chu and raise you a Eric "pro war on drugs/pro gun control" Holder ;)
That said, do you really think that McCain/Palin and Obama/Biden are equal?
I guess that depends on which freedoms you'd rather lose. If you'd rather lose your 2nd and 4th amendment freedoms then Obama/Biden is your team. If you'd rather lose your 1st and 4th amendment freedoms then McCain/Palin should have gotten your vote. If you'd rather not lose any freedoms then I hope you found someone else to vote for.
I'll take someone with a constitutional law degree
Who supported the FISA bill and wants to pass a dubious assault weapons ban? Interesting way to look at the constitution.
Where do you live that it is illegal to give guns to strangers? I can't imagine anyone wanting to just give one away, but, if you can sell a gun to a perfect stranger, why can you not just give one to them?
You can give guns away. I've both received and given them as birthday gifts. What isn't legal is straw purchasing, i.e: I buy a gun on your behalf from a dealer so you don't have to go through the standard background checks.
The DRMs are starting to be omnipresent and this is really bad
Says who? Apple and Amazon both offer DRM free music for download.
Content publishers, hardware manufacturers and software publishers are working hands in hands to lock the cultural content in DRMs
Again, says who? The only reason DRM is at all successful is because people continue to buy it. Stop buying DRM'ed products and they'll disappear pretty quickly.
but I would think that access to culture should be a civil right and that any civil right should be part of the constitution of every countries.
You can access culture. You just can't access some parts of culture because of the intentions of the publisher of that culture. Don't do business with him and he'll stop doing it or go out of business. Problem solved.
Just think of what you are not advocating for a minute.
I'm not advocating changing a 200 year old document over a software issue.
What does the EU have to do with a discussion about the US Constitution?
If the DRM is disclosed up front and you still buy the product then you have no one to blame but yourself.
Sure, over a tied in internet browser. If you think the Government is going to get involved over measures theoretically designed to protect media from all those evil pirates then I'd like to remind you that half of the Democratic Party is a wholly owned subsidiary of Hollywood. The other half doesn't understand the issues well and does what the first half tells them to do.
Vote with your feet. There are alternatives available to Windows.
How well did that work out again? ;)
If you think you can get 38 states to sign off on a DRM banning amendment then I guess all the power to you. Personally I think the GP's was a rather absurd suggestion. A better suggestion would be encouraging people to vote with their wallet and not give Microsoft the business. I certainly won't be buying it if the summary is accurate.
For the sake of civil liberties, culture and sanity and as weird as it may seems I am not joking. Laws are made by the people for the people and some disconnected tenants of some ivory towers need to be reminded of it.
The Constitution doesn't regulate transactions between private parties. It regulates the powers granted to the Government. If you don't like the DRM in Windows 7/Vista/XP/whatever then vote with your feet and wallet. It's not like there aren't alternatives available.
You want to amend a document that's only been changed 27 times in ~200 years over computer software? Just think about what you are advocating for a minute.
Now, whether or not the entire NY State Congress should be first against the wall when the revolution comes is another matter entirely *grin*.
If you want to put the New York State Legislature up against the wall after the revolution you'd have a lot of New Yorkers volunteering to serve on the firing squad. Can we start with Sheldon Silver?
It could've possibly gone another way, if we hadn't gotten there first?
We would have just given the non-carbon lifeforms some blankets and hoped that they hadn't discovered gunpowder yet ;)
*ba-dum pssssh*