I thought you could only get a ROKR through Cingular which meant you would have to sign a new 2 year agreement. I didn't look into it, but you could probably buy the phone from a Cingular store but they would've been marked up a lot without a contract. This seems like a lot of hassle, especially when you can't just walk in and buy something from their stores. You have to wait in line for someone to talk with you first.
This is on the level of the article a few days ago about US companies helping China and other countries with their Internet content-blocking abilities. My question is who in their right mind would work for a company that writes software limiting consumer rights?
I think this really boils down to greed, which is more and more the motivating force in capitalism today. Can't we all just get along, and go back to the days when innovation was that driving force? Some companies don't have any values or ethics these days and in this case probably saw a product they could market to these fascists. Maybe I should write my Congressman about making it illegal for US companies help deteriorate basic civil and human rights. Or maybe that advocacy group is doing just that.
I've been using Deer Park Alpha for a while, mostly because I have a Athlon64 and the only 64-bit version of Firefox is based on the alphas. Since then I've started using it at work also and haven't run into any problems. My favorite 'new feature' is that links, when clicked on, will now automatically open in a new tab, instead of opening in the current tab. This annoyed me to no end in previous versions.
Let's stop jack-a-lackin around and send some humans back to the moon, not another probe. If we could get there multiple 35 years ago, there should be nothing stopping us now.
It's time to end this conservativism in the space program and start taking risks again. I'm sure there are plenty of willing astronauts who would leap at a chance to man another mission to the moon. They know full well that every mission to space is a gamble with their lives. A mission to the moon is just a larger risk than LEO, but seems to cause the bureaucrats and politicians to freak out due to the recent shuttle tragedies. Which by the way wouldn't have happened if NASA were allowed to take risks and update their technology years ago.
Maybe I'm just an insensitive clod, but that's my 2 cents.
Authorities said they were able to get inside the warez groups involved in Operation Site Down only by deploying an undercover agent who developed relationships with members of the ring.
So what you're telling me is that the FBI can infiltrate these loose-knitted warez groups with ease. Probably months after Operation Site Down began. But neither they nor the CIA can get inside Al-Queda and find bin Laden after 3 years? Give me a frickin' break. Tells you something about the priorities in Washington today though, doesn't it?
This happened Tuesday afternoon. I had opened a TAC case online just after 1:30PM and by 4PM I no longer had access to my account. My first try to get my password reset got a response from the locksmith saying that my account was not active. My second try yesterday morning said my account did not exist. My third try, directly to the CCO Team instead of the locksmith, immediately after that response has not been answered. Sounds like some serious problems.
The article isn't too clear on what is deemed copyrighted material. Is it just movies, music, software, etc.? Were I living in Sweden and I viewed slashdot.org, could I have broken the law? Slashdot.org has copyrighted material (OSTG) as indicated at the bottom of every page. By viewing it, the copyrighted material is downloaded to my machine in the form of cached pages.
Computer Shopper seems to keep up with new hardware and gagdets and often has well-written reviews related to popular items. You might check it out. I once had a subscription to PC World but it turned to crap soon after which seems to have happened to most computer magazines today.
We have Cox cable where I live which I get both broadband and cable tv from. I've had nothing but problems from them. Disconnections about once a week, their prices keep going up, and to top it all off, there's nothing I can do about it because they are the only provider in town. Plus, living on the bottom floor of an apartment eliminates the use of a dish.
The truth is my father used to sell satellites, back in the day when they were 12-16 foot dishes so I just have to laugh at the cable companies that do this. I see these commercials all the time talking about how much better Cox is than satellite when the fact is they use large dishes to receive some of their signals which is why they also can lose their signal in bad storms.
You have to remember that Tolkein wrote these stories in the 1940s, not 1990. Then you can appreciate how marvelous and so near perfect this epic story is.
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Garth: You didn't say 2 or 1.
Producer: Oh. You don't say 2 or 1.
Garth: Why not?
Producer: You just don't. Mmm-kay?
Does the 5th amendment mean anything these days? Wouldn't providing the key be like confessing if there was incriminating data on the disk?
Strange isn't it, that we invaded a country in the name of human rights, but are in fact preventing these people and our own from exercising them?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tardigrade
I thought you could only get a ROKR through Cingular which meant you would have to sign a new 2 year agreement. I didn't look into it, but you could probably buy the phone from a Cingular store but they would've been marked up a lot without a contract. This seems like a lot of hassle, especially when you can't just walk in and buy something from their stores. You have to wait in line for someone to talk with you first.
This would only be outrageous if he was making a product which defends clean windows from birds flying into them
...and you can't go. Especially Stan and Kyle, 'cuz I hate those guys.
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This is on the level of the article a few days ago about US companies helping China and other countries with their Internet content-blocking abilities. My question is who in their right mind would work for a company that writes software limiting consumer rights?
I think this really boils down to greed, which is more and more the motivating force in capitalism today. Can't we all just get along, and go back to the days when innovation was that driving force? Some companies don't have any values or ethics these days and in this case probably saw a product they could market to these fascists. Maybe I should write my Congressman about making it illegal for US companies help deteriorate basic civil and human rights. Or maybe that advocacy group is doing just that.
fox news reporting a biased story without checking the source. how could that happen... in a world.
The poster forgot to follow this with an evil, MUHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!
I've been using Deer Park Alpha for a while, mostly because I have a Athlon64 and the only 64-bit version of Firefox is based on the alphas. Since then I've started using it at work also and haven't run into any problems. My favorite 'new feature' is that links, when clicked on, will now automatically open in a new tab, instead of opening in the current tab. This annoyed me to no end in previous versions.
Let's stop jack-a-lackin around and send some humans back to the moon, not another probe. If we could get there multiple 35 years ago, there should be nothing stopping us now.
It's time to end this conservativism in the space program and start taking risks again. I'm sure there are plenty of willing astronauts who would leap at a chance to man another mission to the moon. They know full well that every mission to space is a gamble with their lives. A mission to the moon is just a larger risk than LEO, but seems to cause the bureaucrats and politicians to freak out due to the recent shuttle tragedies. Which by the way wouldn't have happened if NASA were allowed to take risks and update their technology years ago.
Maybe I'm just an insensitive clod, but that's my 2 cents.
This happened Tuesday afternoon. I had opened a TAC case online just after 1:30PM and by 4PM I no longer had access to my account. My first try to get my password reset got a response from the locksmith saying that my account was not active. My second try yesterday morning said my account did not exist. My third try, directly to the CCO Team instead of the locksmith, immediately after that response has not been answered. Sounds like some serious problems.
So there's an office of Computer Crimes and Intellectual Property Section in the U.S. Department of Justice? Talk about conflict of interests.
The article isn't too clear on what is deemed copyrighted material. Is it just movies, music, software, etc.? Were I living in Sweden and I viewed slashdot.org, could I have broken the law? Slashdot.org has copyrighted material (OSTG) as indicated at the bottom of every page. By viewing it, the copyrighted material is downloaded to my machine in the form of cached pages.
vi or emacs works in almost any coding situation including web development.
Computer Shopper seems to keep up with new hardware and gagdets and often has well-written reviews related to popular items. You might check it out. I once had a subscription to PC World but it turned to crap soon after which seems to have happened to most computer magazines today.
We have Cox cable where I live which I get both broadband and cable tv from. I've had nothing but problems from them. Disconnections about once a week, their prices keep going up, and to top it all off, there's nothing I can do about it because they are the only provider in town. Plus, living on the bottom floor of an apartment eliminates the use of a dish.
The truth is my father used to sell satellites, back in the day when they were 12-16 foot dishes so I just have to laugh at the cable companies that do this. I see these commercials all the time talking about how much better Cox is than satellite when the fact is they use large dishes to receive some of their signals which is why they also can lose their signal in bad storms.
You have to remember that Tolkein wrote these stories in the 1940s, not 1990. Then you can appreciate how marvelous and so near perfect this epic story is.