I thought of the TNG episode too... I also remember an episode of the New Twilight Zone with the guy from Invisible Man in it.. He kept waking up from a dream within a dream within a dream after getting shot... Turned out, he was in a matrix-like environment being used as a prison/torture/rehab setup.
Yeah, I think that's right, too. I think it was going to be 4,5,6,1,2,3,7,8,9 I would have sworn I even saw 7,8,9 mentioned on starwars.com a few years ago, when you could hover over each episode that had been made to select it, with the unmade ones there as a placeholder or something. Anyone else remember that?
I'd submit there's a little difference between guerillas and vigilantes. I suspect that with these guys, if this stuff shows up on their doorstep, chances are, they did something to bring it there.
copper mountain dslams are nice and cheap on sleazebay True enough, but a LOT of people in the DSL/CLEC industry constantly joke about CuMTN going out of business "real soon now." So ask yourself if you enjoy using hardware you'll have difficulty getting support for.
I hope we see updates on this. I was thinking about doing it for my Condo complex as well, but there is no central phone closet, so I'd be stuck burying Ethernet everywhere or setting up WAP's.
Do not by Lexmark. They are the ones that filed a DMCA lawsuit in January to prevent people from modifying/hacking their cartridges. They're no better than HP on this issue.
I'm still pretty angry about getting laid off by a CLEC/DSL provider I worked for, but I have to give them credit. It's great when they let the network engineers have nearly unfettered access to the TOS/AUP in a timely manner and they pretty much get their way. Put a NAT box at your location? Yes please! Save us the IP's! Too bad more providers might not follow this line of thought.
It's a somewhat fair argument... BUT: In a lot of states, you're asked to sign agreements that are essentially illegal, or at the very least, in contradiction with laws of the state. A little knowledge goes a long way. Wish I had more.
Speakeasy seems friendly about everything, from what I've heard... Cox seems to be fairly restrictive when you read their AUP, but if you read deeper, most of their restrictions seem rooted (almost said 'routed!') in preventing businesses from using the residential services, including banning VPN's and NAT. If you read it the way I'm going to keep telling myself I do, it's ok for residential users. (and telling myself and telling myself...) Seems their policies were 'modified' when they took over the network from the @home network. They said flat out that NAT was OK, just don't ask for support on it. And they certainly never mentioned anything about VPN's.
On the (unofficial) behalf of the NSA, CIA, FBI and all the other 3-letter spooky organizations, I'd like to thank you for making our jobs that much easier. If only we had more citizens like you... Well, we could track everyone through their own webpages.
This might be the perfect substitute for BattleBots on Comedy Central sports! Toss in some gyroscopes for stabilization! Pop a couple of sledgehammers (is that a drink, too?) onto the sides. Maybe a claw on the front.
But think about it for a minute... IF it were real, and the guy was going to be charged, wouldn't the whole time-travel component of his defense be a great lead-in to an insanity plea?
When spam is synonymous with fraud and false advertising, not to mention zero accountability, it is more than an inconvenience. If people want to receive ads, they can allow anything with adv: in the subject line to make it through their filters.
don't go calling something TiVo-like unless it really has the TiVo feature-set. If you've just managed to turn your couple-hundred-buck PC into an awkward thirty-buck VCR then call it what it is... Actually, *do* call it TiVo-like. Xerox, anyone? Kleenex?
Hopefully, there are enough TiVo-faithful to show the masses why they made a mistake in getting the AOL version and convert them over.
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I thought of the TNG episode too... I also remember an episode of the New Twilight Zone with the guy from Invisible Man in it.. He kept waking up from a dream within a dream within a dream after getting shot... Turned out, he was in a matrix-like environment being used as a prison/torture/rehab setup.
Quiet, you fool! Jeff Bezos might be reading this!
Why? Because you lack desire to have the Secret Service busting your door down?
Yeah, I think that's right, too. I think it was going to be 4,5,6,1,2,3,7,8,9
I would have sworn I even saw 7,8,9 mentioned on starwars.com a few years ago, when you could hover over each episode that had been made to select it, with the unmade ones there as a placeholder or something.
Anyone else remember that?
I'd submit there's a little difference between guerillas and vigilantes. I suspect that with these guys, if this stuff shows up on their doorstep, chances are, they did something to bring it there.
Blasphemy.
Now I type in a meaningless sentence to entertain mods and take up the remaining 10-12 seconds needed to wait before this thing lets me hit submit.
Not necessarily.
Not with FCC Chairman Michael Powell pronouncing TiVo to be "God's Machine"
copper mountain dslams are nice and cheap on sleazebay
True enough, but a LOT of people in the DSL/CLEC industry constantly joke about CuMTN going out of business "real soon now."
So ask yourself if you enjoy using hardware you'll have difficulty getting support for.
I hope we see updates on this. I was thinking about doing it for my Condo complex as well, but there is no central phone closet, so I'd be stuck burying Ethernet everywhere or setting up WAP's.
SBC stockholders need to make noise about this. I own stock (great dividends) but am not really sure what to do...
Do not by Lexmark. They are the ones that filed a DMCA lawsuit in January to prevent people from modifying/hacking their cartridges. They're no better than HP on this issue.
This would prompt a lot of people who run mail servers to learn how to monitor their logs and finally close their danged open relays.
I'm still pretty angry about getting laid off by a CLEC/DSL provider I worked for, but I have to give them credit. It's great when they let the network engineers have nearly unfettered access to the TOS/AUP in a timely manner and they pretty much get their way. Put a NAT box at your location? Yes please! Save us the IP's!
Too bad more providers might not follow this line of thought.
It's a somewhat fair argument... BUT:
In a lot of states, you're asked to sign agreements that are essentially illegal, or at the very least, in contradiction with laws of the state. A little knowledge goes a long way. Wish I had more.
Speakeasy seems friendly about everything, from what I've heard...
Cox seems to be fairly restrictive when you read their AUP, but if you read deeper, most of their restrictions seem rooted (almost said 'routed!') in preventing businesses from using the residential services, including banning VPN's and NAT. If you read it the way I'm going to keep telling myself I do, it's ok for residential users. (and telling myself and telling myself...)
Seems their policies were 'modified' when they took over the network from the @home network. They said flat out that NAT was OK, just don't ask for support on it. And they certainly never mentioned anything about VPN's.
We're worse than Mac evangelists! And if we are Mac users as well,.... well... we're in need of help.
Let's see... If I were on tivocommunity's forums, my sig. would be something like:
Philips HDR112
194 Hours + Turbonet
You need to hit tivocommunity.com immediately for help.
On the (unofficial) behalf of the NSA, CIA, FBI and all the other 3-letter spooky organizations, I'd like to thank you for making our jobs that much easier. If only we had more citizens like you... Well, we could track everyone through their own webpages.
This might be the perfect substitute for BattleBots on Comedy Central sports!
Toss in some gyroscopes for stabilization! Pop a couple of sledgehammers (is that a drink, too?) onto the sides. Maybe a claw on the front.
That's approximately around the time of Kirk & Co's five-year-mission. I don't have it memorized. (Something to brag about, I suppose)
But think about it for a minute... IF it were real, and the guy was going to be charged, wouldn't the whole time-travel component of his defense be a great lead-in to an insanity plea?
Which do you suppose is harder? Keeping a Mac (or PC with *nix/*BSD) Microsoft free, or keeping free of AOL CD's when you own more than one computer?
When spam is synonymous with fraud and false advertising, not to mention zero accountability, it is more than an inconvenience. If people want to receive ads, they can allow anything with adv: in the subject line to make it through their filters.
No. It's too depressing. Excuse me while I use an old dialup account so I can run an httpd or ftpd process that actually works again.
I think it's probably a by-product of having watched (or tried to watch) too many movies on a computer monitor.
Actually, *do* call it TiVo-like. Xerox, anyone? Kleenex?
Hopefully, there are enough TiVo-faithful to show the masses why they made a mistake in getting the AOL version and convert them over.