I still like my country and work to change it. (I'm even a gov contractor.) So I try to avoid using words and phrases that may be considered disrespectful to it. I find it helps to give my arguments more credibility when trying to talk some sense into people.
Feel free to keep using it yourself though. I'm fine with using whatever methods for change people think work best.
At least with serial numbers, you have some chance at privacy so long as the libary does the right thing in terms of protecting the database.
Thanks to the patriot act, it's easy for authorities to get your library records. It's also illegal for the librarians to tell you they took your records, or that the authorities were even asking for records in general.
Man, if speakeasy made something like that easy to do, I'd switch in a heartbeat. Not even easy, just some help dealing with the telco. Cox here isn't bad for speed, but I'm getting sick of not even being able to do basic tasks like send email (outgoing 25 blocked) or ftp (incomming 21 and 80 blocked) into my home computer. As it is, I ditched my POTS line 5 years ago, and I'm never going back.
Could you cite your source please? In the first page of the paper linked:
"It is widely deployed within Google for the generation and processing of data used by our service as well as research and development that requires large data sets."
Wow that's crazy. What's the reason for that? I know NZ is a long haul from a large land mass, but still. I can eat up 500 meg with a few days of surfing for just news and the small bit of audio/video. Do they send the packets by trained monkey requiring constant care and feeding? Or is there something about NZ that makes a DSLAM 10,000 times more expensive than elsewhere in the world?
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Turn on text mode booting. I'll bet you'll find the thing that takes a long time is detecting airport networks. At least, that's how it is on my ti powerbook. It doesn't bug me too much, I almost never turn it off, just put it to sleep.
You're describing the air force of the past. Today and in the future those tasks are handled by contractors. Airmen today are for deploying and setting up gear in the field. They get to do some black box trouble shooting, but anything interesting is done by a contractor.
I used to wear a blue suit and fix computers, I had enough after 4 years. There is no good reason for anybody who knows computers to be in the military. Any good jobs that did exist in the past have been replaced by contractors (or are, as you said, behind closed doors). They teach you nothing in the schools, most everything I knew, I knew before the air force. It's a really degrading experience to have to fix problems created by incompetent co workers, while getting no recognition, and the same pay as a bus driver. I lost track of the number of times I fixed problems created by civilians or officers "more qualified" than me, making 3 times as much as me. Don't even get me started on the differences between career fields and their SRBs (bonus for signing away a few years of your life). Lets just say somebody who can do board level repair, and teaches operation skills, gets half the bonus of an operator who can't find an any key.
Not to mention NO room for fast advancement. The only way to move on to bigger and better things is to go officer. That means life as a captain if you can stay technical. If you stay enlisted you'll need to deal with things unrelated to computers, or really low level work. Once you pass staff (only takes about 5 years) you'll stop working on computers and start supervising more people with 6 months of training in how to pull a board. Expect to spend 50% or more of your career away from your family as well. Ops tempo is crazy right now, and it's getting worse. Bush and co will run you ragged for shit pay.
Rant over. I've been out for a year, and took a huge raise to work in the civilian sector. I just got an offer to go back as a contractor for another huge raise (a clearance helps). Not one day goes by I don't regret getting out.
Make your monitoring system call a dialup isp instead of the tap gateway. Then you can send email to the phone without your local network being up at all.
It's pretty easy to set up dial on demand with a timeout so you're not connecting and disconnecting from the isp every 3 minutes. Then you're still able to drop your connection when you don't need it for more than say, 15 minutes.
I'm going to assume you're not an American. So, what do you suggest Americans who don't like what the gov is up to do? The way I see it there are two choices:
1: Up and move to another country. This is a short term solution. Eventually the country will buckle under US pressure and pass the same laws. Sometimes it takes a decade or two, but it almost always happens. Of course, then there's not much this new citizen of another country can do since the US has already cemented the law into place all over the rest of the world. Some countries take a look at what the US is doing in some areas then proceed to pass even more draconian laws. I know Canada, England, and Australia have all done this in various areas.
2: Stay here and try to change what's going on, risking imprisonment, but with the chance to still cause some real change. Maybe even before it affects your country. You'll continue to write posts like that, but the people who care about freedom will still be here. At least there's somewhat of a chance, as opposed to ducking tails, running to another country, and postponing the inevitable.
Or war and revolution could break out and we're all screwed anyway. Who knows?
We're just going to see the same thing as drug culture if this keeps up. Instead of calling it marijuana, we get about a million other words. That's just the tip, I know around where I grew up there were lots and lots of local/friend only words for it too.
The same thing will happend for cults, file sharing clients, acme widgets, and anybody else who sends a search engine a dmca form letter. It's going to get harder to find things until you know what to look for.
Some (most?) modern x86 server boards have serial access to the bios, just like sun/dec/etc machines. I sure wish that would become standard on all boards.
You have to pay soundexchange regardless. It's law. Soundexchange is supposed to distribute to the labels. Guess what the chances of your 3 band indie label getting some cash is? The way around it is to get written agreements with the labels to bypass it. I want to see every webcaster get agreements in writing from 2000 indie labels. Of course, the indie labels could start Indy Labels Association of America, but then they wouldn't be very indy.
Feel free to read the DMCA and the webcasting related settlements if you don't believe me. Here's a link with some people who run stations talking about this:
Ahh yes, the RIAA member companies own the copyrights, but the playback rights belong to the songwriters. Those are collected via ASCAP/BMI and don't go to the labels. Here's how it worked in the past:
Analog stations paid ASCAP/BMI Digital stations paid ASCAP/BMI
Now here's how it works:
Analog stations pay ASCAP/BMI (and get payola, that's another story...) Digital stations pay ASCAP/BMI AND the RIAA (because when you listen to a digital station, it's like them giving you a copy of the song, so the station has to pay for every user's piracy, no, really, that was the RIAA's argument to get the law passed)
Sound fair? Nope. If an analog station had to pay the royalty rates they want digital stations to pay they would go out of business. Running a digital station costs just about as much as running an analog station of the same size (bandwidth/severs vs towers/amps/huge fcc license fees), so why should special rules be made for internet broadcasters? Because there are more of them than the RIAA can control with payola, and this is a threat to them.
People whine and complain about the RIAA all the time, the only real way we have to shut them down is with the mindshare of the people. If you want the mindshare of the people, we need independent internet radio to ween society off the RIAA.
Prett simple story, I had gone to the gym which was accross the parking lot from where I worked on base. I left my cell phone in the back pocket of my gym bag, with my deoderant, in my car. Then I walked to work. Little did I know solid white deoderant melted (see, there's the stupid part). Mix that in with the car windows up on a very hot day and I ended up with a startac filled with nice smelling goo (the car smelled good too). Washing, drying, and even a disasembly attempt were no good. I ended up with a new samsung. I'm just glad the phone was old and it was time for an upgrade anyway.
Feel free to make fun of me for this, all my friends did.
I think it's because the default superuser account on phpnuke is god. So god posts a lot of stuff on a lot on phpnuke sites that haven't been that modified.
Why I think the ACLU is a good thing.
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It all has to do with balance. We all know no citizen's liberty is safe while congress is in session. (Franklin I think) When it comes down to it, the main job of congress is to take away liberty by passing laws. Sometimes they get too caried away and somebody needs to be there to defend liberty. There are somethings I don't agree with (I won't enumerate those things here), but when it comes down to it, I support the majority of what they support. Otherwise, who's to stop congress from going overboard and taking it all away piece by piece?
What I'd like to know is why every American doesn't support the ACLU. The general feeling by many people is that they're bad. I can't think of a good reason why you would hate an orginization who's sole purpose is to defend freedom from those who would take it away from us. I once had an NCO (while I was in the military) bash me for supporting the ACLU. I reminded him that he said "I do solemnly swear that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic." Of course the conversation went crazy from there (we were on a boring detail), but still... It's interesting to watch 'right wing' people bash the ACLU while calling the people who support them 'traitors' and whatnot. To me, not supporting the ACLU is treason against what our country stands for.
You're not allowed to modify the file named "COPYING" in most packages either. Why does debian distribute those? The way I understood it Invariant sections were for things like author credits and whatnot. Things that shouldn't be modified, just like the COPYING file that must be distributed with a package. Yes, I suppose invariant sections could be used for other things (like the whole manual), but wouldn't RMS have thought of that and written the license to prevent that?
Not trying to bash debian (It's my distro of choice), just trying to get a better idea for how their development team sees things.
I've been doing that for a couple years now. It's a good marketing idea (or ms wouldn't use it) and it's an easy way for linux users to increase the idea that linux really is ready for mainstream use. Use it in day to day conversation around the office, user group meetings (not just LUGs..), presentations to the PHBs about Linux and so on.
$20 for a usb mouse and you're set. If you know enough to complain about context menus you also know enough to plug in another kind of mouse. If you don't, you're too stupid to use a two button mouse anyway, so just stick with the one button one, it's less complicated.
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I still like my country and work to change it. (I'm even a gov contractor.) So I try to avoid using words and phrases that may be considered disrespectful to it. I find it helps to give my arguments more credibility when trying to talk some sense into people.
Feel free to keep using it yourself though. I'm fine with using whatever methods for change people think work best.
At least with serial numbers, you have some chance at privacy so long as the libary does the right thing in terms of protecting the database.
Thanks to the patriot act, it's easy for authorities to get your library records. It's also illegal for the librarians to tell you they took your records, or that the authorities were even asking for records in general.
Welcome to the new America.
Umm.. Exactly?
I said I want to switch from Cox, who blocks ports, to speakeasy, who doesn't, without signing up for voice over copper.
So... yah... go go gadget reading skills.
Man, if speakeasy made something like that easy to do, I'd switch in a heartbeat. Not even easy, just some help dealing with the telco. Cox here isn't bad for speed, but I'm getting sick of not even being able to do basic tasks like send email (outgoing 25 blocked) or ftp (incomming 21 and 80 blocked) into my home computer. As it is, I ditched my POTS line 5 years ago, and I'm never going back.
Could you cite your source please? In the first page of the paper linked:
"It is widely deployed within Google for the generation and processing of data used by our service as well as research and development that requires large data sets."
Are you sure that was google, and not some punk pretending to be google?
Wow that's crazy. What's the reason for that? I know NZ is a long haul from a large land mass, but still. I can eat up 500 meg with a few days of surfing for just news and the small bit of audio/video. Do they send the packets by trained monkey requiring constant care and feeding? Or is there something about NZ that makes a DSLAM 10,000 times more expensive than elsewhere in the world?
Turn on text mode booting. I'll bet you'll find the thing that takes a long time is detecting airport networks. At least, that's how it is on my ti powerbook. It doesn't bug me too much, I almost never turn it off, just put it to sleep.
You're describing the air force of the past. Today and in the future those tasks are handled by contractors. Airmen today are for deploying and setting up gear in the field. They get to do some black box trouble shooting, but anything interesting is done by a contractor.
Good post, +1 to you.
I used to wear a blue suit and fix computers, I had enough after 4 years. There is no good reason for anybody who knows computers to be in the military. Any good jobs that did exist in the past have been replaced by contractors (or are, as you said, behind closed doors). They teach you nothing in the schools, most everything I knew, I knew before the air force. It's a really degrading experience to have to fix problems created by incompetent co workers, while getting no recognition, and the same pay as a bus driver. I lost track of the number of times I fixed problems created by civilians or officers "more qualified" than me, making 3 times as much as me. Don't even get me started on the differences between career fields and their SRBs (bonus for signing away a few years of your life). Lets just say somebody who can do board level repair, and teaches operation skills, gets half the bonus of an operator who can't find an any key.
Not to mention NO room for fast advancement. The only way to move on to bigger and better things is to go officer. That means life as a captain if you can stay technical. If you stay enlisted you'll need to deal with things unrelated to computers, or really low level work. Once you pass staff (only takes about 5 years) you'll stop working on computers and start supervising more people with 6 months of training in how to pull a board. Expect to spend 50% or more of your career away from your family as well. Ops tempo is crazy right now, and it's getting worse. Bush and co will run you ragged for shit pay.
Rant over. I've been out for a year, and took a huge raise to work in the civilian sector. I just got an offer to go back as a contractor for another huge raise (a clearance helps). Not one day goes by I don't regret getting out.
Make your monitoring system call a dialup isp instead of the tap gateway. Then you can send email to the phone without your local network being up at all.
It's pretty easy to set up dial on demand with a timeout so you're not connecting and disconnecting from the isp every 3 minutes. Then you're still able to drop your connection when you don't need it for more than say, 15 minutes.
I'm going to assume you're not an American. So, what do you suggest Americans who don't like what the gov is up to do? The way I see it there are two choices:
1: Up and move to another country. This is a short term solution. Eventually the country will buckle under US pressure and pass the same laws. Sometimes it takes a decade or two, but it almost always happens. Of course, then there's not much this new citizen of another country can do since the US has already cemented the law into place all over the rest of the world. Some countries take a look at what the US is doing in some areas then proceed to pass even more draconian laws. I know Canada, England, and Australia have all done this in various areas.
2: Stay here and try to change what's going on, risking imprisonment, but with the chance to still cause some real change. Maybe even before it affects your country. You'll continue to write posts like that, but the people who care about freedom will still be here. At least there's somewhat of a chance, as opposed to ducking tails, running to another country, and postponing the inevitable.
Or war and revolution could break out and we're all screwed anyway. Who knows?
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The owner (or somebody who works for them) posts on slashdot too. I'm surprised he hasn't swooped in and replied to your comment yet.
We're just going to see the same thing as drug culture if this keeps up. Instead of calling it marijuana, we get about a million other words. That's just the tip, I know around where I grew up there were lots and lots of local/friend only words for it too.
The same thing will happend for cults, file sharing clients, acme widgets, and anybody else who sends a search engine a dmca form letter. It's going to get harder to find things until you know what to look for.
I keep my PCs in a closet to avoid the noise and run kvm cables out to a my desk. I'm going to start calling the closet purgatory.
If you use mailscanner, there's a mailstats script that has a feature to help automate that.
http://www.while.homeunix.net/mailstats/
Some (most?) modern x86 server boards have serial access to the bios, just like sun/dec/etc machines. I sure wish that would become standard on all boards.
You have to pay soundexchange regardless. It's law. Soundexchange is supposed to distribute to the labels. Guess what the chances of your 3 band indie label getting some cash is? The way around it is to get written agreements with the labels to bypass it. I want to see every webcaster get agreements in writing from 2000 indie labels. Of course, the indie labels could start Indy Labels Association of America, but then they wouldn't be very indy.
s /2002-August/003160.html
Feel free to read the DMCA and the webcasting related settlements if you don't believe me. Here's a link with some people who run stations talking about this:
http://lists.microshaft.org/pipermail/dmca_discus
Ahh yes, the RIAA member companies own the copyrights, but the playback rights belong to the songwriters. Those are collected via ASCAP/BMI and don't go to the labels. Here's how it worked in the past:
Analog stations paid ASCAP/BMI
Digital stations paid ASCAP/BMI
Now here's how it works:
Analog stations pay ASCAP/BMI (and get payola, that's another story...)
Digital stations pay ASCAP/BMI AND the RIAA (because when you listen to a digital station, it's like them giving you a copy of the song, so the station has to pay for every user's piracy, no, really, that was the RIAA's argument to get the law passed)
Sound fair? Nope. If an analog station had to pay the royalty rates they want digital stations to pay they would go out of business. Running a digital station costs just about as much as running an analog station of the same size (bandwidth/severs vs towers/amps/huge fcc license fees), so why should special rules be made for internet broadcasters? Because there are more of them than the RIAA can control with payola, and this is a threat to them.
People whine and complain about the RIAA all the time, the only real way we have to shut them down is with the mindshare of the people. If you want the mindshare of the people, we need independent internet radio to ween society off the RIAA.
Prett simple story, I had gone to the gym which was accross the parking lot from where I worked on base. I left my cell phone in the back pocket of my gym bag, with my deoderant, in my car. Then I walked to work. Little did I know solid white deoderant melted (see, there's the stupid part). Mix that in with the car windows up on a very hot day and I ended up with a startac filled with nice smelling goo (the car smelled good too). Washing, drying, and even a disasembly attempt were no good. I ended up with a new samsung. I'm just glad the phone was old and it was time for an upgrade anyway.
Feel free to make fun of me for this, all my friends did.
I think it's because the default superuser account on phpnuke is god. So god posts a lot of stuff on a lot on phpnuke sites that haven't been that modified.
It all has to do with balance. We all know no citizen's liberty is safe while congress is in session. (Franklin I think) When it comes down to it, the main job of congress is to take away liberty by passing laws. Sometimes they get too caried away and somebody needs to be there to defend liberty. There are somethings I don't agree with (I won't enumerate those things here), but when it comes down to it, I support the majority of what they support. Otherwise, who's to stop congress from going overboard and taking it all away piece by piece?
What I'd like to know is why every American doesn't support the ACLU. The general feeling by many people is that they're bad. I can't think of a good reason why you would hate an orginization who's sole purpose is to defend freedom from those who would take it away from us. I once had an NCO (while I was in the military) bash me for supporting the ACLU. I reminded him that he said "I do solemnly swear that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic." Of course the conversation went crazy from there (we were on a boring detail), but still... It's interesting to watch 'right wing' people bash the ACLU while calling the people who support them 'traitors' and whatnot. To me, not supporting the ACLU is treason against what our country stands for.
You're not allowed to modify the file named "COPYING" in most packages either. Why does debian distribute those? The way I understood it Invariant sections were for things like author credits and whatnot. Things that shouldn't be modified, just like the COPYING file that must be distributed with a package. Yes, I suppose invariant sections could be used for other things (like the whole manual), but wouldn't RMS have thought of that and written the license to prevent that?
Not trying to bash debian (It's my distro of choice), just trying to get a better idea for how their development team sees things.
I've been doing that for a couple years now. It's a good marketing idea (or ms wouldn't use it) and it's an easy way for linux users to increase the idea that linux really is ready for mainstream use. Use it in day to day conversation around the office, user group meetings (not just LUGs..), presentations to the PHBs about Linux and so on.
Give it a try sometime.
$20 for a usb mouse and you're set. If you know enough to complain about context menus you also know enough to plug in another kind of mouse. If you don't, you're too stupid to use a two button mouse anyway, so just stick with the one button one, it's less complicated.
Which group do you fall under?