And some of us will give up IT altogether, and go raise goats. Or something.
Two coincidences in this post. The first is the above. I'm bailing. I'm through. I can't even find a job description in IT that appeals to me anymore. My current job is quite simply, painful. No training available on an old, proprietary system, but the system won't be replaced for a couple more years, a half-assed work environment, and a company that blatantly treats employees like warm goo.
The second, is your nick. My plan is to drop the double handful of extra pounds I've gained since leaving active duty Army 10 years ago, and joining the local National Guard unit working on Blackhawks. I hope to leverage that into some kind of full time position, at some point. Just can't decided which MOS I want to train in, Acft Electrician, Avionics, or UH-60 Repairer.
Instead of trying to come up with analogies that, if you're lucky, only half of/. readers will agree with, and each of the other half providing what they think is a better analogy, repeat ad nauseum...let's just cut to the chase, as it applies to this topic.
The man said, this is private property, and if you're in *this* group of people, you're not allowed to enter.
Create all the analogies and argue all the finer points of the laws regarding trespassing you want, some of those that were in *this* group of people entered anyway, and as such violated the webmasters rules of access.
All that talk of "screening" and "self-screening" is just a bunch of bullshit spewed out to justify a ruling that creates yet another loophole in a law that shouldn't even be necessary to begin with. You're either allowed in, or you aren't.
A person of average morals and a sense of decency will not go where he's obviously not wanted. The rest should be held accountable for their actions.
Of course you're right. Every single one of them joined for Howard. Do the same math since O&A joined XM, and they brought more subscribers to XM than Stern did to Sirius.
Yes, I am exactly right, if you read what I wrote. I don't pretend to know why anyone subscribed. I did say that, post-Stern, the number of subscribers has gone from 600,000 to 4,000,000 plus. That's in the space of, oh...including people (like me) who picked up Sirius before Jan 9 in anticipation of Stern, a 6 month period (Dec - May).
O&A have been on XM considerably longer, so talking straight numbers, I'm sure they did. What I'd be interested in knowing, is how many XM subscribers paid that extra dollar to get their channel.
How have they failed? They're one of the highest rated channels on the platform. DirectTV put them back even after they only wanted music channels after DirectTV subscribers were very vocal about losing O&A. If they fail on XM, they'll be booted off.
I retract my O&A failure on XM statement. Quite simply, all I know is that they're back on regular radio. I assumed, right or wrong, for better or worse, that meant they failed on XM. Fact is, I don't care if O&A succeed or fail. I'm simply not a listener.
I see, you're one of those 'think as I do' listeners. Go ahead, believe all his lies. Fact is, O&A are heard alot more places than Stern is now and have a much larger audience. He's slowly fading to obscurity and everyone but you and him seem to know it.
Heh...no, you don't see. You apparently can't see beyond your apparent dislike of Stern. "All his lies"? Fact is, he talked about it a couple times, and the bottom line, he says he doesn't care what they do. And why would he care? It doesn't affect him anymore. I'm not "one of those" anything...this isn't about me, and despite your best efforts, never has been.
I subscribe to Sirius, I think the Stern show is the funniest show out there, and I don't care if anyone else agrees or not.
Just because it's a comment on Slashdot doesn't make it personal.
Sirius is over 4 million subscribers now, from about 600,000 pre-Stern. Plus all the new advertising, on the non-music channels, which is still a fraction of the commercials I sat through when Stern was on regular radio. Well, you do the math.
Opie & Anthony are fairly successful on regular radio, but failed miserably on XM. Stern was extremely successful on regular radio, and after a strong start, is becoming more successful every day on Sirius (pretty sure the Sirius subscriber numbers are still going up). Everything I hear on the news lately about XM is bad.
Finally, listening to the Stern show daily, he doesn't give a rats ass about O&A, how they're doing, or where they are broadcasting from. His show uncensored is the funniest it's ever been.
No, just failures who cannot relate to women in real life and use the "I'd sooner look at a woman's ass when playing" excuse to mask their own deep-seated inadequacy.
Wow...no issues there, eh?
Mainly, because I'd rather look at the ass of a female avatar for the number of hours I will spend playing this game. When the only difference is the shape of the polygons, why not use the shape that is more appealing? Give me a real reason why this is bad?
I'm happily married, have a daughter, and have matured enough to realize that choice of an avatar in a game doesn't necessarily reflect anything real life. You know, because it's a video game. It makes me a minority, but hell, I'm apparently not the one with the problem.
No, but China is, when they're not just skipping the whole transporting them to prisons part, and shooting them right in the streets. That was the point of that post, as I'm sure you're aware, but chose to ignore, since it's always more fun to be disingenuous.
The question is, are you going to support companies that support the policies of oppresive governments. If a company does business with the Chinese, will you do business with that company?
Ideally, the answer should be no. However, in the real world, in which we all (theoretically) live in, ideals are rarely lived up to, and that applies to non-Americans, as well (that's my subtle, gentle way of saying to our resident American-bashers to get off your high horses. Your holier-than-thou, sweeping generalizations make me alternate between chuckling and up-chucking).
I think most interesting would be a comment from someone who actually lived someplace like China. Maybe we've been so free for so long, we just can't imagine what it's really like to live in fear of simply saying the wrong thing, especially when the best outcome you can expect for even an accidental infraction is imprisonment, but at worst, torture, the arrest of your family (sympathizers can't be tolerated, you know), or even the death of you AND your family, and just in case, maybe a neighbor or two?
Companies that do business in China, should abide by the laws of the Chinese, that is a no brainer. However, the companies should also realize that by doing so, they condone the actions of the Chinese government.
I moved to NJ from CA. I registered my EZ-Pass using my California license plate number. Shortly afterward I got NJ license plates and now almost a year later I still haven't updated my license plate number to correspond with my EZ-Pass transmitter ID. I also frequently take my tag out and use it in friends' vehicles when we're going to NYC to save some time at the tunnels. My account gets charged each and every time without any problems
EZ Pass doesn't take a picture of the plate everytime. It takes a picture when the transmitter isn't read. If the plate matches your account, they just charge the toll normally. If the plate doesn't match, you're assumed to NOT be an EZ Pass customer, and they will send a ticket to the owner of the plate that was captured in the picture. The fine will be the FULL toll for the highway in question, plus a $25 administrative fee.
If you send a letter, explaining that you are an EZ Pass customer, tell them where you got on, and where you exited, and include a check with the toll owed for the distance, you should be good. At least, I haven't heard anything back since going through that about a month ago.
You can continue to risk it, but it's a hassle if the tag doesn't get read. Its easier to just go online and change your tag.
As for spoofing the system in question, you could just use a piece of electrical tape, and to a computer system AJL309 isn't even close to AJL389.
I'm not so sure about that. Assuming for a moment it managed to capture an image of every license plate of every car that went by every capture device, statewide. What kind of database and processing power are you going to need to find "hits", duplicates, fakes, etc.? In addition, you've got to keep info like date, time, and location, for each number, at each capture point.
I think it will be a while (years) before the authorities will get real time results. Until then, this is just another "after the fact" tool that likely won't prevent anything. Great for the courts, lousy for the police and the people supposedly being protected by this system.
Can't speak for XM, but I've had Sirius now for over a month, and I'm more than impressed with it. I can count on one hand and 3 or 4 more fingers how many times I've lost the signal, and then only momentarily. I don't know how, but I even managed to get the signal inside a parking garage in Rochester, NY (the one downtown next to the police station, if anyone lives there and wants to try).
In the last month, I've driven:
Albany, NY to Syracuse, NY to Buffalo, NY to Rochester, NY to Binghamton, NY and back.
Albany, NY to Harrisburg, PA to Laurel, MD to Washington D.C. to Harrisburg, PA and back.
Albany, NY to Long Island, NY and back.
Less than 10 signal drop outs, the longest of which didn't even last long enough for me to glance at the display. Only a few of those drop outs happened during the drives mentioned above. They happen pretty randomly, although all happened on overcast days.
In return, I get commercial free music channels, a couple decent comedy channels, national weather and traffic, and more that I haven't even had a chance to really explore yet. All of which I can listen to no matter where I go, is uncensored, and doesn't change.
No matter where I am, I hit a preset, and I know exactly what I will be listening to. No more will I be reduced to having to choose between a couple of crappy stations when driving in the middle of nowhere.
If you don't want it, don't buy it, but as far as sound quality and reliability, if you travel outside your local radio station range at all, you can't beat it.
While a Harrier isn't particularly "stealthy" to begin with, add rotor blades to the top of it, and any chance it would have in a hostile electronic environment is completely gone.
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I'm a muslim photographer who is a woman, you insensitive clod!
Shut up, get behind me, and put that bhurka back on, woman!
And some of us will give up IT altogether, and go raise goats. Or something.
Two coincidences in this post. The first is the above. I'm bailing. I'm through. I can't even find a job description in IT that appeals to me anymore. My current job is quite simply, painful. No training available on an old, proprietary system, but the system won't be replaced for a couple more years, a half-assed work environment, and a company that blatantly treats employees like warm goo.
The second, is your nick. My plan is to drop the double handful of extra pounds I've gained since leaving active duty Army 10 years ago, and joining the local National Guard unit working on Blackhawks. I hope to leverage that into some kind of full time position, at some point. Just can't decided which MOS I want to train in, Acft Electrician, Avionics, or UH-60 Repairer.
If that falls through, I'll consider goats.
My lamehumor tag was opened at birth, and has yet to be closed by the great HTML author in the sky, I guess.
Instead of trying to come up with analogies that, if you're lucky, only half of /. readers will agree with, and each of the other half providing what they think is a better analogy, repeat ad nauseum...let's just cut to the chase, as it applies to this topic.
The man said, this is private property, and if you're in *this* group of people, you're not allowed to enter.
Create all the analogies and argue all the finer points of the laws regarding trespassing you want, some of those that were in *this* group of people entered anyway, and as such violated the webmasters rules of access.
All that talk of "screening" and "self-screening" is just a bunch of bullshit spewed out to justify a ruling that creates yet another loophole in a law that shouldn't even be necessary to begin with. You're either allowed in, or you aren't.
A person of average morals and a sense of decency will not go where he's obviously not wanted. The rest should be held accountable for their actions.
I don't have that key on my keyboard.
Of course you're right. Every single one of them joined for Howard. Do the same math since O&A joined XM, and they brought more subscribers to XM than Stern did to Sirius.
Yes, I am exactly right, if you read what I wrote. I don't pretend to know why anyone subscribed. I did say that, post-Stern, the number of subscribers has gone from 600,000 to 4,000,000 plus. That's in the space of, oh...including people (like me) who picked up Sirius before Jan 9 in anticipation of Stern, a 6 month period (Dec - May).
O&A have been on XM considerably longer, so talking straight numbers, I'm sure they did. What I'd be interested in knowing, is how many XM subscribers paid that extra dollar to get their channel.
How have they failed? They're one of the highest rated channels on the platform. DirectTV put them back even after they only wanted music channels after DirectTV subscribers were very vocal about losing O&A. If they fail on XM, they'll be booted off.
I retract my O&A failure on XM statement. Quite simply, all I know is that they're back on regular radio. I assumed, right or wrong, for better or worse, that meant they failed on XM. Fact is, I don't care if O&A succeed or fail. I'm simply not a listener.
I see, you're one of those 'think as I do' listeners. Go ahead, believe all his lies. Fact is, O&A are heard alot more places than Stern is now and have a much larger audience. He's slowly fading to obscurity and everyone but you and him seem to know it.
Heh...no, you don't see. You apparently can't see beyond your apparent dislike of Stern. "All his lies"? Fact is, he talked about it a couple times, and the bottom line, he says he doesn't care what they do. And why would he care? It doesn't affect him anymore. I'm not "one of those" anything...this isn't about me, and despite your best efforts, never has been.
I subscribe to Sirius, I think the Stern show is the funniest show out there, and I don't care if anyone else agrees or not.
Just because it's a comment on Slashdot doesn't make it personal.
Sirius is over 4 million subscribers now, from about 600,000 pre-Stern. Plus all the new advertising, on the non-music channels, which is still a fraction of the commercials I sat through when Stern was on regular radio. Well, you do the math.
Opie & Anthony are fairly successful on regular radio, but failed miserably on XM. Stern was extremely successful on regular radio, and after a strong start, is becoming more successful every day on Sirius (pretty sure the Sirius subscriber numbers are still going up). Everything I hear on the news lately about XM is bad.
Finally, listening to the Stern show daily, he doesn't give a rats ass about O&A, how they're doing, or where they are broadcasting from. His show uncensored is the funniest it's ever been.
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And me without mod points today. Here's a karmic +1 Funny.
Me too. They ruin everything. They had their fun; free love, relatively safe drugs, protesting, Woodstock...
Now they're all old fuddy-duddys', and making everything they did for fun against the law.
It's no wonder todays youth is resorting to crystal meth and bot-nets. Easy sex, easy marijuana, and good music has been ruined by the grups!
No, just failures who cannot relate to women in real life and use the "I'd sooner look at a woman's ass when playing" excuse to mask their own deep-seated inadequacy.
Wow...no issues there, eh?
Mainly, because I'd rather look at the ass of a female avatar for the number of hours I will spend playing this game. When the only difference is the shape of the polygons, why not use the shape that is more appealing? Give me a real reason why this is bad?
I'm happily married, have a daughter, and have matured enough to realize that choice of an avatar in a game doesn't necessarily reflect anything real life. You know, because it's a video game. It makes me a minority, but hell, I'm apparently not the one with the problem.
hippocrates?
I thought he was dead.
He's not dead, he's just thinking really, really hard.
Probably by the Slashdotter who was abducted to be the slime mold in the article.
That's one way to geek fame, I suppose.
Is Microsoft killing and imprisoning dissenters?
No, but China is, when they're not just skipping the whole transporting them to prisons part, and shooting them right in the streets. That was the point of that post, as I'm sure you're aware, but chose to ignore, since it's always more fun to be disingenuous.
The question is, are you going to support companies that support the policies of oppresive governments. If a company does business with the Chinese, will you do business with that company?
Ideally, the answer should be no. However, in the real world, in which we all (theoretically) live in, ideals are rarely lived up to, and that applies to non-Americans, as well (that's my subtle, gentle way of saying to our resident American-bashers to get off your high horses. Your holier-than-thou, sweeping generalizations make me alternate between chuckling and up-chucking).
I think most interesting would be a comment from someone who actually lived someplace like China. Maybe we've been so free for so long, we just can't imagine what it's really like to live in fear of simply saying the wrong thing, especially when the best outcome you can expect for even an accidental infraction is imprisonment, but at worst, torture, the arrest of your family (sympathizers can't be tolerated, you know), or even the death of you AND your family, and just in case, maybe a neighbor or two?
Companies that do business in China, should abide by the laws of the Chinese, that is a no brainer. However, the companies should also realize that by doing so, they condone the actions of the Chinese government.
Lay down your weapons and prepare to be judged!"
I moved to NJ from CA. I registered my EZ-Pass using my California license plate number. Shortly afterward I got NJ license plates and now almost a year later I still haven't updated my license plate number to correspond with my EZ-Pass transmitter ID. I also frequently take my tag out and use it in friends' vehicles when we're going to NYC to save some time at the tunnels. My account gets charged each and every time without any problems
EZ Pass doesn't take a picture of the plate everytime. It takes a picture when the transmitter isn't read. If the plate matches your account, they just charge the toll normally. If the plate doesn't match, you're assumed to NOT be an EZ Pass customer, and they will send a ticket to the owner of the plate that was captured in the picture. The fine will be the FULL toll for the highway in question, plus a $25 administrative fee.
If you send a letter, explaining that you are an EZ Pass customer, tell them where you got on, and where you exited, and include a check with the toll owed for the distance, you should be good. At least, I haven't heard anything back since going through that about a month ago.
You can continue to risk it, but it's a hassle if the tag doesn't get read. Its easier to just go online and change your tag.
As for spoofing the system in question, you could just use a piece of electrical tape, and to a computer system AJL309 isn't even close to AJL389.
I'm not so sure about that. Assuming for a moment it managed to capture an image of every license plate of every car that went by every capture device, statewide. What kind of database and processing power are you going to need to find "hits", duplicates, fakes, etc.? In addition, you've got to keep info like date, time, and location, for each number, at each capture point.
I think it will be a while (years) before the authorities will get real time results. Until then, this is just another "after the fact" tool that likely won't prevent anything. Great for the courts, lousy for the police and the people supposedly being protected by this system.
Thus giving hope to terrorist rats everywhere.
In the last month, I've driven:
Albany, NY to Syracuse, NY to Buffalo, NY to Rochester, NY to Binghamton, NY and back.
Albany, NY to Harrisburg, PA to Laurel, MD to Washington D.C. to Harrisburg, PA and back.
Albany, NY to Long Island, NY and back.
Less than 10 signal drop outs, the longest of which didn't even last long enough for me to glance at the display. Only a few of those drop outs happened during the drives mentioned above. They happen pretty randomly, although all happened on overcast days.
In return, I get commercial free music channels, a couple decent comedy channels, national weather and traffic, and more that I haven't even had a chance to really explore yet. All of which I can listen to no matter where I go, is uncensored, and doesn't change.
No matter where I am, I hit a preset, and I know exactly what I will be listening to. No more will I be reduced to having to choose between a couple of crappy stations when driving in the middle of nowhere.
If you don't want it, don't buy it, but as far as sound quality and reliability, if you travel outside your local radio station range at all, you can't beat it.
Solaris was extremely boring. It wasn't very good at all.
While a Harrier isn't particularly "stealthy" to begin with, add rotor blades to the top of it, and any chance it would have in a hostile electronic environment is completely gone.
I own a Zen Micro, and it's far from junk. I don't believe I've even seen a review that said it was junk.
I've bought exactly one DRM protected album online. Loaded it on my Micro, listened to it a few times, then moved on to other music.
I went to play it again one day, and it wouldn't play. I guess the license "expired". I don't intend on buying any more DRM protected music.
My ripped MP3's play great on it.