If the problem is one of the network being an official municipal structure, then let's make it not so official.
Set up a non-profit group to actually run the shindig and have some large anonomous donations get the ball rolling.
If the cable modem provider in the area is a local group, they could just hand out Wi-Fi routers and leave them all unlocked for access while running a cut-throat "give up your DSL" promotion that never seems to end. Eventually the market penetration will cause the routers to overlap all over the city.
(Yeah, I know, there's some interfereance and signal hopping issues to work out here).
This is just brainstorming, so don't accept it as a well thought out idea.
Just because Kyoto is "taking effect" that doesn't mean that non-signers are bound by it. They are not. This is not like an amendment to the U.S. Constitution where a cetain % of support from the Congress and state governments forces the amendment on the entire country.
The amendment doesn't become law because Capitol Hill signs it that way. It becomes law because someone actively enforces it, and the majority of people choose to follow it.
Just as tyrants only remain leaders as long as the populace accepts their claim to power.
Without a system of consequences for non-compliance and a body to enforce that system, that has been accepted as having that authority by those involved, the rules will not take effect.
Prediction: Now that everyone has signed on the dotted line for the Treaty, and can't just suddenly back out, the consqences for breaking the treaty will be set to levels so low it will be more benificial to violate the treaty and face the consequences than follow it. Either that or nations will violate the treaty and nobody will do anything about it.
Saddam Hussein did not remain in power because we were unaware he was violating human rights, ect. He remained in power because he had no one to ultimately answer to. It was only once someone stepped out of their authority and took matters into their own hands that something happened.
What authority do the Kyoto signers all HAVE to answer to?
Nobody.
This really is looking like feel-good legilation on a global scale, just like spam laws being passed by state governments.
The bill would also permit people to use technology to skip objectionable content -- like a gory or sexually explicit scene -- in films, a right that consumers already have.
I think the point here is to allow changing the work itself.
There have been enterprising individuals over the last decade who, for a small fee, would take your VHS copy of a movie and splice the tape to edit out explict scenes and sanitize the film. When the studio (or more likely the director) find out about the services the first thing they do is have lawyers issue cease and desist orders, since the cutters are altering a copyrighted work.
"Family" oriented groups and such have been the biggest proponents of these services, having laundry lists of films with two or three scenes each they would rather not have their children seeing.
The US military has seen what their creation has turned into with the internet and now they want to be able to leverage that for their own use. But at the same time they have seen how a robust system like the internet can still be overwhelmed by DOS attacks and worms/viri. In order to have a system that they can be sure will not be compromized when they need it most, they are forced to create a seperate system.
...and with Microsoft getting in on the ground floor, we can be sure there will be no problems with that.
Not only are people dumb, but they get used to using one browser. No matter what type of computer they are. For example, my school bought a bunch of iMacs this year. They all run OS X, and all of them have Safari. What browser to people use 90% of the time? Internet Explorer.
Same thing that happens on the Macs in the computer lab at my school. What's worse, when they use IE on the Macs, the pages render more slowly than they do on Safari, or the Windows IE machines. So the people avoid the Macs, blaming the platform for the slowness of the browser.
At the beginning of last semester, during online enrollment, the server handling the enrollment software was flooded down but still running. People would wait 3-5 minutes between page loads. I found while IE timed out after awhile trying to get pages I was able to get logged on if I used Safari. The girl at the terminal next to me asked me how I was able to get on and I had to actually point out the Safari icon on her dock for her to figure out how to get off of IE.
"I still don't get why liberal means pussy, yet conservative doesn't mean poorly educated white trash."
Well, if you look at demographics it seems Bush did better with people that earn 50,000+, and Kerry did better with people that earn less...
So how does your assumption hold true?
Why is it assumed that someone who is rich is well educated? You can be white trash and still be rich, like wealthy bigots. There are all sorts of people who have lots of money and not enough brains. Look no further than Paris Hilton or George W. Bush.
Hey.. before IE 4.x we all had NN installed on every machine.
Well of course! Before IE 4 Internet Explorer was not bundled with Windows!
Simple.. Even OEMs had NN pre-installed.
Did you ever wonder why they stopped doing that?
hm.. that I don't know what is "competetive". Cripple own software or what?
Well, let's see...
* Deliberately giving your software away, paying for it's development with profits from other divisions, when your competitor is using it as a business model.
* Using distribution channels your competitor doesn't have access to (because of you).
* Promoting proprietary changes to a medium that is supposed to be standardized so you and your competitor are on equal footing....do not strike me as competitive actions.
Yes, and that's exactly what started the first Browser Wars. Microsoft won and Netscape began a slow slide into oblivion.
Then a few years later the DoJ took action and decided Miscrosft's actions were anticompetitive, completely after it mattered anymore.
The question is. When the Second Browser War really starts boiling (which will be quite soon), if Microsoft tries to pull another Netscape-killer maneuver, will the DoJ sit on their hands until after it is over and Firefox has already been marginialized out of relevancy? Or will they take action before it's too late.
Don't be silly. Microsoft wouldn't charge for its antispyware software. This is just their way of working out their problems.
Which do you think takes more development time/dollars? Writing a spyware cleansing program or rewriting an operating system so it's less venerable to begin with.
It's just a band-aid for an open wound.
Plus, now how about some passing the buck on the responsiblity dept?
MSExec: "What? The customer's Windows XP was overrun by spyware? That's horrible! Why weren't they using our free anti-spyware program we provide on our website? Sounds like a lack of proper PC maintenence on their part."
Yes, part of me says "Good. There's always room for review by an outside opinion." But then I have to ask whether this organization is really going to be all that impartial. Knowing little about them I can't vouch for the idea.
The problem with having foreign nations monitor a political system for fairness is the the country will someday have to deal with the nations reviewing it on a foreign-relations basis. Ulterior motives and vested intersts will abound.
Could it be that the LEDs are run of the clock battery? A couple of LEDs don't take a lot of power.
You didn't read the article it seems:
7. Locate the large white arrow in the middle of the computer.
Above this arrow, you'll see four LEDs:
* LED 1 indicates that trickle voltage from the power supply has been detected. This LED will be ON when the computer is turned off and your power supply is working correctly.
* LED 2 indicates that the main logic board has detected proper power from the power supply when the computer is turned on. This LED will be ON when the computer is turned on and the power supply is working correctly.
* LED 3 indicates that the computer and the LCD display are communicating. This LED will be ON when the computer is turned on and video signal is being generated.
* LED 4 lights only if the computer detects an over-temperature condition. This LED will be OFF when the computer is turned on and running at the correct temperature.
Now which of these LED is going to light up when the power supply is disconnected?
If you follow the instructions exactly as specified, nobody is going to be able to diagnose their iMac.
It says in step one to turn off the machine and remove all cables. Then in step seven it describes how to read the status LED's. The problem is the instructions never tell you to plug the computer back in and turn it on while it is open, so none of the LED's are going to function.
This continues to be a chicken and the egg problem.
Wsn't the whole idea of buying flat screen T.V.'s because of HDTV, 16x9 and digital broadcasts becoming the norm?
They haven't yet.
Why buy an expensive set now, and then an extra box in a year or two for digital broadcast compatability when hit shows are still available on POTS (plain old television sets:-D ).
Producers/broadcasters/advertisers don't want the shows shown excusively on the new digital channels, because such a small margin of their viewers/buyers have those sets. But consumers have no real incentive to get a wide/LCD/HDTV set as long as all their favorite shows are on the 4+ yr old set they have.
I personally would like to buy a new LCD TV and hang it on the wall. But they are too damn expensive! I'm predicting they will fall quite a bit after the digital broadcast law by the FCC goes into effect. Millions of consumers will find themselves needing to buy a converter or a new TV, and they will balk at the prices the way they are now.
Obi-Wan: "This isn't the Trilogy you're looking for."
Storm Trooper: "This isn't the Trilogy we're looking for."
Obi-Wan: "Let these special effects veriosns pass."
Storm Trooper: "Let these special effects versions pass."
Obi-Wan: "Let us be forgotten."
Storm Trooper (waving them through): "Forget these special editions."
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I bought my PC from Dell and it came with WinXP preinstalled. Can I swap this stupid "restore" CD for an honest to god Windows CD????
My friend who poo pooed the disclaimer bought third party batteries and is has had to replace the batteries 3 times.
Of corse, he only paid $5 a pop for those replacement batteries, instead of $70 for a new battery from the manufacturer.
If the problem is one of the network being an official municipal structure, then let's make it not so official.
Set up a non-profit group to actually run the shindig and have some large anonomous donations get the ball rolling.
If the cable modem provider in the area is a local group, they could just hand out Wi-Fi routers and leave them all unlocked for access while running a cut-throat "give up your DSL" promotion that never seems to end. Eventually the market penetration will cause the routers to overlap all over the city.
(Yeah, I know, there's some interfereance and signal hopping issues to work out here).
This is just brainstorming, so don't accept it as a well thought out idea.
Just because Kyoto is "taking effect" that doesn't mean that non-signers are bound by it. They are not. This is not like an amendment to the U.S. Constitution where a cetain % of support from the Congress and state governments forces the amendment on the entire country.
The amendment doesn't become law because Capitol Hill signs it that way. It becomes law because someone actively enforces it, and the majority of people choose to follow it.
Just as tyrants only remain leaders as long as the populace accepts their claim to power.
Without a system of consequences for non-compliance and a body to enforce that system, that has been accepted as having that authority by those involved, the rules will not take effect.
Prediction: Now that everyone has signed on the dotted line for the Treaty, and can't just suddenly back out, the consqences for breaking the treaty will be set to levels so low it will be more benificial to violate the treaty and face the consequences than follow it. Either that or nations will violate the treaty and nobody will do anything about it.
Saddam Hussein did not remain in power because we were unaware he was violating human rights, ect. He remained in power because he had no one to ultimately answer to. It was only once someone stepped out of their authority and took matters into their own hands that something happened.
What authority do the Kyoto signers all HAVE to answer to?
Nobody.
This really is looking like feel-good legilation on a global scale, just like spam laws being passed by state governments.
The bill would also permit people to use technology to skip objectionable content -- like a gory or sexually explicit scene -- in films, a right that consumers already have.
I think the point here is to allow changing the work itself.
There have been enterprising individuals over the last decade who, for a small fee, would take your VHS copy of a movie and splice the tape to edit out explict scenes and sanitize the film. When the studio (or more likely the director) find out about the services the first thing they do is have lawyers issue cease and desist orders, since the cutters are altering a copyrighted work.
"Family" oriented groups and such have been the biggest proponents of these services, having laundry lists of films with two or three scenes each they would rather not have their children seeing.
Have you ever considered that maybe Opera users are smart enough to avoid your services? :-P
Maybe they can't afford a computer technician on account they just paid for a web browser.
Support efforts will still be made for paid users.
From the email Panic sent out to the Audion mailing list:
Audion will no longer be actively developed, and support will be minimal, although we'll work hard to support paid users such as yourself.
Why don't you move to Manhattan (Kansas)?
Not only are people dumb, but they get used to using one browser. No matter what type of computer they are. For example, my school bought a bunch of iMacs this year. They all run OS X, and all of them have Safari. What browser to people use 90% of the time? Internet Explorer.
Same thing that happens on the Macs in the computer lab at my school. What's worse, when they use IE on the Macs, the pages render more slowly than they do on Safari, or the Windows IE machines. So the people avoid the Macs, blaming the platform for the slowness of the browser.
At the beginning of last semester, during online enrollment, the server handling the enrollment software was flooded down but still running. People would wait 3-5 minutes between page loads. I found while IE timed out after awhile trying to get pages I was able to get logged on if I used Safari. The girl at the terminal next to me asked me how I was able to get on and I had to actually point out the Safari icon on her dock for her to figure out how to get off of IE.
Why do we want to save SCO any money? Let them spend wads of cash making mistakes.
"I still don't get why liberal means pussy, yet conservative doesn't mean poorly educated white trash."
Well, if you look at demographics it seems Bush did better with people that earn 50,000+, and Kerry did better with people that earn less...
So how does your assumption hold true?
Why is it assumed that someone who is rich is well educated? You can be white trash and still be rich, like wealthy bigots. There are all sorts of people who have lots of money and not enough brains. Look no further than Paris Hilton or George W. Bush.
Hey.. before IE 4.x we all had NN installed on every machine.
...do not strike me as competitive actions.
Well of course! Before IE 4 Internet Explorer was not bundled with Windows!
Simple.. Even OEMs had NN pre-installed.
Did you ever wonder why they stopped doing that?
hm.. that I don't know what is "competetive". Cripple own software or what?
Well, let's see...
* Deliberately giving your software away, paying for it's development with profits from other divisions, when your competitor is using it as a business model.
* Using distribution channels your competitor doesn't have access to (because of you).
* Promoting proprietary changes to a medium that is supposed to be standardized so you and your competitor are on equal footing.
Yes, and that's exactly what started the first Browser Wars. Microsoft won and Netscape began a slow slide into oblivion.
Then a few years later the DoJ took action and decided Miscrosft's actions were anticompetitive, completely after it mattered anymore.
The question is. When the Second Browser War really starts boiling (which will be quite soon), if Microsoft tries to pull another Netscape-killer maneuver, will the DoJ sit on their hands until after it is over and Firefox has already been marginialized out of relevancy? Or will they take action before it's too late.
'pits two opposing teams of soldiers against one another in a fight for control over a city under siege.'
Sounds like Washington, D.C. around election time...
Don't be silly. Microsoft wouldn't charge for its antispyware software. This is just their way of working out their problems.
Which do you think takes more development time/dollars? Writing a spyware cleansing program or rewriting an operating system so it's less venerable to begin with.
It's just a band-aid for an open wound.
Plus, now how about some passing the buck on the responsiblity dept?
MSExec: "What? The customer's Windows XP was overrun by spyware? That's horrible! Why weren't they using our free anti-spyware program we provide on our website? Sounds like a lack of proper PC maintenence on their part."
I think they fact they bought all those Windows systems says enough about how much the Dept. of Homeland Security knows about Cybersecurity.
If it doesn't work they want to call up their ISP and have them fix it
Even if the problem has nothing to do with the internet.
...Slashdot is becoming a harder read lately.
Would that be the Cialis grammer causing that?
Yes, part of me says "Good. There's always room for review by an outside opinion." But then I have to ask whether this organization is really going to be all that impartial. Knowing little about them I can't vouch for the idea.
The problem with having foreign nations monitor a political system for fairness is the the country will someday have to deal with the nations reviewing it on a foreign-relations basis. Ulterior motives and vested intersts will abound.
Could it be that the LEDs are run of the clock battery? A couple of LEDs don't take a lot of power.
You didn't read the article it seems:
7. Locate the large white arrow in the middle of the computer.
Above this arrow, you'll see four LEDs:
* LED 1 indicates that trickle voltage from the power supply has been detected. This LED will be ON when the computer is turned off and your power supply is working correctly.
* LED 2 indicates that the main logic board has detected proper power from the power supply when the computer is turned on. This LED will be ON when the computer is turned on and the power supply is working correctly.
* LED 3 indicates that the computer and the LCD display are communicating. This LED will be ON when the computer is turned on and video signal is being generated.
* LED 4 lights only if the computer detects an over-temperature condition. This LED will be OFF when the computer is turned on and running at the correct temperature.
Now which of these LED is going to light up when the power supply is disconnected?
I'm not being stupid, I'm just reading the instructions.
It may seem silly to you, but have you ever worked end-user support?
I talked to a guy two days ago who had dialup internet and couldn't connect. After talking to him for a bit I learned he had no home phone service.
Even the simple things can trip people up.
Does anyone else find the iMac diagnostic page's instructions a little interesting?
If you follow the instructions exactly as specified, nobody is going to be able to diagnose their iMac.
It says in step one to turn off the machine and remove all cables. Then in step seven it describes how to read the status LED's. The problem is the instructions never tell you to plug the computer back in and turn it on while it is open, so none of the LED's are going to function.
This continues to be a chicken and the egg problem. Wsn't the whole idea of buying flat screen T.V.'s because of HDTV, 16x9 and digital broadcasts becoming the norm? They haven't yet. Why buy an expensive set now, and then an extra box in a year or two for digital broadcast compatability when hit shows are still available on POTS (plain old television sets :-D ).
Producers/broadcasters/advertisers don't want the shows shown excusively on the new digital channels, because such a small margin of their viewers/buyers have those sets. But consumers have no real incentive to get a wide/LCD/HDTV set as long as all their favorite shows are on the 4+ yr old set they have.
I personally would like to buy a new LCD TV and hang it on the wall. But they are too damn expensive! I'm predicting they will fall quite a bit after the digital broadcast law by the FCC goes into effect. Millions of consumers will find themselves needing to buy a converter or a new TV, and they will balk at the prices the way they are now.
Obi-Wan: "This isn't the Trilogy you're looking for." Storm Trooper: "This isn't the Trilogy we're looking for." Obi-Wan: "Let these special effects veriosns pass." Storm Trooper: "Let these special effects versions pass." Obi-Wan: "Let us be forgotten." Storm Trooper (waving them through): "Forget these special editions."