They have cell towers that are made up to look like trees. They're typically much less attractive than artificial Christmas trees, which I don't like to begin with.
Those Damned things are uglier and catch my eyes more than regular radio towers.
I know its off topic but these things are so ugly, its got to stop. No more fake antennas. If you want to disguise cell phone antennas, the best way is just to mount them on top of buildings. If buildings are not available - capitalize on topographical features. If the area is completely flat without any buildings, build a cell phone tower to make it more interesting.
These are not an open mail relays. Only verizon customers can acess the verizon mail relays. Just because verizon customers can send emails that purport to be from a non-local domain to a non-local domain does not make them open relays.
Again, even with this policy I can just as easily spam you with a nobody@verizon.net and it would be just as easy or hard for verizon to track me down if i used nobody@nobody.net
I am tired of corporations changing the rules of the game half-way through. I and many other college students in Boston use DSL and also use our @youruniversity.edu addresses. Because most universities do not have SMTP-AUTH servers - this would effectively prevent us from using our @edu addresses. This will not "reduce spam" and it will not make their "email" more reliable. Tell me how forcing me to use Verizon's email servers rather than ones of my own choosing is more reliable. This combined with the fact that Verizon can't operate any IP services reliably (in my experience) makes it seem even more asinine. This will not reduce spam as I can spam you just as easily through the Verizon smtp with nobody@nowhere.com as I can with nobody@verizon.net. Both are equally difficult or easy to trace to the origin "spamming" customer.
The reasons Verizon provides for doing this are a farce. I am sure the real reasons such as increased customer retention when locked into an email address, increased exposure to email recipients of the verizon.net domain name, etc. are the _real_ reasons for this corporate act of oppression.
BroadBand2Wireless which released Airora in the Boston market (a product similar to riccochet) which was covered in a earlier slashdot article has also gone out of buisiness. Verify by calling 1-866-AIRORA1. So it looks like most of the non incumbent players are out of the buisness.
Quite sad given the enthusiasm of the slashdot crowd in the earlier referenced article.
Jeffrey Katz (curious) has his comments on the service here.
If I lived within this judge's jurisdiction and was having any trouble whatsoever with the cable company. I would be running to her small claims court and filing as many suits as I could against the cable company.
i wonder how many times the slashdot crowd has tried to help out people with their computer and got responses such as "well i have 2 gigs of memory in my computer."
There is a social disutility function of the spread of misinformation. I would search for the relevant research, but i don't want to do all the work for you.
As for anal retentive, I know anal comes from the latin word anus. Retentive, I am unsure about, probably not latin. I would look it up, but I won't for reasons previously discussed.
The point of diminishing returns is NOT where your own ear can no longer tell the difference between a system and a more expensive system.
If you plotted price vs percentage increase in sound quality over some base-reference sound quality. Diminishing returns is every interval on the graph where a percentage increase in price is greater then the percentage increase in sound quality.
For example, if one purchased a 10 dollar system and experienced 10% increase in quality and (not being happy with only 10%) decided to return the system and buy a 20 dollar system and experienced a 15% increase in quality (5% over the 10 dollar system.) The audiophile in question is experiencing diminishing returns, and contrary to your definition could still hear the difference.
Furthermore, by definition there can not be a point of diminishing returns - you need an interval. However, in real life often there usually exists some point x where all intervals beyond that point experience diminishing returns. One might say point x is the point of diminishing returns
Historical Reference : The notion of diminishing returns was first theorized by the British financier and pamphleteer David Ricardo while studying price theory.
Ok I am missing something here, why on earth would anyone want to use this?
Does someone honestly believe a bunch of people are going to run wires from their computer to their television, so they can rewatch the same advertisements on their computer - just adapted for the internet.
Come on, If I am that interested in a product I can do a web search - don't need my television to be controling my web broswer.
What is the benefit of using this product? It's going to be used all for ads, dont tell me otherwise.
What they should of done is found a way to encode a data stream in the television channel with useful information that people would want to see interspersed with ads - no internet connection required. This way computers without access to the internet can get some data, sports scores, news headlines, weather, etc.
The bottom line is people won't use this because the hassle of installing it + hassle of viewing lots of unnecessary ads > benefit to user * 10000!
The saddest part of all is that the only people who are ever going to try this is people who read slashdot.
I was simply stating that it is more difficult to hack your linux-based Tivo appliance, then it is to install the window-based Napster client.
My logic does not allow you to conclude "the only people who are able to use Napster are those who were able to write their own client from scratch."
Furthermore, hacking Tivo in its current incarnation is not within the realm of the idiot who cannot program his vcr. Ironically, maybe thats why he/she has Tivo.
As has been said before, The reason napster was so sucessful was that it enable the average idiot to establish a node on a P2P network and share files.
I hardly think that the same people who could install napster are going to be able to hack napster, get linux up and running, etc - its too much trouble for your average idiot.
As an aside,
"The software is functional, but has limitations that we hope to remove in the future.
Direct viewing can only be done on a Linux PC."
Now all you people who whine about Windows Media, Realmedia, Quicktime, et al. can have your day of glory.
The solution is not always software
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Although it is true that some things can be implemented cheaper in software, this is not necessarily true all the time. (And of course cheaper != better)
Is our future generic appliances that can upon downloading the latest software release do whatever we please. Although this would be nice, it is hardly realistic. It flies in the face of years and years of solid task-appropriate engineering.
Furthermore, I don't know anyone who doesn't have DSL because of the price of the damn DSL modem. Its like not having nike's because you can't afford to be replacing the shoe laces.
Software is great for implementing more niche-market type appliances (remember firewalls in the early days.) But the limitations and unnecessary over head of generic solutions will eventually give way to well-engineered solution-specific devices.
I thought winmodems were a thing of the past, but it seems someone is trying to reincarnate them in the DSL flavor. I am sure they will find the limitations of the sound cards a huge-tradeoff for the supposed money savings.
a matter of time b4 freeweb software gets hacked
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Why can I only create 32 base domains?
Unlike regular Freenet, which offers virtually infinite choices of keys, FreeWeb allows you to claim from a limited set of domain names. This is one of the costs of FreeWeb working as an alternative Web.
Basically, everyone is limited to 32 base domains so as to prevent "domain name squatting".
In practice, it's very rare that anyone actually publishing websites would need anything near 32 unique top-level domain names.
Elsewhere in the FAQ the author claims that while Freeweb is not open source yet, when the code settles down, etc. it will be.
So, it seems kind of silly for him to be hardcoding this base domain limit. Because it is only a matter of time before a patch etc. becomes available.
In, addition to that, it has this silly in-freenet DNS That I won't comment on.
"School voucher programs are bad because it imposes a blanket solution (vouchers vouchers everywhere) to a problem that only exists in certain areas (poorly funded inner city schools)."
The problem with your argument is you fail to show how school voucher programs would prove to be detrimental to schools outside the set of "poorly funded inner city schools."
I am glad that you can comprehend how they would benefit inner city children, but at the same time I would like to know how vouchers would not be a pareto-optimum solution.
The larger problem you face is, how are you going to prove that social-welfare is not maximized when competitive markets prevail?
I got a chance to meet writer/director John Herzfeld in an advance screening in boston a month ago. Apparently, he has been trying to release this movie for 8 years now - finally new line cinema has picked it up. I think it has a theme that many of you have missed, but would ring true with the slashdot crowd. How far are we willing to allow the media to go? How much invasion of privacy is too much? When the media begins to affect the outcome of events they report on, where is the boundary?
John Herzfeld described the movie as "a satire which he hopes never becomes true."
Incidentally, when he prescreened the movie all he wanted to do was allow the audience to ask him a few questions after the movie. No forms, no lengthy questionaires. He came across as a great guy. Maybe I am just star-struck but I thought the film had just as much substance (both themewise and plotwise) if not more than the Matrix.
One last thing.... WARNING PLOT SPOILER
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The writer/director was repeatedly told not to kill Robert DeNiro's charachter, because he could possibly have a DeNiro/Burns franchise on his hands if the movie was successful. But he never wanted to ruin the integrity of the film's message. Of course this comes all from his mouth, so take it as you will.
why suprised? They HAVE TO RELEASE CODE
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I find it funny that everyone is so suprised that the NSA has released the source code. Under GPL, don't they have to release the source code?
The author of the article states : If you haven't been following the cryptography area lately, let me assure you that this action by the NSA was the crypto equivalent of the Pope coming down off the balcony in Rome, working the crowd with a few loaves of bread and some fishes, and then inviting everyone to come over to his place to watch the soccer game and have a few beers.
I especially like the part where they intermix english phrases with their swedish language. When the clay baseball figure is on the screen, listen for him saying "catch you later" at the end of that particular ad.
Whats to prevent someone from not disclosing that they are in the reserves? Why does this have to be disclosed to your employer at the time of employment? Does anyone have any references to what is and what is not required of the reservist employee and potential/actual reservist employer?
From the Domestic Mail Manual available at http://pe.usps.gov
S-58 3.0 p. 914 DMM issue 56
"Each piece of returned BRM is charged the applicable single-piece First-Class or Priority Mail postage. Cards must
meet the standards in C100 to qualify for card rate postage. Any card larger than those dimensions is charged the
applicable First-Class Mail letter rated. For Priority Mail over 5 pounds if the zone cannot be determined from a
return address or cancellation, then the permit holder is charged zone 4 postage for the weight of the piece.
Furthermore, for all you people "strap a brick to the BRM and throw it in a mail box... yeah that will get them"
p. 913 S922 1.6
BRM may not be used for any purpose other than that intended by the permit holder, even if postage is affixed. In
cases where a BRM card or letter is used improperly as a label, the USPS treats the item as waste.
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They have cell towers that are made up to look like trees. They're typically much less attractive than artificial Christmas trees, which I don't like to begin with.
Those Damned things are uglier and catch my eyes more than regular radio towers.
I know its off topic but these things are so ugly, its got to stop. No more fake antennas. If you want to disguise cell phone antennas, the best way is just to mount them on top of buildings. If buildings are not available - capitalize on topographical features. If the area is completely flat without any buildings, build a cell phone tower to make it more interesting.
These are not an open mail relays. Only verizon customers can acess the verizon mail relays. Just because verizon customers can send emails that purport to be from a non-local domain to a non-local domain does not make them open relays.
Again, even with this policy I can just as easily spam you with a nobody@verizon.net and it would be just as easy or hard for verizon to track me down if i used nobody@nobody.net
I am tired of corporations changing the rules of the game half-way through. I and many other college students in Boston use DSL and also use our @youruniversity.edu addresses. Because most universities do not have SMTP-AUTH servers - this would effectively prevent us from using our @edu addresses. This will not "reduce spam" and it will not make their "email" more reliable. Tell me how forcing me to use Verizon's email servers rather than ones of my own choosing is more reliable. This combined with the fact that Verizon can't operate any IP services reliably (in my experience) makes it seem even more asinine. This will not reduce spam as I can spam you just as easily through the Verizon smtp with nobody@nowhere.com as I can with nobody@verizon.net. Both are equally difficult or easy to trace to the origin "spamming" customer.
The reasons Verizon provides for doing this are a farce. I am sure the real reasons such as increased customer retention when locked into an email address, increased exposure to email recipients of the verizon.net domain name, etc. are the _real_ reasons for this corporate act of oppression.
Quite sad given the enthusiasm of the slashdot crowd in the earlier referenced article.
Jeffrey Katz (curious) has his comments on the service here.
If I lived within this judge's jurisdiction and was having any trouble whatsoever with the cable company. I would be running to her small claims court and filing as many suits as I could against the cable company.
Alex, When was OpenBSD informed?
i wonder how many times the slashdot crowd has tried to help out people with their computer and got responses such as "well i have 2 gigs of memory in my computer."
There is a social disutility function of the spread of misinformation. I would search for the relevant research, but i don't want to do all the work for you.
As for anal retentive, I know anal comes from the latin word anus. Retentive, I am unsure about, probably not latin. I would look it up, but I won't for reasons previously discussed.
The point of diminishing returns is NOT where your own ear can no longer tell the difference between a system and a more expensive system.
If you plotted price vs percentage increase in sound quality over some base-reference sound quality. Diminishing returns is every interval on the graph where a percentage increase in price is greater then the percentage increase in sound quality.
For example, if one purchased a 10 dollar system and experienced 10% increase in quality and (not being happy with only 10%) decided to return the system and buy a 20 dollar system and experienced a 15% increase in quality (5% over the 10 dollar system.) The audiophile in question is experiencing diminishing returns, and contrary to your definition could still hear the difference.
Furthermore, by definition there can not be a point of diminishing returns - you need an interval. However, in real life often there usually exists some point x where all intervals beyond that point experience diminishing returns. One might say point x is the point of diminishing returns
Historical Reference : The notion of diminishing returns was first theorized by the British financier and pamphleteer David Ricardo while studying price theory.
I will be more then happy to review this product, contact me at the email adress in my profile to arrange the details.
Ok I am missing something here, why on earth would anyone want to use this?
Does someone honestly believe a bunch of people are going to run wires from their computer to their television, so they can rewatch the same advertisements on their computer - just adapted for the internet.
Come on, If I am that interested in a product I can do a web search - don't need my television to be controling my web broswer.
What is the benefit of using this product? It's going to be used all for ads, dont tell me otherwise.
What they should of done is found a way to encode a data stream in the television channel with useful information that people would want to see interspersed with ads - no internet connection required. This way computers without access to the internet can get some data, sports scores, news headlines, weather, etc.
The bottom line is people won't use this because the hassle of installing it + hassle of viewing lots of unnecessary ads > benefit to user * 10000!
The saddest part of all is that the only people who are ever going to try this is people who read slashdot.
I was simply stating that it is more difficult to hack your linux-based Tivo appliance, then it is to install the window-based Napster client.
My logic does not allow you to conclude "the only people who are able to use Napster are those who were able to write their own client from scratch."
Furthermore, hacking Tivo in its current incarnation is not within the realm of the idiot who cannot program his vcr. Ironically, maybe thats why he/she has Tivo.
Is it not possible for people to hate the executive's decisions at Tivo, Inc. yet still like the Tivo appliance itself?
I don't see how the two are mutually exclusive.
Please avise.
As has been said before, The reason napster was so sucessful was that it enable the average idiot to establish a node on a P2P network and share files.
I hardly think that the same people who could install napster are going to be able to hack napster, get linux up and running, etc - its too much trouble for your average idiot.
As an aside,
"The software is functional, but has limitations that we hope to remove in the future.
Direct viewing can only be done on a Linux PC."
Now all you people who whine about Windows Media, Realmedia, Quicktime, et al. can have your day of glory.
Although it is true that some things can be implemented cheaper in software, this is not necessarily true all the time. (And of course cheaper != better)
Is our future generic appliances that can upon downloading the latest software release do whatever we please. Although this would be nice, it is hardly realistic. It flies in the face of years and years of solid task-appropriate engineering.
Furthermore, I don't know anyone who doesn't have DSL because of the price of the damn DSL modem. Its like not having nike's because you can't afford to be replacing the shoe laces.
Software is great for implementing more niche-market type appliances (remember firewalls in the early days.) But the limitations and unnecessary over head of generic solutions will eventually give way to well-engineered solution-specific devices.
I thought winmodems were a thing of the past, but it seems someone is trying to reincarnate them in the DSL flavor. I am sure they will find the limitations of the sound cards a huge-tradeoff for the supposed money savings.
Why can I only create 32 base domains? Unlike regular Freenet, which offers virtually infinite choices of keys, FreeWeb allows you to claim from a limited set of domain names. This is one of the costs of FreeWeb working as an alternative Web. Basically, everyone is limited to 32 base domains so as to prevent "domain name squatting". In practice, it's very rare that anyone actually publishing websites would need anything near 32 unique top-level domain names.
Elsewhere in the FAQ the author claims that while Freeweb is not open source yet, when the code settles down, etc. it will be.
So, it seems kind of silly for him to be hardcoding this base domain limit. Because it is only a matter of time before a patch etc. becomes available.
In, addition to that, it has this silly in-freenet DNS That I won't comment on.
The real problem is that magnetic encoders typically cost in the 10,000 dollar range. Does anyone know where i can get one for cheaper?
"School voucher programs are bad because it imposes a blanket solution (vouchers vouchers everywhere) to a problem that only exists in certain areas (poorly funded inner city schools)."
The problem with your argument is you fail to show how school voucher programs would prove to be detrimental to schools outside the set of "poorly funded inner city schools."
I am glad that you can comprehend how they would benefit inner city children, but at the same time I would like to know how vouchers would not be a pareto-optimum solution.
The larger problem you face is, how are you going to prove that social-welfare is not maximized when competitive markets prevail?
Sigless.
"DeMatteis, without key card or severance check, stands at the back of the room."
I would think the company would still be liable for severance... even if he only did kind of work for one day.
One other thing, if your company was running out of money, barring extenuating circumstances... wouldn't you initiate a hiring freeze.
I got a chance to meet writer/director John Herzfeld in an advance screening in boston a month ago. Apparently, he has been trying to release this movie for 8 years now - finally new line cinema has picked it up. I think it has a theme that many of you have missed, but would ring true with the slashdot crowd. How far are we willing to allow the media to go? How much invasion of privacy is too much? When the media begins to affect the outcome of events they report on, where is the boundary?
John Herzfeld described the movie as "a satire which he hopes never becomes true."
Incidentally, when he prescreened the movie all he wanted to do was allow the audience to ask him a few questions after the movie. No forms, no lengthy questionaires. He came across as a great guy. Maybe I am just star-struck but I thought the film had just as much substance (both themewise and plotwise) if not more than the Matrix.
One last thing.... WARNING PLOT SPOILER
#
The writer/director was repeatedly told not to kill Robert DeNiro's charachter, because he could possibly have a DeNiro/Burns franchise on his hands if the movie was successful. But he never wanted to ruin the integrity of the film's message. Of course this comes all from his mouth, so take it as you will.
I find it funny that everyone is so suprised that the NSA has released the source code. Under GPL, don't they have to release the source code?
The author of the article states : If you haven't been following the cryptography area lately, let me assure you that this action by the NSA was the crypto equivalent of the Pope coming down off the balcony in Rome, working the crowd with a few loaves of bread and some fishes, and then inviting everyone to come over to his place to watch the soccer game and have a few beers.
Listing of email addresses of Boulder, CO Mesa Elementary School staff including the principals secretary
Just in case you feel the need to exercise your free speech.
The inventor of this chair should seriously apply for a patent on this...
if only to show how screwed up the USPTO is.
Then they can expand their Terms and Conditions to notify user of patent-pending proprietary technology, etc.
ridiculously funny realvideo encoded advertisements
I especially like the part where they intermix english phrases with their swedish language. When the clay baseball figure is on the screen, listen for him saying "catch you later" at the end of that particular ad.
Whats to prevent someone from not disclosing that they are in the reserves? Why does this have to be disclosed to your employer at the time of employment? Does anyone have any references to what is and what is not required of the reservist employee and potential/actual reservist employer?
S-58 3.0 p. 914 DMM issue 56
"Each piece of returned BRM is charged the applicable single-piece First-Class or Priority Mail postage. Cards must meet the standards in C100 to qualify for card rate postage. Any card larger than those dimensions is charged the applicable First-Class Mail letter rated. For Priority Mail over 5 pounds if the zone cannot be determined from a return address or cancellation, then the permit holder is charged zone 4 postage for the weight of the piece.
Furthermore, for all you people "strap a brick to the BRM and throw it in a mail box... yeah that will get them"
p. 913 S922 1.6
BRM may not be used for any purpose other than that intended by the permit holder, even if postage is affixed. In cases where a BRM card or letter is used improperly as a label, the USPS treats the item as waste.