Go for it, block American IPs at the South African routers, most Americans don't give a rat's ass about internet connectivity to South Africa. I suspect that the blocklisting of any American internet service would only inconvenience the South African ISPs' customers.
Well, the problem is that the copyright owners do not have 100% legal control over the material. There are laws regarding "fair use" of copyrighted material. The entertainment companies are preventing the exercise of users' fair use rights. The copyright laws give both the copyright owners certain provileges and protections (for a period of time) and it also gives users of the material certain provileges and protections. The lawmakers are not changing the laws to remove fair use rights, they are passing laws that prevent the exercise of these rights.
Without gettting the extra digital channels, the local cable system has about 83 channels. Of these 83 channels, 24 channels are cable local origination, Spanish language, Infomercial, Program Information, and Religious channels. This leaves 59 channels that most people would watch, which includes the local broadcast channels and CSPAN. Even with 59 channels, there is frequently nothing on that is worth watching. Starting sometime during the night and ending about 0600, almost every one of the 59 channels has infomercials on them. The cable company inserts infomercials on off-the-air channels and many of the cable networks go to infomercials in the wee hours of the morning. I haven't figured out the number of non-infomercial English language network programming available during a week, but I am sure that the number will be a fraction of what would appear to be available based upon the number of channels that we appear to receive.
I wouldn't bet on it. Many recent versions of Unix store hashed passwords in/etc/shadow, which should be owned by and readable only by root. The use of a root only readable file to store hashed passwords is neither universal nor is it enforced. Older versions of Unix by default store hashed passwords/etc/passwd, which is world readable.
For a while I worked with heavily galvanized radio tower parts. I noticed that I would occasionally get splinters from these parts or that the surfaces of galvanized steel could sometimes feel crunchy the first time it was touched. I knew that I could get splinters from freshly cut sheet metal but I couldn't figure out how galvanized steel could have metal splinters, now I know.
What does car/truck exhaust have to do with cigarette smoke inside public buildings? Except that both of them are air polutants and for some incidental relationships, they are otherwise unrelated. Those hospitals and perhaps other hospitals need to investigate their allowed traffic patterns. Most of the negative comments regarding cigarette smoke have been related to smoking in public places, and I do not believe that any of the comments advocated legislation regarding tobacco consumption. I advocate building owners and tenants (especially store owners) prohibiting smoking in their buildings and stores. I would hate to see any legislation that would prohibit any tobacco product (or any other plant material).
The problem is that the claimed right of group B is killing both themselves and group A in the excercise of their so-called "right". Since when is the ability to pollute indoor air with smoke a "right"?
Smokers and smoke in public places are dying out. The smoking status quo is turning, it used to be that smoking was allowed everywhere, including many areas that now seem like very strange places to smoke, like hospital wards. The tide started turning perhaps ten years ago. It is very good to be able to go to restaurants and other places that don't reek of cigarette smoke. I will leave the health issues to others, I am just enjoying the lack of smoke smell, cigarette butts, cigarette burns, and brown gunk. I have seen very expensive test equipment ruined by cigarette smoke (brown gunk from cigarette smoke along with humidity destroys the high voltage power supply in high end oscilloscopes). It is amazing to no longer smell stale cigarette smoke and see brown stains on air vents on airplanes and in restaurants. I hadn't really noticed the gradually reducing level of cigarette smoke in the indoor environment until I recently went into a mom and pop icecream store and did a u-turn when I smelled cigarette smoke. The smell was no different than I had experienced for most of my life, it was just that the levels of indoor smoke have been decreasing over the past few years to the point that the smell now just totally turns me off. There are usually arguments from bar owners when laws are passed that prohibit smoking in bars because they claim that they will lose business. I doubt that it will be very long before business INCREASES in bars that prohibit smoking. The day is quickly coming when BUILDING OWNERS and tenants ban all smoking in all indoor public areas in the U.S. Smokers need to get used to smoking on sidewalks and in parking lots instead of inside restaurants and other public areas.
The vast majority of the computers that use software dealing with VINs (insurance, auto repair, dealers, parts, etc.) use off-the-shelf software. This means that in the vast majority of cases, changing the number of characters in the VIN field would just mean installing a software upgrade and the installer program would take care of the database changes. I suspect that even the more on-off situations use software that is much easier to change than the older banking software.
And I thought that the Y2k issue was sort of shortsighted. These people have NO excuse for this fiasco. In 1981, the people who invented these VIN's thought that 31 years was sufficient? They didn't know that there were cars around that were more than 31 years old then? They thought so little of the cars made at that time to think that none of them would last for 31 years? To think, our tax money will help the DMV fix this problem, no matter how they fix it.
Farms have a tendancy to keep the gene pool cleaned out and children healthy, both in body and mind. I grew up around farms and have great respect for farm kids.
I just saw aryan-nations.org. I didn't realize that Christians have that much hate in them. Until seeing the Aryan Nation website I had no idea that Christians hate Jews and blacks as much as they hate homosexuals (godhatesfags.com).
At least in the case of disabling the censorware on a Linux system you know that the kid has learned something about Linux. It used to be, and probably still is, that kids could find instructions for disabling Windows censorware either on-line or passwd around at school.
Perhaps because the censoring criteria is being done in a knowlegable way by a parent, not by a corporation that may have it's own reason for censoring certain material. What happens when the RIAA has a little chat with the censoring software companies and the censoring companies decide that children shouldn't see something negative about the RIAA?
My understanding is that the capacity problems are due to poor design decisions in the downtown DC area that were made when METRO was built. Controlling Washington Metro usage by suburban raising parking prices will dramatically increase the number of people who will be driving into the urban area. It was my understanding that the purpose of building METRO out into the suburbs was to decrease the number of commuters driving into the urban area. I now understand why the suburban governments are loath to pay subsidies to METRO. One thing that makes no sense to me about reducing suburban METRO traffic by fleecing the riders with outragous parking rates, is that some people are looking at extending METRO to Dulles. The Dulles extension will cause a large increase in the METRO traffic going into downtown, even if there was a new blue line built between East Falls Church and Largo.
Las Vegas already has a small network of overhead walkways. A full network of overhead walkways with a Tomorrowland Transit Authority system (another Disneyland transportation system) would allow people to walk or to ride. At 10 MPH they are slower than a mono rail, but because they use linear induction propulsion it may be possible to speed them up.
The Dallas Fort Worth airport had a similar tram system that connected the various terminals. It appeared to be fully automated, although it could have been remotely operated. I still remember that you had to use coins (50c?) to get into the system and that the dollar bill changers at the tram stations gave you 95 cents for a dollar bill.
It seems odd that they would go to the expense of steam heating the "track", it seems that it would have been cheaper to just cover the whole thing. Covering the track would greatly reduce the need for steam heating and reduce or eliminate weather related deterioration of the track, mechanicals, and possibly the cars.
Another problem is that to get to mass transit stations, most people have to travel some number of miles from their home. Most inter-city train stations are in the center of a city and parking is impossible or VERY expensive. In some cities this is not a problem for local trains because the systems' designers provided for ample suburban station parking and the local administrators see free parking as an incentive for people to use mass transit. In other cities, such as with the Washington, DC METRO system, the inadequately sized METRO parking lots fill up early in the day and the administrators charge for parking to subsidise rail operations. For more information about Washington DC METRO fair and parking increases and anticipated reduction in usage, see today's article at http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A193 08-2004Jun30.html
Wow, that sounds secure, working for a startup whose "whole product line was based on a voice core that one of the developers had stolen from his previous employer". That is so wrong in so many ways. Brings to mind a t-shirt that said "We steal from the other guy and pass the savings on to you.".
Yeah, I know, I have heard all of the excuses: Some people bitch because their ISP's mail servers suck, and some people just want to run their own mail server as a hobby. Or somebody is running a business from a residential connection and doesn't want to look like a cheapskate because they use their ISPs mail servers. Some people have some sort of idea that blocking port 25 is taking something away from them. Not all spam comes from dynamic ports. Also there are some ISPs who have no idea how to filter port 25 for dynamic ports. There are other excuses, these are the most common.
Ita appears that the half assed port 25 filtering that Comcast is applying is being very effective, port 25 needs to be blocked from ALL dynamic port 25's, not just the ones they find to be spamming.
The vast majority of spam is coming from dynamic ports - BLOCK them. In every case where port 25 has been filtered, all spam sent by various viuses/worms/etc., was instantly stopped as soon as the filter was applied. Many of the bitches above can be solved by using a decent mail service (that uses s port other than port 25). If you don't like your ISP's mail servers, bitch at them for providing crappy service.
Mail servers should also be configured to block all incoming mail sent from port 25 on dynamic ports. This one is harder to do because there are is no way to identify all dynamic ports.
Spammers ruined open mail relays long ago, they are now ruining open port 25.
There are two major reasons that people see movies in theaters: the movie isn't (yet) available on DVD, or they want to see it on a big screen with good audio. If the movie was great, people come away from the movies with more than greasy fingers, they have the memory of the experience of seeing a great movie in a theater. With some movies it doesn't make much difference whether the movie is seen in a movie theater, a good home theater, a small television, or not seen at all. For some movies the experience of seeing it in a high quality movie theater makes the cost of admission worth the value of the memories. Most movies fall somewhere between these extremes. It is up to the individual where the movie falls and how much the individual wants to invest in seeing the movie. These individual tastes are what make it profitable for movie studios to make movies available in many different fomats, such as: 70mm movie, 35mm movie, purchased or rented DVD/VHS, pay-per-view, high defintion premium cable, premium cable, commercial television. There are many other formats that could become available and they will survive or die depending upon the market. Many of these formats either can be played as desired or can be recorded for later viewing. I know that kids will watch the same movie over and over. Some adults will watch the same movie more than once for a number of reasons. Some people like to collect movies, possibly for the same reason that other people collect matchbook covers or Barbie dolls. There are markets for movies in many different formats, some of those formats are single use, some can be viewed a number of times for a limited length of time, and others can be viewed any number of times for essentially an unlimited number of times. Consumers must be vigilant to avoid any new format that takes any of the currently legal freedoms from the consumer in how they use the movie that they have purchased.
Other than potential RF interference concerns (which is the reason for this rule), why would a college give a rat's ass if students ran their own wireless networks? I can understand a prohibition regarding the connection of a wireless network to the college network (this prohibition may be unworkable in practice), but for a college to attempt to prohibit the otherwise legal use of a Part 15 device is ridiculous. Are there colleges that used to prohibit the use of Part 15 walky-talkies, baby monitors, automobile keyless entry systems, or garage door opener transmitters?
This could raise an interesting situation involving the FAA. By further extension, depending upon how far the FCC wants to extend this, an airline could not prohibit you from using a Part 15 compliant device on an aircraft. A lawyer could could possibly work this into a four way pissing contest involving an airline, a passenger, the FAA, and the FCC; and possibly as a special bonus a law enforcement agency.
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It could have just been that the Leeds City Council thought that it was more likely to successfully prosecute the guy for a violation of the advertisng permit law rather than trying to prosecute him for vandalism. It could also have something to do with the fact that a large corporation was involved. Something like the (former?) practice of prosecuting organized crime figures for tax evasion. It could also be that there was some sort of plea bargaining that occured, sort of like the hit and run drunk driver who wipes out an entire family, who then cops a plea to one count of involantary manslaughter.
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Go for it, block American IPs at the South African routers, most Americans don't give a rat's ass about internet connectivity to South Africa. I suspect that the blocklisting of any American internet service would only inconvenience the South African ISPs' customers.
Well, the problem is that the copyright owners do not have 100% legal control over the material. There are laws regarding "fair use" of copyrighted material. The entertainment companies are preventing the exercise of users' fair use rights. The copyright laws give both the copyright owners certain provileges and protections (for a period of time) and it also gives users of the material certain provileges and protections. The lawmakers are not changing the laws to remove fair use rights, they are passing laws that prevent the exercise of these rights.
Without gettting the extra digital channels, the local cable system has about 83 channels. Of these 83 channels, 24 channels are cable local origination, Spanish language, Infomercial, Program Information, and Religious channels. This leaves 59 channels that most people would watch, which includes the local broadcast channels and CSPAN. Even with 59 channels, there is frequently nothing on that is worth watching. Starting sometime during the night and ending about 0600, almost every one of the 59 channels has infomercials on them. The cable company inserts infomercials on off-the-air channels and many of the cable networks go to infomercials in the wee hours of the morning. I haven't figured out the number of non-infomercial English language network programming available during a week, but I am sure that the number will be a fraction of what would appear to be available based upon the number of channels that we appear to receive.
I wouldn't bet on it. Many recent versions of Unix store hashed passwords in /etc/shadow, which should be owned by and readable only by root. The use of a root only readable file to store hashed passwords is neither universal nor is it enforced. Older versions of Unix by default store hashed passwords /etc/passwd, which is world readable.
For a while I worked with heavily galvanized radio tower parts. I noticed that I would occasionally get splinters from these parts or that the surfaces of galvanized steel could sometimes feel crunchy the first time it was touched. I knew that I could get splinters from freshly cut sheet metal but I couldn't figure out how galvanized steel could have metal splinters, now I know.
What does car/truck exhaust have to do with cigarette smoke inside public buildings? Except that both of them are air polutants and for some incidental relationships, they are otherwise unrelated. Those hospitals and perhaps other hospitals need to investigate their allowed traffic patterns. Most of the negative comments regarding cigarette smoke have been related to smoking in public places, and I do not believe that any of the comments advocated legislation regarding tobacco consumption. I advocate building owners and tenants (especially store owners) prohibiting smoking in their buildings and stores. I would hate to see any legislation that would prohibit any tobacco product (or any other plant material).
The problem is that the claimed right of group B is killing both themselves and group A in the excercise of their so-called "right". Since when is the ability to pollute indoor air with smoke a "right"?
Smokers and smoke in public places are dying out. The smoking status quo is turning, it used to be that smoking was allowed everywhere, including many areas that now seem like very strange places to smoke, like hospital wards. The tide started turning perhaps ten years ago. It is very good to be able to go to restaurants and other places that don't reek of cigarette smoke. I will leave the health issues to others, I am just enjoying the lack of smoke smell, cigarette butts, cigarette burns, and brown gunk. I have seen very expensive test equipment ruined by cigarette smoke (brown gunk from cigarette smoke along with humidity destroys the high voltage power supply in high end oscilloscopes). It is amazing to no longer smell stale cigarette smoke and see brown stains on air vents on airplanes and in restaurants. I hadn't really noticed the gradually reducing level of cigarette smoke in the indoor environment until I recently went into a mom and pop icecream store and did a u-turn when I smelled cigarette smoke. The smell was no different than I had experienced for most of my life, it was just that the levels of indoor smoke have been decreasing over the past few years to the point that the smell now just totally turns me off. There are usually arguments from bar owners when laws are passed that prohibit smoking in bars because they claim that they will lose business. I doubt that it will be very long before business INCREASES in bars that prohibit smoking. The day is quickly coming when BUILDING OWNERS and tenants ban all smoking in all indoor public areas in the U.S. Smokers need to get used to smoking on sidewalks and in parking lots instead of inside restaurants and other public areas.
The vast majority of the computers that use software dealing with VINs (insurance, auto repair, dealers, parts, etc.) use off-the-shelf software. This means that in the vast majority of cases, changing the number of characters in the VIN field would just mean installing a software upgrade and the installer program would take care of the database changes. I suspect that even the more on-off situations use software that is much easier to change than the older banking software.
And I thought that the Y2k issue was sort of shortsighted. These people have NO excuse for this fiasco. In 1981, the people who invented these VIN's thought that 31 years was sufficient? They didn't know that there were cars around that were more than 31 years old then? They thought so little of the cars made at that time to think that none of them would last for 31 years? To think, our tax money will help the DMV fix this problem, no matter how they fix it.
Farms have a tendancy to keep the gene pool cleaned out and children healthy, both in body and mind. I grew up around farms and have great respect for farm kids.
I just saw aryan-nations.org. I didn't realize that Christians have that much hate in them. Until seeing the Aryan Nation website I had no idea that Christians hate Jews and blacks as much as they hate homosexuals (godhatesfags.com).
At least in the case of disabling the censorware on a Linux system you know that the kid has learned something about Linux. It used to be, and probably still is, that kids could find instructions for disabling Windows censorware either on-line or passwd around at school.
Perhaps because the censoring criteria is being done in a knowlegable way by a parent, not by a corporation that may have it's own reason for censoring certain material. What happens when the RIAA has a little chat with the censoring software companies and the censoring companies decide that children shouldn't see something negative about the RIAA?
My understanding is that the capacity problems are due to poor design decisions in the downtown DC area that were made when METRO was built. Controlling Washington Metro usage by suburban raising parking prices will dramatically increase the number of people who will be driving into the urban area. It was my understanding that the purpose of building METRO out into the suburbs was to decrease the number of commuters driving into the urban area. I now understand why the suburban governments are loath to pay subsidies to METRO. One thing that makes no sense to me about reducing suburban METRO traffic by fleecing the riders with outragous parking rates, is that some people are looking at extending METRO to Dulles. The Dulles extension will cause a large increase in the METRO traffic going into downtown, even if there was a new blue line built between East Falls Church and Largo.
Las Vegas already has a small network of overhead walkways. A full network of overhead walkways with a Tomorrowland Transit Authority system (another Disneyland transportation system) would allow people to walk or to ride. At 10 MPH they are slower than a mono rail, but because they use linear induction propulsion it may be possible to speed them up.
The Dallas Fort Worth airport had a similar tram system that connected the various terminals. It appeared to be fully automated, although it could have been remotely operated. I still remember that you had to use coins (50c?) to get into the system and that the dollar bill changers at the tram stations gave you 95 cents for a dollar bill.
It seems odd that they would go to the expense of steam heating the "track", it seems that it would have been cheaper to just cover the whole thing. Covering the track would greatly reduce the need for steam heating and reduce or eliminate weather related deterioration of the track, mechanicals, and possibly the cars.
Another problem is that to get to mass transit stations, most people have to travel some number of miles from their home. Most inter-city train stations are in the center of a city and parking is impossible or VERY expensive. In some cities this is not a problem for local trains because the systems' designers provided for ample suburban station parking and the local administrators see free parking as an incentive for people to use mass transit. In other cities, such as with the Washington, DC METRO system, the inadequately sized METRO parking lots fill up early in the day and the administrators charge for parking to subsidise rail operations. For more information about Washington DC METRO fair and parking increases and anticipated reduction in usage, see today's article at http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A193 08-2004Jun30.html
Wow, that sounds secure, working for a startup whose "whole product line was based on a voice core that one of the developers had stolen from his previous employer". That is so wrong in so many ways. Brings to mind a t-shirt that said "We steal from the other guy and pass the savings on to you.".
Yeah, I know, I have heard all of the excuses: Some people bitch because their ISP's mail servers suck, and some people just want to run their own mail server as a hobby. Or somebody is running a business from a residential connection and doesn't want to look like a cheapskate because they use their ISPs mail servers. Some people have some sort of idea that blocking port 25 is taking something away from them. Not all spam comes from dynamic ports. Also there are some ISPs who have no idea how to filter port 25 for dynamic ports. There are other excuses, these are the most common.
Ita appears that the half assed port 25 filtering that Comcast is applying is being very effective, port 25 needs to be blocked from ALL dynamic port 25's, not just the ones they find to be spamming.
The vast majority of spam is coming from dynamic ports - BLOCK them. In every case where port 25 has been filtered, all spam sent by various viuses/worms/etc., was instantly stopped as soon as the filter was applied. Many of the bitches above can be solved by using a decent mail service (that uses s port other than port 25). If you don't like your ISP's mail servers, bitch at them for providing crappy service.
Mail servers should also be configured to block all incoming mail sent from port 25 on dynamic ports. This one is harder to do because there are is no way to identify all dynamic ports.
Spammers ruined open mail relays long ago, they are now ruining open port 25.
There are two major reasons that people see movies in theaters: the movie isn't (yet) available on DVD, or they want to see it on a big screen with good audio. If the movie was great, people come away from the movies with more than greasy fingers, they have the memory of the experience of seeing a great movie in a theater. With some movies it doesn't make much difference whether the movie is seen in a movie theater, a good home theater, a small television, or not seen at all. For some movies the experience of seeing it in a high quality movie theater makes the cost of admission worth the value of the memories. Most movies fall somewhere between these extremes. It is up to the individual where the movie falls and how much the individual wants to invest in seeing the movie. These individual tastes are what make it profitable for movie studios to make movies available in many different fomats, such as: 70mm movie, 35mm movie, purchased or rented DVD/VHS, pay-per-view, high defintion premium cable, premium cable, commercial television. There are many other formats that could become available and they will survive or die depending upon the market. Many of these formats either can be played as desired or can be recorded for later viewing. I know that kids will watch the same movie over and over. Some adults will watch the same movie more than once for a number of reasons. Some people like to collect movies, possibly for the same reason that other people collect matchbook covers or Barbie dolls. There are markets for movies in many different formats, some of those formats are single use, some can be viewed a number of times for a limited length of time, and others can be viewed any number of times for essentially an unlimited number of times. Consumers must be vigilant to avoid any new format that takes any of the currently legal freedoms from the consumer in how they use the movie that they have purchased.
It looks like the FCC just trumped your regulations.
Other than potential RF interference concerns (which is the reason for this rule), why would a college give a rat's ass if students ran their own wireless networks? I can understand a prohibition regarding the connection of a wireless network to the college network (this prohibition may be unworkable in practice), but for a college to attempt to prohibit the otherwise legal use of a Part 15 device is ridiculous. Are there colleges that used to prohibit the use of Part 15 walky-talkies, baby monitors, automobile keyless entry systems, or garage door opener transmitters?
This could raise an interesting situation involving the FAA. By further extension, depending upon how far the FCC wants to extend this, an airline could not prohibit you from using a Part 15 compliant device on an aircraft. A lawyer could could possibly work this into a four way pissing contest involving an airline, a passenger, the FAA, and the FCC; and possibly as a special bonus a law enforcement agency.
It could have just been that the Leeds City Council thought that it was more likely to successfully prosecute the guy for a violation of the advertisng permit law rather than trying to prosecute him for vandalism. It could also have something to do with the fact that a large corporation was involved. Something like the (former?) practice of prosecuting organized crime figures for tax evasion. It could also be that there was some sort of plea bargaining that occured, sort of like the hit and run drunk driver who wipes out an entire family, who then cops a plea to one count of involantary manslaughter.