Doesn't always work. My ISP(Cogeco cable) doesn't allow inbound SMTP connections to its users.
The only other high-speed residential option is Bell's DSL, which has other issues(such as not being terribly high-speed). A regional ISP does offer residential DSL, but not to my particular area.
And I'm not a business, I've got a limited budget, so I can't afford something more expensive like a business connection. Always-on Internet is an expense I'm willing to deal with, but not by much.
Losing the nagware would be enough of an improvement on its own. I really should've thought to look at sourceforge sooner, but it's been a real pain otherwise, trying to find a free FTP client; SmartFTP doesn't shut itself off like, say, Bulletproof, but it still nags me a fair bit. I like my GUI, yes(though for quick transfers I sometimes just drop to a command prompt and run the BSDish FTP that comes with Windows).
I wish my provider was half so responsible. If their filter flags something as spam, it's dropped on the floor. I've missed legitimate e-mail because of it - some from Yahoo Groups, indeed, and also mail that I tried to send to myself to have a copy when I did a reformat. Gone. Who knows what else I've missed that I didn't have any way of knowing about.
When I was in my latter years at university, they had the decency to flag messages as spam and send them anyway. Then a tech-savvy user could incorporate that in his/her own filtering rules. Good thing, because even with the little traffic I had on that address, I had enough false positives to notice.
The best part? Cogeco doesn't have ANYTHING in place whereby I can complain, or become exempt from the filter, or anything like that. Tech "support" just tells me to talk to the sender and get them to change things.
Part A is on a per-plant basis. I wouldn't be surprised if the total effect on greenhouse gases is less for all nuke plants combined than for a single or a few coal-burners, but not knowing how much(if any) steam gets vented, I can't make that declaration.
And I do know that nuclear plants do contribute to algal blooms due to warm water being put back into the waterways. Nuclear plants aren't perfect, and they leave a long-term problem, but they don't toss junk into the upper atmosphere for the whole world to share.
Except that A) nuclear plants don't release massive amounts of heavy metals and greenhouse gases(not nearly so much as coal, for sure) and B) the fact that the waste can be(well, is) concentrated makes it easier to deal with than the same waste being vented into the atmosphere.
Agreed. I'm not sure how this falls under "Your Rights Online", unless it's the copyright holders' rights being thought of. And I wouldn't bet on that.
In this case, everyone got their access cut because of the actions of a few. As a precedent, it'd be pathetic if it weren't so scary.
This is a larger example of how I've seen the school system to work, though. One child abuses something, the whole class - maybe the whole school - has it forbidden as a result.
IANAUS Citizen, and don't really know enough about the FBI to comment in detail, but I do agree with the rest of the parent comment. That this sort of thing might happen at the behest of a monopoly with a clear interest in the matter is utterly reprehensible(a disinterested third party that happens to be a monopoly in some other matter would be at least somewhat less nasty, but only because it's less credible that they spend large amounts of money lobbying for it; if they do, look for a hidden interest).
Even if it didn't, the plausibility of the situation is still rather scary.
People who download on P2P networks often have their download directory shared(the default). If they leech, then they might be conspiring to commit copyright, but they are not themselves making a copy. (That doesn't mean they're innocent, but you can't charge them of the same thing.)
The moment someone rips a disc themselves and puts that rip up for distribution, they've violated copyright(because it's no longer personal use, even if they don't themselves make any money off it).
Receiving data is not a crime on its own. Obtaining that data illegally, or sending that data illegally, are both crimes(assuming it's voluntary, whether or not you know it's a crime), but they are distinct. No blanket lawsuits against both groups together.
Libraries also expect you to return their limited number of copies. They're not changing the number of instances; they're only allowing people to borrow those instances.
Librariers don't run off copies of the books and give them to comers; they have an inventory and they want it back.
Even if he were talking about the present, you still need to get cases of some stripe for them. But yes, the price has definitely come down substantially. Of course, that won't be the case if the recording industry associations stick a surcharge of a dollar apiece on there or whatever.
Just so long as you're not one of those people who, despite the bit in the service agreement about outages for which the company is not liable, calls in swearing a blue streak because you don't have perfect coverage everywhere, every minute of the day...
Better example: People will pay for Linux distribution CDs. Perhaps they have a small pipe, perhaps their bandwidth costs are otherwise expensive, perhaps they don't have burners, or perhaps they just want the original right from the maker, but some people will buy CDs instead of downloading the ISOs.
Terry Goodkind actually noted this - in fantasy, of all things. It's the namesake aphorism in "Wizard's First Rule", namely, "People are stupid. They'll believe anything if they want it to be true, or if they're afraid it might be."
It's fiction, yes, and the two latter parts sometimes come into conflict, but it's reasonably astute for all that.
Indeed. Both of them can be refined or even dismissed due to empirical evidence. The "just a theory" mantra is probably the single greatest barrier to scientific understanding among the general populace.
Newton's Laws of Motion don't hold true in all circumstances. Newtonian mechanics are far from absolute; that's what this whole experiment is based on, if I understand it right(IANAPhysicist). But as long as their conditions are met, they have been seen to apply. That is a law.
A law, in science, is what is seen to happen. A theory is why.
Neither does the expense that goes into things. This is not intended to prove a point on its own, but the ratio of safe to unsafe launches is one point to consider; the number of unsafe launches, on its own, is another. In this case, "unsafe" is determined by Mother Nature proving it so.
If they've cut corners wisely, the fact that they've cut corners is less significant than some might want us to believe.
According to the Wiki, frame-dragging has already been observed within 20% of predicted value. If this probe doesn't detect it, it's definitely worth taking a long, hard look at the experiment, given that past efforts have already seen it - just not with anything resembling precision.
Parking tickets are a traffic violation. If you can't park your care safely, why should we believe you're any better at driving it? Impeding a fire route can imperil as many people as unsafe driving - perhaps more - and if you're not attentive enough to notice a NO PARKING sign, are you attentive enough to be driving? Meters, eh... I can see some argument about parking meters.
I do agree with the substance of your post, though; the ability to drive should not be dependent on things that have nothing to do with your ability to control or maintain the vehicle.
(Mind you, if you're behind in taxes, why are you pumping money into a car? General "you", in this case.)
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Doesn't always work. My ISP(Cogeco cable) doesn't allow inbound SMTP connections to its users.
The only other high-speed residential option is Bell's DSL, which has other issues(such as not being terribly high-speed). A regional ISP does offer residential DSL, but not to my particular area.
And I'm not a business, I've got a limited budget, so I can't afford something more expensive like a business connection. Always-on Internet is an expense I'm willing to deal with, but not by much.
If they're using TTY over IP, they should just get on IRC or something if they want "phone sex". Eliminate the middle man. Probably cheaper as well.
But yes. There are times in which people expect to be anonymous when placing a phone call, and the deaf should be no exception.
Losing the nagware would be enough of an improvement on its own. I really should've thought to look at sourceforge sooner, but it's been a real pain otherwise, trying to find a free FTP client; SmartFTP doesn't shut itself off like, say, Bulletproof, but it still nags me a fair bit. I like my GUI, yes(though for quick transfers I sometimes just drop to a command prompt and run the BSDish FTP that comes with Windows).
I wish my provider was half so responsible. If their filter flags something as spam, it's dropped on the floor. I've missed legitimate e-mail because of it - some from Yahoo Groups, indeed, and also mail that I tried to send to myself to have a copy when I did a reformat. Gone. Who knows what else I've missed that I didn't have any way of knowing about.
When I was in my latter years at university, they had the decency to flag messages as spam and send them anyway. Then a tech-savvy user could incorporate that in his/her own filtering rules. Good thing, because even with the little traffic I had on that address, I had enough false positives to notice.
The best part? Cogeco doesn't have ANYTHING in place whereby I can complain, or become exempt from the filter, or anything like that. Tech "support" just tells me to talk to the sender and get them to change things.
Yeah, right.
Part A is on a per-plant basis. I wouldn't be surprised if the total effect on greenhouse gases is less for all nuke plants combined than for a single or a few coal-burners, but not knowing how much(if any) steam gets vented, I can't make that declaration.
And I do know that nuclear plants do contribute to algal blooms due to warm water being put back into the waterways. Nuclear plants aren't perfect, and they leave a long-term problem, but they don't toss junk into the upper atmosphere for the whole world to share.
Except that A) nuclear plants don't release massive amounts of heavy metals and greenhouse gases(not nearly so much as coal, for sure) and B) the fact that the waste can be(well, is) concentrated makes it easier to deal with than the same waste being vented into the atmosphere.
I think it might be a matter of syllable count. You know, that big, arcane word "automatically" just got ignored as too long to be relevant.
Agreed. I'm not sure how this falls under "Your Rights Online", unless it's the copyright holders' rights being thought of. And I wouldn't bet on that.
IANAUS Citizen, and don't really know enough about the FBI to comment in detail, but I do agree with the rest of the parent comment. That this sort of thing might happen at the behest of a monopoly with a clear interest in the matter is utterly reprehensible(a disinterested third party that happens to be a monopoly in some other matter would be at least somewhat less nasty, but only because it's less credible that they spend large amounts of money lobbying for it; if they do, look for a hidden interest).
Even if it didn't, the plausibility of the situation is still rather scary.
People who download on P2P networks often have their download directory shared(the default). If they leech, then they might be conspiring to commit copyright, but they are not themselves making a copy. (That doesn't mean they're innocent, but you can't charge them of the same thing.)
The moment someone rips a disc themselves and puts that rip up for distribution, they've violated copyright(because it's no longer personal use, even if they don't themselves make any money off it).
Receiving data is not a crime on its own. Obtaining that data illegally, or sending that data illegally, are both crimes(assuming it's voluntary, whether or not you know it's a crime), but they are distinct. No blanket lawsuits against both groups together.
Libraries also expect you to return their limited number of copies. They're not changing the number of instances; they're only allowing people to borrow those instances.
Librariers don't run off copies of the books and give them to comers; they have an inventory and they want it back.
Even if he were talking about the present, you still need to get cases of some stripe for them. But yes, the price has definitely come down substantially. Of course, that won't be the case if the recording industry associations stick a surcharge of a dollar apiece on there or whatever.
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Ah, I see. Not IANAL. Just IANYL.
Just so long as you're not one of those people who, despite the bit in the service agreement about outages for which the company is not liable, calls in swearing a blue streak because you don't have perfect coverage everywhere, every minute of the day...
That has to be the longest expansion of "IANAL" I've seen to date.
I'm sure someone will go ahead and post a longer one, but nevertheless...
Better example: People will pay for Linux distribution CDs. Perhaps they have a small pipe, perhaps their bandwidth costs are otherwise expensive, perhaps they don't have burners, or perhaps they just want the original right from the maker, but some people will buy CDs instead of downloading the ISOs.
Terry Goodkind actually noted this - in fantasy, of all things. It's the namesake aphorism in "Wizard's First Rule", namely, "People are stupid. They'll believe anything if they want it to be true, or if they're afraid it might be."
It's fiction, yes, and the two latter parts sometimes come into conflict, but it's reasonably astute for all that.
Indeed. Both of them can be refined or even dismissed due to empirical evidence. The "just a theory" mantra is probably the single greatest barrier to scientific understanding among the general populace.
Newton's Laws of Motion don't hold true in all circumstances. Newtonian mechanics are far from absolute; that's what this whole experiment is based on, if I understand it right(IANAPhysicist). But as long as their conditions are met, they have been seen to apply. That is a law.
A law, in science, is what is seen to happen. A theory is why.
Neither does the expense that goes into things. This is not intended to prove a point on its own, but the ratio of safe to unsafe launches is one point to consider; the number of unsafe launches, on its own, is another. In this case, "unsafe" is determined by Mother Nature proving it so.
If they've cut corners wisely, the fact that they've cut corners is less significant than some might want us to believe.
According to the Wiki, frame-dragging has already been observed within 20% of predicted value. If this probe doesn't detect it, it's definitely worth taking a long, hard look at the experiment, given that past efforts have already seen it - just not with anything resembling precision.
Parking tickets are a traffic violation. If you can't park your care safely, why should we believe you're any better at driving it? Impeding a fire route can imperil as many people as unsafe driving - perhaps more - and if you're not attentive enough to notice a NO PARKING sign, are you attentive enough to be driving? Meters, eh... I can see some argument about parking meters.
I do agree with the substance of your post, though; the ability to drive should not be dependent on things that have nothing to do with your ability to control or maintain the vehicle.
(Mind you, if you're behind in taxes, why are you pumping money into a car? General "you", in this case.)
And that would be a really good cyclist, a really slow speed limit, or a really big hill.