Cell telcos are subject to the same regulations that traditional (landline) telcos are.
For example, they must allow access to 911. Even if your phone has been disconnected or no longer in service, they have to allow you to call 911. There are even charity groups that collect old, out-of-service phones and give them to abuse victims. They can use the old cell phones to call 911, nothing else.
Traditional telcos have batteries and generators at their exchanges. This keeps your phone working through power outages. It makes sense for the landline telco to keep the exchange up since the exchange services a large area. Cell towers may or may not have any power redudancy. It's not exactly cost effecient to keep generators at every single cell tower, each of which services a much smaller number of people. (Over time, I do beleive that the government mandated landline telcos to have power backup to keep 911 operational.)
Replacing a disk like that is not hard, though, so if you DON'T wanna do it yourself - why not have the courier do ALL that work and skip sending expensive technicians?
The technician is expensive because he is trained and knows what he's doing. The courier is getting paid barely above minimum wage to deliver packages.
I know replacing disks isn't hard... for us. That's because we know what we are doing in there. But just as I could assemble a computer blindfolded, you wouldn't want to put me in the engine of a car. It probably wouldn't run after I got done with it.
I sure as hell don't want the UPS man fiddling around inside my server.
I can see the scene now: *knock knock* UPS Man: Hello, I'm here to fix your server. Me: OK, it's in here. (Five minutes later) UPS Man: Oops! Me: What do you mean, UPS? You are the UPS man. UPS Man: No, oops! I don't think this is supposed to smoke.
*shudders*
I'll stick to qualified techs or doing it myself, thank you.
Lieberfarb looked for new ways to reach film audiences, but often ran into a fear that any new distribution outlets would merely siphon away fans from theaters and television. Entertainment companies fear "disruptive technologies," not realizing that "we all win," he laments.
Doesn't that say it all? Yo, music industry!
But hey, if we're making assloads of money the way we do things now, why risk something new?
I regularly have my cell phone forwarded to my telephone. In fact once you do that you can turn the cell phone off since the call is routed completely by the cell phone company.
Except that costs $.15/min regardless of how many of your plan minutes you have used, whether or not you are off-peak, etc.
That could make for a very unpleasant suprise in your bill.
I've never been to a Texas rest stop. I have been to a lot along I-77 and I-80. (I drove to Wyoming last summer.) The I-80 rest stops weren't of the highest quality. (Ohio notwithstanding, the turnpike travel plazas are quite nice.) The rest stops were OK, but NOT somewhere I'd want to be after dark.
Damnit, looks like I'm finally gonna have to update from RealPlayer 8. I can't wait to have my associations for media files taken over by Real's shitware! Bah.
But thank you for the link-- here I was wasting my time looking for the clip on P2P.
The parent isn't a troll-- he's actually quite right!
You do get the feeling that Quinnis quite ignorant as you watch his show. And he's not funny. Hell, most of the time when he's giving his monologue, the audience doesn't even laugh! Yet his show keeps getting good ratings, and I'll agree with the parent that it's because of the guests that make the show funny.
Oh, and we're not the only two that think Quinn sucks.
lol, I'm full aware that this isn't a copyright issure.
I was using sarcasm to make fun of how the (RI|MP)AA beleive they own everything. And then they lobby Congress to pass laws that ass rape you of your rights. But what does that matter, since the laws might prevent a few people from making a copy of the latest Top 40 shit band. Even if it's at the expense of preventing indpendant publishers from creating and distributing their works on the Intarweb. But that would be profitable to Big Content, which makes me wonder if that's what DRM's ultimate goal is... </tinfoil-hat>
On a side note (and wow I'm getting really offtopic, but), there is no such thing as Intellectual Property. See this very well-thought out post.
You're kidding, right??? It's just as trivially easy to pirate Playstation games once you've modded the box, and it's been pirated wayyyy more than DC or any other. Yet it's still on top making the most money for it's creators. Piracy is a non-issue. In fact, it helps more than it hurts in most cases.
Exactly: You have to mod your box first.
A lot of people won't mod their box because they either don't know how to, don't want to risk messing something up, don't want to pay someone else to do it, or don't want to void the warranty.
On the Dreamcast, at the most, all you'd need is a boot disc. It was so easy that your grandma could pirate games.
I vaguely recall what you're talking about. I can't remember what they were covering or what made them break down but I remember laughing at it.
I think it's the only time I've ever seen Colbert break character.
If they had a DVD full of the best of The Daily Show, I'd actually buy it. And I don't buy DVDs of TV shows. (Which as it turns out has come back to bite me in the ass since all the Futuramas that I encoded onto CD are now all suffering from bitrot. It's really quite sad.)
I love Colbert! He's so hilarious partly because he's so damn serious. The man could describe how he saw a gay porno tape with GW Bush in it with a totally straight face.
The BEST scene they did was when Colbert was live 'from Mars.' He'd wait 20 seconds before responding to Stewart "because of the transmission delay." I was literally on the floor laughing my ass off.
Since I usually have Comedy Central on in the background (as it is usually quality programming), I have seen a few ads for this new show.
It looks like it is gonna suck. Ass.
Most likely it'll flop after 3 episodes. And good, it looks rediculusly annoying.
It'll go in the pile of CC shows I hate, along with Colin Quinn's Tough Crowd. Which I'm amazed hasn't been canceled yet. Futurama would be so much nicer there!
The Daily Show is awesome. Yes, it is not Real News®. But they do make it more than obvious. Stewart often refers to himself as a "fake newsman." He calls the show "a fake news show" all the time. I remember when they were doing a green screen bit (where they pretend to be on location) and the computer switched off (so you just saw the green). "Now you know our horrible secret!" Classic!
You'll be able to do it, it just won't be legal! (Hence why you have to download the plans off P2P.)
You see, if you grow your own car, you'd be infringing on the car company's copyright. (The car companies have have a non-expiring copyright on all Cars®, you see.)
Furthermore, growing your own car will be a felony punishable by a $1,000,000 fine and 30 years in Federal Pound-Me-In-the-Ass prison under the DMCLFMBBC (Digital Millenium Copyrights Last For a Millenium to Benefit Big Companies) Act of 2007.
Oh, and you might as well not even bother to try and download a car since your computer will just blow up anyways.
A lot of people have been suggesting some kind of MAC-based access control.
Don't waste your time.
The determined student can ever-so-easily skate right past MAC filtering. For example, if I'm in the class where I'm not supposed to connect, I can just sniff a MAC from the adjacent (wide-open) room and use that. Or just make one up, if you are using a blacklist instead of a whitelist.
Go with NoCat or, more preferably, a VPN. Anyone can associate with the AP, but the AP is firewalled from the rest of the network. A VPN has the added benefit of having real data security (as opposed to WEP).
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For example, they must allow access to 911. Even if your phone has been disconnected or no longer in service, they have to allow you to call 911. There are even charity groups that collect old, out-of-service phones and give them to abuse victims. They can use the old cell phones to call 911, nothing else.
Traditional telcos have batteries and generators at their exchanges. This keeps your phone working through power outages. It makes sense for the landline telco to keep the exchange up since the exchange services a large area. Cell towers may or may not have any power redudancy. It's not exactly cost effecient to keep generators at every single cell tower, each of which services a much smaller number of people. (Over time, I do beleive that the government mandated landline telcos to have power backup to keep 911 operational.)
I spent no less than 60 seconds staring at the intro screen trying to figgure out how to get in to the damn site.
I hate intro screens.
When I finally realized that clicking the ad wasn't actually clicking an ad, I was presented with a just-as-mysterious layout on the homepage.
62 calls at once is due to the fact that there is only so much space in the radio spectrum.
Remember kids, wireless communication is NOT unlimited. That's why we have the FCC. ;)
The technician is expensive because he is trained and knows what he's doing. The courier is getting paid barely above minimum wage to deliver packages.
I know replacing disks isn't hard... for us. That's because we know what we are doing in there. But just as I could assemble a computer blindfolded, you wouldn't want to put me in the engine of a car. It probably wouldn't run after I got done with it.
I sure as hell don't want the UPS man fiddling around inside my server.
I can see the scene now:
*knock knock*
UPS Man: Hello, I'm here to fix your server.
Me: OK, it's in here.
(Five minutes later)
UPS Man: Oops!
Me: What do you mean, UPS? You are the UPS man.
UPS Man: No, oops! I don't think this is supposed to smoke.
*shudders*
I'll stick to qualified techs or doing it myself, thank you.
Then may I be the first to say, "burn in hell, you bastard!"
My right hand thanks you.
Doesn't that say it all? Yo, music industry!
But hey, if we're making assloads of money the way we do things now, why risk something new?
Finally, you have given us a reason to get off our collective asses and clean up that funny stuff that's been growing in the corner.
So I say, patent away! You'll be doing a favor for society.
Except that costs $.15/min regardless of how many of your plan minutes you have used, whether or not you are off-peak, etc.
That could make for a very unpleasant suprise in your bill.
I've seen signs for an exit as much as eleven miles in advance! There are also usually 1 mile, ½ mile, and ¼ mile markers.
I've never been to a Texas rest stop. I have been to a lot along I-77 and I-80. (I drove to Wyoming last summer.) The I-80 rest stops weren't of the highest quality. (Ohio notwithstanding, the turnpike travel plazas are quite nice.) The rest stops were OK, but NOT somewhere I'd want to be after dark.
I don't like rest stops. They are usually pretty dirty.
Especially in the dirty, undermaintained rest stops, I don't feel safe. (Usually there isn't a staff person to be seen anywhere.)
I would not bust out my $1300 laptop and sit around in a rest stop to browse the net unless I was packing.
On the other hand, turnpike plazas are usually very nice. I would consider some web browsing there.
Beats me, why don't you ask the Fox programming execs?
*rimshot*
Oh, wait... that's the Colin Cunningham fan club. Quinn doesn't seem to have one...
Mabye because he sucks.
But thank you for the link-- here I was wasting my time looking for the clip on P2P.
Don't I feel like an asshole now?
You do get the feeling that Quinnis quite ignorant as you watch his show. And he's not funny. Hell, most of the time when he's giving his monologue, the audience doesn't even laugh! Yet his show keeps getting good ratings, and I'll agree with the parent that it's because of the guests that make the show funny.
Oh, and we're not the only two that think Quinn sucks.
I was using sarcasm to make fun of how the (RI|MP)AA beleive they own everything. And then they lobby Congress to pass laws that ass rape you of your rights. But what does that matter, since the laws might prevent a few people from making a copy of the latest Top 40 shit band. Even if it's at the expense of preventing indpendant publishers from creating and distributing their works on the Intarweb. But that would be profitable to Big Content, which makes me wonder if that's what DRM's ultimate goal is... </tinfoil-hat>
On a side note (and wow I'm getting really offtopic, but), there is no such thing as Intellectual Property. See this very well-thought out post.
Exactly: You have to mod your box first.
A lot of people won't mod their box because they either don't know how to, don't want to risk messing something up, don't want to pay someone else to do it, or don't want to void the warranty.
On the Dreamcast, at the most, all you'd need is a boot disc. It was so easy that your grandma could pirate games.
I think it's the only time I've ever seen Colbert break character.
If they had a DVD full of the best of The Daily Show, I'd actually buy it. And I don't buy DVDs of TV shows. (Which as it turns out has come back to bite me in the ass since all the Futuramas that I encoded onto CD are now all suffering from bitrot. It's really quite sad.)
The BEST scene they did was when Colbert was live 'from Mars.' He'd wait 20 seconds before responding to Stewart "because of the transmission delay." I was literally on the floor laughing my ass off.
Ahh, good times...
It looks like it is gonna suck. Ass.
Most likely it'll flop after 3 episodes. And good, it looks rediculusly annoying.
It'll go in the pile of CC shows I hate, along with Colin Quinn's Tough Crowd. Which I'm amazed hasn't been canceled yet. Futurama would be so much nicer there!
Filter or replace anything based on regexps.
Mmmmm. And it acts as a proxy so you can use it with any browser.
You see, if you grow your own car, you'd be infringing on the car company's copyright. (The car companies have have a non-expiring copyright on all Cars®, you see.)
Furthermore, growing your own car will be a felony punishable by a $1,000,000 fine and 30 years in Federal Pound-Me-In-the-Ass prison under the DMCLFMBBC (Digital Millenium Copyrights Last For a Millenium to Benefit Big Companies) Act of 2007.
Oh, and you might as well not even bother to try and download a car since your computer will just blow up anyways.
Through the quad!!!
Everybody's doing it!
They're all behind me! C'mon, honey! Everybody's doing it!
Don't waste your time.
The determined student can ever-so-easily skate right past MAC filtering. For example, if I'm in the class where I'm not supposed to connect, I can just sniff a MAC from the adjacent (wide-open) room and use that. Or just make one up, if you are using a blacklist instead of a whitelist.
Go with NoCat or, more preferably, a VPN. Anyone can associate with the AP, but the AP is firewalled from the rest of the network. A VPN has the added benefit of having real data security (as opposed to WEP).