Seems that alle the good zines are gone or dying a similar death (Confidence remains high, B4B0,
HUGI, Veracity and tohers).
What brand of crack are you smoking? Hugi is still publishing, and the content is as strong as ever. The only problem they have is continually slipping deadlines.
...but I don't feel particular superior about having known and used rotary dial phones. Matter of fact, I don't much think anything about it, because I don't much think of it. I also don't think much about how I used to call dial-up systems on my rotary dial phone that plugged into an acoustic coupler that was connected to a Hayes 100 Micromodem card in my Heathkit H89 microcomputer running good old CP/M. I also dont think much about my old Betamax, my Atari 2600, my Colecovision, mother's old 8-tracks, the vinyls I had as a kid, that kickass AM transistor radio (kmart brand!), my first PC, PC-Pursuit, or Tymnet dialups (hey, we used BofA's homebanking service, okay?). The fact that I remember this stuff doesn't prove I'm superior...just old.
I don't feel particularly unique because of any of this, nor do I think myself unrepresentative of the Slashdot crowd...because I'm only 25. Once again, Michael is ego-tripping - but what else is new? Can we fire him now for constantly editorializing and ego-stroking in his submissions? (Any takers as to how long before this gets modded down to Troll?)
...that X7 is a rather moderate eruption? For reference, we routinely see eruptions throughout the solar cycle at least that big, and many which are many times greater. Google around and you'll find an eruption which occurred in November of 2003 which was dubbed the 'biggest solar flare ever recorded'. That was an X28.
Well, what with the Ur-Quan on their way, they had to do something. Now all we need to do is wait for the nuclear exchange to occur in the middle east, call it The Little War, and we'll have the whole fucking thing.
Vonage and the rest sell you a phone or a sip router (skype will eb doing the same soon). These devices sit around and wait for incoming calls, then announce it. IOW, a server. Try to learn about technology.
Try to follow the thread. I wasn't talking about an end-user getting packets dropped because Comcast doesnt like what they're doing, but about dropping packets from a _business_ customer that happens to be using their bandwidth to provide VoIP. Thank you, drive through.
Isnt it great when someone makes a comment that looks like a real biting attack and they get modded up but the posts that refutes their position doesn't?
Read up on the definition of Restraint of Trade. We're not talking about requiring them to deliver service to the competition, but impairing the services they have been contracted to deliver simply because the company in question is providing a competing service. Whether they should be required to do business with them in the first place is not relevant.
Any company that were to do as such would be guilty of RESTRAINT OF TRADE. That's already a crime. You don't need 'regulation' to be protected from that...you need a government that enforces its own fucking laws.
What do you think is going to happen? Do you think that there are high barriers to market entry such that no one else can engage in VoIP services? What's to stop someone else from coming in and kicking ass and taking names if the big names in VoIP get out of line? Even if there were barriers to entry, the answer is _never_ regulation -- but investment in new businesses to break those barriers.
This has nothing to do with control in that sense. This has everything to do with maintaining their share of the market. After all, if it _was_ about controlling information, don't you think that those who purvey unpopular opinions would have a hell of a time getting phone service? Ma Bell and Friends seem all too happy to service anybody so long as the check clears.
"FCC Chairman Michael Powell insists federal officials should be the only ones regulating VoIP, as trusting the Internet phone regulations to states would result in patchwork of conflicting legislature.
Here's a better idea: STOP REGULATING BUSINESSES TO DEATH! VoIP doesn't need regulation. This is nothing more than a cheap attempt by POTS providers to secure their cash cow by regulating the competition to death.
Boy, Art, you sure never miss an opportunity to plug your crappy board to a bunch of people who couldn't care less, huh? And if no other environment is quite as 'folksy' as a BBS -- explain Slashdot, kuro5hin, and the innumerable image boards out there. Each of them may get thousands of visitors a day, but each of them likewise has their own cadre of regular users, and each has their own particular atmosphere. They are no less a community just because they happen to deliver their content via http as opposed to telnet. If you want to talk to real people -- here we are -- otherwise, go back to telnet.
...if there wasn't already a chip featuring multiple high-performance cores out there. It's called the 25x Forth Multicomputer. Charles Moore is the man to thank. HAND.
I too live in California, and I've gotten use out of it exactly once, and that's when a railroad car overturned and it vented gas which, at the time, they thought was toxic, so a shelter-in-place order went out. You think they could've waited five minutes, though... Dave was just about to do the Top Ten.
That's the best you can do? FLOODING? You know, there ARE other EAS that are far more interesting. For example:
NUW : Nuclear Plant Warning
RHW : Radiological Hazard Warning
CEM : Civil Emergency Message
A truly unscrupulous person might consider sending out a CEM message warning of a nuclear 'incident' in New York City and a cloud of radioactive debris spewing forth therefrom. Other unscrupulous persons might send an RHW message in nearby areas. Still other unscrupulous persons would set off large explosives in NYC. Lastly, the most unscrupulous people of all would kick back and wait for the story to get picked up by Reuters or the Associated Press and then watch news media world-wide go into a panic.
This is all purely hypothetical, of course. IANAT.
The Laws of Robotics provide too much room for interpretation. So long as individual machines have to think for themselves, they are rendered moot.
History has taught us time and again that enslaving autonomous sapient creatures, whether organic or otherwise, is a great way to destroy a society
by imposing increasingly greater costs and diminishing benefits from the labor of the slave.
Fortunately, nobody seriously considers enslaving darky these days, and you're all far too stupid to build working robots, so all is well. Relax, watch the blinkenlights, and remember: The Computer Loves You...
Slashdot Mirror
What brand of crack are you smoking? Hugi is still publishing, and the content is as strong as ever. The only problem they have is continually slipping deadlines.
"Please deposit 25 cents for 3 minutes more..."
*whisk-k-k-k-k-k*
"Sir, you have to deposit real coins."
...but I don't feel particular superior about having known and used rotary dial phones. Matter of fact, I don't much think anything about it, because I don't much think of it. I also don't think much about how I used to call dial-up systems on my rotary dial phone that plugged into an acoustic coupler that was connected to a Hayes 100 Micromodem card in my Heathkit H89 microcomputer running good old CP/M. I also dont think much about my old Betamax, my Atari 2600, my Colecovision, mother's old 8-tracks, the vinyls I had as a kid, that kickass AM transistor radio (kmart brand!), my first PC, PC-Pursuit, or Tymnet dialups (hey, we used BofA's homebanking service, okay?). The fact that I remember this stuff doesn't prove I'm superior...just old.
I don't feel particularly unique because of any of this, nor do I think myself unrepresentative of the Slashdot crowd...because I'm only 25. Once again, Michael is ego-tripping - but what else is new? Can we fire him now for constantly editorializing and ego-stroking in his submissions? (Any takers as to how long before this gets modded down to Troll?)
...that X7 is a rather moderate eruption? For reference, we routinely see eruptions throughout the solar cycle at least that big, and many which are many times greater. Google around and you'll find an eruption which occurred in November of 2003 which was dubbed the 'biggest solar flare ever recorded'. That was an X28.
More details here: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/3251481.stm.
I thought it was to be titled Star Trek: The Search For More Money?
Fuck the creationists! www.mchawking.com, motherfuckers!
Fucking creationists. Fuck them.
Well, what with the Ur-Quan on their way, they had to do something. Now all we need to do is wait for the nuclear exchange to occur in the middle east, call it The Little War, and we'll have the whole fucking thing.
Try to follow the thread. I wasn't talking about an end-user getting packets dropped because Comcast doesnt like what they're doing, but about dropping packets from a _business_ customer that happens to be using their bandwidth to provide VoIP. Thank you, drive through.
But we weren't talking about an _end user_ running a server. Try to follow the thread.
Isnt it great when someone makes a comment that looks like a real biting attack and they get modded up but the posts that refutes their position doesn't?
Read up on the definition of Restraint of Trade. We're not talking about requiring them to deliver service to the competition, but impairing the services they have been contracted to deliver simply because the company in question is providing a competing service. Whether they should be required to do business with them in the first place is not relevant.
Any company that were to do as such would be guilty of RESTRAINT OF TRADE. That's already a crime. You don't need 'regulation' to be protected from that...you need a government that enforces its own fucking laws.
What do you think is going to happen? Do you think that there are high barriers to market entry such that no one else can engage in VoIP services? What's to stop someone else from coming in and kicking ass and taking names if the big names in VoIP get out of line? Even if there were barriers to entry, the answer is _never_ regulation -- but investment in new businesses to break those barriers.
This has nothing to do with control in that sense. This has everything to do with maintaining their share of the market. After all, if it _was_ about controlling information, don't you think that those who purvey unpopular opinions would have a hell of a time getting phone service? Ma Bell and Friends seem all too happy to service anybody so long as the check clears.
Here's a better idea: STOP REGULATING BUSINESSES TO DEATH! VoIP doesn't need regulation. This is nothing more than a cheap attempt by POTS providers to secure their cash cow by regulating the competition to death.
Boy, Art, you sure never miss an opportunity to plug your crappy board to a bunch of people who couldn't care less, huh? And if no other environment is quite as 'folksy' as a BBS -- explain Slashdot, kuro5hin, and the innumerable image boards out there. Each of them may get thousands of visitors a day, but each of them likewise has their own cadre of regular users, and each has their own particular atmosphere. They are no less a community just because they happen to deliver their content via http as opposed to telnet. If you want to talk to real people -- here we are -- otherwise, go back to telnet.
THIRD POST! NYEAH!
...if there wasn't already a chip featuring multiple high-performance cores out there. It's called the 25x Forth Multicomputer. Charles Moore is the man to thank. HAND.
"*sniff* He kept touching me over and over, but after awhile there were diminishing returns."
Oh my, a 'new economy' based on 'unconscious cooperation'. My, that sounds like Capitalism.
I too live in California, and I've gotten use out of it exactly once, and that's when a railroad car overturned and it vented gas which, at the time, they thought was toxic, so a shelter-in-place order went out. You think they could've waited five minutes, though ... Dave was just about to do the Top Ten.
Terrorist.
Not only that, but you can find the format for EAS messages on Wikipedia, along with an overview of SAME headers and messages.
EAS has never been a secret. Neither was EBS, nor CONELRAD. HAND.
That's the best you can do? FLOODING? You know, there ARE other EAS that are far more interesting. For example:
NUW : Nuclear Plant Warning
RHW : Radiological Hazard Warning
CEM : Civil Emergency Message
A truly unscrupulous person might consider sending out a CEM message warning of a nuclear 'incident' in New York City and a cloud of radioactive debris spewing forth therefrom. Other unscrupulous persons might send an RHW message in nearby areas. Still other unscrupulous persons would set off large explosives in NYC. Lastly, the most unscrupulous people of all would kick back and wait for the story to get picked up by Reuters or the Associated Press and then watch news media world-wide go into a panic.
This is all purely hypothetical, of course. IANAT.
The Laws of Robotics provide too much room for interpretation. So long as individual machines have to think for themselves, they are rendered moot. History has taught us time and again that enslaving autonomous sapient creatures, whether organic or otherwise, is a great way to destroy a society by imposing increasingly greater costs and diminishing benefits from the labor of the slave.
Fortunately, nobody seriously considers enslaving darky these days, and you're all far too stupid to build working robots, so all is well. Relax, watch the blinkenlights, and remember: The Computer Loves You...
...Well, unless Bush wins come November.
PS: Bender seyz KILL ALL HUMANS.