it is as though you purchased a car hifi and used it for a year in your Ford. Then you purchased an Mercedes and fitted the same car hifi and found the audio output was at half the resolution in your new car. Dude, did you just make an analogy where XP is a Ford and Vista is a Merc? That took some balls to do on Slashdot.
I'll second that - I'm on 100 Mb fibre here, and they've already threatened me once, when I had over 1 TB of traffic in one month (don't ask, long story). The interesting lessons were: 1. They only monitored the amount of traffic, not the content (could it be because uTorrent is set to use a random port every time? or because I set it to encrypt the traffic? no idea) - although they probably have a pretty good idea what sort of, ehem, Linux ISOs, ehem, I was up/downloading. 2. They claimed my traffic was slowing down the connections of others - a load of bollocks if you ask me, but they needed an excuse. 3. The limit is 1 TB of traffic. Anything over it sets off the alarms, they warn you once, if you ever do it again they cut you off for good. No explanations. The good news is - ONE TERABYTE OF TRAFFIC!
But yes, like you said - once they decide to do this there will be no backlash, and they'll implement it just like they did that colossally stupid fingerprinting/photographing all foreigners idea. Sigh. Let's hope they stop with Winny, once they come after torrents we're mucked.
If your state is not a legitimate democracy, it has no right to exist
Odd reasoning there. I can think of quite a few countries that are most definitely not legitimate democracies - China (who basically bankrolls the US thus ensuring it is free to oppress its population), North Korea (who pokes its nose at the US every other week, to no reaction whatsoever, while murdering its own citizens), Burma (saw all those dead monks? did the US government do anything about it?), Russia (and each day under Putin makes it worse, but the US president has 'seen into his soul', so that makes it alright), most of the former USSR republics in Central Asia, along with pretty much most of Africa, plus whatever I forget now (it's snowing and I'm having a warm cup of sake). Yes, Iran is a theocracy, and an evil one too - your point is? How do you decide who to fuck with, and in what order? Please don't say oil.
Sport truely is dead if that is what is required to keep it even somewhat honest.[...] The phrase "more better" is acceptable English. suck it grammar Nazis
Perhaps one day PI will equal 4 when "intent" is used... meanwhile it stays at 3.141592... File this note away for 10 years and revisit it then.
Mate, as if it wasn't enough to get burnt once by the reality*-based slashdot hordes, now you have to revisit your post and dare to insinuate stuff about PI, of all things? They'll eat you alive, and not in ten years, but right here and now.
Well yes, except the marlin chap spoke of life, death and another hundred ideas to big to discuss unless you're all alone with yourself and have the time to think about what it means to be alive, whereas the Best Buy dude is going on about how fast a kid's fingers move on a piece of plastic. Other than that, your irony fits marvelously.
images of Russian guards in great coats drunk on vodka forcing some poor Microsoft employee to work on the servers while a big picture of Stalin looked down on them in the camp.
Hey man, I know this is Slashdot and everything, but there ought to be limits on how cruel you can allow your imagination to become.
100 Mbps residential fast ethernet costs $ 36 per month now Japan. Somehow I don't think that there they cap the service at 0.5 Mbps sustained use.
Er...speaking from personal experience: I have one of those lines, torrented like mad for more than a year, then one day got a letter from them saying they would cut me off if I carried on like that. Turns out I had traffic of 1.3 TB in one month. 115 GB download, the rest, up/download at roughly 4 MB/s (as in megabYtes/sec). Calmed me down a bit, that letter, and made me restrict my upload speed. But I did find out two things: 1. Even though they claim it's 'unlimited', what they mean by it in Japan is 1 TB/month. Not bad, but still... 2. They will not cap your use if you misbehave, they will a) threaten once, then b) once more, then c) cut you off for good. Lucky for me, they only go to point b) in my case.
Nice post, but you may want to try again. It all boils down to this: tanks versus unarmed people. See the history of every communist dictatorship for examples. The thing the left in the west needs to understand is, communism is intrinsically evil and has absolutely nothing to do with the ideals of the left. It's even worse than fascism because not only do the trains not run on time, they will shoot the passengers for sabotaging them.
Where to start? You obviously only read about communism. You never actually lived under it. But no matter, it would take aeons to explain to you just how evil it truly was. Instead, let us consider this: the USSR was _not_ your enemy at that point. The only reason why there was, say, a north and south Korea was because the Russians actually stopped their advance at the exact spot where the USA asked them to ask. The USSR was still licking its wounds after WW2 anyway, and it knew it's in no condition to start a world war. You seem to forget that by 1946 half of Europe was under Stalin's boot, and all of the USSR's satellite states were feeding their citizens massive propaganda against the West. Remember the Berlin blockade? Two full years before the Korean War. You think the US 'flipped'? How about the USSR invading Poland at the same time as the Germans, then taking half of it for themselves? How about destroying every single democratic regime in Eastern Europe, despite repeated promises to allow free elections? Do you really believe the USSR was a benign colossus? Do you honestly believe the 1952 Stalin note was anything but a bullshit ploy to divide the Western powers as they were setting up NATO? The wars in Korea and Vietnam just convinced them to rearm faster and help start the Cold War sooner. Mate, the Cold War started in 1946. Seriously. Look it up. It ended in 1989, when the Russians and the system they imposed through violence and fear were kicked out of Eastern Europe with no military assistance from the West, just by people who were fed up with Communism. Just because the right these days is utterly insane and likes to start wars all over the place doesn't mean there were always wrong - just as the left might be right these days, but they have an awful lot of skeletons in their collective closet./end of rant. Ready when you are, sir.
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214 comments and no one's mentioned Arthur C. Clarke yet?!
Someone on Slashdot must have read Fountains of Paradise, surely...
Dude, get your blondes sorted out.
I'm a lot more worried about this guy
Hey dude, you stole my sig!
Tsk tsk tsk.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/2/hi/europe/7334545.stm
That took some balls to do on Slashdot.
I'll second that - I'm on 100 Mb fibre here, and they've already threatened me once, when I had over 1 TB of traffic in one month (don't ask, long story). The interesting lessons were:
1. They only monitored the amount of traffic, not the content (could it be because uTorrent is set to use a random port every time? or because I set it to encrypt the traffic? no idea) - although they probably have a pretty good idea what sort of, ehem, Linux ISOs, ehem, I was up/downloading.
2. They claimed my traffic was slowing down the connections of others - a load of bollocks if you ask me, but they needed an excuse.
3. The limit is 1 TB of traffic. Anything over it sets off the alarms, they warn you once, if you ever do it again they cut you off for good. No explanations. The good news is - ONE TERABYTE OF TRAFFIC!
But yes, like you said - once they decide to do this there will be no backlash, and they'll implement it just like they did that colossally stupid fingerprinting/photographing all foreigners idea. Sigh. Let's hope they stop with Winny, once they come after torrents we're mucked.
Dude. Whatever it is you're on, I want some too.
And that's the only typo you noticed? There's also Merlin and Icarus too.And the "solomon" typo of BumbleFinger.
The thing is, even without typos one is at a bit of a loss as to what to make of that particular statement.
If your state is not a legitimate democracy, it has no right to exist
Odd reasoning there. I can think of quite a few countries that are most definitely not legitimate democracies - China (who basically bankrolls the US thus ensuring it is free to oppress its population), North Korea (who pokes its nose at the US every other week, to no reaction whatsoever, while murdering its own citizens), Burma (saw all those dead monks? did the US government do anything about it?), Russia (and each day under Putin makes it worse, but the US president has 'seen into his soul', so that makes it alright), most of the former USSR republics in Central Asia, along with pretty much most of Africa, plus whatever I forget now (it's snowing and I'm having a warm cup of sake). Yes, Iran is a theocracy, and an evil one too - your point is? How do you decide who to fuck with, and in what order?
Please don't say oil.
people who either can't type properly or are lysdexic
Which one are you then?
Hey, were he alive, this guy would probably want to sue for copyright infringement.
Just sayin'.
Nothing has really changed over the years in Romania. ...says the brave AC.
Sport truely is dead if that is what is required to keep it even somewhat honest.[...]
The phrase "more better" is acceptable English. suck it grammar Nazis
'Truly' is the best.
Just a thought.
Perhaps one day PI will equal 4 when "intent" is used... meanwhile it stays at 3.141592...
File this note away for 10 years and revisit it then.
Mate, as if it wasn't enough to get burnt once by the reality*-based slashdot hordes, now you have to revisit your post and dare to insinuate stuff about PI, of all things?
They'll eat you alive, and not in ten years, but right here and now.
Mind, you deserve it too.
*known to have a liberal bias.
Well yes, except the marlin chap spoke of life, death and another hundred ideas to big to discuss unless you're all alone with yourself and have the time to think about what it means to be alive, whereas the Best Buy dude is going on about how fast a kid's fingers move on a piece of plastic. Other than that, your irony fits marvelously.
images of Russian guards in great coats drunk on vodka forcing some poor Microsoft employee to work on the servers while a big picture of Stalin looked down on them in the camp.
Hey man, I know this is Slashdot and everything, but there ought to be limits on how cruel you can allow your imagination to become.
I think he's trying to revive 1999
That wouldn't be such a bad idea, 1999 is one of his better albums.
All you need is telnet
All you need is talent. There, fixed that for you.
Forget Linux, what we want to know if whether this thing runs GLaDOS.
100 Mbps residential fast ethernet costs $ 36 per month now Japan. Somehow I don't think that there they cap the service at 0.5 Mbps sustained use.
Er...speaking from personal experience: I have one of those lines, torrented like mad for more than a year, then one day got a letter from them saying they would cut me off if I carried on like that. Turns out I had traffic of 1.3 TB in one month. 115 GB download, the rest, up/download at roughly 4 MB/s (as in megabYtes/sec). Calmed me down a bit, that letter, and made me restrict my upload speed. But I did find out two things:
1. Even though they claim it's 'unlimited', what they mean by it in Japan is 1 TB/month. Not bad, but still...
2. They will not cap your use if you misbehave, they will a) threaten once, then b) once more, then c) cut you off for good.
Lucky for me, they only go to point b) in my case.
Nice post, but you may want to try again.
It all boils down to this: tanks versus unarmed people. See the history of every communist dictatorship for examples.
The thing the left in the west needs to understand is, communism is intrinsically evil and has absolutely nothing to do with the ideals of the left. It's even worse than fascism because not only do the trains not run on time, they will shoot the passengers for sabotaging them.
Oh man, do you read the news or what.
Where to start? You obviously only read about communism. You never actually lived under it. But no matter, it would take aeons to explain to you just how evil it truly was. Instead, let us consider this: /end of rant. Ready when you are, sir.
the USSR was _not_ your enemy at that point. The only reason why there was, say, a north and south Korea was because the Russians actually stopped their advance at the exact spot where the USA asked them to ask. The USSR was still licking its wounds after WW2 anyway, and it knew it's in no condition to start a world war.
You seem to forget that by 1946 half of Europe was under Stalin's boot, and all of the USSR's satellite states were feeding their citizens massive propaganda against the West. Remember the Berlin blockade? Two full years before the Korean War.
You think the US 'flipped'? How about the USSR invading Poland at the same time as the Germans, then taking half of it for themselves? How about destroying every single democratic regime in Eastern Europe, despite repeated promises to allow free elections? Do you really believe the USSR was a benign colossus? Do you honestly believe the 1952 Stalin note was anything but a bullshit ploy to divide the Western powers as they were setting up NATO?
The wars in Korea and Vietnam just convinced them to rearm faster and help start the Cold War sooner.
Mate, the Cold War started in 1946. Seriously. Look it up. It ended in 1989, when the Russians and the system they imposed through violence and fear were kicked out of Eastern Europe with no military assistance from the West, just by people who were fed up with Communism.
Just because the right these days is utterly insane and likes to start wars all over the place doesn't mean there were always wrong - just as the left might be right these days, but they have an awful lot of skeletons in their collective closet.
What, you stopped using Windows Vista after you watched Forrest Gump?
Oh well, whatever it takes.