... someone made a material that could withstand high heat without melting that you make a box from, and another material that could be wrapped around an object to insulate it from heat that you could then place inside the box! Then, you could paint the box black! how cool would that be!
DHCP-enabled monitor
does that require a gigabit lan? or it just for SNMP traps? that'd be cool the set a trap for when the boss turn his off, then I'd know its safe to leave early!
how does taking the income tax you already pay and moving it to the property tax bill cause you to pay more tax? the final number would be the same, you'd just pay it in one check. This would cause the IRS to become smaller, and the county departments to become larger by about the same amount. You wouldn't pay MORE tax just because you owned more land, and it wouldn't affect renters either. The tax here is on people that have jobs, and that would not change. No single person, or business, would pay MORE tax, and if anything they would all pay less since the tax collection process would have less overhead in facilities and paperwork. IRS has offices all over the place, they would close them (and the employees would then go work at the County offices) so there would be less overhead right off the top. If you don't own land, you don't pay the property tax portion. Renters would still pay income tax to the county collector, and the landlord would pay only the property tax for the properties rented.
it's not complicated to separate the taxes and still only write one check, Missouri already does this with their real estate and "personal property" taxes, the same office collects both and you can write one check but they are calculated and billed separately. (for those not familiar, "personal property" in MO is on motor vehicles including cars, trucks, and trailers and is paid separately from the licensing fee.)
You want fair, easy, and simple? Have the IRS tax be "X% of income over $Y minimum", with deductions only for those truly altruistic reasons, such as recognized non-profit charities.
most of us already do pay a flat rate. That magic number is about 40%. We have to jump through a lot of hoops and write a lot of checks to get there, but there it is.
I'd even take it one further: Pay the tax to your county via the real estate and property tax system that's already setup, who then pay the state, who pay the IRS. Cities would be free to still get in their little jabs via sales tax and other use taxes, which if you don't like you can move just like now (this is one of the reasons I like to live outside city limits).
showusthecode.com isn't attacking Microsoft, they simply have an open letter to them. MS can respond, or not. There are no lawyers involved, there is only an invitation: Tell us what code, exactly, is infringing and how and we'll make it right in future versions, even if that means removing features.
The only thing MS has to loose, assuming there actually are violations, is the number of years of infringement that they can put on their claims. They still hold the right to demand compensation from products already released. The "bluff" being called is that Balmer is only saying these things to get people who don't understand code and patents to be afraid of Linux. showusthecode.com hopes that MS won't have a response, and to those that don't understand code and patents, but do understand business negotiations, this lack of a response is a strong sign that Balmer is just blowing wind.
Either way, Linux wins here. If MS responds, the code is fixed and business leaders trust organizations that respond swiftly. If they don't, then Linux gains a bit more trust from the business leaders since MS won't "show the code" so there must not be any.
it's for those who are trying to make money on eBay. Most of these people already are a business and already pay the taxes, the ones that the IRS are after here are like retired Aunt Flo who found out that she could sell her own line of knitted scarfs and hats and actually make a wage doing it.
I don't think there is as much money here as the IRS thinks there is.
What obscure hardware configurations have you managed to get Windows running on?
It's still "common" hardware, just because they underclocked it and removed RAM until the HDD screamed in pain due to swapping doesn't make this "obscure".
On the obscure side, I managed to get an Ubuntu Edgy "server" install on a HP Network Scanjet 5. Even got the LCD and keypad working thanks to some work a guy did to get FreeBSD on one, but unlike the FBSD project I have the full Ubuntu repositories and thus lots of apps available without needed to compile anything. It scans, emails, faxes, and copies just like the original OS did, except that no NT4 server is required and it can scan directly to a file server (you pick the protocol, they all will work). It can even do email address lookups from a database, and I'll have a fax address book implemented soon as well.
Many states have a tax credit for companies that convert a certain percentage of their fleet to CNG. The tanks used are usually rated for enough higher pressure than is ever put into them that they can take a reasonable amount of crushing without rupturing. And for pointy stabbing, they are small enough to discharge before getting hot enough to explode, and that's assuming it encounters a strong spark on its very fast journey upwards, which is unlikely.
What Apple does is say "if you buy DRM content from iTunes, you can only play it on an iPod."
What cell phone providers say is "You can only buy your phone from us, and we'll cripple it in any way we see fit."
You are certainly free to put your own content in non-DRM formats on the iPod you bought, no matter store you buy it from. You might have a point if buying your iPod from Wal-Mart meant that you got an iPod with mp3 support removed but support for some Wal-Tunes proprietary format instead, but that's not the case, so you have no point.
And that is when you run for mayor in the next election. Don't bring up anything in the campaign that you can't verify in writing, but bring up everything you can. Go out and talk to people, take pictures manually*, stir up "trouble" just don't break any laws doing it unless your goal is to overturn said law. You don't have to be rich, or a people person, or have any political experience, hell your goal isn't even to win. Now all your "trouble making" is under the name of "campaigning" and the incumbent won't dare do a damned thing to try and hush you, especially if you live in a state where you are allowed to record phone calls. You will get the public attention, and if the incumbent mayor wants to be re-elected bad enough he will make changes happen. Of course, it helps if there are multiple things going "wrong", and given what you've said I'd guess there are some funds the city received that are past due for spending on their intended purpose. You might even be surprised at what's on public record that no one ever thought to go look up.
My uncle did this a few years ago and even almost won, scared the hell out of him because he had no intention of winning. During the campaign he went looking for what money the city had and what it was to be used for and one thing he found was that funds were set aside 3 years prior to rebuild the front stairs at city hall and no work had even been thought about, requests for bids were not even opened. Worse yet, the funds weren't even in an interest bearing account because they were supposed to be spent. He took a couple pictures of the literally crumbing stairs and a copy of the documents he found to the local paper, they put it on the front page. Two months later all the stairs were finished and had additional hand rails to make them easer to ascend too. He found a lot of other things as well, some he suspected and others not, many were made right before the election. The incumbents got the picture really quick and the town is a better place for it now. They actually started being proactive, and there's no telling how bad it would have gotten had someone not stepped up and challenged the status quo.
*no matter what "they" claim, you are allowed to take pictures of whatever you want in public, without any justification.
... 32-bit extension to a 16-bit patch for an 8-bit operating system that was originally coded for a 4-bit microprocessor by a 2-bit company that can't stand 1-bit of competition.
...you'd rather watch ads than donate money. That's fine, you're not alone.
Also don't forget that PBS is just a resource, the content you see is chosen by your local station from the content that PBS offers as well as other sources such as the BBC and Discovery Channel.
I don't think you have a right to complain about the quality of content on public television unless you are a major donor. If you don't like what you see, pony up so they can afford something better. Your local public station is NOT limited to showing PBS offerings.
Oh, and this is for the GP too, in case you haven't actually tuned into a public station recently (not BBC, that's a different model altogether), after just about every show there is a list of organizations, both NFP and corporations, that sponsored the show. Corporations DO sponsor public TV, just not like they on the big national networks.
chrisw@filesrv:~$ host 24.240.xxx.xxx xxx.xxx.240.24.in-addr.arpa domain name pointer 24-240-xxx-xxx.dhcp.stls.mo.charter.com.
chrisw@filesrv:~$ dig google.com @208.67.222.222
; > DiG 9.3.2 > google.com @208.67.222.222 ; (1 server found);; ANSWER SECTION: google.com. 156 IN A 64.233.187.99;; SERVER: 208.67.222.222#53(208.67.222.222);; WHEN: Thu Feb 15 10:10:06 2007
now, maybe they are blocking incoming DNS queries so that you can't host DNS for your domain on a charter residential line, but there is nothing blocking you from running your own resolver that goes to an external DNS server or even strait to the root servers.
Really, so what? Groklaw is basically just a "distilled to Common English" version of the legal documents that are already publicly available, with links and references to said documents. How does it really hurt SCO at all? Sure, it lends opinions that are somewhat favorable to IBM, but in general so do the court documents so how is that not to be expected? The public has a right to know and understand this information, if the court system can't distill it, who's to say that it's wrong for IBM to do so? And what's stopping SCO from doing the same, you know, other than that they are loosing? SCO's form of involving the public in this case has been to instill FUD, but the thought of IBM spreading reasonably accurate Common English versions of the legal documents is, well, what is it?
No extra clicking and I don't even notice the ads.
I notice the ads, though they aren't on all my messages. Interesting thing is how damned relevant they are, and sometimes even helpful. I forget what it was, but my wife and I were emailing back and forth about buying something and it was listed in the ads, so I clicked on it (why not, I get the free email, I don't mind throwing a bone gmail's way every now and then) and it was actually a better price than what I was getting ready to pay, and the vendor was just as reputable too.
so, see the ads, you might end up doing yourself a favor. And google already knows where you've been anyway so what's the difference.
but anyway, it's fully true. at work they ask me to add popups to warn of this or all the time, to point where in certain cases one has to click through up to 4 popups just to get to a single form. The wanted separate popups for each one. I said it will only work for a while then they will just ignore it and click it. they say "maybe, but I want it anyway". apparently there's some popular belief that popups can fix stupid, well, they can't. they may delay it a bit, but there is no fix for stupid.
they are also launching the groupware service "soon", and who's to say the Office apps won't be ready at the same time? and even if they aren't, just because they don't hit the target right off doesn't mean the target doesn't exist. it IS about Office.
A friend of mine and I had this same idea back in maybe 1998, we knew it would go nowhere without some form of copy protection (was "DRM" even coined back then) that just didn't exist at the time. Neither of us were good enough coders or marketers at the time to make what was needed and so we forgot about it. It's nice to see it happening, but I'm afraid the DRM here is going to exclude too many people, as someone already mentioned.
My wife would love to be able to download content instead of drive to the library, she timeshifts books on tape like mad because there is a waiting list for most things. You might get nothing for many weeks, then get 5 or 10 come up all at once. They only way to be able to listen to everything she wants to is to timeshift. If the same waiting lists apply to this online system, and the DRM prevents timeshifting, then the service would be completely useless to her. Also, she sometimes gets items to preview for appropriateness for my son, so if the can't be checked out again, this also wouldn't work, though I guess they could be checked out again under my son's card, but then the waiting list applies yet again. He also has homework and extracurricular activities so sometimes reading/listening to a long book in 2 weeks is simply not possible, in rare cases even the extra 2 week extension would not be enough. Of course, timeshifting "hard" media is a still a huge gray area, but advanced DRM should be able to know if your are actually playing the content and extend your checkout time by however long you aren't playing it. "2 weeks" is simply not useful, but maybe "2 full playbacks" might be, with no time restriction at all.
Libraries are supposed to be about full access to all citizens, and this "certain Windows versions" only DRM excludes the poor ("welfare won't pay for a PC that can run XP"), the rich ("Dude, I bought a Mac"), and the intelligent do-it-yourselfer's ("just added a new node to my beowulf cluster of atomic supermen"). This is partly why libraries still loan cassette tapes and VHS when you have to go way out of your way to buy either new in a store (not counting the never opened collectibles in 2nd hand shops). WM10 DRM is discriminatory.
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... someone made a material that could withstand high heat without melting that you make a box from, and another material that could be wrapped around an object to insulate it from heat that you could then place inside the box! Then, you could paint the box black! how cool would that be!
DHCP-enabled monitor
does that require a gigabit lan? or it just for SNMP traps? that'd be cool the set a trap for when the boss turn his off, then I'd know its safe to leave early!
except other ninjas
"if there was a fight between a ninja and another ninja, who would win?" best ninja quote ever.
thanks to the DMCA.
how does taking the income tax you already pay and moving it to the property tax bill cause you to pay more tax? the final number would be the same, you'd just pay it in one check. This would cause the IRS to become smaller, and the county departments to become larger by about the same amount. You wouldn't pay MORE tax just because you owned more land, and it wouldn't affect renters either. The tax here is on people that have jobs, and that would not change. No single person, or business, would pay MORE tax, and if anything they would all pay less since the tax collection process would have less overhead in facilities and paperwork. IRS has offices all over the place, they would close them (and the employees would then go work at the County offices) so there would be less overhead right off the top. If you don't own land, you don't pay the property tax portion. Renters would still pay income tax to the county collector, and the landlord would pay only the property tax for the properties rented.
it's not complicated to separate the taxes and still only write one check, Missouri already does this with their real estate and "personal property" taxes, the same office collects both and you can write one check but they are calculated and billed separately. (for those not familiar, "personal property" in MO is on motor vehicles including cars, trucks, and trailers and is paid separately from the licensing fee.)
You want fair, easy, and simple? Have the IRS tax be "X% of income over $Y minimum", with deductions only for those truly altruistic reasons, such as recognized non-profit charities.
most of us already do pay a flat rate. That magic number is about 40%. We have to jump through a lot of hoops and write a lot of checks to get there, but there it is.
I'd even take it one further: Pay the tax to your county via the real estate and property tax system that's already setup, who then pay the state, who pay the IRS. Cities would be free to still get in their little jabs via sales tax and other use taxes, which if you don't like you can move just like now (this is one of the reasons I like to live outside city limits).
showusthecode.com isn't attacking Microsoft, they simply have an open letter to them. MS can respond, or not. There are no lawyers involved, there is only an invitation: Tell us what code, exactly, is infringing and how and we'll make it right in future versions, even if that means removing features.
The only thing MS has to loose, assuming there actually are violations, is the number of years of infringement that they can put on their claims. They still hold the right to demand compensation from products already released. The "bluff" being called is that Balmer is only saying these things to get people who don't understand code and patents to be afraid of Linux. showusthecode.com hopes that MS won't have a response, and to those that don't understand code and patents, but do understand business negotiations, this lack of a response is a strong sign that Balmer is just blowing wind.
Either way, Linux wins here. If MS responds, the code is fixed and business leaders trust organizations that respond swiftly. If they don't, then Linux gains a bit more trust from the business leaders since MS won't "show the code" so there must not be any.
it's for those who are trying to make money on eBay. Most of these people already are a business and already pay the taxes, the ones that the IRS are after here are like retired Aunt Flo who found out that she could sell her own line of knitted scarfs and hats and actually make a wage doing it.
I don't think there is as much money here as the IRS thinks there is.
What obscure hardware configurations have you managed to get Windows running on?
It's still "common" hardware, just because they underclocked it and removed RAM until the HDD screamed in pain due to swapping doesn't make this "obscure".
On the obscure side, I managed to get an Ubuntu Edgy "server" install on a HP Network Scanjet 5. Even got the LCD and keypad working thanks to some work a guy did to get FreeBSD on one, but unlike the FBSD project I have the full Ubuntu repositories and thus lots of apps available without needed to compile anything. It scans, emails, faxes, and copies just like the original OS did, except that no NT4 server is required and it can scan directly to a file server (you pick the protocol, they all will work). It can even do email address lookups from a database, and I'll have a fax address book implemented soon as well.
I doubt these particular taxis would be permitted on American roads,
better not tell these people, or these people these people.
Many states have a tax credit for companies that convert a certain percentage of their fleet to CNG. The tanks used are usually rated for enough higher pressure than is ever put into them that they can take a reasonable amount of crushing without rupturing. And for pointy stabbing, they are small enough to discharge before getting hot enough to explode, and that's assuming it encounters a strong spark on its very fast journey upwards, which is unlikely.
What Apple does is say "if you buy DRM content from iTunes, you can only play it on an iPod." What cell phone providers say is "You can only buy your phone from us, and we'll cripple it in any way we see fit." You are certainly free to put your own content in non-DRM formats on the iPod you bought, no matter store you buy it from. You might have a point if buying your iPod from Wal-Mart meant that you got an iPod with mp3 support removed but support for some Wal-Tunes proprietary format instead, but that's not the case, so you have no point.
And that is when you run for mayor in the next election. Don't bring up anything in the campaign that you can't verify in writing, but bring up everything you can. Go out and talk to people, take pictures manually*, stir up "trouble" just don't break any laws doing it unless your goal is to overturn said law. You don't have to be rich, or a people person, or have any political experience, hell your goal isn't even to win. Now all your "trouble making" is under the name of "campaigning" and the incumbent won't dare do a damned thing to try and hush you, especially if you live in a state where you are allowed to record phone calls. You will get the public attention, and if the incumbent mayor wants to be re-elected bad enough he will make changes happen. Of course, it helps if there are multiple things going "wrong", and given what you've said I'd guess there are some funds the city received that are past due for spending on their intended purpose. You might even be surprised at what's on public record that no one ever thought to go look up.
My uncle did this a few years ago and even almost won, scared the hell out of him because he had no intention of winning. During the campaign he went looking for what money the city had and what it was to be used for and one thing he found was that funds were set aside 3 years prior to rebuild the front stairs at city hall and no work had even been thought about, requests for bids were not even opened. Worse yet, the funds weren't even in an interest bearing account because they were supposed to be spent. He took a couple pictures of the literally crumbing stairs and a copy of the documents he found to the local paper, they put it on the front page. Two months later all the stairs were finished and had additional hand rails to make them easer to ascend too. He found a lot of other things as well, some he suspected and others not, many were made right before the election. The incumbents got the picture really quick and the town is a better place for it now. They actually started being proactive, and there's no telling how bad it would have gotten had someone not stepped up and challenged the status quo.
*no matter what "they" claim, you are allowed to take pictures of whatever you want in public, without any justification.
that's 1000 complete charging cycles, or 2000 50% charging cycles, or 4000 25%....
... 32-bit extension to a 16-bit patch for an 8-bit operating system that was originally coded for a 4-bit microprocessor by a 2-bit company that can't stand 1-bit of competition.
...you'd rather watch ads than donate money. That's fine, you're not alone.
Also don't forget that PBS is just a resource, the content you see is chosen by your local station from the content that PBS offers as well as other sources such as the BBC and Discovery Channel.
I don't think you have a right to complain about the quality of content on public television unless you are a major donor. If you don't like what you see, pony up so they can afford something better. Your local public station is NOT limited to showing PBS offerings.
Oh, and this is for the GP too, in case you haven't actually tuned into a public station recently (not BBC, that's a different model altogether), after just about every show there is a list of organizations, both NFP and corporations, that sponsored the show. Corporations DO sponsor public TV, just not like they on the big national networks.
and your outgoing tcp connection to port 80 is showing.
they aren't blocking me!
;; ANSWER SECTION: ;; SERVER: 208.67.222.222#53(208.67.222.222) ;; WHEN: Thu Feb 15 10:10:06 2007
(uninteresting bits removed in order to keep the post short, and IP masked because I'm not a moron)
chrisw@filesrv:~$ ifconfig eth0
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:D0:B7:1B:FE:E4
inet addr:24.240.xxx.xxx Bcast:255.255.255.255 Mask:255.255.252.0
chrisw@filesrv:~$ host 24.240.xxx.xxx
xxx.xxx.240.24.in-addr.arpa domain name pointer 24-240-xxx-xxx.dhcp.stls.mo.charter.com.
chrisw@filesrv:~$ dig google.com @208.67.222.222
; > DiG 9.3.2 > google.com @208.67.222.222
; (1 server found)
google.com. 156 IN A 64.233.187.99
now, maybe they are blocking incoming DNS queries so that you can't host DNS for your domain on a charter residential line, but there is nothing blocking you from running your own resolver that goes to an external DNS server or even strait to the root servers.
Really, so what? Groklaw is basically just a "distilled to Common English" version of the legal documents that are already publicly available, with links and references to said documents. How does it really hurt SCO at all? Sure, it lends opinions that are somewhat favorable to IBM, but in general so do the court documents so how is that not to be expected? The public has a right to know and understand this information, if the court system can't distill it, who's to say that it's wrong for IBM to do so? And what's stopping SCO from doing the same, you know, other than that they are loosing? SCO's form of involving the public in this case has been to instill FUD, but the thought of IBM spreading reasonably accurate Common English versions of the legal documents is, well, what is it?
No extra clicking and I don't even notice the ads.
I notice the ads, though they aren't on all my messages. Interesting thing is how damned relevant they are, and sometimes even helpful. I forget what it was, but my wife and I were emailing back and forth about buying something and it was listed in the ads, so I clicked on it (why not, I get the free email, I don't mind throwing a bone gmail's way every now and then) and it was actually a better price than what I was getting ready to pay, and the vendor was just as reputable too.
so, see the ads, you might end up doing yourself a favor. And google already knows where you've been anyway so what's the difference.
i think you actually agreed with him...
but anyway, it's fully true. at work they ask me to add popups to warn of this or all the time, to point where in certain cases one has to click through up to 4 popups just to get to a single form. The wanted separate popups for each one. I said it will only work for a while then they will just ignore it and click it. they say "maybe, but I want it anyway". apparently there's some popular belief that popups can fix stupid, well, they can't. they may delay it a bit, but there is no fix for stupid.
they are also launching the groupware service "soon", and who's to say the Office apps won't be ready at the same time? and even if they aren't, just because they don't hit the target right off doesn't mean the target doesn't exist. it IS about Office.
"Soon, it's expected to add word-processing and spreadsheet services to the suite"
how is this not Office territory?
shush you, you'll blow my cover
A friend of mine and I had this same idea back in maybe 1998, we knew it would go nowhere without some form of copy protection (was "DRM" even coined back then) that just didn't exist at the time. Neither of us were good enough coders or marketers at the time to make what was needed and so we forgot about it. It's nice to see it happening, but I'm afraid the DRM here is going to exclude too many people, as someone already mentioned.
My wife would love to be able to download content instead of drive to the library, she timeshifts books on tape like mad because there is a waiting list for most things. You might get nothing for many weeks, then get 5 or 10 come up all at once. They only way to be able to listen to everything she wants to is to timeshift. If the same waiting lists apply to this online system, and the DRM prevents timeshifting, then the service would be completely useless to her. Also, she sometimes gets items to preview for appropriateness for my son, so if the can't be checked out again, this also wouldn't work, though I guess they could be checked out again under my son's card, but then the waiting list applies yet again. He also has homework and extracurricular activities so sometimes reading/listening to a long book in 2 weeks is simply not possible, in rare cases even the extra 2 week extension would not be enough. Of course, timeshifting "hard" media is a still a huge gray area, but advanced DRM should be able to know if your are actually playing the content and extend your checkout time by however long you aren't playing it. "2 weeks" is simply not useful, but maybe "2 full playbacks" might be, with no time restriction at all.
Libraries are supposed to be about full access to all citizens, and this "certain Windows versions" only DRM excludes the poor ("welfare won't pay for a PC that can run XP"), the rich ("Dude, I bought a Mac"), and the intelligent do-it-yourselfer's ("just added a new node to my beowulf cluster of atomic supermen"). This is partly why libraries still loan cassette tapes and VHS when you have to go way out of your way to buy either new in a store (not counting the never opened collectibles in 2nd hand shops). WM10 DRM is discriminatory.