>1. Drivers for at least one professional audio >card need to be written for linux.
The Delta cards work pretty darn well. But yeah, there isn't anything to compete with Cubase. I wish the Magix folks would just go ahead and release their stuff for Linux. That would do it for me. I actually prefer using Magix Audio Studio over Cubase.
The contract and the monthly payment is the problem.
All the phone sales are geared to an "almost free" phone with the service becoming the actual product. I think the "almost free" phone might actually be a better strategy than the "free" phone, but let's not get into that.
The problem is, you cannot simply buy a phone (even at top dollar retail price, let's say), and then get prepaid service, and have that be the end of it. You have to sign a contract with ALL of the providers and they ALL have a monthly fee (at least $25!) on top of your prepaid airtime.
The "disposable" aspect of the hop-on isn't really the surprising part. What surprises me is the anonymous, pre-paid, no-monthly fee claims.
I'd like to get that deal, and I'd be happy to buy a regular Nokia or whatever.
Now on one hand, I've been nothing but happy with Sprint PCS for years and years. The bills are fairly high, but I really like the service. On the other hand, I was looking for a cell phone, any kind of phone, for a friend. What my friend wanted was a phone with no monthly payment. On investigation, it turns out that none of the carriers offer any such thing. They ALL have a recurring monthly fee, even the ones where you supposedly "just pay in advance for airtime."
I would go a step further, and ask for a totally anonymous cell phone. They don't need billing information if I pay cash up front for my usage, right? But none of the carriers get that far, because they don't even get to "no monthly fee, no longterm (or even short term) agreements."
I thought that Cricket was like that. I mean the sell them at gas stations, I just figured we'd gotten to the point where the cell phone was such a commodity that I could get what I describe. A monthly fee, whether you use the phone or not, is unacceptable.
There was one company, I think it was Alltel, who got all the way through the pitch, and answered all the questions about "you just pay for calls ahead of time, and use what you've paid for"... And it wasn't until the contract came out that I saw the truth -- you pay $25.00 a month, plus whatever airtime you pay for. Well, fu-huck that, it's not what my friend was looking for at all.
The experience of shopping for a phone for my friend, and even having some of the dealers lie to us, just assures that I'll stay with SprintPCS.
>college students, who typically don't have a lot >of spare money to begin with.
Around here, they seem to be able to afford 2004 model cars, they buy houses instead of renting, they wear designer clothes, and they make a nightclub scene rich with their drinking.
It's the implication of the undocumented remote access potential that worries me. You certainly could put your license to practice medicine in jeapordy if it can be shown that you didn't know about a security risk, but that you SHOULD have known.
>I'm guessing that Thaddeus isn't serious [about explosives, target specified]
I expect it's gotten him on more than one watch list, serious or no. I'd expect any arson investigation in Utah, Cal, Nev, or AZ will get him a phone call. I don't think you're supposed to make bomb threats these days, even if you think it's totally obvious you are kidding (cops don't tend to have any intuition or sense of humor, you might have noticed.)
You moron. You are no journalist. The ONE THING you do not do in a film review is give away the ending. And saying there is no "matrix within a matrix" is maybe borderline, but damned irresponsible.
>[W]hy isn't the DOJ all over this like ugly on >an ape?
What makes you so sure that anything illegal is going on? Just because you don't like it, doesn't mean the US has any grounds to make a Federal case out of it. I don't like it either, but it may very well be that everyone involved is coloring within the lines.
*Just* *barely* in the lines, maybe, but what's so obviously illegal here that you're dumbfounded?
Until someone puts on a deposition swearing that they own someone else's property, or else, reveals that they knowingly lied in court about the purloined code, there probably isn't any meat on this bone.
The stock stuff isn't anything, despite people screaming "pumpndump! pumpndump!!", it's simply legal and above the board, period.
Now if someone goes into a court room and/or makes a deposition with false statements, KNOWINGLY makes false statements, THEN you have the case that will put that individual behind bars. Won't happen though. This case isn't going to see the inside of a courtroom, period.
You aren't going to drag me into your "traffic control is like an atomic bomb in the basement" analogy.
Maybe there are legitimate uses, and maybe there are civilians who should be allowed to own one. Maybe the device shouldn't be illegal, but using it should be. Maybe you could even make an argument that the emergency vehicles shouldn't even have these.
But don't throw the atomic bomb in the basement out as some sort of argument.
It is up to the State. And if you took your State's driving test, it is quite possible that they expect you to know the law. Probably, you are not permitted to have a red light visible from the front of the vehicle. Usually, white or yellow strobes are allowed. Sirens are not allowed, but PA horns are ok.
I'd expect equipment violations to be treated as a moving violation, if you're driving, and a registration problem if you're not driving. It's possible that you could get into felony "impersonating a peace officer" territory, depending on what you are doing.
The folks who ended up with Andy's squad car from Mayberry had to paint over the insignia. That was California though. Kind of a bummer. Trying to remember where I saw that.
The only way it will ever sink in that this is "unacceptable" will be when it is not accepted. Unfortunately, it *is* acceptable, as they will be told in dollars.
Unless an actual crime or sales agreement breach has been documented here, there is nothing to do except not buy the product.
>Spam filters do not work because there is no way >to look at text and tell whether it is spam or >not.
Seeded Bayesian strategies work pretty damned well. The problem is, most consumers are forced to download the mail before letting their spam filter check it.
I don't really care that the spams are in my inbox folder. I mean, I do, but the damage was done when I was forced to download the crap before checking it. That is the bigger annoyance.
If Cox cable would let me, I would just run my own inbound MX. I'd have a whitelist for inbound SMTP, and that would be that.
The "Good Samaritan" idiom is racist from the start. The meaning of the phrase stems from a presumption that all Samaritans (whose descendents happen to be modern-day Palestinians) would sooner hasten the Jew's death than render aid. The fact that a Samaritan did render aid to the Jew in the story is such a noteworthy event, so completely unprecedented and unexpected, that "THE" Good Samaritan becomes a mythological singularity.
The implication of the story at Luke 10:30-37 is that the theives that the man ran into were Samaritans, and that robbing and stabbing and leaving him for dead was exactly the sort of treatment a Jew could expect from Samaritans on the road to Jericho. Then two Jews saw him and left him for dead, and it was a Samaritan who saved him.
The story, updated to a modern context, should be something like this:
A man from Jerusalem was driving to Jericho. Palestenian soldiers halted his car. When they saw that he was a Jew, they pulled him from his car, shot him, blew up his car with a grenade, and left him for dead. Some time after, as he clung to life, a UN jeep passed him on the road, but the soldiers did not stop to render aid or even investigate. Later, a group of tourists passed by the other direction, and also regarded the dying man as part of the scenery.
Finally, a Palestinian man happened on the scene, took pity on the man, took him to a doctor, and even helped him pay for a hotel room until he gets back on his feet.
And the moral of this story is, "Not all Palestinians will wontonly murder any Jew: most of them will, but there was one who didn't."
>Could the global opensource community put that >together?
Maybe, but what they couldn't manage would be a unified consensus on the disposition of the money, or what to do afterwards. I know my contribution would be contingent on a literal tarring and feathering of the execs. (And I mean, 1700's style tarring and feathering which causes 2nd degree burns...)
>I think the radar/laser detectors are fine, but >the devices which allow people to actually >change the system should not be allowed.
I can climb up on the pole and rewire the lamps.
That doesn't mean channel locks or ladders should be illegal, but it does mean that using them to change the traffic safety device should be. Seriously illegal.
This is a different means to the same end. The device shouldn't be treated like the problem. But anyone who uses the device should be willing to do hard time for it.
"I looked through a few of them but I couldn't find anything really glaring..."
The memos amount to a trail of evidence that the developers, with the complicity of their managers, conspired to falsify data for certification purposes, that they allowed noncertified versions of their product to be used (in an area where that certification is a legal requirement), and the fact that these memos exist means that everyone who knew is guilty of covering up information that should have been reported to federal authorities the instant it was known. They are accomplices to the crime becuase they helped cover it up.
If you own a TV, hacked or otherwise, YOU are still volunteering the BE THE PRODUCT. As long as you participate in this experiment, you are supporting them. Lose the tube completely, it's never been easier.
I saw a few CD singles in the early days of the format (it goes back as far the Red Book itself), saw a few again, a couple of years later, and since then I have only seen them as promos. In fact, they've ALL been promos. I've never seen a CD single that had any retail fate at all.
It wouldn't surprise me if astROLOGISTS put more emphasis on the importantce of solar activity than astronomers do. Scientists do science, but pseudoscientists are at liberty to make any wild conjecture they want to -- and the more obvious the celestial event the more weight they can put on it when they invent their consequences.
In years to come, today's solar activity will be archives of photos and numbers in observatory logs. But anyone born today will always be able to find someone willing to use the sky as an explanation for their success or failure, who they should pursue as a love interest, what lotto numbers they should pick....
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>1. Drivers for at least one professional audio
>card need to be written for linux.
The Delta cards work pretty darn well. But yeah, there isn't anything to compete with Cubase. I wish the Magix folks would just go ahead and release their stuff for Linux. That would do it for me. I actually prefer using Magix Audio Studio over Cubase.
> We need to stand up and say, "I'm mad as hell,
>and I'm not gonna take it anymore!"
The way to do that is simply to return the defective product, if you've already bought one, or else not buy the product if you haven't.
There, that wasn't so hard, was it?
"I expect you'd notice the page because the advert is the first web page you see after install."
So why do you assume "the web" is in any way involved in my network environment?
The contract and the monthly payment is the problem.
All the phone sales are geared to an "almost free" phone with the service becoming the actual product. I think the "almost free" phone might actually be a better strategy than the "free" phone, but let's not get into that.
The problem is, you cannot simply buy a phone (even at top dollar retail price, let's say), and then get prepaid service, and have that be the end of it. You have to sign a contract with ALL of the providers and they ALL have a monthly fee (at least $25!) on top of your prepaid airtime.
The "disposable" aspect of the hop-on isn't really the surprising part. What surprises me is the anonymous, pre-paid, no-monthly fee claims.
I'd like to get that deal, and I'd be happy to buy a regular Nokia or whatever.
Now on one hand, I've been nothing but happy with Sprint PCS for years and years. The bills are fairly high, but I really like the service. On the other hand, I was looking for a cell phone, any kind of phone, for a friend. What my friend wanted was a phone with no monthly payment. On investigation, it turns out that none of the carriers offer any such thing. They ALL have a recurring monthly fee, even the ones where you supposedly "just pay in advance for airtime."
I would go a step further, and ask for a totally anonymous cell phone. They don't need billing information if I pay cash up front for my usage, right? But none of the carriers get that far, because they don't even get to "no monthly fee, no longterm (or even short term) agreements."
I thought that Cricket was like that. I mean the sell them at gas stations, I just figured we'd gotten to the point where the cell phone was such a commodity that I could get what I describe. A monthly fee, whether you use the phone or not, is unacceptable.
There was one company, I think it was Alltel, who got all the way through the pitch, and answered all the questions about "you just pay for calls ahead of time, and use what you've paid for"... And it wasn't until the contract came out that I saw the truth -- you pay $25.00 a month, plus whatever airtime you pay for. Well, fu-huck that,
it's not what my friend was looking for at all.
The experience of shopping for a phone for my friend, and even having some of the dealers lie to us, just assures that I'll stay with SprintPCS.
>college students, who typically don't have a lot
>of spare money to begin with.
Around here, they seem to be able to afford 2004 model cars, they buy houses instead of renting, they wear designer clothes, and they make a nightclub scene rich with their drinking.
It's the implication of the undocumented remote access potential that worries me. You certainly could put your license to practice medicine in jeapordy if it can be shown that you didn't know about a security risk, but that you SHOULD have known.
Parental filtering is not the issue.
>I'm guessing that Thaddeus isn't serious
[about explosives, target specified]
I expect it's gotten him on more than one watch list, serious or no. I'd expect any arson investigation in Utah, Cal, Nev, or AZ will get him a phone call. I don't think you're supposed to make bomb threats these days, even if you think it's totally obvious you are kidding (cops don't tend to have any intuition or sense of humor, you might have noticed.)
You moron. You are no journalist. The
ONE THING you do not do in a film review is give away the ending. And saying there is no "matrix within a matrix" is maybe borderline, but damned irresponsible.
>* But don't worry, any old website on the
>Internet can probably turn it off for you.
What would be much more interesting is if you can turn it back *on*.
That, together with control of their DNS, and you've really got something fun.
>The incident that sparked this whole thing off
>was someone upgrading their firmware on an older
>box.
The full extent of the damage in that case was a kindergarten teacher couldn't run online quizzes.
Oh how lucky the company is that the first victim wasn't a hospital or a law office.
>[W]hy isn't the DOJ all over this like ugly on
>an ape?
What makes you so sure that anything illegal is going on? Just because you don't like it, doesn't mean the US has any grounds to make a Federal case out of it. I don't like it either, but it may very well be that everyone involved is coloring within the lines.
*Just* *barely* in the lines, maybe, but what's so obviously illegal here that you're dumbfounded?
Until someone puts on a deposition swearing that they own someone else's property, or else, reveals that they knowingly lied in court about the purloined code, there probably isn't any meat on this bone.
The stock stuff isn't anything, despite people screaming "pumpndump! pumpndump!!", it's simply legal and above the board, period.
Now if someone goes into a court room and/or makes a deposition with false statements, KNOWINGLY makes false statements, THEN you have the case that will put that individual behind bars. Won't happen though. This case isn't going to see the inside of a courtroom, period.
You aren't going to drag me into your "traffic control is like an atomic bomb in the basement" analogy.
Maybe there are legitimate uses, and maybe there are civilians who should be allowed to own one. Maybe the device shouldn't be illegal, but using it should be. Maybe you could even make an argument that the emergency vehicles shouldn't even have these.
But don't throw the atomic bomb in the basement out as some sort of argument.
It is up to the State. And if you took your State's driving test, it is quite possible that they expect you to know the law. Probably, you are not permitted to have a red light visible from the front of the vehicle. Usually, white or yellow strobes are allowed. Sirens are not allowed, but PA horns are ok.
I'd expect equipment violations to be treated as a moving violation, if you're driving, and a registration problem if you're not driving. It's possible that you could get into felony "impersonating a peace officer" territory, depending on what you are doing.
The folks who ended up with Andy's squad car from Mayberry had to paint over the insignia. That was California though. Kind of a bummer. Trying to remember where I saw that.
The only way it will ever sink in that this is "unacceptable" will be when it is not accepted. Unfortunately, it *is* acceptable, as they will be told in dollars.
Unless an actual crime or sales agreement breach has been documented here, there is nothing to do except not buy the product.
>However, what if I am running a mission critical
>service on port 80 that doesn't speak HTTP.
Then you knew better than to buy the cheapest and crappiest consumer model router.
>Spam filters do not work because there is no way
>to look at text and tell whether it is spam or
>not.
Seeded Bayesian strategies work pretty damned well. The problem is, most consumers are forced to download the mail before letting their spam filter check it.
I don't really care that the spams are in my inbox folder. I mean, I do, but the damage was done when I was forced to download the crap before checking it. That is the bigger annoyance.
If Cox cable would let me, I would just run my own inbound MX. I'd have a whitelist for inbound SMTP, and that would be that.
The "Good Samaritan" idiom is racist from the start. The meaning of the phrase stems from a presumption that all Samaritans (whose descendents happen to be modern-day Palestinians) would sooner hasten the Jew's death than render aid. The fact that a Samaritan did render aid to the Jew in the story is such a noteworthy event, so completely unprecedented and unexpected, that "THE" Good Samaritan becomes a mythological singularity.
The implication of the story at Luke 10:30-37 is that the theives that the man ran into were Samaritans, and that robbing and stabbing and leaving him for dead was exactly the sort of treatment a Jew could expect from Samaritans on the road to Jericho. Then two Jews saw him and left him for dead, and it was a Samaritan who saved him.
The story, updated to a modern context, should be something like this:
A man from Jerusalem was driving to Jericho. Palestenian soldiers halted his car. When they saw that he was a Jew, they pulled him from his car, shot him, blew up his car with a grenade, and left him for dead. Some time after, as he clung to life, a UN jeep passed him on the road, but the soldiers did not stop to render aid or even investigate. Later, a group of tourists passed by the other direction, and also regarded the dying man as part of the scenery.
Finally, a Palestinian man happened on the scene, took pity on the man, took him to a doctor, and even helped him pay for a hotel room until he gets back on his feet.
And the moral of this story is, "Not all Palestinians will wontonly murder any Jew: most of them will, but there was one who didn't."
>Could the global opensource community put that
>together?
Maybe, but what they couldn't manage would be a unified consensus on the disposition of the money, or what to do afterwards. I know my contribution would be contingent on a literal tarring and feathering of the execs. (And I mean, 1700's style tarring and feathering which causes 2nd degree burns...)
>I think the radar/laser detectors are fine, but
>the devices which allow people to actually
>change the system should not be allowed.
I can climb up on the pole and rewire the lamps.
That doesn't mean channel locks or ladders should be illegal, but it does mean that using them to change the traffic safety device should be. Seriously illegal.
This is a different means to the same end. The device shouldn't be treated like the problem. But anyone who uses the device should be willing to do hard time for it.
"I looked through a few of them but I couldn't find anything really glaring..."
The memos amount to a trail of evidence that the developers, with the complicity of their managers, conspired to falsify data for certification purposes, that they allowed noncertified versions of their product to be used (in an area where that certification is a legal requirement), and the fact that these memos exist means that everyone who knew is guilty of covering up information that should have been reported to federal authorities the instant it was known. They are accomplices to the crime becuase they helped cover it up.
If you own a TV, hacked or otherwise, YOU are still volunteering the BE THE PRODUCT. As long as you participate in this experiment, you are supporting them. Lose the tube completely, it's never been easier.
I saw a few CD singles in the early days of the format (it goes back as far the Red Book itself), saw a few again, a couple of years later, and since then I have only seen them as promos. In fact, they've ALL been promos. I've never seen a CD single that had any retail fate at all.
Err, solar observation goes back at least a century and a half. We have better spectroscopy today, of course.
It wouldn't surprise me if astROLOGISTS put more emphasis on the importantce of solar activity than astronomers do. Scientists do science, but pseudoscientists are at liberty to make any wild conjecture they want to -- and the more obvious the celestial event the more weight they can put on it when they invent their consequences.
In years to come, today's solar activity will be archives of photos and numbers in observatory logs. But anyone born today will always be able to find someone willing to use the sky as an explanation for their success or failure, who they should pursue as a love interest, what lotto numbers they should pick....