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  1. Re:Public Service on New York MTA Asserts Copyright Over Schedule · · Score: 1

    The MTA is a private company.
    Their property is a time schedule.
    If you replicate it exactly, then you are violating their copyright.
    If your website just puts up the train schedules, in a different format, and says it is not associated to MTA in any way, then you are OK. You are just pointing to the information that already exists.

  2. Re:Social Security #s are for Social Security ONLY on SSN Overlap With Micronesia Causes Trouble For Woman · · Score: 1

    Unless the wage was being paid out from California (where the judgement was incurred), this can't work.
    Assume this: i work in CT, and my employer pays my salary from MA. A debt collector gets a judgment for wage garnishment in a MA court. That's fine. Because the employer MUST obey his state's rules.
    But if the same collector gets a judgement in CA, neither the employer nor me has to worry. In fact i would sue the employer if he garnished my wages without a MA court order (unless it was a Federal court).

  3. Re:Ladies and gentlemen, we have a winner on Windows 7 To Sell In UK For Half the US Price · · Score: 1

    Look, ipchains is not a GREAT firewall. OK?
    My wubi install was so fucked up that day (which is why i uninstalled it) that whatever browser i launched it didn't go anywhere.
    Sometimes truth is stranger than fiction.
    And i meant that sentence. The stupid linux thought i (as a root user) was a virus or some shit.
    I mean who knows what ubuntu thinks.
    Its not as simple as Mac.

  4. Re:Ladies and gentlemen, we have a winner on Windows 7 To Sell In UK For Half the US Price · · Score: 1

    Are you sure you didn't install ubuntu over WinXP?

    No. I didn't. I installed via wubi.exe It DID create a bootup menu entry in boot.ini such that i can boot into Windows or Linux.
    Wubi doesn't tinker with partitions or any other crap.
    Hell, it was working great for quite a few days, before the fateful day.
    During the previous night, i had uninstalled Ubuntu from Add/Remove inside XP (wubi allows you to do that).
    I reboot the next morning to retrieve the telephone numbers of the stupid cab company whose cab hadn't arrived to pick us up for our train. Boom!
    There its gone. NO XP. No Nothing.

    "it did NOT play Company of Heroes or any of the other games i own". I am sure you are "not a technically-challenged moron".

    I can understand sarcasm. Even am not that stupid. The WINE process to make DirectX9&10 on Ubuntu AND hence the games is not perfected for production yet. I can run Notepad and even IE. Great. Not these advanced games. I tried, and all i got was a black box with rectangles. WINE manual was helpful to some extent. Not a click and run thing.
    I also use an iBook running Mac OS X Leopard.
    God bless that thing and Steve Jobs.
    I would prefer it to Linux ANY day.

  5. Re:Ladies and gentlemen, we have a winner on Windows 7 To Sell In UK For Half the US Price · · Score: 1

    Stop with the Ubuntu/Linux crap.
    I installed Ubuntu through Wubi.
    It fucked up my XP on a fine, fine day when i was starting to leave on my second honeymoon. And no, am not a technically-challenged moron.
    During the time i had Ubuntu, it did NOT play Company of Heroes or any of the other games i own, its Open office crap could not properly read an office 2003 document with VBA in it, and its firewall, thought i was a virus.
    I refused to install XP. Instead i download Windows 7 RC 64-bit and found it far more faster, cleaner and more useful than XP.
    After seeing the prices of Windows-7, i bought a Technet subscription.
    This way in a single day i had access to Windows 7 Ultimate RTM 64-bit, office 2007, Visio and what not.
    And am glad to say Windows-7 consistently outperforms XP, and beats the shit out of Ubuntu.
    I was not a MS fan, but am now.
    And i know this is a MS-haters forum and i would be flamed, but i ain't care.
    Nothing screws up your second honeymoon and escape the consequences. In this case am a life-long Ubuntu hater.

  6. Get the Technet Subscription on Windows 7 To Sell In UK For Half the US Price · · Score: 1

    ...that's my advice.
    I bought a technet subscription and i get Office, Visio, and Windows 7 (not to mention Vista and XP) along with it.
    Why bother spending $220/- for the Ultimate edition when the same money could get you a all-you-can eat buffet?

  7. so Spore is correct ! One for the corporates! Yaay on NASA Discovers Life's Building Block In Comet · · Score: 1

    Great!
    So Spore was actually right.
    Now i can let my son play spore and help him learn that life came from comets and that we ought to smash each others heads to become civilized.

  8. Re:Criminalize Leaks of private information by Gov on In the UK, a Plan To Criminalize Illegal Downloaders · · Score: 1

    How about the London Tower? unheated in winter and with the Ghost of Anne running around, it may just be wonderful for those chaps. Isn't it?

  9. Criminalize Leaks of private information by Govt. on In the UK, a Plan To Criminalize Illegal Downloaders · · Score: 1

    Get a law passed that criminalizes The leakage of private information by Govt or its supreme "Yes, Minister" servants.
    That way, the next time some MP or minister or a civil servant loses a hard disk containing private information, he/she faces hard time in a Federal Prison: for 10 years or more.
    Why doesn't someone get the stupid ministers to pass a law like this?

  10. Re:A fair way to handle traffic shaping on Comcast Finally Files Suit Against FCC Over Traffic Shaping · · Score: 1

    Pro-rate the payment according to the service.
    Send a certified notice to comcast corporate office stating Your Terms of Service. State that in the absence of any response from Comcast within 7 days, these terms form the modification to the contract you originally have with Comcast.
    This puts comcast on defensive in a court of law when it sues you for full payment.
    Monitor the traffic and speed.
    When comcast sends you a bill for full amount, send a counter-claim in exact same template to concast stating this is the amount comcast must pay for defeciency of service and that you are deducting this amount from the amount you need to pay. Send your bill, and a check to cover the same.
    Comcast will either do two things:
    1) They will close out your account for non-payment.
    2) Send your account to a collection agency.
    Get a justice of peace to sign a judgement against Comcast for its non-payment. At this point, you have served comcast your money.
    Proceed until Small Claims Court and get a default judgement against these morons.

  11. Re:Disturbing on Comcast Seeking Control of Both Pipes and Content? · · Score: 1

    You are NOT in Europe. You are in USA.

    I have the right to purchase PhoneX instead of PhoneY

    To quote the great Ford: "You can have any color you want, as long as its black." Try bringing a 2-band GSM mobile from Japan or Malaysia and using it in US.

    I have the right to use TelecomA instead of TelecomB.

    AT&T and Cingular are not two different companies. They are the same company. Verizon, AT&T, T-Mobile, Sprint: these are your choices. Use 'em or lose 'em.
    Even a so-called 3rd world country like India has 9 providers in intense competition with each other.

  12. Re:Regulated monopolies? on Major Carriers Shun Broadband Stimulus · · Score: 1

    When the market is made by a single company which has literally the power of life and death over people (911 not available to a village because AT&T refused to lay lines), then the "stupid" and "detailed" regulations need to exist to prevent manslaughter.
     

  13. Re:Yeah Smallbies! on Major Carriers Shun Broadband Stimulus · · Score: 1

    The moment smaller nimble effective competitors start to take up the subsidies, the AT&Ts of USA would jump in with both feet on them AND the senators resulting in:
    1) Raising capital requirements of the companies to $5 Billion. This effectively removes the underdogs lose.
    2) Incorporate smaller companies that soak up the capital but do nothing.
    3) Change the law to criminalize the subsidy by suing each company and each county in state courts tying up resources.

    JP Morgan, would be happy to see his plans for anti-competition succeed beyond his wildest dreams.

  14. Re:Do you have a better suggestion? on Australian ISPs Soon To Become Copyright Cops · · Score: 1

    yet illegal activities that are screened by the relative anonymity of the Internet are a persistent problem

    Yup. Eating Bread suffocates 98% babies, Water is responsible for 100% of drownings, and kitchen knives are responsible for 80% of knife deaths. Shall we ban all these?
    Quoting statistics is easy, even a fool like you can do it.
    Making it relative to something else is harder.

    Screaming about our loss of freedoms and privacy through draconian laws does not solve the problem of illegal activities, because the government and industry are not the root of the problem.

    Oh... and you say the laws are magically drafted and magically passed by fairies masquerading as MPs?

  15. Re:Again, only in america. on AT&T Makes Its Terms of Service Even Worse, To Discourage Lawsuits · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I agree with you.
    Andrew jackson and Woodrow Wilson would be turning in their graves, while JP Morgan would be clapping.
    In India, the reserve bank forced banks to cross-accept debit cards in their ATMs without surcharges. Naturally banks balked at this, but the reserve bank simply bulldozed over them. Now i can use any bank's card on ANY ATM without any surcharge. What's more the Reserve bank has forced them to put this on display in all of their ATMs.
    Secondly, the local telephone companies wanted the ability to trash a consumer's credit score based on his telephone bill payment. The courts refused it.
    Indian laws specifically make the corporate veil invisible in many criminal cases. So there are no "settlements" here. The CEO is prosecuted and jailed. No golden parachute crap, no evading responsibility.
    My contract with my 16Mbps broadband provider specifically states that for every day the service is out, the company prorates the rental amount and credits my account with the money. Similarly iam free to use torrents, or any other crap. No restrictions.
    if the speed goes below 12Mbps, the company of forced to charge me only for that plan rates.
    Of course the company didn't like these terms: tough luck. The LAW and courts included this clause by force.
    Preventing access to courts by arbitration is prohibited by law. Our Supreme court once thundered against this and put the CEO in jail for this.

  16. Re:Some practical advice on What Questions Should a Prospective Employee Ask? · · Score: 1

    So, you are saying 79,900 employees are clones of Satan.
    Wow!
    They should be honored to hear that.
    Tell me, where do you work? McDonalds?

  17. Re:Some practical advice on What Questions Should a Prospective Employee Ask? · · Score: 1

    Right... i guess wearing bullet-shot jeans and a T-Shirt with Che's portrait is the "right" dress for you when u go for an interview at Exxon.

  18. Some practical advice on What Questions Should a Prospective Employee Ask? · · Score: 0

    I just finished reading about the Great Panic of 1907 subsequent depression, the creation of the Fed and the Pujo hearings.
    The economy today mirrors 1907 in many ways and the lessons of job seekers then apply today too. So here it goes:
    1) Remember: your interviewer is the company. In 99% of situations, he is going to be your boss and the only one who decides whether you get the job or not.
    2) Do NOT ask super-intelligent questions. This is a buyers' market. So stuff your 190+ IQ in your shirt. Gauage the IQ of the interviewer and be one step BELOW it. Ya, the old timer stuff about an interviewer hiring you because he wants to work for you? does not work. His job is in as much danger as yours. So if u appear smarter, cheerful, intelligent than him, then he won't select you. Appear knowledgeable, but dumber than him.
    3) Ask about health benefits. Obama may get medicaid for all, but until then u and i have to live on Aetna's suffering. So get the details of it and coverage.
    4) Ask him in what way can u assist him in getting an award. Some fools may call it suckin' up, but its not. Crony capitalism is what's practised for a long time, otherwise we all would be flying in cars now and i would be driving an EV1.
    5) Provide him with a few excellent references from your past. He would definitely check up on you and volunteering shows you are extra better.
    6) If you have a clean record (no tickets, etc) then tell him.
    7) For fcuk's sake, wear a suit, a tie and a nice pair of polished black leather shoes. Jim Clark and Steve Jobs may escape with Jeans, but you are NOT them, else u wouldn;t be asking for advice here. Suits convey professionalism. It is better to be overdressed than look like a fool.
    8) Do NOT ask him about working from home. This economy is not a sellers' market. Ask him what are the working hours and ask him if u could pick up an extra shift or two weekly. Yeah, your wife/GF may hate you for ditching her on Friday nights, but tell her she could not get the money for the next manicure if u didn't work.
    9) Education subsidy: ask him whether the company would subsidise education or whether it has tie ups with some university. Tell him u like to do a course on the technology u are working to benefit the company more.

  19. Re:Heavy Industry sans taxing? on Movable Clouds Migrate To Chase Tax Breaks · · Score: 1

    Heavy industry == large factories,thousands of unionized workers, slamming machines, polluted lakes and land, mountains of waste, grinding, chopping, mincing, steel-on-steel action, a few deaths every year due to "accidents", a corrupt, evil corporation that evades responsibility and criminal punishment by buying off state senators and donating to Republicans, etc.
    Corporate Data Centers== Mid-sized, ultra-clean, very quiet, tens of employees each owning a condo and a TransAm, employed by a corporation whose motto is "Do not be Evil", and whose only waste is flushed in the toilets...
    Got it?

  20. Re:um yeah... on California Student Arrested For Console Hacking · · Score: 1

    True. It is not single-payer 100%, but a a Govt. run healthcare company on the lines of NHS would definitely provide hard competition to the Aetnas and Cignas so much that they would have to improve.
    But, sigh.. knowing how corrupt congress is, after 2016, they would pass a law effectively limiting the same Govt. company after Obama retires.

  21. Dont.Fight.City.Hall on UK National ID Card Cloned In 12 Minutes · · Score: 1

    The logic is simple:
    If you fight City Hall, you WILL lose.
    The Govt. is a beast and it will now put this hacker on a terror list, and for good measure add him to the s3x-offender list too.
    This poor guy will spend ALL his money to fight the Govt. in courts, while the Govt. uses his tax money to fight him.
    Until he squeals: "If the Govt. does it, then it must be the best.", the Govt. will continue to gag him and all others who criticize it.

  22. Re:um yeah... on California Student Arrested For Console Hacking · · Score: 1

    We Did.
    We got ourselves the highest post in the land: President Obama.
    His campaign was funded on an overwhelming majority by the $10, $20 donated by people like you.
    Which is why he is butting his head against the Medical Monopoly and getting the congress to pass a Govt. funded single-payer health care that forces Aetna, Cigna and Blue Cross to improve their patient satisfaction rate instead of profits.
    Your advice is sound, and excellent. Am Sorry for my earlier outburst.

  23. Re:um yeah... on California Student Arrested For Console Hacking · · Score: 1

    Ahhh..
    U suggest that if i, the common man, doesn't like the law, i can get it changed at will.
    Are u even from this country? From this planet?
    How many times has congress actually listened to voters to pass a law the voters wanted or block a law the voters protested against? Or even repealed one? Care to remember or recall?
    How many times has congress kowtowed to Pressure Groups, Lobbyists to do the same? I can recall many, but the TARP seems to be the most recent one.
    When the law criminalizes 90% of the normal activity i do as a person, like backing up my music, using a song i like & bought as a ringtone, bringing my DVD to my friend's home to watch it there, crack an encryption because the company has gone bankrupt, what is there to law?
    The law taxed Tea. We had Tea Party at Boston.
    When the majority in a democracy hate a law and the congress critters refuse to listen to the majority but instead bow down to money, why should we obey it? Because corporate profits take a hit?
    Tell me.

  24. Re:um yeah... on California Student Arrested For Console Hacking · · Score: 1

    Over 40% of the blacks are at risk of being arrested and prosecuted for crimes they did not do and the AG knows they did NOT break the law.
    Are you supporting racist policy?

  25. I have always wondered.. on Even More Restriction For German Internet · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    ...how long the New Germany would survive before starting WW-3.
    Germans are a technically Gifted race, who are experts in high technology and quality of workmanship and take pride in what they do.
    They are also extremely paranoid, (putting to shame North Irelanders), and always have preferred Control and Order over Chaos and Freedom.
    They would have gladly given Bill Gates the key to Internet if he had created Microsoft in Germany.
    Ein Volk, ein Reich, ein Fuhrer
    has always been their slogan. Its in their genes to control everything. Which is why trains in Germany run on fanatically accurate schedules like 8.32:35 AM and why cops actually are respected by even thugs.
    Now, it has been proven.
    Inspite of heavy opposition to people's will, the so-called politicians have passed a law that Cheney would be salivating for.
    Heil Hit...