actually wouldn't you have to steal 2 cd's and burn copies and give them away to commit copywright infringement? if you stole 4 cd's the store you stole them from bought all 4 from an upstream provider which makes them legit...
i would think that tinted windows would be a better example (even though you can't tint the windshield just say you did for argument's sake)... same car just can't see inside instead of taking action to do something different...
as stereotypical as this sounds it is right.. we have older uninformed people making laws that govern our society. If you noticed more than half of the people responding to the poll said that the government should regulate pictures/videos on the internet.. why? why do we want the government sticking their nose in our business all the time and why is it so ok for everyone to believe this?
I don't even want my isp filtering or snooping my traffic, hell i don't want anything but unfiltered/unregulated/uncontrolled internet, why must the masses (and the old folks making laws) not even understand the rights we citizens are supposed to have.
if they can't handle selling the bandwidth they advertise then they should stop. I personally have comcast too, and when our cable company used to be adelphia (mid maryland) i had no problems, the only downtime in about 7 years was when we had people knocking down the telephone poles or if it was really windy out... now we have comcast my service just drops out randomly for 15-20 minutes at a time, it's rediculous, and for the price, almost $50 a month it's almost not worth it anymore. i have been thinking of converting to dsl for the last 6 months (since the comcast changeover) but it's unfortunately not available..
that's how comcast can get away with this stuff, because not enough people have once choice let alone two choices for broadband services in even semi-rural areas. I would protest with my money if i could but alas i am stuck with comcast so i am for this lawsuit, although it will probably cause other problems, because i don't want them just cutting my traffic off when i pay an arm and a leg every month for it and because i want to use what i pay for.
I agree, file operations in vista are horribly slow. I manage 2003/xp networks and work on a vista laptop and i would like someone (working for microsoft) how they can make extracting files soooo sloooowwww...
on a celeron (POS) with xp and 256mb ram a ~20mb zip archive will extract in a few minutes... that same archive takes almost 10 minutes or more on vista with much much much better hardware/ram...
how can you downgrade things like this? i thought it was supposed to be newer == faster i guess not anymore (at least with windows).
these things are utterly retarded moves for microsoft to make... so now whenever i need to unzip something i use any xp computer i can find before i use my vista to do it..
ok i could see how this would be eternally useful if someone STOLE your car, but what if your just cruising and don't feel like stopping for said officer? (not saying i've done it, or recommending it) could they use it against you? probably... i wouldn't ever need onstar.... i'd rather use my cellphone to call about information or directions, or holy shit maybe plan ahead for a trip... and i keep a coathanger in the bed of my truck for those unfortunate incidents where i've become so forgetful as to leave my keys in the truck... and this stuff just goes too far, it's all about lazyness... or the american way whatever you want to call it...
this decision just continues to show that people who know nothing of computers are ok, just annoying, and that people who know just enough to be dangerous, use their destructive capacity to cause problems.
OK, not that i've really been following much of this, and not to start a flame war (i believe in getting rid of bush, and stopping this privacy invading collection of information as much as the next guy) but i don't see what Bush really get's out of this deal? I know spying on everyone in America is probably a fun hobby for him and all his NSA buddies, but is he making money on this somehow? I know he's probably profiting somehow on this (though indirectly) i just don't see the connection.
On a side note, if the judge doesn't throw out this request to stop the case and allow the EFF to sue AT&T then we can all kiss our asses goodbye. The US is just like an airplane, the terrorests shot a hole through one of the windows which we put some duct tape over (though air is still leaking out) and Bush is using "cabin decompression" as an excuse to crash the plane into the ground because we "need to lose altitude to breathe" while AT&T is recording every call from the plane to make sure there aren't any more terrorists on the plane.
It's not going to matter what you do if AT&T isn't held responsible and the NSA keeps getting away with recording everything. The plane is going to crash eventually, i just hope there are some survivors that remembered the freedom and privacy our forefathers were talking about when they created the constitution(and i hope i'm one of them).
It's a shame, July 4th will mark the US' 230th birthday (1776-2006) and in the last 30 years we've let the government take away more and more rights that we spent the previous 200 years fighting for.
I would personally like a friggin r-click option to print. I mean every other thing i use has a r-click option to print. Not just web browsers but regular applications have options to print or print preview. This is a pretty damn ignorant thing to do, this is supposed to be open source so that you can configure it "your way" and they refuse to add it. Bug 204519
What might be better though is an entire context menu options preferences page that allows you to select what options/dividers you want and where. They already have this for the bookmark toolbar folder and bookmarks in general. INASD (i'm not a Software Developer) so i wouldn't know the first thing about wrighting something like that, though i would if i could. I just think it would make a lot of people happier, hell they could even leave off the print option for a default install.
Well enough ranting, if your like me, they made an extension for printing from the r-click context menu here: Right Click Firefox Extension
I like playing some of the flash ads, when i win, firefox blocks the popups so it's all good, though they're easy to win. Makes for about 30 seconds of heart racing excitement... every now and then.
FTA: It also contained explicit language denying the FCC the authority to make new rules on Net neutrality. Democrats charged that lack of enforcement power would mean the FCC would be unable to deal with the topic flexibly.
So they can charge companies, just not make up fake rules and blame it on "net neutralitY". Maybe some of this restriction will port over to other things the FCC Censors... one can wish.
If you could actually read the text of the website. I guess maybe it would steer you away from link farms but other than that, you can't see much.
Not nessecarily, i do alot of searching for php errors and the like. Some links are legitimate and have answers to the questions i'm looking for, others have the same error, but it's being caused by another problem their having (that i'm not) and it just pollutes the links.
I could see a preview pane being most helpful because you could possibly even answer your question by just googling, and not have to visit the site (possibly with coding: syntax errors and the like). I know this would reduce traffic to sites somewhat (at least for me), though i think it would help everyone filter their results even more to provide more pages with the content they want and being able to weed out those link farm pages, as well as ones that don't nessecarily fit the problem your looking for.
you wouldn't expect a Grand Theft Auto crack dealer to drop in for a barbecue with the Sims
Funny i didn't picture anything like the parent, i was wondering what kind of happieness boost you would get by making your sim do crack? i mean friendship would go up from doing it with friends obviously... and probably sleep less, letting you work out longer to get better strength.... maybe a few other little bits, but helth drops quicker or someting as a result....
Would be interesting to be able to play both sides of the fence though, all of these happy-go-lucky games are kinda making me sick.
Not to bring up a token star-wars reference, but there was a jedi game that you could play as the good side or the dark side, depending on choices you make throught the game, that was cool. I played that a couple times through, different every time, made it alot more interesting...
IE, God isn't a magical being with a beard/4 arms/turban and a mysterious agenda, but a "greater" entity bound by the laws of the universe/creation/reality/[insert definition for everything here].
I couldn't find the post that made me want to find this and post it, but this is as good a place as any...
There are 2 things here that everyone is trying roll up into one ginormous problem.
Number 1 is the elimination of the ANALOG broadcast spectrum.
Number 2 is the conversion to DIGITAL television.
Now from what the article says it looks like the analog portion of the public (free) broadcast system is what is going to dissapear. And if anyone read the article they would have noticed this quote:
Roughly 20 million of those soon-to-be-obsolete sets are in homes where people don't subscribe to cable or satellite. The other 50 million or so are in pay TV homes, and used as second, third or fourth sets. Sets hooked up to cable or satellite services should work fine no matter what.
So... Anyone already on Satellite or Cable (or other type of tv service) service that does't depend on the analog broadcast spectrum, it's business as usual. You don't even have to get an hd tv, or digital converter box or any of that bs.
The only ones who will require anything at all, are disadvantaged people who can't afford a new "digital" tv and can't afford a service like cable or satellite.
I'm not trying to be all high and mighty, but before we all think that (as the parent seems to) our tv's are no longer worth anything and we might as well junk them, you might want to just investigate the problem. Not sayin i'm 100% right either, and if i'm wrong please correct me.
i'd have to agree, our company is still a small business and there is still a lot of trust between the owner and all of us employee types. We are all very dedicated to expanding the company due to the rewards we all receive based on the success of the business. I've only been there a year but have had quite a few bonuses come my way "just because" we reached a milestone as a company (like 50 clients, a new record monthly income, etc...). our main attraction happens to be a foosball (foozball or however the hell you spell it) table, a projector with dvd player, and a mini putting green in our office.
We all play regularly, as well as haing movie days where we watch a movie once a month and have pizza for lunch. The company also pays for a night out about once a month where we all go to the pool hall across the way and have a few beers and play pool, the only female employee even get's into it!!
Our company has also seen an exponential growth over the last 2 years, going from roughly 20 clients to over 125 recently, most of it not only comes from our desire to be the best at what we do, our outstanding customer satisfaction, or refferals from our customers, but because our work environment happens to be so forgiving. One of my co-workers actually brought in a remote control motorcycle that we all took turns running around the office for about a half hour...
Though foosball hppens to be our favorite pastime recently, veryone enjoys themselves most thouroughly playing a few games a day, as well as sparking some friendly competition (amazingly enough the boss man gets the most pissed off when he looses, slamming the rods that hold the players into the sides of the table and even kicking the entire table once:) fun boss to have though!!!) We are even developing an internal website to track the statistics and see how good (or bad) we are all doing.
My use of the floppy disk has increased by 1/3 ever since Freebsd 5.x, they now require 3 floppies to install vs 2 for 4.x. I'd boot off of a cd, but what's the use of burning a perfectly good cd when all the source i need is available once i boot up the default kernel and get to the install?
both ends of the conversation have to have it installed, and during upgrades to aim it often gets lost and you have to reinstall, but hey it's encryption.
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actually wouldn't you have to steal 2 cd's and burn copies and give them away to commit copywright infringement? if you stole 4 cd's the store you stole them from bought all 4 from an upstream provider which makes them legit...
i would think that tinted windows would be a better example (even though you can't tint the windshield just say you did for argument's sake)... same car just can't see inside instead of taking action to do something different...
A blend of killing, addictiveness, and strategy... good fun anytime... plus there's sound effects...
Play Defend your castle
as stereotypical as this sounds it is right.. we have older uninformed people making laws that govern our society. If you noticed more than half of the people responding to the poll said that the government should regulate pictures/videos on the internet.. why? why do we want the government sticking their nose in our business all the time and why is it so ok for everyone to believe this?
I don't even want my isp filtering or snooping my traffic, hell i don't want anything but unfiltered/unregulated/uncontrolled internet, why must the masses (and the old folks making laws) not even understand the rights we citizens are supposed to have.
God Damn the USA
if they can't handle selling the bandwidth they advertise then they should stop. I personally have comcast too, and when our cable company used to be adelphia (mid maryland) i had no problems, the only downtime in about 7 years was when we had people knocking down the telephone poles or if it was really windy out... now we have comcast my service just drops out randomly for 15-20 minutes at a time, it's rediculous, and for the price, almost $50 a month it's almost not worth it anymore. i have been thinking of converting to dsl for the last 6 months (since the comcast changeover) but it's unfortunately not available.. that's how comcast can get away with this stuff, because not enough people have once choice let alone two choices for broadband services in even semi-rural areas. I would protest with my money if i could but alas i am stuck with comcast so i am for this lawsuit, although it will probably cause other problems, because i don't want them just cutting my traffic off when i pay an arm and a leg every month for it and because i want to use what i pay for.
I agree, file operations in vista are horribly slow. I manage 2003/xp networks and work on a vista laptop and i would like someone (working for microsoft) how they can make extracting files soooo sloooowwww... on a celeron (POS) with xp and 256mb ram a ~20mb zip archive will extract in a few minutes... that same archive takes almost 10 minutes or more on vista with much much much better hardware/ram... how can you downgrade things like this? i thought it was supposed to be newer == faster i guess not anymore (at least with windows). these things are utterly retarded moves for microsoft to make... so now whenever i need to unzip something i use any xp computer i can find before i use my vista to do it..
no he's being true to the slashdot way:
1. lead readers on with interesting tidbits of information
2. let readers speculate on what the real idea/motive/etc... is
3. ???
4. PROFIT!!
ok i could see how this would be eternally useful if someone STOLE your car, but what if your just cruising and don't feel like stopping for said officer? (not saying i've done it, or recommending it) could they use it against you? probably... i wouldn't ever need onstar.... i'd rather use my cellphone to call about information or directions, or holy shit maybe plan ahead for a trip... and i keep a coathanger in the bed of my truck for those unfortunate incidents where i've become so forgetful as to leave my keys in the truck... and this stuff just goes too far, it's all about lazyness... or the american way whatever you want to call it...
this decision just continues to show that people who know nothing of computers are ok, just annoying, and that people who know just enough to be dangerous, use their destructive capacity to cause problems.
"start working on fixing Vista so at SP1/2 it becomes a decent replacement for XP"
I think i'll wait for the first FULL service pack.
On a side note, if the judge doesn't throw out this request to stop the case and allow the EFF to sue AT&T then we can all kiss our asses goodbye. The US is just like an airplane, the terrorests shot a hole through one of the windows which we put some duct tape over (though air is still leaking out) and Bush is using "cabin decompression" as an excuse to crash the plane into the ground because we "need to lose altitude to breathe" while AT&T is recording every call from the plane to make sure there aren't any more terrorists on the plane.
It's not going to matter what you do if AT&T isn't held responsible and the NSA keeps getting away with recording everything. The plane is going to crash eventually, i just hope there are some survivors that remembered the freedom and privacy our forefathers were talking about when they created the constitution(and i hope i'm one of them).
It's a shame, July 4th will mark the US' 230th birthday (1776-2006) and in the last 30 years we've let the government take away more and more rights that we spent the previous 200 years fighting for.
I would personally like a friggin r-click option to print. I mean every other thing i use has a r-click option to print. Not just web browsers but regular applications have options to print or print preview. This is a pretty damn ignorant thing to do, this is supposed to be open source so that you can configure it "your way" and they refuse to add it. Bug 204519
What might be better though is an entire context menu options preferences page that allows you to select what options/dividers you want and where. They already have this for the bookmark toolbar folder and bookmarks in general. INASD (i'm not a Software Developer) so i wouldn't know the first thing about wrighting something like that, though i would if i could. I just think it would make a lot of people happier, hell they could even leave off the print option for a default install.
Well enough ranting, if your like me, they made an extension for printing from the r-click context menu here: Right Click Firefox Extension
I like playing some of the flash ads, when i win, firefox blocks the popups so it's all good, though they're easy to win. Makes for about 30 seconds of heart racing excitement... every now and then.
Not even the beta IE 7 i have is working right, thank god firefox tested good, otherwise i might have to switch to lynx!!!
FTA: It also contained explicit language denying the FCC the authority to make new rules on Net neutrality. Democrats charged that lack of enforcement power would mean the FCC would be unable to deal with the topic flexibly.
So they can charge companies, just not make up fake rules and blame it on "net neutralitY". Maybe some of this restriction will port over to other things the FCC Censors... one can wish.
If you could actually read the text of the website. I guess maybe it would steer you away from link farms but other than that, you can't see much.
Not nessecarily, i do alot of searching for php errors and the like. Some links are legitimate and have answers to the questions i'm looking for, others have the same error, but it's being caused by another problem their having (that i'm not) and it just pollutes the links.
I could see a preview pane being most helpful because you could possibly even answer your question by just googling, and not have to visit the site (possibly with coding: syntax errors and the like). I know this would reduce traffic to sites somewhat (at least for me), though i think it would help everyone filter their results even more to provide more pages with the content they want and being able to weed out those link farm pages, as well as ones that don't nessecarily fit the problem your looking for.
you wouldn't expect a Grand Theft Auto crack dealer to drop in for a barbecue with the Sims
Funny i didn't picture anything like the parent, i was wondering what kind of happieness boost you would get by making your sim do crack? i mean friendship would go up from doing it with friends obviously... and probably sleep less, letting you work out longer to get better strength.... maybe a few other little bits, but helth drops quicker or someting as a result....
Would be interesting to be able to play both sides of the fence though, all of these happy-go-lucky games are kinda making me sick.
Not to bring up a token star-wars reference, but there was a jedi game that you could play as the good side or the dark side, depending on choices you make throught the game, that was cool. I played that a couple times through, different every time, made it alot more interesting...
IE, God isn't a magical being with a beard/4 arms/turban and a mysterious agenda, but a "greater" entity bound by the laws of the universe/creation/reality/[insert definition for everything here].
You mean 42 right?
Even GOOGLE agrees The answer to everything
I couldn't find the post that made me want to find this and post it, but this is as good a place as any...
There are 2 things here that everyone is trying roll up into one ginormous problem.
Number 1 is the elimination of the ANALOG broadcast spectrum.
Number 2 is the conversion to DIGITAL television.
Now from what the article says it looks like the analog portion of the public (free) broadcast system is what is going to dissapear. And if anyone read the article they would have noticed this quote:
Roughly 20 million of those soon-to-be-obsolete sets are in homes where people don't subscribe to cable or satellite. The other 50 million or so are in pay TV homes, and used as second, third or fourth sets. Sets hooked up to cable or satellite services should work fine no matter what.
So... Anyone already on Satellite or Cable (or other type of tv service) service that does't depend on the analog broadcast spectrum, it's business as usual. You don't even have to get an hd tv, or digital converter box or any of that bs.
The only ones who will require anything at all, are disadvantaged people who can't afford a new "digital" tv and can't afford a service like cable or satellite.
I'm not trying to be all high and mighty, but before we all think that (as the parent seems to) our tv's are no longer worth anything and we might as well junk them, you might want to just investigate the problem. Not sayin i'm 100% right either, and if i'm wrong please correct me.
i'd have to agree, our company is still a small business and there is still a lot of trust between the owner and all of us employee types. We are all very dedicated to expanding the company due to the rewards we all receive based on the success of the business. I've only been there a year but have had quite a few bonuses come my way "just because" we reached a milestone as a company (like 50 clients, a new record monthly income, etc...). our main attraction happens to be a foosball (foozball or however the hell you spell it) table, a projector with dvd player, and a mini putting green in our office.
:) fun boss to have though!!!) We are even developing an internal website to track the statistics and see how good (or bad) we are all doing.
We all play regularly, as well as haing movie days where we watch a movie once a month and have pizza for lunch. The company also pays for a night out about once a month where we all go to the pool hall across the way and have a few beers and play pool, the only female employee even get's into it!!
Our company has also seen an exponential growth over the last 2 years, going from roughly 20 clients to over 125 recently, most of it not only comes from our desire to be the best at what we do, our outstanding customer satisfaction, or refferals from our customers, but because our work environment happens to be so forgiving. One of my co-workers actually brought in a remote control motorcycle that we all took turns running around the office for about a half hour...
Though foosball hppens to be our favorite pastime recently, veryone enjoys themselves most thouroughly playing a few games a day, as well as sparking some friendly competition (amazingly enough the boss man gets the most pissed off when he looses, slamming the rods that hold the players into the sides of the table and even kicking the entire table once
Is it me or does the parent sound like some "stock tips" spam that's been going around lately?
My use of the floppy disk has increased by 1/3 ever since Freebsd 5.x, they now require 3 floppies to install vs 2 for 4.x. I'd boot off of a cd, but what's the use of burning a perfectly good cd when all the source i need is available once i boot up the default kernel and get to the install?
See, this is why i never quit smoking, i figured that by the time i get cancer, they will have cured it!
No one believed me though!!!!
Well there goes any forays into the woods with your girlfriend.
and the poision ivy the first time wasn't enough of a deturrent?
Aim has encryption, get your own private certificate or use the public one
http://aimencrypt.com/
both ends of the conversation have to have it installed, and during upgrades to aim it often gets lost and you have to reinstall, but hey it's encryption.