What is the catch behind 60 Mbps service? (Keep in mind, that cable TV itself is a 100 Mbps service.) Are there services that will be lost? Ports blocked? Contracts with MPAA/RIAA under the table? Or is Paul Allen and St. Louis Charter GM Steve Trippe on their way to Barbados with a corporate bonus they do not deserve?
Charter has dropped nearly ALL local public access programming. You want to have a show on public access? Good Luck with that.
Due to conflicts with the Belo Corporation, local CBS affiliate KMOV is still not available in HD as February 17 rapidly approaches.
Being a Fedora Linux user, I wasn't too impressed with the explosion of widgets that KDE4 touted. (More than likely, jumping on the curttails of OSX and Vista's usage.) All of these fance gizmos seemed to obsfucate the entire Desktop. The convienence of having items sit on your Desktop as opposed to some Dock or Taskbar. These features is what convinced me to move away from Mac when OSX came out. As atheticly beautiful as they are, no one has figured out how to get them to conserve memory. To that extent, why not create a GUI completely made from Adobe Flash and call it a day.
There is only one solution to stopping the "carbon footprint": KILL EVERYTHING!
Considering Google's high energy standards from using alternative energy in the GooglePlex, to using energy efficient hardware, its not enough! So everyone must die! That's right! Kill everything! Destroy everything you touch! (By clicking on that link, you have drowned a litter of puppies due to global warming! How do you sleep at night! You should kill something! HURRY!) You must save the planet from yourself. You are not clean enough! You're mentally ill! (Gasp! You killed the wiggy-wamp-wiggy! A species of ant that lives in the Rainforest! MURDERER!) Germs are making you like that! They fart their carbon dioxide in the air! Must destroy the germs! Must kill everything! AUGH!
OK, enough sillyness. I've had quite enough of this carbon footprint bullshit! You know what, I'm going to keep surfing the Internet. I'm going to surf the internet until I kill a penguin with an oil tanker in Florida!
"Save the planet? We can't even save ourselves!"--George Carlin.
By reading this post you have already helped destroy the o-zone layer. Never mind that a Gamma Ray Burst can destroy it in an instant, but you a supernova to somebody.
Until India and Pakistan destroy each other in their impending Mutually Assured Destruction, don't count on finding a job in CS outside of the usual areas (e.g. Sillicon Valley, New York, Boston, Chicago). Its been two years since I've had a job. I have better chances of getting carpel tunnel syndrome than finding an entry-level CS job in the St. Louis area. With no money for a car or to move to those popular locations for CS jobs, I'm S.O.L. until the economy recovers, or until American companies stop outsourcing.
When was the last time you updated your packages, subby? I've been running my computer since the beginning of the week, and it never crashed. yum update time
From they way it sounds, yum check-update
Sure, California has its plesant climate for most of the year, but it is also one of the most expensive states to operate a business and to live in.
Not to appear to be thinking of myself (being a St. Louisian who is currently unemployed), but it is far cheaper to operate in the Midwest. I could understand operating on a coastal area if there was something to export, but a river can do just as well, just be sure to get out of its way when it starts to flood if you don't build in a proper place. (Tip: Building on bluffs is way better than building in a floodplain. I'm talking to you, New Town St. Charles!)
But the TCO in St. Louis is far less than the TCO in San Jose, San Francisco, or Los Angeles.
Best of all, we don't catch fire every few days! The biggest concern of any Tech company on the West Coast that frightens the rest of the company is the concern that some of the big technology companies on the West Coast may be destroyed in a firestorm. I feared for my webhosting service provider's welfare this summer after the great fires that roared through Southern California. Though it did not suffer the damage of fire, the fact that smoke had creeped into their office building was reason enough to stay awake at night.
Long before we had the Internet, I was introduced to LOGO and BASIC on the Apple II. (This was like earily 1990s. The schools in the Midwest weren't up to speed with the folks in the big cities with their PowerPCs, Quadras, and earily i386 computers).
It would probably be a wise decision to teach CS in school, but not expose children to the Internet. I mean ABSOLUTELY NO Internet.
Before we teach children about looking up research online, have them search the encyclopedias and books. Let them learn mental math before we give them a calculator. I wish I had known about the vedic maths when I was younger; Multiplication is a breeze.
My recommendation would be either to teach Assembly Language or Python.
To think, all those years some of us though of Microsoft as being an evil corporation and then we learn about Diskeeper which IS evil and manditorily requires their employees to join the CULT of $cientology.
I forsee quite a bit of Rickrolling in their future.
I'll admit to using Kazaa, but I quit using it after 2002. Too much risk, RIAA's "secret music police" and this thing called Torrents were starting to catch on.
Hopefully this girl will make it out of the trial as a minmium $750 per item fine is down right crazy! If a person downloads 12 songs, that is well over $9000.
Lori Drew is GUILTY. Reguardless if she had some kid help her create the MySpace page (since Most Parents don't know jack about Social Networking she had to get help from someone else), Lori Drew had signed up for MySpace for the purpose of extracting information from an emotionally unstable teenage girl. Lori Drew would probably let Megan Meier play with a lit M80 if she knew the girl was a pyro or let her clean out her medicine cabnet if she knew Meier was a drug addict, just so as long as she could extract information from Meier. Instead she chose the Internet.
Drew may not have a degree in Computer Science or Information Technology. She may not know how to pick a lock or phreak a telephone. But what she did was break into this girls head, manipulated her emotions, sought to make sure that her daughter would be seen as more popular and socially attractive than Meier, then break her heart right at the time when she was the most unstable and that her parents were too occupied with their own personal lives to care that some helicopter mom who was manipulating her own daughter's life was manipulating the life of some other girl.
But this case CANNOT and WILLNOT be tossed. As Lori Drew had the option to abide to the terms of service (TOS) and Privacy Policy used by MySpace even if she did not read them, she was still bound by them. She could not have filled out that form, and could not have clicked the box that stated that she would abide to the TOS and Privacy Policy, and she could not have clicked the Submit button. But she did AND she disavowed the TOS and Privacy Policy.
If the judge tosses this case out and if she returns to Dardenne Prairie, there probably will be an angry mob waiting to greet her, there probably will be vandals waiting to destroy the neighborhood, and there probably will be atleast some ignorant nut who will probably try to put a hit on her. As a resident of Eastern Missouri, I should hope that there won't be any violence, even if if the judge is careless or technologically illiterate enough to toss this case out. We can only hope that the judge won't and that Mrs. Drew is sent back to St. Louis in a pair of orange pajamas to be sent to a state prison.
I agree. On one hand, we'll have a president who is somewhat tech savvy and a vice-president who despite our contradictions with his philophy of the Internet, knows something about technology law. We just need him to get out of the MPAA, RIAA, and the NCTA's pockets first. Hopefully, Joe Biden has no ties to Jack "Videogames raped me" Thompson.
In terms of foreign policy, Biden is perfect for the job.
In terms of a pro-technology Senate, I believe that in the furture that there WILL be more pro-tech congressmen. Guys in their 30s and 40s running for office who used to be fans of Metal Gear Solid. Former-Iraq War Vets who are angry that the Grandpas in the senate gave them the lowest-common-denominator (the cheap-ass stuff) when they were in battle while the anti-tech grandpas and their special ed bible thumping leaders send their drunken kids on a world-wide vacation to write childrens books.
The Internet is here to enlighten people as to what is really going on. It is impossible to cover up what is really going on with propaganda. Eventually, the truth roars into perspecitive after hiding in the underground until the people of power are put into an embarassing or weak position.
While there is no argument that this is a serious war, the fact that everyone here in the United States keeps thinking that Georgia is the state where General Sherman burned Atlanta to the group, now would be a good time to refere to Georgia (the country) by its pronounciation Sakartvelo (SAK-ART-VEH-LOH).
Another problem I have noticed is that the TLD acronym for Georgia (the country) is.ge. (Gabon has.ga).
The most concerning part about this war is the cyberattacks both from Russia and from Sakartvelo. I am interested to see the report from RIPE NCC about this situation.
Secondly, I am also concerned about how this war will affect neighboring countries of Armenia (south of Sakartvelo), Azerbaijan (east of Sakartvelo), Belarus (which has had some conflicts with Russia), Ukraine (which is also thinking of joining NATO).
Emos shop and the mall. Goths shop on the internet or make their own stuff because the mall is mainstream therefore emos are mainstream. Mainstream sucks. Emos could be anyone including jocks, cheerleaders, preppies, and all the other cliques except for nerds and geeks. Goths are in good company as many of them hang out with the intelegent crowd (nerds and geeks). If anyone remebers slashgoth.org (based on slashdot.org), goths seem to have a mutual relationship with nerds, and geeks.
Goths are industrial geeks. You will probably see them as an architect or computer programmer ten years from now. Emos (pending they haven't voluntarily killed themselves) end out working in marketing, business, or some other University of Phonies program.
I stand by what I say, If you are that foolish to buy an iPhone and believe that the mouse will be phased out by touch screens, you must be a silly fool with condoms on your fingers. (Honestly, why would anyone sell this crap to people?)
The mouse stays. Now take those rubbers off your fingers before the Trojan Man kicks your ass.
Ever try to drag and drop on a touch screen. You feel like you have to rub your finger off just to move something from one end to the screen to another.
Now I know there are some iPhone users out their who are like "It doesn't bother me", but you have to consider that is a 4 inch screen. Try doing that with a 10 inch screen. You will want something with less friction to do drag something from one corner of the screen to the other.
Secondly, with the introduction of large touch screen like Microsoft's Table Project, you better have a bottle of Windex handy to wipe up the smudges that would constantly be on the screen.
The future for interfaces would be to NOT touch the screen (hover the fingers just above it like a TV meteorologist does with a green screen) or to be more like a wipeboard.
I personally would like to see a Wacom with a ball-point tip like an inkpen. If only their was a way to adjust the friction of the surface you are trying to write on. Now that would be an achievement.
OK, so I'm a lazy Linux user. I wait for my distro (Fedora) to release a new version of Firefox. To be quite honest, I'm gettting tired of waiting much like waiting for a stable Adobe Flash Plugin that is also stable. (Sometime I think those guys at Adobe intentional screw with Linux users. You shouldn't have to rewrite all of your code to create a damn plugin! I'm glad that is over, but their starting to slack off again.) So here I am still using Firefox 2 when I would really like to use Firefox 3. Sure, I could just download the source files, do a make;make install, but I feel if I do that using Fedora, I would upset the stability. Plus, I wouldn't know where to put the source file when I downloaded it or what I needed to do if I wanted to upgrade from source. (Help me out, gurus, if you know what to do. I feel like such a n00b sometimes.)
The Usenet has been untouched for years. But now that child pornographers (CPers) are shifting gears toward the Usenet, it is our responsiblity as Usenet users, especially those who subscribe to Usenet binaries, to shut down the CPers before the law (which knows about as much about the Usenet as they do the concept of witchcraft).
Like any mail system, the Subject of a message is a given description of whether a message is pushing CP. The problem is that these jerks will post their crap in ANY of the alt.* group reguardless if they support binaries or not. Binaries subscribers suffer the most because when the message is in their heirarchy, i.e. alt.binaries.erotica.carmen-electra, all the nerds who are swapping photos of the worlds most loved Clevelander are now suspect because samirATmailDOTru wanted to distribute photos of all the children he's touched.
American's need to wake up and knock this lazy "can't someone else fix it" crap off. When was the last time there was a major virus kicked around the Usenet? Where is the fringe crowd of computer hackers?
Freedom is not free. And if we don't stop the CPers and the technophobe law enforcement agencies, we will lose the Usenet!
"Welcome to the Aperture Science Immunity Research Center. Today we are going to infect you with a cocktail of horrible uncurable diseases. Fortunately, we have developed the new Aperture Science Handheld Immunity Device. It is currently in beta stage. If this device fails, you will die of a horrible combination of ailements. If it is successful, you will then proceed to the next room where cake and emotional conseling will be served."
Heaven forbid the White House read a letter containing a mysterious white substance known as "The Polar Ice Caps". They won't read letters about how global warming is causing climate change, but they will read the letters that have anthrax in them.
Slashdot Mirror
What is the catch behind 60 Mbps service? (Keep in mind, that cable TV itself is a 100 Mbps service.) Are there services that will be lost? Ports blocked? Contracts with MPAA/RIAA under the table? Or is Paul Allen and St. Louis Charter GM Steve Trippe on their way to Barbados with a corporate bonus they do not deserve?
Charter has dropped nearly ALL local public access programming. You want to have a show on public access? Good Luck with that.
Due to conflicts with the Belo Corporation, local CBS affiliate KMOV is still not available in HD as February 17 rapidly approaches.
Being a Fedora Linux user, I wasn't too impressed with the explosion of widgets that KDE4 touted. (More than likely, jumping on the curttails of OSX and Vista's usage.) All of these fance gizmos seemed to obsfucate the entire Desktop. The convienence of having items sit on your Desktop as opposed to some Dock or Taskbar. These features is what convinced me to move away from Mac when OSX came out. As atheticly beautiful as they are, no one has figured out how to get them to conserve memory. To that extent, why not create a GUI completely made from Adobe Flash and call it a day.
If 20th Century Fox wants to pick Keanu Reeves as Spike Spegiel, then there should be a few cameos by Damon Evans.
Already, he is shouting his name in greif.
Sadily, there will never be a voice an genune as Ricardo Montalban.
There is only one solution to stopping the "carbon footprint": KILL EVERYTHING!
Considering Google's high energy standards from using alternative energy in the GooglePlex, to using energy efficient hardware, its not enough! So everyone must die! That's right! Kill everything! Destroy everything you touch! (By clicking on that link, you have drowned a litter of puppies due to global warming! How do you sleep at night! You should kill something! HURRY!) You must save the planet from yourself. You are not clean enough! You're mentally ill! (Gasp! You killed the wiggy-wamp-wiggy! A species of ant that lives in the Rainforest! MURDERER!) Germs are making you like that! They fart their carbon dioxide in the air! Must destroy the germs! Must kill everything! AUGH!
OK, enough sillyness. I've had quite enough of this carbon footprint bullshit! You know what, I'm going to keep surfing the Internet. I'm going to surf the internet until I kill a penguin with an oil tanker in Florida!
"Save the planet? We can't even save ourselves!"--George Carlin.
By reading this post you have already helped destroy the o-zone layer. Never mind that a Gamma Ray Burst can destroy it in an instant, but you a supernova to somebody.
Until India and Pakistan destroy each other in their impending Mutually Assured Destruction, don't count on finding a job in CS outside of the usual areas (e.g. Sillicon Valley, New York, Boston, Chicago). Its been two years since I've had a job. I have better chances of getting carpel tunnel syndrome than finding an entry-level CS job in the St. Louis area. With no money for a car or to move to those popular locations for CS jobs, I'm S.O.L. until the economy recovers, or until American companies stop outsourcing.
1. Take the battery out of the Zune.
2. Throw Zune in lake.
3. Recycle battery. Never throw batteries in a lake!
When was the last time you updated your packages, subby?
I've been running my computer since the beginning of the week, and it never crashed.
yum update time From they way it sounds, yum check-update
Sure, California has its plesant climate for most of the year, but it is also one of the most expensive states to operate a business and to live in.
Not to appear to be thinking of myself (being a St. Louisian who is currently unemployed), but it is far cheaper to operate in the Midwest. I could understand operating on a coastal area if there was something to export, but a river can do just as well, just be sure to get out of its way when it starts to flood if you don't build in a proper place. (Tip: Building on bluffs is way better than building in a floodplain. I'm talking to you, New Town St. Charles!)
But the TCO in St. Louis is far less than the TCO in San Jose, San Francisco, or Los Angeles.
Best of all, we don't catch fire every few days!
The biggest concern of any Tech company on the West Coast that frightens the rest of the company is the concern that some of the big technology companies on the West Coast may be destroyed in a firestorm. I feared for my webhosting service provider's welfare this summer after the great fires that roared through Southern California. Though it did not suffer the damage of fire, the fact that smoke had creeped into their office building was reason enough to stay awake at night.
Long before we had the Internet, I was introduced to LOGO and BASIC on the Apple II. (This was like earily 1990s. The schools in the Midwest weren't up to speed with the folks in the big cities with their PowerPCs, Quadras, and earily i386 computers).
It would probably be a wise decision to teach CS in school, but not expose children to the Internet. I mean ABSOLUTELY NO Internet.
Before we teach children about looking up research online, have them search the encyclopedias and books. Let them learn mental math before we give them a calculator. I wish I had known about the vedic maths when I was younger; Multiplication is a breeze.
My recommendation would be either to teach Assembly Language or Python.
To think, all those years some of us though of Microsoft as being an evil corporation and then we learn about Diskeeper which IS evil and manditorily requires their employees to join the CULT of $cientology.
I forsee quite a bit of Rickrolling in their future.
I'll admit to using Kazaa, but I quit using it after 2002. Too much risk, RIAA's "secret music police" and this thing called Torrents were starting to catch on.
Hopefully this girl will make it out of the trial as a minmium $750 per item fine is down right crazy! If a person downloads 12 songs, that is well over $9000.
It's time for RIAA to grow up and hit the road.
Lori Drew is GUILTY. Reguardless if she had some kid help her create the MySpace page (since Most Parents don't know jack about Social Networking she had to get help from someone else), Lori Drew had signed up for MySpace for the purpose of extracting information from an emotionally unstable teenage girl. Lori Drew would probably let Megan Meier play with a lit M80 if she knew the girl was a pyro or let her clean out her medicine cabnet if she knew Meier was a drug addict, just so as long as she could extract information from Meier. Instead she chose the Internet.
Drew may not have a degree in Computer Science or Information Technology. She may not know how to pick a lock or phreak a telephone. But what she did was break into this girls head, manipulated her emotions, sought to make sure that her daughter would be seen as more popular and socially attractive than Meier, then break her heart right at the time when she was the most unstable and that her parents were too occupied with their own personal lives to care that some helicopter mom who was manipulating her own daughter's life was manipulating the life of some other girl.
But this case CANNOT and WILLNOT be tossed. As Lori Drew had the option to abide to the terms of service (TOS) and Privacy Policy used by MySpace even if she did not read them, she was still bound by them. She could not have filled out that form, and could not have clicked the box that stated that she would abide to the TOS and Privacy Policy, and she could not have clicked the Submit button. But she did AND she disavowed the TOS and Privacy Policy.
If the judge tosses this case out and if she returns to Dardenne Prairie, there probably will be an angry mob waiting to greet her, there probably will be vandals waiting to destroy the neighborhood, and there probably will be atleast some ignorant nut who will probably try to put a hit on her. As a resident of Eastern Missouri, I should hope that there won't be any violence, even if if the judge is careless or technologically illiterate enough to toss this case out. We can only hope that the judge won't and that Mrs. Drew is sent back to St. Louis in a pair of orange pajamas to be sent to a state prison.
I agree. On one hand, we'll have a president who is somewhat tech savvy and a vice-president who despite our contradictions with his philophy of the Internet, knows something about technology law. We just need him to get out of the MPAA, RIAA, and the NCTA's pockets first. Hopefully, Joe Biden has no ties to Jack "Videogames raped me" Thompson.
In terms of foreign policy, Biden is perfect for the job.
In terms of a pro-technology Senate, I believe that in the furture that there WILL be more pro-tech congressmen. Guys in their 30s and 40s running for office who used to be fans of Metal Gear Solid. Former-Iraq War Vets who are angry that the Grandpas in the senate gave them the lowest-common-denominator (the cheap-ass stuff) when they were in battle while the anti-tech grandpas and their special ed bible thumping leaders send their drunken kids on a world-wide vacation to write childrens books.
The Internet is here to enlighten people as to what is really going on. It is impossible to cover up what is really going on with propaganda. Eventually, the truth roars into perspecitive after hiding in the underground until the people of power are put into an embarassing or weak position.
Did anyone catch that typo?
Clearly, the person writing the article is typing with boxing gloves on.
/fhqwagads
While there is no argument that this is a serious war, the fact that everyone here in the United States keeps thinking that Georgia is the state where General Sherman burned Atlanta to the group, now would be a good time to refere to Georgia (the country) by its pronounciation Sakartvelo (SAK-ART-VEH-LOH).
.ge. (Gabon has .ga).
Another problem I have noticed is that the TLD acronym for Georgia (the country) is
The most concerning part about this war is the cyberattacks both from Russia and from Sakartvelo. I am interested to see the report from RIPE NCC about this situation.
Secondly, I am also concerned about how this war will affect neighboring countries of Armenia (south of Sakartvelo), Azerbaijan (east of Sakartvelo), Belarus (which has had some conflicts with Russia), Ukraine (which is also thinking of joining NATO).
Emos are pussies.
Goths usually kick emos asses.
Emos shop and the mall.
Goths shop on the internet or make their own stuff because the mall is mainstream therefore emos are mainstream. Mainstream sucks.
Emos could be anyone including jocks, cheerleaders, preppies, and all the other cliques except for nerds and geeks.
Goths are in good company as many of them hang out with the intelegent crowd (nerds and geeks). If anyone remebers slashgoth.org (based on slashdot.org), goths seem to have a mutual relationship with nerds, and geeks.
Goths are industrial geeks. You will probably see them as an architect or computer programmer ten years from now.
Emos (pending they haven't voluntarily killed themselves) end out working in marketing, business, or some other University of Phonies program.
Will I need to back up my favorites and plugins?
I stand by what I say, If you are that foolish to buy an iPhone and believe that the mouse will be phased out by touch screens, you must be a silly fool with condoms on your fingers. (Honestly, why would anyone sell this crap to people?)
The mouse stays. Now take those rubbers off your fingers before the Trojan Man kicks your ass.
Ever try to drag and drop on a touch screen. You feel like you have to rub your finger off just to move something from one end to the screen to another.
Now I know there are some iPhone users out their who are like "It doesn't bother me", but you have to consider that is a 4 inch screen. Try doing that with a 10 inch screen. You will want something with less friction to do drag something from one corner of the screen to the other.
Secondly, with the introduction of large touch screen like Microsoft's Table Project, you better have a bottle of Windex handy to wipe up the smudges that would constantly be on the screen.
The future for interfaces would be to NOT touch the screen (hover the fingers just above it like a TV meteorologist does with a green screen) or to be more like a wipeboard.
I personally would like to see a Wacom with a ball-point tip like an inkpen. If only their was a way to adjust the friction of the surface you are trying to write on. Now that would be an achievement.
OK, so I'm a lazy Linux user. I wait for my distro (Fedora) to release a new version of Firefox. To be quite honest, I'm gettting tired of waiting much like waiting for a stable Adobe Flash Plugin that is also stable. (Sometime I think those guys at Adobe intentional screw with Linux users. You shouldn't have to rewrite all of your code to create a damn plugin! I'm glad that is over, but their starting to slack off again.) So here I am still using Firefox 2 when I would really like to use Firefox 3. Sure, I could just download the source files, do a make;make install, but I feel if I do that using Fedora, I would upset the stability. Plus, I wouldn't know where to put the source file when I downloaded it or what I needed to do if I wanted to upgrade from source. (Help me out, gurus, if you know what to do. I feel like such a n00b sometimes.)
The Usenet has been untouched for years. But now that child pornographers (CPers) are shifting gears toward the Usenet, it is our responsiblity as Usenet users, especially those who subscribe to Usenet binaries, to shut down the CPers before the law (which knows about as much about the Usenet as they do the concept of witchcraft).
Like any mail system, the Subject of a message is a given description of whether a message is pushing CP. The problem is that these jerks will post their crap in ANY of the alt.* group reguardless if they support binaries or not. Binaries subscribers suffer the most because when the message is in their heirarchy, i.e. alt.binaries.erotica.carmen-electra, all the nerds who are swapping photos of the worlds most loved Clevelander are now suspect because samirATmailDOTru wanted to distribute photos of all the children he's touched.
American's need to wake up and knock this lazy "can't someone else fix it" crap off. When was the last time there was a major virus kicked around the Usenet? Where is the fringe crowd of computer hackers?
Freedom is not free. And if we don't stop the CPers and the technophobe law enforcement agencies, we will lose the Usenet!
"Welcome to the Aperture Science Immunity Research Center. Today we are going to infect you with a cocktail of horrible uncurable diseases. Fortunately, we have developed the new Aperture Science Handheld Immunity Device. It is currently in beta stage. If this device fails, you will die of a horrible combination of ailements. If it is successful, you will then proceed to the next room where cake and emotional conseling will be served."
Heaven forbid the White House read a letter containing a mysterious white substance known as "The Polar Ice Caps". They won't read letters about how global warming is causing climate change, but they will read the letters that have anthrax in them.
"Frisbeetarianism is the belief that when you die, your soul goes up on the roof and gets stuck." by George Carlin