Right, so let's re-code every program ever made that uses sockets to respect the new reserved ports (since 1-1024 are reserved and 1025 and up are dynamically assigned) just so this asshat can sleep well at night.
I've been saying it for years, technology should be licensed the same as motor vehicles.
But at the same time, if the candy bowl is owned by an ISP, and the trick-or-treaters are companies like Google or YouTube, you want them to be able to take all the candy they want, as long as they give it to you, with --no-- consideration given to the ISP.
You're distorting the analogy. We're talking about a public wifi access point. The OP was unjustly juxtaposing a free wifi access point with ISPs. My analogy demonstrates the difference between the OP's comment and the submitter's point of view.
Besides, if i run a public access-point, i expect people to play nice and fairly with the bandwidth. The difference between my *free* public-access wifi and someone like google using an ISP's bandwidth is that google et al have *already paid* for their bandwidth. The ISPs want to make google et al pay *extra* for *preferential* bandwidth. That's what the whole net neutrality debate is about.
...ya bitch about The Next Guy hogging your bandwidth, and yet most of you clamour for "Net Neutrality."
Irony.... glooooorious irony.
I don't know about you, but i'd be pretty pissed if i was out trick-or-treating this halloween and watched some schmuck dump the bowl into his bag instead of reading the "Please Take One" sign the senior citizens left out =/
The biggest annoyance about this is that everyone is a bad guy who is involved in this:
1) TPB sucks, because they're just leechers making money off of other people's copyrighted work, all the while disengenuously crowing about "freedom".
I'm sorry, what? Last time i checked, they don't have advertising on their site. They even have a donation link to keep them going. Who's making the money? How are they acting counter to their own talk about "freedom" ?
I completely agree with everything stated by the PP. All i can really add is that V for Vendetta (the movie) shows a good example of how present USA is headed the way of Britain in V for Vendetta.
Go out and see it - Kick Ass movie:)
I was laughing my ass off by the end of your comment. Why? Because i work at a Helpdesk in a primarily (90%) windows shop, and i use linux 100% of the time to do my job.
Remote Desktop to interface with the Active Directory server. Firefox to access our web-based ticketing system. Firefox to access the perl scripts polling our networking equipment. Thunderbird to connect to our IMAP server for email.
Sure, i could use windows to complete these tasks, but the point is that i do _not_ require a windows partition to provide Windows desktop support.
Oh, and Firefox works with all three of my banking websites.
I second the Sysinternals recommendation. Specifically, Sysinternals Process Explorer is a wonderful tool. Generally I browse through all running processes with it, kill anything suspicious, then run Ad-Aware. It also lets you kill programs that have themselves re-executed seconds later as drivers and "vital windows services". Some adware loads itself into memory (and which windows will refuse to delete); kill with PE, then delete. Problem Solved.
I'm not sure why this was modded 'funny'. You might want to try opening the laptop up and locating the Bios battery. If you remove that for 30 seconds, the bios should revert to back to default settings (i.e., no password). Good luck.
Unless of course, it's the ability to carry out prayer or other religioius expression during meetings or on government property. Where in the constitution does it say you can do that? It's my understanding that Seperation of Church and State pretty much denies your right to do that, hence why the ACLU doesn't fight for it. Not everything is a right. But the ACLU DOES seem to defend the ones that are.
I'm sorry if i seem uncaring to others, but if the Civil Defence Force slipped and fell, it would be while performing their job. The prank didn't cause them to fall and hurt themselves. I find it very unsettling that on one hand pranks are encouraged, and on the other they are punished. Pranks like the Austin Seven are feats of engineering and should be appreciated as such. A more fitting punishment would be to make the perpetrators dissassemble the prank. Blaming the cleaning crews mistakes on the prankers is the worst form of scapegoating.
It's all in the package management, my friend. The Windows version is a static version (IIRC) that has all the libraries built in. The Linux versions use libraries on your machine through dynamic linking which reduces the size of individual packages at the cost of increasing a few dependancies.
Before you knock an operating system, check out the breadth before you start talking. You wouldn't shout "ride motorcycles" because your pinto broke down every 5000 miles, now would you?
I know this was intended to be a joke, but with RF technology, it could be very very real, and possibly just as effective as the poster intended (neglecting bathroom rapes).
The parents comment seems to be the general consensus (at least in my area). But why does the FTC really need to investigate Rockstar? I'll bet $10 that the FTC spends thousands of dollars on an investigation, and their report ends up stating that hackers bypassed Rockstars reasonable protection against viewing said explicit material. Case closed, Rockstar never intentionally mislead anyone to get the M rating.
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I guess Katrina must have REALLY caught them by surprise...
Almost the opposite it looks like: "lawyers sending threat letters sometimes claim that the recipient would violate the firm's copyright by posting it online"
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Right, so let's re-code every program ever made that uses sockets to respect the new reserved ports (since 1-1024 are reserved and 1025 and up are dynamically assigned) just so this asshat can sleep well at night.
I've been saying it for years, technology should be licensed the same as motor vehicles.
None. All hail to our Bush-y overlords.
=/
I much prefer "An eye for an Eye".
It may leave the whole world blind, but thats what the other four senses are for.
Besides, if i run a public access-point, i expect people to play nice and fairly with the bandwidth. The difference between my *free* public-access wifi and someone like google using an ISP's bandwidth is that google et al have *already paid* for their bandwidth. The ISPs want to make google et al pay *extra* for *preferential* bandwidth. That's what the whole net neutrality debate is about.
I'm sorry, what? Last time i checked, they don't have advertising on their site. They even have a donation link to keep them going. Who's making the money? How are they acting counter to their own talk about "freedom" ?
$ grep -C 2 CONFIG_MMC /usr/src/linux/.config
# MMC/SD Card support
#
CONFIG_MMC=y
# CONFIG_MMC_DEBUG is not set
CONFIG_MMC_BLOCK=y
CONFIG_MMC_WBSD=y
My winbond SD card reader works wonderfully. Check if yours is made by winbond. The driver is in all kernels >2.6.15 IIRC.
*stab*
Remember, remember the fifth of November
The gunpowder treason and plot.
I see no reason why gunpowder treason
Should ever be forgot.
I completely agree with everything stated by the PP. All i can really add is that V for Vendetta (the movie) shows a good example of how present USA is headed the way of Britain in V for Vendetta. Go out and see it - Kick Ass movie :)
I was laughing my ass off by the end of your comment. Why? Because i work at a Helpdesk in a primarily (90%) windows shop, and i use linux 100% of the time to do my job.
Remote Desktop to interface with the Active Directory server.
Firefox to access our web-based ticketing system.
Firefox to access the perl scripts polling our networking equipment.
Thunderbird to connect to our IMAP server for email.
Sure, i could use windows to complete these tasks, but the point is that i do _not_ require a windows partition to provide Windows desktop support.
Oh, and Firefox works with all three of my banking websites.
made up some new physics, something completely untested, and is therefore a crackpot.
Just because he's made up some new, untested physics doesn't mean he's a crackpot. It means he's thinking _outside the box_.
Heh, i skimmed past that and got "British Pornographic Industry" :-P
I second the Sysinternals recommendation. Specifically, Sysinternals Process Explorer is a wonderful tool. Generally I browse through all running processes with it, kill anything suspicious, then run Ad-Aware. It also lets you kill programs that have themselves re-executed seconds later as drivers and "vital windows services". Some adware loads itself into memory (and which windows will refuse to delete); kill with PE, then delete. Problem Solved.
I'm not sure why this was modded 'funny'. You might want to try opening the laptop up and locating the Bios battery. If you remove that for 30 seconds, the bios should revert to back to default settings (i.e., no password). Good luck.
Unless of course, it's the ability to carry out prayer or other religioius expression during meetings or on government property.
Where in the constitution does it say you can do that? It's my understanding that Seperation of Church and State pretty much denies your right to do that, hence why the ACLU doesn't fight for it. Not everything is a right. But the ACLU DOES seem to defend the ones that are.
French-fries? Thats the only way I'd ever drive a Mercedes!
I'm sorry if i seem uncaring to others, but if the Civil Defence Force slipped and fell, it would be while performing their job. The prank didn't cause them to fall and hurt themselves. I find it very unsettling that on one hand pranks are encouraged, and on the other they are punished. Pranks like the Austin Seven are feats of engineering and should be appreciated as such. A more fitting punishment would be to make the perpetrators dissassemble the prank. Blaming the cleaning crews mistakes on the prankers is the worst form of scapegoating.
Before you knock an operating system, check out the breadth before you start talking. You wouldn't shout "ride motorcycles" because your pinto broke down every 5000 miles, now would you?
I would have great fun in the Electronics department with their digital cameras/video cameras. Then I'd sue their ass for entrapment.
I know this was intended to be a joke, but with RF technology, it could be very very real, and possibly just as effective as the poster intended (neglecting bathroom rapes).
The parents comment seems to be the general consensus (at least in my area). But why does the FTC really need to investigate Rockstar? I'll bet $10 that the FTC spends thousands of dollars on an investigation, and their report ends up stating that hackers bypassed Rockstars reasonable protection against viewing said explicit material. Case closed, Rockstar never intentionally mislead anyone to get the M rating.