Hear hear..
However I think you are speaking to a mute crowd since it seems 99% who posted here stuck a hand out for the GOV hand out and slashdotters no doubt!!
It is not the governments issue for all Americans to get digital.. NON-ISSUE.. Should not have existed to begin with..
Go digital - if you cannot see your tube - get box or new tube.. Real easy here folks.
me I am digital, self made antenna - no cable or sat - hooked to the net for everything I want to see.
NOTE: streaming WHAT you wish to see is a whole lot CHEAPER than paying for 500 channels full of non-interesting crap..
I have seen the same thing. Sometimes it is almost "instant". As soon as the computer is recognized, within a minute, attacks begin.
As indicated usually does not require any interaction at all.. Gee gives PnP a new meaning.
I would give an educated guess that your connection has a lot to do with it.. Static vs Dynamic, known services running on the same IP..
It is fun to build a machine, install a windows flavor and DMZ it just to see what happens. It is also a great "show and tell" tool for the virtue of a Linux distro over windows.. "Watch this"
This is very true..
In my entertainment room I have a 32" 720/1080i HD with an upscale DVD and PS3..
The upscale DVDs look great. no injected artifacts or blur.. Even home made movies shot in 16:9 look great off an SDHC card
Upscale on the PS3 sucks at best, but you put in a BD movie and it is awesome..
My next purchase is a 1080p 46" LCD..
I will also get another upscale DVD just like the one I have in my room.. The PS3 will move to the big screen..
I also don't have cable nor sat.. I do have an antenna fro over the air HD broadcast.. If you have an HDtv on cable and it is being scaled by the converter box you are missing some fine HD content..
BTW - whats wrong with the economy?? Only thing I see is a bunch of blow hard doomsaying economist trying to make money off speaking engagements.. It is the people who are listening that are dragging the economy down..
I have no doubts that in the history of a KH11 that they are just used to watch "the other side"...
Then you have to consider "weather sats".. What are the "extra" packages on the GPS sats???
To believe that "EW" packages HAVE NOT been used for domestic surveillance at least 'once' is a bit naive..
Regardless of any 'law' in place to "prevent" it I am sure it has happened..
Was there not an article many many many years back that stated that the government used KHs to track mafia activity in the desert areas??
I am not a 'conspiracy' buff.. But I am not naive either.. Most of us here at slashdot are tech savoy, knowing what is possible with all the tech around us.. So one of the big greyhound bus cameras buzzing around above has surely taken a picture or two of the "girl next door"... Not to mention collected her cell number..
"We do it"
So having a break from coding to give this a quick read..
I am sure that their example is one and saw a few others.. You can bet your bytes that they throttle line speeds..
I am fiber, had once upon a few two years ago reached T1.5-2 speeds.. One day it went crash...
When it came back up.. IT was at the lowest DSL speeds.. Two calls, two different Technicians, both did the same test.. Both told me the same thing.. That the new company had throttled it back on purpose.. A complaint got me back up to mid dsl/half of what I had..
I think if you pay attention to your surfing watch your load speeds.. Think in context to a competitor site of your ISP provider.. Then make a compare to their own sites..
This is if you are using their DNS... Does not apply to OpenDNS...
Ping theses site with a load and watch the difference in packet drops..
I am nothing saying that a company 'would' degrade routing by DNS... But since I got off 'their' DNS and on OpenDNS those issues went bye - bye...
Then again "closed" corporates think they have the rights to do as they please and in most cases do..
Just food for the brain..
This past month HP issue a critical BIOS update for HP Pavilions 6000, 9000 and some Compaq series.. I don't know if this is related to this 'bug' or not.. They also issued updates to their 'HP' update wares... I have such a laptop.. It is my only Windors box.. All other are Slackware...
FYI...
IF you have such a machine using either HP update or visiting HP support you can get the BIOS updates (winflash) and other software updates for these machines...
I have had a Bellsouth now ATT fiber optic connection for about 5 years.. It was one of the fastest Bellsouth connections for a long time.. Then ATT happened... It got real slow and then the shutdowns started to happen...
Multi-call to what used to be Customer Support fell on muted ears...
Well.. This is where it gets interesting.. I had two different ATT techs come out to check the lines.. BOTH TOLD ME THE SAME THING AS TO WHAT MY ISSUE CAUSE WAS and IS..
ATT deliberately throttles the fiber lines in Georgia...
Once upon a time I had 3 up and 3 down.. Now I am lucky to have 1.5 down and 700 up...
So I expect them to get even worse before it gets better... My neighbor, who works for ATT has twice the speed I do and ATT tells me I cannot get that....
Frankly and this in my opinion, ATT sucks.. They did b4 they were busted up and now again since they were allowed to reestablish their monopoly on the US telecom market.. and yes they have control of most of uunet via the Worldcom suck up...
Come on come on come on.. I have read through these post and a vast majority of them sound like they come from windows cry babies... "oh I have to build this" "you have to build it" "too hard"...
"I need a GUI installer"
WTF.. Get windows lazies...
I use Slack for those very reasons.. Most of my systems are self complied. Custom wares, custom kernels, max hacks.. My main computer is extremely fast and stable beyond all belief.. I have tried other distros
Strangely they reminded me of windows with all their silly issues and lack of hardware support.
With Slackware if I have issues, need something or just want to test something it is just to plain easy to build it in Slack.. That is if you have your system configured correctly to do just that. Of course the way people here cry about Slack being "hard" I doubt they even customize their own kernels to their machines...
Windows lovers.. Go figure...
Until Microsoft gets off their "stupid" backwards compatibility hang up Windows will always be bloated and "swiss cheese" (no offense intended against the Swiss).
Why would someone wish to run an 8 or 16 bit program from 17 years ago on a machine and OS that did not exist at that time is beyond me...
I have stated this before and drew flame for it... Some lamer complained that they could not "afford" another computer to have a second OS to run old stuff on.
I have more than 15 computers out of those I only bought and paid for 3 (three) all the rest are off the side of the street or dumpsters. They all are bootable at least to one OS. Most are multi-boot win98/Linux. They range from a Pentium 200 up to P4 3.0 even a couple of dual xeons (yep trash out of a dumpster complete with a 64 bit Win XP, CAD/CAM loaded also with the latest Office..OUT OF A DUMPSTER)
It ain't hard to have more that one machine and very many OSs...
If it is still an issue see vmware.....
Windows will be broke till they do a "redo" form scratch...
Well I have lived in a couple of different countries in my life... I really like Germany... Not to fond of the old UK...
But I would say I would continue to live in America... It ain't perfect and at least the haven't started shootin ya for speaking your mind... A least not yet they haven't... And IF it gets headed in a direction that looks like they might start... Well then it would be time to have a new American Revolution then wouldn't it.....
LOL.. That's next....
United Policed States of America...
Correct... "policed" States... IN where the power of the States are controlled by the Federal Government...
We have a Federal Government that meddles where it shouldn't anyway....
Come on, just look at the community of "power users". Moore's law wnet bunk. Processers no longer jump speeds in warp segments. OK so you got a 64 bit buggier, cool but at around 3g Huh... that ain't much of a gain. Oh let's not forget most cores are "locked" these days so no user tweaks. Then there is the fact most windors users are at a DISADVANTAGE with a 64 bit system for with support is spotty.
Dual and quad cores now those are worth waiting for... Nothing like a quad core 64 bit mini-suer cpu in abox.. Throw in a little SLI and quad 21" wide-screen LCDs.... Hey wait, this sounds like my next box...
That is really what it is all about... IMO
Not to start a debate but as it is my understanding KDE has been for a more "eye-candy" look and Gnome for a more "clean-minimalist" look. I am one of those minimalist types when it comes to the GUI-OS interface. I used Gnome for years on BSD then in Slackware. When Pat dropped Gnome (understand the build issues) I started using KDE with much fuss due to the "clutter". I have hense learned the finer points of advance customization of KDE in much the same way as I had Gnome.
And that is my point.. When the KDE crew builds a new UI as long as they maintain advanced user customizable features go for it, it is a good thing. Like any Linux flavor the UI should be customizable in all regards. That is, as many here know one of its appealing aspects.
IMO... I believe as the Media companies win friends and influence people (win cases) they will go after more and more... I have only BRIEFLY even touched places like myspace and youtube but the amount of commerical media being used on personal and some (for biz) pages is well a great amount (just from my small sample). Now not being smart challenged I would have to say that most if any got something to say "you can us it"... Of course in the early days of the internet (web 1.0??? how stupid) shareing was just part of it... Commerical or otherwise...
All hale the mighty AMIGA!!!
I have 3 and can still do more on them then I will ever be able to do on a clone... BTW that is what the machine you are using is... Just a clone...
I once worked for a company that was using the mindstorm software to run a real live production bot stamping sheetmetal parts for cars...
It never worked right.. lol What do you expect for "toy" software and a windows machine that skips a clock cycle on sync motors...
I quit that job... Jack-legg ppl....
Just cause it has a 'pretty' GUI does not mean that it has function....
Many ppl prefer 'slim and trim' interfaces with the OS or program enviroment. When you make a 'pretty' interface for eye candy it becomes just that.... Eye Candy.... and loses all hope of function leading to bloat and wasted clock cycles to be appealling to the eye...
IMO
IF you have not used Slack then you should not be a bashing it....
Slackware 10.# + is the rule at this house. Six boxes total (2 are daily "drivers", 2 are servers with 2 backups).
This box here (mine) is a custom built box on a Soyo Dragon mobo that came out of a dumpster. You heard me... a Dumpster....
It started as a Slackware 10.1 stock with a 2.6.10 kernel, not very stable... Went back to the 2.4.28 kernel and had no problems...
I have tons of custom apps buolt on this box. It has also been updated beyond Slackware Current and I have been running KDE 3.5 since early last year (self built).
Slack is solid and if you prefer a more stable platform not loaded with a bunch of "eye candy" than it is what you want...
Oh and Slack is very fast..... on any box....
I must agree... The whole deal has always been about the Franklins... [translation=money]
It does not matter where or from who they can leach it... They just want more to feed the upper management..
All this is of course `MO` and does not always reflect that of others...
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Hear hear.. However I think you are speaking to a mute crowd since it seems 99% who posted here stuck a hand out for the GOV hand out and slashdotters no doubt!! It is not the governments issue for all Americans to get digital.. NON-ISSUE.. Should not have existed to begin with.. Go digital - if you cannot see your tube - get box or new tube.. Real easy here folks. me I am digital, self made antenna - no cable or sat - hooked to the net for everything I want to see. NOTE: streaming WHAT you wish to see is a whole lot CHEAPER than paying for 500 channels full of non-interesting crap..
I have seen the same thing. Sometimes it is almost "instant". As soon as the computer is recognized, within a minute, attacks begin. As indicated usually does not require any interaction at all.. Gee gives PnP a new meaning. I would give an educated guess that your connection has a lot to do with it.. Static vs Dynamic, known services running on the same IP.. It is fun to build a machine, install a windows flavor and DMZ it just to see what happens. It is also a great "show and tell" tool for the virtue of a Linux distro over windows.. "Watch this"
This is very true.. In my entertainment room I have a 32" 720/1080i HD with an upscale DVD and PS3.. The upscale DVDs look great. no injected artifacts or blur.. Even home made movies shot in 16:9 look great off an SDHC card Upscale on the PS3 sucks at best, but you put in a BD movie and it is awesome.. My next purchase is a 1080p 46" LCD.. I will also get another upscale DVD just like the one I have in my room.. The PS3 will move to the big screen.. I also don't have cable nor sat.. I do have an antenna fro over the air HD broadcast.. If you have an HDtv on cable and it is being scaled by the converter box you are missing some fine HD content.. BTW - whats wrong with the economy?? Only thing I see is a bunch of blow hard doomsaying economist trying to make money off speaking engagements.. It is the people who are listening that are dragging the economy down..
I have no doubts that in the history of a KH11 that they are just used to watch "the other side"... Then you have to consider "weather sats".. What are the "extra" packages on the GPS sats??? To believe that "EW" packages HAVE NOT been used for domestic surveillance at least 'once' is a bit naive.. Regardless of any 'law' in place to "prevent" it I am sure it has happened.. Was there not an article many many many years back that stated that the government used KHs to track mafia activity in the desert areas?? I am not a 'conspiracy' buff.. But I am not naive either.. Most of us here at slashdot are tech savoy, knowing what is possible with all the tech around us.. So one of the big greyhound bus cameras buzzing around above has surely taken a picture or two of the "girl next door"... Not to mention collected her cell number..
"We do it" So having a break from coding to give this a quick read.. I am sure that their example is one and saw a few others.. You can bet your bytes that they throttle line speeds.. I am fiber, had once upon a few two years ago reached T1.5-2 speeds.. One day it went crash... When it came back up.. IT was at the lowest DSL speeds.. Two calls, two different Technicians, both did the same test.. Both told me the same thing.. That the new company had throttled it back on purpose.. A complaint got me back up to mid dsl/half of what I had.. I think if you pay attention to your surfing watch your load speeds.. Think in context to a competitor site of your ISP provider.. Then make a compare to their own sites.. This is if you are using their DNS... Does not apply to OpenDNS... Ping theses site with a load and watch the difference in packet drops.. I am nothing saying that a company 'would' degrade routing by DNS... But since I got off 'their' DNS and on OpenDNS those issues went bye - bye... Then again "closed" corporates think they have the rights to do as they please and in most cases do.. Just food for the brain..
This past month HP issue a critical BIOS update for HP Pavilions 6000, 9000 and some Compaq series.. I don't know if this is related to this 'bug' or not.. They also issued updates to their 'HP' update wares... I have such a laptop.. It is my only Windors box.. All other are Slackware... FYI... IF you have such a machine using either HP update or visiting HP support you can get the BIOS updates (winflash) and other software updates for these machines...
I have had a Bellsouth now ATT fiber optic connection for about 5 years.. It was one of the fastest Bellsouth connections for a long time.. Then ATT happened... It got real slow and then the shutdowns started to happen... Multi-call to what used to be Customer Support fell on muted ears... Well.. This is where it gets interesting.. I had two different ATT techs come out to check the lines.. BOTH TOLD ME THE SAME THING AS TO WHAT MY ISSUE CAUSE WAS and IS.. ATT deliberately throttles the fiber lines in Georgia... Once upon a time I had 3 up and 3 down.. Now I am lucky to have 1.5 down and 700 up... So I expect them to get even worse before it gets better... My neighbor, who works for ATT has twice the speed I do and ATT tells me I cannot get that.... Frankly and this in my opinion, ATT sucks.. They did b4 they were busted up and now again since they were allowed to reestablish their monopoly on the US telecom market.. and yes they have control of most of uunet via the Worldcom suck up...
Come on come on come on.. I have read through these post and a vast majority of them sound like they come from windows cry babies... "oh I have to build this" "you have to build it" "too hard"... "I need a GUI installer" WTF.. Get windows lazies... I use Slack for those very reasons.. Most of my systems are self complied. Custom wares, custom kernels, max hacks.. My main computer is extremely fast and stable beyond all belief.. I have tried other distros Strangely they reminded me of windows with all their silly issues and lack of hardware support. With Slackware if I have issues, need something or just want to test something it is just to plain easy to build it in Slack.. That is if you have your system configured correctly to do just that. Of course the way people here cry about Slack being "hard" I doubt they even customize their own kernels to their machines... Windows lovers.. Go figure...
OK then be nice and take your daily thoughts pill... I bet censorship is a favorite word of yours too....
You ever heard of E-bay??? or Google???? Soldering irons work too and parts a plenty... :)
Until Microsoft gets off their "stupid" backwards compatibility hang up Windows will always be bloated and "swiss cheese" (no offense intended against the Swiss). Why would someone wish to run an 8 or 16 bit program from 17 years ago on a machine and OS that did not exist at that time is beyond me... I have stated this before and drew flame for it... Some lamer complained that they could not "afford" another computer to have a second OS to run old stuff on. I have more than 15 computers out of those I only bought and paid for 3 (three) all the rest are off the side of the street or dumpsters. They all are bootable at least to one OS. Most are multi-boot win98/Linux. They range from a Pentium 200 up to P4 3.0 even a couple of dual xeons (yep trash out of a dumpster complete with a 64 bit Win XP, CAD/CAM loaded also with the latest Office..OUT OF A DUMPSTER) It ain't hard to have more that one machine and very many OSs... If it is still an issue see vmware..... Windows will be broke till they do a "redo" form scratch...
if you believe your phone is bugged in this fashion.. Try RAID.... Do they make a phone de-bugger fogger???
In the not to distant future... "Wow!!! Lake Chicago is really big mom...."
So it would be easy to say that a Toshiba laptop with this feature 'is' Linux compat... Note to self: many systems are....
Well I have lived in a couple of different countries in my life... I really like Germany... Not to fond of the old UK...
But I would say I would continue to live in America... It ain't perfect and at least the haven't started shootin ya for speaking your mind... A least not yet they haven't... And IF it gets headed in a direction that looks like they might start... Well then it would be time to have a new American Revolution then wouldn't it.....
LOL.. That's next.... United Policed States of America...
Correct... "policed" States... IN where the power of the States are controlled by the Federal Government... We have a Federal Government that meddles where it shouldn't anyway....
Come on, just look at the community of "power users". Moore's law wnet bunk. Processers no longer jump speeds in warp segments. OK so you got a 64 bit buggier, cool but at around 3g Huh... that ain't much of a gain. Oh let's not forget most cores are "locked" these days so no user tweaks. Then there is the fact most windors users are at a DISADVANTAGE with a 64 bit system for with support is spotty. Dual and quad cores now those are worth waiting for... Nothing like a quad core 64 bit mini-suer cpu in abox.. Throw in a little SLI and quad 21" wide-screen LCDs.... Hey wait, this sounds like my next box... That is really what it is all about... IMO
Not to start a debate but as it is my understanding KDE has been for a more "eye-candy" look and Gnome for a more "clean-minimalist" look. I am one of those minimalist types when it comes to the GUI-OS interface. I used Gnome for years on BSD then in Slackware. When Pat dropped Gnome (understand the build issues) I started using KDE with much fuss due to the "clutter". I have hense learned the finer points of advance customization of KDE in much the same way as I had Gnome. And that is my point.. When the KDE crew builds a new UI as long as they maintain advanced user customizable features go for it, it is a good thing. Like any Linux flavor the UI should be customizable in all regards. That is, as many here know one of its appealing aspects.
IMO... I believe as the Media companies win friends and influence people (win cases) they will go after more and more... I have only BRIEFLY even touched places like myspace and youtube but the amount of commerical media being used on personal and some (for biz) pages is well a great amount (just from my small sample). Now not being smart challenged I would have to say that most if any got something to say "you can us it"... Of course in the early days of the internet (web 1.0??? how stupid) shareing was just part of it... Commerical or otherwise...
All hale the mighty AMIGA!!! I have 3 and can still do more on them then I will ever be able to do on a clone... BTW that is what the machine you are using is... Just a clone...
I once worked for a company that was using the mindstorm software to run a real live production bot stamping sheetmetal parts for cars... It never worked right.. lol What do you expect for "toy" software and a windows machine that skips a clock cycle on sync motors... I quit that job... Jack-legg ppl....
Stop takin' pictures with "borrowed" cell phones.... Wonders.... Are tech crooks really stupid too???
Just cause it has a 'pretty' GUI does not mean that it has function.... Many ppl prefer 'slim and trim' interfaces with the OS or program enviroment. When you make a 'pretty' interface for eye candy it becomes just that .... Eye Candy .... and loses all hope of function leading to bloat and wasted clock cycles to be appealling to the eye...
IMO
IF you have not used Slack then you should not be a bashing it.... Slackware 10.# + is the rule at this house. Six boxes total (2 are daily "drivers", 2 are servers with 2 backups). This box here (mine) is a custom built box on a Soyo Dragon mobo that came out of a dumpster. You heard me... a Dumpster.... It started as a Slackware 10.1 stock with a 2.6.10 kernel, not very stable... Went back to the 2.4.28 kernel and had no problems... I have tons of custom apps buolt on this box. It has also been updated beyond Slackware Current and I have been running KDE 3.5 since early last year (self built). Slack is solid and if you prefer a more stable platform not loaded with a bunch of "eye candy" than it is what you want... Oh and Slack is very fast..... on any box....
I must agree... The whole deal has always been about the Franklins... [translation=money] It does not matter where or from who they can leach it... They just want more to feed the upper management.. All this is of course `MO` and does not always reflect that of others...