This is great - I have no problem with this whatsoever.
Criminals are not innocent people. If you're guilty of the crime, you get to do the time, and if part of that time includes an electronic leash, I think society is all the better for it. An example are these sexual predators... Right now we release them and, other than checking in with an officer from time to time, they're out roaming. Wouldn't it be nice if a cop was summoned to collect them if they went anywhere near a school, or left a certain restricted area of their neighborhood, etc?
Finally, a good use for the "evil" Big Brother tactics.
It doesn't matter how the video was recorded, it's still illegal to distribute it over the internet. If you record it yourself, that's perfectly fine. Downloading it from others is not.
So what. The laws are bullshit. Whether I record it off the air, borrow a friend's VHS tape, or download it, the end result is the same. Therefore, both the industry and "my" government that they seem to own can piss off. They can't find me now that I'm sharing via encrypted channels with small groups of trusted friends, and I refuse to feel guilty about it because in my moral opinion I'm not doing anything wrong.
I'd agree if it was true, but it's not: if I download Schindler's List, I'm not going to go buy the DVD. You know it, I know it, the MPAA knows it, everybody knows it.
Not true.
I've downloaded several movies that I'd never heard of, then later went out and bought the DVDs. I used to browse the comedy & sci-fi movie sections of suprnova. Anything with a lot of downloads, I snagged & watched. Many were turned off & deleted after the first 10 minutes. Others were so-so good, I watched them then deleted them. Still others I hung onto - I might watch them again some day, and until I need the hard drive space they can sit there just in case. Note that I would never have bought any of these movies. So nobody is out any money.
Then there are the real gems - the movies I absolutely loved and had to own. Those, I went out and purchased. Why? I wanted the full quality version. I wanted the extras. Mainly I liked the movie enough to keep it around forever and so I bought a real, hard copy.
Quite frankly, in my case suprnova actually made money for the industry. Because without it, I wouldn't have bought many of the 150+ DVDs I own.
Using it up for this type of "operation" is stealing bandwidth from everyone else.
Cry me a river. Better to "steal bandwidth" if we can stop these crooks from stealing real money from people. Wouldn't you put up with a slightly slower connection for a few hours if it meant a few thousand people didn't get screwed out of real money? If not, then you're a selfish ass.
I once bought an item from a seller. Paid $20 for it, shipping should have been about $12 (I knew the weight of the items). Seller came back with a $20 shipping fee + $15 "handling fee". He was just pissed that his auction didn't sell for as much as he wanted, so he tacked on a bunch of fees. BTW, his auction said NOTHING about these fees. Only "Buyer pays shipping", which to any reasonable person means "I'm paying whatever it costs UPS to get the package to me, give or take a buck."
eBay also has a policy against this, requiring sellers to list any handling fees in their auction.
So I refused to pay and emailed eBay. They responded and threatened ME! Flat out told me I was responsible for all charges from the seller and that if I didn't pay, MY account would face suspension! I said, "So what, the guy could come back and demand $500 in fees even though his auction says nothing about it, and if I didn't pay it would be me who got into trouble?" They said, "That's right."
Fuckers. Why even bother having rules, then? They don't enforce them for shit.
Yeah -- What gives? This is a non-story. Of course different customer groups get different pricing. Almost every business works that way. Just by having a UBI number I can get wholesale prices from a lot of places by signing on as a business.
Eh, I was teasing you, anyway. Should have put a smiley in there.:)
secure shell > telnet
I use telnet daily - on isolated, secure management networks for devices that don't support ssh (serial consoles, remote power management devices, automation equipment, etc).
In the middle of searching for a book you could just hit the escape character (control and one of the [ ] keys; I forget which at the moment) and get yourself a Telnet> prompt
WOW... Uou haven't used basic telnet under Unix/Linux since! I thought this site was for real nerds?
You're assuming that the more well-rewarded employees are the better employees.
Not at all; I'm merely assuming the resentful employees who refuse to work well with others and cause problems are the lessor employees.
People who want to 'learn from' people are generally suckups with little ability who leech off others and make connections to get promotions/bonuses.
LOL, whatever you say, big guy. Do you have a college degree? Did you spend your time there learning from others? Yes? So in your own words, you're a "suckup with little ability who leech(es) off others".
A productive workplace gets that way through teamwork. Teams learn from one another. Everyone I know (myself included) learns from others on the job. Except you, it seems... I'm thinking you're one of those poorly rewarded, resentful employees who refuses to enhance his career through networking and learning. Well, that's your mistake. I wouldn't have someone with your attitude on my payroll.
It's usually cranked up to a very high volume, so you're not straining to hear it. The speaker usually enunciates very loudly and clearly directly into the mic.
You're missing the point. You can argue all day whether the less well off employees should be resentful towards the more successful ones, it doesn't change anything. The FACT is that they WILL be resentful, whether they should be or not, and it will damage the company.
No no, I see your point and I understand it. Let me try to be more clear on mine:
Some of the less well off employees will be resentful. These are your "lower class" employees who will never amount to anything. Once they get resentful, they are easy to identify, and you can get rid of them in one way or another (or make them so resentful they quit on their own). If you only want the best and brightest, and are willing to pay for it, this is a positive thing. The best and brightest don't build resentment toward successful people, they learn from and become like them. So not only do you reward success, you weed out those with attitudes that promote failure.
The have-nots resent the haves, so they spend their time plotting how to undermine them rather than working with them cooperatively.
Good, then you can seek out those stupid idiots and fire them.
Do you know what I do when I'm around people who have a lot more than me? I listen to them. I make friends. I work very well with them. I learn what makes them tick, and I use that information to better myself.
You can hang around the "haves" and become one of them, or you can be an idiot, stewing in your resentment, and then wonder why you're still a "have not" for the rest of your life.
When I was younger I always thought rich people were snobs. They sure seem like it when you're poor and not smart enough to know better. But you know, that's not really the case. Rich people aren't snobs at all. The problem is the poor people are too (jealous, insecure, unintelligent, pick one). They make the rich people out to be snobs in their mind, when in reality, most of the rich are anything but.
I was also able to choose my wiring, and add more ethernet/video/power outlets anywhere I wanted them, for about $70 extra per outlet (up to $150 per outlet depending on what features it had). Then I was also able to add "conduit" wherever I wanted for $70 per drop.
(...)
My builder is excellent.
Yeah, he sounds great. Too bad he's screwing you right up the ass on your network drops. Those prices are insane.
A basic drop with a couple cat5 and a couple RG6 costs $10-$15 max. So you're paying $55 for 10 minutes worth of work. Great deal there.
Let me guess, he won't let you run your own wiring, either?
Sorry, I didn't see you saying "custom home". If you built it yourself you have a construction loan and can do whatever you damn well please. But most people who buy new homes are doing so in a development, and while they may be "customized" to some extent, they are by no means "custom". These homes are owned by the builder until finished.
Nope. It's the builder's house until the house is finished and the loan is closed. This is how builders work. Most larger builders will not let you touch the house. Too much hassle for them.
If you don't like it, you go elsewhere and they sell the house to someone else. They don't care.
I think the real trick with cable isn't the cable itself (as others have said, 18 guage lamp cord is just as good), it is the connectors.
LOL, I disagree... I have a nice 6 foot Monster component cable. Cost $60 if I would have paid for it (it was free, otherwise I wouldn't have it).
I needed to extend my DVD player to the other side of the house, so I took three quad shield RG6 cables, cut them at 75 feet a piece, and soldered $6 worth of Radio Shack cheapo RCA connectors to the ends. Cost me about $15 to build the whole thing including the spool of electrical tape I used to tie the three runs together into one relatively nice cable.
I ran several tests with myself and friends and could not tell the difference between the 6 foot Monster cable and the 75 foot cheap piece of crap I rigged up. This pushing progressive scan DVD to a high definition 65" display, straight from the DVD player (no signal gain/amplification). Used it for years.
A "professional" 75 foot component cable would have run me several hundred dollars.
Give me a minute, and I'll publish a list of sites where kiddie porn is readily available.
Please do; this will make it easy for law enforcement to shut down the sites actually hosting this vile filth.
(See, I don't think you "get it"... freedom of speech includes posting links. Nobody should be given any legal problems for publishing a list of places to get illegal material. If anything, the prosecution should thank them for making it easy to catch the real criminals.)
Take this at face value; just like we don't allow kids to buy smokes, booze, or titty-mags... and if you buy those for your kids, they put you in jail. It's called "contributing to the deliquency of a minor", or something equally ridiculous. What makes you think they won't do the same for violent video games?
No offense, but you're a fucking idiot. Nobody on the extreme right wants to force you to be a Christian. This country was founded by extreme Christians, and the first thing they did was give everyone the right to worship any way they choose or not worship at all.
Women may not get any education beyond grade school, and may not get any job other than secretarial. Preferably they stay unemployed at home, in the kitchen, barefoot and pregnant.
You're really a fucking moron if you think extreme right wingers feel that way. Seriously. You need therapy.
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This is great - I have no problem with this whatsoever.
Criminals are not innocent people. If you're guilty of the crime, you get to do the time, and if part of that time includes an electronic leash, I think society is all the better for it. An example are these sexual predators... Right now we release them and, other than checking in with an officer from time to time, they're out roaming. Wouldn't it be nice if a cop was summoned to collect them if they went anywhere near a school, or left a certain restricted area of their neighborhood, etc?
Finally, a good use for the "evil" Big Brother tactics.
It doesn't matter how the video was recorded, it's still illegal to distribute it over the internet. If you record it yourself, that's perfectly fine. Downloading it from others is not.
So what. The laws are bullshit. Whether I record it off the air, borrow a friend's VHS tape, or download it, the end result is the same. Therefore, both the industry and "my" government that they seem to own can piss off. They can't find me now that I'm sharing via encrypted channels with small groups of trusted friends, and I refuse to feel guilty about it because in my moral opinion I'm not doing anything wrong.
I'd agree if it was true, but it's not: if I download Schindler's List, I'm not going to go buy the DVD. You know it, I know it, the MPAA knows it, everybody knows it.
Not true.
I've downloaded several movies that I'd never heard of, then later went out and bought the DVDs. I used to browse the comedy & sci-fi movie sections of suprnova. Anything with a lot of downloads, I snagged & watched. Many were turned off & deleted after the first 10 minutes. Others were so-so good, I watched them then deleted them. Still others I hung onto - I might watch them again some day, and until I need the hard drive space they can sit there just in case. Note that I would never have bought any of these movies. So nobody is out any money.
Then there are the real gems - the movies I absolutely loved and had to own. Those, I went out and purchased. Why? I wanted the full quality version. I wanted the extras. Mainly I liked the movie enough to keep it around forever and so I bought a real, hard copy.
Quite frankly, in my case suprnova actually made money for the industry. Because without it, I wouldn't have bought many of the 150+ DVDs I own.
Intent is important in a murder/manslaughter situation
How can there be an intent to commit manslaughter?
Using it up for this type of "operation" is stealing bandwidth from everyone else.
Cry me a river. Better to "steal bandwidth" if we can stop these crooks from stealing real money from people. Wouldn't you put up with a slightly slower connection for a few hours if it meant a few thousand people didn't get screwed out of real money? If not, then you're a selfish ass.
22 fans, 7 freaks. 29 people with too much free time
You're one to talk, hypocrite. You're my freak. That means you yourself had too much free fucking time on your hands to decide to make me a foe.
Yep, eBay doesn't give a shit.
I once bought an item from a seller. Paid $20 for it, shipping should have been about $12 (I knew the weight of the items). Seller came back with a $20 shipping fee + $15 "handling fee". He was just pissed that his auction didn't sell for as much as he wanted, so he tacked on a bunch of fees. BTW, his auction said NOTHING about these fees. Only "Buyer pays shipping", which to any reasonable person means "I'm paying whatever it costs UPS to get the package to me, give or take a buck."
eBay also has a policy against this, requiring sellers to list any handling fees in their auction.
So I refused to pay and emailed eBay. They responded and threatened ME! Flat out told me I was responsible for all charges from the seller and that if I didn't pay, MY account would face suspension! I said, "So what, the guy could come back and demand $500 in fees even though his auction says nothing about it, and if I didn't pay it would be me who got into trouble?" They said, "That's right."
Fuckers. Why even bother having rules, then? They don't enforce them for shit.
Different pricing strategy is not wrong
Yeah -- What gives? This is a non-story. Of course different customer groups get different pricing. Almost every business works that way. Just by having a UBI number I can get wholesale prices from a lot of places by signing on as a business.
Eh, I was teasing you, anyway. Should have put a smiley in there. :)
secure shell > telnet
I use telnet daily - on isolated, secure management networks for devices that don't support ssh (serial consoles, remote power management devices, automation equipment, etc).
a known cheater
You say that like it's a bad thing.
In the middle of searching for a book you could just hit the escape character (control and one of the [ ] keys; I forget which at the moment) and get yourself a Telnet> prompt
... Uou haven't used basic telnet under Unix/Linux since! I thought this site was for real nerds?
WOW
FYI, it was control-]. Still is.
You're assuming that the more well-rewarded employees are the better employees.
Not at all; I'm merely assuming the resentful employees who refuse to work well with others and cause problems are the lessor employees.
People who want to 'learn from' people are generally suckups with little ability who leech off others and make connections to get promotions/bonuses.
LOL, whatever you say, big guy. Do you have a college degree? Did you spend your time there learning from others? Yes? So in your own words, you're a "suckup with little ability who leech(es) off others".
A productive workplace gets that way through teamwork. Teams learn from one another. Everyone I know (myself included) learns from others on the job. Except you, it seems... I'm thinking you're one of those poorly rewarded, resentful employees who refuses to enhance his career through networking and learning. Well, that's your mistake. I wouldn't have someone with your attitude on my payroll.
It's usually cranked up to a very high volume, so you're not straining to hear it. The speaker usually enunciates very loudly and clearly directly into the mic.
Wow, sounds just like every cellphone user to me!
You're missing the point. You can argue all day whether the less well off employees should be resentful towards the more successful ones, it doesn't change anything. The FACT is that they WILL be resentful, whether they should be or not, and it will damage the company.
No no, I see your point and I understand it. Let me try to be more clear on mine:
Some of the less well off employees will be resentful. These are your "lower class" employees who will never amount to anything. Once they get resentful, they are easy to identify, and you can get rid of them in one way or another (or make them so resentful they quit on their own). If you only want the best and brightest, and are willing to pay for it, this is a positive thing. The best and brightest don't build resentment toward successful people, they learn from and become like them. So not only do you reward success, you weed out those with attitudes that promote failure.
The have-nots resent the haves, so they spend their time plotting how to undermine them rather than working with them cooperatively.
Good, then you can seek out those stupid idiots and fire them.
Do you know what I do when I'm around people who have a lot more than me? I listen to them. I make friends. I work very well with them. I learn what makes them tick, and I use that information to better myself.
You can hang around the "haves" and become one of them, or you can be an idiot, stewing in your resentment, and then wonder why you're still a "have not" for the rest of your life.
When I was younger I always thought rich people were snobs. They sure seem like it when you're poor and not smart enough to know better. But you know, that's not really the case. Rich people aren't snobs at all. The problem is the poor people are too (jealous, insecure, unintelligent, pick one). They make the rich people out to be snobs in their mind, when in reality, most of the rich are anything but.
If you go on a sex binge for like a week, doing it 3 times a day every day, you're bored at the end of the week
No, this doesn't happen to normal men. Been there, done that, didn't get bored. I think something is wrong with you.
I was also able to choose my wiring, and add more ethernet/video/power outlets anywhere I wanted them, for about $70 extra per outlet (up to $150 per outlet depending on what features it had). Then I was also able to add "conduit" wherever I wanted for $70 per drop.
(...)
My builder is excellent.
Yeah, he sounds great. Too bad he's screwing you right up the ass on your network drops. Those prices are insane.
A basic drop with a couple cat5 and a couple RG6 costs $10-$15 max. So you're paying $55 for 10 minutes worth of work. Great deal there.
Let me guess, he won't let you run your own wiring, either?
Sorry, I didn't see you saying "custom home". If you built it yourself you have a construction loan and can do whatever you damn well please. But most people who buy new homes are doing so in a development, and while they may be "customized" to some extent, they are by no means "custom". These homes are owned by the builder until finished.
It's YOUR house you're buying, right?
Nope. It's the builder's house until the house is finished and the loan is closed. This is how builders work. Most larger builders will not let you touch the house. Too much hassle for them.
If you don't like it, you go elsewhere and they sell the house to someone else. They don't care.
I think the real trick with cable isn't the cable itself (as others have said, 18 guage lamp cord is just as good), it is the connectors.
LOL, I disagree... I have a nice 6 foot Monster component cable. Cost $60 if I would have paid for it (it was free, otherwise I wouldn't have it).
I needed to extend my DVD player to the other side of the house, so I took three quad shield RG6 cables, cut them at 75 feet a piece, and soldered $6 worth of Radio Shack cheapo RCA connectors to the ends. Cost me about $15 to build the whole thing including the spool of electrical tape I used to tie the three runs together into one relatively nice cable.
I ran several tests with myself and friends and could not tell the difference between the 6 foot Monster cable and the 75 foot cheap piece of crap I rigged up. This pushing progressive scan DVD to a high definition 65" display, straight from the DVD player (no signal gain/amplification). Used it for years.
A "professional" 75 foot component cable would have run me several hundred dollars.
That's not a laptop, it's a luggable.
Give me a minute, and I'll publish a list of sites where kiddie porn is readily available.
Please do; this will make it easy for law enforcement to shut down the sites actually hosting this vile filth.
(See, I don't think you "get it"... freedom of speech includes posting links. Nobody should be given any legal problems for publishing a list of places to get illegal material. If anything, the prosecution should thank them for making it easy to catch the real criminals.)
What if I scanned the house from a distance, never set foot on the property, and made an exact duplicate? What then?
Take this at face value; just like we don't allow kids to buy smokes, booze, or titty-mags ... and if you buy those for your kids, they put you in jail. It's called "contributing to the deliquency of a minor", or something equally ridiculous. What makes you think they won't do the same for violent video games?
No offense, but you're a fucking idiot. Nobody on the extreme right wants to force you to be a Christian. This country was founded by extreme Christians, and the first thing they did was give everyone the right to worship any way they choose or not worship at all.
Women may not get any education beyond grade school, and may not get any job other than secretarial. Preferably they stay unemployed at home, in the kitchen, barefoot and pregnant.
You're really a fucking moron if you think extreme right wingers feel that way. Seriously. You need therapy.