Since the Constitution is the law of the land and no law is higher, any laws derived from a treaty that run counter to the Constitution are null and void.
Anyway... you know what this makes me do? Write it down somewhere. How secure is that?
If you have an easy to guess password, anyone with an Internet connection is a threat. If you have a hard one (not guessed in one month) and have to write it down, the only people who could log in as you are people with physical access to your piece of paper.
Yes, you do have a right to complain as that system seems to be a bit overkill, but writing down a hard password is infinitely better than having to use an easy one so you can remember.
Echoing other sentiments, I pay about $6600 in tuition for a year at a 4-year state school in Ohio. Of course, the midwestern states have the highest tuition in the nation for state schools. With books, its well over $7,000.
I wasn't officially diagnosed with ADD, but the signs were there. I have a lot of trouble concentrating... especially when its a sustained project over a long period of time. It caused me to change my major from CS to Math. I just couldn't concentrate on the code when it spanned more than a few classes.
Now as of late, I'm more obsessive-compulsive than anything else. Some of the symptoms are the same, but who knows really.
And what about the kind of society that demands this?
Bingo. That's the part that got you friended back.
Too many people try to be what society tells them they should be. Keeping up with the Jones' is not something I'm prepared to do. I'll be much happier making an adequate amount of money to live an austere lifestyle and using the extra time to do volunteer work than work like a madman and have no time for leisure activities.
Well the telcos bitch that there isn't enough bandwidth to go around. This is bull. There isn't enough bandwidth to go around because they oversell their circuits and bank on Grandma paying $20 for DSL and doing nothing but check email and shop eBay. Free! Unlimited! Just don't fucking use it!
Of course, there is PLENTY of bandwith to go around if they'd just invest in it instead of paying for the CEOs' cocaine/hooker habit. Allow me to quote Gary Bachula of Internet2 fame:
For example, a university campus in the Midwest that serves 14,000 students and faculty, recently estimated it would cost about $150 per port (per end user) to replicate their current 100 Mbps network for a five year period, or about $30 a year per user. To upgrade to 1000 Mbps (1 gigabit) it would cost $250, or about $50 per year. University campuses are like small towns or suburban neighborhoods. Once cable companies and companies like Verizon make their initial fiber investment, the relative cost of upgrading bandwidth to customers is small.
The telcos want to sit on the investments that we the taxpayer made and milk it for every last drop they can. That is all this is about. Of course, SSH and the like should be prioritized over Bittorrent, but allowing for "good" QoS allows for "bad" QoS. Its the same with any sort of censorship.
If I don't like the fact I can't get (competing service) as well with ISP Alpha because they're partnered with TVIP-X, I'll just drop them and move to ISP Beta since they treat everyone the same.
Thats just the thing. Since any high-speed access is a monopoly (or oligopoly) in many, many areas, there won't be an ISP B, or ISP C if B decides to do the same as A, only with different partners.
Its interesting to see people talk about how they did this drug to help study for a test or take that drug to help them code more efficiently. For me, I'd rather fail the class/get fired from my job rather than use drugs. I belive that taking drugs alters one's brain in such a way that one really isn't oneself anymore. When I accomplish something, I want to know it was 100% me and my work habits and ethic that did the job, not some chemical that did the work for me. If I fail, I want to know it was for the same reason.
It was my New Year's resolution 2 years ago to not use caffeine. I had a headache for about 5 days and then it went away. Every so often I like to drink something with caffeine in it. I get jittery and nervous in about 10 seconds after I consume the first sip. Something about anything other than me having control over my body doesn't sit well with me... but I digress.
More power to everyone else, though. It is your right to do whatever you like with your body... I just wonder if there are others out there like me. We seem to be a decreasing minority these days.
If he made the proxy in order to get around the school's filters, then he (and students who used the proxy) should suffer the penalty laid out in the school's acceptable use contract. If he simply made the proxy for any othe reason, then there should be no penalty whatsoever, lest we allow the schools to dictate what students can and can't do in their private time.
Now, if he was changing the domain name after the school caught on, that would seem to indicate that the proxy was for circumventing school's filters, but they'll still have to prove that in court.
What people need to do is call him on his bullshit. Dare him to go home. I'm betting he won't.
There are already plenty of movies to watch that have been already made. People will continue to make them as part of an artistic process; they may just not be multi-millionaires that produce/direct/act/etc. in them.
Per the bill (in its current form), there is still a $500,000 fine for anyone who goes against the FCC's broadband policy statement. Basically you'll have to complain if you think your ISP isn't living up to that statement, and the FCC will investigate. Who knows how effective this will be.
Also, do remember that the Senate has to consider this. Perhaps they could slip neutrality legislation into the bill. Call your senators!
If I recall my political science classes correctly...
I own a factory that makes widgets. At the end of the day, my labor costs are $100. I also sold all the widgets made that day, (assume they are made to order) for $1000. My profit (neglecting other overhead) is $900. Marx believed that any profit made was essentially labor (read: money) that was stolen from the worker. By his definition, profit is theft.
The labor theory of value says that an item has an objective value. For Marx, the processor in your PC has an exact, objective value which can be derived by summing all labor costs directly involved in making the processor. If you sell it for more than that, you are essentially committing theft by underpaying the workers who made it (says Marx).
This is only limited to value, not price. In this example, the widgets have an exact value -- labor costs divided by widgets made. They would be worth more or less depending on how much labor was involved in creating them. Whether or not you can sell them at that price isn't considered.
The thing that most suprises me about LTV is that Adam Smith was a believer in it. Marx was, too, but both had different interpretations of what it meant. For Marx, if I was paid $1 to make 10 widgets to be sold at $1 each, I was essentially robbed of $9.90.
The capitalist philosophy is that the government cannot make the best decisions about the use of capital and that it should be left up to the free market.
Capitalism and free markets are not synonamyous. I didn't really want to get off topic, but read my sig link. I don't necessarily believe it; it just seemed interesting.
To be philosophical, it depends if you believe in the labor theory of value or the subjective theory of value. If the former, you're still being had; if the latter, then by definition you can never pay "more that what you should have".
Has somebody solved the ati/nvidia driver funk with livecds yet??
AFAIK, its still a matter of booting into "safe mode" and then doing a dpkg-reconfigure (or a hand-edit of/etc/X11/xorg.conf) after downloading fglrx or the nvidia proprietary driver. I'm assuming you tried the release candidate. I never got past beta 2. Here's to hoping they'll fix it in a few hours.
I found the best bet was to either do a text install or boot in "safe graphics" mode and then grab the fglrx driver and do a "dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg". Even then, I'm not very impressed with fglrx anyway. Its incredibly unstable. I suppose thats what I get for buying ATI.
I like how the article about Vista was accompanied by a mini-advert for Ubuntu.
Come on, Timmy, you know eleventy billion people are going to submit a "ZOMG Dapper is out!" story as soon as it hits the servers. Just give it some time...
The government has the same right to criminalize abortion that it has to criminalize other forms of homicide.
Congratulations. You have successfully begged the question.
Also, I believe that we should have government financed contraception available for everyone who wants it. We'll have fewer unwanted pregnancies if people have free and easy access to contraception.
I'm sure the likes of Brownback and Sessions would just love that.
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Since the Constitution is the law of the land and no law is higher, any laws derived from a treaty that run counter to the Constitution are null and void.
Well said, friend.
Many times it has nothing to do with how bad the OS is, but rather how much more expensive a *nix/*BSD admin will be.
Anyway ... you know what this makes me do? Write it down somewhere. How secure is that?
If you have an easy to guess password, anyone with an Internet connection is a threat. If you have a hard one (not guessed in one month) and have to write it down, the only people who could log in as you are people with physical access to your piece of paper.
Yes, you do have a right to complain as that system seems to be a bit overkill, but writing down a hard password is infinitely better than having to use an easy one so you can remember.
Echoing other sentiments, I pay about $6600 in tuition for a year at a 4-year state school in Ohio. Of course, the midwestern states have the highest tuition in the nation for state schools. With books, its well over $7,000.
Better yet, it runs on straight Wine with a few patches.
Now as of late, I'm more obsessive-compulsive than anything else. Some of the symptoms are the same, but who knows really.
Bingo. That's the part that got you friended back.
Too many people try to be what society tells them they should be. Keeping up with the Jones' is not something I'm prepared to do. I'll be much happier making an adequate amount of money to live an austere lifestyle and using the extra time to do volunteer work than work like a madman and have no time for leisure activities.
Of course, there is PLENTY of bandwith to go around if they'd just invest in it instead of paying for the CEOs' cocaine/hooker habit. Allow me to quote Gary Bachula of Internet2 fame:
The telcos want to sit on the investments that we the taxpayer made and milk it for every last drop they can. That is all this is about. Of course, SSH and the like should be prioritized over Bittorrent, but allowing for "good" QoS allows for "bad" QoS. Its the same with any sort of censorship.
If I don't like the fact I can't get (competing service) as well with ISP Alpha because they're partnered with TVIP-X, I'll just drop them and move to ISP Beta since they treat everyone the same.
Thats just the thing. Since any high-speed access is a monopoly (or oligopoly) in many, many areas, there won't be an ISP B, or ISP C if B decides to do the same as A, only with different partners.
Its interesting to see people talk about how they did this drug to help study for a test or take that drug to help them code more efficiently. For me, I'd rather fail the class/get fired from my job rather than use drugs. I belive that taking drugs alters one's brain in such a way that one really isn't oneself anymore. When I accomplish something, I want to know it was 100% me and my work habits and ethic that did the job, not some chemical that did the work for me. If I fail, I want to know it was for the same reason.
... but I digress.
... I just wonder if there are others out there like me. We seem to be a decreasing minority these days.
It was my New Year's resolution 2 years ago to not use caffeine. I had a headache for about 5 days and then it went away. Every so often I like to drink something with caffeine in it. I get jittery and nervous in about 10 seconds after I consume the first sip. Something about anything other than me having control over my body doesn't sit well with me
More power to everyone else, though. It is your right to do whatever you like with your body
I disagree.
If he made the proxy in order to get around the school's filters, then he (and students who used the proxy) should suffer the penalty laid out in the school's acceptable use contract. If he simply made the proxy for any othe reason, then there should be no penalty whatsoever, lest we allow the schools to dictate what students can and can't do in their private time.
Now, if he was changing the domain name after the school caught on, that would seem to indicate that the proxy was for circumventing school's filters, but they'll still have to prove that in court.
What people need to do is call him on his bullshit. Dare him to go home. I'm betting he won't.
There are already plenty of movies to watch that have been already made. People will continue to make them as part of an artistic process; they may just not be multi-millionaires that produce/direct/act/etc. in them.
Simple ... anything encypted is given low priority.
Have fun!
Per the bill (in its current form), there is still a $500,000 fine for anyone who goes against the FCC's broadband policy statement. Basically you'll have to complain if you think your ISP isn't living up to that statement, and the FCC will investigate. Who knows how effective this will be.
Also, do remember that the Senate has to consider this. Perhaps they could slip neutrality legislation into the bill. Call your senators!
I've had a notion for awhile that you and TMM are actually the same person.
If I recall my political science classes correctly...
I own a factory that makes widgets. At the end of the day, my labor costs are $100. I also sold all the widgets made that day, (assume they are made to order) for $1000. My profit (neglecting other overhead) is $900. Marx believed that any profit made was essentially labor (read: money) that was stolen from the worker. By his definition, profit is theft.
The labor theory of value says that an item has an objective value. For Marx, the processor in your PC has an exact, objective value which can be derived by summing all labor costs directly involved in making the processor. If you sell it for more than that, you are essentially committing theft by underpaying the workers who made it (says Marx).
This is only limited to value, not price. In this example, the widgets have an exact value -- labor costs divided by widgets made. They would be worth more or less depending on how much labor was involved in creating them. Whether or not you can sell them at that price isn't considered.
The thing that most suprises me about LTV is that Adam Smith was a believer in it. Marx was, too, but both had different interpretations of what it meant. For Marx, if I was paid $1 to make 10 widgets to be sold at $1 each, I was essentially robbed of $9.90.
The capitalist philosophy is that the government cannot make the best decisions about the use of capital and that it should be left up to the free market.
Capitalism and free markets are not synonamyous. I didn't really want to get off topic, but read my sig link. I don't necessarily believe it; it just seemed interesting.
To be philosophical, it depends if you believe in the labor theory of value or the subjective theory of value. If the former, you're still being had; if the latter, then by definition you can never pay "more that what you should have".
If only there was a tray of spare bandwidth at your local friendly general store.
They aren't 3rd party. They are the proprietary fglrx drivers -- the only drivers that work with my card (other than vesa).
If ATI made half an effort to give independent developers specifications, I wouldn't complain.
Has somebody solved the ati/nvidia driver funk with livecds yet??
/etc/X11/xorg.conf) after downloading fglrx or the nvidia proprietary driver. I'm assuming you tried the release candidate. I never got past beta 2. Here's to hoping they'll fix it in a few hours.
AFAIK, its still a matter of booting into "safe mode" and then doing a dpkg-reconfigure (or a hand-edit of
I've had continuing problems with my X1600.
I found the best bet was to either do a text install or boot in "safe graphics" mode and then grab the fglrx driver and do a "dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg". Even then, I'm not very impressed with fglrx anyway. Its incredibly unstable. I suppose thats what I get for buying ATI.
I like how the article about Vista was accompanied by a mini-advert for Ubuntu.
Come on, Timmy, you know eleventy billion people are going to submit a "ZOMG Dapper is out!" story as soon as it hits the servers. Just give it some time...
The government has the same right to criminalize abortion that it has to criminalize other forms of homicide.
Congratulations. You have successfully begged the question.
Also, I believe that we should have government financed contraception available for everyone who wants it. We'll have fewer unwanted pregnancies if people have free and easy access to contraception.
I'm sure the likes of Brownback and Sessions would just love that.
Like I said previously, get your party in order.
Its ok! I wasn't using my other rights anyway!