I cannot believe that someone actually thought about this. First you're going to attack a country without the support of any international union, only with a loosely-knit "coalition of the willing". Only to immediately start contemplating about which mobile communication technology you're going to implement that will benefit US companies the most. And likely choose the worst technology, and have it paid for by the UN, since Bush is obviously not asking for any budget to build up Iraq after he bombed it back to the stone age. I am so disgusted by the debauched Bush administration.
Hello America? Am I missing something here? We have had this system in Europe for the past three years and it is called ViaSat, it costs about €1150 with a monthly subscription fee of €35. It has crash sensors which alert police or paramedics when your car has crashed, but it also alerts police when the vehicle has been carjacked. When a carjack occurs you just push a button or call the alarm central afterwards.
I think this project is great. Only the author is talking about $2 billion to implement these 'thingies'. Does that cover the M$ licenses? Why aren't we helping these people, using Open Source to achieve whatever it is they want. Isn't this something great for GeekCorps? I believe they are into connecting the developing countries to the internet?
So I suggest we all start donating one of our old 486's together with a NIC with BootROM. Since fast internet access is obviously not a problem, you can set up one giant LTSP terminal server and use cheap workstations as 'things'. All in favor?
I have recently bought a DVD player myself along with all the gadgets to create some kind of home theater. I bought off-the-shelf stuff without any kind of PC connectivity. Some friends were trying to convince me to use the DVD player on my PC and use all kinds of stuff to interconnect it with the TV.
I believe we are still facing some major problems before that is going to happen. First of all, widescreen, I don't know any videocard who will properly convert the output of the DVD player to a widescreen image ( I know that's not much of an issue in the US but anyway:). Secondly is the sound card. If you buy a high-end soundcard with surround and everything, you usually have to take the speakers with it, since you can't connect standard speakers to your sound card (due to wiring issues). The speakers that come with the sound card are no doubt good quality, but they will never match the quality of a separate amplifier and quality home-cinema speakers.
Then, most of us don't have the PC within very close range of the TV. This may not be an issue for the speakers, but it certainly is for the video wiring.
And last but not least, TV and movies in more general are enjoyable with more people. PC as far as I am concerned is a solo activity. While you are watching movies you are blocking access to your computer. So nobody in the house will be able to watch DVD movies when you're hacking away behind the keyboard. That being said you can always dedicate a computer to DVD playing but haven't we passed our goal then? You will actually pay more to have decent home cinema than when you buy off-the-shelf equipment.
Yeah, this post shouldn't even be dignified with an answer. But here it is anyway.
You didn't save Europe, the British did.
There are less drug addicts in Holland than anywhere in the world
Talking about elections??? I s'pose I don't have to remind you about your latest president's election?
Your kids aren't allowed to drink until 21, but carrying guns is no problem?
Fighting each other of IP rights, and lawyers at hospitals?
Please get real... coward.
1) I was talking about the US Minister of Culture, not the Danish minister of culture. I'm indeed pretty confident you have one
2) I'm not implying that Denmark is the capital of Sweden, I just forgot which country it was while I was typing my reply.
3) I'm from Europe, I know where Denmark and Sweden are located.
4) I couldn't agree more, there IS a world outside of the USA. And what I like the most about it, is that not everyone needs a fscking lawyer, just to walk down the streets or do some grocery shopping.
Finally a country's taking a step forward to push P2P and private music sharing and all of a sudden they are "weakening copyrights" and "making their citizens richer". What is this with you Americans? Is it because you're all fscked up over Intellectual Property and RIAA and all the rest, that when another country is taking sensible decisions you just start kicking 'm. I wonder if it were the US Minister of Culture (doubtful that anyone like that exists) who would announce such a law if you'd still call it "weakening copyrights" and "making US citizens richer". Damn I hate that attitude. You're just plain jealous. And no, I don't live in Sweden or whatever country it is.
it's just funny. Y'all don't have to start defending M$. Sure most servers go down once in a while and/. shouldn't report about it.
But hey it's Microsoft, so it justifies laughing at it.
And they were definitely h4xx0r3d or are you really suggesting that they put this shit (whois microsoft.com) in their DNS servers themselves.
I don't think/. should be all too serious all day long. So just don't read it if you don't want to.
But what's this shit about Microsoft's knowledgebase being superior to Linux' documentation. I personally think Linux documentation is waay better than Microsoft's. Hell, even some MCSE's told me that was the only thing they actually liked about Linux.
I recently dropped my Palm IIIx for a Psion Revo. It syncs everything, from phonenumbers to SMS messages.
It rules! Now if it would only have some decent syncing software to go with my decent operating system, i'd be a happy man again.
Look, you just can't block every porn site around. What 'bout Japanese & Russian sites that don't even have these english words on them. What are you gonna do, filter Yahoo! & av, et al.? Adding sites selectively could be interesting.. but it would take a load of work.
What I suggest is that you link the internet-access to your washing machines, that is: you can't have access if you don't have clothes in one of the machines. This way you can prevent kids to come to your laundry just to surf to porn sites.
I don't get it, "some" guy has "some" problems with VA tech support, and all of a sudden it hits Slashdot? So if I were to have troubles with let's say Penguin Computing, I'd just post it here and wait for the Penguin Support Manager to make a statement? No really, this is lame.. probably you guys didn't want to reject it (censorship) so you.. never mind... I think it's lame. Especially since I submitted this nice story concerning Linux Text-To-Speech SDK. I'm not giving you the link anymore now;)
First, I'd like to say, that I share the tought that Ask Slashdot is getting lamer & lamer. If I would post this question 6 months ago, it would be rejected immediately and I would have to go to freshmeat. Which I did. Altough I am not using a VPN in a professional environment (yet?), I'll explain my situation.
We have to networks (each of them have around 5 M$ clients, and 1 Linux box as firewall). I installed FreeS/WAN on both machines -- the documentation is pretty good -- and in NO time all network neighborhoods showed the Win-clients of the other network. I understand that the recent releases even have improved road warrior support! I don't know anything about the other programs mentioned here, but I know for sure that Linux (and FreeS/WAN) makes an excellent VPN gateway.
I think geekcorps is exactly what you are looking for. You can spend 3 to 6 months in a developing nation, helping people out. Their subscription form allows you to choose more or less what you want, ie.: do you require electricity, internet access, running water, etc...
this is not even remotely funny. Did I miss something and is this the 1st of April, nah, it wouldn't even be funny on the 1st of April, it will never be funny 'cuz it is NOT FUNNY! imagine getting this kind of spam on your cell phone every day, I'd tell quios to lay off asap.
The question doesn't even seem to be whether or not online sales are taxed, rather than whether or not they will be taxed in the USA. Internet sales are already taxed in Europe. If I order something from let's say thinkgeek, it's stopped at the border and I have to pay import taxes and VAT.
I think it will only affect US Netizens. These are all American institutes, imposing US regulations that don't affect anybody outside the US. I think some of you should take in account that that internet is a worldwide thing...
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I cannot believe that someone actually thought about this. First you're going to attack a country without the support of any international union, only with a loosely-knit "coalition of the willing". Only to immediately start contemplating about which mobile communication technology you're going to implement that will benefit US companies the most. And likely choose the worst technology, and have it paid for by the UN, since Bush is obviously not asking for any budget to build up Iraq after he bombed it back to the stone age. I am so disgusted by the debauched Bush administration.
Hello America? Am I missing something here? We have had this system in Europe for the past three years and it is called ViaSat, it costs about €1150 with a monthly subscription fee of €35. It has crash sensors which alert police or paramedics when your car has crashed, but it also alerts police when the vehicle has been carjacked. When a carjack occurs you just push a button or call the alarm central afterwards.
So I suggest we all start donating one of our old 486's together with a NIC with BootROM. Since fast internet access is obviously not a problem, you can set up one giant LTSP terminal server and use cheap workstations as 'things'. All in favor?
This better be a April 1st joke ... it better be
I believe we are still facing some major problems before that is going to happen. First of all, widescreen, I don't know any videocard who will properly convert the output of the DVD player to a widescreen image ( I know that's not much of an issue in the US but anyway :). Secondly is the sound card. If you buy a high-end soundcard with surround and everything, you usually have to take the speakers with it, since you can't connect standard speakers to your sound card (due to wiring issues). The speakers that come with the sound card are no doubt good quality, but they will never match the quality of a separate amplifier and quality home-cinema speakers.
Then, most of us don't have the PC within very close range of the TV. This may not be an issue for the speakers, but it certainly is for the video wiring.
And last but not least, TV and movies in more general are enjoyable with more people. PC as far as I am concerned is a solo activity. While you are watching movies you are blocking access to your computer. So nobody in the house will be able to watch DVD movies when you're hacking away behind the keyboard. That being said you can always dedicate a computer to DVD playing but haven't we passed our goal then? You will actually pay more to have decent home cinema than when you buy off-the-shelf equipment.
My two euro-cents (at least within a day or 20 :)
You didn't save Europe, the British did.
There are less drug addicts in Holland than anywhere in the world
Talking about elections??? I s'pose I don't have to remind you about your latest president's election?
Your kids aren't allowed to drink until 21, but carrying guns is no problem?
Fighting each other of IP rights, and lawyers at hospitals?
Please get real
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2) I'm not implying that Denmark is the capital of Sweden, I just forgot which country it was while I was typing my reply.
3) I'm from Europe, I know where Denmark and Sweden are located.
4) I couldn't agree more, there IS a world outside of the USA. And what I like the most about it, is that not everyone needs a fscking lawyer, just to walk down the streets or do some grocery shopping.
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But hey it's Microsoft, so it justifies laughing at it.
And they were definitely h4xx0r3d or are you really suggesting that they put this shit (whois microsoft.com) in their DNS servers themselves.
I don't think
But what's this shit about Microsoft's knowledgebase being superior to Linux' documentation. I personally think Linux documentation is waay better than Microsoft's. Hell, even some MCSE's told me that was the only thing they actually liked about Linux.
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It rules! Now if it would only have some decent syncing software to go with my decent operating system, i'd be a happy man again.
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What I suggest is that you link the internet-access to your washing machines, that is: you can't have access if you don't have clothes in one of the machines. This way you can prevent kids to come to your laundry just to surf to porn sites.
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We have to networks (each of them have around 5 M$ clients, and 1 Linux box as firewall). I installed FreeS/WAN on both machines -- the documentation is pretty good -- and in NO time all network neighborhoods showed the Win-clients of the other network. I understand that the recent releases even have improved road warrior support! I don't know anything about the other programs mentioned here, but I know for sure that Linux (and FreeS/WAN) makes an excellent VPN gateway.
my € 0.2
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imagine getting this kind of spam on your cell phone every day, I'd tell quios to lay off asap.
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The question doesn't even seem to be whether or not online sales are taxed, rather than whether or not they will be taxed in the USA. Internet sales are already taxed in Europe. If I order something from let's say thinkgeek, it's stopped at the border and I have to pay import taxes and VAT.
Where can I see this phenomenon in Europe? And is it still to happpen or did I miss it already ...
I think it will only affect US Netizens. These are all American institutes, imposing US regulations that don't affect anybody outside the US. I think some of you should take in account that that internet is a worldwide thing ...