I realize you are a legal absolutist, but the problem has been, and remains that the wealthy are abusing their power, corrupting the system, driving the law makers and law enforcers to behave is ways that are contrary to the public interest. The only definition of "breaking the law" in that situation is "pissed off the wrong person," which, I believe, is the current system in most of the world.
Sounds like everything is working just as it has for all of recorded history. Was there a point?
Oh one other thing, if you're going to reply with legitimate uses, please also add in why it is better to use a bitcoin instead of US Dollar in your legitimate use. Legitimacy should also have advantage over it's predecessor, otherwise, there's no point in the legitimate use. You wouldn't use one sharp knife over another just because it looks different. It's just as sharp.
When the tool appears to have no legitimate usages, yeah I'm gunna say this tool is inherently bad, I could even go as far as to say the tool encourages illegal behavior.
Sort of like Napster of the late 90's. It simply had no other use than to STEAL music. Bitcoin has no other use than to hide financial transaction data. I simply don't buy we need a currency that's not attached to one of the many governments in the world. What advantages do bitcoins offer over US Dollars? Besides the fact they're hard to track (Because wallet id's are anonymous, unlike bank accounts involving US Dollars.) Well one advantage is this malware right here. You can't set up a way to receive EFT's without being traceable.. unless you do it with bitcoin. Another advantage of bitcoins is tax evasion. Where are the legitimate uses for this???
I'm pretty anti-government but I also I don't like criminals committing crimes and I see this tool and see how bitcoin operates in the wild and I'm sorry, I'm not seeing a heck of a lot of legitimate usage. I do keep hearing about crimes involving bitcoins. Clue?
This is excellent evidence to advocate shutting down bitcoin and all it's kin.
The only use of these 'currencies' seems to be criminal activity, and frankly, malware of this nature probably wouldn't even be feasible if it wasn't for bitcoin and it's kin. There'd be no way to anonymously extort money from victims.
But utilities are upgraded at a very slow pace because the govt regulates how much profit a utility company can make, putting brakes on innovation. With the internet, we want to replace/upgrade everything every 10 to 15 years and that is not possible if the internet is classified as a utility.
Utilities are fine for phone and electricity because they are mature technologies that don't change much year-to-year.
Not sure I agree with that. Lets look at the last 15 years of internet in the USA for a moment. That'd push us back to about 1999, yes? DSL and Cable are the emerging internet connection tech of this era, with 56k dialup being the norm.
Ok, so 56k modems are very sad in the present, but they still work. DSL and Cable are the dominate connections and fiber is emerging.
In 15 years. Now wait, you said we have to replace everything every 10-15 years, but we're not doing that. We're using the same crap that was emerging 15 years ago.
Bottom line: ISP's are utilities and needed to be regulated and treated as such. I really fail to see how it's different from the utility state of telephony.
That and it sort of gave you a 'sour memory' of Montgomery Scott. Up to that point he was just the 'miracle worker' engineer we'd all come to love and admire, until this episode. Now we see him as a out of place, out of touch relic of the past. It was just not a good thing to do to the character, IMHO. Especially not a good LAST THING to do to the character.
Well, what do you expect from a platform that is 15 years old, and poorly maintained at best? I mean, Origin tried to go to a 3D client and then, in the middle of developing it they decided, "this is a waste of time, we're abandoning it." WHAT? I mean it wasn't perfect, but it had potential, so they basically threw years of client development out the window.
And that was by no means meant to target Ultima Online solely, it was more to point out emulation of servers. They have this stuff for other popular MMO's too (like World of Warcraft for example.)
Other than that, you just ranted about what's been wrong with Ultima Online for the past 10 years. It's not an exclusive condition to emulated shards. All that junk is true of official servers too. What was your point there?
Also I think the original topic was about not only playing on these worlds, but building them as well. There's a HUGE entertainment value on the server side of emulation, building a server that YOU think is how it should be, promoting it, attracting players, etcetc. Some people like that! That's entertainment!
Sounds like, after doing a quick 15 minutes of research that Uber, Lyft and their kin don't really care to play by the established regulations for for-hire drivers.
Looks like these new kids on the block are being rebuffed trying to bully their way past regulations that're established to keep the for-hire drivers gainfully employed and playing fairly.
Also seems to be a huge money grab by Corporate outside of these cities, charging drivers rather steep 'dispatch fees.' Read between the lines folks, this is not an innocent 'innovative' tech company trying to fix something that's broken. Smells more like swooping down on an establishment that's individualized to each city and nationalize it.
No sympathy here. Play by the established rules and regulations or GTFO, ok?
And I'd be willing to wager, if one ISP turned dick in a neighborhood with no other options. Another option is going to appear very soon. People aren't as dumb as you might think, there's a buck to be made off irate customers!
For me, in my years on the internet, I've come to believe and stand by the premise that a web server or ANY service offered to the public internet from your equipment is an extension of your home. People who visit are guests of your service. They have to follow your rules or they will be told to leave. It's very simple and I think it rightly extends to businesses operating websites.
This ruling is no different than my operating a gaming forum and asking people not to post about knitting, as it's not the topic we're discussing on my service. You also will not find any information about knitting on my forum, and rightly so.
Search engine is a little different I suppose, but I think since it's pretty obvious they're omitting results they have concluded to be unsuitable (they are filtering content) I don't see a problem. I think where a problem begins is if that search engine claims to return unbiased complete results. That's dishonest.
Another way to think of it would be as a television station. If you object to the content they've chosen to show you, change the friggin channel.
I think an important distinction to make here, is a LOT of people are talking on their cell phones while driving. The more of us doing it, the more chances it will be a factor in an accident. I think that's a huge source of the uptick in mobile phone related crashes.
As far as it being equally distracting as having a passenger in the vehicle. That is possible, but, just look around the next time you're in a traffic jam. Glance at all the vehicles around you. How many have the driver and no one else? Most huh? How many of these lone drivers who were previously undistracted by a passenger are now talking on their mobiles?
One last factor to consider when it comes to bringing up passenger vs. mobile phone distraction. Your passenger(s) are an additional pair of eyes, attached to a brain that finds survival to be one of the most important things. They're liking watching the road as well, at least intermittently, thereby able to alert a distracted driver to a hazard they weren't aware of. I've had that happen many times with passengers in my vehicle. They are distracting, for sure, but they're also interested in surviving the trip and assist. Cell phones cannot fill this void. They are distracting with no fall back to make you aware of a hazard you're missing.
I'm good with metered internet, as long as the connection fee drops substantially. I don't pay a connection fee to AWS, I pay for the host and transit fees for data. So yeah, metered is fine, but that connect fee needs to be like... $5. Max. Plus equipment rental if you're dumb enough to go that route.
As we all know, there is no free lunch, and there’s also no cost-free delivery of streaming movies. Someone has to pay that cost.
Aren't two people already paying the 'cost'? I pay for my internet connection and netflix pays their provider transit fees. I use EC2 as well, and you pay transit fees on all your data xfer. Isn't Netflix paying that too? And I'm paying my ISP.. so um, what's the problem here?
To me, the only feasible backup strategy for a home user (like myself) for LARGE volumes of data (I have 2TB, not 20, YMMY) is to keep two copies. One being your working copy, that you have in an active server, the other copy you should keep in a safe and rsync to bring it upto date every few months.
If your volume is really 20TB, which seems extreme to me (do you really need all your DVD's and Bluray's on a media server? With netflix and other online streaming services?) then I guess you're gunna need a tape backup of enterprise-level quality. Expect to pay for it. My personal massed music collection after 20 years of collecting music is like.. 30GB. That's a lot of music too. So I think you should look at what your storing, reducing it to the stuff that's truly irreplaceable.
But bottom line, to me, mirroring your drive(s) and sticking copies of them in a safe is the best backup strategy for a home user.
I think it'd be very amusing for anyone to try to enforce that.
We give away free software, but YOU cannot use it because you violated our license. How do you really intend to enforce that? Its..free.. you can download it anywhere, to any computer, and use it. Just the fact its utterly unenforceable in any situation just makes the whole license look stupid. Makes the people making the license look stupid too, makes the product licensed this way look stupid too. Guess that's why I don't use Firefox anymore. It's stupid.
Now if I can just find a replacement for Thunderbird that I like.
Once this crap hits the fan, Dell may well be singing a different tune when it becomes apparent it isn't worth the publicity. I may be wrong, and you can give me all the reasons why, but consider this: It bothered enough people to make Slashdot's front page. Flame on.
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I realize you are a legal absolutist, but the problem has been, and remains that the wealthy are abusing their power, corrupting the system, driving the law makers and law enforcers to behave is ways that are contrary to the public interest. The only definition of "breaking the law" in that situation is "pissed off the wrong person," which, I believe, is the current system in most of the world.
Sounds like everything is working just as it has for all of recorded history. Was there a point?
The rest of us get the tickets.
The rest of us breaking the law get tickets.
Fixed that for ya.
I've seen plenty of furry porn too. Doesn't mean I group furries along with PHYSICALLY HANDICAPPED PEOPLE.
Not offended however, just amused that is what OTHER people think of furries, or at least some of them.
Oh one other thing, if you're going to reply with legitimate uses, please also add in why it is better to use a bitcoin instead of US Dollar in your legitimate use. Legitimacy should also have advantage over it's predecessor, otherwise, there's no point in the legitimate use. You wouldn't use one sharp knife over another just because it looks different. It's just as sharp.
When the tool appears to have no legitimate usages, yeah I'm gunna say this tool is inherently bad, I could even go as far as to say the tool encourages illegal behavior.
Sort of like Napster of the late 90's. It simply had no other use than to STEAL music. Bitcoin has no other use than to hide financial transaction data. I simply don't buy we need a currency that's not attached to one of the many governments in the world. What advantages do bitcoins offer over US Dollars? Besides the fact they're hard to track (Because wallet id's are anonymous, unlike bank accounts involving US Dollars.) Well one advantage is this malware right here. You can't set up a way to receive EFT's without being traceable.. unless you do it with bitcoin. Another advantage of bitcoins is tax evasion. Where are the legitimate uses for this???
I'm pretty anti-government but I also I don't like criminals committing crimes and I see this tool and see how bitcoin operates in the wild and I'm sorry, I'm not seeing a heck of a lot of legitimate usage. I do keep hearing about crimes involving bitcoins. Clue?
This is excellent evidence to advocate shutting down bitcoin and all it's kin.
The only use of these 'currencies' seems to be criminal activity, and frankly, malware of this nature probably wouldn't even be feasible if it wasn't for bitcoin and it's kin. There'd be no way to anonymously extort money from victims.
I'd like to see paraplegic culture go away, blind culture, Amputee culture, and furries culture. That last one may be tricky
Furries along side physical handicaps? That's interesting.
But utilities are upgraded at a very slow pace because the govt regulates how much profit a utility company can make, putting brakes on innovation. With the internet, we want to replace/upgrade everything every 10 to 15 years and that is not possible if the internet is classified as a utility.
Utilities are fine for phone and electricity because they are mature technologies that don't change much year-to-year.
Not sure I agree with that. Lets look at the last 15 years of internet in the USA for a moment. That'd push us back to about 1999, yes? DSL and Cable are the emerging internet connection tech of this era, with 56k dialup being the norm.
Ok, so 56k modems are very sad in the present, but they still work. DSL and Cable are the dominate connections and fiber is emerging.
In 15 years. Now wait, you said we have to replace everything every 10-15 years, but we're not doing that. We're using the same crap that was emerging 15 years ago.
Bottom line: ISP's are utilities and needed to be regulated and treated as such. I really fail to see how it's different from the utility state of telephony.
That and it sort of gave you a 'sour memory' of Montgomery Scott. Up to that point he was just the 'miracle worker' engineer we'd all come to love and admire, until this episode. Now we see him as a out of place, out of touch relic of the past. It was just not a good thing to do to the character, IMHO. Especially not a good LAST THING to do to the character.
Oh, one other thing. A high barrier to entry isn't necessarily a bad thing.
Lower the bar too much and you get things like... AOL and Facebook.
Pass.
Well, what do you expect from a platform that is 15 years old, and poorly maintained at best? I mean, Origin tried to go to a 3D client and then, in the middle of developing it they decided, "this is a waste of time, we're abandoning it." WHAT? I mean it wasn't perfect, but it had potential, so they basically threw years of client development out the window.
And that was by no means meant to target Ultima Online solely, it was more to point out emulation of servers. They have this stuff for other popular MMO's too (like World of Warcraft for example.)
Other than that, you just ranted about what's been wrong with Ultima Online for the past 10 years. It's not an exclusive condition to emulated shards. All that junk is true of official servers too. What was your point there?
Also I think the original topic was about not only playing on these worlds, but building them as well. There's a HUGE entertainment value on the server side of emulation, building a server that YOU think is how it should be, promoting it, attracting players, etcetc. Some people like that! That's entertainment!
Encrypt your data before putting it on Dropbox? You mean you weren't doing that already?
Sounds like, after doing a quick 15 minutes of research that Uber, Lyft and their kin don't really care to play by the established regulations for for-hire drivers.
Looks like these new kids on the block are being rebuffed trying to bully their way past regulations that're established to keep the for-hire drivers gainfully employed and playing fairly.
Also seems to be a huge money grab by Corporate outside of these cities, charging drivers rather steep 'dispatch fees.' Read between the lines folks, this is not an innocent 'innovative' tech company trying to fix something that's broken. Smells more like swooping down on an establishment that's individualized to each city and nationalize it.
No sympathy here. Play by the established rules and regulations or GTFO, ok?
This has been going on for years already. RunUO.
I think we should probably be keeping that POTS system around, maintained and such. You just never know. We might need it for something!
I think my least favorite episode was the one that featured Montgomery Scott from TOS being revived.
Just felt like they trashed the character through out the episode needlessly.
And I'd be willing to wager, if one ISP turned dick in a neighborhood with no other options. Another option is going to appear very soon. People aren't as dumb as you might think, there's a buck to be made off irate customers!
And you'd likely see a mass exodus of Comcast customers to another provider.
I don't think that's going to be very viable for Comcast to continue operating and making money. Do you?
For me, in my years on the internet, I've come to believe and stand by the premise that a web server or ANY service offered to the public internet from your equipment is an extension of your home. People who visit are guests of your service. They have to follow your rules or they will be told to leave. It's very simple and I think it rightly extends to businesses operating websites.
This ruling is no different than my operating a gaming forum and asking people not to post about knitting, as it's not the topic we're discussing on my service. You also will not find any information about knitting on my forum, and rightly so.
Search engine is a little different I suppose, but I think since it's pretty obvious they're omitting results they have concluded to be unsuitable (they are filtering content) I don't see a problem. I think where a problem begins is if that search engine claims to return unbiased complete results. That's dishonest.
Another way to think of it would be as a television station. If you object to the content they've chosen to show you, change the friggin channel.
I think an important distinction to make here, is a LOT of people are talking on their cell phones while driving. The more of us doing it, the more chances it will be a factor in an accident. I think that's a huge source of the uptick in mobile phone related crashes.
As far as it being equally distracting as having a passenger in the vehicle. That is possible, but, just look around the next time you're in a traffic jam. Glance at all the vehicles around you. How many have the driver and no one else? Most huh? How many of these lone drivers who were previously undistracted by a passenger are now talking on their mobiles?
One last factor to consider when it comes to bringing up passenger vs. mobile phone distraction. Your passenger(s) are an additional pair of eyes, attached to a brain that finds survival to be one of the most important things. They're liking watching the road as well, at least intermittently, thereby able to alert a distracted driver to a hazard they weren't aware of. I've had that happen many times with passengers in my vehicle. They are distracting, for sure, but they're also interested in surviving the trip and assist. Cell phones cannot fill this void. They are distracting with no fall back to make you aware of a hazard you're missing.
I'm good with metered internet, as long as the connection fee drops substantially. I don't pay a connection fee to AWS, I pay for the host and transit fees for data. So yeah, metered is fine, but that connect fee needs to be like... $5. Max. Plus equipment rental if you're dumb enough to go that route.
As we all know, there is no free lunch, and there’s also no cost-free delivery of streaming movies. Someone has to pay that cost.
Aren't two people already paying the 'cost'? I pay for my internet connection and netflix pays their provider transit fees. I use EC2 as well, and you pay transit fees on all your data xfer. Isn't Netflix paying that too? And I'm paying my ISP.. so um, what's the problem here?
To me, the only feasible backup strategy for a home user (like myself) for LARGE volumes of data (I have 2TB, not 20, YMMY) is to keep two copies. One being your working copy, that you have in an active server, the other copy you should keep in a safe and rsync to bring it upto date every few months.
If your volume is really 20TB, which seems extreme to me (do you really need all your DVD's and Bluray's on a media server? With netflix and other online streaming services?) then I guess you're gunna need a tape backup of enterprise-level quality. Expect to pay for it. My personal massed music collection after 20 years of collecting music is like.. 30GB. That's a lot of music too. So I think you should look at what your storing, reducing it to the stuff that's truly irreplaceable.
But bottom line, to me, mirroring your drive(s) and sticking copies of them in a safe is the best backup strategy for a home user.
I think it'd be very amusing for anyone to try to enforce that.
We give away free software, but YOU cannot use it because you violated our license. How do you really intend to enforce that? Its..free.. you can download it anywhere, to any computer, and use it. Just the fact its utterly unenforceable in any situation just makes the whole license look stupid. Makes the people making the license look stupid too, makes the product licensed this way look stupid too. Guess that's why I don't use Firefox anymore. It's stupid.
Now if I can just find a replacement for Thunderbird that I like.
Once this crap hits the fan, Dell may well be singing a different tune when it becomes apparent it isn't worth the publicity. I may be wrong, and you can give me all the reasons why, but consider this: It bothered enough people to make Slashdot's front page. Flame on.
There's no such thing as bad publicity.