What would you say if you were here today, Abe? Is this what America has been fighting for?
He'd say "Hey! That's my speech! You didn't pay me royalties to use that! Damn, how can Disney get copyright law extended retroactively, but I, a former president with a hole in my head, can't?"
Perfect follower to a popular charismatic demagogue named George W. Bush (he WAS once popular, anyway).
From Wiki:
Demagogy (also demagoguery) refers to a political strategy for obtaining and gaining political power by appealing to the popular prejudices, emotions, fears and expectations of the public - typically via impassioned rhetoric and propaganda, and often using nationalist or populist themes.
That sounds to me like the guy who used fears of "terrism", abortion, and gay marriage to trample our rights, spy on us, and "lead" us into what some are calling the biggest foreign-policy blunder in American history. And what's more populist than the current regime's blather about the "liberal elites"? If the speeches by supporters at the RNC party in St. Paul were OKed by McCain, Palin or their advisors, then I'm pretty sure we're looking at another 4-8 years of the same, should they be elected.
In contrast, Obama's over use of the words "hope" and "change" seem minor-league.
I recently put together my own PC. I'm more of a software guy, so this was the first time in about a decade. I had good service from all of these (alphabetical order, not preference):
frys.com
microcenter.com
monoprice.com
ncixus.com
newegg.com
zipzoomfly.com
MicroCenter's local, so I ordered it online and drove over during lunch. FWIW, there were rebates on some of the items from NewEgg, NCIXUS, and FRYS, totallying $145. I was pleasantly surprised to get every single one of them. I've bought parts (drives, memory, cables, etc.) from all of them except NCIXUS before, just never any system boards, cases or processors.
The power supply had a problem (high-pitched whine under any significant load), and since I got it first, by the time I noticed the problem, it was too late to send it back to FRYS (over 30 days). The manufacturer was great, though, and the replacement is on its way here (they're paying for all shipping).
I also picked up a few hard drives from ChiefValue.com recently, no complaints.
You're the second person who commented that GishPuppy is down/slow. That sounds like a pretty fixable problem, maybe they'll improve. Their interface looks nice, better than sneakemail's, and I imagine that since they're newer, they haven't been blocked / banned by as many sites yet. I wish either one (or both!) of them would allow you to make them a mail handler for your personal domain. That way, I could have their service, but using my own unique domain name that I register myself. I'd be willing to chip in another $1/month for that (that's 50% more than I pay now!)
This is just about what sneakemail does for me. I've been avoiding setting up my own mailserver for a couple of reasons... 1, I'm pretty sure it's against my TOS, so I'd need to upgrade service (they might even block 25); 2, the limited amount of interaction I've had with postfix has convinced me that mail servers need a considerable amount of thought and attention, that I haven't been willing to invest; and 3, I've been concerned about security.
How hard has this been for you to set up / maintain? I could set up a server on my brother's network to handle my email (no TOS issues over there). Of course, sneakemail is $2/month (I use the pay service), so I might never feel motivated enough to go through all the hassle, except that I've had 3 sites in the last few months reject email addresses from the sneakemail.com domain.
I've been a long time user and proponent of sneakemail.com, I love the "whitelist" approach for filtering out SPAM, I love knowing who leaked or shared my address, and I love that I can turn them off if they start sending me junk I don't want. I also like that it forwards to my main email address.
Unfortunately, sneakemail has recently been getting blocked by more and more sites.
GishPuppy looks similar (and maybe even easier to use). Is anyone using it, or another, similar service?
I just imagined a.ppt bullet chart with bullet #4 being "Allow SQL code injections". Then I tried to imagine if anyone 2 levels up would notice it, understand it, or just check off the "review complete" milestone...
I don't know, Vista resembles win 95. The user differences are really not that different.
You're right, at the heart, they're really not all that different. Would you say that Gnome or KDE is more or less different from Vista than Win 95 is different from Vista? With the tendency of all of the user interfaces to copy from one another, I think KDE and Gnome are probably closer to Vista than 95 was.
Personally, I'd say that since most of the current user interfaces use the same basic window, icon, mouse/touchscreen/touchpad, pointer and keyboard paradigm, they'd leave any current student in about the same position for the world of 15 years from now -- and let us hope there's some progress made on user interfaces between now and then, both for Microsoft and competitors (proprietary AND free / open source).
Like Yaz, I learned to use computers in the 80s on TRS-80, Apple IIe, and C64 computers - and I don't have a problem with Vista, Gnome, KDE or OSX today. Most of those systems didn't even have mice! The basic concepts are more important than the particulars.
The only problem with VMWare is that they don't support any 64bit Host OS. This means you are stuck with a 32bit OS to emulate a 64bit OS if you want to run a 64bit OS. Sorry but that's the big reason I gave up on VMWare. No support for a 64bit Host OS.
Do you mean no support for 64bit Windows Hosts? I'm running VMWare Server (1.0.5) on top of x86_64 Ubuntu right now.
No DVI? It has HDMI, which includes the same video signal and digital audio out. And where did you get the 15" Macbook with the same specs (e.g. WUXGA 1920x1200) for only $1100? Or are you saying that if I was to put software I don't want on the laptop, it raises the cost? Just face it, when you said
One is about $150 more expensive than an iMac, their gaming notebooks (keep in mind the pro has a very high performance graphics engine and is intended to play Wow and run virtual machines, it's not a toy) are $300-500 more expensive than the mac pro, even their SFF desktop is more than $100 more than a mini.
you were mistaken. And if you start to throw in "well, I can take it to the Apple store..." I'll start to talk about how many of my friends with Mac laptops have had to pay gobs of money for what ought to be a cheap repacement for their power supplies, while I can pick up a replacement for less than $40. I own 3 Dell laptops one 8yo, one 3yo, and this new one. They are all still in use (granted, the 8yo one is just a VNC terminal now, but it's still in use). They're obviously durable enough. BTW, I have used OSX (on a G3 mac) and I like OSX, and if Apple had an equivalent laptop at an equivalent price, I'd own it.
Hmmm... Not so sure I agree. I'm typing on a Dell laptop now: XPS M1530, 15.4" WUXGA, T8300 Core 2 Duo 2.4GHz, 4GB RAM, GeForce 8600M GT 256MB, 160GB HD, DVD+-RW, 802.11b/g/n, HDMI, firewire, 3 USB ports, fingerprint reader, built-in webcam, Bluetooth, HDMI output, IR remote, 5.1 sound, and two years of "in home support" for $930 (shipped, purchased in April). Oh, and I'm paying for it $77.50 a month, on zero % interest for a year. What kind of PowerBook / MacBook Pro can I get for that? The cheapest notebook at the Apple Store online was a 2.1GHz 13" MacBook w/ 1GB and 120MB HD for $1099. You could say 13" is more portable, but all the 15" ones had higher "From" prices.
Sure, it's not an Air, but (this is/., so brace yourself for a car analogy!) that's like saying "nothing Toyota has compares to the Lamborghini!" Sure, but then Toyota makes tons more cars that fit what I want to do than Lamborghini does. Some of them are even pretty fun to drive. (On the other hand, if you're giving away free Airs, or Lamborghinis, I'll take one!)
Drug lords kill many many more. But do they get a special status? Are there special surveillance laws because of them? No!
Maybe not special surveillance laws, but our 4th amendment rights DID get eroded. Take a look at this, this, this, this, and this. For drugs, it was the seizure part that got trampled. For "terrists" it's the search part. There's always some bogeyman we're willing to sacrifice our rights to.
I've heard the same stories from some friends at work that are having FiOS lines being buried in their neighborhood now. One of them even had a neighbor with a water supply line damaged by the digging. We didn't have that sort of problem when the lines went in here, but we're an old neighborhood, and everything is on poles (no digging required). It's more likely that someone damaged the old lines, rather than sabotaged them. At least I can confirm no problems with my VZ DSL when FiOS went in here. I didn't switch over until they started offering TV service here too (> 1 year, at least), and for that time, my service was not noticeably impacted in any way.
With the cost of my drug coverage going up every year, and the co-pay going up, too, I thought I'd never be able to afford prescription drugs! Now all I need to do is drink a few hundred thousand gallons of water!
I have played with the shared folder feature, but never saw any real advantage over just using standard networking (SMB, NFS etc.) Is there some advantage to VMware's shared folder feature that I am too blind to see?
Here's why I use it, maybe someone can recommend something better... When I telecommute, I do all my work in a VM. I don't want to mix my work files with my personal files, and I don't want to install the software required by my employer on my personal PC, where it can interfere with the software I've chosen for my personal use. So, I have VMWare Player with XP SP2 on it, running on my Ubuntu server. When I start up the VPN software my employer provides, it hijacks all the XP network interfaces, and everything gets sent over the VPN connection. For the most part, I can't get to any of the resources on my LAN, so SMB and NFS aren't an option. When I want to print something, I can't get to any printers except those 10 miles away at the office. So, I installed CutePDF, set up a shared folder, and run a script on the host that looks for PDF files in the shared folder.
Considering that our enterprise security team tracks practically everything we do on our corporate PCs, from logging the IP addresses we access down to filtering the content we're allowed to see on the internet (sorry, that page contains information that might be useful for your work, please contact security!) I bet they could tell where the compromised PC is. To them, a "proper" routing table is one that doesn't include the PC and telephone on my desk at all, because you the outsider doesn't have any reason to route anything to them, and if I want to get to YOU, they want it to go through their central control anyway. IP was not designed for central control, it was designed for redundancy and repair. That's really of no use to our enterprise security people. They'd be happiest if they could have every packet in the company go through one router that would print out a hard copy for filing in your personnel record. Only practicality stops them.
Right now, if an employee is involved in some illegal activity, a 3rd party IS just going to get a single IP address, the IP address of our proxy server. Because that's what everything goes through, so enterprise security can filter and restrict it. Which computer was it REALLY? The proxy server knows, and so could the NAT. There's little reason the NAT router has to have less logging capability than the proxy server does now.
And when I say everything that goes outside goes through the proxy, I mean everything. HTTP, HTTPS, TELNET, SSH, SMTP. Everything that doesn't go through the proxy is forbidden. So, if it isn't one of the proxied protocols, or tunnelable over one of the proxied protocols, you can't have it. I'd find it hard to believe that there aren't a lot of other people who work in the same sort of environment.
Any way, you're right, IPv6 is better, and the right way to go. NAT is just a stopgap.
Really, I bet there are huge tracts of IP real estate that would function just as well on NATted private networks. I work at a place that owns lots of IP networks, and 1) we're not allowed to run our own web servers, or any other kind of servers for that matter, and 2) all our outbound traffic is through corporate control points and filtered anyway. Still, the PC on my desk at the office has a public IP address. Do I NEED a public IP address? No. Not really. Most of my traffic is to internal company data anyway (share drives, internal sharepoint intraet collaboration site, outlook servers, inward facing development servers, etc.) The rest is already going through proxy servers. You couldn't get any packets direct to me, either, the routers on the edge of our network filter practically all inbound traffic out. I, and most of my collegues, are wasting our public addresses. I'd bet it's the same in a lot of places. Corporate security policies essentially ensure that the majority of cubicle workers can't possibly make use of any of the "benefits" a publicly routable IP address would actually have, but every PC (and telephone and printer) has one.
I'm not saying NAT is the best solution, or even the right long term solution, just that I think it could be used (fairly successfully) in many more places while we get our collective asses in gear and go IPv6.
From newegg.com:
HD-DVD drive: US$149.99
Blu-ray DVD burner: US$259.99 Blu-ray DVD: 1xUS$13.99 To a grand total of US$423.97 unless you want to burn more than one DVD. Seems a bit much.
I don't think it's quite that much. I already have the HD-DVD drive (XBox sidecar, USB interface, $79.99 at Amazon).
I'll wait on the Blu-ray burner until they come down under $100, and it won't be *JUST* for converting these movies. It's not like I'll throw it away when I'm done! I'm going to use it as a backup device for all my digital photos.
Blank BDs will eventually cheap. They'll be the only "additional" cost.
In the meantime, I'm watching the 6 HD-DVDs that came with my $80 player (making it about $13.50 per movie)
I might even pick up a few more at fire-sale prices (B1G1 practically everywhere, who knows, maybe they'll be 66-75% off soon!)
Of course, even just for the cost of blank BDs, I may never even convert them. I might just put the movies on my NAS as storage prices continue to come down. Both formats may lose the war, in the end.
So... I argue with the economics I don't think that's what the cost will be, really. Maybe if I ran out today and got an HD-DVD player, no free movies, and absolutely had to convert them today.
I won't post the name here (no need to generate any traffic for the new owner), but I had a.org and it got snapped up right after I accidentally let it lapse. I blame myself (the credit card on file went past its expiration, and I didn't read the emails until it was too late), but it's still annoying. C'est la vie. The worst part about it is coming up with a new name. I didn't have any investment in the old name beyond the trouble of telling all my friends what the address was. Maybe when they fail to see $$$ rolling in, they'll let it lapse themselves, but I imagine another drop-catcher will pick it up. Maybe I can feel happy knowing that I can bleed drop-catchers a few dollars a year.
OK, I'll agree, the OP was exaggerating, and you were right.
I get spun up because I see our rights being eroded, and I let my anger and dispair spill out on you. I hope those links wake people up, though, because it does not take the OP's fictional majority of corrupt police to seriously threaten our freedom.
Hey, I looked at the parent, and the parent's parent, and the parent's parent's parent, I see no "50% of police in 4 states" assertion in any of those. OK, conceded, the "majority" of police don't do this. This does not make laws which enable it acceptable. Do you think life would be pleasant if 49% of police did it? 39%? 29%? 19%? I say that 9% would be way too much. And I think your earlier assertion that this was some "poorly remembered anecdotes" is proven false by the citations I provided. It happens. Once is too many, but you'll find it happened more often than once. You essentially said it doesn't happen, and the GP was fabricating it because he hated police. I call bullshit - it does happen, and I gave you citations.
It took 2 1/2 years after concerns were first raised internally for the King County Sheriff's Office to stop allowing employees to use vehicles seized in drug cases. At one point, 21 detectives and officials -- including the budget and accounting director, the legal adviser, a volunteer chaplain and the Asian community liaison -- were driving the cars.
Irrelevant. This quote is referring to the, in my opinion, stupid practice of letting P.D. personnel sign out cars that are held in evidence. The officers do not get to keep them, they do not get to sell them and keep the proceeds.
Irrelevant? If I could seize my neighbor's car and drive it around, it would be irrelevant that I didn't own it personally. The fact is I would be driving it. In fact, it would be better that I didn't own it, because I could drop it back off at the police station if it had a problem, and grab a new one. No need to worry about maintenance. Do me a favor, give me YOUR car keys and I'll drive YOUR car around for a few years. See if it makes a difference whether I personally took ownership or not.
I get the feeling that what you've got is ostrich disease, coupled with an overdeveloped confidence in the goodness of people in authority.
All that means is that you didn't understand what I was replying to. Read it again, and this time, try not to be so eager to force it to mean what you apparently want it to mean.
Let's read it again, shall we?
Okay, yes, there are cases where [suspected] drug dealers property is impounded and then auctioned, but I think your description is way off.....
Cop sees nice expensive car. Cop pulls over the car. Cop claims you are a drug deal and plants evidence.
Here's my first problem.....the way you're stating this, the majority of cops are cruising around with a trunk full of cocaine just waiting to frame the innocent. Yes, there are cases where evidence has been planted, but in the ones I've heard of there's usually a stonger motive than "I want to confiscate your car". Unless you cite a good source, there's no way I believe it's that rampant.
Well, OK, I guess I did read my own interpretations into that. I don't in fact know if the trunk was actually full of cocaine, or if they cruised around with it, but did you not read the citations I provided? I guess you're right. It's less than 50% of all police. You're a genious. I hope you live in a world where only 49% of the police drag you out of your car and beat you up. No one will care then. It's not a majority.
You car and all your property within the car is sold at auction. Cop pockets all of the proceeds.
In what jurisdiction does the cop get the proceeds of auctioned property? I've never heard of this being practiced in the United States. The state gets the proceeds, and depending on where, it could go either directly to the police budget, or the general budget. Again, unless you can cite this, I'm having a hard time believing it.
As I mentioned above, it doesn't matter who holds ownership to the property. Plus, you WI
Here's my first problem.....the way you're stating this, the majority of cops are cruising around with a trunk full of cocaine just waiting to frame the innocent. Yes, there are cases where evidence has been planted, but in the ones I've heard of there's usually a stonger motive than "I want to confiscate your car". Unless you cite a good source, there's no way I believe it's that rampant.
A quick search turned up this. There appears to be more information here. Try this:
Blumenson, Eric and Eva Nilsen. " Policing for Profit: The Drug War' s Hidden Economic
Agenda." The University of Chicago Law Review 65 (1998): 35-114.
Or, do a Google Scholar search with it. Maybe Henry Hyde's Book from the Cato Institute is a good source? That's the Google Books link. Here's a quote from a review "Representative Hyde believes that police misconduct is more the rule than the exception in forfeiture proceedings. The volume of evidence suggests that profit drives law enforcement agencies to seize whatever they can from private citizens. The law is unbalanced on the side of law enforcement on this issue, which has led to far too many gross violations of individual rights."
In what jurisdiction does the cop get the proceeds of auctioned property? I've never heard of this being practiced in the United States. The state gets the proceeds, and depending on where, it could go either directly to the police budget, or the general budget. Again, unless you can cite this, I'm having a hard time believing it.
It took 2 1/2 years after concerns were first raised internally for the King County Sheriff's Office to stop allowing employees to use vehicles seized in drug cases. At one point, 21 detectives and officials -- including the budget and accounting director, the legal adviser, a volunteer chaplain and the Asian community liaison -- were driving the cars.
Many of the other references have similar tales. I don't know how many you need to consider it a problem.
I would suspect that corruption on that level would attract both federal investigations, and media attention.
You might think that, and in fact there has been some media coverage, but a lot of people think "Hey, those are drug dealers things that were seized, who cares?" despite the fact that often there is no crime proven. Remember, being accused of something is almost as good as being convicted in the court of public opinion.
I get the feeling that what you've got is some half-remembered anecdotes about evidence auctions, and a general dislike for the police.......
I get the feeling that what you've got is ostrich disease, coupled with an overdeveloped confidence in the goodness of people in authority. I personally have a wonderful opinion of my local police, the few I've met have all been very nice, polite, and honest. I do, however, recognize that the police are drawn from the same population of humans as every other vocation, and that population has bad people in it. They're not infallible or incorruptible. That's why the Bill of Rights exists.
Just thought I'd post a link to a NYTimes article regarding this type of seizure, in case anyone had forgotten or didn't believe it could be poossible.
That might be only temporary. Out here in PA, they had us on PPPoE briefly, but now we're just DHCPing an address. They screwed up the transition, though, we ended up on the phone w/ customer service -- which was surprisingly good for Verizon, I'll have to say. Much better than my last experience with them when I had DSL (~7yrs ago, I think). They walked me through fixing the router config and resetting.
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What would you say if you were here today, Abe? Is this what America has been fighting for?
He'd say "Hey! That's my speech! You didn't pay me royalties to use that! Damn, how can Disney get copyright law extended retroactively, but I, a former president with a hole in my head, can't?"
From Wiki:
Demagogy (also demagoguery) refers to a political strategy for obtaining and gaining political power by appealing to the popular prejudices, emotions, fears and expectations of the public - typically via impassioned rhetoric and propaganda, and often using nationalist or populist themes.
That sounds to me like the guy who used fears of "terrism", abortion, and gay marriage to trample our rights, spy on us, and "lead" us into what some are calling the biggest foreign-policy blunder in American history. And what's more populist than the current regime's blather about the "liberal elites"? If the speeches by supporters at the RNC party in St. Paul were OKed by McCain, Palin or their advisors, then I'm pretty sure we're looking at another 4-8 years of the same, should they be elected.
In contrast, Obama's over use of the words "hope" and "change" seem minor-league.
MicroCenter's local, so I ordered it online and drove over during lunch. FWIW, there were rebates on some of the items from NewEgg, NCIXUS, and FRYS, totallying $145. I was pleasantly surprised to get every single one of them. I've bought parts (drives, memory, cables, etc.) from all of them except NCIXUS before, just never any system boards, cases or processors.
The power supply had a problem (high-pitched whine under any significant load), and since I got it first, by the time I noticed the problem, it was too late to send it back to FRYS (over 30 days). The manufacturer was great, though, and the replacement is on its way here (they're paying for all shipping).
I also picked up a few hard drives from ChiefValue.com recently, no complaints.
You're the second person who commented that GishPuppy is down/slow. That sounds like a pretty fixable problem, maybe they'll improve. Their interface looks nice, better than sneakemail's, and I imagine that since they're newer, they haven't been blocked / banned by as many sites yet. I wish either one (or both!) of them would allow you to make them a mail handler for your personal domain. That way, I could have their service, but using my own unique domain name that I register myself. I'd be willing to chip in another $1/month for that (that's 50% more than I pay now!)
How hard has this been for you to set up / maintain? I could set up a server on my brother's network to handle my email (no TOS issues over there). Of course, sneakemail is $2/month (I use the pay service), so I might never feel motivated enough to go through all the hassle, except that I've had 3 sites in the last few months reject email addresses from the sneakemail.com domain.
Unfortunately, sneakemail has recently been getting blocked by more and more sites.
GishPuppy looks similar (and maybe even easier to use). Is anyone using it, or another, similar service?
The company that employs my friend is simply moving away from Linux - to Lynux - look it up.
Just did! ;)
Perhaps you should have been more specific about WHERE to look it up!
Of course, by the time you read this, there's every chance wikipedia's entry will be updated.
I just imagined a .ppt bullet chart with bullet #4 being "Allow SQL code injections". Then I tried to imagine if anyone 2 levels up would notice it, understand it, or just check off the "review complete" milestone...
I don't know, Vista resembles win 95. The user differences are really not that different.
You're right, at the heart, they're really not all that different. Would you say that Gnome or KDE is more or less different from Vista than Win 95 is different from Vista? With the tendency of all of the user interfaces to copy from one another, I think KDE and Gnome are probably closer to Vista than 95 was.
Personally, I'd say that since most of the current user interfaces use the same basic window, icon, mouse/touchscreen/touchpad, pointer and keyboard paradigm, they'd leave any current student in about the same position for the world of 15 years from now -- and let us hope there's some progress made on user interfaces between now and then, both for Microsoft and competitors (proprietary AND free / open source).
Like Yaz, I learned to use computers in the 80s on TRS-80, Apple IIe, and C64 computers - and I don't have a problem with Vista, Gnome, KDE or OSX today. Most of those systems didn't even have mice! The basic concepts are more important than the particulars.
The only problem with VMWare is that they don't support any 64bit Host OS. This means you are stuck with a 32bit OS to emulate a 64bit OS if you want to run a 64bit OS. Sorry but that's the big reason I gave up on VMWare. No support for a 64bit Host OS.
Do you mean no support for 64bit Windows Hosts? I'm running VMWare Server (1.0.5) on top of x86_64 Ubuntu right now.
One is about $150 more expensive than an iMac, their gaming notebooks (keep in mind the pro has a very high performance graphics engine and is intended to play Wow and run virtual machines, it's not a toy) are $300-500 more expensive than the mac pro, even their SFF desktop is more than $100 more than a mini.
you were mistaken. And if you start to throw in "well, I can take it to the Apple store..." I'll start to talk about how many of my friends with Mac laptops have had to pay gobs of money for what ought to be a cheap repacement for their power supplies, while I can pick up a replacement for less than $40. I own 3 Dell laptops one 8yo, one 3yo, and this new one. They are all still in use (granted, the 8yo one is just a VNC terminal now, but it's still in use). They're obviously durable enough. BTW, I have used OSX (on a G3 mac) and I like OSX, and if Apple had an equivalent laptop at an equivalent price, I'd own it.
Sure, it's not an Air, but (this is /., so brace yourself for a car analogy!) that's like saying "nothing Toyota has compares to the Lamborghini!" Sure, but then Toyota makes tons more cars that fit what I want to do than Lamborghini does. Some of them are even pretty fun to drive. (On the other hand, if you're giving away free Airs, or Lamborghinis, I'll take one!)
Drug lords kill many many more. But do they get a special status? Are there special surveillance laws because of them? No!
Maybe not special surveillance laws, but our 4th amendment rights DID get eroded. Take a look at this, this, this, this, and this. For drugs, it was the seizure part that got trampled. For "terrists" it's the search part. There's always some bogeyman we're willing to sacrifice our rights to.
I've heard the same stories from some friends at work that are having FiOS lines being buried in their neighborhood now. One of them even had a neighbor with a water supply line damaged by the digging. We didn't have that sort of problem when the lines went in here, but we're an old neighborhood, and everything is on poles (no digging required). It's more likely that someone damaged the old lines, rather than sabotaged them. At least I can confirm no problems with my VZ DSL when FiOS went in here. I didn't switch over until they started offering TV service here too (> 1 year, at least), and for that time, my service was not noticeably impacted in any way.
With the cost of my drug coverage going up every year, and the co-pay going up, too, I thought I'd never be able to afford prescription drugs! Now all I need to do is drink a few hundred thousand gallons of water!
Right now, if an employee is involved in some illegal activity, a 3rd party IS just going to get a single IP address, the IP address of our proxy server. Because that's what everything goes through, so enterprise security can filter and restrict it. Which computer was it REALLY? The proxy server knows, and so could the NAT. There's little reason the NAT router has to have less logging capability than the proxy server does now.
And when I say everything that goes outside goes through the proxy, I mean everything. HTTP, HTTPS, TELNET, SSH, SMTP. Everything that doesn't go through the proxy is forbidden. So, if it isn't one of the proxied protocols, or tunnelable over one of the proxied protocols, you can't have it. I'd find it hard to believe that there aren't a lot of other people who work in the same sort of environment.
Any way, you're right, IPv6 is better, and the right way to go. NAT is just a stopgap.
I'm not saying NAT is the best solution, or even the right long term solution, just that I think it could be used (fairly successfully) in many more places while we get our collective asses in gear and go IPv6.
I'll wait on the Blu-ray burner until they come down under $100, and it won't be *JUST* for converting these movies. It's not like I'll throw it away when I'm done! I'm going to use it as a backup device for all my digital photos.
Blank BDs will eventually cheap. They'll be the only "additional" cost.
In the meantime, I'm watching the 6 HD-DVDs that came with my $80 player (making it about $13.50 per movie) I might even pick up a few more at fire-sale prices (B1G1 practically everywhere, who knows, maybe they'll be 66-75% off soon!)
Of course, even just for the cost of blank BDs, I may never even convert them. I might just put the movies on my NAS as storage prices continue to come down. Both formats may lose the war, in the end.
So... I argue with the economics I don't think that's what the cost will be, really. Maybe if I ran out today and got an HD-DVD player, no free movies, and absolutely had to convert them today.
I won't post the name here (no need to generate any traffic for the new owner), but I had a .org and it got snapped up right after I accidentally let it lapse. I blame myself (the credit card on file went past its expiration, and I didn't read the emails until it was too late), but it's still annoying. C'est la vie. The worst part about it is coming up with a new name. I didn't have any investment in the old name beyond the trouble of telling all my friends what the address was. Maybe when they fail to see $$$ rolling in, they'll let it lapse themselves, but I imagine another drop-catcher will pick it up. Maybe I can feel happy knowing that I can bleed drop-catchers a few dollars a year.
I get spun up because I see our rights being eroded, and I let my anger and dispair spill out on you. I hope those links wake people up, though, because it does not take the OP's fictional majority of corrupt police to seriously threaten our freedom.
I'll stop ranting now, I apologize.
Irrelevant? If I could seize my neighbor's car and drive it around, it would be irrelevant that I didn't own it personally. The fact is I would be driving it. In fact, it would be better that I didn't own it, because I could drop it back off at the police station if it had a problem, and grab a new one. No need to worry about maintenance. Do me a favor, give me YOUR car keys and I'll drive YOUR car around for a few years. See if it makes a difference whether I personally took ownership or not.
Let's read it again, shall we?
Well, OK, I guess I did read my own interpretations into that. I don't in fact know if the trunk was actually full of cocaine, or if they cruised around with it, but did you not read the citations I provided? I guess you're right. It's less than 50% of all police. You're a genious. I hope you live in a world where only 49% of the police drag you out of your car and beat you up. No one will care then. It's not a majority.
As I mentioned above, it doesn't matter who holds ownership to the property. Plus, you WI
Just thought I'd post a link to a NYTimes article regarding this type of seizure, in case anyone had forgotten or didn't believe it could be poossible.
That might be only temporary. Out here in PA, they had us on PPPoE briefly, but now we're just DHCPing an address. They screwed up the transition, though, we ended up on the phone w/ customer service -- which was surprisingly good for Verizon, I'll have to say. Much better than my last experience with them when I had DSL (~7yrs ago, I think). They walked me through fixing the router config and resetting.