Comcast gets away with huge amounts of anti-consumer crap because they're the only game in town for most of the USA. And they got that status by openly paying bribes (euphemistically called fees) to state & local telecom regulators. In return, Comcast (or TCI or whoever in your area) gets a guaranteed monopoly on each region's cable service.
This has got to stop.
I'm sure someone here will post about one of the lucky few localities with cable competition. The prices are lower, the house calls are faster, etc. And I seriously doubt they would get away with spying on their customers' home networks.
same people that will be developing the ulcers on election night when their systems start shitting out garbage.
You have it wrong. With e-voting, the administrators get to sit back and relax on election night. The results get tallied automatically, and there's no possibility of recount. If the machine says it, it must be true, end of story. Nice way to do their job.
The election-rigging folks have had 4 years to practice. I'm confident they'll create plausible-looking results this November.
Not even close. If you reject the GPL (or BSD or any open license) you revert to standard copyright law: use the software any way you want but don't redistribute it. OTOH, EULAs take away fair-use legal rights.
Hence the dodge: kids can't be bound by contracts, only by laws.
If Mac OSX were the dominant OS, then worms would HAVE NOWHERE TO GO, BECAUSE OSX HAS NO OPEN PORTS. A worm is a self-replicating program that travels independently of all user interaction. Windows got Sasser because a mandatory component had an open network port for no good reason. And there's still a few left that haven't been wormed yet...
OSX would certainly get email trojans, but they would all have to come in archive formats like.sit or.gz to hold the executable resources. And even then, the joys of unix security means it couldn't 0WNZ0R your OS and install services. Dummies might lose all their personal files, but it still wouldn't be quite as bad as Windows is.
Of course, if OSX were dominant, Steve Jobs would be the evilest tyrranical bastard in the whole damn corporate world, probably hire mercenaries to conquer Tuvalu and move Apple Inc there to avoid antitrust. He's such a damn cool underdog though.
Can you honestly say that in your normal day's usage, you find Firefox to be any less reliable or secure than Mozilla?
For my personal use? Of course. For my friends and interested colleagues? Sure, I'll install it. But for deployment to the public? Mozilla.org says Firefox isn't 1.0-worthy yet, and I respect their QA.
Questioning the intent of the Patriot Act falls under section 14 of the Patriot Act
The funniest (saddest) part is that he's telling the truth. When the ACLU sued to challenge the Patriot Act, the very existence of their lawsuit was covered up by order of the Patriot Act!!!
into X terminals and simply buy/use one decent server for the backroom
Except that HoCo has several library branches, so either they'd need several terminal servers or some fat pipe to the main office. Whereas Lumix was a reformat-in-place of existing PCs (hardware cost of zero) with no rollout dependencies. Hard to beat that.
I've used HoCo library systems for 20some years. The new setup has a kiosk-ish fullscreen window which at first glance looks identical to the previous MS Windows environment, except that it's running Mozilla instead of Explorer. It's possible to get to the desktop and poke around a little bit, but the local security is locked down enough to prevent casual damage.
Most other patrons don't notice the OS change at all, except that they don't crash or get hit with popups/malware/etc, which is an excellent endorsement for Linux in public terminals.
I hope the library has a good remote method for updates though. As much as I dislike Windows, SUS is A Good Thing. Also, they really ought to jump to Firefox when it hits 1.0.2 or so.
I'll see your point and raise: mounted volumes in OSX need to work better across the board. Read/write for FTP and more importantly SFTP. Faster WebDAV. More powerful SMB browsing.
Also, the dreaded pinwheel of death when a server disconnects before you eject the mount from your desktop. Panther handles this much better than previous revs, but I still find myself force-quitting the Finder more often than I should (aka never).
I wrote a journal entry about this last year. Several of my suggestions showed up in Panther, but I'm still asking for the rest.
only given due process if you had a few extra zeroes after the dollar sign
No contradiction. The guys (I'll go out on a limb and predict they're male) who stole these network cards are probably not millionaires, therefore they don't merit any special treatment.
Unless it turns out this was intentional sabotage by Verizon. But then it leaves the criminal realm and turns into a giant vs giant civil lawsuit.
instantaneous communications between two sub-atomic particles?
Umm... responsible physicists were indeed skeptical about that, for good reason. Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. Hence, Bell's Theorem was rigorously tested and found to be repeatable, unlike P&F's claims.
It started in Simcity, I was the mayor!
Then in Ages of Empires and Civilizations, I was a king!
Bah. In Populous, I was GOD! That was major political power. A village hates you? Sink them into the ocean.
Games like this clearly warp people's minds. Is it any wonder that dictatorial theocracy is the predominant political force today? Think of the children!
Your reference says there was a PLAN to attack with chemicals, but no such weapons were found.
Other sources say chemicals were not even being considered, much less actually possessed. So once again, claims of physical WMDs turn out to be rumors of discussion of precursors to weapon programs (aka nothing).
Barb & Laura really should have read little Georgie some of Aesop's Fables when he was younger.
Please show us specific album names. The iTunes agreement with CDBaby specified: "You cannot sell an album as album-only format without allowing the purchase of single-songs." And 4 months ago, Steve Jobs said:
They said: We will let you distribute our albums as a whole, but not individual tracks. And we declined. We said: You know, our store is about giving the user that choice.
He might be talking about things like GM pollen escaping into other crops. Aside from political/legal stupidities of farmers getting sued, there is a serious danger in contamination of wild species. If we end up with a GM monoculture of food a century from now, that puts us one virus away from global famine.
last 100 years of science makes it abundantly clear that what you can measure is all there is
Actually, thanks to the rigors of scientific logic, your view has been proven false. There must exist true statements which cannot be proven.
If the soul can't be measured by science, its existence is unknowable. For practical purposes you can act as if it doesn't exist, but we can't prove it false.
one of my ISP's mail servers is on the SpamCop and Dynablock lists
FYI from an occasional SpamCop user: I don't suppose you know that SpamCop is a USER-GENERATED blocklist. It collates all the spam reported by registered users and blocks IPs above set thresholds for a brief time period. If your server is on SpamCop for a while, then 90+% likely it is SENDING SPAM (*). Go look up your server on their database and check the emails that set off the blocking.
(*) There are 2 known classes of false positives: trolls submitting malicious reports (SpamCop shuts their accounts), or parsing errors that point back to the submitter's receiving mail server (SpamCop works with ISP to fix the parser).
a "We can't find the criminals, so we're nuking the town!" defense plan
Bad analogy. First, the criminals are easily found, but the remote ISP refuses to shut them down. Second, blocklists do not DESTROY the provider's network, they merely refuse connections from there to here. A more accurate version would be: "you allow criminals who rob us to hide out on your land, so we're closing our border with you". I think that's a perfectly reasonable way to deal with rogue ISPs.
The future of email depends on aggressive blocklisting. The internet needs to be divided in two: ISPs that allow spammers and ISPs that don't. I know which side I want to be on.
Ah, now I see. I was focusing on the narrow category of IP telephony, connected to the regular phone system. You're right that VOIP is a large term whose meaning is still evolving. Sorry for the confusion.
IMO, if doesn't connect to POTS (in particular, if it can't be used to call 911) it's just multimedia instant messaging.
if I set up a direct connection from one IP address to another you cannot tell if I am using VoIP or SMTP or some strange protocol
If you have a personal connection that you aren't selling to others, business law is irrelevant in that case. Is that your point?
Or are you saying that regulators have no way to track VOIP usage directly? Those same regulators have no way to track POTS or wireless usage either. The phone companies self-report because auditors and peers will catch them if they lie.
Online or offline, if businesses have the same basic structure, then business law should do the same.
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This has got to stop.
I'm sure someone here will post about one of the lucky few localities with cable competition. The prices are lower, the house calls are faster, etc. And I seriously doubt they would get away with spying on their customers' home networks.
You have it wrong. With e-voting, the administrators get to sit back and relax on election night. The results get tallied automatically, and there's no possibility of recount. If the machine says it, it must be true, end of story. Nice way to do their job.
The election-rigging folks have had 4 years to practice. I'm confident they'll create plausible-looking results this November.Not even close. If you reject the GPL (or BSD or any open license) you revert to standard copyright law: use the software any way you want but don't redistribute it. OTOH, EULAs take away fair-use legal rights.
Hence the dodge: kids can't be bound by contracts, only by laws.It's a real shame that supporting more than one option is considered an error, rather than good open-mindedness. Approve Approval Voting Now!
If Mac OSX were the dominant OS, then worms would HAVE NOWHERE TO GO, BECAUSE OSX HAS NO OPEN PORTS. A worm is a self-replicating program that travels independently of all user interaction. Windows got Sasser because a mandatory component had an open network port for no good reason. And there's still a few left that haven't been wormed yet...
OSX would certainly get email trojans, but they would all have to come in archive formats like .sit or .gz to hold the executable resources. And even then, the joys of unix security means it couldn't 0WNZ0R your OS and install services. Dummies might lose all their personal files, but it still wouldn't be quite as bad as Windows is.
Of course, if OSX were dominant, Steve Jobs would be the evilest tyrranical bastard in the whole damn corporate world, probably hire mercenaries to conquer Tuvalu and move Apple Inc there to avoid antitrust. He's such a damn cool underdog though.For my personal use? Of course. For my friends and interested colleagues? Sure, I'll install it. But for deployment to the public? Mozilla.org says Firefox isn't 1.0-worthy yet, and I respect their QA.
The funniest (saddest) part is that he's telling the truth. When the ACLU sued to challenge the Patriot Act, the very existence of their lawsuit was covered up by order of the Patriot Act!!!
Except that HoCo has several library branches, so either they'd need several terminal servers or some fat pipe to the main office. Whereas Lumix was a reformat-in-place of existing PCs (hardware cost of zero) with no rollout dependencies. Hard to beat that.
Most other patrons don't notice the OS change at all, except that they don't crash or get hit with popups/malware/etc, which is an excellent endorsement for Linux in public terminals.
I hope the library has a good remote method for updates though. As much as I dislike Windows, SUS is A Good Thing. Also, they really ought to jump to Firefox when it hits 1.0.2 or so.Also, the dreaded pinwheel of death when a server disconnects before you eject the mount from your desktop. Panther handles this much better than previous revs, but I still find myself force-quitting the Finder more often than I should (aka never).
I wrote a journal entry about this last year. Several of my suggestions showed up in Panther, but I'm still asking for the rest.No contradiction. The guys (I'll go out on a limb and predict they're male) who stole these network cards are probably not millionaires, therefore they don't merit any special treatment.
Unless it turns out this was intentional sabotage by Verizon. But then it leaves the criminal realm and turns into a giant vs giant civil lawsuit.And here's the same reference, but $20 cheaper and avoiding abusive patents.
Umm... responsible physicists were indeed skeptical about that, for good reason. Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. Hence, Bell's Theorem was rigorously tested and found to be repeatable, unlike P&F's claims.
Bah. In Populous, I was GOD! That was major political power. A village hates you? Sink them into the ocean.
Games like this clearly warp people's minds. Is it any wonder that dictatorial theocracy is the predominant political force today? Think of the children!Barb & Laura really should have read little Georgie some of Aesop's Fables when he was younger.
- a hotel in Prague
- "Ancient Xizang Autonomous", a PRC euphemism for Tibet
- Alpha Chi Alpha college fraternity
- airport code for Anguilla
- medical abbreviation for Auxiliary Artery
- a book by John Dakin
It seems AXA Group cannot claim pure and exclusive use of those three letters.He might be talking about things like GM pollen escaping into other crops. Aside from political/legal stupidities of farmers getting sued, there is a serious danger in contamination of wild species. If we end up with a GM monoculture of food a century from now, that puts us one virus away from global famine.
Actually, thanks to the rigors of scientific logic, your view has been proven false. There must exist true statements which cannot be proven.
If the soul can't be measured by science, its existence is unknowable. For practical purposes you can act as if it doesn't exist, but we can't prove it false.FYI from an occasional SpamCop user: I don't suppose you know that SpamCop is a USER-GENERATED blocklist. It collates all the spam reported by registered users and blocks IPs above set thresholds for a brief time period. If your server is on SpamCop for a while, then 90+% likely it is SENDING SPAM (*). Go look up your server on their database and check the emails that set off the blocking.
(*) There are 2 known classes of false positives: trolls submitting malicious reports (SpamCop shuts their accounts), or parsing errors that point back to the submitter's receiving mail server (SpamCop works with ISP to fix the parser).Bad analogy. First, the criminals are easily found, but the remote ISP refuses to shut them down. Second, blocklists do not DESTROY the provider's network, they merely refuse connections from there to here. A more accurate version would be: "you allow criminals who rob us to hide out on your land, so we're closing our border with you". I think that's a perfectly reasonable way to deal with rogue ISPs.
The future of email depends on aggressive blocklisting. The internet needs to be divided in two: ISPs that allow spammers and ISPs that don't. I know which side I want to be on.IMO, if doesn't connect to POTS (in particular, if it can't be used to call 911) it's just multimedia instant messaging.
If you have a personal connection that you aren't selling to others, business law is irrelevant in that case. Is that your point?
Or are you saying that regulators have no way to track VOIP usage directly? Those same regulators have no way to track POTS or wireless usage either. The phone companies self-report because auditors and peers will catch them if they lie.
Online or offline, if businesses have the same basic structure, then business law should do the same.
If you find such a project, please let me know. My organization spends a lot of money on commercial math software.