If not, I suggest their customers vote with their wallets, and find a new ISP.
In the ideal world that free market idealists live in, that would work well. Unfortunately reality is a much harsher place. In most areas, internet access is provided by one or two near-monopolies. Don't like those companies spam policies? Tough. No internet for you.
Even if there were a true alternative, most broadband providers and hosting companies require long term contracts. If you terminate your account at the first sign they're hosting spammers on your subnet, they still get paid in full. The balance of power in modern coproration-consumer relationships is so tilted in fovor of the corporations that expecting angry customers to have any influence at all on business decisions is totally unreasonable.
Nope. A sends out request for file that B has. B has C stand in, and sends file through C.
Then isn't C offering the files for download and exposing themselves to multi-gigabuck lawsuits? If copyrighted bits are observed going from C to A, what's to stop the **AA from suing C for distributing copyrighted files?
What's wrong with mozilla source tarballs? Gentoo seems to be able to get every source release working on their distro within a day or so of mozilla.org releasing the code. Maybe the problem is between your keyboard and chair...
Yes, Ralink provides Free (as in GPL) Linux drivers for their rt2400/rt2500 cards here. My roommate has a laptop with an rt2500 wifi card, and it works beautifully in Linux.
Pity, they seem to be pitching these phones to older customers. I would like a phone with legible text and an easy-to-navigate menu, but I can live without features like a "HELP! I've fallen and I can't get up!" button and alarm popups reminding me when it's time to take my metamucil...
Diesel contains 15-25% more carbon and more energy per gallon than gasoline. A 48 MPG Jetta TDI is no more efficient than a 40 MPG Civic in terms of energy used or CO2 emitted per mile.
You move away from human readability/editability and into the realm where only a machine can fathom the format.
You're looking at this from the perspective of someone who understands and remembers the differences in a dozen config file formats. Most people don't.
Do comments in my.whateverrc start with a hash mark? A semicolon? A double slash? C-style/*... */ delimiters? XML-style ? Are you even allowed to have comments? Can you use nested parentheses? Are angle brackets a symbol for redirecting i/o or do they delimit XML tags? Does a pipe chain the output of cone command to the input of another, or is it a logical or operator? Replacing that mess with a single standard format will make things *more* human readable IMHO, and it will certainly make it easier to have a single integrated pointy-clicky interface for changing all those configuration options.
This is a federal law, and under policies enacted by former attorney general John Ashcroft federal prosecutors are required to prosecute for the crime with the highest possible sentence (no more plea-bargaining a file leaking charge down to petty theft), and if the suspect is convicted federal judges are required to impose the maximum possible sentence for that crime.
There's no room for the judge to apply common sense in US federal courts anymore. Under present policy, if you are convicted of file leaking you will go to federal "pound me in the ass" prison for a full three years, no questions asked.
I really do wish things would "just work" sometimes. I get tired of hearing about how only SCSI CD Writers matter, when every CD Writer I've seen in the last 5 years has been IDE, for instance.
You really need to update your "why linux sucks" talking points for kernel 2.6.:)
SCSI emulation is dead (finally!), and ATAPI is taking it's place. Update to the latest CDRtools package, and you can use "cdrecord -dev=/dev/hdc" instead of mucking around with fake scsi devices.
Just because you don't want an item that comes with a package deal, the seller has no obligation to refund you the money for what you didn't want.
Sorry, but the Windows license agreement obligates anyone who sells Windows to do eactly that. Read the first paragraph of your Windows XP EULA sometime.
"YOU AGREE TO BE BOUND BY THE TERMS OF THIS EULA BY INSTALLING, COPYING, OR OTHERWISE USING THE PRODUCT. IF YOU DO NOT AGREE, DO NOT INSTALL OR USE THE PRODUCT; YOU MAY RETURN IT TO YOUR PLACE OF PURCHASE FOR A FULL REFUND."
There is an easy solution to this. Have a change of venue to someplace where they haven't been paying much attention to the news. I recomend somewhere in the Northwest Territories.
I hear the defense lawyer asked for a change of venue to some remote place, but the judge would have Nunavut...
Sure the end products may vary, but in principle they are all about the same.
Yup. I was surprised how similar the whole process was to the Nokia phone plant where I used to work. Same concept, just bigger boards with more components....and if anyone hasn't seen a modern electronics factory, you should try to arrange a tour sometime. Thumbnail sized photos can't do justice to how the geeky cool factor of pick-and-place machines or wave soldering.
AIM conversations are mostly english text with a small vocabulary. They should compress amazingly well, a gigabyte of AIM conversations will probably compress to well under 100MB. Besides, there's no reason to keep the whole archive online. Just index the data as it comes in, keep that live index in a 10TB storage farm, and dump the actual conversations to tape. If you just want aggregate data about what people are talking about to sell to market research groups you're set, and if you really need a full conversation you can have some $7/hour intern go root through the tape cabinets.
It would be expensive, but not out of reach for an organization as big as AOL. Given how desperate marketers are to latch on to whatever the 14 to 20-year-old demographic thinks is cool this week, the project could even pay for itself...
I don't understand why the bounty system never caught on for FOSS...
A programmer's time is expensive. If we mere users had the money to pay bounty-coders to fix all the things that annoy us about FOSS, we would have bought G5 PowerMacs instead of stripped down PeeCees without Windows.
The problem isn't with airlines demanding to see your ID when there isn't a law that requires them to. The problem is that there apparently *is* such a law, but we aren't allowed to read it. Requiring that you show your driver's license to a ticket agent is a minor annoyance. Enforcing laws that the people aren't allowed to read is fascism at it's finest.
When I move or resize a window, all the other windows freeze.
Try a different window manager. Some of them lock the display while moving or resizing windows, and some don't. In Gnome, I can watch my network monitor blink and xmms' time display count down while I drag windows around. In WindowMaker, everything stops until I finish moving the window.
Last time I checked, an X display *really* *is* a bitmap. There's a raster display device sitting on my desk, and a range of memory on the video card with numbers that correspond to colors of pixels on that screen.
Any movement on chucking that in favor of a bitmap independant system?
I'm in as soon as you show a design for a high-resolution full-color monitor that accepts postscript (or pdf, or svg, or whatever) vectors and displays them without converting them to a bitmap first...
Step 1: Understand that 99.9% of shows on TV are crap anyway. Step 2: Cease to care whether or not you can legally record them. Step 3: Cancel your cable/satellite service. Step 4: Download the 2 or 3 shows you really enjoy watching.
However, is that really all that the future holds? More special effects, without any substantial improvements in usability?
There's no way to enable the things that bring better usability (points 1-6 in your post) without also providing the framework for the frivolous parts (the last 10 points). It's a cool new technology, but whether it's used for "substantial improvements in usability" or "pointless eye candy" is up to the people who develop apps to use it, not the people designing the framework.
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That's a backronym. "Ping" was a reference to the sound sonar makes. (see http://ftp.arl.mil/~mike/ping.html or http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ping)
If not, I suggest their customers vote with their wallets, and find a new ISP.
In the ideal world that free market idealists live in, that would work well. Unfortunately reality is a much harsher place. In most areas, internet access is provided by one or two near-monopolies. Don't like those companies spam policies? Tough. No internet for you.
Even if there were a true alternative, most broadband providers and hosting companies require long term contracts. If you terminate your account at the first sign they're hosting spammers on your subnet, they still get paid in full. The balance of power in modern coproration-consumer relationships is so tilted in fovor of the corporations that expecting angry customers to have any influence at all on business decisions is totally unreasonable.
Nope. A sends out request for file that B has. B has C stand in, and sends file through C.
Then isn't C offering the files for download and exposing themselves to multi-gigabuck lawsuits? If copyrighted bits are observed going from C to A, what's to stop the **AA from suing C for distributing copyrighted files?
Dear poot_rootbeer:
Slashdot has been Hemos and Taco's "blog" since well before "blog" was ever considered a real word.
Real news sites don't publish readers commenary on the stories (or on which editors aren't doing their jobs).
What's wrong with mozilla source tarballs? Gentoo seems to be able to get every source release working on their distro within a day or so of mozilla.org releasing the code. Maybe the problem is between your keyboard and chair...
Yes, Ralink provides Free (as in GPL) Linux drivers for their rt2400/rt2500 cards here. My roommate has a laptop with an rt2500 wifi card, and it works beautifully in Linux.
Pity, they seem to be pitching these phones to older customers. I would like a phone with legible text and an easy-to-navigate menu, but I can live without features like a "HELP! I've fallen and I can't get up!" button and alarm popups reminding me when it's time to take my metamucil...
Diesel contains 15-25% more carbon and more energy per gallon than gasoline. A 48 MPG Jetta TDI is no more efficient than a 40 MPG Civic in terms of energy used or CO2 emitted per mile.
You move away from human readability/editability and into the realm where only a machine can fathom the format.
.whateverrc start with a hash mark? A semicolon? A double slash? C-style /* ... */ delimiters? XML-style ? Are you even allowed to have comments? Can you use nested parentheses? Are angle brackets a symbol for redirecting i/o or do they delimit XML tags? Does a pipe chain the output of cone command to the input of another, or is it a logical or operator? Replacing that mess with a single standard format will make things *more* human readable IMHO, and it will certainly make it easier to have a single integrated pointy-clicky interface for changing all those configuration options.
You're looking at this from the perspective of someone who understands and remembers the differences in a dozen config file formats. Most people don't.
Do comments in my
Sorry, but that's not the case anymore.
This is a federal law, and under policies enacted by former attorney general John Ashcroft federal prosecutors are required to prosecute for the crime with the highest possible sentence (no more plea-bargaining a file leaking charge down to petty theft), and if the suspect is convicted federal judges are required to impose the maximum possible sentence for that crime.
There's no room for the judge to apply common sense in US federal courts anymore. Under present policy, if you are convicted of file leaking you will go to federal "pound me in the ass" prison for a full three years, no questions asked.
I really do wish things would "just work" sometimes. I get tired of hearing about how only SCSI CD Writers matter, when every CD Writer I've seen in the last 5 years has been IDE, for instance.
:)
You really need to update your "why linux sucks" talking points for kernel 2.6.
SCSI emulation is dead (finally!), and ATAPI is taking it's place. Update to the latest CDRtools package, and you can use "cdrecord -dev=/dev/hdc" instead of mucking around with fake scsi devices.
Just because you don't want an item that comes with a package deal, the seller has no obligation to refund you the money for what you didn't want.
Sorry, but the Windows license agreement obligates anyone who sells Windows to do eactly that. Read the first paragraph of your Windows XP EULA sometime.
"YOU AGREE TO BE BOUND BY THE TERMS OF THIS EULA BY INSTALLING, COPYING, OR OTHERWISE USING THE PRODUCT. IF YOU DO NOT AGREE, DO NOT INSTALL OR USE THE PRODUCT; YOU MAY RETURN IT TO YOUR PLACE OF PURCHASE FOR A FULL REFUND."
(caps are Microsoft's, bold is mine)
There is an easy solution to this. Have a change of venue to someplace where they haven't been paying much attention to the news. I recomend somewhere in the Northwest Territories.
I hear the defense lawyer asked for a change of venue to some remote place, but the judge would have Nunavut...
(-1, awful pun)
Sure the end products may vary, but in principle they are all about the same.
...and if anyone hasn't seen a modern electronics factory, you should try to arrange a tour sometime. Thumbnail sized photos can't do justice to how the geeky cool factor of pick-and-place machines or wave soldering.
Yup. I was surprised how similar the whole process was to the Nokia phone plant where I used to work. Same concept, just bigger boards with more components.
AIM conversations are mostly english text with a small vocabulary. They should compress amazingly well, a gigabyte of AIM conversations will probably compress to well under 100MB. Besides, there's no reason to keep the whole archive online. Just index the data as it comes in, keep that live index in a 10TB storage farm, and dump the actual conversations to tape. If you just want aggregate data about what people are talking about to sell to market research groups you're set, and if you really need a full conversation you can have some $7/hour intern go root through the tape cabinets.
It would be expensive, but not out of reach for an organization as big as AOL. Given how desperate marketers are to latch on to whatever the 14 to 20-year-old demographic thinks is cool this week, the project could even pay for itself...
I don't understand why the bounty system never caught on for FOSS...
A programmer's time is expensive. If we mere users had the money to pay bounty-coders to fix all the things that annoy us about FOSS, we would have bought G5 PowerMacs instead of stripped down PeeCees without Windows.
I'm only half kidding...
Where the hell were all of you civil libertarians during the Clinton years? That's the true hypocrisy.
High school. Care to try another tactic, or do you want to continue with the line of argument that I'm a hypocrite for daring to be born after 1975?
The problem isn't with airlines demanding to see your ID when there isn't a law that requires them to. The problem is that there apparently *is* such a law, but we aren't allowed to read it. Requiring that you show your driver's license to a ticket agent is a minor annoyance. Enforcing laws that the people aren't allowed to read is fascism at it's finest.
The screenshot is a fricken hoax.
The "mistake" cgrayson was talking about is the one our beloved Slashdot editors made by posting this story, not MS mistaking Firefox for spyware.
yes
This is another sentence included for the sole peupose of filling up the twenty seconds slashdot requires before clicking "submit".
When I move or resize a window, all the other windows freeze.
Try a different window manager. Some of them lock the display while moving or resizing windows, and some don't. In Gnome, I can watch my network monitor blink and xmms' time display count down while I drag windows around. In WindowMaker, everything stops until I finish moving the window.
Last time I checked, an X display *really* *is* a bitmap. There's a raster display device sitting on my desk, and a range of memory on the video card with numbers that correspond to colors of pixels on that screen.
Any movement on chucking that in favor of a bitmap independant system?
I'm in as soon as you show a design for a high-resolution full-color monitor that accepts postscript (or pdf, or svg, or whatever) vectors and displays them without converting them to a bitmap first...
Step 1: Understand that 99.9% of shows on TV are crap anyway.
Step 2: Cease to care whether or not you can legally record them.
Step 3: Cancel your cable/satellite service.
Step 4: Download the 2 or 3 shows you really enjoy watching.
However, is that really all that the future holds? More special effects, without any substantial improvements in usability?
There's no way to enable the things that bring better usability (points 1-6 in your post) without also providing the framework for the frivolous parts (the last 10 points). It's a cool new technology, but whether it's used for "substantial improvements in usability" or "pointless eye candy" is up to the people who develop apps to use it, not the people designing the framework.
Who modded this +4 informative? It doesn't work!
Tested the parent's suggestion with Mozilla 1.7.5 on Linux and Firefox 1.0 on Windows, the exploit still works on both platforms.