So? Developing countries are also paying low wages for sweatshop labor. They can't pay for better services, so they do what they can cheap.
Land lines in general are not a better service. I've never seen a tree fall and break a wireless connection.
I don't care how large an area my home phone covers. It only has to work in my house.
Do you have a cell phone or do you only have a home phone?
And when the cable goes out for any reason, like a power outage somewhere else that takes out the distribution system. This sounds like a really good reason to keep it, to me. Maybe that because I deal with emergency services and preparedness on a regular basis, and know that "all my eggs in one basket" truly is dangerous
Just to remind you again, Comcast is considered one of the absolute worst cable companies out there. Do not base your opinion on their service. Also I am not advocating Comcasts phone service. I am advocating using a cell phone and IP based calling. If you had a reliable cable connection I would recommend one, but you have Comcast and it should be no surprise to you that they are unreliable.
The spammers are already using IP based calling, that is why there is an issue in the first place. Magic Jack is making a ton of money off the spammers.
But with IP based calling you should be able to do black lists and white lists and other means of blocking unwanted calls.
So the attack vector is already being utilized, we now need to apply the appropriate countermeasures.
I don't know the history of CompuServe so I take it from the fact that I am on slashdot that your reply is most likely ironic, so what went wrong with unwanted CompuServe messages?
This pulled up in a google search, but pretty sure not relevant.
Even developing countries are going wireless for phone service. Covers a larger area for less, also less to mess up. Also, comcast is known as one of the worst networks out there.
The only good thing about a phone hooked up to copper is that they still work in a power outage.
Well the companies making games will have a choice to make, do they put their best effort into the game or the DRM.
Any company that cares more about their own products and customers will choose the game, any company that cares more about their shareholders opinion will choose DRM.
And I do believe that that is the primary motivation, the shareholders opinion that the company is practicing due diligence.
The only time to send that message is when it is true, otherwise you remove the motivation for them to do anything.
Pirate the fuck out of it and let them know as anonymously as possible that you are not alone in wanting a modified version of their product and that you would still buy the product if they fixed it.
First recognize that I am not talking about having this up and going next week, in fact I will most likely be dead before this gets up and going. So remember that not everybody is saying that we are going to do this tomorrow.
Put out your timeline long enough and your arguments go away.
First stage is recycling the satellites that are already up there, we are working on that right now. That is what the basic infrastructure would be built out of, but not yet.
Next stage is surveying near earth objects for likely candidates for mining. That will begin shortly.
Then comes the planning stage, this is the stage we will be at for probably 90 years. Seeing what is available, how to do it, where to do it, testing different equipment and materials, etc..
So yes, we are working on this right now, but I don't expect us to get this going until after I am dead.
Considering how awful most people consider Windows 8 anytime anyone makes a post mentioning that they like or would recommend Windows 8 to anyone the first thought is Shill.
It's a knee jerk reaction, and although Windows 8 sucks in so many ways, I can understand that you aren't a shill, you just like something that everyone who has used considers crap.
Yes, and once the most basic infrastructure is completed to create new items then progress will increase at a very rapid rate, just the beginning is going to be a slow process.
Why shouldn't they? The evidence has been corroborated by even our enemies at the time. And since then there has also been independent confirmation that we left crap on the moon which is consistent with us landing on the moon.
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So? Developing countries are also paying low wages for sweatshop labor. They can't pay for better services, so they do what they can cheap.
Land lines in general are not a better service. I've never seen a tree fall and break a wireless connection.
I don't care how large an area my home phone covers. It only has to work in my house.
Do you have a cell phone or do you only have a home phone?
And when the cable goes out for any reason, like a power outage somewhere else that takes out the distribution system. This sounds like a really good reason to keep it, to me. Maybe that because I deal with emergency services and preparedness on a regular basis, and know that "all my eggs in one basket" truly is dangerous
Just to remind you again, Comcast is considered one of the absolute worst cable companies out there. Do not base your opinion on their service. Also I am not advocating Comcasts phone service. I am advocating using a cell phone and IP based calling. If you had a reliable cable connection I would recommend one, but you have Comcast and it should be no surprise to you that they are unreliable.
The spammers are already using IP based calling, that is why there is an issue in the first place. Magic Jack is making a ton of money off the spammers.
But with IP based calling you should be able to do black lists and white lists and other means of blocking unwanted calls.
So the attack vector is already being utilized, we now need to apply the appropriate countermeasures.
I don't know the history of CompuServe so I take it from the fact that I am on slashdot that your reply is most likely ironic, so what went wrong with unwanted CompuServe messages?
This pulled up in a google search, but pretty sure not relevant.
http://www.ehow.com/how_8725713_block-someone-compuserve.html
You still connect to the phone system via wires?
Even developing countries are going wireless for phone service. Covers a larger area for less, also less to mess up. Also, comcast is known as one of the worst networks out there.
The only good thing about a phone hooked up to copper is that they still work in a power outage.
Wrong first question.
Why not get rid of the telephone network?
Go entirely IP based.
Yes, good point, that would only be useful for attacks that come from the users computer.
Actually I doubt a technical attack is necessary to hinder the security considering how many people just keep the default passwords for their routers.
It should probably read "Journalists know Eve Online from the amazing scamming stories."
I have never heard of their userbase as elitists, assholes yes, but elitists?
Wonder if we can get them to publish "Voices from the Hellmouth?"
http://news.slashdot.org/story/99/04/25/1438249/voices-from-the-hellmouth
Well the companies making games will have a choice to make, do they put their best effort into the game or the DRM.
Any company that cares more about their own products and customers will choose the game, any company that cares more about their shareholders opinion will choose DRM.
And I do believe that that is the primary motivation, the shareholders opinion that the company is practicing due diligence.
The only time to send that message is when it is true, otherwise you remove the motivation for them to do anything.
Pirate the fuck out of it and let them know as anonymously as possible that you are not alone in wanting a modified version of their product and that you would still buy the product if they fixed it.
I wrote out a nice long response laying out timelines and such, but slashdot is being a bitch and wouldn't let me post for around half an hour.
Odd since my karma is excellent.
Anyway, to summarize I don't expect this type of thing to be up and going till I am long dead.
First recognize that I am not talking about having this up and going next week, in fact I will most likely be dead before this gets up and going. So remember that not everybody is saying that we are going to do this tomorrow.
Put out your timeline long enough and your arguments go away.
First stage is recycling the satellites that are already up there, we are working on that right now. That is what the basic infrastructure would be built out of, but not yet.
Next stage is surveying near earth objects for likely candidates for mining. That will begin shortly.
Then comes the planning stage, this is the stage we will be at for probably 90 years. Seeing what is available, how to do it, where to do it, testing different equipment and materials, etc..
So yes, we are working on this right now, but I don't expect us to get this going until after I am dead.
It is the Russians who are enabling the Iranians go about their plans, they are the ones history will not be kind to.
The only way to truly stop Iran would be to also go after Russia, sorry but history would slam any idiot stupid enough to roll those dice.
Considering how awful most people consider Windows 8 anytime anyone makes a post mentioning that they like or would recommend Windows 8 to anyone the first thought is Shill.
It's a knee jerk reaction, and although Windows 8 sucks in so many ways, I can understand that you aren't a shill, you just like something that everyone who has used considers crap.
Yes, but they did not learn from Saddam Hussein, don't bluff on having WMD's or you may be in a position where you would wish you had WMD's.
One was left behind by an unmanned rover actually. No conspiracy theory needed.
http://www.space.com/8295-lost-soviet-reflecting-device-rediscovered-moon.html
Yes, and once the most basic infrastructure is completed to create new items then progress will increase at a very rapid rate, just the beginning is going to be a slow process.
Oddly enough the story you are linking to says that that story may also be a fake.
Perhaps the Iranians just feel really insecure and want to make people believe they are more of a threat than they are?
Why shouldn't they? The evidence has been corroborated by even our enemies at the time. And since then there has also been independent confirmation that we left crap on the moon which is consistent with us landing on the moon.
I don't like the way the threads are laid out, no titles of different threads.
I hate slashdots default view also, I still use classic view.
Any suggestions on a better forum to read?
I was picturing the display of the goggles being the light output from the cooling, so the display would be endothermic instead of exothermic.
This short story explores some of the possibilities.
http://marshallbrain.com/manna1.htm
Same, you might not be able to choose if you want to invest in Foxcon, but you can choose if you want to invest domestically vs internationally.
And since the international funds tended to give a better return many people put a lot of their 401k stock in them.