Breathing has not been proven harmless either. These people will complain about anything. I bet they all drive cars; one of them driving is generating more health hazard in a day than the wireless system would make in a year.
It's kind of silly that I should have to pay $50 to buy Alcohol 120 to let me make a legitimate copy of a game that I bought. And I'm not going to do it.
Way back in the day of the copy protected floppy, I used to call up the company's tech support number to let them know that I had bought a copy, but I held off several weeks/months because it was copy protected, and only bought a copy after I had found and downloaded a cracked copy online (BBSs, in those days). They would have had my money faster, and I would be more inclined to buy more of their products, if the copy protection wasn't there.
but you're active on a network that you shouldn't have access to, which could be considered illegal
That's not the case though. He was using a network which was set up for public use, and everyone is allowed to use it for free. He was sitting in a public place, accessing a free service intended for public use, and was harassed.
If they provide a public access point with the intention of letting anyone use it for free, I don't see why it matters if I'm inside or outside. If they want to keep track of who uses it, they should secure it; at least push people through a portal on their first connect from their MAC address. If they don't want it used after hours, they should shut if off. Heck, cheap Linksys routers will even let you set availability hours so you don't even have to remember to do it.
If they were showing a movie inside and there was a huge glass window, I should be able to sit on a bench outside and watch the movie through the window.
I would **LIKE** to back up my kids' games. A few of them have gotten too scratched up to work right. This year we misplaced a CD for about 4 months, and the kids really wanted to play the game, but couldn't. Unfortunately they're Harry Potter games, and I can't copy them. I have no intention of giving away copies but I'd like to give the kids a backup and hide the originals.
Luckily a friend pointed me towards "no CD" hacks, so now the discs ARE hidden away.
True 'nuff. I just put cheap multi-format readers on all my machines, and I use a 1024 MB card to carry stuff home and work. Sometimes that's barely enough. It's rare that 128M would be enough for me to do anything at all.
I use a swiss army knife every day. When around the house or work, I generally have either the Victorinox Tinker model (several years old) or a Leatherman Juice S2. I have a Leatherman Squirt on my keychain.
When I'm out in the wild, I carry a rather larger lock-back leatherman model on a belt loop.
It's a rare day that I don't use my knife, but the sharp blade gets used maybe 20% of the time; more likely a screwdriver, pliers, or wire cutter.
But I'm the sort that fixes things while waiting around at the doctor's office for an appointment. Lots of door hinges and table legs have mysteriously gotten fixed in places where I've had to wait. What, I'm supposed to read f'in Sports Illustrated?
The reason is that many of us really would vote for anyone else. I was anti-Bush, starting with just about the first thing he did in office, and pretty much every thing since then has pushed me more in that direction.
I am independent and vote either republican and democrat or even 3rd party, depending on the candidate, but this time the democrats could have run any of their candidates and I'd vote for him. I'd vote for a damn sock puppet right now if it had a chance of getting GWB out of office. I believe him to be a menace to the U.S.; he's done much harm to the country, I hope not irrepairable. I can't see why anyone who wants the U.S. to do well would want him in office for another 4 years. The democrats would have to run Beelzebub himself to get me to vote for GWB.
Yeah, go ahead and mod this -1 flamebait, happens every time I voice this opinion. But in this case I am just answering the question.
I haven't paid more than $600 for a new machine in a while. $160 for the CPU/mainboard (all-on-board stuff, I've been using an Abit board and Athlon 2500+), $50 case+PS, $99 17" monitor, $70 for 512M RAM, $40 for DVDROM+CDRW, $30 for kbd/mouse, 2 years and it still looks fine.
Most cell phones generate enough heat for you to want to end the call quickly far before this particular condition occurs.
That depends on your situation. If you're very close to a tower, the phone shouldn't have to put out much power to run a call, so the battery should stay cool.
If you're in the fringes, or even worse, in an analog area, then the battery will get pretty warm.
I have a Samsung phone, and even after a 30 minute call on the fringes, it's only warm (maybe 10 degrees above body temp), and then only on the back side.
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Hmm, I just tried it, and the meta redirect is working for me on XP/SP2.
I just looked, and in Internet Options/Security settings, there's an "Allow META REFRESH" checkbox, which for me is enabled. I don't know if I've set it in the past, but I didn't do it recently. I am running a "custom" security level, not a prepackaged one.
But the grandparent's assertion that there's no way to change it appears to be wrong. I've tried both 302 and meta refresh redirects and both work for me on XP/SP2
Amish teens are given free reign to experiment for some period of time (a few years, I think) before they become adults. If you go to amish country, you can see teens driving the buggy with a boom box blaring next to them, hanging out, etc.
The amish want their kids to make the choice to follow their ways with full knowledge; they don't want people in their community who feel that they weren't given a choice and would feel resentful.
Rephrase: In the US the government works for the corporations that shovel the most money into the re-election campaigns (if not directly into the pockets) of the politicians.
I think this is qualitatively different. No matter how they try to paint this, it still comes down to "We assume you're going to break the law, so we negotiated this blanket coverage."
The examples you gave are services that have no real alternative. It's not like providing access to a gym was to keep students from breaking into stores and stealing weight benches. "We know you're all a bunch of fsck'in thieves, and we might get blamed for all of you hooligan's antics, so we're just going to give you what you want before you have a chance to steal it."
Screw that. It's up to the individual to not break the law. College students are supposed to be adults and therefore responsible for their own actions.
I'd be happier if they gave public access to a web site that showed port usage and traffic, and mapped IP addresses to room numbers. Give it to any organization that wants to track anything. Tell everyone it's there, and that there's no hiding behind the university's legal department, and let people decide for themselves what activities they will engage in as individuals.
Although the university is acting as an ISP to the students, their role is slightly different. It's in the interest of a commercial ISP to provide some level of anonymity to their clients, because the clients want it and they can go somewhere else if they don't like the service. Therefore there's a value attached to the anonymity that the ISP can translate into higher fees. Dealing with IP address discovery legal warrants takes manpower, but the ISP can offset that with higher fees.
The university has no such motivation. They need to provide broadband, because it's pretty much necessary to do academic work these days. But protecting anonymity does not gain the univerity anything. I suppose it's possible that some people might pick their university based on whether they think they'll be able to get away with copyright infringement there or not, but it's questionable whether the university WANTS those students or not, anyway.
As long as everyone knows what the deal is up front, I don't think the university should be wasting the manpower of the administration and legal team protecting the privacy of students in this matter.
As hard as it is to believe, some of us didn't really listen to music in college. Also, some people may have ethical or religious objection to giving blanket payments to a group of artists who would include rap, punk, or even (yikes) Barry Manilow.
sorry, hit submit too fast.... Also since the more efficient lights burn less energy, they probably get less hot and last longer, so less maintenance bills down the road.
And when I say "waste" I mean waste. Light spilled into the sky does not do anyone any good whatsoever. It doesn't light anything. If you like to light up the outside of your house like daylight, that's fine, but it doesn't make sense to buy crappy lights that just dump light into the sky for no reason. Would you buy a floodlight and just point it into the air?
Certainly, it's your right to waste if you want. But I think you're probably talking about "waste" in the "buying an SUV to go to the store" sense. I'm talking about "waste" in the "setting $100 bills on fire, and not even watching them burn" sense. True, complete, useless waste.
The majority of the energy waste is in streetlights, which are mostly run by municipalities.
They're saving the taxpayers $5 on a lighting fixture once, and spending an extra $40 a year to run it.
So, they're wasting YOUR money, compadre. I'd much rather see a city spend an extra $10K up front when redoing lighting, and have an extra $80K or so to spend on parks, education, or just reducing the deficit, if they run one.
They SAY they carry them, but I have not yet been into a store that actually has them in stock. Admittedly, I've only been in about a dozen stores in the SE michigan area, it could be a regional thing.
I've always considered this image to be a hall of shame. The areas lit up the brightest are the ones that are the most wasteful. There's no reason for even a highly developed region to be lit up like that.
Remember the rule, if you can see the actual light bulb, and you're not standing between the light and what it's supposed to be lighting up, it's a crappy fixture and is just wasting energy. The US alone wastes over a billion dollars a year on energy wasted due to bad lighting fixtures.
Go to a home improvement store sometime and try to find a decent exterior light fixture. You can't, they're all crap. People wouldn't hang a bare bulb in their house and think it was pretty, but for some reason they think it's fine outside. I think it's because it's shining AWAY from them, they don't have to look at it.
You can buy decent fixtures, but not at the big box stores, so most people never realize they're buying junk fixtures.
One final point to note is that Newham will be using Internet Explorer. Steel explained that this is because Microsoft is very serious about addressing security concerns.
Yeah, and the crew of a sinking ship is very keen to shove anything they can get to into the holes as well!
You have to ask yourself; would you rather be in a boat with a few holes, and a crew that diligently patches them, or one with a ton of holes, and a crew that pretends they're not there until the ship is nearly swamped?
Given the "20 minutes to infection" story from yesterday, you have to come to the conclusion that Windows *is* nearly swamped, and a security push at this point isn't Microsoft being "good", it's Microsoft finally starting to bail water only when it becomes obvious that it's bail water or die.
I think it's an excellent idea for workers in France to slack off; in fact I think those in India, particularly programmers and call center people, should do so as well.
My signature is a scribble. Nobody could possibly determine what my name was from it, and it doesn't really look much alike from one signing to the next; there aren't even the same number of loops and squiggles except by random chance. However, the style of scribble is such that people can tell it's me.
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...and Columbia/Tristar licenced it for their commentary track on the Ghostbusters DVD?
Breathing has not been proven harmless either. These people will complain about anything. I bet they all drive cars; one of them driving is generating more health hazard in a day than the wireless system would make in a year.
I don't buy games that play online.
It's kind of silly that I should have to pay $50 to buy Alcohol 120 to let me make a legitimate copy of a game that I bought. And I'm not going to do it.
Way back in the day of the copy protected floppy, I used to call up the company's tech support number to let them know that I had bought a copy, but I held off several weeks/months because it was copy protected, and only bought a copy after I had found and downloaded a cracked copy online (BBSs, in those days). They would have had my money faster, and I would be more inclined to buy more of their products, if the copy protection wasn't there.
If I did that nowadays they'd probably sue me.
but you're active on a network that you shouldn't have access to, which could be considered illegal
That's not the case though. He was using a network which was set up for public use, and everyone is allowed to use it for free. He was sitting in a public place, accessing a free service intended for public use, and was harassed.
If they provide a public access point with the intention of letting anyone use it for free, I don't see why it matters if I'm inside or outside. If they want to keep track of who uses it, they should secure it; at least push people through a portal on their first connect from their MAC address. If they don't want it used after hours, they should shut if off. Heck, cheap Linksys routers will even let you set availability hours so you don't even have to remember to do it.
If they were showing a movie inside and there was a huge glass window, I should be able to sit on a bench outside and watch the movie through the window.
I would **LIKE** to back up my kids' games. A few of them have gotten too scratched up to work right. This year we misplaced a CD for about 4 months, and the kids really wanted to play the game, but couldn't.
Unfortunately they're Harry Potter games, and I can't copy them. I have no intention of giving away copies but I'd like to give the kids a backup and hide the originals.
Luckily a friend pointed me towards "no CD" hacks, so now the discs ARE hidden away.
True 'nuff. I just put cheap multi-format readers on all my machines, and I use a 1024 MB card to carry stuff home and work. Sometimes that's barely enough. It's rare that 128M would be enough for me to do anything at all.
I use a swiss army knife every day. When around the house or work, I generally have either the Victorinox Tinker model (several years old) or a Leatherman Juice S2. I have a Leatherman Squirt on my keychain.
When I'm out in the wild, I carry a rather larger lock-back leatherman model on a belt loop.
It's a rare day that I don't use my knife, but the sharp blade gets used maybe 20% of the time; more likely a screwdriver, pliers, or wire cutter.
But I'm the sort that fixes things while waiting around at the doctor's office for an appointment. Lots of door hinges and table legs have mysteriously gotten fixed in places where I've had to wait. What, I'm supposed to read f'in Sports Illustrated?
The reason is that many of us really would vote for anyone else. I was anti-Bush, starting with just about the first thing he did in office, and pretty much every thing since then has pushed me more in that direction.
I am independent and vote either republican and democrat or even 3rd party, depending on the candidate, but this time the democrats could have run any of their candidates and I'd vote for him. I'd vote for a damn sock puppet right now if it had a chance of getting GWB out of office. I believe him to be a menace to the U.S.; he's done much harm to the country, I hope not irrepairable. I can't see why anyone who wants the U.S. to do well would want him in office for another 4 years. The democrats would have to run Beelzebub himself to get me to vote for GWB.
Yeah, go ahead and mod this -1 flamebait, happens every time I voice this opinion. But in this case I am just answering the question.
+2 funny. Sorry, can't mod it but I would if I could.
I haven't paid more than $600 for a new machine in a while. $160 for the CPU/mainboard (all-on-board stuff, I've been using an Abit board and Athlon 2500+), $50 case+PS, $99 17" monitor, $70 for 512M RAM, $40 for DVDROM+CDRW, $30 for kbd/mouse, 2 years and it still looks fine.
Looks pretty bad to me. I like a flat side, mice I've tried with round sides did not feel very good to me.
My fav has been the Logitech basic optical for a long time. I've bought probably 20 of them. Microsoft's mice have in the past been too fat and tall.
Most cell phones generate enough heat for you to want to end the call quickly far before this particular condition occurs.
That depends on your situation. If you're very close to a tower, the phone shouldn't have to put out much power to run a call, so the battery should stay cool.
If you're in the fringes, or even worse, in an analog area, then the battery will get pretty warm.
I have a Samsung phone, and even after a 30 minute call on the fringes, it's only warm (maybe 10 degrees above body temp), and then only on the back side.
Hmm, I just tried it, and the meta redirect is working for me on XP/SP2.
I just looked, and in Internet Options/Security settings, there's an "Allow META REFRESH" checkbox, which for me is enabled. I don't know if I've set it in the past, but I didn't do it recently. I am running a "custom" security level, not a prepackaged one.
But the grandparent's assertion that there's no way to change it appears to be wrong. I've tried both 302 and meta refresh redirects and both work for me on XP/SP2
Amish teens are given free reign to experiment for some period of time (a few years, I think) before they become adults. If you go to amish country, you can see teens driving the buggy with a boom box blaring next to them, hanging out, etc.
The amish want their kids to make the choice to follow their ways with full knowledge; they don't want people in their community who feel that they weren't given a choice and would feel resentful.
Rephrase:
In the US the government works for the corporations that shovel the most money into the re-election campaigns (if not directly into the pockets) of the politicians.
I think this is qualitatively different. No matter how they try to paint this, it still comes down to "We assume you're going to break the law, so we negotiated this blanket coverage."
The examples you gave are services that have no real alternative. It's not like providing access to a gym was to keep students from breaking into stores and stealing weight benches. "We know you're all a bunch of fsck'in thieves, and we might get blamed for all of you hooligan's antics, so we're just going to give you what you want before you have a chance to steal it."
Screw that. It's up to the individual to not break the law. College students are supposed to be adults and therefore responsible for their own actions.
I'd be happier if they gave public access to a web site that showed port usage and traffic, and mapped IP addresses to room numbers. Give it to any organization that wants to track anything. Tell everyone it's there, and that there's no hiding behind the university's legal department, and let people decide for themselves what activities they will engage in as individuals.
Although the university is acting as an ISP to the students, their role is slightly different. It's in the interest of a commercial ISP to provide some level of anonymity to their clients, because the clients want it and they can go somewhere else if they don't like the service. Therefore there's a value attached to the anonymity that the ISP can translate into higher fees. Dealing with IP address discovery legal warrants takes manpower, but the ISP can offset that with higher fees.
The university has no such motivation. They need to provide broadband, because it's pretty much necessary to do academic work these days. But protecting anonymity does not gain the univerity anything. I suppose it's possible that some people might pick their university based on whether they think they'll be able to get away with copyright infringement there or not, but it's questionable whether the university WANTS those students or not, anyway.
As long as everyone knows what the deal is up front, I don't think the university should be wasting the manpower of the administration and legal team protecting the privacy of students in this matter.
As hard as it is to believe, some of us didn't really listen to music in college. Also, some people may have ethical or religious objection to giving blanket payments to a group of artists who would include rap, punk, or even (yikes) Barry Manilow.
sorry, hit submit too fast. ...
Also since the more efficient lights burn less energy, they probably get less hot and last longer, so less maintenance bills down the road.
And when I say "waste" I mean waste. Light spilled into the sky does not do anyone any good whatsoever. It doesn't light anything. If you like to light up the outside of your house like daylight, that's fine, but it doesn't make sense to buy crappy lights that just dump light into the sky for no reason. Would you buy a floodlight and just point it into the air?
Certainly, it's your right to waste if you want. But I think you're probably talking about "waste" in the "buying an SUV to go to the store" sense. I'm talking about "waste" in the "setting $100 bills on fire, and not even watching them burn" sense. True, complete, useless waste.
The majority of the energy waste is in streetlights, which are mostly run by municipalities.
They're saving the taxpayers $5 on a lighting fixture once, and spending an extra $40 a year to run it.
So, they're wasting YOUR money, compadre. I'd much rather see a city spend an extra $10K up front when redoing lighting, and have an extra $80K or so to spend on parks, education, or just reducing the deficit, if they run one.
They SAY they carry them, but I have not yet been into a store that actually has them in stock. Admittedly, I've only been in about a dozen stores in the SE michigan area, it could be a regional thing.
I've always considered this image to be a hall of shame. The areas lit up the brightest are the ones that are the most wasteful. There's no reason for even a highly developed region to be lit up like that.
Remember the rule, if you can see the actual light bulb, and you're not standing between the light and what it's supposed to be lighting up, it's a crappy fixture and is just wasting energy. The US alone wastes over a billion dollars a year on energy wasted due to bad lighting fixtures.
Go to a home improvement store sometime and try to find a decent exterior light fixture. You can't, they're all crap. People wouldn't hang a bare bulb in their house and think it was pretty, but for some reason they think it's fine outside. I think it's because it's shining AWAY from them, they don't have to look at it.
You can buy decent fixtures, but not at the big box stores, so most people never realize they're buying junk fixtures.
See the International Dark-Sky Association for more info
One final point to note is that Newham will be using Internet Explorer. Steel explained that this is because Microsoft is very serious about addressing security concerns.
Yeah, and the crew of a sinking ship is very keen to shove anything they can get to into the holes as well!
You have to ask yourself; would you rather be in a boat with a few holes, and a crew that diligently patches them, or one with a ton of holes, and a crew that pretends they're not there until the ship is nearly swamped?
Given the "20 minutes to infection" story from yesterday, you have to come to the conclusion that Windows *is* nearly swamped, and a security push at this point isn't Microsoft being "good", it's Microsoft finally starting to bail water only when it becomes obvious that it's bail water or die.
I think it's an excellent idea for workers in France to slack off; in fact I think those in India, particularly programmers and call center people, should do so as well.
My signature is a scribble. Nobody could possibly determine what my name was from it, and it doesn't really look much alike from one signing to the next; there aren't even the same number of loops and squiggles except by random chance. However, the style of scribble is such that people can tell it's me.