If someone could hack the warning so it says "you have 30 days to switch to Ubuntu".. that'd be great.
But seriously. Each one of you will know of someone who this is going to hurt. Download Ubuntu iso tonight and have the disk ready for D-Day, or get them switched over beforehand. Every time M$ make it harder for people to use 'that copy of Windows they found', is another opportunity to have them ditch Windows altogether. Usually the only question is: "what is the alternative"
meh Disclaimer: I have it installed on two of my machines at home, but still have a xp machine for CS:S... (i wish i could give up CS:S so I could ditch Windows altogether...)
"Getting the music differently is part I haven't figured out, yet."
A different way to get the music is through Jamendo, and this way you can support artists directly too. Check out Jamendo http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamendo
Wow, really good to hear from an ISP on the issue. I'm glad you feel the way you do. I've been concerned on what action i will take if my ISP does not treat all traffic equally. My best option so far is to change to an ISP that does, (even if I have to pay more for it),
My second option is connection outside the Internet. I've been reading up about wi-fi mesh networks. Sure it'll start out contained, but if enough people get on board it could be the new 'net.....
"Now, net competition proponents, like me, believe that the best way to guard a free and open Internet is to maintain the free and open competition that exists today, not create a new government-monitored, socialized Internet. "
He's playing on the fear of being 'monitored', but the only monitoring by the government in this instance is the price of bandwidth.
"First, net neutrality is really a misnomer. It's really just special interest legislation, dressed up to sound less self-serving. "
U'm yes. It is special interest legislation aimed at the self-serving telco's. So?
"Did you know Microsoft, Google and Yahoo are lobbying for net neutrality? "
Yes, I did. That is because they are going to be hit hard by a non-neutral internet. Without a neutral internet, Telco's have free reign on charging Yahoo and Google whatever they like. However, the non-neutrality is likely to end up hurting the consumer through throttled bandwidth to Yahoo and Google, in the Telco's hope of consumers using their product. Yahoo and Google offer plenty of free services like web-mail, FlickR, Maps, Search etc, and the only reason they use high traffic, is because of the large number of consumers CHOOSING to use their services BECAUSE they are better!!
"If they're successful, they'll get a special, low-government-set price for the bandwidth they use, while everyone else -- consumers, businesses and government -- will have to pay a competitive price for bandwidth. [It] doesn't sound very neutral to me. "
Google / Yahoo wont get a 'special low government set price', they will just get the same rate that is commercially available to others - on the commercial market!!. The Telco's shouldn't be able to charge more for UDP packets (used for streaming) over TCP/IP packets! (web browsing). I can understand telco's tiered charging for MBps, which Google and Yahoo already pay a premium for. You think Googles internet connection is cheap?
"Second, net neutrality would be a 180 degree reversal of the government's highly successful policy to promote competition and not regulate the Internet. " .....and that is because the referee is having to interfere on the playing field when one team is starting to play dirty.....
"Amazingly, the proponents of this radical change in policy don't even have any real evidence of a problem, only unsubstantiated assertions about hypothetical problems. "
That is because the Telco's haven't done the dirty on the consumer YET. This is a crime waiting to happen. The Telco's are clearly positioning themselves to commit extortion, they just haven't sent you your Internet bill:
Google Video charge: $50
Yahoo maps Charge: $80
"Large Unfriendly Telco" with heaps of popups and crap search tools $0.50c (you saved $100 by using US!!)
"Finally, net neutrality legislation would be a lousy trade off for consumers. The consumer benefits would be small, but the cost to consumers would be huge. "
Now that is a threat if ever I've heard one.....
"Price regulation would destroy any economic incentive to innovate and invest in the private networks that make up the Internet. Over time, we would end up with a slower Internet and higher broadband prices and taxes for consumers, less broadband choice and slower broadband deployment to all Americans. "
It just gives the Telco's an excuse not to roll out services at the rate the consumer wants ($$$$). It is now clearly obvious the Telco's are trying to maximize profit per Mbps, not provide more Mbps!!!
"And it would also mean less privacy for all Americans, as net neutrality would require more government monitoring and surveillance of Internet traffic."
Fishing for an emotive response from the weak minded here.... The only surveillance (IN THIS CASE) would be for the Government to check the charging rates and that taxes are being paid, not the actual tr
"The government really does put the well being of its people first. Ahead of their foreign reputation, which is why we all see them as the bad guys
So that is why America hates China! They look after their people!
This statement also holds true: "Everyone agrees that the AMERICAN government is opressive. But this is not Orwell's 1984. The government provides stability, which was rarely present in AMERICAN history. There is no mass shuffling of money from the poor to the rich, although there is increasing disparity these days as industrilization makes it harder to make a living in rural communities."
My point is the natural reaction to "CALL 911", not: "hey, lets think about this logically. Why don't we blacklist his mac address or implement a simple pass-phrase to stop this undesirable situation happening ever again. "
They were only worried cos they could see him in his truck! What they didn't know is that the shop next door and the dodgy house down the road were also stealing the wifi and 'not buying anything'.
Why did you mention teenage girls? What have they got to do with it other than you trying to get some emotive response? The guy could be into men!
When she was about 10 years old, (she happened to be a curious kid) she took a peek into the neighbours window while playing outside
Really? you become a sex offender for that? That is totally fucked up. That ruins your whole life.
I also hear stories of dudes sleeping with their girlfriends when the guy is 16 and the girl is 15 and that's them 'sex offender for life'... fucked up.
Who knows what this guy did to become a sex offender. Maybe he just looked up an old ladies dress when he was a 3YO.. who fuckin knows -
But the press have made this a 'FEAR CRIME'. If the guy was Islamic, they'd arrest him on suspicion of terrorism (especially if he visited al-jazera)...now, EVERYONE who uses open access points is a sex offender/terrorist/kitten killer!
Agree. But I feel the shop was a bit harsh calling 911 on his ass. They could have sought another way to stop him using it, like getting their IT guy to set up a passphrase for access (even WEP would surfice!!!), The passphrase could be printed on the stores reciepts, or written on a sign in the shop (small enough that you have to approach the counter to read it).
If his access was denied, he would have to move along somewhere else to do his Blogging or whatever...
I have no doubt that this publicity will cause everyone after an open access point to flock to this coffee shops carpark!!
MeMyfriends work area have a similar policy, Because meMyfriend operates 'thin client' with similar pointsec setup to yours, all staff are encouraged to store data on the server. However, if the vpn connection is unavailable (crap hotel / dialup), the BAD habit of storing data on USB sticks has crept in, which opens all the hard work of the IT staff. Staff are encouraged to store data on the pointsec secured HDD, but often dont, and rely on physical security, which is insane....
Does your company have a no-usb drive policy like meMyfriends should?
Even if you get it so a system doesn't generate false positives (which will be a big problem, it's not like CCDs are unique in this property) what do you do when someone sticks a filter on their lense that changes the properties?
Yeah, you nailed it. Any system required to detect the reflectivity of CCD's would need to have high detection resolution to detect those tiny camera phone lenses (near pin-hole). Also it would need to be within the Field of View of that lens, or perhaps have that CCD pointing straight at it. Any system with a fine detection resolution will have high false positives. It will not be long until it gets a false positive from someones eye or corrective lenses. If it activates off anything reflecting light back to its source that is anything shiney!
/. is the last place you'll here of this magic device..
7. If we want to spend your time PROFITably, I guess we can simply skip such articles, and start using REAL open source apps, or writing more code under the GPL.
If only the comments within/. could be used for GPL code..... it would be pretty buggy tho'
"This compares with 28% for Yahoo!; 13% for MSN, which belongs to Microsoft; and 6% for Ask, which is owned by IAC/Interactive Corp, a conglomerate of about 60 online media brands"
This isn't over, simply due to lack of certainty in net neutrality. If media companies get leverage to control bandwidth to the big search companies (Google), it goes without saying that that these figures will change significantly. For Google, it could be death by a thousand cuts...
I like the idea: It will become economically unviable to patent whore (i.e Have 1000's of patents and sit on them in the hope they 'win you an infringement'. But will it cause an unnecessary burden on an already stretched patent office? or, will it provide them much needed revenue... ?
One day a Media Magnate was visiting his website and found his 2p2 sales and advertising revenues were yellow and glittering and making heaps of money. When he picked up the cash it was as heavy as lead and he was going to throw it away, because he thought a trick had been played on him.
But he took it home on second thoughts, and soon found that his website revenue was pure gold.
Every morning the same thing occurred, and he grew rich by selling his advertising space and selling tv shows and tunes. As he grew rich he grew greedy; and thinking to get at once all the gold the web could give, he killed the Internet, only to find nothing.
Did you ever think that the human race is the berserker? We seek out life, and destroy it. We destroy each other, we destroy the earth. If another species comes to earth, i have no doubt that we will destroy it also.... we are the berserker...
Slashdot Mirror
WWW, it stands for world wide web. not the united states of america.
....OK i made that last bit up....
George _W_ Bush
_W_ashington
_W_epublican
Don't forget the pedophile terrorist pirates!
If someone could hack the warning so it says "you have 30 days to switch to Ubuntu".. that'd be great.
But seriously. Each one of you will know of someone who this is going to hurt. Download Ubuntu iso tonight and have the disk ready for D-Day, or get them switched over beforehand. Every time M$ make it harder for people to use 'that copy of Windows they found', is another opportunity to have them ditch Windows altogether. Usually the only question is: "what is the alternative"
Now we have one: http://www.ubuntu.com/download
meh Disclaimer: I have it installed on two of my machines at home, but still have a xp machine for CS:S... (i wish i could give up CS:S so I could ditch Windows altogether...)
"Getting the music differently is part I haven't figured out, yet."
A different way to get the music is through Jamendo, and this way you can support artists directly too. Check out Jamendo
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamendo
Does any ./er read local news?
I thought /. was the news....
They've just realized that wi-fi on a mohterfujin plane will kill their 'credit card phone at your seat' revinue stream.
How long is a piece of string theory?
Twice as long as from half way to one end.
Thank you very much, I'll be here all week..
Wow, really good to hear from an ISP on the issue. I'm glad you feel the way you do. I've been concerned on what action i will take if my ISP does not treat all traffic equally. My best option so far is to change to an ISP that does, (even if I have to pay more for it),
My second option is connection outside the Internet. I've been reading up about wi-fi mesh networks. Sure it'll start out contained, but if enough people get on board it could be the new 'net.....
MOD Parent !!! I had some mod points, you'd get them all.
Extracts from TFA
.....and that is because the referee is having to interfere on the playing field when one team is starting to play dirty.....
"Now, net competition proponents, like me, believe that the best way to guard a free and open Internet is to maintain the free and open competition that exists today, not create a new government-monitored, socialized Internet. "
He's playing on the fear of being 'monitored', but the only monitoring by the government in this instance is the price of bandwidth.
"First, net neutrality is really a misnomer. It's really just special interest legislation, dressed up to sound less self-serving. "
U'm yes. It is special interest legislation aimed at the self-serving telco's. So?
"Did you know Microsoft, Google and Yahoo are lobbying for net neutrality? "
Yes, I did. That is because they are going to be hit hard by a non-neutral internet. Without a neutral internet, Telco's have free reign on charging Yahoo and Google whatever they like. However, the non-neutrality is likely to end up hurting the consumer through throttled bandwidth to Yahoo and Google, in the Telco's hope of consumers using their product. Yahoo and Google offer plenty of free services like web-mail, FlickR, Maps, Search etc, and the only reason they use high traffic, is because of the large number of consumers CHOOSING to use their services BECAUSE they are better!!
"If they're successful, they'll get a special, low-government-set price for the bandwidth they use, while everyone else -- consumers, businesses and government -- will have to pay a competitive price for bandwidth. [It] doesn't sound very neutral to me. "
Google / Yahoo wont get a 'special low government set price', they will just get the same rate that is commercially available to others - on the commercial market!!. The Telco's shouldn't be able to charge more for UDP packets (used for streaming) over TCP/IP packets! (web browsing). I can understand telco's tiered charging for MBps, which Google and Yahoo already pay a premium for. You think Googles internet connection is cheap?
"Second, net neutrality would be a 180 degree reversal of the government's highly successful policy to promote competition and not regulate the Internet. "
"Amazingly, the proponents of this radical change in policy don't even have any real evidence of a problem, only unsubstantiated assertions about hypothetical problems. "
That is because the Telco's haven't done the dirty on the consumer YET. This is a crime waiting to happen. The Telco's are clearly positioning themselves to commit extortion, they just haven't sent you your Internet bill:
Google Video charge: $50
Yahoo maps Charge: $80
"Large Unfriendly Telco" with heaps of popups and crap search tools $0.50c
(you saved $100 by using US!!)
"Finally, net neutrality legislation would be a lousy trade off for consumers. The consumer benefits would be small, but the cost to consumers would be huge. "
Now that is a threat if ever I've heard one.....
"Price regulation would destroy any economic incentive to innovate and invest in the private networks that make up the Internet. Over time, we would end up with a slower Internet and higher broadband prices and taxes for consumers, less broadband choice and slower broadband deployment to all Americans. "
It just gives the Telco's an excuse not to roll out services at the rate the consumer wants ($$$$). It is now clearly obvious the Telco's are trying to maximize profit per Mbps, not provide more Mbps!!!
"And it would also mean less privacy for all Americans, as net neutrality would require more government monitoring and surveillance of Internet traffic."
Fishing for an emotive response from the weak minded here.... The only surveillance (IN THIS CASE) would be for the Government to check the charging rates and that taxes are being paid, not the actual tr
I love it!!!
"The government really does put the well being of its people first. Ahead of their foreign reputation, which is why we all see them as the bad guys
So that is why America hates China! They look after their people!
This statement also holds true:
"Everyone agrees that the AMERICAN government is opressive. But this is not Orwell's 1984. The government provides stability, which was rarely present in AMERICAN history. There is no mass shuffling of money from the poor to the rich, although there is increasing disparity these days as industrilization makes it harder to make a living in rural communities."
My point is the natural reaction to "CALL 911", not: "hey, lets think about this logically. Why don't we blacklist his mac address or implement a simple pass-phrase to stop this undesirable situation happening ever again. "
They were only worried cos they could see him in his truck! What they didn't know is that the shop next door and the dodgy house down the road were also stealing the wifi and 'not buying anything'.
Why did you mention teenage girls? What have they got to do with it other than you trying to get some emotive response? The guy could be into men!
When she was about 10 years old, (she happened to be a curious kid) she took a peek into the neighbours window while playing outside
Really? you become a sex offender for that? That is totally fucked up. That ruins your whole life.
I also hear stories of dudes sleeping with their girlfriends when the guy is 16 and the girl is 15 and that's them 'sex offender for life'... fucked up.
Who knows what this guy did to become a sex offender. Maybe he just looked up an old ladies dress when he was a 3YO.. who fuckin knows -
But the press have made this a 'FEAR CRIME'. If the guy was Islamic, they'd arrest him on suspicion of terrorism (especially if he visited al-jazera)...now, EVERYONE who uses open access points is a sex offender/terrorist/kitten killer!
Agree. But I feel the shop was a bit harsh calling 911 on his ass. They could have sought another way to stop him using it, like getting their IT guy to set up a passphrase for access (even WEP would surfice!!!), The passphrase could be printed on the stores reciepts, or written on a sign in the shop (small enough that you have to approach the counter to read it).
If his access was denied, he would have to move along somewhere else to do his Blogging or whatever...
I have no doubt that this publicity will cause everyone after an open access point to flock to this coffee shops carpark!!
MeMyfriends work area have a similar policy, Because meMyfriend operates 'thin client' with similar pointsec setup to yours, all staff are encouraged to store data on the server. However, if the vpn connection is unavailable (crap hotel / dialup), the BAD habit of storing data on USB sticks has crept in, which opens all the hard work of the IT staff. Staff are encouraged to store data on the pointsec secured HDD, but often dont, and rely on physical security, which is insane....
Does your company have a no-usb drive policy like meMyfriends should?
Even if you get it so a system doesn't generate false positives (which will be a big problem, it's not like CCDs are unique in this property) what do you do when someone sticks a filter on their lense that changes the properties?
Yeah, you nailed it. Any system required to detect the reflectivity of CCD's would need to have high detection resolution to detect those tiny camera phone lenses (near pin-hole). Also it would need to be within the Field of View of that lens, or perhaps have that CCD pointing straight at it. Any system with a fine detection resolution will have high false positives. It will not be long until it gets a false positive from someones eye or corrective lenses. If it activates off anything reflecting light back to its source that is anything shiney!
/. is the last place you'll here of this magic device..
MS dontaing $30 million in sofware? Whats that then, 100 copies of Vista with Office 2006?
7. If we want to spend your time PROFITably, I guess we can simply skip such articles, and start using REAL open source apps, or writing more code under the GPL.
/. could be used for GPL code..... it would be pretty buggy tho'
If only the comments within
"This compares with 28% for Yahoo!; 13% for MSN, which belongs to Microsoft; and 6% for Ask, which is owned by IAC/Interactive Corp, a conglomerate of about 60 online media brands"
This isn't over, simply due to lack of certainty in net neutrality. If media companies get leverage to control bandwidth to the big search companies (Google), it goes without saying that that these figures will change significantly. For Google, it could be death by a thousand cuts...
I like the idea: It will become economically unviable to patent whore (i.e Have 1000's of patents and sit on them in the hope they 'win you an infringement'. But will it cause an unnecessary burden on an already stretched patent office? or, will it provide them much needed revenue... ?
Post your political views on /. enough and you'll end up at GTMO... While they will not burn you, they have a nice water-board technique...
The Goose with the Golden Eggs
One day a Media Magnate was visiting his website and found his 2p2 sales and advertising revenues were yellow and glittering and making heaps of money. When he picked up the cash it was as heavy as lead and he was going to throw it away, because he thought a trick had been played on him.
But he took it home on second thoughts, and soon found that his website revenue was pure gold.
Every morning the same thing occurred, and he grew rich by selling his advertising space and selling tv shows and tunes. As he grew rich he grew greedy; and thinking to get at once all the gold the web could give, he killed the Internet, only to find nothing.
>i'll bet they're ignoring the cost of the nanotubes themselves, which are like a bajillion dollars.
but they are soo small?? How can they be that expensive? are they made of of the same stuff as iPods?
Did you ever think that the human race is the berserker? We seek out life, and destroy it. We destroy each other, we destroy the earth. If another species comes to earth, i have no doubt that we will destroy it also.... we are the berserker...
Considering mesopotamia is generally recognized as the birthplace of Civilization, the irony is the colonies are triggering its demise...