First off....who the HECK needs a web server and mail server in their own house?? I am a geek, but I would MUCH rather have my web server in a nice cozy colo if I really need more then my ISP provider's 10 MB of space. Yeah, colo's can be expensive, but if somethign goes wrong at your house, your webserver is nice and safe. Also, I still don't under stand those who have a mail server in the house. Is your mail THAT important to have your own server? Do you have your own domain name and need a mail server to collect it's mail? 90 percent of use probably don't have our own domain name ( I see no reason for it yet....and besides, I run this crap at work...I DON'T WANT A WEBSERVER AND MAILSERVER TO CUSS AT AT HOME! ). That said, I can see the allure of having those in your own house. Easier to update, Great if you all of a sudden run out of disk space and need to add a disk. Bad for everything else. The ONLY thing I would want a server for at home is for MP3's. That way, I can stream them to my laptop or my desktop as well as maybe pump them into my stereo. Of course, since I have wireless, I can just stream them from the desktop when needed and I really don't need a server. The only place I REALLY want another computer now is in the car. That way I have MP3, and GPS navigation in the car that rivals the systems taht are dedicated for GPS nav in several luxury cars.
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I think the moment everything started to cost an arm and a leg started the downturn with me that and teh fact our local affliate moved teh shows arouns like every week because we were nto a fulltime UPN affiliate. Also, it seems, to me they are not bringing new shows/stuff out as often as they used to. Enterprise is a good show, but the should have continued into the future (say where the TIme Ship in Voyager came from). I would have liked to see the Domnion War finish and a few other things like that. I also find it funny the Figures I used to pay 6 bucks for I can get at Big Lots for 2.99. Also our local "Sci-FI" Convention does more stuff about fantasy (dragons and crap) then hard science sci-fi (as goofy as soem of it is, Star Trek is what I consider hard Sci Fi along with Star Wars....b5 is alittle too mistifying for me).
You assume a yagi would actually raise your power. No matter what kind of antenna you use, you CAN'T raise the power of your signal. What you DO raise is the gain in a certain direction. Instead of a standard Omnidirectional pattern, you havs a lobe coming from the direction of the directors on the yagi. Your power is raised in one direction, but decreased in the opposite lobe. Your ERP(effective Radiated Power) remains the same. Only way you can raise the power is to run a linear amplifier. That requires more energy to power the amp. I also would not put it past some of the hackers who don't know any better to try that. Still, it's foolish to think you can make a efficient, reliable antenna at those frequencies. Sure it's definitely possible, but is the percieved gain worth it in time and savings? I don't think so.
I agree. But building your own antenna would not be considered NORMAL wireless. Also, folks who DO want to do this are likely to want to do stupid stuff with Wireles....I don't give a crap WHAT an O'Reilly book says. You CAN get an RF burn at most frequencies at high enough wattages. Also, on a side note, sticking with commercial antenna's almost guarantees you stay in band and you stay with in normal SWR tolerances. You build an new, untested antenna and maybe possibly try to amplify it, you have no idea what kind of laws you probably just broke especially if you aren't knowledgable about the laws (if your a ham, then you know a little, but probably nothing specific....what you know would let you design an antenna that would keep you out of trouble). Lots of folks don't know squat about RF and it's best to stick with commercial stuff in this case. Also, your link was bad too.
With this microwave stuff that 802.11b uses, I agree with the choice of a pro antenna. It's too easy to accidently fry something if your making your own antenna. If it was a 170 dollar Ham 2m handheld, I would say make yer own. But since this stuff is ususally expensive and could possible fry other stuff as well as yourself, well, it makes sense to not go with a build it yerself. Especially if you have no idea how RF works. You could make an antenna that works, but when your neighbor complains about your spurious emissions I dare ya to try and fix it without knowing antenna theory.
Yes and after you play that LP 1,000 times it sounds like utter crap even on the good stuff. Oils from the human hands and using it over and over will (not might, WILL) degrade the vinyl. CD's may not be perfect (Only thing perfect in music is a live performance), but they are very very good. Good enough I don't care. People who say this are the kind taht have a few hundred albums and are trying to justify keeping them or going to CD. Don't kid yerself. Also, DVD will DOOM us parents to watching Roly Poly Olie 500 times a day because the DVD will never wear out. ONly way us parents will have a way out is to severely scratch the DVD.
Wonder if these folks changed their casing? I looked at my wifes and it seems too fragile to want to mess with swapping the case. No matter how good that flag case looks.
Really. My wife has a m100 and she loves it. I have yet to setup syncing for her yet (I have to get the pro version oh Chapura Pocket Mirror so I can sync to my calendar and her to her calendar. Her m100 has gone thru hell in her purse with not nary a problem. Least she has not reported any.
In Columbus, OH Clear Channel rules the airwaves. The have also don it in a smart way. Our main local AM station is talk/news all of the time and what I listen to the most. Then there's WNCI home to the Morning Zoo. They have a GREAT morning show that makes me laugh every morning. Thank god they consistently are on top of the Arbitron ratings. That show has local flavor (always plays Buckeye tunes and have Buckeye bits during football season, and whenever an OSU team is doing well), is fun as hell to listen to becuase they just have some of the most off the wall crap. They even have a band called the Zootsuits that sing parody tunes. Very good. Now after they go off, well, let's jsut say the music sucks alot.....too much Britney Spears and 'Nsync type stuff. Occasionally they play something good. After the morning, it's back to 610. Of course they have some syndicated stuff during the day....Rush, Glenn Beck (replacing the ICKY Dr. Laura) and the afternoon dirve tim eyou have local guys John Corby, after him you have the show with no name (Sterling), and then late night Steve "Boom Boom" Cannon. After Cannon goes off you have Art Bell for you X-files folks and in the am you have local radio god Bob Connors. All in all they are nice to listen to and they have the Hineygate parties during every home buckeye game. The weekend seems to be adding a bit more of the automated crap, but they still have a local gardening show and a couple of local hosts. Clear Channel has left the top rated stations alone here in Columbus. That's a good thing!
Actually, this one was not that expensive to begin with. Consider you can get a honest to god Garmin for 105 now(back then for about 130-150), I guess the reciever parts dropped enough to get to the 117 level. Springboards were the one of the first forays into expanding PDA's. Palm even got caught flat footed in that, but will come out looking good becuase it chose standard devices like SD. Palm just had enough cash to screw up that one time. Now they probably can't afford to do it again. Unfortunately, Palm's current offerings are less then stellar. I'd go with a Treo 270 or a Sony NRV70 (nifty clamshell keyboard if your forgot) if I were to go Palm OS based. When XScale finaly hits both Pocket PC (they will get it first) and Palm, then you will be able to do some real stuff with it.
You're saying that gossip isnt protected? Wrong. Wrong. Wrong.
Yes I am saying that it isn't protected if it turns to slander and gossip could very well do just that. The DMCA is a bad law and in my opinion has NOTHING to do with free speech (unless you say your speech is held back because you can't copy a movie or afford a DVD blank/burner because of the cost.....which is laughable.). You simply cannot go about saying stuff that is untrue without getting into trouble dude. Both with the law, and with the person. I say to you read the first amendment and thne THINK about what the authors went through. Even they had admitted that there can and should be limits (within reason). You impress me a slipery slope kind of person who says that once it happens once, it all goes down hill. I quite frankly never believed in the slippery slope. There is none. Our government was designed to prevent it. Also, I frankly DON'T agree with some of the anti terrorist things implemented since 9/11 and do believe they are unconstitutional. If the government would have actually had the manpower to actually enforce existing immigration laws, then 9/11 would never had happened or if it did have to happen, it may hve happened differently. Several of our high jackers were in the country illegally in the first place. If they were actually deported, sure, someone else may have done it or they may have done it a different way (like from a airline that is not US based), but the attacks would have been seen long before they happened and we may have had time to react.
Believe what you must about the first amendment. I agree that 99 percent of speech can be and shoud be free, but that 1 percent would cause a whole lot of people greif. Also, go an try and test this in your own life. Go and start dropping tips on some upcoming stock IPO and see if the SEC doesn't come after you if they turn out to be false. Go and tell your boss your cube mate smokes pot everyday. You will see how fast you get smacked with a lawsuit. Oh and as for references, search for them yourself. The court records are public you know. Also, I found a good PDF that logically defends my position here at this URL. Here is another page covering it as well. I mean really alot of this is common sense and to say ALL SPEECH SHALL BE PROTECTED is irresponsible.
Another point for separate items.....try using your Treo or Kyocera Smartphone on a airplane to play solitare. You'd whip it out and the stewardess would say no no no!
Except for one thing....ther probably are not any companies in China that are not owned by THE STATE! Except for ones based in recently acquired Hong Kong.
God does not give you the right to say anything. God gives you the ability to say anything, and hopefully be able to know WHAT to say and when to say it. God gives yoiu the freedom to say what you want, but say the wrong thing, and you will get burnt. It's as simple as that. Also the constitiution does say that they shall make no law restricting speech and I am not saying that they have not done just that (Campaign Finance Reform anyone??). Also that's for the FEDERAL government. Your local laws can be different. The feds make no laws regarding things like inciting a riot. That's to be decided by the states. Also, and again, you MUST think about when the constitution was written.....the First Amendment was wrote so that the President or Congress could not make a law restricting POLITICAL speech. The rest of the protections are just a bonus. Jefferson and the rest just wanted to make sure the US government did not have powers that the King of England did. Same does for separation of church and state. Anytime the government want's to do something like start a school voucher program so we can take our money back and use it for the same thing(just at a private, sometimes a religious school) we are told oh no that violates the separation of church and state....(no it does not....the separation of church and state means that the state cannot start a church and say you can only go there....like the King did in England!). People confuse this stuff all of the time. And, I will say again:
Libel cannot be a protected speech Slander cannot be a protected speech Defaming speech cannot be a protected speech.
Some can say that restricts speech....no it does not. Sure, you can say it, but you will face the consequences if it damages someone reputation beyond repair.
The first amendment usually means POLITICAL speech. For example...I can say that George W's policies suck (they are not all good policies, but in general, I do not agree with that statement). How is saying that I can't slander you against the constitution? That's different. The government is not restricing my political views. I can go on the street corner and hold up a sign and chant down with abortion or abortion is murder. That's a political view. That is the speech that is protected.
Other speech can be considered to be under protection as well. The DECSS folks wrote a program that decrypts DVD's and that program, now that I think about it, could be considered damaging speech. Although I don't agree with that view of DeCSS...I think all the writers wanted to do was watch a DVD on a non blessed system....something that IMPROVES DVD sales, not hurt them. It's still uneconomical to copy DVD's. They have NOTHING to worry about there, plus DeCSS isn't necessary to copy a DVD if you just do it bit by bit.
Besides....the stuff I am talking about is just common sense. People say stuff all of the time without thinking...I won't be surprised if someone who thinks they are just joking with someone get's sued because of the "joke". The point is if I go talk to Joe's boss and say something like Joe tokes up a joint every day before work without proof and a keep saying it to people through the company...people will believe it and that's something the first amendment was never meant to protect.
Um....how is a libelious statement covered under free speech? Free speech is not totally free speech and can never be. You can't walk in to a crowded theater and shout fire and not expect to be arrested for inciting a riot that will insue after everyone starts to panic and rush out of the theature. I think the post is really taking to much for granted. People on so many websites and in so many forums are not wanting to be accountable for anything they say. The fact is you are accountable. You can go on a site and slander someone the same way you can't do it on TV. IANAL, but I think most lawyers would agree with my opinion. Free speech is a priviledge, not a right (it's only called a right under the constitution). If the populous continue's to make statements they don't want to be accountable for, well maybe free speech isn't a good idea. Don't get me wrong, I think mosty free speech is a good thing. I should be able to say anything I want about CmdrTaco, Hemos or Cowboy Neal without publicly slandering them. From what I gather about the Dow Jones case is soem guy in Australia is pissed he lost money because of what was said on their site. Well, then the person and the site who wrote that can be found libel for it! Could this establish an E-Jurisdiction? Well, sure it can. Just because we are on a World Wide Web doesn;t mean we can't be found libel for what we said! Does this mean that publishing will cease on the web? I doubt it. People and companies will just have to make sure they are careful what they say. Something they should already be doing.
OH...I will reply because I have NO idea what the hell your point is. Microsoft is NOT going to hurt if I install 1 extra copy of XP on ONE machine. I DID buy the damn thing you know. You metaphor is inapprpriate for teh subject at hand. The BIGGEST pirates of XP are the guys selling it for 5 bucks per disk in the streets of Hing Kong and New York. Also, the companies who buy the non-wpa version but don't pay for enough client license's also are bigger pirates then the few (and I mean few) Home users who have more then one machine. I estimate that there are some of the non techie guys who have more then one machine, but they usually leave whatever is on them and do not upgrade old machines when the new machine they have comes with the new OS. No, the home builders who build their own machines are the ones who are truely hurt by WPA. THEY BUY Windows and never get a copy for free with their machine (or supposedly for free). They PAY full price instead of the discounted OEM price. They should at least be able to install it on at LEAST 2 machines. Then if they have 4 machines they only need two licenses, or if they have only 2 (a desktop and a new or seminew laptop) they can have the same os on both. I understand econmics and it does not make sense for an OS. If what they were doing with WPA with say Office..that makes more sense, but it still penalizes those that actually buy the stuff legally. In any case, when there's a will there is a way and Microsoft's measures to stop or slow down piracy won't actually do anything to slow it down, it will just make things more difficult for those of us who have to explain to their neighbor why their desktop no longer works because Microsoft disabled it when hey installed it on thier other desktop doing what I like to call a little neighborly IS work.
And within days of the release of the patch...a warez version of the patch is going to come out. What's going to change? WPA just pisses people off. I would love to install it on my refurbed laptop I bought but noooo....I can only install it on one machine. That's bogus. WPA just pisses of the people who use it the most....the home hobbyists who only have one or two machines.
I have an eMap and whil eit is different then the III+, I could still reccomend Garmin GPS units. The GPS III+ also has expandable (yet proprietary) memory modules allowing you to upload detailed maps to it. They also have a European CD as well (alsp works with the GPS12MAP and NavTalk).
But it's NOT impossible. Here is a link about a guy who used a LCD from a old NEC Pentium 75 laptop. Sure, it not the easiest thing and for most of us it would take lots of time most of use don't have. But you should not discourage him. Check out the main page belonging to the guy who figured this one out and check out the PC installed in his Z! Out standing! Chek it out at this website.
I was going to say I saw something like this last year...I can't believe this warrants a story. Yeah, it's neat, but in my opinion, there is MORE interesting stuff out there worth posting. It is cool, but call me when they get the whole library on one unit. It IS possible.
You sir are correct. More times then not I see folks on here spaz out about stuff such as this. It is NOTHING. Even if they had access to your camera and mic, they'd have to have MASSIVE amounts of storage to make it worth anything. Also, there's been alot of false reporting that flash can bring virii and stuff onto your machine but I have YET to see an exploit that wasn't patched before it could be executed. Which is more then I can say about Outlook! Security paranoid users can freak about it, if they want. Now I am off to play some Lenny Loosejocks games....:)
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First off....who the HECK needs a web server and mail server in their own house?? I am a geek, but I would MUCH rather have my web server in a nice cozy colo if I really need more then my ISP provider's 10 MB of space. Yeah, colo's can be expensive, but if somethign goes wrong at your house, your webserver is nice and safe. Also, I still don't under stand those who have a mail server in the house. Is your mail THAT important to have your own server? Do you have your own domain name and need a mail server to collect it's mail? 90 percent of use probably don't have our own domain name ( I see no reason for it yet....and besides, I run this crap at work...I DON'T WANT A WEBSERVER AND MAILSERVER TO CUSS AT AT HOME! ). That said, I can see the allure of having those in your own house. Easier to update, Great if you all of a sudden run out of disk space and need to add a disk. Bad for everything else. The ONLY thing I would want a server for at home is for MP3's. That way, I can stream them to my laptop or my desktop as well as maybe pump them into my stereo. Of course, since I have wireless, I can just stream them from the desktop when needed and I really don't need a server. The only place I REALLY want another computer now is in the car. That way I have MP3, and GPS navigation in the car that rivals the systems taht are dedicated for GPS nav in several luxury cars.
I think the moment everything started to cost an arm and a leg started the downturn with me that and teh fact our local affliate moved teh shows arouns like every week because we were nto a fulltime UPN affiliate. Also, it seems, to me they are not bringing new shows/stuff out as often as they used to. Enterprise is a good show, but the should have continued into the future (say where the TIme Ship in Voyager came from). I would have liked to see the Domnion War finish and a few other things like that. I also find it funny the Figures I used to pay 6 bucks for I can get at Big Lots for 2.99. Also our local "Sci-FI" Convention does more stuff about fantasy (dragons and crap) then hard science sci-fi (as goofy as soem of it is, Star Trek is what I consider hard Sci Fi along with Star Wars....b5 is alittle too mistifying for me).
Actually you could also save data to the handheld, but I doubt 8 MB would be enough. Having said that, gowith the garmin. They are the best.
You assume a yagi would actually raise your power. No matter what kind of antenna you use, you CAN'T raise the power of your signal. What you DO raise is the gain in a certain direction. Instead of a standard Omnidirectional pattern, you havs a lobe coming from the direction of the directors on the yagi. Your power is raised in one direction, but decreased in the opposite lobe. Your ERP(effective Radiated Power) remains the same. Only way you can raise the power is to run a linear amplifier. That requires more energy to power the amp. I also would not put it past some of the hackers who don't know any better to try that. Still, it's foolish to think you can make a efficient, reliable antenna at those frequencies. Sure it's definitely possible, but is the percieved gain worth it in time and savings? I don't think so.
I agree. But building your own antenna would not be considered NORMAL wireless. Also, folks who DO want to do this are likely to want to do stupid stuff with Wireles....I don't give a crap WHAT an O'Reilly book says. You CAN get an RF burn at most frequencies at high enough wattages. Also, on a side note, sticking with commercial antenna's almost guarantees you stay in band and you stay with in normal SWR tolerances. You build an new, untested antenna and maybe possibly try to amplify it, you have no idea what kind of laws you probably just broke especially if you aren't knowledgable about the laws (if your a ham, then you know a little, but probably nothing specific....what you know would let you design an antenna that would keep you out of trouble). Lots of folks don't know squat about RF and it's best to stick with commercial stuff in this case. Also, your link was bad too.
With this microwave stuff that 802.11b uses, I agree with the choice of a pro antenna. It's too easy to accidently fry something if your making your own antenna. If it was a 170 dollar Ham 2m handheld, I would say make yer own. But since this stuff is ususally expensive and could possible fry other stuff as well as yourself, well, it makes sense to not go with a build it yerself. Especially if you have no idea how RF works. You could make an antenna that works, but when your neighbor complains about your spurious emissions I dare ya to try and fix it without knowing antenna theory.
Yes and after you play that LP 1,000 times it sounds like utter crap even on the good stuff. Oils from the human hands and using it over and over will (not might, WILL) degrade the vinyl. CD's may not be perfect (Only thing perfect in music is a live performance), but they are very very good. Good enough I don't care. People who say this are the kind taht have a few hundred albums and are trying to justify keeping them or going to CD. Don't kid yerself. Also, DVD will DOOM us parents to watching Roly Poly Olie 500 times a day because the DVD will never wear out. ONly way us parents will have a way out is to severely scratch the DVD.
Wonder if these folks changed their casing? I looked at my wifes and it seems too fragile to want to mess with swapping the case. No matter how good that flag case looks.
Really. My wife has a m100 and she loves it. I have yet to setup syncing for her yet (I have to get the pro version oh Chapura Pocket Mirror so I can sync to my calendar and her to her calendar. Her m100 has gone thru hell in her purse with not nary a problem. Least she has not reported any.
In Columbus, OH Clear Channel rules the airwaves. The have also don it in a smart way. Our main local AM station is talk/news all of the time and what I listen to the most. Then there's WNCI home to the Morning Zoo. They have a GREAT morning show that makes me laugh every morning. Thank god they consistently are on top of the Arbitron ratings. That show has local flavor (always plays Buckeye tunes and have Buckeye bits during football season, and whenever an OSU team is doing well), is fun as hell to listen to becuase they just have some of the most off the wall crap. They even have a band called the Zootsuits that sing parody tunes. Very good. Now after they go off, well, let's jsut say the music sucks alot.....too much Britney Spears and 'Nsync type stuff. Occasionally they play something good. After the morning, it's back to 610. Of course they have some syndicated stuff during the day....Rush, Glenn Beck (replacing the ICKY Dr. Laura) and the afternoon dirve tim eyou have local guys John Corby, after him you have the show with no name (Sterling), and then late night Steve "Boom Boom" Cannon. After Cannon goes off you have Art Bell for you X-files folks and in the am you have local radio god Bob Connors. All in all they are nice to listen to and they have the Hineygate parties during every home buckeye game. The weekend seems to be adding a bit more of the automated crap, but they still have a local gardening show and a couple of local hosts. Clear Channel has left the top rated stations alone here in Columbus. That's a good thing!
Actually, this one was not that expensive to begin with. Consider you can get a honest to god Garmin for 105 now(back then for about 130-150), I guess the reciever parts dropped enough to get to the 117 level. Springboards were the one of the first forays into expanding PDA's. Palm even got caught flat footed in that, but will come out looking good becuase it chose standard devices like SD. Palm just had enough cash to screw up that one time. Now they probably can't afford to do it again. Unfortunately, Palm's current offerings are less then stellar. I'd go with a Treo 270 or a Sony NRV70 (nifty clamshell keyboard if your forgot) if I were to go Palm OS based. When XScale finaly hits both Pocket PC (they will get it first) and Palm, then you will be able to do some real stuff with it.
You're saying that gossip isnt protected? Wrong. Wrong. Wrong.
Yes I am saying that it isn't protected if it turns to slander and gossip could very well do just that. The DMCA is a bad law and in my opinion has NOTHING to do with free speech (unless you say your speech is held back because you can't copy a movie or afford a DVD blank/burner because of the cost.....which is laughable.). You simply cannot go about saying stuff that is untrue without getting into trouble dude. Both with the law, and with the person. I say to you read the first amendment and thne THINK about what the authors went through. Even they had admitted that there can and should be limits (within reason). You impress me a slipery slope kind of person who says that once it happens once, it all goes down hill. I quite frankly never believed in the slippery slope. There is none. Our government was designed to prevent it. Also, I frankly DON'T agree with some of the anti terrorist things implemented since 9/11 and do believe they are unconstitutional. If the government would have actually had the manpower to actually enforce existing immigration laws, then 9/11 would never had happened or if it did have to happen, it may hve happened differently. Several of our high jackers were in the country illegally in the first place. If they were actually deported, sure, someone else may have done it or they may have done it a different way (like from a airline that is not US based), but the attacks would have been seen long before they happened and we may have had time to react.
Believe what you must about the first amendment. I agree that 99 percent of speech can be and shoud be free, but that 1 percent would cause a whole lot of people greif. Also, go an try and test this in your own life. Go and start dropping tips on some upcoming stock IPO and see if the SEC doesn't come after you if they turn out to be false. Go and tell your boss your cube mate smokes pot everyday. You will see how fast you get smacked with a lawsuit. Oh and as for references, search for them yourself. The court records are public you know. Also, I found a good PDF that logically defends my position here at this URL. Here is another page covering it as well. I mean really alot of this is common sense and to say ALL SPEECH SHALL BE PROTECTED is irresponsible.
Another point for separate items.....try using your Treo or Kyocera Smartphone on a airplane to play solitare. You'd whip it out and the stewardess would say no no no!
Currently seen the Magellan GPS at Walmart for 117, plus they have a 50 dollar rebate on them....is 50 bucks too much?
Except for one thing....ther probably are not any companies in China that are not owned by THE STATE! Except for ones based in recently acquired Hong Kong.
God does not give you the right to say anything. God gives you the ability to say anything, and hopefully be able to know WHAT to say and when to say it. God gives yoiu the freedom to say what you want, but say the wrong thing, and you will get burnt. It's as simple as that. Also the constitiution does say that they shall make no law restricting speech and I am not saying that they have not done just that (Campaign Finance Reform anyone??). Also that's for the FEDERAL government. Your local laws can be different. The feds make no laws regarding things like inciting a riot. That's to be decided by the states. Also, and again, you MUST think about when the constitution was written.....the First Amendment was wrote so that the President or Congress could not make a law restricting POLITICAL speech. The rest of the protections are just a bonus. Jefferson and the rest just wanted to make sure the US government did not have powers that the King of England did. Same does for separation of church and state. Anytime the government want's to do something like start a school voucher program so we can take our money back and use it for the same thing(just at a private, sometimes a religious school) we are told oh no that violates the separation of church and state....(no it does not....the separation of church and state means that the state cannot start a church and say you can only go there....like the King did in England!). People confuse this stuff all of the time. And, I will say again:
Libel cannot be a protected speech
Slander cannot be a protected speech
Defaming speech cannot be a protected speech.
Some can say that restricts speech....no it does not. Sure, you can say it, but you will face the consequences if it damages someone reputation beyond repair.
The first amendment usually means POLITICAL speech. For example...I can say that George W's policies suck (they are not all good policies, but in general, I do not agree with that statement). How is saying that I can't slander you against the constitution? That's different. The government is not restricing my political views. I can go on the street corner and hold up a sign and chant down with abortion or abortion is murder. That's a political view. That is the speech that is protected.
Other speech can be considered to be under protection as well. The DECSS folks wrote a program that decrypts DVD's and that program, now that I think about it, could be considered damaging speech. Although I don't agree with that view of DeCSS...I think all the writers wanted to do was watch a DVD on a non blessed system....something that IMPROVES DVD sales, not hurt them. It's still uneconomical to copy DVD's. They have NOTHING to worry about there, plus DeCSS isn't necessary to copy a DVD if you just do it bit by bit.
Besides....the stuff I am talking about is just common sense. People say stuff all of the time without thinking...I won't be surprised if someone who thinks they are just joking with someone get's sued because of the "joke". The point is if I go talk to Joe's boss and say something like Joe tokes up a joint every day before work without proof and a keep saying it to people through the company...people will believe it and that's something the first amendment was never meant to protect.
Um....how is a libelious statement covered under free speech? Free speech is not totally free speech and can never be. You can't walk in to a crowded theater and shout fire and not expect to be arrested for inciting a riot that will insue after everyone starts to panic and rush out of the theature. I think the post is really taking to much for granted. People on so many websites and in so many forums are not wanting to be accountable for anything they say. The fact is you are accountable. You can go on a site and slander someone the same way you can't do it on TV. IANAL, but I think most lawyers would agree with my opinion. Free speech is a priviledge, not a right (it's only called a right under the constitution). If the populous continue's to make statements they don't want to be accountable for, well maybe free speech isn't a good idea. Don't get me wrong, I think mosty free speech is a good thing. I should be able to say anything I want about CmdrTaco, Hemos or Cowboy Neal without publicly slandering them. From what I gather about the Dow Jones case is soem guy in Australia is pissed he lost money because of what was said on their site. Well, then the person and the site who wrote that can be found libel for it! Could this establish an E-Jurisdiction? Well, sure it can. Just because we are on a World Wide Web doesn;t mean we can't be found libel for what we said! Does this mean that publishing will cease on the web? I doubt it. People and companies will just have to make sure they are careful what they say. Something they should already be doing.
OH...I will reply because I have NO idea what the hell your point is. Microsoft is NOT going to hurt if I install 1 extra copy of XP on ONE machine. I DID buy the damn thing you know. You metaphor is inapprpriate for teh subject at hand. The BIGGEST pirates of XP are the guys selling it for 5 bucks per disk in the streets of Hing Kong and New York. Also, the companies who buy the non-wpa version but don't pay for enough client license's also are bigger pirates then the few (and I mean few) Home users who have more then one machine. I estimate that there are some of the non techie guys who have more then one machine, but they usually leave whatever is on them and do not upgrade old machines when the new machine they have comes with the new OS. No, the home builders who build their own machines are the ones who are truely hurt by WPA. THEY BUY Windows and never get a copy for free with their machine (or supposedly for free). They PAY full price instead of the discounted OEM price. They should at least be able to install it on at LEAST 2 machines. Then if they have 4 machines they only need two licenses, or if they have only 2 (a desktop and a new or seminew laptop) they can have the same os on both. I understand econmics and it does not make sense for an OS. If what they were doing with WPA with say Office..that makes more sense, but it still penalizes those that actually buy the stuff legally. In any case, when there's a will there is a way and Microsoft's measures to stop or slow down piracy won't actually do anything to slow it down, it will just make things more difficult for those of us who have to explain to their neighbor why their desktop no longer works because Microsoft disabled it when hey installed it on thier other desktop doing what I like to call a little neighborly IS work.
And within days of the release of the patch...a warez version of the patch is going to come out. What's going to change? WPA just pisses people off. I would love to install it on my refurbed laptop I bought but noooo....I can only install it on one machine. That's bogus. WPA just pisses of the people who use it the most....the home hobbyists who only have one or two machines.
I have an eMap and whil eit is different then the III+, I could still reccomend Garmin GPS units. The GPS III+ also has expandable (yet proprietary) memory modules allowing you to upload detailed maps to it. They also have a European CD as well (alsp works with the GPS12MAP and NavTalk).
But it's NOT impossible. Here is a link about a guy who used a LCD from a old NEC Pentium 75 laptop. Sure, it not the easiest thing and for most of us it would take lots of time most of use don't have. But you should not discourage him. Check out the main page belonging to the guy who figured this one out and check out the PC installed in his Z! Out standing! Chek it out at this website.
I was going to say I saw something like this last year...I can't believe this warrants a story. Yeah, it's neat, but in my opinion, there is MORE interesting stuff out there worth posting. It is cool, but call me when they get the whole library on one unit. It IS possible.
You sir are correct. More times then not I see folks on here spaz out about stuff such as this. It is NOTHING. Even if they had access to your camera and mic, they'd have to have MASSIVE amounts of storage to make it worth anything. Also, there's been alot of false reporting that flash can bring virii and stuff onto your machine but I have YET to see an exploit that wasn't patched before it could be executed. Which is more then I can say about Outlook! Security paranoid users can freak about it, if they want. Now I am off to play some Lenny Loosejocks games....:)