Unless of course you live in an apartment complex where you can only get one provider. Or a neighborhood, or city where there's only one even mildly affordable provider. It's not a question of shopping around, it's a question of what's available.
It's not free. We already paid for it. And Comcasts' internet is so pitiful in terms of what it promises and what it delivers that the fact they sell it at all is practically a breach of contract, regardless of fine print. So even though you're 4 digit slashdot ID convinces me to give you the benefit of the doubt, I fail to see how calling the red scare on parent is at all refuting any of his points.
That's why he released an encrypted version of the image showing the actual filenames he's asking for as proof. You can download it yourself, and then he's going to release a key to the public if someone completes the challenge, allowing you to view the results. Simple. No fakery involved.
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I love the Download Statusbar. Aside from imagezoom and adblock, it's the first plugin I install. It's so good it should be the default.
Well, yes they can. Both sides can spout rhetoric and useless information, contributing nothing and inciting more useless posts. Sounds like a troll to me.
Yeah, there are very few people who care THAT much that they'd drop their subscription because they didn't want to be able to NOT listen to Howard Stern.
They couldn't pay the bills because they spent so much money sniping at each other. With their literal competition now gone, they can focus on the competition that matters - the terrestrial radio stations.
This is just in my experience, from living in Alaska and the east coast, but from what I've seen IM usage is heavily influenced by location. MSN is widely popular on the west coast, whereas AIM is still the de facto standard on the east coast. Case in point: out of my 400+ contacts in msn, one of them is from the east coast, and only two or three of my AIM buddies are from the west coast (and they just have an AIM in addition to MSN, not instead of).
Well for memes, where better to look than The Encyclopedia Dramatica!
Sure, it's maybe a little difficult to read through a site that attacks everything, but, at least they have them there.
You can use the free DNS services at No-IP.com - they'll redirect all port 80 traffic inbound to that site to port 8080. Change the value in your server and you're good to go! I'm using it right now for my site, hosted on the FIOS line, and it works just dandy.
Looks like the "improvised electronic device" consisted of a circuit board and a common battery that caused her sweatshirt, which had painted writing on it, to light up. Authorities referred to the paint as "putty."
Except this "putty" which is supposed to sound all mysterious and scary was either, depending on who you asked:
C4
Electroluminescent Tape
I for one believe that boston is just being more than a little ridiculous. From a comment in TFA:
In case anyone missed it, the reason [someone] said "again with the hoax devices" is that Boston has a long dishonorable history of overreacting to unfamiliar objects, then claiming they were "hoax devices," which are illegal under Massachusetts law. This is nonsense. A hoax bomb is something that a reasonable person could believe was a bomb, and which its owner claims is a real bomb in order to scare or coerce people in its vicinity.
Boston police pulled this same stunt with Joe Previtera, a nonviolent protester, in 2006. He was doing a silent imitation of the famous photo of the hooded guy standing on a box from Abu Ghraib. The police arrested him -- as far as anyone can tell, because they disliked his politics -- and claimed that the speaker wires hanging from his wrists constituted a "hoax device."
They did it again in January and February of this year after their maxed-out overreaction to lite-brite Mooninite images left the rest of the country snickering at them. The best quote on that one was from Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley, on the obviously suspicious nature of the Mooninites: "[The device] had a very sinister appearance. It had a battery behind it, and wires."
(Just a month after the Great Mooninite Scare, the Boston Bomb Squad managed to come up with an encore: they blew up a traffic measuring device that had been put in place by the Boston Transportation Department.)
Judging from their record, charging someone with possession of a hoax device is Boston's way of announcing that they've once again mistaken some harmless bit of electronic gear for a bomb.
Cell phone jammers are illegal, or all theatres would have them - but right now my theatre is VERY interested in a new type of paneling material they're making that acts like a fourier cage. Put it on four walls and the ceiling and presto - no cell phone signals!
Granted, yes, it was only 20 seconds of footage - something that would possibly even fall under the fair use doctrine.
But on the other hand, if you steal only $20, that's not too bad. But it's still illegal.
Regardless of what she intended to do with the film, regardless of only recording a little bit, it is still illegal. While many of us on/. are ardent pirates, you'd be hard pressed to defend the view that it's ok to record movies in theatres.
Plus, there's no way in hell she'll get any jail time for this, just a slap on the wrist. That's a Judges job, to differentiate between serious cases and minor infractions.
Generally we get applause and cheers from the rest of the auditorium. Parents with stupid children are given a warning - something along the lines of, "If I have to come back in here again, I'm throwing every single one of you out."
It's pretty simple - behave yourself, or leave.
Otherwise, we kick em right out, call the box office and tell them not to give a refund. My theatre was bought out by a new, smaller chain that is placing emphasis on customer service and the movie going experience. As all us managers work there because we love movies, we hate irritating people just as much as you. I've even given some people 1 year bans from our theatre.
My theatre does all of the above, except, sadly for number 2. As much as I, and my GM hate the ads, corporate offices just eat that up. Throw enough money around and they'll do just about anything.
As a manager of a large movie theatre, I participate in the annual NATO (National Association of Theatre Owners) meetings, and I can tell you legitimately that the industry heads are not particularly worried about downloaders.
What they ARE worried about, are the sophisticated rings of people who record a movie with state of the art miniaturized cameras, upload it to DVD fab plants in Malasia, and press literally millions of bootleg DVDs in a matter of a night or two, and have them shipped back out and on street corners by the end of the film's opening weekend.
Downloaders are a different demographic and situation entirely from bootleggers. In general, a sold bootleg DVD is a loss of sale for a theatre, while a downloaded movie is kind of breaking even - either the person will like the movie and go see it, like it but be too cheap to go see it, or not like it and not go see it.
You don't hear much about the MPAA suing everyone they can get their hands on - mostly because they learn from their impetuous brother the RIAA, and realized that you won't improve your business via suing, you actually have to accept some losses, fight the ones you can, and do your damndest to make movie going an enjoyable experience.
Agreed with the parent. As someone who has been to Ketchikan many times, the opposition to this bridge just shows how ignorant most people are of the situation. Ketchikan's downtown area is literally built up the side of a mountain, and people are forced to live miles and miles away from the town area because there's simply no place left to go but out into the wilderness area.
The bridge would be a godsend to that area, which, despite it's small size, brings in a substantial amount of revenue via tourism, and is not insignificant by any means.
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Unless of course you live in an apartment complex where you can only get one provider. Or a neighborhood, or city where there's only one even mildly affordable provider. It's not a question of shopping around, it's a question of what's available.
It's not free. We already paid for it. And Comcasts' internet is so pitiful in terms of what it promises and what it delivers that the fact they sell it at all is practically a breach of contract, regardless of fine print. So even though you're 4 digit slashdot ID convinces me to give you the benefit of the doubt, I fail to see how calling the red scare on parent is at all refuting any of his points.
Read the article. He says that anyone who is an actual recovery company, not just some random dude, can take the drive apart and keep it for 30 days.
That's why he released an encrypted version of the image showing the actual filenames he's asking for as proof. You can download it yourself, and then he's going to release a key to the public if someone completes the challenge, allowing you to view the results. Simple. No fakery involved.
I love the Download Statusbar. Aside from imagezoom and adblock, it's the first plugin I install. It's so good it should be the default.
Well, yes they can. Both sides can spout rhetoric and useless information, contributing nothing and inciting more useless posts. Sounds like a troll to me.
Yeah, there are very few people who care THAT much that they'd drop their subscription because they didn't want to be able to NOT listen to Howard Stern.
They couldn't pay the bills because they spent so much money sniping at each other. With their literal competition now gone, they can focus on the competition that matters - the terrestrial radio stations.
Don't feed the trolls good sir.
Even sadder, they don't know it's from Bash.
This is just in my experience, from living in Alaska and the east coast, but from what I've seen IM usage is heavily influenced by location. MSN is widely popular on the west coast, whereas AIM is still the de facto standard on the east coast. Case in point: out of my 400+ contacts in msn, one of them is from the east coast, and only two or three of my AIM buddies are from the west coast (and they just have an AIM in addition to MSN, not instead of).
Unfortunately, the ink required to print a new printer costs 200% what a new printer would cost.
All they would've had to do is go on /b/. Simple, easy way to find out that anonymity breeds retardation and child porn, not terrorism.
Well for memes, where better to look than The Encyclopedia Dramatica!
Sure, it's maybe a little difficult to read through a site that attacks everything, but, at least they have them there.
You can use the free DNS services at No-IP.com - they'll redirect all port 80 traffic inbound to that site to port 8080. Change the value in your server and you're good to go! I'm using it right now for my site, hosted on the FIOS line, and it works just dandy.
Except this "putty" which is supposed to sound all mysterious and scary was either, depending on who you asked:
- C4
- Electroluminescent Tape
I for one believe that boston is just being more than a little ridiculous. From a comment in TFA:Dude. Two words - Viva Pinata.
Seriously one of the most fun games I've played on the 360.
Yes, Faraday cage was what I was thinking of. Teach me to not look up my references.
/shrug
Cell phone jammers are illegal, or all theatres would have them - but right now my theatre is VERY interested in a new type of paneling material they're making that acts like a fourier cage. Put it on four walls and the ceiling and presto - no cell phone signals!
But on the other hand, if you steal only $20, that's not too bad. But it's still illegal.
Regardless of what she intended to do with the film, regardless of only recording a little bit, it is still illegal. While many of us on
Plus, there's no way in hell she'll get any jail time for this, just a slap on the wrist. That's a Judges job, to differentiate between serious cases and minor infractions.
Generally we get applause and cheers from the rest of the auditorium. Parents with stupid children are given a warning - something along the lines of, "If I have to come back in here again, I'm throwing every single one of you out."
It's pretty simple - behave yourself, or leave.
Otherwise, we kick em right out, call the box office and tell them not to give a refund. My theatre was bought out by a new, smaller chain that is placing emphasis on customer service and the movie going experience. As all us managers work there because we love movies, we hate irritating people just as much as you. I've even given some people 1 year bans from our theatre.
My theatre does all of the above, except, sadly for number 2. As much as I, and my GM hate the ads, corporate offices just eat that up. Throw enough money around and they'll do just about anything.
As a manager of a large movie theatre, I participate in the annual NATO (National Association of Theatre Owners) meetings, and I can tell you legitimately that the industry heads are not particularly worried about downloaders. What they ARE worried about, are the sophisticated rings of people who record a movie with state of the art miniaturized cameras, upload it to DVD fab plants in Malasia, and press literally millions of bootleg DVDs in a matter of a night or two, and have them shipped back out and on street corners by the end of the film's opening weekend. Downloaders are a different demographic and situation entirely from bootleggers. In general, a sold bootleg DVD is a loss of sale for a theatre, while a downloaded movie is kind of breaking even - either the person will like the movie and go see it, like it but be too cheap to go see it, or not like it and not go see it. You don't hear much about the MPAA suing everyone they can get their hands on - mostly because they learn from their impetuous brother the RIAA, and realized that you won't improve your business via suing, you actually have to accept some losses, fight the ones you can, and do your damndest to make movie going an enjoyable experience.
Agreed with the parent. As someone who has been to Ketchikan many times, the opposition to this bridge just shows how ignorant most people are of the situation. Ketchikan's downtown area is literally built up the side of a mountain, and people are forced to live miles and miles away from the town area because there's simply no place left to go but out into the wilderness area.
The bridge would be a godsend to that area, which, despite it's small size, brings in a substantial amount of revenue via tourism, and is not insignificant by any means.