The real question is whether or not the hardware will let you communicate with anyone else (at a reasonable distance) on you power segment with no changes at the pole?
If so that would be wild as hell. It would be like having a dry copper pair to eveyone on your street. Small ISP's could spring up over night to offer the powerline to internet bridging as a service.
Of course with anything this good for the free market the government will try to fuck this up the first chance they get. Might be pretty hard to block though...hey I can dream.
I suggest you take a good look at the first case one would probably see in first year law, Marbury v Madison.
The U.S. Constitution is "the fundamental and paramount law of the nation" and that "any act of the legislature, repugnant to the constitution, is void."
The legislature has taken an oath to uphold the constitution and may pass no law outside of the power granted to them by the constitution without first going through the formal process of amending the constitution. Any other course of action is a direct violation of their office. This general benchmark for constitutional government is carved in stone. There is no 'loose interpertation' of this concept; without it constitutional government does not exist.
The so-called 'loose interpertation' of the consitution is nothing more then a statist excuse for the government to act with absolute unchecked power. We all know the amendment process is not easily performed, exactly for the purpose of limiting any additional powers the government extends to itself. 'Bypassing' that destroys the most fundimental check on the governments power. Government can and does now act with impunity.
Further more the federal constitution is quite clear that it is a document of negative force, granting the federal government very limited powers. (Art1$8 $9, Amendments 9 and 10)
So you're right, MOST of the functions it performs today are not constitutionally authorized and would have been prevented had this country had a supreme court that was not derelict in it's function!
This in the grand scope of things is moot. As you mentioned the 'founding fathers' were not without fault. Had they been, no constitution would have been adopted, any federal government disbanded, and the formal governments of the states scrapped.
Now back to the point of this whole thread....
The same intitution that used force to created the artificial (non-freemarket based) arena for communications monopolies to exist, is now being pointed at to fix that problem. Stupid. Eliminate the institution, and the options for the problem to fix itself are limitless. It WILL fix itself to the extent that the free market demands it. Guaranteed.
It is time for the governments of the world to step aside and let people live free.
Do you want quality Internat access? Rid yourself
of the layers of government that control it.
The federal U.S. govt never had the constitutional authoritity to create the FCC in the first place. (Art 1$8..the power to regulate communications in anyway just ain't there, and the commerce clause
only applies in a lawyer's wet dream.)
Our level of communications access will change by an order of magnitude for the better when the freemarket can offer technlogies without the obsticle of an expensive licence and burearocratic hurdles.
Could you tack up a wire on the poles and offer you neighbors some sort of service without being a multi-million dollar quasi-governmental corp? No. Imagine if you could...
It is time for the governments of the world to step aside and let peope live free.
Hey at least you can get web traffic
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My connection is AT&T broadband and my asshole hurts. No mas ATT! No mas!
These human's are the same creatures that danced for rain, sacrificed to appease the volcano, and prayed to an invisible man in the sky to end disease. Why wouldn't they embrace such a blameful reason as this after the talking head icon
in their TV told them it was so?
The psychy of the typical 'human' is very limited in scope. It can't handle the stress of
complete fact, and must continually reduce
reality to limited two-sided, dualistic, conflict.
I'm glad I'm not one....I don't like it here....and I'd really like back to my own planet....NOW.
Some of the younger Slashdot readers may not be familiar with the classic AmigaOS...
Am I getting that old? Lines like this used to
be resevered to references to a PDP or something similar.
I guess once I break 30 I'll be considered ancient. : P
Mass non-violent action is quite common in US History going back hundreds of years.
Yeah, all the way back to Shays rebelion...calling out the Army....very non-violent. Get with reality, huh?
Good point. Outlaw pay phone use by children.
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By forbidding the use of anonymous email, this law mandates the disclosure of the identity of children when they use the internet.
Isn't anyone else getting sick of this save the children crap?
You know what? Fuck the Children!
If we had some more natural selection at work, maybe I wouldn't have to deal with such stupidity on a daily basis.
And while I'm ranting...Why is it children are 'precious' and a normal man can drop dead an no one cares? A lot of us are engineers here. Let's look at this objectivly. What has more 'worth'? A) A 3 year old child, unable to care for itself, and 'replacable' at a cost of 3 years. B) A 30 year old man, in the prime of life, with useful expereince, not only able to care for himself but others, with a cost of 25-35 years.
That man could aid in producing many children. (Among many other things) That child can produce nothing for many years to come.
So think. Do these insincere cock sucker bastard politicians really 'care' about your 3 year old child? (Who has inherently no value to the masses?) Or do they care about fooling you into giving them more control over what they can make the very valuable 30 year old man produce?
My time (and stress level) has a value to it. I waste huge amounts of time due to the short falls of these two very nessasary applications.
Maybe you've never had 18 browser windows open researching something, while composing 2 lengthly peices of email, and then have the whole works disappear because netscape decided it
just didn't feel good about the webpage you wanted to load. Maybe your work or computing habits do not require such things as stability. Mine do.
The issue really is, why at this point are game programmers not using a standard framework that can cross compile to either platform?
Through De Facto use the framework is Win32/DirectX. Since that's what we've got to work with, we should provide a mechimism to utilize it. So the question is, does porting or emulation get us closer to a universal API? The answer is, neither, though emulation takes a step in the right direction.
It's 2001. If not for the effort of companies like M$ forcing incompatibilty, this would be a non issue by now.
Of course it's 2001 and I still can not even buy a quality web browser...
I think you're overlooking the obvious, which is the govt always expands it's power past the limits it even sets. (Not that the FCC even has the legitiment lawful powerful to require this in the first place.)
Now I ask you from what you've read, if your laptop is capable of making an 'E911' call with it's celluar modem, would it not be covered by these rules? Of course.
Why the mods decided to post this and not the below articled I submitted, I'll never know:
Please mod it up...
U.S. Government mandates tracking of all wireless devices by 2005.
Foxnews has an
article
that cell-phone manufacturers are under a federal mandate to equip mobiles with
location-tracking technology beginning this October. By 2005, 95 percent of
all cell phones must be able to be traced with an accuracy of about 1,000
feet or better.
The hidden thing is these GPS modules look to be required in all cell type devices, including palm pilots and maybe even wireless communication parts for notebook computers.
In addition, a number of special devices called AVES Waypoints are also deployed in the
Internet. AVES Waypoints are network agents that relay data packets between end hosts.
Any idea how slow this will be? It will eating up 2 x the transfer bandwidth (1 stream in, 1 stream out) per relay to the end host from one of these 'way points'. I think they totally forgot to factor in network connectivity costs in their design model. Unless they are somehow disconnecting the data transfer from the 'way point' (it isn't mentioned) this is doomed to gnutella hell.
Well, it is all easy if every person could just be tagged with a number that they must -- under pain of jail time -- use in every substantial transaction. The number exists. It is your SSN. And who created that?
I agree with you completely. But the above is not quite true. The fact of the matter is their is NO LAW requiring someone to apply for a Social Security account. The Social Security Administration can not create an account for you without a valid application from you. And no private or government entity can force you obtain a number. (except in case of gaining government 'benefits')
This is the law. The day to day operations of the govt and huge corps are of course, contrary to this.
They are making life hell for the few and proud that don't have a SS# and refuse won't get one. But if you fight hard enough you can still survive. Bank accounts, credit cards, credit reports. None require a SS# and yes I've done it.
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The real question is whether or not the hardware will let you communicate with anyone else (at a reasonable distance) on you power segment with no changes at the pole?
If so that would be wild as hell. It would be like having a dry copper pair to eveyone on your street. Small ISP's could spring up over night to offer the powerline to internet bridging as a service.
Of course with anything this good for the free market the government will try to fuck this up the first chance they get. Might be pretty hard to block though...hey I can dream.
It is because no one is faulted, that anarchism is the only moral option.
I suggest you take a good look at the first case one would probably see in first year law, Marbury v Madison.
The U.S. Constitution is "the fundamental and paramount law of the nation" and that "any act of the legislature, repugnant to the constitution, is void."
The legislature has taken an oath to uphold the constitution and may pass no law outside of the power granted to them by the constitution without first going through the formal process of amending the constitution. Any other course of action is a direct violation of their office. This general benchmark for constitutional government is carved in stone. There is no 'loose interpertation' of this concept; without it constitutional government does not exist.
The so-called 'loose interpertation' of the consitution is nothing more then a statist excuse for the government to act with absolute unchecked power. We all know the amendment process is not easily performed, exactly for the purpose of limiting any additional powers the government extends to itself. 'Bypassing' that destroys the most fundimental check on the governments power. Government can and does now act with impunity.
Further more the federal constitution is quite clear that it is a document of negative force, granting the federal government very limited powers. (Art1$8 $9, Amendments 9 and 10)
So you're right, MOST of the functions it performs today are not constitutionally authorized and would have been prevented had this country had a supreme court that was not derelict in it's function!
This in the grand scope of things is moot. As you mentioned the 'founding fathers' were not without fault. Had they been, no constitution would have been adopted, any federal government disbanded, and the formal governments of the states scrapped.
Now back to the point of this whole thread....
The same intitution that used force to created the artificial (non-freemarket based) arena for communications monopolies to exist, is now being pointed at to fix that problem. Stupid. Eliminate the institution, and the options for the problem to fix itself are limitless. It WILL fix itself to the extent that the free market demands it. Guaranteed.
It is time for the governments of the world to step aside and let people live free.
Do you want quality Internat access? Rid yourself of the layers of government that control it.
The federal U.S. govt never had the constitutional authoritity to create the FCC in the first place. (Art 1$8..the power to regulate communications in anyway just ain't there, and the commerce clause only applies in a lawyer's wet dream.)
Our level of communications access will change by an order of magnitude for the better when the freemarket can offer technlogies without the obsticle of an expensive licence and burearocratic hurdles.
Could you tack up a wire on the poles and offer you neighbors some sort of service without being a multi-million dollar quasi-governmental corp? No. Imagine if you could...
It is time for the governments of the world to step aside and let peope live free.
My connection is AT&T broadband and my asshole hurts. No mas ATT! No mas!
I ain't smiling when I write this...
The solution.
These human's are the same creatures that danced for rain, sacrificed to appease the volcano, and prayed to an invisible man in the sky to end disease. Why wouldn't they embrace such a blameful reason as this after the talking head icon in their TV told them it was so?
The psychy of the typical 'human' is very limited in scope. It can't handle the stress of complete fact, and must continually reduce reality to limited two-sided, dualistic, conflict.
I'm glad I'm not one....I don't like it here....and I'd really like back to my own planet....NOW.
Some of the younger Slashdot readers may not be familiar with the classic AmigaOS...
Am I getting that old? Lines like this used to be resevered to references to a PDP or something similar.
I guess once I break 30 I'll be considered ancient. : P
Mass non-violent action is quite common in US History going back hundreds of years.
Yeah, all the way back to Shays rebelion...calling out the Army....very non-violent.
Get with reality, huh?
By forbidding the use of anonymous email, this law mandates the disclosure of the identity of children when they use the internet.
Isn't anyone else getting sick of this save the children crap?
You know what? Fuck the Children!
If we had some more natural selection at work, maybe I wouldn't have to deal with such stupidity on a daily basis.
And while I'm ranting...Why is it children are 'precious' and a normal man can drop dead an no one cares? A lot of us are engineers here. Let's look at this objectivly. What has more 'worth'?
A) A 3 year old child, unable to care for itself, and 'replacable' at a cost of 3 years.
B) A 30 year old man, in the prime of life, with useful expereince, not only able to care for himself but others, with a cost of 25-35 years.
That man could aid in producing many children. (Among many other things) That child can produce nothing for many years to come.
So think. Do these insincere cock sucker bastard politicians really 'care' about your 3 year old child? (Who has inherently no value to the masses?) Or do they care about fooling you into giving them more control over what they can make the very valuable 30 year old man produce?
Get my gun! Bad afternoon! Bad afternoon!
Yes I've asked this before, but the question still begs: Do they know what they are doing is evil, or can they not tell the difference?
It is time for the governments of the world to step aside and let people live free.
Statist whore....get off my Internet.
The big picture is if the govt can limit one type of email they can limit any type of email. As much as I hate spam, I don't want this (or any) law.
The internet is the last bastion of anarchy. You should fight against any governments attempt to encroach upon it.
My time (and stress level) has a value to it. I waste huge amounts of time due to the short falls of these two very nessasary applications.
Maybe you've never had 18 browser windows open researching something, while composing 2 lengthly peices of email, and then have the whole works disappear because netscape decided it just didn't feel good about the webpage you wanted to load. Maybe your work or computing habits do not require such things as stability. Mine do.
I've got a dual PII 800 GX board running a Fibre Channel RAID.
Maybe I'm overly impatiant, but I pity the poor bastards with less hardware then I that have to run Mozilla
The issue really is, why at this point are game programmers not using a standard framework that can cross compile to either platform?
Through De Facto use the framework is Win32/DirectX. Since that's what we've got to work with, we should provide a mechimism to utilize it. So the question is, does porting or emulation get us closer to a universal API? The answer is, neither, though emulation takes a step in the right direction.
It's 2001. If not for the effort of companies like M$ forcing incompatibilty, this would be a non issue by now. Of course it's 2001 and I still can not even buy a quality web browser...
When I can HIGHLIGHT and COPY the subject in an email message, call me.
I'm so disgusted with Mozilla words can not describe.
Expect the FCC to step right in and destroy it, if a huge company doesn't claim a 15 month old patent on it first.
What the hell is the CIA doing funding anything!?!?!
I think you're overlooking the obvious, which is the govt always expands it's power past the limits it even sets. (Not that the FCC even has the legitiment lawful powerful to require this in the first place.)
Now I ask you from what you've read, if your laptop is capable of making an 'E911' call with it's celluar modem, would it not be covered by these rules? Of course.
Why the mods decided to post this and not the below articled I submitted, I'll never know:
Please mod it up...
U.S. Government mandates tracking of all wireless devices by 2005.
Foxnews has an article that cell-phone manufacturers are under a federal mandate to equip mobiles with location-tracking technology beginning this October. By 2005, 95 percent of all cell phones must be able to be traced with an accuracy of about 1,000 feet or better.
The hidden thing is these GPS modules look to be required in all cell type devices, including palm pilots and maybe even wireless communication parts for notebook computers.
In addition, a number of special devices called AVES Waypoints are also deployed in the Internet. AVES Waypoints are network agents that relay data packets between end hosts.
Any idea how slow this will be? It will eating up 2 x the transfer bandwidth (1 stream in, 1 stream out) per relay to the end host from one of these 'way points'. I think they totally forgot to factor in network connectivity costs in their design model. Unless they are somehow disconnecting the data transfer from the 'way point' (it isn't mentioned) this is doomed to gnutella hell.
Well, it is all easy if every person could just be tagged with a number that they must -- under pain of jail time -- use in every substantial transaction.
The number exists. It is your SSN. And who created that?
I agree with you completely. But the above is not quite true. The fact of the matter is their is NO LAW requiring someone to apply for a Social Security account. The Social Security Administration can not create an account for you without a valid application from you. And no private or government entity can force you obtain a number. (except in case of gaining government 'benefits')
This is the law. The day to day operations of the govt and huge corps are of course, contrary to this.
They are making life hell for the few and proud that don't have a SS# and refuse won't get one. But if you fight hard enough you can still survive. Bank accounts, credit cards, credit reports. None require a SS# and yes I've done it.
uhmm..that's live....