It is now saying valid for Lets Encrypt in the dev version - an update may have changed that? I do not know. It still shits on StartSSL. I provided more information for StartSSL. With Let's Encrypt I used a link in DirectAdmin and was done in less than a minute. I believe it will keep updating on my behalf without my needing to click the button. Yeah...
It's not really that big of a claim. I was here, I watched it, I even helped participate in it because I wanted competition. I'm a happy Opera user but not really a zealot. (Opera has made some stupid moves.) Hell, I paid enough (it wasn't much) to get my name printed in a NYT full page ad. So didn't many others.
See, I had an older ID. It was 7e+4 range. I don't know the name - but I know the password! I do not have access to the email address. (I don't want the account back.) But, the point is, I was here and a part of it. Many of us were.
When you see some of the anger towards Firefox it is people angry because they feel betrayed - and they were. Then again, some of the anger is trolls trolling trolls and just stupid shit. But, some of it is legit. There's even a quasi-copy/pasta that sends people to Can I Use. They post a lot. They're in the troll category, having invested nothing but feeling owed everything. See, some of us *did* invest. I used to make yearly, sometimes more often, donations to the Mozilla Foundation but I stopped that for, well, reasons... And probably not the reasons you might expect.
The thing is, I literally donated some rather decent sums. I've no access to the numbers at the moment (Maine's a long ways away) but I'm going to guess that I donated enough (by myself) to pay at least a year's worth of salary and perks for a top-end programmer. Yup... I donated quite a bit when I sold my business. I don't regret those donations, don't get me wrong. I just no longer appreciate the direction the organization has taken.
They've gone from a technical group to a political group. Even if I agreed with their politics entirely, and I do not, then I'd have stopped donating. I donate to enough political causes and I don't want politics in a browser. I want a browser that's lean, mean, stable, compliant, and supports extensibility with easy, open, and unchanging (as much as possible) API calls.
So, you can ask them to prove it or you can take that as proof of just *one* of us and what *one* of us has done. I installed Firefox on so many computers and urged so many others to do the same. I don't feel that I betrayed them - it's still an acceptable browser. It's just not my default and probably won't ever be my default.
Let's Encrypt? Ha! You know the free Let's Encrypt gets stopped by the Firefox browser for being an untrusted certificate. Yup... I know, I've recently done it.
I've got a practice site so it's okay to link it, I guess. Go to https://peanut.ga/ and have a look. Do it with Firefox. Then do it with Chromium (probably Chrome too), Vivaldi, Opera, Midori, Lynx, elinks, elinks2, etc... Hell, compile Dillo with SSL support.
That said...
There's a sort of hidden version of Firefox. It's a special developer edition. It does stuff. It's called Aurora, by the way. It is awesome. No, really. It is awesome. I really like it - a lot. It's blazing fast, it's very light, I beat the hell out of it. Hell, it was so good that my last journal post was about it. Yeah, it's that good.
But, they flag their own fucking cert program as untrusted. Really, really Mozilla? You couldn't make it a different green, maybe a quick note? No? No special explanation or anything? Just a "take me back to safety" link and a bit of cryptic info for the average user. Fuck that shit, that's just stupid.
Who gives a shit if I'm identified - I gave them honest information, including an address to a property I own and have an apartment in - and visit at times.
Fuck that shit. Seriously, fuck that shit. That's just stupidity. However, the browser itself is fucking brilliant. I've not used Firefox in a while. This one immediately moved to my second browser list. It will remain there for testing for quite a while.
I think you are. Banning means kicking them out. He's only talking about kicking those who are here illegally out. If they're here legally, there's shit all he can do about it. He can, on the other hand, bar further entrance.
Same thing with the wall rhetoric. He wants to get rid of the illegals here already. He's not building a wall without doors - he's building a wall to stop *illegal* entry. Well no, he's not building a wall at all but we'll assume his rhetoric is real.
Those are a far cry from what people have insisted he means. He's said nothing of the sort. You can "read between the lines" and read anything you want. How about we only judge based on facts? Intuition, hunches, etc? They're not really valid.
Don't get me wrong, he's an idiot and there's zero chance that I'll vote for him. Well, there's one possibility... If Sanders runs and picks Trump as his VP then I'll vote for him - hands down. Trump can keep the idiots amused and Sanders can try to get shit done. I might even vote for it if the roles were switched. Might... Like I said, there's zero chance.
Sure but that doesn't even put a large dent into what NASA invested already, does it? You can't just ignore that. Well, you can but it's dishonest to do so.
No, no you're not. Why are you going to lie to me? You could have just been honest and asked for more information. Your dishonest is not a requirement.
Things like unemployment (that you do not pay for, directly), welfare of many types, SSDI (not to be mistaken for SSI), scholarships, reduced tuition, adjusted rates for medical care if you visit the financial office - and don't tell me it doesn't exist, I've driven people to their appointments and helped them fill out the paperwork. They have a five dollar co-pay and only pay 10% which is still further reduced by income, at the local hospital network.
There are EITC, there are mortgage deductions, there are schools and a lot of things that are giving at low/no cost in schools for parents who qualify.
So, that's what you'd be able to get if you were eligible to get them. You're probably getting some of them, like the ability to write off your mortgage. See, Average Joe is in the lower 50% and doesn't actually pay shit for taxes. And that's good - they probably shouldn't. The welfare goes both ways and to deny it is stupid. You can be stupid, you're allowed. We can fix stupid, we can teach you. What we can't fix is willful ignorance.
Which path you select is entirely up to you. Given that you began with a lie, I'm pretty sure you're not going to choose wisely. That's unfortunate.
I'm thinking that any F word at all will do - so long as it's talking about the copyright cartels but as this is the ISP (oddly the good ones in this story) then maybe Flimflam. (It's even a legitimate word and, with some mental gymnastics might most suit.)
Or, Fairpoint is the name of my ISP. Find a few more that start with F.
Fairpoint, F-co, F-c, flimflam, fail to fall for flam.
Sadly, I've been doing alliteration way too often in my posts for the past two weeks or so. I don't mean it. It just happens.:/
Your changing your name is not more complicated than they changing to another shell corporation. What gave you that idea? It's not even remotely more complicated, it's much less complicated. Sure, it's more annoying for you but it's less complicated. You've got very little paperwork to file and only one person to help you - but that doesn't mean it's more complicated.
Not at all. It's less complicated to change your name. It's easy to do the follow ups with banks, DMV, all that - than it is to pop up a new shell company and transfer the assets to it. It's just not necessarily something you've done before but it's really not hard. People do it all the time. It's not even expensive.
I've been pondering this for a VERY long time. I don't know how old you are but it might be since before you were born. Your user ID indicates that it'd be silly of me to assume that to be the case. So, for now, a very long time indeed.
We need something FUNCTIONAL that sits below the courts. And no, it's not the bullshit they call arbitration. Findings need to be able to be appealed. It needs to have oversight. Things like IP need to be dealt with in those systems before even seeing a court of law. It needs to ban lawyers and have a limited expense imposed on ALL parties. Everything probably needs to be in front of a panel, perhaps juried, and it needs to be observed and monitored by a third party who has no ties to the industry but (and this might be hard) have demonstrated an understanding of the industry.
The list goes on but that is something I've been thinking about for a long time now. I was literally thinking of this when I was just 18 and spent that summer trying to be a band - before going in the Marines, almost a year, to the day, after the journey began. *sighs* My hair!!! Ah well, it was a VERY good choice.
The important things are is that it must be cheap, fair, and allow access to anyone - YOU should be able to call in Sony if they've violated your rights. That *does* happen.
I might be lazy and pirate. It's odd 'cause I only watch documentaries and they all show up eventually but sometimes I want the whole series and to play it in order. So, I pirate. At the same time, I've Netflix and Hulu+ - except I don't remember when I last logged into either one. It hasn't been in the past six months, at least. I also have a separate, disparate, connection that does nothing but seed. It seeds Linux distros and that's my story and I'm sticking to it. (Well, I always share anything to a 12:1 average, minimal. Some are at 700+:1. It's a dedicated line.) That's on the same ISP. All three different connections are on the same ISP.
Alas, I feel left out. If I got a notice, I'd giggle. I really would. I'd probably scan it and forward it to my friends and family. I'd post it online - like a trophy. 'Cause I've certainly earned one. I've earned HUNDREDS of them - though I don't really pirate the "good stuff." I watch documentaries. Yeah, i suck, I know... But, I'd be stoked to get one. If my ISP doesn't like it then I've got a dozen more who will have me back in service immediately. By the time the Fairpoint disconnect happens, I'll have GWI set up. If that then I've Wind's DSL service. There's another two in-town Farmington. There are two more in Oxford County. There's another in Somerset. Then, there are 13 other counties, 49 States, and 193 countries. Any one of them can provide my service if they want and it's cheap for them to do so.
I've got DSL and many people don't realize that DSL is on copper and thus gets some neat protections added to it - depending on the State you live in. If I don't like my ISP, I kick 'em to the curb. I have before and I'll do it again. So, Fairpoint actually treats me really well. It also helps that there are few of us on the line. The line was bought and paid for - to extend way out to my home, and that needed a payment to buy a new CO along the way. I happen to be the "Computer Guy." I've never tried it but I bet I can get 90% of the folks down in the village to change and 100% of the six of us up here would all change - just 'cause I asked. I'd change for them. We're a small, tight-knit, community. I could probably get 99% of the people in the village to change (that includes the resorts and B&Bs and businesses) if I offer to help walk them through it.
When they don't have a monopoly, the ISP is a VERY different creature. I swear to dog, the difference between an ISP with a monopoly and one without is the difference between light and day. And no, Fairpoint's not moving out. They're gonna be here for a while. They wanted to buy the service and the State said they could but that it came with some caveats. See, Maine has INSANE consumer protection laws and really does have an active PUC. I really did look into these things prior to retiring here. Damned right, if I'm building a house 24 miles from a village and about 45 miles from there to a real town - I want to know what my broadband is going to look like - and narrowband was not an option. I almost ran cable but cable doesn't afford the same protections as DSL. DSL is phone lines. They *must* make best effort repairs and maintain things or they will be fined.
Hell, Maine has something called an Implied Merchantability law. Basically means, even if you say I have no warranty, I do. That warranty lasts as long as a reasonable person would expect to use the device and what a reasonable person would expect for functionality. Yup...
It's a horrible place. Don't move to Maine. The natives are stupid, rednecks, individual, liberty-loving, drinking, smoking, fat, poor, uneducated, and mean! The taxes are high, the weather is unacceptable, and the infrastructure is crumbling. So, you don't want to move to Maine. Ever... If you want to visit, stick to the coast. There are people there waiting for you and they'll entertain you all you want to pay for. Just make sure to spend money, thanks. But no... It's terrible and I'd never recommend anyone from here move there.
I am pretty sure it's worse than that. Only the person (usually a lawyer - and not the rights holder themselves but a representative of them) must believe that they are filing on behalf of the people who own the rights. This is why they get away with making false claims. The rights holder can actually *lie* to the rep/lawyer, the lawyer file (believing it true), and the thing is not illegal.
Yes, yes I have read the damned thing. I did skim some of it but I kind of had to read it.
As someone who's mostly First Nations (Amerindian for your USians), I can only say welcome to the club? The US doesn't exactly have a stellar history of adhering to treaties. Then again, the Canadians aren't that great either - both have improved, significantly, over time.
It does when the person responding is just one of those asses who blames their behavior on Aspergers. The site seems populated with 'em at times. I don't think they really have it, by the way. I think they're just assholes who have social issues and blame it on something other than their ability to consider others before they consider themselves. Hell, or consider them at the same time.:/
The ISPs are not harassing their customers over stupid crap! Oh, the huge manatee!
I'm actually not sure why this is being presented as a bad thing. Yeah, some people are jerks. The ISP shouldn't be accountable. Send 'em a letter. Take 'em to court. Scream loudly. Do what you want but leave the ISP out of it.
I will add that I'm a staunch supporter of copyright and other IP protections/rights. (I'm not in favor of the current system.) Leave the ISP out of it. Chances are, the person paying the bill isn't even the accountable party. I'd point out that my wireless is open and has a guest network all set up but that's silly. I don't actually have neighbors and only have a crowd of people there twice a year. It's not like I'm risking much or have great bravado for doing so. Moose and deer do not, as of yet, use the 'net.
Do NOT point that out. It has earned me a whole bunch of "foes" once. The replies were insane. Never mind that there's a friends and foes system, that it's a public system even. Never mind that it is user generated content, complete with our own sub-sections and private interactions. Never mind that there's a voting system.
Nope... It's not Social Media. I have this on good authority. *nods* In fact, numerous experts in the field have told me that it's not. (Being me, I've actually made a point of interjecting it a few times since, when on-topic, and might have goaded a couple of them into giving me some more amusement.)
But no... Friends, notifications, private contact - if wanted, user submitted content, foes, etc. do not make "Social Media." (But Twitter does.) I don't think that one actually got me hate mail. I actually get hate mail sometimes. I think it's the same person so it doesn't inflate my ego, much. They're convinced I'm an ultra-conservative who is a "smart ass" that "makes comments that aren't even debatable." I get that one about once a month. It amuses me to no end and they never even reply to me by email. (If you go back through replies, you'll find an oddly times "fuck you." I'm not sure but I think that's it.)
At any rate - more so given that last paragraph, it's every bit a social media site. In fact, you might say that Slashdot was among the leaders in the scene. I don't know why people don't admit it. I've pointed out numerous times that I don't like Facebook, Twitter, etc... At the same time, I've pointed out that I happily post all sorts of stuff about me here. I also have owned (? I can't think of a better word - some still exist, I've just handed them off) a number of sites over the years that was very much social. Hell, I'm working on a new one right now though I think I'll keep this one for a bit but the idea is to hand it off to the community to run itself - if it ever reaches that point. There's more too it but that's a topic for another day.
Yes, Slashdot is social media. Unless there's a strange definition that I'm unaware of.
Nah, the web is even better now. It is you who has changed and your standards and habits that have changed - and your expectations. It's still as great as it ever was. When was the last time you clicked the link in someone's signature, for instance? The web is a great place. It's even better now - as we can do more and more on it. We can even do that at low or no cost. It's tit simple to make something from nothing - I'm doing it as a bit of a bet, right this second while I type this. (Waiting for changes to take place.)
Wow... You seriously need to go to the library and read the old newspapers. Seriously... The term "yellow journalism" has a very long and colorful history. You can highlight those words and search, if you want. There were no Golden Years of press. No, I kid you not. The news might actually be *better* now than it was 100 years ago. I realize you don't believe me, I encourage you to go look for yourself. Heck, you can even search old newspapers on Google.
It's "Mental Bubble Gum" for me.:/ I, too, got it from someone older than I but I heard it sometime in the early 1970s. I wonder where it came from? It's seemingly apt and might be more wide-spread/common than I expected. Or, I knew his grandfather and maybe you! But yeah, bubble gum. It's okay to pass the time with it here and there but too much of it will rot your teeth and make you fat. Also, spit it out - don't swallow it. (That's what she said?!? I'm not sure how well that fits.)
Nah, Linux error codes aren't really that good. I'm a pretty content Linux user (not a zealot) but there's even a special key combo to save what you can and reboot in the event of a system lock. It's like three buttons and then you press REISUB (or something like that) in sequence. I should probably remember that, actually.;-)
But no... Cryptic error messages seem to be the default. At least you get the Event Viewer in Windows.
Press Caps Lock key. If the light comes on, it's not frozen. If the light doesn't come on, it's frozen. Universal with all OSes that are oriented for keyboard use, as far as I know. It has been like this since at least the 1980s. Those lights on the keyboard, they actually tell you stuff - if you know to look. They also have conveyed other information in the past but not so much any more. I think 5 blinks was a boot disk error on an Amiga? I dunno, it has been a while - obviously.
But yeah, press the Caps Lock key the next time you think you froze the computer. If it comes on, it's not frozen, just busy and not yet. If it doesn't come on, there is no recovery. Well, it could mean you have a broken keyboard. Works with Macs too. If the ball thingy is still spinning, press the button. Does they keyboard lock indicator come on? If so, you can wait it out if you want. If not, no sense in waiting unless you want to ensure that the dump is as close to correct as possible.
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Slight correction...
It is now saying valid for Lets Encrypt in the dev version - an update may have changed that? I do not know. It still shits on StartSSL. I provided more information for StartSSL. With Let's Encrypt I used a link in DirectAdmin and was done in less than a minute. I believe it will keep updating on my behalf without my needing to click the button. Yeah...
It's not really that big of a claim. I was here, I watched it, I even helped participate in it because I wanted competition. I'm a happy Opera user but not really a zealot. (Opera has made some stupid moves.) Hell, I paid enough (it wasn't much) to get my name printed in a NYT full page ad. So didn't many others.
See, I had an older ID. It was 7e+4 range. I don't know the name - but I know the password! I do not have access to the email address. (I don't want the account back.) But, the point is, I was here and a part of it. Many of us were.
When you see some of the anger towards Firefox it is people angry because they feel betrayed - and they were. Then again, some of the anger is trolls trolling trolls and just stupid shit. But, some of it is legit. There's even a quasi-copy/pasta that sends people to Can I Use. They post a lot. They're in the troll category, having invested nothing but feeling owed everything. See, some of us *did* invest. I used to make yearly, sometimes more often, donations to the Mozilla Foundation but I stopped that for, well, reasons... And probably not the reasons you might expect.
The thing is, I literally donated some rather decent sums. I've no access to the numbers at the moment (Maine's a long ways away) but I'm going to guess that I donated enough (by myself) to pay at least a year's worth of salary and perks for a top-end programmer. Yup... I donated quite a bit when I sold my business. I don't regret those donations, don't get me wrong. I just no longer appreciate the direction the organization has taken.
They've gone from a technical group to a political group. Even if I agreed with their politics entirely, and I do not, then I'd have stopped donating. I donate to enough political causes and I don't want politics in a browser. I want a browser that's lean, mean, stable, compliant, and supports extensibility with easy, open, and unchanging (as much as possible) API calls.
So, you can ask them to prove it or you can take that as proof of just *one* of us and what *one* of us has done. I installed Firefox on so many computers and urged so many others to do the same. I don't feel that I betrayed them - it's still an acceptable browser. It's just not my default and probably won't ever be my default.
Let's Encrypt? Ha! You know the free Let's Encrypt gets stopped by the Firefox browser for being an untrusted certificate. Yup... I know, I've recently done it.
I've got a practice site so it's okay to link it, I guess. Go to https://peanut.ga/ and have a look. Do it with Firefox. Then do it with Chromium (probably Chrome too), Vivaldi, Opera, Midori, Lynx, elinks, elinks2, etc... Hell, compile Dillo with SSL support.
That said...
There's a sort of hidden version of Firefox. It's a special developer edition. It does stuff. It's called Aurora, by the way. It is awesome. No, really. It is awesome. I really like it - a lot. It's blazing fast, it's very light, I beat the hell out of it. Hell, it was so good that my last journal post was about it. Yeah, it's that good.
But, they flag their own fucking cert program as untrusted. Really, really Mozilla? You couldn't make it a different green, maybe a quick note? No? No special explanation or anything? Just a "take me back to safety" link and a bit of cryptic info for the average user. Fuck that shit, that's just stupid.
Who gives a shit if I'm identified - I gave them honest information, including an address to a property I own and have an apartment in - and visit at times.
Fuck that shit. Seriously, fuck that shit. That's just stupidity. However, the browser itself is fucking brilliant. I've not used Firefox in a while. This one immediately moved to my second browser list. It will remain there for testing for quite a while.
Did you miss the part where you disabled telemetry without actually waiting to see what was done with it?
I think you are. Banning means kicking them out. He's only talking about kicking those who are here illegally out. If they're here legally, there's shit all he can do about it. He can, on the other hand, bar further entrance.
Same thing with the wall rhetoric. He wants to get rid of the illegals here already. He's not building a wall without doors - he's building a wall to stop *illegal* entry. Well no, he's not building a wall at all but we'll assume his rhetoric is real.
Those are a far cry from what people have insisted he means. He's said nothing of the sort. You can "read between the lines" and read anything you want. How about we only judge based on facts? Intuition, hunches, etc? They're not really valid.
Don't get me wrong, he's an idiot and there's zero chance that I'll vote for him. Well, there's one possibility... If Sanders runs and picks Trump as his VP then I'll vote for him - hands down. Trump can keep the idiots amused and Sanders can try to get shit done. I might even vote for it if the roles were switched. Might... Like I said, there's zero chance.
Sure but that doesn't even put a large dent into what NASA invested already, does it? You can't just ignore that. Well, you can but it's dishonest to do so.
No, no you're not. Why are you going to lie to me? You could have just been honest and asked for more information. Your dishonest is not a requirement.
Things like unemployment (that you do not pay for, directly), welfare of many types, SSDI (not to be mistaken for SSI), scholarships, reduced tuition, adjusted rates for medical care if you visit the financial office - and don't tell me it doesn't exist, I've driven people to their appointments and helped them fill out the paperwork. They have a five dollar co-pay and only pay 10% which is still further reduced by income, at the local hospital network.
There are EITC, there are mortgage deductions, there are schools and a lot of things that are giving at low/no cost in schools for parents who qualify.
So, that's what you'd be able to get if you were eligible to get them. You're probably getting some of them, like the ability to write off your mortgage. See, Average Joe is in the lower 50% and doesn't actually pay shit for taxes. And that's good - they probably shouldn't. The welfare goes both ways and to deny it is stupid. You can be stupid, you're allowed. We can fix stupid, we can teach you. What we can't fix is willful ignorance.
Which path you select is entirely up to you. Given that you began with a lie, I'm pretty sure you're not going to choose wisely. That's unfortunate.
I'm thinking that any F word at all will do - so long as it's talking about the copyright cartels but as this is the ISP (oddly the good ones in this story) then maybe Flimflam. (It's even a legitimate word and, with some mental gymnastics might most suit.)
Or, Fairpoint is the name of my ISP. Find a few more that start with F.
Fairpoint, F-co, F-c, flimflam, fail to fall for flam.
Sadly, I've been doing alliteration way too often in my posts for the past two weeks or so. I don't mean it. It just happens. :/
Your changing your name is not more complicated than they changing to another shell corporation. What gave you that idea? It's not even remotely more complicated, it's much less complicated. Sure, it's more annoying for you but it's less complicated. You've got very little paperwork to file and only one person to help you - but that doesn't mean it's more complicated.
Not at all. It's less complicated to change your name. It's easy to do the follow ups with banks, DMV, all that - than it is to pop up a new shell company and transfer the assets to it. It's just not necessarily something you've done before but it's really not hard. People do it all the time. It's not even expensive.
I've been pondering this for a VERY long time. I don't know how old you are but it might be since before you were born. Your user ID indicates that it'd be silly of me to assume that to be the case. So, for now, a very long time indeed.
We need something FUNCTIONAL that sits below the courts. And no, it's not the bullshit they call arbitration. Findings need to be able to be appealed. It needs to have oversight. Things like IP need to be dealt with in those systems before even seeing a court of law. It needs to ban lawyers and have a limited expense imposed on ALL parties. Everything probably needs to be in front of a panel, perhaps juried, and it needs to be observed and monitored by a third party who has no ties to the industry but (and this might be hard) have demonstrated an understanding of the industry.
The list goes on but that is something I've been thinking about for a long time now. I was literally thinking of this when I was just 18 and spent that summer trying to be a band - before going in the Marines, almost a year, to the day, after the journey began. *sighs* My hair!!! Ah well, it was a VERY good choice.
The important things are is that it must be cheap, fair, and allow access to anyone - YOU should be able to call in Sony if they've violated your rights. That *does* happen.
I might be lazy and pirate. It's odd 'cause I only watch documentaries and they all show up eventually but sometimes I want the whole series and to play it in order. So, I pirate. At the same time, I've Netflix and Hulu+ - except I don't remember when I last logged into either one. It hasn't been in the past six months, at least. I also have a separate, disparate, connection that does nothing but seed. It seeds Linux distros and that's my story and I'm sticking to it. (Well, I always share anything to a 12:1 average, minimal. Some are at 700+:1. It's a dedicated line.) That's on the same ISP. All three different connections are on the same ISP.
Alas, I feel left out. If I got a notice, I'd giggle. I really would. I'd probably scan it and forward it to my friends and family. I'd post it online - like a trophy. 'Cause I've certainly earned one. I've earned HUNDREDS of them - though I don't really pirate the "good stuff." I watch documentaries. Yeah, i suck, I know... But, I'd be stoked to get one. If my ISP doesn't like it then I've got a dozen more who will have me back in service immediately. By the time the Fairpoint disconnect happens, I'll have GWI set up. If that then I've Wind's DSL service. There's another two in-town Farmington. There are two more in Oxford County. There's another in Somerset. Then, there are 13 other counties, 49 States, and 193 countries. Any one of them can provide my service if they want and it's cheap for them to do so.
I've got DSL and many people don't realize that DSL is on copper and thus gets some neat protections added to it - depending on the State you live in. If I don't like my ISP, I kick 'em to the curb. I have before and I'll do it again. So, Fairpoint actually treats me really well. It also helps that there are few of us on the line. The line was bought and paid for - to extend way out to my home, and that needed a payment to buy a new CO along the way. I happen to be the "Computer Guy." I've never tried it but I bet I can get 90% of the folks down in the village to change and 100% of the six of us up here would all change - just 'cause I asked. I'd change for them. We're a small, tight-knit, community. I could probably get 99% of the people in the village to change (that includes the resorts and B&Bs and businesses) if I offer to help walk them through it.
When they don't have a monopoly, the ISP is a VERY different creature. I swear to dog, the difference between an ISP with a monopoly and one without is the difference between light and day. And no, Fairpoint's not moving out. They're gonna be here for a while. They wanted to buy the service and the State said they could but that it came with some caveats. See, Maine has INSANE consumer protection laws and really does have an active PUC. I really did look into these things prior to retiring here. Damned right, if I'm building a house 24 miles from a village and about 45 miles from there to a real town - I want to know what my broadband is going to look like - and narrowband was not an option. I almost ran cable but cable doesn't afford the same protections as DSL. DSL is phone lines. They *must* make best effort repairs and maintain things or they will be fined.
Hell, Maine has something called an Implied Merchantability law. Basically means, even if you say I have no warranty, I do. That warranty lasts as long as a reasonable person would expect to use the device and what a reasonable person would expect for functionality. Yup...
It's a horrible place. Don't move to Maine. The natives are stupid, rednecks, individual, liberty-loving, drinking, smoking, fat, poor, uneducated, and mean! The taxes are high, the weather is unacceptable, and the infrastructure is crumbling. So, you don't want to move to Maine. Ever... If you want to visit, stick to the coast. There are people there waiting for you and they'll entertain you all you want to pay for. Just make sure to spend money, thanks. But no... It's terrible and I'd never recommend anyone from here move there.
I am pretty sure it's worse than that. Only the person (usually a lawyer - and not the rights holder themselves but a representative of them) must believe that they are filing on behalf of the people who own the rights. This is why they get away with making false claims. The rights holder can actually *lie* to the rep/lawyer, the lawyer file (believing it true), and the thing is not illegal.
Yes, yes I have read the damned thing. I did skim some of it but I kind of had to read it.
A couple of things...
This is abut *US* ISPs and not Canadian ISPs.
As someone who's mostly First Nations (Amerindian for your USians), I can only say welcome to the club? The US doesn't exactly have a stellar history of adhering to treaties. Then again, the Canadians aren't that great either - both have improved, significantly, over time.
It does when the person responding is just one of those asses who blames their behavior on Aspergers. The site seems populated with 'em at times. I don't think they really have it, by the way. I think they're just assholes who have social issues and blame it on something other than their ability to consider others before they consider themselves. Hell, or consider them at the same time. :/
The ISPs are not harassing their customers over stupid crap! Oh, the huge manatee!
I'm actually not sure why this is being presented as a bad thing. Yeah, some people are jerks. The ISP shouldn't be accountable. Send 'em a letter. Take 'em to court. Scream loudly. Do what you want but leave the ISP out of it.
I will add that I'm a staunch supporter of copyright and other IP protections/rights. (I'm not in favor of the current system.) Leave the ISP out of it. Chances are, the person paying the bill isn't even the accountable party. I'd point out that my wireless is open and has a guest network all set up but that's silly. I don't actually have neighbors and only have a crowd of people there twice a year. It's not like I'm risking much or have great bravado for doing so. Moose and deer do not, as of yet, use the 'net.
Do NOT point that out. It has earned me a whole bunch of "foes" once. The replies were insane. Never mind that there's a friends and foes system, that it's a public system even. Never mind that it is user generated content, complete with our own sub-sections and private interactions. Never mind that there's a voting system.
Nope... It's not Social Media. I have this on good authority. *nods* In fact, numerous experts in the field have told me that it's not. (Being me, I've actually made a point of interjecting it a few times since, when on-topic, and might have goaded a couple of them into giving me some more amusement.)
But no... Friends, notifications, private contact - if wanted, user submitted content, foes, etc. do not make "Social Media." (But Twitter does.) I don't think that one actually got me hate mail. I actually get hate mail sometimes. I think it's the same person so it doesn't inflate my ego, much. They're convinced I'm an ultra-conservative who is a "smart ass" that "makes comments that aren't even debatable." I get that one about once a month. It amuses me to no end and they never even reply to me by email. (If you go back through replies, you'll find an oddly times "fuck you." I'm not sure but I think that's it.)
At any rate - more so given that last paragraph, it's every bit a social media site. In fact, you might say that Slashdot was among the leaders in the scene. I don't know why people don't admit it. I've pointed out numerous times that I don't like Facebook, Twitter, etc... At the same time, I've pointed out that I happily post all sorts of stuff about me here. I also have owned (? I can't think of a better word - some still exist, I've just handed them off) a number of sites over the years that was very much social. Hell, I'm working on a new one right now though I think I'll keep this one for a bit but the idea is to hand it off to the community to run itself - if it ever reaches that point. There's more too it but that's a topic for another day.
Yes, Slashdot is social media. Unless there's a strange definition that I'm unaware of.
Nah, the web is even better now. It is you who has changed and your standards and habits that have changed - and your expectations. It's still as great as it ever was. When was the last time you clicked the link in someone's signature, for instance? The web is a great place. It's even better now - as we can do more and more on it. We can even do that at low or no cost. It's tit simple to make something from nothing - I'm doing it as a bit of a bet, right this second while I type this. (Waiting for changes to take place.)
Wow... You seriously need to go to the library and read the old newspapers. Seriously... The term "yellow journalism" has a very long and colorful history. You can highlight those words and search, if you want. There were no Golden Years of press. No, I kid you not. The news might actually be *better* now than it was 100 years ago. I realize you don't believe me, I encourage you to go look for yourself. Heck, you can even search old newspapers on Google.
It's "Mental Bubble Gum" for me. :/ I, too, got it from someone older than I but I heard it sometime in the early 1970s. I wonder where it came from? It's seemingly apt and might be more wide-spread/common than I expected. Or, I knew his grandfather and maybe you! But yeah, bubble gum. It's okay to pass the time with it here and there but too much of it will rot your teeth and make you fat. Also, spit it out - don't swallow it. (That's what she said?!? I'm not sure how well that fits.)
It's okay. I suspect they're not really a yak and I'm starting to have my doubts about them being a doctor.
It's their lie, they can tell it any way they want!
Well, that would be one of the parents... So, sure.
Nah, Linux error codes aren't really that good. I'm a pretty content Linux user (not a zealot) but there's even a special key combo to save what you can and reboot in the event of a system lock. It's like three buttons and then you press REISUB (or something like that) in sequence. I should probably remember that, actually. ;-)
But no... Cryptic error messages seem to be the default. At least you get the Event Viewer in Windows.
Didn't Microsoft buy Sysinternals like 10 years ago?
Press Caps Lock key. If the light comes on, it's not frozen. If the light doesn't come on, it's frozen. Universal with all OSes that are oriented for keyboard use, as far as I know. It has been like this since at least the 1980s. Those lights on the keyboard, they actually tell you stuff - if you know to look. They also have conveyed other information in the past but not so much any more. I think 5 blinks was a boot disk error on an Amiga? I dunno, it has been a while - obviously.
But yeah, press the Caps Lock key the next time you think you froze the computer. If it comes on, it's not frozen, just busy and not yet. If it doesn't come on, there is no recovery. Well, it could mean you have a broken keyboard. Works with Macs too. If the ball thingy is still spinning, press the button. Does they keyboard lock indicator come on? If so, you can wait it out if you want. If not, no sense in waiting unless you want to ensure that the dump is as close to correct as possible.