Can we get some help from the EFF so that we don't get sued by the big telcos?
I'll ask for help from my math-betters "how many of these routers does it take to cover 90% of the country with 90% coverage" (aka keep the averages down by skipping the giant national parks out west etc.)
Can we get someone like on a T3 (or whatever) to host a rack of these and tell those phone companies to take their data caps and shove it?
Thoughts?
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Reagan and friends invented the greatest political hack trick of all time. Deficit Spending = Free Stuff! Remember that Batman Movie with Jack N? Fun! Party! Don't you like me? Vote for me again!
Our country's finance engine is exactly big enough to stand 8.25 years of partying, aka 3 months of election fever plus an 8 year term. We have a grand old time, the Pres leaves per his two term limit... and the NEXT guy gets stuck with the bill. Done right, it's the *opposite* party. Then the Republicans suddenly get to slam down the finance limit and sonorously declare that "we must get this country in line - Read My Lips No New Taxes". (Isn't it great that a cute little slogan is exactly relevant this week?)
So they hope the Democrat gets blamed for the Bad Economy, and voted out. Meanwhile all the savings gives them enough room to start spending again.
The first time they messed up the timing. They almost got it right this time.
As Americans we desperately need to talk to each other so that we can stop them. We absolutely cannot afford that stunt a third time, but when the free money flows, it will be too late....
I just emailed one of the admins at Slashdot to find out how do I download my comment file. By now I've built up some 100,000 words that I would like to merge and rework into a blog.
So here I go with a test case of one of the sites that should know how! Let's see what answer turns up. I asked for a "few-click" method if possible, without having to install any utilities etc.
"Move to the cloud! Work wirelessly from your phone line on your mobile device using data -heavy apps! Why bother downloading a song once and playing it ten times on a local player when you can stream it from your phone any time you want it! Join social networks where it will take you extra bandwidth to load all the ads from companies that sell your data on 42 meg pages for a twelve line text update!...
"Introducing our new unlimited data plan where we throttle it without limiting it!"
I need some input from the Lawn Crowd, did it feel like this in the Watergate days? I'm getting the horrible feeling that after a nice quiet 90's with nothing but a fun little sex scandal we're seeing a whole different class of nastiness today.
It's about sliding us into a Guilty-Until-Proven-Innocent culture!
The TSA will like this. "To prove you are not a terrorist, you must be constantly connected to our Trusted Citizen network. If you lose your connection, then you lose your trusted status and will be treated like the terrorist you have become until we clear you again."
So how about you also give me your name. I asked for the address because I am lazy.
The person's name unlocks every other piece of info about someone, which was *my* point.
"If all I have is your name, what can I do" right? So therefore there's no problem with you sending it to me right? After all, you've got Nothing To Hide, right?
The point is that when other people get hold of your name, it floats into blogs etc which will then never go away.
Right, so how are they not impeachable for gross irresponsibility? Walk out of a restaurant without paying you get the cops all over you. Walk out on a trillion dollar war and "oh, it's just politics".
Reagan had all those crispy tax cuts too, while spending lots of cash. They planned it so that the President *after* all that would get stuck with a burst bubble economy, which is supposed to be the magic formula for a 1-term President. The only problem was that last round they mistimed it, so that "their guy" Bush Sr. got stuck with the fallout.
Remember it was Clinton who made some progress balancing things.
So then yes, they had an absolute blast playing War, "Staying the Course", while sticking Obama with the worst financial crisis in history?
How are these guys not impeached for gross negligence or perjury in office?
Okay, I'll block the mods and assume you are not flamebaiting. Did you seriously just ask "what's the harm of placing your real name online", followed with "not being stupid about your privacy?"
Really?!
Then email me your real name and address. I'll politely show you the horrors yet allow you an escape route afterwards.
Mostly the same here - though I carefully left a somewhat convoluted path to my real name to reduce the urge for the intensely curious types getting daydreams of being a hacker. I treat it like an intelligence test - it blocks the "Gossiping Google-Monkeys" while anyone really serious will figure it out.
This is the second service pushing the "real name" thing - it's more subtle brainwashing towards the "Nothing to Hide" crowd.
Does anyone here dislike "small town pettiness" where they sit in places like the hair salon and chitter about all the gossip? These "social" services are nuclear gossip exchanges. "Ooh, did you know, ThisPerson got drunk last night? Let's post that info on our social network and make sure it comes up forever in any search of the person's name forever!"
Meanwhile the govt gets all this crispy data for their Big Brother initiatives.
"ThatPerson didn't like John Boehner's budget! Get him!"
Yep, and in the real world there are things like lawsuits stifling the idea propogation that would have otherwise gone on. There is also a media that makes sales by purposely presenting misleading slants on articles to make something sound like it has already passed the 10% mark effect, up until it crashes.
Why did you only write one small post for your own Slashdot story... on education? Are we supposed to create the entire feedback loop of educational comments ourselves now that your work is done?
"Sufficiently advanced educational processes verge on terrorism". (Hi Mods! Note the quotes which means it's rhetorical!) We already have this game.
A "bunch of script kiddies", er, Students, have been beating various professional IT departments at the game called "Cyber Security". Since two years ago we would have called anyone who said they could bust federal contractors a "tin foil hat", they took some bits as prisoners to prove it. This then caused Memos to be Issued to block those security holes. The Students then observed the results, and then took NATO for a ride in Round 2. This caused more Memos to be Issued by the "AI". (Insert rest of article here.)
Oh wait, you're saying that's not a game? Games are supposed to be cute little self contained exercises that *don't matter* right?
Valiant attempt sir. Too bad we don't bother to follow laws anymore. We're 7 days from economically blowing up our country, so a little "ethics" law won't stop anyone.
Nice try for these guys coming up with tech. Now the Insurance companies will require one so they can save $50,000 per "hit" on a "predisposed condition".
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Can we get some help from the EFF so that we don't get sued by the big telcos?
I'll ask for help from my math-betters "how many of these routers does it take to cover 90% of the country with 90% coverage" (aka keep the averages down by skipping the giant national parks out west etc.)
Can we get someone like on a T3 (or whatever) to host a rack of these and tell those phone companies to take their data caps and shove it?
Thoughts?
Reagan and friends invented the greatest political hack trick of all time. Deficit Spending = Free Stuff! Remember that Batman Movie with Jack N? Fun! Party! Don't you like me? Vote for me again!
Our country's finance engine is exactly big enough to stand 8.25 years of partying, aka 3 months of election fever plus an 8 year term. We have a grand old time, the Pres leaves per his two term limit... and the NEXT guy gets stuck with the bill. Done right, it's the *opposite* party. Then the Republicans suddenly get to slam down the finance limit and sonorously declare that "we must get this country in line - Read My Lips No New Taxes". (Isn't it great that a cute little slogan is exactly relevant this week?)
So they hope the Democrat gets blamed for the Bad Economy, and voted out. Meanwhile all the savings gives them enough room to start spending again.
The first time they messed up the timing. They almost got it right this time.
As Americans we desperately need to talk to each other so that we can stop them. We absolutely cannot afford that stunt a third time, but when the free money flows, it will be too late....
Semi off topic, but I emailed Samzenpus here and I got replies back from
From: "Robert Rozeboom"
and
From: "Bob Roberts" (This sender is DomainKeys verified)
No, distributing YOUR source code to your new wife!
What browser supports the pigeon protocol?
http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/10/south-african-pigeon-transmits-data-faster-than-local-dsl/
I bet someone will come up with a utility that restores the GUI back to sanity.
I just emailed one of the admins at Slashdot to find out how do I download my comment file. By now I've built up some 100,000 words that I would like to merge and rework into a blog.
So here I go with a test case of one of the sites that should know how! Let's see what answer turns up. I asked for a "few-click" method if possible, without having to install any utilities etc.
What happens if someone steals it? Though it would be un-cashable, but funny to watch someone try.
Yes!
Make copyrighted material "the new pariah!"
"Eew! You watched THAT? Yeah maybe it's an okay show, but you can't show me your favorite clip!"
"Move to the cloud! Work wirelessly from your phone line on your mobile device using data -heavy apps! Why bother downloading a song once and playing it ten times on a local player when you can stream it from your phone any time you want it! Join social networks where it will take you extra bandwidth to load all the ads from companies that sell your data on 42 meg pages for a twelve line text update! ...
"Introducing our new unlimited data plan where we throttle it without limiting it!"
Hiya.
Thank you for confirming that I am not a Tin Foil Hat for thinking this stuff is accelerating.
I need some input from the Lawn Crowd, did it feel like this in the Watergate days? I'm getting the horrible feeling that after a nice quiet 90's with nothing but a fun little sex scandal we're seeing a whole different class of nastiness today.
It's not about the pirates.
It's about sliding us into a Guilty-Until-Proven-Innocent culture!
The TSA will like this. "To prove you are not a terrorist, you must be constantly connected to our Trusted Citizen network. If you lose your connection, then you lose your trusted status and will be treated like the terrorist you have become until we clear you again."
You missed mine too.
So how about you also give me your name. I asked for the address because I am lazy.
The person's name unlocks every other piece of info about someone, which was *my* point.
"If all I have is your name, what can I do" right? So therefore there's no problem with you sending it to me right? After all, you've got Nothing To Hide, right?
The point is that when other people get hold of your name, it floats into blogs etc which will then never go away.
Right, so how are they not impeachable for gross irresponsibility? Walk out of a restaurant without paying you get the cops all over you. Walk out on a trillion dollar war and "oh, it's just politics".
Bingo!
They pulled the same stunt TWICE now!
Reagan had all those crispy tax cuts too, while spending lots of cash. They planned it so that the President *after* all that would get stuck with a burst bubble economy, which is supposed to be the magic formula for a 1-term President. The only problem was that last round they mistimed it, so that "their guy" Bush Sr. got stuck with the fallout.
Remember it was Clinton who made some progress balancing things.
So then yes, they had an absolute blast playing War, "Staying the Course", while sticking Obama with the worst financial crisis in history?
How are these guys not impeached for gross negligence or perjury in office?
Okay, I'll block the mods and assume you are not flamebaiting. Did you seriously just ask "what's the harm of placing your real name online", followed with "not being stupid about your privacy?"
Really?!
Then email me your real name and address. I'll politely show you the horrors yet allow you an escape route afterwards.
Mostly the same here - though I carefully left a somewhat convoluted path to my real name to reduce the urge for the intensely curious types getting daydreams of being a hacker. I treat it like an intelligence test - it blocks the "Gossiping Google-Monkeys" while anyone really serious will figure it out.
This is the second service pushing the "real name" thing - it's more subtle brainwashing towards the "Nothing to Hide" crowd.
And sell it to the government and maybe the **AA.
Does anyone here dislike "small town pettiness" where they sit in places like the hair salon and chitter about all the gossip? These "social" services are nuclear gossip exchanges. "Ooh, did you know, ThisPerson got drunk last night? Let's post that info on our social network and make sure it comes up forever in any search of the person's name forever!"
Meanwhile the govt gets all this crispy data for their Big Brother initiatives.
"ThatPerson didn't like John Boehner's budget! Get him!"
Yep, and in the real world there are things like lawsuits stifling the idea propogation that would have otherwise gone on. There is also a media that makes sales by purposely presenting misleading slants on articles to make something sound like it has already passed the 10% mark effect, up until it crashes.
xkcd chimes in again!
http://xkcd.com/929/
I agree - the part that isn't gauging consensus is gagging dissidents.
Hi.
Why did you only write one small post for your own Slashdot story ... on education? Are we supposed to create the entire feedback loop of educational comments ourselves now that your work is done?
"Sufficiently advanced educational processes verge on terrorism". (Hi Mods! Note the quotes which means it's rhetorical!)
We already have this game.
A "bunch of script kiddies", er, Students, have been beating various professional IT departments at the game called "Cyber Security". Since two years ago we would have called anyone who said they could bust federal contractors a "tin foil hat", they took some bits as prisoners to prove it. This then caused Memos to be Issued to block those security holes. The Students then observed the results, and then took NATO for a ride in Round 2. This caused more Memos to be Issued by the "AI". (Insert rest of article here.)
Oh wait, you're saying that's not a game? Games are supposed to be cute little self contained exercises that *don't matter* right?
Right. Gotcha. Uh huh.
Valiant attempt sir.
Too bad we don't bother to follow laws anymore.
We're 7 days from economically blowing up our country, so a little "ethics" law won't stop anyone.
Time to view all news through an Evil filter.
Nice try for these guys coming up with tech. Now the Insurance companies will require one so they can save $50,000 per "hit" on a "predisposed condition".
Hello, Gattaca.