I have been waiting many years for Linux to get to a point where I could dump Windows. Well, I installed Ubuntu just a couple of weeks ago and was extremely impressed. Over the years, I have gone from somewhat of a power user to doing little more than surfing the web and doing e-mail, so it should be perfect for me, right? Over this weekend, I really got to start using the Ubuntu system. The very fist issue I ran into was the Evolution address book wouldn't display contacts you added...if you could get them to even add. I researched the problem and found people describing the exact same problem, in forums dated 2005. The next thing I wanted to do is search and replace some hard returns in OpenOffice's word processor. You can do it to some degree, but you have to search the web for an explanation on how to do it. In the end, it wouldn't work properly, and I had to transfer the file to my Windows system and do it on Word, which just has a menu option to search for special characters (really cool that Ubuntu saw my Window's share and I could just transfer the files over the network). Also, someone said that you could add Flash just by going to a web site that required it and clicking on "add plugin." Well, I tried that, and I had to manually install it, myself...it wasn't hard, but it took me about 15 - 30 minutes of reading some "how to" forums before I got it installed.
All in all, it is hard to complain about something that is free, and I totally plan on continuing my move away from Windows. But I think anyone would be pretty darn hard pressed not to say that Ubuntu doesn't have some rough edges.
One really nice advantage I see, too, is that it sure if nice not to have my hard drive constantly thrashing from all of virus scanners, spyware scanners, etc., running in the background!
mpaaBuddy is an on-screen "intelligent software agent" created by the MPAA, and based upon Microsoft Agent technology. The goal of the program is to help users enrich their online movie experience as they discover digital movies together with the included "mpaaBuddy," which is an animated, purple Tom Cruise. Users can interact with Tom by asking him questions, get recommendations on new movies released by MPAA members, as well as be politely informed when unapproved websites are loaded.
Other features include, an integrated download tracker, movie-related themes, desktops, screen savers, and cute, animated emoticons, bearing a resemblance to top-selling actors. Also included is a desktop search utility that indexes a hard drive's contents in order to allow the user to easily perform searches.
While initial response to the program has been positive, a few early users complain that the program is buggy. "The program keeps changing my home page to a crappy MPAA home page," said one teenager who wished to remain anonymous out of fear of a MPAA-sponsored lawsuit. There have also been complaints of an increase in pop-up advertising.
The C7 processor is supposed to use a lot less power than a normal chip. From what they are saying, someone leaving a computer on a lot could expect to save 10.00 a month in electricity. IF that is true, it wouldn about pay for itself in 24 months (again, that assumes what they are saying is true).
I set one of the 299.00 Wal-Mart computers up for a local volunteer fire station that had an application that needed XP, but they could only find Vista computers new. I wiped the drive and installed a legal copy of XP Pro for them. I thought it was pretty darn snappy with a gig of RAM in it. In fact, I plan on getting one of the 199.00 ones with Linux installed on it.
No, they had the TOS, not to stop the exploitation of children, but to stop people criticizing AT&T's exploitation of children.
As it turns out, they provide the phone service to the most heinous, blatant, and vile exploitation of children on the planet...Disneyland
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The ant works hard in the withering heat all summer long, building his house and laying up supplies for the winter.
The grasshopper thinks the ant is a fool and laughs and dances and plays the summer away.
Come winter, the ant is warm and well fed. The grasshopper has no food or shelter, so he dies out in the cold.
MORAL OF THE OLD STORY: Work and be responsible!
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*MODERN (JADED) VERSION:*
The ant works hard in the withering heat all summer long, building his house and laying up supplies for the winter. All he wants to do is be left alone. But times were hard. It seems that between federal taxes, state taxes, sales taxes, Social Security taxes, property taxes, fuel taxes, ad nausem...that the ant had too little left over to properly prepare for the future. Like most ants, he was forced to take a second job, but even with that, during a crisis, he was often forced to borrow money at high interests rates just to make it through a tough period. And getting caught back up again after he got back on his feet was almost impossible.
Ironic, because he paid such a high portion of his income out in taxes -- that were supposed to pay for the "services" he used -- the ant was hit with an extra fee for almost every service he attempted to use. There were fees to drive his car on the road. Fees to see the people whose salary was paid for by him. There were even fees to build on his own property. It seemed that every where the poor ant turned, there was someone with their hand out trying to get another piece of his income.
And, because of ever-soaring health-insurance premiums, the ant's employer was forced to drop to a cheaper insurer, which also meant his coverage was downgraded. Even with having insurance, the ant lived in fear of getting sick. And he was lucky, because many of his friends had lost their insurance all together.
The grasshoppers, however, thinks ants are fools and they all party hard all the way through college. Some grasshoppers become doctors, some lawyers, some politicians, and some go into the energy field. Other grasshoppers rise up the ranks of the military and law enforcement, while others drift upwards in labor unions.
The grasshoppers have figured out a way to live off of the labor of the ants. It is easy money and the grasshoppers party like there is no tomorrow.
The doctor grasshoppers found that they could charge huge amounts of money if the ants got sick. They found any numbers of things they could charge inflated prices for. Many broke the law and charged for things they didn't even do, while many stayed within the bounds of the law legally, while crossing the line morally. While the ants worried about making repairs to their little houses, the doctor grasshoppers had so much money that they pondered how park it in off shore bank accounts in order to avoid paying taxes. The grasshoppers knew that if they ran into real trouble, they could get their lawyer grasshopper buddies to get them off the hook.
The politician grasshoppers worked the ants for all they could, all the time proclaiming to be helping the ants. They tried their best to tighten the screws on the ants, but because some were slipping through the cracks, they installed great monitoring systems to watch the ants. It drove the grasshoppers mad to know there were ants out there that they didn't know what they were doing. They monitored their banking transactions. They recorded their telephone calls. They recorded every ant track left on the Internet. They even installed cameras in every place they could think of. Ironically, they did all of this by using money from the ants, and because that wasn't enough money to pay for it all, they borrowed money that the ant's children would be forced to pay back some day.
To make matters worse, the grasshopper king had conspired with the grasshoppers in the energy field to take over a major oil producing country. It seems the ants in that country
I have studied cancer for quite some time and I do know that *sometimes* a tumor is the body trying to put a barrier around something it doesn't know what to do with. In fact, tumors, unless they are doing damage to an important organ, or grow very large, usually won't kill you. It is only when they start to metastasize that you run into trouble pretty quick.
In fact, I have talked to several people that knew people that had tumors for many, many years and never had any trouble, but after their doctors talked them into removing the tumors and doing radiation/chemo treatment, they were dead within a year. Things that make you go hmmmmm.
So a tumor around a foreign body like that doesn't shock me too much.
Stung by criticism that it was utilizing unlicensed private investigators in order to track down alleged online copyright violators, the RIAA has admitted to "improperly obtaining" user data, and in an unusual near-apology, vowed to clean up its act. "It is time to face the music. We must stop the pursuit of personal destruction and the prying into private lives and get on with our national life. Our country has been distracted by this matter for too long, and I take my responsibility for my part in all of this. That is all I can do," said Mitch Bainwol, Chairman and CEO of the RIAA. Bainwole went on to say, "We have important work to do -- real pirated CDs to seize, real problems to solve, real security matters to face. I now ask you to turn away from the spectacle of the past eighteen months, to repair the fabric of our national discourse, and to return our attention to all the challenges and all the promise of upcoming American entertainment that will be brought to you by RIAA members.
On the same day, the RIAA also announced new software it would make available as a free download called riaaBuddy.
riaaBuddy is an on-screen "intelligent software agent" created by the RIAA, and based upon Microsoft Agent [wikipedia.org] technology. The goal of the program is to help users enrich their online musical experience as they discover digital music together with the included "riaaBuddy," which is an animated, purple Sheryl Crow. Users can interact with Sheryl by asking her questions, get recommendations on new music released by RIAA artist, as well as be politely informed when unapproved websites are loaded.
Other features include, an integrated download tracker, music-related themes, desktops, screen savers, and cute, animated emoticons, bearing a resemblance to top-selling RIAA artists. Also included is a desktop search utility that indexes a hard drive's contents in order to allow the user to easily perform searches.
While initial response to the program has been positive, a few early users complain that the program is buggy. The purple Sheryl Crow is said to only be able to sing the song Daisy Bell. "The program keeps changing my home page to a crappy RIAA home page," said one teenager who wished to remain anonymous out of fear of a RIAA-sponsored lawsuit. There have also been complaints of an increase in pop-up advertising.
They have consistently tried to do the wrong thing at every turn. It is like Bill Clinton, if he had just messed up once or twice with women, it wouldn't have been a huge deal, but he did it over and over and over again. So it is pretty clear he wasn't going to change his ways.
Also, after Gator software rebranded, I didn't rush out to install bonsaiBuddy...just look at their track record. Claria or not, I'm not touching anything they put out regardless of the name.
If they go RIAA over news articles, things are going to get real ugly, real quick. Even though I disagree with the RIAA's tactics, I can at least see their line of reasoning. If people start getting sued for cutting and pasting text...when they weren't even making the text public, the crap is going to hit the fan.
Then again, maybe this is will be the wakeup call that everyone needs to see that things are working right.
Funny, we had a hotel that was having trouble with someone hammering the bandwidth. I wanted to build a Monowall firewall, but we ended up selling them an expensive wireless gateway. A year or two later, they were required, by the corporate office, to have 24-hour tech support for guests of the hotel. Since we didn't offer that, they outsourced. The company sent them a new gateway...which was Monowall running on a Sokeris board. No telling how much they are having to pay for that, either.
Don't know about throughput, but I have messed around with Monowall and liked it. Mikrotik also has a firewall, and is also a router. It will run on x86 based hardware, too.
Mikrotik's limitation seems to be more the hardware than the software. Here is a good review of someone trying to really push it to the edge when being used as a router:
Add a radio card, an outdoor enclosure, and an antenna, and this might make a good access point that has a little more horsepower than your average AP.
I wonder if Mikrotik will run on it? I think it should...
Won't try to duplicate other comments on here, but the general use of these devices is to put them where someone is already slowing down anyway.
Before any of this ever came out, I posted here on Slashdot about an invention I thought of, which was "speed bumps" that produced electricity. Good lord, you would have thought I was satan for suggesting that.
But what people can't freaking get through their skulls, is that you put speed bumps where you are trying to get people to waste energy anyway by slowing down. Speed bumps on their own take energy. Why not get a little back? In fact, these speed bumps would probably take less energy than a real speed bump because they would have to have more give to them.
And if you only put these things where you would put a speed bump, there would be no problem with generating energy this way.
Now if you put them in the middle of freaking interstate highways, heck yeah, I agree with your post 100%. That's stupid, and that is not what people are talking about doing. But what if you put some on the off-ramp of the same highway going to the roadside stop? A vast sea of cars, probably almost 24 hours a day, that are in the process of braking and slowing down anyway. No problem with getting a little of energy they are already in the process of wasting...
As it turns out, the person that came up with the idea was working on it years before I thought of it...but I heard there were cities lining up to buy his stuff. So people can call people names all they want, but it is obvious some people just can't grasp the bigger picture...and that guy is going to be laughing all the way to the bank.
The real question is, how are they going to tax it? A car driving on a public road and not paying a gasoline tax. In Fascist America, the jack-booted thugs are going to stomp someone over that.
My guess is, that's the real reason it is only getting 8 miles on a full charge, when other people are building stuff that gets twice that out of their garages.
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As an ebook publisher making pocket change
on
False Copyright Claims
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· Score: 2, Interesting
I must say that I'm not totally sure I agree with this (and I usually am pretty much right on with Slashdot group think on copyright laws).
For instance, I have made a little pocket change reprinting a rare 1863 cookbook. By no means am I getting rich off of it, but I do put a copyright on the ebooks I sell just to have some legal options. I don't care if someone prints it out and OCRs it, there isn't a thing in the world I could do about that. But I had to spend a couple of days OCRing the material, cleaning it up, and formatting it. Anyone else wanting to sell it, or give it away, should have to do the same, not swipe my work.
How exactly should someone be able to just start reselling my ebook and why is that wrong of me to put a copyright notice on it?
Stung by criticism that it was utilizing unlicensed private investigators in order to track down alleged online copyright violators, the RIAA has admitted to "improperly obtaining" user data, and in an unusual near-apology, vowed to clean up its act. "It is time to face the music. We must stop the pursuit of personal destruction and the prying into private lives and get on with our national life. Our country has been distracted by this matter for too long, and I take my responsibility for my part in all of this. That is all I can do," said Mitch Bainwol, Chairman and CEO of the RIAA. Bainwole went on to say, "We have important work to do -- real pirated CDs to seize, real problems to solve, real security matters to face. I now ask you to turn away from the spectacle of the past eighteen months, to repair the fabric of our national discourse, and to return our attention to all the challenges and all the promise of upcoming American entertainment that will be brought to you by RIAA members.
On the same day, the RIAA also announced new software it would make available as a free download called riaaBuddy.
riaaBuddy is an on-screen "intelligent software agent" created by the RIAA, and based upon Microsoft Agent [wikipedia.org] technology. The goal of the program is to help users enrich their online musical experience as they discover digital music together with the included "riaaBuddy," which is an animated, purple Sheryl Crow. Users can interact with Sheryl by asking her questions, get recommendations on new music released by RIAA artist, as well as be politely informed when unapproved websites are loaded.
Other features include, an integrated download tracker, music-related themes, desktops, screen savers, and cute, animated emoticons, bearing a resemblance to top-selling RIAA artists. Also included is a desktop search utility that indexes a hard drive's contents in order to allow the user to easily perform searches.
While initial response to the program has been positive, a few early users complain that the program is buggy. The purple Sheryl Crow is said to only be able to sing the song Daisy Bell. "The program keeps changing my home page to a crappy RIAA home page," said one teenager who wished to remain anonymous out of fear of a RIAA-sponsored lawsuit. There have also been complaints of an increase in pop-up advertising.
The really funny thing is, that was supposed to have been a joke, but being so freaking close to what the MPAA is doing, it really isn't funny anymore.
Stung by criticism that it was utilizing unlicensed private investigators in
order to track down alleged online copyright violators, the RIAA has admitted to
"improperly obtaining" user data, and in an unusual near-apology,
vowed to clean up its act. "It is time to face the music. We must stop the
pursuit of personal destruction and the prying into private lives and get on
with our national life. Our country has been distracted by this matter for too
long, and I take my responsibility for my part in all of this. That is all I can
do," said Mitch Bainwol, Chairman and CEO of the RIAA. Bainwole went on to
say, "We have important work to do -- real pirated CDs to seize, real
problems to solve, real security matters to face. I now ask you to turn away
from the spectacle of the past eighteen months, to repair the fabric of our
national discourse, and to return our attention to all the challenges and all
the promise of upcoming American entertainment that will be brought to you by
RIAA members.
On the same day, the RIAA also announced new software it would make available
as a free download called riaaBuddy.
riaaBuddy is an on-screen "intelligent software agent" created by
the RIAA, and based upon Microsoft
Agent technology. The goal of the program is to help users enrich their
online musical experience as they discover digital music together with the
included "riaaBuddy," which is an animated, purple Sheryl Crow.
Users can interact with Sheryl by asking her questions, get recommendations on
new music released by RIAA artist, as well as be politely informed when unapproved
websites are loaded.
Other features include, an integrated download tracker, music-related themes,
desktops, screen savers, and cute, animated emoticons, bearing a resemblance to
top-selling RIAA artists. Also included is a desktop search utility that indexes
a hard drive's contents in order to allow the user to easily perform searches.
While initial response to the program has been positive, a few early users
complain that the program is buggy. The purple Sheryl Crow is said to only be
able to sing the song Daisy Bell. "The program keeps changing my home page
to a crappy RIAA home page," said one teenager who wished to remain
anonymous out of fear of a RIAA-sponsored lawsuit. There have also been
complaints of an increase in pop-up advertising.
It is like the Muslims and the 77 virgins. Why just 77? Why not 177 or 1077 virgins?
If you are just going to pull numbers out of the air, why not 500,000.00 a day, or a million? Heck, why not a trillion dollars a day?
At a trillion dollars a day, if the feds could catch about 8 to 10 caller-id spoofers, the US could be completely out of debt.
And as long as we are living in fantasy land, why don't we pass some laws against Congress, so that they can't spend our children and our children's children into debt hell.
Slashdot Mirror
I might point out that you can change the number displayed by caller ID in many PBX systems, not just open source ones.
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I have been waiting many years for Linux to get to a point where I could dump Windows. Well, I installed Ubuntu just a couple of weeks ago and was extremely impressed. Over the years, I have gone from somewhat of a power user to doing little more than surfing the web and doing e-mail, so it should be perfect for me, right? Over this weekend, I really got to start using the Ubuntu system. The very fist issue I ran into was the Evolution address book wouldn't display contacts you added...if you could get them to even add. I researched the problem and found people describing the exact same problem, in forums dated 2005. The next thing I wanted to do is search and replace some hard returns in OpenOffice's word processor. You can do it to some degree, but you have to search the web for an explanation on how to do it. In the end, it wouldn't work properly, and I had to transfer the file to my Windows system and do it on Word, which just has a menu option to search for special characters (really cool that Ubuntu saw my Window's share and I could just transfer the files over the network). Also, someone said that you could add Flash just by going to a web site that required it and clicking on "add plugin." Well, I tried that, and I had to manually install it, myself...it wasn't hard, but it took me about 15 - 30 minutes of reading some "how to" forums before I got it installed.
All in all, it is hard to complain about something that is free, and I totally plan on continuing my move away from Windows. But I think anyone would be pretty darn hard pressed not to say that Ubuntu doesn't have some rough edges.
One really nice advantage I see, too, is that it sure if nice not to have my hard drive constantly thrashing from all of virus scanners, spyware scanners, etc., running in the background!
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mpaaBuddy is an on-screen "intelligent software agent" created by the MPAA, and based upon Microsoft Agent technology. The goal of the program is to help users enrich their online movie experience as they discover digital movies together with the included "mpaaBuddy," which is an animated, purple Tom Cruise. Users can interact with Tom by asking him questions, get recommendations on new movies released by MPAA members, as well as be politely informed when unapproved websites are loaded.
Other features include, an integrated download tracker, movie-related themes, desktops, screen savers, and cute, animated emoticons, bearing a resemblance to top-selling actors. Also included is a desktop search utility that indexes a hard drive's contents in order to allow the user to easily perform searches.
While initial response to the program has been positive, a few early users complain that the program is buggy. "The program keeps changing my home page to a crappy MPAA home page," said one teenager who wished to remain anonymous out of fear of a MPAA-sponsored lawsuit. There have also been complaints of an increase in pop-up advertising.
The C7 processor is supposed to use a lot less power than a normal chip. From what they are saying, someone leaving a computer on a lot could expect to save 10.00 a month in electricity. IF that is true, it wouldn about pay for itself in 24 months (again, that assumes what they are saying is true).
I set one of the 299.00 Wal-Mart computers up for a local volunteer fire station that had an application that needed XP, but they could only find Vista computers new. I wiped the drive and installed a legal copy of XP Pro for them. I thought it was pretty darn snappy with a gig of RAM in it. In fact, I plan on getting one of the 199.00 ones with Linux installed on it.
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No, they had the TOS, not to stop the exploitation of children, but to stop people criticizing AT&T's exploitation of children. As it turns out, they provide the phone service to the most heinous, blatant, and vile exploitation of children on the planet...Disneyland .
Subject: The Ant and the Grasshopper
*OLD VERSION*:
The ant works hard in the withering heat all summer long, building his house and laying up supplies for the winter.
The grasshopper thinks the ant is a fool and laughs and dances and plays the summer away.
Come winter, the ant is warm and well fed. The grasshopper has no food or shelter, so he dies out in the cold.
MORAL OF THE OLD STORY: Work and be responsible!
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*MODERN (JADED) VERSION:*
The ant works hard in the withering heat all summer long, building his house and laying up supplies for the winter. All he wants to do is be left alone. But times were hard. It seems that between federal taxes, state taxes, sales taxes, Social Security taxes, property taxes, fuel taxes, ad nausem...that the ant had too little left over to properly prepare for the future. Like most ants, he was forced to take a second job, but even with that, during a crisis, he was often forced to borrow money at high interests rates just to make it through a tough period. And getting caught back up again after he got back on his feet was almost impossible.
Ironic, because he paid such a high portion of his income out in taxes -- that were supposed to pay for the "services" he used -- the ant was hit with an extra fee for almost every service he attempted to use. There were fees to drive his car on the road. Fees to see the people whose salary was paid for by him. There were even fees to build on his own property. It seemed that every where the poor ant turned, there was someone with their hand out trying to get another piece of his income.
And, because of ever-soaring health-insurance premiums, the ant's employer was forced to drop to a cheaper insurer, which also meant his coverage was downgraded. Even with having insurance, the ant lived in fear of getting sick. And he was lucky, because many of his friends had lost their insurance all together.
The grasshoppers, however, thinks ants are fools and they all party hard all the way through college. Some grasshoppers become doctors, some lawyers, some politicians, and some go into the energy field. Other grasshoppers rise up the ranks of the military and law enforcement, while others drift upwards in labor unions.
The grasshoppers have figured out a way to live off of the labor of the ants. It is easy money and the grasshoppers party like there is no tomorrow.
The doctor grasshoppers found that they could charge huge amounts of money if the ants got sick. They found any numbers of things they could charge inflated prices for. Many broke the law and charged for things they didn't even do, while many stayed within the bounds of the law legally, while crossing the line morally. While the ants worried about making repairs to their little houses, the doctor grasshoppers had so much money that they pondered how park it in off shore bank accounts in order to avoid paying taxes. The grasshoppers knew that if they ran into real trouble, they could get their lawyer grasshopper buddies to get them off the hook.
The politician grasshoppers worked the ants for all they could, all the time proclaiming to be helping the ants. They tried their best to tighten the screws on the ants, but because some were slipping through the cracks, they installed great monitoring systems to watch the ants. It drove the grasshoppers mad to know there were ants out there that they didn't know what they were doing. They monitored their banking transactions. They recorded their telephone calls. They recorded every ant track left on the Internet. They even installed cameras in every place they could think of. Ironically, they did all of this by using money from the ants, and because that wasn't enough money to pay for it all, they borrowed money that the ant's children would be forced to pay back some day.
To make matters worse, the grasshopper king had conspired with the grasshoppers in the energy field to take over a major oil producing country. It seems the ants in that country
Trying to capture the 2000s youth market with a staple of 70s
television.
Why can't they bring back or remake good shows like B.J. And the
bear ?
Now, there's a concept I can't get enough of; a man and his
monkey.
I have a good Realaudio file by G. Edward Griffin giving a lecture on the Federal Reserve.
It can be found here:
http://www.reformed-theology.org/realaudio/griffin_1.rm
Yes, RealAudio sucks, and the audio wasn't that great to begin with, but it is a very good lecture.
You can listen to it using RealAlternative, too:
http://www.reformed-theology.org/downloads/realalternative.htm
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I have studied cancer for quite some time and I do know that *sometimes* a tumor is the body trying to put a barrier around something it doesn't know what to do with. In fact, tumors, unless they are doing damage to an important organ, or grow very large, usually won't kill you. It is only when they start to metastasize that you run into trouble pretty quick.
In fact, I have talked to several people that knew people that had tumors for many, many years and never had any trouble, but after their doctors talked them into removing the tumors and doing radiation/chemo treatment, they were dead within a year. Things that make you go hmmmmm.
So a tumor around a foreign body like that doesn't shock me too much.
Stung by criticism that it was utilizing unlicensed private investigators in order to track down alleged online copyright violators, the RIAA has admitted to "improperly obtaining" user data, and in an unusual near-apology, vowed to clean up its act. "It is time to face the music. We must stop the pursuit of personal destruction and the prying into private lives and get on with our national life. Our country has been distracted by this matter for too long, and I take my responsibility for my part in all of this. That is all I can do," said Mitch Bainwol, Chairman and CEO of the RIAA. Bainwole went on to say, "We have important work to do -- real pirated CDs to seize, real problems to solve, real security matters to face. I now ask you to turn away from the spectacle of the past eighteen months, to repair the fabric of our national discourse, and to return our attention to all the challenges and all the promise of upcoming American entertainment that will be brought to you by RIAA members.
On the same day, the RIAA also announced new software it would make available as a free download called riaaBuddy.
riaaBuddy is an on-screen "intelligent software agent" created by the RIAA, and based upon Microsoft Agent [wikipedia.org] technology. The goal of the program is to help users enrich their online musical experience as they discover digital music together with the included "riaaBuddy," which is an animated, purple Sheryl Crow. Users can interact with Sheryl by asking her questions, get recommendations on new music released by RIAA artist, as well as be politely informed when unapproved websites are loaded.
Other features include, an integrated download tracker, music-related themes, desktops, screen savers, and cute, animated emoticons, bearing a resemblance to top-selling RIAA artists. Also included is a desktop search utility that indexes a hard drive's contents in order to allow the user to easily perform searches.
While initial response to the program has been positive, a few early users complain that the program is buggy. The purple Sheryl Crow is said to only be able to sing the song Daisy Bell. "The program keeps changing my home page to a crappy RIAA home page," said one teenager who wished to remain anonymous out of fear of a RIAA-sponsored lawsuit. There have also been complaints of an increase in pop-up advertising.
The monkeys are actually doing INTER SPECIES erotica.
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They have consistently tried to do the wrong thing at every turn. It is like Bill Clinton, if he had just messed up once or twice with women, it wouldn't have been a huge deal, but he did it over and over and over again. So it is pretty clear he wasn't going to change his ways.
Also, after Gator software rebranded, I didn't rush out to install bonsaiBuddy...just look at their track record. Claria or not, I'm not touching anything they put out regardless of the name.
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If they go RIAA over news articles, things are going to get real ugly, real quick. Even though I disagree with the RIAA's tactics, I can at least see their line of reasoning. If people start getting sued for cutting and pasting text...when they weren't even making the text public, the crap is going to hit the fan.
Then again, maybe this is will be the wakeup call that everyone needs to see that things are working right.
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Here is someone selling a firewall that has a 1GHz VIA C7 processor, and is running Monowall:
- with-high-speed-routing-and-solid-state-media/
http://www.logicsupply.com/products/perimeter_r
Funny, we had a hotel that was having trouble with someone hammering the bandwidth. I wanted to build a Monowall firewall, but we ended up selling them an expensive wireless gateway. A year or two later, they were required, by the corporate office, to have 24-hour tech support for guests of the hotel. Since we didn't offer that, they outsourced. The company sent them a new gateway...which was Monowall running on a Sokeris board. No telling how much they are having to pay for that, either.
Don't know about throughput, but I have messed around with Monowall and liked it. Mikrotik also has a firewall, and is also a router. It will run on x86 based hardware, too.
Mikrotik's limitation seems to be more the hardware than the software. Here is a good review of someone trying to really push it to the edge when being used as a router:
http://blog.firebright.com/2006/10/12/experiments
As the guy said, Cisco is safe...for now. I'm impressed as hell by it, though. If I was filthy rich, I would buy the company.
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Add a radio card, an outdoor enclosure, and an antenna, and this might make a good access point that has a little more horsepower than your average AP.
I wonder if Mikrotik will run on it? I think it should...
Won't try to duplicate other comments on here, but the general use of these devices is to put them where someone is already slowing down anyway.
Before any of this ever came out, I posted here on Slashdot about an invention I thought of, which was "speed bumps" that produced electricity. Good lord, you would have thought I was satan for suggesting that.
But what people can't freaking get through their skulls, is that you put speed bumps where you are trying to get people to waste energy anyway by slowing down. Speed bumps on their own take energy. Why not get a little back? In fact, these speed bumps would probably take less energy than a real speed bump because they would have to have more give to them.
And if you only put these things where you would put a speed bump, there would be no problem with generating energy this way.
Now if you put them in the middle of freaking interstate highways, heck yeah, I agree with your post 100%. That's stupid, and that is not what people are talking about doing. But what if you put some on the off-ramp of the same highway going to the roadside stop? A vast sea of cars, probably almost 24 hours a day, that are in the process of braking and slowing down anyway. No problem with getting a little of energy they are already in the process of wasting...
As it turns out, the person that came up with the idea was working on it years before I thought of it...but I heard there were cities lining up to buy his stuff. So people can call people names all they want, but it is obvious some people just can't grasp the bigger picture...and that guy is going to be laughing all the way to the bank.
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> It'd just burn battery and heat up my genitals.
Dude, that's not a bug, it's a feature.
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The real question is, how are they going to tax it? A car driving on a public road and not paying a gasoline tax. In Fascist America, the jack-booted thugs are going to stomp someone over that. My guess is, that's the real reason it is only getting 8 miles on a full charge, when other people are building stuff that gets twice that out of their garages. Transporter_ii
I must say that I'm not totally sure I agree with this (and I usually am pretty much right on with Slashdot group think on copyright laws).
For instance, I have made a little pocket change reprinting a rare 1863 cookbook. By no means am I getting rich off of it, but I do put a copyright on the ebooks I sell just to have some legal options. I don't care if someone prints it out and OCRs it, there isn't a thing in the world I could do about that. But I had to spend a couple of days OCRing the material, cleaning it up, and formatting it. Anyone else wanting to sell it, or give it away, should have to do the same, not swipe my work.
How exactly should someone be able to just start reselling my ebook and why is that wrong of me to put a copyright notice on it?
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Stung by criticism that it was utilizing unlicensed private investigators in order to track down alleged online copyright violators, the RIAA has admitted to "improperly obtaining" user data, and in an unusual near-apology, vowed to clean up its act. "It is time to face the music. We must stop the pursuit of personal destruction and the prying into private lives and get on with our national life. Our country has been distracted by this matter for too long, and I take my responsibility for my part in all of this. That is all I can do," said Mitch Bainwol, Chairman and CEO of the RIAA. Bainwole went on to say, "We have important work to do -- real pirated CDs to seize, real problems to solve, real security matters to face. I now ask you to turn away from the spectacle of the past eighteen months, to repair the fabric of our national discourse, and to return our attention to all the challenges and all the promise of upcoming American entertainment that will be brought to you by RIAA members.
On the same day, the RIAA also announced new software it would make available as a free download called riaaBuddy.
riaaBuddy is an on-screen "intelligent software agent" created by the RIAA, and based upon Microsoft Agent [wikipedia.org] technology. The goal of the program is to help users enrich their online musical experience as they discover digital music together with the included "riaaBuddy," which is an animated, purple Sheryl Crow. Users can interact with Sheryl by asking her questions, get recommendations on new music released by RIAA artist, as well as be politely informed when unapproved websites are loaded.
Other features include, an integrated download tracker, music-related themes, desktops, screen savers, and cute, animated emoticons, bearing a resemblance to top-selling RIAA artists. Also included is a desktop search utility that indexes a hard drive's contents in order to allow the user to easily perform searches.
While initial response to the program has been positive, a few early users complain that the program is buggy. The purple Sheryl Crow is said to only be able to sing the song Daisy Bell. "The program keeps changing my home page to a crappy RIAA home page," said one teenager who wished to remain anonymous out of fear of a RIAA-sponsored lawsuit. There have also been complaints of an increase in pop-up advertising.
What would be even cooler, would be a weed growing robot. And if they come up with this, I think a fitting name would be Bender.
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The really funny thing is, that was supposed to have been a joke, but being so freaking close to what the MPAA is doing, it really isn't funny anymore.
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Stung by criticism that it was utilizing unlicensed private investigators in order to track down alleged online copyright violators, the RIAA has admitted to "improperly obtaining" user data, and in an unusual near-apology, vowed to clean up its act. "It is time to face the music. We must stop the pursuit of personal destruction and the prying into private lives and get on with our national life. Our country has been distracted by this matter for too long, and I take my responsibility for my part in all of this. That is all I can do," said Mitch Bainwol, Chairman and CEO of the RIAA. Bainwole went on to say, "We have important work to do -- real pirated CDs to seize, real problems to solve, real security matters to face. I now ask you to turn away from the spectacle of the past eighteen months, to repair the fabric of our national discourse, and to return our attention to all the challenges and all the promise of upcoming American entertainment that will be brought to you by RIAA members.
On the same day, the RIAA also announced new software it would make available as a free download called riaaBuddy.
riaaBuddy is an on-screen "intelligent software agent" created by the RIAA, and based upon Microsoft Agent technology. The goal of the program is to help users enrich their online musical experience as they discover digital music together with the included "riaaBuddy," which is an animated, purple Sheryl Crow. Users can interact with Sheryl by asking her questions, get recommendations on new music released by RIAA artist, as well as be politely informed when unapproved websites are loaded.
Other features include, an integrated download tracker, music-related themes, desktops, screen savers, and cute, animated emoticons, bearing a resemblance to top-selling RIAA artists. Also included is a desktop search utility that indexes a hard drive's contents in order to allow the user to easily perform searches.
While initial response to the program has been positive, a few early users complain that the program is buggy. The purple Sheryl Crow is said to only be able to sing the song Daisy Bell. "The program keeps changing my home page to a crappy RIAA home page," said one teenager who wished to remain anonymous out of fear of a RIAA-sponsored lawsuit. There have also been complaints of an increase in pop-up advertising.
It is like the Muslims and the 77 virgins. Why just 77? Why not 177 or 1077 virgins?
If you are just going to pull numbers out of the air, why not 500,000.00 a day, or a million? Heck, why not a trillion dollars a day?
At a trillion dollars a day, if the feds could catch about 8 to 10 caller-id spoofers, the US could be completely out of debt.
And as long as we are living in fantasy land, why don't we pass some laws against Congress, so that they can't spend our children and our children's children into debt hell.
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With a little searching, I found two ISPs doing this right off the bat:
gator-isp.com
bonzai-isp-buddy.com