Aha! If this bit is true, that they are targeting the people who did it last time, it throws an entirely different light on the suite than the just trying to get free security guards or suing the future many other posts are worry about. (How's that for English?:)
While our infrastructure does have serious problems, you cannot not oversell. Overselling is the entire business model. The real cost of bandwidth is wildly different than what the consumer pays for it. It's easy to demonstrate: cost of T1 vs costs of 1mbps of residential broadband. The difference is that one is oversold, the other is not (ignoring upstream/downstream for simplicity). If you want real bandwidth, you have to pay through the nose for it.
Now, how much overselling is ethical is another question.
Wait, so, these projects had nothing to do with legislation and they caused rapid, beneficial changes without tax dollars?! Amazing what sunshine will do...
Actually, the reason the market is so odd to begin with is because of local government intervention. The practice of granting local monopolies is the #1 reason we have all this mess. Instead of a complicated and cumbersome "Net Neutrality" that gives the FCC, the FEC, or $AGENCY a door into Internet regulation, let's just have Congress (or even one state) ban the granting of local monopolies. Let all 8 companies all run their lines to each house. Yes, it's physically messy, but it would definitely solve the problem.
You don't get it. Truth is important, but this isn't a political game in our safe Western political environment. The release of these documents (and especially the piles of needless and real details) has caused incalculable damage to the Free World's ability to get cooperation out of locals. At least one informant has already died because someone thought it would be cool to dump classified military operations on the net.
If you were living under Islamic rule, and you were part of the local underground aiding the enemy capitalist, what would your opinion be when you learned that one of the capitalists' own men had given YOUR name and location to the oppressors? That's betrayal, pure and simple. You and your family will die, and others in the underground are far less likely to risk anything in the future.
Protecting sources should be a number one priority, and has been for many years and through many wars and agencies. It is a blot on our entire nation when you betray someone who has voluntarily aided us. There's a reason militaries have classification schemes! Information has more power than bullets. Yes, it is often abused. But the decision to release these documents was grossly irresponsible and stupid.
Hmm, I also work at a local PC repair shop, and I disagree with your assessment of all anti-malware software. Malwarebyte's real-time protection has done wonders for some of my customers. The porno-watchers come in more frequently than anyone else, and one guy in particular was in literally every month. Since selling him a $25 MBAM license we haven't seen him since. Now, that may not appear good for business, but I think that what's good for the customer is usually good for business in the long run.
Now, I agree most anti-malware software is junk. Ad-Aware, Webroot, etc are all quite antiquated, but MBAM is relatively new and is still at the edge of the arms race. When coupled with the latest NOD32, I can usually keep a family PC clean for least a year or more. The problem is when people disable it manually...
Trivia: Evoluon, the name of the original museum/building built by Philips to celebrate its 75th anniversary, is now a meeting/event center. While it's a shame that the exhibits aren't there, it's nice that the building has been kept up.
(Submitter here.) I currently use Google Voice and have a personalized number. The Google Voice for mobile page doesn't have much detail. Does the app actually have its own SIP client? I know the "dumb phone" mode just relays through my normal voice service.
Submitter here. I already have an EEE 1005HA netbook with Bluetooth, but I can't have it awake constantly to receive calls. I'm going for the functionality and appearance of a phone without becoming a Verizon customer.
I placed a bid on a used Nokia N95 as dr00p suggested. He says it has a native SIP client that works over WiFi, which sounds perfect.
It's not even that. I'm shocked that here on Slashdot the first couple dozen posts actually take this seriously. IT'S A TRAP. This should be blatantly obvious. The entire point of this is to get rid of online anonymity, which government and legal trolls hate.
BP did not have the money seized from they, they willing agreed to put the money in an escrow.
While you are technically correct, the press recognized that BP had little choice and reported that Congress ordered them to. Congress did loudly order it, ever though they had no legal muscle behind it. Doesn't that seem abusive?
Of course people like you would rather those harmed not to be paid.
That's totally untrue. I just object to the bullying and discarding of proper procedures. We have a court system for these kinds of things.
News flash: The United States is still inexorably reliant on its oil industry. If the Obama administration wants to do something about future oil disasters, maybe it should think more seriously about that and what can be done about it. Also, had government done a better job of regulating the oil industry in the first place, BP's shoddy practices might not have gone unchecked and this disaster might never have happened.
You have too much faith. Sadly, Obama's administration cares nothing about future oil disasters. The point is that one should never let a crisis go to waste.
Actually apologized to BP a few days ago for them having to pay for the damage they caused? Should we assume that guy had public interest at heart?
This is the United States of America. An executive order or congressional bill CANNOT seize BP's cash (property). You just can't do that under the Constitution. Seizure is not a power of the executive or legislative branch; the judicial branch can do it but only after due process!
Barton said something very unpopular, but he is dead right.
"Attention all units! A geek on Level 1 is actively exterminating first responders. He is armed with extensive data and excess free time. Prepare for damage control! All responders on Level 2 are advised to stall him."
I knew someone who decided to quit by just putting his headset on the table and reading a book, still in the phone queue, lasted a month before they found out his calls were just dead air.
Did that person have initials JB? Because the head tech at the local PC shop I work for (6+ years he's been here now actually fixing problems) did exactly that.
You see, a zygote is not a person, I have seen photos and video of microscopic zygotes and they are not persons. Given the right conditions and a uterus a zygote has a certain probability of growing into a person but just like spermatozoa and ovams a zygote will never grow into a person without the correct conditions.
He was on trial for murder and tried to escape. In the process he shot and killed an attorney and seriously wounded the bailiff (who did not return to work for about six months and lived in pain until his death in 1995). Gardner then got to have himself another murder trial...
There is a proper place for execution, and this is it. It's not pretty. But it is just.
I'm not sure it's a mistranslation as much as a change in the English language since the KJV was translated 300 some years ago. People "got it" then, but now our use of the word kill has slightly different connotations. You're right; modern translations do use murder there.
I object to IVF shotgun-style fertilization for two reasons. First, it creates and destroys many humans (albeit small ones) that have souls. Second, it creates a temptation to pick and choose "perfect" people from a lot. If I knew that was picked from a dozen or so* other siblings because the doctor thought I was healthier or prettier, I would probably have some serious self-worth struggles.
In the natural in vivo method, you usually have one egg released and fertilized, not a pile.
*I cannot seem to find any hard numbers on how many embryos are typically created. It seems to vary quite a bit depending on the health of the people involved.
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Aha! If this bit is true, that they are targeting the people who did it last time, it throws an entirely different light on the suite than the just trying to get free security guards or suing the future many other posts are worry about. (How's that for English? :)
While our infrastructure does have serious problems, you cannot not oversell. Overselling is the entire business model. The real cost of bandwidth is wildly different than what the consumer pays for it. It's easy to demonstrate: cost of T1 vs costs of 1mbps of residential broadband. The difference is that one is oversold, the other is not (ignoring upstream/downstream for simplicity). If you want real bandwidth, you have to pay through the nose for it.
Now, how much overselling is ethical is another question.
Wait, so, these projects had nothing to do with legislation and they caused rapid, beneficial changes without tax dollars?! Amazing what sunshine will do...
I agree. This cure is worse than the symptoms. Once the bureaucrats get their hands on the net they will never let go.
Actually, the reason the market is so odd to begin with is because of local government intervention. The practice of granting local monopolies is the #1 reason we have all this mess. Instead of a complicated and cumbersome "Net Neutrality" that gives the FCC, the FEC, or $AGENCY a door into Internet regulation, let's just have Congress (or even one state) ban the granting of local monopolies. Let all 8 companies all run their lines to each house. Yes, it's physically messy, but it would definitely solve the problem.
You don't get it. Truth is important, but this isn't a political game in our safe Western political environment. The release of these documents (and especially the piles of needless and real details) has caused incalculable damage to the Free World's ability to get cooperation out of locals. At least one informant has already died because someone thought it would be cool to dump classified military operations on the net.
If you were living under Islamic rule, and you were part of the local underground aiding the enemy capitalist, what would your opinion be when you learned that one of the capitalists' own men had given YOUR name and location to the oppressors? That's betrayal, pure and simple. You and your family will die, and others in the underground are far less likely to risk anything in the future.
Protecting sources should be a number one priority, and has been for many years and through many wars and agencies. It is a blot on our entire nation when you betray someone who has voluntarily aided us. There's a reason militaries have classification schemes! Information has more power than bullets. Yes, it is often abused. But the decision to release these documents was grossly irresponsible and stupid.
Because doing that would require a government order, and once the government is in, it will never get out. The cure is worse than the disease.
Hmm, I also work at a local PC repair shop, and I disagree with your assessment of all anti-malware software. Malwarebyte's real-time protection has done wonders for some of my customers. The porno-watchers come in more frequently than anyone else, and one guy in particular was in literally every month. Since selling him a $25 MBAM license we haven't seen him since. Now, that may not appear good for business, but I think that what's good for the customer is usually good for business in the long run.
Now, I agree most anti-malware software is junk. Ad-Aware, Webroot, etc are all quite antiquated, but MBAM is relatively new and is still at the edge of the arms race. When coupled with the latest NOD32, I can usually keep a family PC clean for least a year or more. The problem is when people disable it manually...
Trivia: Evoluon, the name of the original museum/building built by Philips to celebrate its 75th anniversary, is now a meeting/event center. While it's a shame that the exhibits aren't there, it's nice that the building has been kept up.
(Submitter here.) I currently use Google Voice and have a personalized number. The Google Voice for mobile page doesn't have much detail. Does the app actually have its own SIP client? I know the "dumb phone" mode just relays through my normal voice service.
Submitter here. I already have an EEE 1005HA netbook with Bluetooth, but I can't have it awake constantly to receive calls. I'm going for the functionality and appearance of a phone without becoming a Verizon customer.
I placed a bid on a used Nokia N95 as dr00p suggested. He says it has a native SIP client that works over WiFi, which sounds perfect.
It's not even that. I'm shocked that here on Slashdot the first couple dozen posts actually take this seriously. IT'S A TRAP. This should be blatantly obvious. The entire point of this is to get rid of online anonymity, which government and legal trolls hate.
Read this post a few screens up: http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1699416&cid=32702330
I know President Obama is popular here, but everything his administration has proposed for the Internet has sinister long-term ramifications.
Eric Holder Advocated Internet "Restrictions"
The Internet "Kill Switch"
Obama's "Internet Czar"
Obama's Version of "Net Neutrality"
These plans do not exactly champion freedom and free speech. Rather, they seek to slowly erode the power of the online masses.
BP did not have the money seized from they, they willing agreed to put the money in an escrow.
While you are technically correct, the press recognized that BP had little choice and reported that Congress ordered them to. Congress did loudly order it, ever though they had no legal muscle behind it. Doesn't that seem abusive?
Of course people like you would rather those harmed not to be paid.
That's totally untrue. I just object to the bullying and discarding of proper procedures. We have a court system for these kinds of things.
Also, why do some subdomains not have the AJAX-style interface today?
News flash: The United States is still inexorably reliant on its oil industry. If the Obama administration wants to do something about future oil disasters, maybe it should think more seriously about that and what can be done about it. Also, had government done a better job of regulating the oil industry in the first place, BP's shoddy practices might not have gone unchecked and this disaster might never have happened.
You have too much faith. Sadly, Obama's administration cares nothing about future oil disasters. The point is that one should never let a crisis go to waste.
Then don't fucking drill and save yourself those fucking millions.
So the investors (ie fat cats) should save their millions instead of pay it to the workers (ie little guys). Are you sure that's what you meant?
Or is losing an ENTIRE FUCKING COAST so unimportant to you as to oppose halting new activity for a little bit?
The oil is already spilled - stopping drilling will not cure that.
Actually apologized to BP a few days ago for them having to pay for the damage they caused? Should we assume that guy had public interest at heart?
This is the United States of America. An executive order or congressional bill CANNOT seize BP's cash (property). You just can't do that under the Constitution. Seizure is not a power of the executive or legislative branch; the judicial branch can do it but only after due process!
Barton said something very unpopular, but he is dead right.
"Attention all units! A geek on Level 1 is actively exterminating first responders. He is armed with extensive data and excess free time. Prepare for damage control! All responders on Level 2 are advised to stall him."
I knew someone who decided to quit by just putting his headset on the table and reading a book, still in the phone queue, lasted a month before they found out his calls were just dead air.
Did that person have initials JB? Because the head tech at the local PC shop I work for (6+ years he's been here now actually fixing problems) did exactly that.
(There doesn't appear to be a right answer here, so I'll go for vaguely funny.) Those of us in the US wonder why you're such a grouch?
With responsibility comes privilege.
You see, a zygote is not a person, I have seen photos and video of microscopic zygotes and they are not persons. Given the right conditions and a uterus a zygote has a certain probability of growing into a person but just like spermatozoa and ovams a zygote will never grow into a person without the correct conditions.
So at what point does it become a person?
He was on trial for murder and tried to escape. In the process he shot and killed an attorney and seriously wounded the bailiff (who did not return to work for about six months and lived in pain until his death in 1995). Gardner then got to have himself another murder trial...
There is a proper place for execution, and this is it. It's not pretty. But it is just.
I'm not sure it's a mistranslation as much as a change in the English language since the KJV was translated 300 some years ago. People "got it" then, but now our use of the word kill has slightly different connotations. You're right; modern translations do use murder there.
I object to IVF shotgun-style fertilization for two reasons. First, it creates and destroys many humans (albeit small ones) that have souls. Second, it creates a temptation to pick and choose "perfect" people from a lot. If I knew that was picked from a dozen or so* other siblings because the doctor thought I was healthier or prettier, I would probably have some serious self-worth struggles.
In the natural in vivo method, you usually have one egg released and fertilized, not a pile.
*I cannot seem to find any hard numbers on how many embryos are typically created. It seems to vary quite a bit depending on the health of the people involved.