Comment Re:Time a truly anonymous network for P2P (Score 1) 165
There are a few (such as Freenet) but have their issues such as low uptake, being slow, and child porn.
There are a few (such as Freenet) but have their issues such as low uptake, being slow, and child porn.
I was hoping someone would've already pointed that out! Additionally:
The data of stations located in areas not listed in the Hadley CRU survey often does not show any substantial warming in the late 20th century and the early 21st century.
That is a Strawman argument. No scientist has claimed that every region of the world must experience warming simultaneously in order for the global mean to increase: Regional cooling does not disprove global warming.
perhaps when you become financially independent you can pay for all the copyrighted materials you wish to download... and/or buy a shiny new secure wifi access point so that your new neighbours can't leech themselves silly on your connection and blame you.
or, just move here and take two strikes... then move somewhere else
I'm damn sure that if I found some ripping off my work(*), that I wouldn't want to be reduced to sending them three "Pretty please stop" letters before finally being given the chance to inconvenience them temporarily.
Clearly the NZ government is heavily biased in favour of the leechers and pirates, and hates rights owners with a passion.
(*) Work is something that you produce in return for renumeration, once you move out of your parents' basement.
...If however you never go outside, or otherwise spend 100% of your time in areas with free WiFi, then it's great for you, but there's no point making a big deal about it because it's a useless idea for most mobile users.....
You can extend your WiFi even outdoors, I know this is not what you mean.
I had over $150 per month plan...switched to VoIP, ditched cellular, so I save allot.
Total Cost of my Old Cellular plan:
$150 * 12 = $1,800 per year * 3 years = $5,400.00 + $500 hand set = $5,900.00 (TCO) Total Cost of Ownership over 3 years.
Skype: My service is less than $100 per year.
$100 per year * 3 years = $300 + Nokia N800 ($500, when I bought it, $200 today) = $800.
$5,400.00 - $800 = $4,600.00 in savings. That is a very big deal to me and I bet 80% of the others reading this.
I had my router/firewall, but lets say you did not. Lets say you buy one of the better DD-WRT supported device! costing $100 (I have bought these for $15 per router and they have $200 dollar routers also, with the DD-WRT software they are worth between $600 - $1000 dollars for that $15, $100 or $200 hardware cost! And there is nothing you can NOT do with DD-WRT!).
$4,600.00 - $100 = $4,500.00 in savings.
So you need cellular for emergencies, no problem... Prepaid hand set ($100), $50 for prepaid minutes the first year, if not included for the $100. (Plus $20 for year two and $20 for year 3. No one has this phone number, therefore no one can call it, just for me to call out in an emergency. The cellular plan I bought allows my minutes to remain active for one year. No monthly recharge, that would be stupid.
$4,500.00 - $190 ($100 + $50 + $20 + $20) = $4,310.00 in savings.
So I have cellular when I need it, emergencies only. I have unlimited calling and a phone number for people to call me back from any phone, cellular or landline. If I am not connected to the internet, Skype Pro takes a message, which I get the next time I connect to the internet from anywhere, at work, at home or other WiFi hotzone.
I do not fear getting a ticket for talking on my cellphone when driving, my state does not allow that, driving without hands free device. I was never worried about distractions when driving, as I have been driving for years, however with newer, younger drivers this is important. Removes the temptation to answer the phone in the car, if a phone can NOT ring.
No fear of extra charges. Does not happen with WiFi or Internet direct connected VoIP.
I do not count the cost of Internet Access at home as you have that with cellular anyway. So that is a wash. I do recommend fiber always, but if no fiber, go DSL, just say no to Cable. By the time they restrict, throttle your service you would be better off with DSL service at 1.5Mbps down / 384 Kbps upstream. Most of you do not see how bad your Cable modem / service is throttled because you do not have a firewall/router device capable of showing you this in real time like the DD-WRT software shows you. You need to know, get a DD-WRT enabled router and learn the truth.
I figured I could purchase two separate DSL providers fro the cost of one Cable provider, thus I have redundancy built in. Yea!
My next apartment/home will have fiber and I will never look back!
I call $4,500.00 in savings over three years, very significant and you should too!
Think the cost of a N900 is pricey and i agree, $599.00. What if I changed my $150 per month cellular service plan to $50 per month thanks to the WiFi capability of the Nokia N900 or Android smart phones? $599.00 / $100 = I have paid for my new Nokia in 6 months with the savings by reducing my cellular plan. If you can reduce your plan by even $50 per month, you will recoup the cost of your Nokia N900 in 1 year. And after that its paid for! Best of all its a computer with full browser, GPS and more and also your phone!
Well, gas isn't $4 a gallon any more is it?
You absolutely right! On an unrelated note, I've recently come into possession of an amazing tiger-repellant rock that I'd be willing to sell you...
"Just to be absolutely clear, you are doing 'Right Click, Get Info, Open With, Change All'?"
Yes, that's precisely what I did.
And, yes - I expected it to open with whatever program I specified - just as Explorer will do in Windows or Nautilus in Ubuntu. My comments resulted from my surprise that I was unable to set AVIs to open with VLC despite my numerous attempts.
And I apologize that I wasn't very clear. I was pretty limited time-wise and didn't remember the exact wording or process. However, I know I did "right click, get info, open with, change all" since that's pretty much the same way it works in Windows - and the same way I set MKVs to play in VLC earlier - on the same machine.
But I think another Slashdot reader has posted the solution:
"I believe you're running into a "feature" that's causing some confusion. If you manually change a document's open with application it segregates itself from the pool of documents that change when you hit "change all" on other documents. In case it's 12:30 and I'm not making sense I'll give an example...
You have a.tif, b.tif, and c.tif. The default program for opening
I think for one reason or another these avi files think they're all out of the pool. You can change the files already on your drive to use the default quickly by using the Find command to find all files ending in
Hope this helps, works, makes sense, and wasn't too wordy (I don't know how well you know your way around the MacOS so I explained a bit more than usual)."
Every month i transfer funds to my flatmate with reference who then transfers to the account of our real estate agent takes 10 mins
before i moved out i transferred rent and board to my parents account each month same system 1 min work
bank transfer again for situation 2 or bank cheque (quite different from norm cheque)
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Never use ear buds.
Actually, I use ear buds specifically because of that. Most *decent* earbuds will block out external noise, which lets you use a much lower volume. The downside is that it makes you pretty oblivious to your surroundings.
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