Actually the range of the predator is limited more by the 1998 INF treaty than by their actual range.
The treaty limits them to 5000 Km. I have not seen any info on their actually range which is no dount classified information.
There is a nice write up (and picture) on this rather funky looking bird in this article.
My biggest concern about IP Telephony is that the packets can be easily intercepted and decoded. No longer will someone need physical access to the "wire" to tap your conversations.
A Washington Post article about this stated that a new and seperate company would be spun off. It also noted that AT&T already has a 25% stake in AOL Time Warner.
This merger with AOL may be a step in the right direction, by creating a company that is again focused on a single product line and that is backed by companies with significant resources. Could this step be the the one that puts cable broadband service back in the right direction?
Having been a Cable customer since 1997 I have seen my cable service provider aquired three times already. Back then I subscribed with Highway 1 when there were undoubtedly less than one thousand subscribers. While the market was growing, service continued to improve. Now broadband seems to have become a commodity and service has deteriorated.
One can only hope that by creating a more focused company, and one that is back by deep coffers, that this might just be what the industry needs.
According to the article "During harsh Martian winters, when temperatures plummet to minus-328 Fahrenheit, these so-called Mars Surface Organisms are protected by a thick blanket of ice which then melts as the planet's early summer temperatures climb to just above zero.
Large gray dark dune spots -- with a diameter ranging from 30 feet to several hundred yards -- are left behind.
These, the Hungarians claim, are dried-out organisms which can reactivate themselves once the colder, icy season sets in again."
It would seem to me that the NSA may benifit from being perceived as behind in technology on several fronts. First it may cause those they monitor to let their guard down, though I cna't imagine anyone with any smarts really falling for that old trick.
Second, and more importantly, it gives them an edge in seeking additional funding. Now I don't know how their funding is approved (does anyone) but I wouldn't be surprised if it has become an issue.
Can we really trust that there is any validity to these statements and what was shown. How would you verify this information.
Speaking of one big Advertisment...
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· Score: 1
The Oracle Ad was extremely annoying. There it
was right in the middle of the page and so large
that it obscures most of the beginning of the
article. Not to mention that it didn't get
removed by my filtering software. Not good.
Not good at all.
I can get to the web page but I can't view the
picture of the coffe pot. Too much traffic I
suspect. Reliabilty of service or the lack of
continues to be major issue with the Web (servers
and Internet connectivity included).
As for Banner Ad's, I don't see any (thanks to
filtering software such as AdSubtract).
What if the government is run by another Hitler?
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Can we trust the governement to always do
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Of course the next step in this vein would be to team it up with a tactile / force feedback glove.
Can you imagine Diablo II with this kind of a setup.
Way cool!
Apologies! That should have been 500Km
Actually the range of the predator is limited more by the 1998 INF treaty than by their actual range.
The treaty limits them to 5000 Km. I have not seen any info on their actually range which is no dount classified information.
There is a nice write up (and picture) on this rather funky looking bird in this article.
My biggest concern about IP Telephony is that the packets can be easily intercepted and decoded. No longer will someone need physical access to the "wire" to tap your conversations.
A Washington Post article about this stated that a new and seperate company would be spun off. It also noted that AT&T already has a 25% stake in AOL Time Warner.
This merger with AOL may be a step in the right direction, by creating a company that is again focused on a single product line and that is backed by companies with significant resources. Could this step be the the one that puts cable broadband service back in the right direction?
Having been a Cable customer since 1997 I have seen my cable service provider aquired three times already. Back then I subscribed with Highway 1 when there were undoubtedly less than one thousand subscribers. While the market was growing, service continued to improve. Now broadband seems to have become a commodity and service has deteriorated.
One can only hope that by creating a more focused company, and one that is back by deep coffers, that this might just be what the industry needs.
According to the article "During harsh Martian winters, when temperatures plummet to minus-328 Fahrenheit, these so-called Mars Surface Organisms are protected by a thick blanket of ice which then melts as the planet's early summer temperatures climb to just above zero.
Large gray dark dune spots -- with a diameter ranging from 30 feet to several hundred yards -- are left behind.
These, the Hungarians claim, are dried-out organisms which can reactivate themselves once the colder, icy season sets in again."
Here is the
article I submitted yesterday.
I submitted a post about this very item and it was rejected.
It would seem to me that the NSA may benifit from being perceived as behind in technology on several fronts. First it may cause those they monitor to let their guard down, though I cna't imagine anyone with any smarts really falling for that old trick.
Second, and more importantly, it gives them an edge in seeking additional funding. Now I don't know how their funding is approved (does anyone) but I wouldn't be surprised if it has become an issue.
Can we really trust that there is any validity to these statements and what was shown. How would you verify this information.
The Oracle Ad was extremely annoying. There it was right in the middle of the page and so large that it obscures most of the beginning of the article. Not to mention that it didn't get removed by my filtering software. Not good. Not good at all.
I can get to the web page but I can't view the
picture of the coffe pot. Too much traffic I
suspect. Reliabilty of service or the lack of
continues to be major issue with the Web (servers
and Internet connectivity included).
As for Banner Ad's, I don't see any (thanks to
filtering software such as AdSubtract).
Can we trust the governement to always do what is right?
The funniest piece of code I can recall was in .profile, it was:
a users
PS1=`echo $LOGNAME | cut -d= -f2`
PS1=$PS1"> "