I don't believe it says a word about women-on-women, never says that non-reproductive procreation is sinful (as long as your assistant is not married to anyone else),
Errr, the bible may not forbid you to have sex with your "assistant", but your wife, coworkers, and boss might get upset.......unless you're getting your wife to role-play your assistant. In which case, kudos!
Several of your concerns are already addressed, or have been addressed. The last patch added in the ability to see your raid's health (just drag and drop either a class or the party number from the raid panel). Dire Maul has exits. Zul'Gurub (an instance in the next patch) will be a 20-man instance. The instance, IMHO, have gotten shorter- a Dire Maul East boss run gets you good loot and is doable faster. 4 of the classes have healing. I've main-healed UBRS as a paladin (admittedly, I'm specced and geared for it). The developers are supposedly re-evaulating the paladin's Blessings.
...my machines would all've been taken over a really, really long time ago. I run a mix of 2K and XP on my home network, and the machines are all clean. I have no virus protection, I have no real firewall installed.
I just don't go look at "TOP 500 p0rn SITEZ!!!" links, don't open e-mail attachments unless I know where they came from, etc.
And my machines are fine. Make all the jokes you want, go ahead and feel superior, whatever. But I check my machines pretty thoroughly, and they're clean. Have been for years. I haven't had a virus on my network since I got rid of Win95.
Or ASP... If you're a web monkey, it's Active Server Pages. If you're a suit, it's Application Service Provider. If you're an old army grunt, it's Ammo Supply point...
This is a bad and wrond solution to this. Interoperability will not be achieved by breaking compatibility with Win2K. I think the solution to this is to "clean room" it by sending it to someone in some Eris-forsaken republic ending in -stan, and having them remove all the trade secret/licesening information, and sending it back to someone here in the U.S. Therefore, you can say that there was no license on the version you read. Then someone can implement it based upon that version.
I think this sort of thing would be the best solution to the Microsoft case-force them to base everything on every layer on open standards. Then anyone could compete with them in any product area. Think you can write a better kernel tham M$? Go ahead. You'd have to start from scratch, but you could make it completely compatible. The other half of the solution, of course, is that you'd have to force Microsoft to charge the same price to everyone, thus negating their power over the OEMs.
Just my $1.00/50
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...is going to be that it will force us to stop accepting half-measures. In the U.S. (possibly other places, I don't know), we keep drawing the middle ground when we can't agree on a solution.
For example, the abortion battles. On one side, we have those who say that abortion is murder, and on the other we have people saying it's merely something that the mother has the right to do. So, instead of really coming up with a clear solution, we limp along by discussing bans on "partial-birth abortion", and similar legal/medical vagaries (Life of the mother in danger, also).
As I was saying before I got off on a rant, I think copyright will be one of the issues that forces this country to decide which of a set of artificial rights (all rights are artificial. See Heinlein) has precedence. Here you have two sets of rights in direct conflict: My rights as an end user to do whatever I want with a piece of work, and the creator's right to sell a product under whatever conditions he/she/it see fit. Hopefully, this conflict will lead to a decision one way or the other. Either the rights of the owner are more important, or the rights of the buyer (I say the buyer, but other people don't see it that way).
What we've got right now is a middling (and therefore, IMHO non-optimal) solution, where the creator's rights are more important for a given period of time.
Why is it that Americans (and I'm one of them) always think so linearly? By that, I mean, they assume that A causes B, which causes C, which causes D. Sometimes in the real world, D was caused by A+B+C simultaneously.
Why is this relevant? People keep looking for a single cause to Collumbine. There isn't any. All of the following played a role:
The easy availability of firearms to irresponsible people
The hands-off approach to parenting
The fact that one of them went off of his psychoactive medication
The amazingly violent culture we live in
The ostracism a lot of kids experience in school
etc.
These events are a prime example of multicausality. If these kids had had no access to weaponry, or if their parents had cared enough to ask about the gun sticking out of the bag, or if they hadn't been picked on at school, this event wouldn't have happened. (not that the overactive news media helped, either)
It's thinking like this that makes me want to leave the country.
...that the browser manufacturers have been WAY too slow to adopt new formats. There's no real reason that the latest versions of IE/Netscape/Opera/whatever couldn't support pretty much ALL the graphics file formats. I seem to recall the guys over at Be talking about implementing essentially a JPEG driver that would allow ANY application to take a JPEG in and use it.
We really need to see these companies stop using file formats as weapons, and start utilizing them as ways to communicate. File formats should be open, period. It seems to me that gaming companies tend be way ahead of the rest of the industry in most trends, and the trend toward open file formats seems to be one of them. In Q3 the sounds are WAVs, the graphics are like TIFFs or something (don't remember exactly), the map format is open, and even the format they use as a container is open (in this case, uncompressed ZIPs). We'll get the rest of the industry there, but it's gonna take awhile.
I went to a nice, recently built high school (Hey, I only graduated 2 years ago). We had big computer labs, TVs in every classroom, etc. But the school wasn't designed for the students. All of the classrooms were in one end of the building (which, incidentally, had a pull-down metal gate for hiding it). There was a HUGE expansive lobby, a gigantic theater, etc. But the school is MASSIVELY overcrowded. It was designed for 2000. Then the administrators, noticing that the first year it was open there were 2300, decided to reclassify it, and claim it's designed for 2600.
Last year, there were over 2800. But the state legislature stepped in (with a program ironically titled 'Students First'), and decided that the rating for the school should be based upon TOTAL square footage, instead of actual classroom space. So now, this designed-for-2000-student school is rated for around 3600.
This is in the state of Arizona, which politcally is downright dominated by Maricopa County (where Phoenix is). They go out of their way to steal money from the schools outside of Maricopa. So what they're really doing is trying to tell us that we're not getting a new a school anytime soon.
And in the meantime, in this high-tech building with lovely architecture, we're using books that are falling apart, there's not enough lockers for the students (there's a long waiting list to get a locker if you're a freshman), the library doesn't have any books on anything technical after about 1980, the science teachers have no money to do labs, the traffic situation is horrible (the students have to come in the back. The administrators and teachers have their own parking lot, and get to park up front. The student parking lot is bounded by dirt. The one up front has beautiful green grass, some nice landscaping, and a view of the mountains).
Essentially what happened there was this: The state took as much money as it could get away with. The administrators made sure the plans had nice architecture, and would keep them well away from the students (their offices are out by the lobby, with expansive glass windows, which the classrooms lack), and would look nice when they want to show guests around. The senior citizens of this community wanted a theater (which the city wouldn't pay for), so they managed to get a large, extremely high-tech, extremely wasteful theater built into the plans. The students....got the shaft. The teachers....got the shaft. In short, anything fundamental to the learning process was tacked on as an oversight. Anything I learned at that school, I learned on my own. And on top of all this, the ventilation system was also built for 2000. There wasn't enough circulation for the number of students that actually were attending class, so the oxygen content was low, diseases were running rampant, and the students were getting sick. The state someone down to measure the oxygen, and said it was fine. He checked after all the students had left.
We don't need laptops! We need decent books, and lab materials, and decent teachers, and reasonable facilities, and above all, administrators who care about the students.
I'm willing to take the karma loss on this offtopic one. It needed to be said.
It's an old book (Scarne is long dead). When he wrote it, there were casinos in Houston. And actually, you don't know that there aren't any now, just that there aren't any LEGAL casinos in Houston....
This is from Scarne's Complete Guide To Gambling: (He's an expert on the subject)
One of my favorite gambling stories is about mental bets. A few years back in a Houston, Texas casino an elderly, distinguished-looking gentleman slightly in his cups wavered back and forth being a group of women players at the Roulette table. Nobody paid any attention to him until he began complaining about how unlucky he was. "What do you mean, unlucky?" the croupier asked.
"Number thrirty-two just won, didn't it?" the grumbler said.
"Yes, but you didn't have a bet down. What's unlucky about that?"
"Oh, yes, I did," the drunk groaned. "I made a ten-dollar mind bet on twenty-six and lost!" Then he handed the croupier a $10 bill. "I always pay my losses-even on mind bets."
The croupier tried to return the money, but the old gentleman stubbornly refused to take it. Since this argument was creating a commotion and interrupting the game's action, the croupier finally shrugged, smiled wryly and shoved the bill into the money box.
The drunk, apparently satisfied, disappeared in the direction of the bar, but he was back again before long. He walked up to the table just as the croupier spun the ball. He wobbled unsteadily and watched until the ball dropped; then he came to like, shouting excitedly, "That's me! That's me! I bet ten bucks on number twenty and I won!"
The croupier tried to continue the play, but the drunk, who suddenly seemed much more sober, interrupted loudly, demanding to be paid the $350 he had won on his mind bet. He kept this up until the casino manager was called. After hearing what had happened, he ruled that since the croupier had accepted a $10 losing mental bet, he must pay off on the winning mind bet. You can be sure that this was the last mental bet which that croupier or any other in that casino ever accepted.
Don't you miss out on the sheer experience on eating? I mean, after I've spent a night hacking, I like taking the time to nuke some pizza. Gives me some time to think.
It just seems to me that you lose out on that. I can see using them sometimes, but a lot of the time I just wanna get out of the glow from my CRT for a minute.
Plus, there's nothing like the taste of cold pizza. I think these would be an occasional boost, not something I'd use everyday.
It does always depress me to see everyone designing things like this for military applications. If the US spent as much effort on feeding people as it does on ICBMs, we'd probably clear up the problem in a hurry (it is, after all, merely a distribution problem). But, given that all technology is simply tools (and therefore lack ethical value entirely), I suppose this could be used to help feed people- I assume they'd be pretty dense (in terms of nutritional value per cc), so they'd be easy to airlift.
Frankly, I refuse to think of women as "chicks". Women are *PEOPLE*, and I expect the same respect in return, regardless of gender, socioeconomic status, race, religion (Hail Eris!), and shoe size. There aren't more "chicks" on the 'Net, there's more PEOPLE on the 'Net, and the proportion of male humans to female humans is evening out. To simply say "Oh, look, there's chicks on the 'Net" is degrading not only to female humans, but to all humans. But then again, that's just my opinion, I could be wrong. Ewige Blumenkraft!
Eris for President! I volunteer to be VP, her advisors could be the Ambrose Bierce Mexican Travel Agency Cabal (www.eriswerks.org), Greg Hill (Malaclypse the Younger) as Sec-State, Robert Anton Wilson as Sec-Defense, etc.
The platform would consist of the following: Whatever comes out of Her pineal gland.
Actually, we're currently in the Age of Aftermath. The 73rd iteration of the Age of Bureaucracy is over. Now, where's that paper shortage when we need it?
Ewige Blumenkraft! Heute Die Welt, Morgens Das Sonnensystem!
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Network Working Group Jason Pees-On-Trees Wagner Request for Comments: 32768 Univ of Arizona Category: Informational/Experimental 1 April 2001 A Standard For The Transmission Of IP Datagrams By Means Of Chemical Reactions In Oxygenated Hydrocarbons Status of this Memo This memo describes an experimental method for the encapsulation of IP datagrams in bursts of residue from the chemical combustion of oxygenated hydrocarbons. This specification is primarily useful in Western Area Networks. This is an experimental, not recommended standard. Distribution of this memo is unlimited. Overview and Rational Oxygenated hydrocarbons provide a means of low-bandwidth, insecure, and short-distance service. The connection topology does provide easy access to multicast capabilities. Unlike most methods of trans- mission, this form allows multiple hosts to transmit and recieve simultaneously. This is because of the 3-dimensional nature of the transmission medium, in direct contrast to the 1-dimensional medium implemented in IEEE802.3. Communication is, however, limited to line- of-sight distance, although repeaters may be implemented to offset this limitation. Quality of service is not guaranteed, due to factors such as current wind speed, low-flying aircraft, and precipitation. Service is generally based upon a hub topology, although on a macro- connection scale, a bus topology may be implemented. Frame Format The IP datagram is generally printed on paper, in order to act as an output buffer for the network interface. It should be printed in binary format. The distance between the network interface and the output buffer should be maximized, to reduce the probability of the buffer being dropped into the firewall. The datagram should be read in from the input buffer and outputted by means of a large cloth fanned over an open flame. The bandwidth is variable, depending upon ambient atmospheric conditions, the previous usage of the interface, and the size of the interface. The MTU can increase or decrease, depending mostly upon the network interface. Upon receipt, the datagram should be written into an input buffer which can be then optically scanned into an electronically transmittable form. Discussion The major disadvantage to this transmission standard is its one-way nature. This problem may be circumvented by utilizing a transmitter and reciever at each end. Multiple network interfaces can be multiplexed in order to gain bandwidth and reduce round-trip latency. Wagner [Page 1] RFC 32768 IP Datagrams in Oxygenated Hydrocarbons 1 April 2001 All repeaters in this medium automatically gain bi-directional transmission capability. While broadcasting is not specified, storms can cause data loss, even to the point of making a connection impossible. This RFC specifies a connection-less protocol only, and requires a connectionned protocol such as TCP to operate effectively. Logging maybe used to increase the throughput of the network interface. Security Considerations Security is a serious problem in this medium. Intercepts of the raw datagrams is easily achieved and virtually undetecable. Encryption is highly recommended, especially when transmitting crucial data. Due to the nature of the medium, firewalls are a necessity, but less crucial during packet storms. To avoid leaving an audit trail, the dispersion of said firewall, both the input and output buffers, and all logs is a requirement. Author's Address Jason Pees-On-Trees Wagner University of Arizona Tiny Admin Closet Division 23 Boondocks Way Sierra Vista, AZ 85635
Please. There shouldn't be a debate. The wording states that you gotta cough up the source to anyone who wants it.
Now, I don't think it's fair to ask for the source if you're not going to do anything with it, (at least, look at it for learning purposes) but it's still legal.
I think it's great that JC is willing to cough up his own $$$ for this, though. We need more stand up people like that.
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I don't believe it says a word about women-on-women, never says that non-reproductive procreation is sinful (as long as your assistant is not married to anyone else),
...unless you're getting your wife to role-play your assistant. In which case, kudos!
Errr, the bible may not forbid you to have sex with your "assistant", but your wife, coworkers, and boss might get upset....
Several of your concerns are already addressed, or have been addressed. The last patch added in the ability to see your raid's health (just drag and drop either a class or the party number from the raid panel). Dire Maul has exits. Zul'Gurub (an instance in the next patch) will be a 20-man instance. The instance, IMHO, have gotten shorter- a Dire Maul East boss run gets you good loot and is doable faster. 4 of the classes have healing. I've main-healed UBRS as a paladin (admittedly, I'm specced and geared for it). The developers are supposedly re-evaulating the paladin's Blessings.
...my machines would all've been taken over a really, really long time ago. I run a mix of 2K and XP on my home network, and the machines are all clean. I have no virus protection, I have no real firewall installed.
I just don't go look at "TOP 500 p0rn SITEZ!!!" links, don't open e-mail attachments unless I know where they came from, etc.
And my machines are fine. Make all the jokes you want, go ahead and feel superior, whatever. But I check my machines pretty thoroughly, and they're clean. Have been for years. I haven't had a virus on my network since I got rid of Win95.
...they're forming a Tiger Team.
*ducks from hail of thrown objects*
Or ASP... If you're a web monkey, it's Active Server Pages. If you're a suit, it's Application Service Provider. If you're an old army grunt, it's Ammo Supply point...
*BZZZZTTTT* Sorry, we have some lovely parting gifts for you, though!
Firefly cost less per episode than Buffy to produce.
Yeah, and what the hell is a "Warthog Jump?" Is that something you can do in a Puma?
Hey, they'd only need to add an "e" to the name.
Sorry, but but you're about to be corrected by a stupid American!
Turing died in 1954, 48 years ago. Read Hodges' biography of Turing- or at least the back cover.
>Exactly. For the first time in history, two big >cities in the US were attacked.
War of 1812. Read a history book.
In fact, it's:
- HOSTS
- DNS Server
- NetBIOS Cache
- WINS
- Broadcast
- LMHOSTS
If I recall this correctly (been awhile since I needed to know this- more useless trivia on the MCSE tests!)This is a bad and wrond solution to this. Interoperability will not be achieved by breaking compatibility with Win2K. I think the solution to this is to "clean room" it by sending it to someone in some Eris-forsaken republic ending in -stan, and having them remove all the trade secret/licesening information, and sending it back to someone here in the U.S. Therefore, you can say that there was no license on the version you read. Then someone can implement it based upon that version.
I think this sort of thing would be the best solution to the Microsoft case-force them to base everything on every layer on open standards. Then anyone could compete with them in any product area. Think you can write a better kernel tham M$? Go ahead. You'd have to start from scratch, but you could make it completely compatible. The other half of the solution, of course, is that you'd have to force Microsoft to charge the same price to everyone, thus negating their power over the OEMs.
Just my $1.00/50
...is going to be that it will force us to stop accepting half-measures. In the U.S. (possibly other places, I don't know), we keep drawing the middle ground when we can't agree on a solution.
For example, the abortion battles. On one side, we have those who say that abortion is murder, and on the other we have people saying it's merely something that the mother has the right to do. So, instead of really coming up with a clear solution, we limp along by discussing bans on "partial-birth abortion", and similar legal/medical vagaries (Life of the mother in danger, also).
As I was saying before I got off on a rant, I think copyright will be one of the issues that forces this country to decide which of a set of artificial rights (all rights are artificial. See Heinlein) has precedence. Here you have two sets of rights in direct conflict: My rights as an end user to do whatever I want with a piece of work, and the creator's right to sell a product under whatever conditions he/she/it see fit. Hopefully, this conflict will lead to a decision one way or the other. Either the rights of the owner are more important, or the rights of the buyer (I say the buyer, but other people don't see it that way).
What we've got right now is a middling (and therefore, IMHO non-optimal) solution, where the creator's rights are more important for a given period of time.
Why is this relevant? People keep looking for a single cause to Collumbine. There isn't any. All of the following played a role:
The easy availability of firearms to irresponsible people
The hands-off approach to parenting
The fact that one of them went off of his psychoactive medication
The amazingly violent culture we live in
The ostracism a lot of kids experience in school
etc.
These events are a prime example of multicausality. If these kids had had no access to weaponry, or if their parents had cared enough to ask about the gun sticking out of the bag, or if they hadn't been picked on at school, this event wouldn't have happened. (not that the overactive news media helped, either)
It's thinking like this that makes me want to leave the country.
Frankly, 10 years period should be more than adequate.
We really need to see these companies stop using file formats as weapons, and start utilizing them as ways to communicate. File formats should be open, period. It seems to me that gaming companies tend be way ahead of the rest of the industry in most trends, and the trend toward open file formats seems to be one of them. In Q3 the sounds are WAVs, the graphics are like TIFFs or something (don't remember exactly), the map format is open, and even the format they use as a container is open (in this case, uncompressed ZIPs). We'll get the rest of the industry there, but it's gonna take awhile.
I went to a nice, recently built high school (Hey, I only graduated 2 years ago). We had big computer labs, TVs in every classroom, etc. But the school wasn't designed for the students. All of the classrooms were in one end of the building (which, incidentally, had a pull-down metal gate for hiding it). There was a HUGE expansive lobby, a gigantic theater, etc. But the school is MASSIVELY overcrowded. It was designed for 2000. Then the administrators, noticing that the first year it was open there were 2300, decided to reclassify it, and claim it's designed for 2600.
Last year, there were over 2800. But the state legislature stepped in (with a program ironically titled 'Students First'), and decided that the rating for the school should be based upon TOTAL square footage, instead of actual classroom space. So now, this designed-for-2000-student school is rated for around 3600.
This is in the state of Arizona, which politcally is downright dominated by Maricopa County (where Phoenix is). They go out of their way to steal money from the schools outside of Maricopa. So what they're really doing is trying to tell us that we're not getting a new a school anytime soon.
And in the meantime, in this high-tech building with lovely architecture, we're using books that are falling apart, there's not enough lockers for the students (there's a long waiting list to get a locker if you're a freshman), the library doesn't have any books on anything technical after about 1980, the science teachers have no money to do labs, the traffic situation is horrible (the students have to come in the back. The administrators and teachers have their own parking lot, and get to park up front. The student parking lot is bounded by dirt. The one up front has beautiful green grass, some nice landscaping, and a view of the mountains).
Essentially what happened there was this: The state took as much money as it could get away with. The administrators made sure the plans had nice architecture, and would keep them well away from the students (their offices are out by the lobby, with expansive glass windows, which the classrooms lack), and would look nice when they want to show guests around. The senior citizens of this community wanted a theater (which the city wouldn't pay for), so they managed to get a large, extremely high-tech, extremely wasteful theater built into the plans. The students....got the shaft. The teachers....got the shaft. In short, anything fundamental to the learning process was tacked on as an oversight. Anything I learned at that school, I learned on my own. And on top of all this, the ventilation system was also built for 2000. There wasn't enough circulation for the number of students that actually were attending class, so the oxygen content was low, diseases were running rampant, and the students were getting sick. The state someone down to measure the oxygen, and said it was fine. He checked after all the students had left.
We don't need laptops! We need decent books, and lab materials, and decent teachers, and reasonable facilities, and above all, administrators who care about the students.
I'm willing to take the karma loss on this offtopic one. It needed to be said.
It's an old book (Scarne is long dead). When he wrote it, there were casinos in Houston. And actually, you don't know that there aren't any now, just that there aren't any LEGAL casinos in Houston....
One of my favorite gambling stories is about mental bets. A few years back in a Houston, Texas casino an elderly, distinguished-looking gentleman slightly in his cups wavered back and forth being a group of women players at the Roulette table. Nobody paid any attention to him until he began complaining about how unlucky he was. "What do you mean, unlucky?" the croupier asked.
"Number thrirty-two just won, didn't it?" the grumbler said.
"Yes, but you didn't have a bet down. What's unlucky about that?"
"Oh, yes, I did," the drunk groaned. "I made a ten-dollar mind bet on twenty-six and lost!" Then he handed the croupier a $10 bill. "I always pay my losses-even on mind bets."
The croupier tried to return the money, but the old gentleman stubbornly refused to take it. Since this argument was creating a commotion and interrupting the game's action, the croupier finally shrugged, smiled wryly and shoved the bill into the money box.
The drunk, apparently satisfied, disappeared in the direction of the bar, but he was back again before long. He walked up to the table just as the croupier spun the ball. He wobbled unsteadily and watched until the ball dropped; then he came to like, shouting excitedly, "That's me! That's me! I bet ten bucks on number twenty and I won!"
The croupier tried to continue the play, but the drunk, who suddenly seemed much more sober, interrupted loudly, demanding to be paid the $350 he had won on his mind bet. He kept this up until the casino manager was called. After hearing what had happened, he ruled that since the croupier had accepted a $10 losing mental bet, he must pay off on the winning mind bet. You can be sure that this was the last mental bet which that croupier or any other in that casino ever accepted.
It just seems to me that you lose out on that. I can see using them sometimes, but a lot of the time I just wanna get out of the glow from my CRT for a minute.
Plus, there's nothing like the taste of cold pizza. I think these would be an occasional boost, not something I'd use everyday.
It does always depress me to see everyone designing things like this for military applications. If the US spent as much effort on feeding people as it does on ICBMs, we'd probably clear up the problem in a hurry (it is, after all, merely a distribution problem). But, given that all technology is simply tools (and therefore lack ethical value entirely), I suppose this could be used to help feed people- I assume they'd be pretty dense (in terms of nutritional value per cc), so they'd be easy to airlift.
Frankly, I refuse to think of women as "chicks". Women are *PEOPLE*, and I expect the same respect in return, regardless of gender, socioeconomic status, race, religion (Hail Eris!), and shoe size. There aren't more "chicks" on the 'Net, there's more PEOPLE on the 'Net, and the proportion of male humans to female humans is evening out. To simply say "Oh, look, there's chicks on the 'Net" is degrading not only to female humans, but to all humans. But then again, that's just my opinion, I could be wrong. Ewige Blumenkraft!
The platform would consist of the following: Whatever comes out of Her pineal gland.
The only solution is an Erisian Revolution!
Ewige Blumenkraft! Heute Die Welt, Morgens Das Sonnensystem!
Network Working Group Jason Pees-On-Trees Wagner Request for Comments: 32768 Univ of Arizona Category: Informational/Experimental 1 April 2001 A Standard For The Transmission Of IP Datagrams By Means Of Chemical Reactions In Oxygenated Hydrocarbons Status of this Memo This memo describes an experimental method for the encapsulation of IP datagrams in bursts of residue from the chemical combustion of oxygenated hydrocarbons. This specification is primarily useful in Western Area Networks. This is an experimental, not recommended standard. Distribution of this memo is unlimited. Overview and Rational Oxygenated hydrocarbons provide a means of low-bandwidth, insecure, and short-distance service. The connection topology does provide easy access to multicast capabilities. Unlike most methods of trans- mission, this form allows multiple hosts to transmit and recieve simultaneously. This is because of the 3-dimensional nature of the transmission medium, in direct contrast to the 1-dimensional medium implemented in IEEE802.3. Communication is, however, limited to line- of-sight distance, although repeaters may be implemented to offset this limitation. Quality of service is not guaranteed, due to factors such as current wind speed, low-flying aircraft, and precipitation. Service is generally based upon a hub topology, although on a macro- connection scale, a bus topology may be implemented. Frame Format The IP datagram is generally printed on paper, in order to act as an output buffer for the network interface. It should be printed in binary format. The distance between the network interface and the output buffer should be maximized, to reduce the probability of the buffer being dropped into the firewall. The datagram should be read in from the input buffer and outputted by means of a large cloth fanned over an open flame. The bandwidth is variable, depending upon ambient atmospheric conditions, the previous usage of the interface, and the size of the interface. The MTU can increase or decrease, depending mostly upon the network interface. Upon receipt, the datagram should be written into an input buffer which can be then optically scanned into an electronically transmittable form. Discussion The major disadvantage to this transmission standard is its one-way nature. This problem may be circumvented by utilizing a transmitter and reciever at each end. Multiple network interfaces can be multiplexed in order to gain bandwidth and reduce round-trip latency. Wagner [Page 1] RFC 32768 IP Datagrams in Oxygenated Hydrocarbons 1 April 2001 All repeaters in this medium automatically gain bi-directional transmission capability. While broadcasting is not specified, storms can cause data loss, even to the point of making a connection impossible. This RFC specifies a connection-less protocol only, and requires a connectionned protocol such as TCP to operate effectively. Logging maybe used to increase the throughput of the network interface. Security Considerations Security is a serious problem in this medium. Intercepts of the raw datagrams is easily achieved and virtually undetecable. Encryption is highly recommended, especially when transmitting crucial data. Due to the nature of the medium, firewalls are a necessity, but less crucial during packet storms. To avoid leaving an audit trail, the dispersion of said firewall, both the input and output buffers, and all logs is a requirement. Author's Address Jason Pees-On-Trees Wagner University of Arizona Tiny Admin Closet Division 23 Boondocks Way Sierra Vista, AZ 85635
Now, I don't think it's fair to ask for the source if you're not going to do anything with it, (at least, look at it for learning purposes) but it's still legal.
I think it's great that JC is willing to cough up his own $$$ for this, though. We need more stand up people like that.