Back in 2012 or 2013 I was really annoyed when Verizon started blocking access to my favourite IRC servers, and they never did give me a satisfactory answer for why they were doing it. So I switched to Sprint. Within the past few months Sprint also started blocking IRC and it didn't make sense until I read the linked FBI announcement just now.
"Before the researchers report was released, the cellular carrier for the affected vehicles blocked access to one specific port (TCP 6667) for the private IP addresses used to communicate with vehicles"
6667, the default IRC port. Those carriers seem to have blocked port 6667 completely.
Why would the per hour cost of the drone be higher than even a minimum wage worker? The drone can work more than one shift.
The drone doesn't take vacations.
The drone doesn't waste time chatting with co-workers.
The drone is out there.
The drone can't be bargained with.
The drone can't be reasoned with.
The drone doesn't feel pity, or remorse, or fear.
And the drone absolutely will not stop, ever, until the parcel is delivered!
Last summer I fell over and my right seatstay cracked where it hit the curb, with my not insubstantial mass driving the impact. The seatstay did not shatter, and the frame was perfectly repairable and was not tossed. The shop cut out and replaced about 200mm of seatstay with a hand-formed section shaped into the correct curve and charged me 300 USD. Much more expensive than a repair of a steel frame, but certainly not impractical. I can't comment on the relative cost of a repair to an aluminium or titanium frame.
I appreciate that it's more difficult to recycle a totaled CF frame (or body panel) than an aluminium or steel one, but a crack or gouge does not typically damage a frame beyond repair.
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In my misspent youth, I watched two guys install/hack an 1800 horsepower Allison V-1710 (V-12) form a decommissioned P-51 Mustang fighter, into a 1967 Ford Mustang.
An interesting endeavour, if somewhat foolhardy. I vaguely recall that "standard practice" back in the day was to put the V-12 on an industrial bandsaw and (sob) saw it in half to make a relatively lightweight 6 cylinder race car engine. I definitely recall seeing one such bandsaw with the two engine halves nearby. On a brighter note, I recently visited a facility in Florida and sat in a shop with what looked like 50+ Allisons, Merlins, and possibly other assorted V-12 engines lined up on the shelves, so at least someone is preserving and refurbishing them.
I'll admit it. About 10-15 years ago I did the same thing from a QA domain to the corporate domain, thinking that the domain arg was a qualifier for net send. The intended recipient got my message requesting assistance, along with about 150 other people. Sadly, the only person who contacted me was a marketroid who rang me up and asked what he could do to help. I'm no longer quite so quick to stereotype people.
Or how a bucket of these might taste! They live in brine, are from the sea... Imagine these on french fries and potato chips!
Why were Futurama, Fry and anchovies the first things that immediately came to my mind when reading this?
Why were Futurama, Leela and Poppers(TM) the first things that immediately came to my mind when reading this? Better not try them -- Lrrr might be hanging around this star system.
Actually, his quote in the article claims "...territory - at the very least around my rover and, potentially, along its point of travel". He does not appear to be claiming that he owns the entire moon.
Actually, no. SoCal gets shallow 3.x quakes all the time (the shallowest I happened to notice on the USGS map somelone linked to above was 9km), and frankly most of the time you don't even notice them
9km, eh? I used to laugh at people who made a big deal out of a 3.0 quake. Then one night there was a lowly 2.8 quake about 300m from my house (might have been directly under it, depending on the location quality). The depth according to the Pacific Northwest Seismic Network was 0km. It was certainly nothing like the M5-M6 quakes I've experienced, but it woke me from a deep sleep and got my immediate attention. I can't imagine how it would feel to be directly above an M6.5 or M7.
For all anyone knows, the M3.4 quake in Basel might have relieved stress that would otherwise have accumulated and flattened the town with an M6 20-30 years from now.
Pfft, that's only pseudo random data, why settle when you can get true random data
No "random" data that you get from the net should be trusted. I throw old 16-sided gaming dice to generate a transparent X-Y grid, which is then set over the top of my cat's litter box. The positions of the cat turds are normalized against a reference litter box and fed into a fancy matrix algorithm, the output of which is SHA4 hashed and truncated to make the WPA2 key.
You've got be kidding about running four guest vms on your laptop unless you are talking about running them one at a time
I always run one, and sometimes 3-4 VMs on my year-old Thinkpad, using VMWare Server. Most often my official work VM, but other times an Ubuntu-based Asterisk PBX and a couple of W2K3 VMs running a sophisticated Unified Communications telecom app. A couple of times I've run an OpenFiler SAN feeding two W2K3 servers via iSCSI. I can't remember whether I've set them up with Windows clustering or whether that was on a couple of physical servers. This is all for functional testing, not high-throughput load testing.
I'm afraid it's because the vast majority of the moviegoers out there are just not capable of watching a movie any more if it's not crammed full with special effects and made for a 5-year old to understand
For real. "I, Robot" would have been a much better film without some of the over-the-top CG effects.
Plate tectonics may help molten fluids circulate to help run the magnetic dynamo. A lessor theory is that our moon plays a role. It may be a combo. It's still an open issue
I've always suspected that the Earth's strong dynamo was due to the differential rotational speed of core and the crust - caused by the Moon continually slowing down the crust from tidal forces. This continual stirring also results in plate tectonics. That's my theory and I'm sticking to it:)
My company offers a similar capability, as well. I listen to my e-mails every day on my commute to work. I can reply by voice and the sender gets my reply as an attachment. If I really want to, I can schedule meetings, check my calendar for upcoming appointments, etc., all by voice but this is distracting and I don't normally use those functions while driving. At work, I can see all of my voicemail, e-mail, and faxes in my e-mail inbox. The road warriors mostly use Blackberries. We supply a lot of universities.
The point is that you can get great integration with Exchange (or Notes, or even plain IMAP4) on almost any PBX without having to use Microsoft's Unified Messaging solution. Actually, the term in current favor is Unified Communications. Good luck, and please report back with your experiences deploying whichever solution you choose.
Removing DRM won't cause the music companies to collapse any faster than they would with DRM, because motivated individuals will always find a way to break the secret codes.
Not a rhetorical question, but has SACD audio been broken? I've not yet heard of that happening.
I don't know who your band is or the genre of music you create but I wish you success with your new album. If the album is pop or rock or dance, please consider avoiding the worst excesses of dynamic compression and extreme boosting of the high end. Or if that's the only way you can get airplay, please consider "clean" engineering for the CD/album and make a couple of insanely compressed singles available separately for airplay.
FWIW, I buy 5-25 CDs per year, and have purchased 30-50 non-DRM singles from Amazon in the past several months.
BTW, altering the overall volume down by 2dB will introduce significant undesirable quantization noise. I see no good reason why you should do so
Not being a signals and systems engineer and able to describe the problem, this is the best link I could find.
Excerpt from http://ff123.net/norm.html:
"How is this relevant to audio coding? If you take a signal that is heavily compressed to full scale, and try to filter it (lots of filtering is involved in mp3 encoding and decoding) the resulting signal can easily go over full scale. Here's an example... Download this file redacted (it's only 80k) Note the peak amplitude. Now filter it - try something like a low pass filter at 18kHz. So you're removing energy, right? Now look at the new peak amplitude - it's higher than before, even though you've removed part of the signal. A simlar (sic) thing, to a lesser extent, is causing clipping to occur in mp3 files." (when they are being decoded)
My understanding is that imperfect D/A converters on your sound card can also clip when fed heavily compressed near-full-scale data.
6/ The RIAA equalization curve is a rather extreme way to treat music on its way to and from the vinyl, or is that what you meant by #3?
...when you compare it with MP3s! But that really is not saying much
Prove the opposite to yourself. Carefully rip a favorite CD. Normalize it down a few DB so as not to whack out the MP3 encoder. Carefully (don't use Media Player or iTunes) encode to best-quality 256kbps VBR or 320kbps CBR. Have someone alternately play the.mp3 and normalized.wav files over your audio system. See if you can tell the difference.
I have never met a single individual that, when faced with a good vinyl sound system versus an equal CD system, did not prefer the vinyl
And how many individuals have you met that prefer to use the various DSP reverb settings on their home theater systems when they're playing a rock concert DVD? Most of them? Does that make added reverb "better" than clean audio?
Vinyl does sound different. Putting the audio signal through the cutting head/lathe -> vinyl -> cartridge -> tonearm -> turntable path distorts the audio signal in a number of ways. To me, vinyl sounds kinda' like a subtle increase in L-R, compared with a CD. You can probably buy dedicated gadgets to do that, or use some DSP. I have an old Carver analog audio processor that I sometimes take out of bypass mode and it makes some CDs sound more like their vinyl versions. If the cumulative distortion of the various mechanical steps involved in creating and reproducing vinyl is less annoying to you than the distortion of your CD -> CD player combination then by all means listen to vinyl and enjoy it. I don't have a good turntable so I can't make the same comparison that you can.
You mentioned a key point which is really the overwhelming factor, in my opinion: mastering. Rather than hoping that vinyl makes a huge comeback, I wish that music producers would abandon the current practice of insane dynamic range compression and other horrid techniques that destroy the music before the CDs are even pressed. I can't bear to listen to my formerly favorite dance FM station any longer because they ruin the audio even more with their broadcast processing.
...it doesn't change the fact that a CD is just an attempt at improving over cassette tape so that there was something portable that sounded good enough
I don't disagree that current production practices have dramatically decreased the quality of music on CDs but blaming the medium is missing the point, in my opinion. Would it be unfair to say "an LP is just an attempt to cram more music onto a record at the expense of sacrificing the much greater dynamic range and frequency response of 45s and 78s"?
P.S. I agree that many people would be surprised at just how good well-mastered 45 RPM vinyl can sound.
Once that opt-out list is complete, how much do you think spammers and scammers will pay for it? Oh, wait -- you're going to give access to anyone running a directory or investigative website? What could possibly go wrong?
"If you don't want to compile Asterisk yourself..."
If you wish, you can use Asterisk without compiling it yourself; several distros have versions of Asterisk in their repositories. I'm pretty much a Linux n00b but once I read which modules are prerequisites, Asterisk compiled easily with the usual./configure, etc. Thanks for the tip on FreePBX.
say, the bullet is still supersonic at 50 meters, someone standing 1 or 2 meters from its flight path would hear a cracking noise from the sonic boom, but it would be quite faint.
Where on Earth did you get the notion that the sonic crack of a bullet "would be quite faint" to someone 1 or 2 meters from its flight path? It is extremely sharp and quite loud, I assure you. A single rifle bullet passing 1-2 meters away is loud enough to induce ringing in your ears, especially if you are standing on a hard surface. Imagine swinging a thin wooden meter stick as hard as you can and striking it flat against the top of a desk. The crack of the ruler is not quite as sharp as that of a supersonic bullet but the sound is comparable.
I cannot comment on the sound of a tiny pellet from an air rifle, but rifle bullets from 5.56mm through 7.62mm are loud even when barely supersonic.
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Back in 2012 or 2013 I was really annoyed when Verizon started blocking access to my favourite IRC servers, and they never did give me a satisfactory answer for why they were doing it. So I switched to Sprint. Within the past few months Sprint also started blocking IRC and it didn't make sense until I read the linked FBI announcement just now.
"Before the researchers report was released, the cellular carrier for the affected vehicles blocked access to one specific port (TCP 6667) for the private IP addresses used to communicate with vehicles"
6667, the default IRC port. Those carriers seem to have blocked port 6667 completely.
The drone is out there.
The drone can't be bargained with.
The drone can't be reasoned with.
The drone doesn't feel pity, or remorse, or fear.
And the drone absolutely will not stop, ever, until the parcel is delivered!
Last summer I fell over and my right seatstay cracked where it hit the curb, with my not insubstantial mass driving the impact. The seatstay did not shatter, and the frame was perfectly repairable and was not tossed. The shop cut out and replaced about 200mm of seatstay with a hand-formed section shaped into the correct curve and charged me 300 USD. Much more expensive than a repair of a steel frame, but certainly not impractical. I can't comment on the relative cost of a repair to an aluminium or titanium frame. I appreciate that it's more difficult to recycle a totaled CF frame (or body panel) than an aluminium or steel one, but a crack or gouge does not typically damage a frame beyond repair.
In my misspent youth, I watched two guys install/hack an 1800 horsepower Allison V-1710 (V-12) form a decommissioned P-51 Mustang fighter, into a 1967 Ford Mustang.
An interesting endeavour, if somewhat foolhardy. I vaguely recall that "standard practice" back in the day was to put the V-12 on an industrial bandsaw and (sob) saw it in half to make a relatively lightweight 6 cylinder race car engine. I definitely recall seeing one such bandsaw with the two engine halves nearby. On a brighter note, I recently visited a facility in Florida and sat in a shop with what looked like 50+ Allisons, Merlins, and possibly other assorted V-12 engines lined up on the shelves, so at least someone is preserving and refurbishing them.
I'll admit it. About 10-15 years ago I did the same thing from a QA domain to the corporate domain, thinking that the domain arg was a qualifier for net send. The intended recipient got my message requesting assistance, along with about 150 other people. Sadly, the only person who contacted me was a marketroid who rang me up and asked what he could do to help. I'm no longer quite so quick to stereotype people.
I presume that you meant 5 meters (the 200 inch Hale at Mt. Palomar)?
Why were Futurama, Leela and Poppers(TM) the first things that immediately came to my mind when reading this? Better not try them -- Lrrr might be hanging around this star system.
Actually, his quote in the article claims "...territory - at the very least around my rover and, potentially, along its point of travel". He does not appear to be claiming that he owns the entire moon.
Actually, no. SoCal gets shallow 3.x quakes all the time (the shallowest I happened to notice on the USGS map somelone linked to above was 9km), and frankly most of the time you don't even notice them
9km, eh? I used to laugh at people who made a big deal out of a 3.0 quake. Then one night there was a lowly 2.8 quake about 300m from my house (might have been directly under it, depending on the location quality). The depth according to the Pacific Northwest Seismic Network was 0km. It was certainly nothing like the M5-M6 quakes I've experienced, but it woke me from a deep sleep and got my immediate attention. I can't imagine how it would feel to be directly above an M6.5 or M7.
For all anyone knows, the M3.4 quake in Basel might have relieved stress that would otherwise have accumulated and flattened the town with an M6 20-30 years from now.
Pfft, that's only pseudo random data, why settle when you can get true random data
No "random" data that you get from the net should be trusted. I throw old 16-sided gaming dice to generate a transparent X-Y grid, which is then set over the top of my cat's litter box. The positions of the cat turds are normalized against a reference litter box and fed into a fancy matrix algorithm, the output of which is SHA4 hashed and truncated to make the WPA2 key.
...Sacred hidden text
Left-Shift, Left-Alt, Right-Shift and Right-Alt, F10, insert diskette, remove diskette?
I always run one, and sometimes 3-4 VMs on my year-old Thinkpad, using VMWare Server. Most often my official work VM, but other times an Ubuntu-based Asterisk PBX and a couple of W2K3 VMs running a sophisticated Unified Communications telecom app. A couple of times I've run an OpenFiler SAN feeding two W2K3 servers via iSCSI. I can't remember whether I've set them up with Windows clustering or whether that was on a couple of physical servers. This is all for functional testing, not high-throughput load testing.
For real. "I, Robot" would have been a much better film without some of the over-the-top CG effects.
I've always suspected that the Earth's strong dynamo was due to the differential rotational speed of core and the crust - caused by the Moon continually slowing down the crust from tidal forces. This continual stirring also results in plate tectonics. That's my theory and I'm sticking to it :)
My company offers a similar capability, as well. I listen to my e-mails every day on my commute to work. I can reply by voice and the sender gets my reply as an attachment. If I really want to, I can schedule meetings, check my calendar for upcoming appointments, etc., all by voice but this is distracting and I don't normally use those functions while driving. At work, I can see all of my voicemail, e-mail, and faxes in my e-mail inbox. The road warriors mostly use Blackberries. We supply a lot of universities.
The point is that you can get great integration with Exchange (or Notes, or even plain IMAP4) on almost any PBX without having to use Microsoft's Unified Messaging solution. Actually, the term in current favor is Unified Communications. Good luck, and please report back with your experiences deploying whichever solution you choose.
I don't know who your band is or the genre of music you create but I wish you success with your new album. If the album is pop or rock or dance, please consider avoiding the worst excesses of dynamic compression and extreme boosting of the high end. Or if that's the only way you can get airplay, please consider "clean" engineering for the CD/album and make a couple of insanely compressed singles available separately for airplay.
FWIW, I buy 5-25 CDs per year, and have purchased 30-50 non-DRM singles from Amazon in the past several months.
"How is this relevant to audio coding? If you take a signal that is heavily compressed to full scale, and try to filter it (lots of filtering is involved in mp3 encoding and decoding) the resulting signal can easily go over full scale. Here's an example... Download this file redacted (it's only 80k) Note the peak amplitude. Now filter it - try something like a low pass filter at 18kHz. So you're removing energy, right? Now look at the new peak amplitude - it's higher than before, even though you've removed part of the signal. A simlar (sic) thing, to a lesser extent, is causing clipping to occur in mp3 files." (when they are being decoded)
My understanding is that imperfect D/A converters on your sound card can also clip when fed heavily compressed near-full-scale data.
Vinyl does sound different. Putting the audio signal through the cutting head/lathe -> vinyl -> cartridge -> tonearm -> turntable path distorts the audio signal in a number of ways. To me, vinyl sounds kinda' like a subtle increase in L-R, compared with a CD. You can probably buy dedicated gadgets to do that, or use some DSP. I have an old Carver analog audio processor that I sometimes take out of bypass mode and it makes some CDs sound more like their vinyl versions. If the cumulative distortion of the various mechanical steps involved in creating and reproducing vinyl is less annoying to you than the distortion of your CD -> CD player combination then by all means listen to vinyl and enjoy it. I don't have a good turntable so I can't make the same comparison that you can.
You mentioned a key point which is really the overwhelming factor, in my opinion: mastering. Rather than hoping that vinyl makes a huge comeback, I wish that music producers would abandon the current practice of insane dynamic range compression and other horrid techniques that destroy the music before the CDs are even pressed. I can't bear to listen to my formerly favorite dance FM station any longer because they ruin the audio even more with their broadcast processing. I don't disagree that current production practices have dramatically decreased the quality of music on CDs but blaming the medium is missing the point, in my opinion. Would it be unfair to say "an LP is just an attempt to cram more music onto a record at the expense of sacrificing the much greater dynamic range and frequency response of 45s and 78s"?
P.S. I agree that many people would be surprised at just how good well-mastered 45 RPM vinyl can sound.
Once that opt-out list is complete, how much do you think spammers and scammers will pay for it? Oh, wait -- you're going to give access to anyone running a directory or investigative website? What could possibly go wrong?
Where on Earth did you get the notion that the sonic crack of a bullet "would be quite faint" to someone 1 or 2 meters from its flight path? It is extremely sharp and quite loud, I assure you. A single rifle bullet passing 1-2 meters away is loud enough to induce ringing in your ears, especially if you are standing on a hard surface. Imagine swinging a thin wooden meter stick as hard as you can and striking it flat against the top of a desk. The crack of the ruler is not quite as sharp as that of a supersonic bullet but the sound is comparable.
I cannot comment on the sound of a tiny pellet from an air rifle, but rifle bullets from 5.56mm through 7.62mm are loud even when barely supersonic.