I hope he sends a copy to the Computer History Museum. They already have an operational Babbage Difference Engine and a PDP-1. A Cray would be very neat. For extra credit, he needs to find the SE Test Pack...that should have all kinds of neat code on it.
The examples he gives in the NPRM are borderline uses of ham radio in the first place: medical info, logistics info and natinal security info(WTF?).
If you're transmitting sensitive information, there are far better ways to send it. If (in a declared emergency) all you have is ham radio and you're ordered to send sensitive info (encrypted), then get authorization or ask the FCC for forgiveness after the emergency. There's already a "safety of life" exemption in part 97 for pretty much anything.
Ham Radio doesn't need encryption. That's not why it was created and encryption doesn't further the goal of ham radio to foster international goodwill.
Apparently, this is somehow related to WinLink, an email forwarding network using packet radio on the ham bands. The petitioner operates a WinLink gateway.
It seems wrong that a brand discontinued by its owner should sell for $400 million.
Perhaps I just don't understand the consumer business.
Maybe that's why I'm a hardware designer...
How is this either bypassing or using without authorization? Definitely *not* bypassing, because a valid user ID/password was used to access the material, with the permission of the subscriber. Without authorization -- a bit trickier, but the user received the access credentials from the subscriber, who cannot simultaneously watch, right? Technically, this would be a violation of the terms of service (assuming, and I'm positive they do, the terms say something like "no sharing of login credentials").
Netflix allows two simultaneous viewers. I don't know if they have to be at the same IP address, because I have never read the terms of service. It's my wife's account and I use her login.
I'm pretty sure the penalty for account sharing would be that your login credentials would no longer work. A criminal charge wouldn't seem likely unless someone was running a commercial operation on a fairly large scale, and I'm not even sure how you would do that.
I was wrong on clearing it with the teacher. She should have done that.
But, she gets points for "small amount" (less than 8 oz) and "open area".
And how is a reaction that pops the top off a plastic bottle in any way a "bomb" or "destructive device"? (which was how she was charged)
Bad choice of location and didn't cover her ass with the teacher, but that's all I see wrong here. We had a kid in my class at school who used to mix up far worse in the chem lab, and as far as I know, he never suffered for it.
" If she had thought it through a little bit more, this "experiment" wouldn't have landed her in hot water."
IIRC, she cleared it with her teacher? Used a small amount of chemicals in an open area. That sounds pretty safe, cautious and intelligent to me. Nobody got hurt, but because the reaction was exothermic and dramatic, one observer felt someone *could* have gotten hurt. So, instead of reacting sensibly, they went off the deep end and called the police. The person lacking judgement and intelligence wa the school administrator, not the young lady.
NASA is "looking into this": don't misinterpret investigation as validation. If it's not reproducible, more work needs to be done. If the process appears to violate the laws of thermodynamics, your first reaction should be "scam", not "how do I get in on this?". Your second reaction should be "how do they do it"? It's been many years since cold fusion and while there have been tantalizing hints that there may be something to it, nobody has been able to reliably reproduce the phenomenon for objective observers.
To date myself, I took a "unit record" business course in High School, because I wanted to program an IBM 402 accounting machine before they disappeared from the planet.
I keep current by reading, talking with younger colleagues and investigating interesting things (like Arduino) on my own time. Sometimes, my ancient knowledge comes in handy (neither my boss nor my lead software co-worker had read Brooks' Mythical Man-Month). I offer soldering lessons and have been asked to repair older gear here at work.
My independent investigations of new tech have made me the go-to guy (well, I am the only hardware guy here, now) for quick mockups, because I can hack together stuff for demos. Years of valuable experience in making mistakes help me know what not to do, which I try to pass on to the younger people who work here.
Linux is new to many, and the command line is scary, but a former employer dropped Sun workstations on our desks and told us to set them up, so I learned "survival UNIX" the hard way. It still pays off today, the Linux system on my desk lets me do things that aren't as easy to do on a Win7 system.
If you stay curious, you won't be outdated. And some of that ancient knowledge can come in handy -- it's called "experience" and passing it on, in a low-key way, is a good thing to do.
Well, you could recycle the machines and get some kind of payment if they're subsequently sold. This is what the IT guys at my company do with old machines. The disks are wiped, reformatted and reloaded with a fresh copy of Windows (by the recycler), then the machines are cleaned up and resold in a storefront. We get a portion of the selling price (wither to keep or to donate) and the folks in the community get low cost machines.
Easy to debug when all you can do is add, subtract, count and print!
Much more challenging if you have a reproducing punch hooked up to generate the YTD summary cards...
Been there, done that and glad to have C.
Hey, from my observation, the middle east is quite capable of sh!tting all over itself without our assistance.
And thanks for explaining why my state and local governments can't even come up with the money to fix potholes -- they're spending it all shredding the Constitution and sending the rest to Israel!
--
Good people go to bed earlier.
(really good people take their meds *every* night!)
It may initially seem like a good idea, but if the population isn't homogeneous, you could find your time eaten up looking for spares. With a single type of PC, a node can be sacrificed to keep others running. But these are systems near the end of their design lifetime (and loaded with dust -- and who knows what else?) so components (fans, HDDs, power supplies) are going to be starting to fail more frequently. And the rats' nest of power cables! Perhaps a bunch of multiprocessor, multicore server blades would be a better choice? They go pretty cheaply, and you'd get more cores per power supply, and use less floor space to boot, by rack mounting them.
But I converted my brother and a friend to Ubuntu. Both extremely reluctant to move. So I saved their old Windows hard drive, told them they'd never have to worry about a virus again, and that I would help them figure out anything they didn't understand. It's been a resounding success. Support calls have dropped from several per month to one every six months.
"downloading seasonal wallpapers and screensavers"
I can't think of a quicker way to get my Windows system infected. Seriously, if you're going to break the AOL habit, move her to an iPad or Linux. You won't regret it. Actually, you owe it to her and yourself.
It's profitable because they charge a lot for the ads.
How they convince advertisers to advertise in a book nobody reads is the real mystery.
Honestly...I used to get a phone book. I put it out in the garage over the recycle bin. I never onece opened it. When I got the next year's book, the previous year's went into the recycle and was replaced by this year's book...or did I get it backwards? I'll probably never find out. I'm actually not even sure whether I still get a phone book or not.
The VW had a less powerful engine than the Corvair. The Corvair was Chevrolet's attempt to benefit from the success of the Beetle. My next door neighbor still drives his. The engine cooling is better, the engine is a bit bigger, and it's a very neat ride!
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I hope he sends a copy to the Computer History Museum. They already have an operational Babbage Difference Engine and a PDP-1. A Cray would be very neat. For extra credit, he needs to find the SE Test Pack...that should have all kinds of neat code on it.
The examples he gives in the NPRM are borderline uses of ham radio in the first place: medical info, logistics info and natinal security info(WTF?). If you're transmitting sensitive information, there are far better ways to send it. If (in a declared emergency) all you have is ham radio and you're ordered to send sensitive info (encrypted), then get authorization or ask the FCC for forgiveness after the emergency. There's already a "safety of life" exemption in part 97 for pretty much anything. Ham Radio doesn't need encryption. That's not why it was created and encryption doesn't further the goal of ham radio to foster international goodwill. Apparently, this is somehow related to WinLink, an email forwarding network using packet radio on the ham bands. The petitioner operates a WinLink gateway.
http://cryptome.org/2013/06/NSA-WasntAllMagic_2002.pdf
It seems wrong that a brand discontinued by its owner should sell for $400 million. Perhaps I just don't understand the consumer business. Maybe that's why I'm a hardware designer...
How is this either bypassing or using without authorization? Definitely *not* bypassing, because a valid user ID/password was used to access the material, with the permission of the subscriber. Without authorization -- a bit trickier, but the user received the access credentials from the subscriber, who cannot simultaneously watch, right? Technically, this would be a violation of the terms of service (assuming, and I'm positive they do, the terms say something like "no sharing of login credentials").
Netflix allows two simultaneous viewers. I don't know if they have to be at the same IP address, because I have never read the terms of service. It's my wife's account and I use her login.
I'm pretty sure the penalty for account sharing would be that your login credentials would no longer work. A criminal charge wouldn't seem likely unless someone was running a commercial operation on a fairly large scale, and I'm not even sure how you would do that.
I was wrong on clearing it with the teacher. She should have done that.
But, she gets points for "small amount" (less than 8 oz) and "open area".
And how is a reaction that pops the top off a plastic bottle in any way a "bomb" or "destructive device"? (which was how she was charged)
Bad choice of location and didn't cover her ass with the teacher, but that's all I see wrong here. We had a kid in my class at school who used to mix up far worse in the chem lab, and as far as I know, he never suffered for it.
" If she had thought it through a little bit more, this "experiment" wouldn't have landed her in hot water."
IIRC, she cleared it with her teacher? Used a small amount of chemicals in an open area. That sounds pretty safe, cautious and intelligent to me. Nobody got hurt, but because the reaction was exothermic and dramatic, one observer felt someone *could* have gotten hurt. So, instead of reacting sensibly, they went off the deep end and called the police. The person lacking judgement and intelligence wa the school administrator, not the young lady.
NASA is "looking into this": don't misinterpret investigation as validation. If it's not reproducible, more work needs to be done. If the process appears to violate the laws of thermodynamics, your first reaction should be "scam", not "how do I get in on this?". Your second reaction should be "how do they do it"? It's been many years since cold fusion and while there have been tantalizing hints that there may be something to it, nobody has been able to reliably reproduce the phenomenon for objective observers.
To date myself, I took a "unit record" business course in High School, because I wanted to program an IBM 402 accounting machine before they disappeared from the planet.
I keep current by reading, talking with younger colleagues and investigating interesting things (like Arduino) on my own time. Sometimes, my ancient knowledge comes in handy (neither my boss nor my lead software co-worker had read Brooks' Mythical Man-Month). I offer soldering lessons and have been asked to repair older gear here at work.
My independent investigations of new tech have made me the go-to guy (well, I am the only hardware guy here, now) for quick mockups, because I can hack together stuff for demos. Years of valuable experience in making mistakes help me know what not to do, which I try to pass on to the younger people who work here. Linux is new to many, and the command line is scary, but a former employer dropped Sun workstations on our desks and told us to set them up, so I learned "survival UNIX" the hard way. It still pays off today, the Linux system on my desk lets me do things that aren't as easy to do on a Win7 system.
If you stay curious, you won't be outdated. And some of that ancient knowledge can come in handy -- it's called "experience" and passing it on, in a low-key way, is a good thing to do.
Ugh...the only two C's in my undergraduate career were in Engineering Math I & II. It was the damn proofs.
//Paradoxically, I did well in Discrete Math and Coding Theory...
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You forgot Kin 1 and Kin 2 :-)
// it's understandable, they were only on the market for a month or so...
Well, you could recycle the machines and get some kind of payment if they're subsequently sold. This is what the IT guys at my company do with old machines. The disks are wiped, reformatted and reloaded with a fresh copy of Windows (by the recycler), then the machines are cleaned up and resold in a storefront. We get a portion of the selling price (wither to keep or to donate) and the folks in the community get low cost machines.
Sort routines, my ass. 083 sorter ftw!
Easy to debug when all you can do is add, subtract, count and print! Much more challenging if you have a reproducing punch hooked up to generate the YTD summary cards... Been there, done that and glad to have C.
Drawing a diagonal line across the top of the deck is faster and lets you insert cards without having to resequence.,..
That's an 026 keypunch he's leaning on, not a 129.
Hey, from my observation, the middle east is quite capable of sh!tting all over itself without our assistance.
And thanks for explaining why my state and local governments can't even come up with the money to fix potholes -- they're spending it all shredding the Constitution and sending the rest to Israel!
--
Good people go to bed earlier.
(really good people take their meds *every* night!)
Maybe a little old for middle school, but an interesting read for the brighter kids interested in math, art and music.
we could reallocate all that useful TV bandwidth to something useful.
Ooh! Ooh! Free high speed internet? Naah...it would never catch on...
I wonder how many would be willing to pay extra for Fox?
"So long, and thanks for all the fish!"
It may initially seem like a good idea, but if the population isn't homogeneous, you could find your time eaten up looking for spares. With a single type of PC, a node can be sacrificed to keep others running. But these are systems near the end of their design lifetime (and loaded with dust -- and who knows what else?) so components (fans, HDDs, power supplies) are going to be starting to fail more frequently. And the rats' nest of power cables! Perhaps a bunch of multiprocessor, multicore server blades would be a better choice? They go pretty cheaply, and you'd get more cores per power supply, and use less floor space to boot, by rack mounting them.
Scientific American article: http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=the-do-it-yourself-superc
I know you said it's not an option.
But I converted my brother and a friend to Ubuntu. Both extremely reluctant to move. So I saved their old Windows hard drive, told them they'd never have to worry about a virus again, and that I would help them figure out anything they didn't understand. It's been a resounding success. Support calls have dropped from several per month to one every six months.
"downloading seasonal wallpapers and screensavers"
I can't think of a quicker way to get my Windows system infected. Seriously, if you're going to break the AOL habit, move her to an iPad or Linux. You won't regret it. Actually, you owe it to her and yourself.
It's profitable because they charge a lot for the ads. How they convince advertisers to advertise in a book nobody reads is the real mystery. Honestly...I used to get a phone book. I put it out in the garage over the recycle bin. I never onece opened it. When I got the next year's book, the previous year's went into the recycle and was replaced by this year's book...or did I get it backwards? I'll probably never find out. I'm actually not even sure whether I still get a phone book or not.
The VW had a less powerful engine than the Corvair. The Corvair was Chevrolet's attempt to benefit from the success of the Beetle. My next door neighbor still drives his. The engine cooling is better, the engine is a bit bigger, and it's a very neat ride!