Well, out here at the Minsk Home for Deposed Nigerian Cabinet Ministers the first thing I must do is get hold of this list so I can stop scamming all you people.
Since most web usage is tracked anonymously it's much more likely that identifiable information will be hijacked from a copy of the the "no not track" list than from any of the web tracking itself. Seems like kind of a silly, tinfoil-hat-inspired idea!
In current US transportation terminology, "light rail" is usually given to mean a rail system that operates at grade, with at-grade street crossing that usually mix with street traffic, i.e. "tram". "Heavy" is the traditional rail with exclusive right or way, separated or protected grade crossing. It doesn't really have much to do with weight, but more like "light" vs "heavy" expenditures of money.
"Light" rail is still expensive, anywhere between $15 and $100 million per mile according to Wikipedia, although most systems are probably on the high side of that.
"Heavy" rail is insanely expensive. I think the estimates for BART extensions are running about $350 million per mile, with some more difficult segments closing on $1 billion per mile.
San Francisco has cable cars and BART, the heavy rail / subway.
Cable cars actually return power to the system - call cars remain attached to the cable going uphill or downhill, so the downhill cars help "pull" the other cars along.
Regnerative braking on BART, like other rail systems, returns power to the third rail. No expensive, fussy, heavy batteries required.
In response to customer inquiries about why such-and-such a domain isn't resolving, I do hundreds of checks a month to verify that domains actually exist, since a sizable percentage have non-functioning DNS. I also query to see if domains we are about to drop from our authoritative DNS service are actually gone.
Not to say the whole whois scheme is a mess, but some sort of non-DNS, free service needs to exist to verify that a certain domain either exists or doesn't.
The other thing that irritates people the most, besides the privacy issues, is that there is such inconsistency in how the whois info is made available.
5. Any attempt to simply suck money out of the blog so some government can spend it on yet more crap will be interpreted as a crime against humanity, genocide, and the basic human right to babble on about nutritional supplements, cat pictures, the new world order, and whether that chick in history class is hot or not.
You need to talk to some Italians about the Italian government's propensity to tax anything and everything, thus basically creating a nation of expert tax cheats. Indeed, a continent of tax cheats with their own RSS feed!
So, reason #N+1 why this data might or might not be worth a bucket of warm piss, with N+2 being as how anycasting biases requests in a more or less geographic fashion.
Like someone at Comcast takes a check to a "teller"?
It's not illegal to postdate a check, but the check will either go through regardless of else it will bounce and you will just get socked with a returned-check charge from both Comcast and your bank as thanks for your smart-assedness.
Back in the olden days, when people used to write checks, a friend of mine used to make his phone bills payable to "Adolf Hitler" and "Ayatollah Khomenei" and they all went through, every one of them.
I don't think Google is capable of giving a 404 anymore, short of Global Thermonuclear War (TM). Of course, when Global Thermonuclear War breaks out, that's when you need your address book the most, but good luck with your phone working then, either.
Well, if you have a 50 quid budget, that's like 500 US dollars, so just put a GPS and camera in it, and voila, you can become part of the growing and popular hobby of sending your payload into space on a baloon:
Thanks to everyone for NOT answering the question in my subject, thus elevating this mythical thing to such exalted and mysterious status that even I must burst into tears or joy or rage, should I ever receive one, or fail to receive one, or whatever.
Well, the guy can't exactly grab his Master Card and go down to the ultralight airplane store on the corner like we can in the US and pick up a Rotax engine with a better-than-1-to-1 horsepower to weight ratio.
I am sure flying at 7 feet altitude in this thing is the biggest thrill anyone in a 100-mile radius can get, so Huzzah! Huzzah! for him.
A liquid cooled engine is a poor choice for a light aircraft. There have been attempts to use off the shelf automotive engines in aircraft, but they are just too heavy.
Entirely feasible, the Sputnik was basically a low power (QRP) transmitter. AFAIK it had no other payload. Ham radio operators have been making these for years:
It did beep faster/slower as temperatures rose/fell, I think, which you could basically implement using normal temperature variations in off the shelf resistors and capacitors.
The clouds in TFA are at a much lower altitude, and caused by the "sloshing" of a static inversion layer, and they move forward like ripples in a pond.
Wave clouds near mountains are caused by the venturi effect as the jet stream passes over the terrain, and they tend to be static - you can watch them form up on the leading edge of the wave and dissipate at the trailing edge.
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They move sound twice as much as your crummy 2-conductor cables.
I'm going to rewire my house with 16-conductor ethernet cablez, then I will rulez!
Well, out here at the Minsk Home for Deposed Nigerian Cabinet Ministers the first thing I must do is get hold of this list so I can stop scamming all you people.
Since most web usage is tracked anonymously it's much more likely that identifiable information will be hijacked from a copy of the the "no not track" list than from any of the web tracking itself. Seems like kind of a silly, tinfoil-hat-inspired idea!
In current US transportation terminology, "light rail" is usually given to mean a rail system that operates at grade, with at-grade street crossing that usually mix with street traffic, i.e. "tram". "Heavy" is the traditional rail with exclusive right or way, separated or protected grade crossing. It doesn't really have much to do with weight, but more like "light" vs "heavy" expenditures of money.
"Light" rail is still expensive, anywhere between $15 and $100 million per mile according to Wikipedia, although most systems are probably on the high side of that.
"Heavy" rail is insanely expensive. I think the estimates for BART extensions are running about $350 million per mile, with some more difficult segments closing on $1 billion per mile.
San Francisco has cable cars and BART, the heavy rail / subway.
Cable cars actually return power to the system - call cars remain attached to the cable going uphill or downhill, so the downhill cars help "pull" the other cars along.
Regnerative braking on BART, like other rail systems, returns power to the third rail. No expensive, fussy, heavy batteries required.
Not all domains have NS glue records, however.
Medea Benjamin is one of the most egregious media whores in California. Got help anyone who accidentally gets between her and a TV camera:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medea_Benjamin
In response to customer inquiries about why such-and-such a domain isn't resolving, I do hundreds of checks a month to verify that domains actually exist, since a sizable percentage have non-functioning DNS. I also query to see if domains we are about to drop from our authoritative DNS service are actually gone.
Not to say the whole whois scheme is a mess, but some sort of non-DNS, free service needs to exist to verify that a certain domain either exists or doesn't.
The other thing that irritates people the most, besides the privacy issues, is that there is such inconsistency in how the whois info is made available.
When some African child gets a 419 scam he can just get a couple of his buddies together and walk down teh street to personally kick the guy's ass!
Summary: You have to do a bunch of math, like, real fast, and it might not even work if all the signals don't go through the same thingy.
Hey, what do you know about biology and psychology, compared to a crypto expert?
Remember, the first rule in selling IT security is, "I am l33t!!"
5. Any attempt to simply suck money out of the blog so some government can spend it on yet more crap will be interpreted as a crime against humanity, genocide, and the basic human right to babble on about nutritional supplements, cat pictures, the new world order, and whether that chick in history class is hot or not.
You need to talk to some Italians about the Italian government's propensity to tax anything and everything, thus basically creating a nation of expert tax cheats. Indeed, a continent of tax cheats with their own RSS feed!
http://eupolitics.einnews.com/rss/news/eu-tax-evasion
I'd block Lotus Notes, too. The sooner those people are put out of their misery the better off they'll be.
Well, on more reflection I guess a random sample from one of the Verizon servers would be a "valuable" source of mistyped domains.
So I retract my "meh" and say "pox on Verisign".
Besides, Verisign operates only a fraction of the root servers:
http://root-servers.org/
So, reason #N+1 why this data might or might not be worth a bucket of warm piss, with N+2 being as how anycasting biases requests in a more or less geographic fashion.
Meh.
I use gmail for all my email. It has never been down as long as I can remember.
Like someone at Comcast takes a check to a "teller"?
It's not illegal to postdate a check, but the check will either go through regardless of else it will bounce and you will just get socked with a returned-check charge from both Comcast and your bank as thanks for your smart-assedness.
Back in the olden days, when people used to write checks, a friend of mine used to make his phone bills payable to "Adolf Hitler" and "Ayatollah Khomenei" and they all went through, every one of them.
I don't think Google is capable of giving a 404 anymore, short of Global Thermonuclear War (TM). Of course, when Global Thermonuclear War breaks out, that's when you need your address book the most, but good luck with your phone working then, either.
Well, if you have a 50 quid budget, that's like 500 US dollars, so just put a GPS and camera in it, and voila, you can become part of the growing and popular hobby of sending your payload into space on a baloon:
http://www.qsl.net/w5sjz/ntxballoonproject.htm
http://www.jpaerospace.com/
Plus hundreds of other links . . .
I meant that to be silly. Klossner actually answered my question.
"PLEEEEEZE send me one, or PLEEEEZE DON'T send me one"
I either want one real bad, or don't want one real bad.
Thanks to everyone for NOT answering the question in my subject, thus elevating this mythical thing to such exalted and mysterious status that even I must burst into tears or joy or rage, should I ever receive one, or fail to receive one, or whatever.
Well, the guy can't exactly grab his Master Card and go down to the ultralight airplane store on the corner like we can in the US and pick up a Rotax engine with a better-than-1-to-1 horsepower to weight ratio.
I am sure flying at 7 feet altitude in this thing is the biggest thrill anyone in a 100-mile radius can get, so Huzzah! Huzzah! for him.
A liquid cooled engine is a poor choice for a light aircraft. There have been attempts to use off the shelf automotive engines in aircraft, but they are just too heavy.
Entirely feasible, the Sputnik was basically a low power (QRP) transmitter. AFAIK it had no other payload. Ham radio operators have been making these for years:
http://www.arrl.org/tis/info/qrpprojs.html
It did beep faster/slower as temperatures rose/fell, I think, which you could basically implement using normal temperature variations in off the shelf resistors and capacitors.
I guess I'm not clued in on this feature / bit of lore.
Why would someone be in tears if they were to receive one?
They'll just expose it to some random amount of radiation, and if that doesn't kill it, they'll just blow it up with a stick of dynamite.
The clouds in TFA are at a much lower altitude, and caused by the "sloshing" of a static inversion layer, and they move forward like ripples in a pond.
Wave clouds near mountains are caused by the venturi effect as the jet stream passes over the terrain, and they tend to be static - you can watch them form up on the leading edge of the wave and dissipate at the trailing edge.