And of course National Security Directives must print out on screens at 50 baud and go "deedle deedle deedle", which is why everyone ignored that memo about the guys in djellabahs with fake IDs walking into flight schools and demanding to learn how to fly 747's "stright ahead only! No takeoff and landing!" Oh, and because the memo was written in Microsoft Word. (What happened to TFA I was reading a few minutes ago?...)
>> The Space Needle will be a platform for a more conventional antenna, not an antenna itself.
Aw heck, I thought they were gonna "load it up" for ELF. They could get, what, a couple hundred baud at those frequencies.
BTW I can get 3 MB MAN service in downtown San Francisco for about $500/mo if I'm in the right building. Heck, everybody can get 1.5 Mb commercial SDSL for about $600 per month nowadays, right?
Why not just engineer a CPU that can run really hot? I'm no semiconductor expert, but at some point I guess the electrons would start to boil off the semiconductor or otherwise misbehave?
Or standardize the interface to the CPU so you could just hook it up to your hot water heater with standard 3/4" FIPS thread.
I don't think much this had as much to do with San Francisco as it did with Stanford U and the burgeoning semiconductor industry in Silicon Valley, which is 50 miles south of San Francisco. Maybe a few commuted from SF to Silicon Valley.
Jobs and Woz worked out of a garage in San Jose or Los Gatos or somethign like that - more Santa Cruz Mountains than anywhere.
The only reason I would switch from my lovable but neighborhood one-of-the-last remaining independent video rental stores is that Netflix has stuff that nobody else has. For example, neighborhood store's idea of japanese cinema is two copies of "Seven Samurai"; is I want to rent "Tokyo Story" I'm SOL. I know Netflix will have it, Blockbuster may not. The only question is, it would take only a minimal amount of cash and licensing clout for Bluckbuster to be able to essentially burn obscure stuff on demand and crush Netflix in this regard.
Meanwhile, for film buffs, Netflix is the only choice unless you're lucky enough to live close to Le Video on 9th Ave in San Francisco (http://www.levideo.com/) which is the absolute best video rental place in the galaxy.
- Site was not shut down, it was "modified" because he stole pictures off MalMarts web site.
- He might have even gotten away with it if he'd just deep-linked to their pictures, instead he whines "oooh mommy I've been censored by the DMCA, waaaah!"
- He's a media student, he shoudl know how to take his own damn pictures. Grade - "D".
I read TFA after posting earlier and TFA says they are going to basically have their own top level domains in chinese. So unless the almighty gods that run the root servers allow new TLDs with chinese chars the rest of the world won't automatically see these domains.
And, to put on my authoritarian hat, if require all the ISPs in my empire to use my alternate set of root servers or my ministry-of-truth-approved DNS resolvers or some such, I can make amazon.chinese-chars-for-gongsi resolve to my ministry-of-truth-approved bookstore and not amazon.
I'd do the opposite - anybody tries to send me anything with multibyte characters gets dropped in the bit bucket. I'm already getting two or three spams a day in Chinese. A couple more per day in Japanese. For some reason the Korean spam has stopped - hooray Korean ISPs? And no Russian or other Cyrillic alphabet spam ever.
Various plugins are available for translating multibyte domain names: example here http://www.domainavenue.com/ml_iclient.htm just pulled off the top of google's search. Eventually all browsers will have multilingual IDN support.
If you find a site right now it will most likely just have a odd-looking "puny-code" domainname; looks like "xn-.com". I think for the time being each international domain gets registered in both its puby-code and natice formats. I don't think all you BSD hippies are at any particular disadvantage as far as domain names are concerned, excpet to the extent that most of the 3rd party plugins are for MSIE only at this time.
What happened to the rumor that the porn industry had gotten together and decided to support [one format or the other]? Thus the rest of the media would follow since they represent 1/[your number between 1 and 6 here] of all DVDs sold.
"Arrrr matey, yer pod is only billin'70 hours a week, and if ye don't like it ye can walk the plank. The Santa Monica Pier only be two leagues thataway..."
Do you personally escort you backup tapes to wherever you store them offsite? Have you ever lost or misplaced, even temporarily, a backup tape? (Actually, I have not myself.) Are you willing to go to jail for misplacing a backup tape or having your laptop stolen when you when to freshen your latte and not reporting it to the entire world? That is the provision of the california law.
This is just another attempt at collective punishment of corporations for the deliberate misdeeds of a few idiots. (ooh how we all hate corporations. How many of us/. readers are incorporated corps? Probably a few)
Guess it depends on where you live, the "urban areas" photos of my neighborhood in the SF Bay Area, is dated 2004. These are color and higher res than the "Aerial Photo" series from 1993.
I think these are "regular" aerial photos, not satellite.
Not hard to set up snort+iptables to automatically set up entries to DROP packets from probing hosts. Response is not instantaneous if you're just getting scanned quickly by random lusers from some backwoods Chinese technical college (probably their idea of a lab assignment). Of somewhat limited use for ports inside firewall, but a lot of firewalls these days have snort-like capabilities anyway.
Port scans are part of the business. I don't care who scans me - only port 22, 80, and 443 are open, so what?
I mean, anyone in the US postal system could open your return and get all the information. Or, anyone in the IRS could misuse all the information?
The people at the IRS who process your return are every bit as much minimum-wage slaves as anyone at Intuit or H&R Block, or the barista at Starbucks who runs your credit card through.
Why not deliver your taxes to the IRS in person, in a suitcase full of unmarked $20 bills. THAT will certainly seem anonymous to them, oh yeah.
No evil hax00r has caused two BART cars to crash head on into each other yet. There are still operators in cars but they only open and close the doors (well they can manually control the trains when communications fail, and of course control an emergency brake.)
Mostly, communications fail to the cars for good old reasons like dirt, water, and the monthly-or-so "main computer crash".
The system had big problems initially but it's been tweaked to the point where the main contraint on capacity is the vost and complexity of news cars, each car costing about 1/10 as much as a Boeing 737.
We lose money on every transaction but we make up for it in volume!
Worst case the Texas legisature is considering a handout to Texas Utilities (TXU) (*) to allow TXU to tax all ratepayers to subsidize Broadband Over Powerlines. So the idea of a WiFi tax showing up in your mailbox isn't all that farfetched.
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And of course National Security Directives must print out on screens at 50 baud and go "deedle deedle deedle", which is why everyone ignored that memo about the guys in djellabahs with fake IDs walking into flight schools and demanding to learn how to fly 747's "stright ahead only! No takeoff and landing!" Oh, and because the memo was written in Microsoft Word. (What happened to TFA I was reading a few minutes ago?...)
Who is this Al Gore guy? Didn't he run for president or something?
>> The Space Needle will be a platform for a more conventional antenna, not an antenna itself.
Aw heck, I thought they were gonna "load it up" for ELF. They could get, what, a couple hundred baud at those frequencies.
BTW I can get 3 MB MAN service in downtown San Francisco for about $500/mo if I'm in the right building. Heck, everybody can get 1.5 Mb commercial SDSL for about $600 per month nowadays, right?
Why not just engineer a CPU that can run really hot? I'm no semiconductor expert, but at some point I guess the electrons would start to boil off the semiconductor or otherwise misbehave?
Or standardize the interface to the CPU so you could just hook it up to your hot water heater with standard 3/4" FIPS thread.
I don't think much this had as much to do with San Francisco as it did with Stanford U and the burgeoning semiconductor industry in Silicon Valley, which is 50 miles south of San Francisco. Maybe a few commuted from SF to Silicon Valley.
Jobs and Woz worked out of a garage in San Jose or Los Gatos or somethign like that - more Santa Cruz Mountains than anywhere.
Somebody needs to reread their Ted Nelson.
.. hurricane strikes!
The only reason I would switch from my lovable but neighborhood one-of-the-last remaining independent video rental stores is that Netflix has stuff that nobody else has. For example, neighborhood store's idea of japanese cinema is two copies of "Seven Samurai"; is I want to rent "Tokyo Story" I'm SOL. I know Netflix will have it, Blockbuster may not. The only question is, it would take only a minimal amount of cash and licensing clout for Bluckbuster to be able to essentially burn obscure stuff on demand and crush Netflix in this regard.
Meanwhile, for film buffs, Netflix is the only choice unless you're lucky enough to live close to Le Video on 9th Ave in San Francisco (http://www.levideo.com/) which is the absolute best video rental place in the galaxy.
RTFA:
- Site was not shut down, it was "modified" because he stole pictures off MalMarts web site.
- He might have even gotten away with it if he'd just deep-linked to their pictures, instead he whines "oooh mommy I've been censored by the DMCA, waaaah!"
- He's a media student, he shoudl know how to take his own damn pictures. Grade - "D".
I can go to Maui next month, will you sponsor my trip?
I read TFA after posting earlier and TFA says they are going to basically have their own top level domains in chinese. So unless the almighty gods that run the root servers allow new TLDs with chinese chars the rest of the world won't automatically see these domains.
And, to put on my authoritarian hat, if require all the ISPs in my empire to use my alternate set of root servers or my ministry-of-truth-approved DNS resolvers or some such, I can make amazon.chinese-chars-for-gongsi resolve to my ministry-of-truth-approved bookstore and not amazon.
I'd do the opposite - anybody tries to send me anything with multibyte characters gets dropped in the bit bucket. I'm already getting two or three spams a day in Chinese. A couple more per day in Japanese. For some reason the Korean spam has stopped - hooray Korean ISPs? And no Russian or other Cyrillic alphabet spam ever.
Various plugins are available for translating multibyte domain names: example here http://www.domainavenue.com/ml_iclient.htm just pulled off the top of google's search. Eventually all browsers will have multilingual IDN support.
If you find a site right now it will most likely just have a odd-looking "puny-code" domainname; looks like "xn-.com". I think for the time being each international domain gets registered in both its puby-code and natice formats. I don't think all you BSD hippies are at any particular disadvantage as far as domain names are concerned, excpet to the extent that most of the 3rd party plugins are for MSIE only at this time.
What happened to the rumor that the porn industry had gotten together and decided to support [one format or the other]? Thus the rest of the media would follow since they represent 1/[your number between 1 and 6 here] of all DVDs sold.
Well it makes a good story anyway.
"Arrrr matey, yer pod is only billin'70 hours a week, and if ye don't like it ye can walk the plank. The Santa Monica Pier only be two leagues thataway..."
Do you personally escort you backup tapes to wherever you store them offsite? Have you ever lost or misplaced, even temporarily, a backup tape? (Actually, I have not myself.) Are you willing to go to jail for misplacing a backup tape or having your laptop stolen when you when to freshen your latte and not reporting it to the entire world? That is the provision of the california law.
/. readers are incorporated corps? Probably a few)
This is just another attempt at collective punishment of corporations for the deliberate misdeeds of a few idiots. (ooh how we all hate corporations. How many of us
I watched the interview on 60 minutes last night and that's exactly what he said - I though "two thousand times fifty thousand - what?!??"
Maybe he used to work for Enron.
Nice! The entire site is down!
Guess it depends on where you live, the "urban areas" photos of my neighborhood in the SF Bay Area, is dated 2004. These are color and higher res than the "Aerial Photo" series from 1993.
I think these are "regular" aerial photos, not satellite.
Not hard to set up snort+iptables to automatically set up entries to DROP packets from probing hosts. Response is not instantaneous if you're just getting scanned quickly by random lusers from some backwoods Chinese technical college (probably their idea of a lab assignment). Of somewhat limited use for ports inside firewall, but a lot of firewalls these days have snort-like capabilities anyway.
Port scans are part of the business. I don't care who scans me - only port 22, 80, and 443 are open, so what?
I mean, anyone in the US postal system could open your return and get all the information. Or, anyone in the IRS could misuse all the information?
The people at the IRS who process your return are every bit as much minimum-wage slaves as anyone at Intuit or H&R Block, or the barista at Starbucks who runs your credit card through.
Why not deliver your taxes to the IRS in person, in a suitcase full of unmarked $20 bills. THAT will certainly seem anonymous to them, oh yeah.
With the 3rd rail running +VDC you essentially cathodically protect the entire system
No evil hax00r has caused two BART cars to crash head on into each other yet. There are still operators in cars but they only open and close the doors (well they can manually control the trains when communications fail, and of course control an emergency brake.)
Mostly, communications fail to the cars for good old reasons like dirt, water, and the monthly-or-so "main computer crash".
The system had big problems initially but it's been tweaked to the point where the main contraint on capacity is the vost and complexity of news cars, each car costing about 1/10 as much as a Boeing 737.
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Type in "pi" and you get "pi = 3.14159265"
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EVERYBODY knows it's 3.14159265358979323846264338327950288419716939937
I hate it when they fudge data like that.
We lose money on every transaction but we make up for it in volume!
r .asp?ppa=8knpp%5EZltmlupoXUnj%216%3C%22bfek%5C%21
Worst case the Texas legisature is considering a handout to Texas Utilities (TXU) (*) to allow TXU to tax all ratepayers to subsidize Broadband Over Powerlines. So the idea of a WiFi tax showing up in your mailbox isn't all that farfetched.
(*) Link: http://powermarketers.netcontentinc.net/newsreade
Ooops - it is different data. The arrangement of junk in some neighbor's backyards is different.