Also it can run over any annoying kids and soccer balls if they get in the way of your urban assault vehicle. Guess you don't get sued for that in Europe or Japan. Damn US legal system!
People in Europe or Japan spend most of their time crawling in traffic anyway, in their toaster size cars with 700 cc engines. I *like* that about Europe and Japan. Isn't there a nationwide 50 mph / 80 kph speed limit in Japan?
>>> Let your patent get knowingly infringed for 1 year.....
That's laches [ see directly above ]. You cannot 'hold out' for years, attempting to maximize the amount of damages you think you have accrued.
I.E. You know you have a small roof leak. You cannot deliberately not call the repair man waiting for your entire house to fall apart and then sue for the whole value of you house.
Mexico City is in a unique position - the killer quakes they have there often occur far away, but the crummy soil under the City has devastating effects for even distant quakes. So the idea is to detect a big but faraway quake and send advance notice to the City to duck, cover, pray, etc. Since the waves from the quaje travel at about the speed of sound it still takes seconds to minutes for the quake to arrive at the City. Similar systems are in use in Japan to do useful stuff like shut down natural gas pipelines, where even a few seconds notice can be useful.
I cut the end off a "Bic round stik" (the end cap was welded on) and the pen tube was too small and not stretchy enough to fit into the two U-locks I have, a "Master" brand lock and a 20 year old "Kryptonite 4". These are locks that take the key at the end of the cross tube.
I'll keep an eye out for a plastic tube of the correct diameter and repeat the experiment.
I found a Citi phish in my spam-magnet email box and it evaded spoofstick: It went to move.kir.jp and very quickly redirected to web.da-us.citibank.com, which is the real Citi site. However, it left a menu-bar-less (and thus Spoof-stick-less) little window open which asked for Debit Card No, PIN, and Checking Accunt No, and then connected to move.kir.jp:
Scams I have seen recently seen involve setting up an infringing domain name, say "online-citi.us" instead of "citi-online.com". One cannot expect the users to remember the host name of all their finaince and shopping site. Even when the infringing domain yet yanked after a few hours, it can remain cached in DNS for a long time.
Web-caller ID seems sensible - just get browsers to implement the web equivalent of SPF. Sounds pretty easy to me.
.. for some I have heard the motivation is they don't get someone else's copyrighted content spidered/mirrored if they hide behind a reg page.
I'm not saying it's a good idea. So what response do you give the hypothetical PHB who says "I'm scared that copyrighted material will get spidered?" And "DMCA sucks" is usually not a good enough answer for most bosses.
From QST magazine (http://www.arrl.org/news/stories/2003/12/10/3/):
"Amateurs complete 82-mile two-way DSSS link on 2.4 GHz: ARRL High Speed Multimedia (HSMM) Working Group member Ken Cuddeback, NT7K, reports that his students at Weber State University in Ogden, Utah, recently completed two-way direct-sequence spread spectrum (DSSS) communication on 2.4 GHz over a distance of 82 miles. The WSU students--which include one ham, Brandon Checketts, KG4NZV, and several prospective licensees--broke the current world record of establishing a wireless link on 2.4 GHz with DSSS (using IEEE 802.11b "Wi-Fi" protocol). "Please join me in congratulating Ken and his students on this fantastic accomplishment!" said ARRL HSMM Working Group Chairman John Champa, K8OCL. Cuddeback says his students used PrimeStar dishes with unamplified Cisco Aironet 350 cards in each laptop. "We set up a NetMeeting session and transferred a 2.5 MB mp3 file successfully," he said. The Cisco Wi-Fi cards run about 100 mW."
File system options are stupid. I hate options. In past jobs I have spent much of my time fixing other sysadmin's misconfigured filesystem options.
In each successive iteration of NFS and Sun's UFS, the two filesystems I've used consistently for over 10 years, there has been less and less need to F.W. options to get things to work, even cross-vendor NFS mounts.
BTW I like resierfs because you can grow it on the fly.
I did RTFA but I could not view the video (/.-ed probably) My Palm will do this. I usually use my fingertips for a quick search and don't bother pulling out the stylus. If app designers made buttons and scrollbars bigger, and the Palm had a bit more screen real estate this kind of interface would be more universal.
Well, more power to them if it's a real product. But who in their right mind is going to put down an advance? I have friends making a similar product and they way to get into this market is to get someone like UPS or a public utility's meter readers to advance-order 100,000 at a time.
Just last week a drunk pilot crashed on a freeway in S California and was charged with DUI. Presumably he was a properly certificated Pilot (PP-whatever).
So what difference is lowering the medical requirements going to make? People are always hysterical about the propect of airplanes falling from the sky and killing Innocent Young Children (TM), they they hop in their car and driver 30 mph over the speed limit with a back seat full of unbelted IYCs.
This has more of an impact of the aircraft than the pilots. In fact the new regulations might allow some innovation in recreational aircraft design since the cost of flying even the least capable traditionally certificated aircraft has risen to astronomical levels. In the SF Bay area even a minimally equipped 152 is going to cost you in the $50 to $75 per hour range.
You obviously don't live in the SF Bay Area
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If you call 911 on your cell phone in Bay Area, you will be routed to the CHP Golden Gate regional center and immediately placed on hold for 10 minutes. At least that's what's happened to me twice. I have the "local" numbers of various agencies programmed into my phone now.
As for your cell phone working during an emergency, ha. As other posters have noticed, after even a minor disaster the first thing everyone does is jump on their cell phone. Since there haven't been any disasters in the SF Bay Area recently, my most recent data point comes from my brother, who was unable to use his cell phone for 45 min after the Seattle earthquake a few years ago.
I got sneered at when I actually insisted on weighing the mtn bikes I was shopping for. I carried my own scale in and eventually found a sub-$400 28-lb bike that's held up pretty well. I think the big price/quality breaks happen at about $500 and about $1500 - for $500 you get lightweight alloy wheels which are far stronger and lighter than the cheapo ones, for example. My mtn bike does not have a suspension - cheapo mtn bike suspensions can add several pounds.
My road bike is a cheapo 20-yr old Fuji and weighs about 24 lb.
I'll start worrying about shaving ounces off when I get my body fat down into the single digits. Like THAT's gonna happen anytime soon....
It's always been possible to get DSL from a 3rd party via SBC's copper, but as the posters attest it's a circus of finger-pointing if you have trouble. I went though a miserable experience with Earthlink - switched to SBC - and voila - no more line problems. Coincidence?
What this give our household the opportunity to do is cancel our overpriced land line service, which we never use, and has a "list price" of $35 per month when you add in all the junk fees.
But SBC currently can stay competitive in spite of this ruling: I get the mandatory POTS line and 1.5/ DSL for $55/mo - still $5 less than what Comcast charges for internet alone.
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... at Customs for your bootleg DVDs.
Just try taking pictures of a bridge or a military installtion though... oh, wait, you can get arrested for that in the US now.
never mind.
However it is still legal to wear a Free Tibet T-Shirt in the US, as far as I know.
A cow orker was once asked by a PHB, "What's a good program for converting files?"
Cow orker replied: "Well, 'rm -rf' converts any file into free disk space!"
Also it can run over any annoying kids and soccer balls if they get in the way of your urban assault vehicle. Guess you don't get sued for that in Europe or Japan. Damn US legal system!
People in Europe or Japan spend most of their time crawling in traffic anyway, in their toaster size cars with 700 cc engines. I *like* that about Europe and Japan. Isn't there a nationwide 50 mph / 80 kph speed limit in Japan?
"This is your poor slacker Son. I'm broke again, and in jail again. Please send money to ....."
Latest Shipment of HP Blades, 2.5" disks on 'em.
Little guys still kick out insane amount of heat: 2 X 10KW power supplies per rack, 48VDC at 210A. *Very* carefully designed power connectors.
Imagine - a home-built SpaceShipOne!
"And you're going to do WHAT with that tanker truck full of NO2 and those old tires in your backyard?"
>>> Let your patent get knowingly infringed for 1 year .....
That's laches [ see directly above ]. You cannot 'hold out' for years, attempting to maximize the amount of damages you think you have accrued.
I.E. You know you have a small roof leak. You cannot deliberately not call the repair man waiting for your entire house to fall apart and then sue for the whole value of you house.
Mexico City is in a unique position - the killer quakes they have there often occur far away, but the crummy soil under the City has devastating effects for even distant quakes. So the idea is to detect a big but faraway quake and send advance notice to the City to duck, cover, pray, etc. Since the waves from the quaje travel at about the speed of sound it still takes seconds to minutes for the quake to arrive at the City. Similar systems are in use in Japan to do useful stuff like shut down natural gas pipelines, where even a few seconds notice can be useful.
who did "The Poseidon Adventure: The Musical!" and "The Towering Inferno: the Musical!"
http://www.poseidonmusical.com/
I cut the end off a "Bic round stik" (the end cap was welded on) and the pen tube was too small and not stretchy enough to fit into the two U-locks I have, a "Master" brand lock and a 20 year old "Kryptonite 4". These are locks that take the key at the end of the cross tube.
I'll keep an eye out for a plastic tube of the correct diameter and repeat the experiment.
Are there other exploits for the older locks?
I found a Citi phish in my spam-magnet email box and it evaded spoofstick: It went to move.kir.jp and very quickly redirected to web.da-us.citibank.com, which is the real Citi site. However, it left a menu-bar-less (and thus Spoof-stick-less) little window open which asked for Debit Card No, PIN, and Checking Accunt No, and then connected to move.kir.jp:
1 7d 2lhBJFkSUwjnw0C3PIGwmjY8r
www.citibank.com/?wBaObw7wXXYFv1PH9iuP8e8p8y449
Scams I have seen recently seen involve setting up an infringing domain name, say "online-citi.us" instead of "citi-online.com". One cannot expect the users to remember the host name of all their finaince and shopping site. Even when the infringing domain yet yanked after a few hours, it can remain cached in DNS for a long time.
Web-caller ID seems sensible - just get browsers to implement the web equivalent of SPF. Sounds pretty easy to me.
(grumbling as a long time EBay user)
"fetting down wordf and ideaf in corporeal form"!
Y'all owe me one feptillion dollarf...
.. for some I have heard the motivation is they don't get someone else's copyrighted content spidered/mirrored if they hide behind a reg page.
I'm not saying it's a good idea. So what response do you give the hypothetical PHB who says "I'm scared that copyrighted material will get spidered?" And "DMCA sucks" is usually not a good enough answer for most bosses.
From QST magazine (http://www.arrl.org/news/stories/2003/12/10/3/):
"Amateurs complete 82-mile two-way DSSS link on 2.4 GHz: ARRL High Speed Multimedia (HSMM) Working Group member Ken Cuddeback, NT7K, reports that his students at Weber State University in Ogden, Utah, recently completed two-way direct-sequence spread spectrum (DSSS) communication on 2.4 GHz over a distance of 82 miles. The WSU students--which include one ham, Brandon Checketts, KG4NZV, and several prospective licensees--broke the current world record of establishing a wireless link on 2.4 GHz with DSSS (using IEEE 802.11b "Wi-Fi" protocol). "Please join me in congratulating Ken and his students on this fantastic accomplishment!" said ARRL HSMM Working Group Chairman John Champa, K8OCL. Cuddeback says his students used PrimeStar dishes with unamplified Cisco Aironet 350 cards in each laptop. "We set up a NetMeeting session and transferred a 2.5 MB mp3 file successfully," he said. The Cisco Wi-Fi cards run about 100 mW."
File system options are stupid. I hate options. In past jobs I have spent much of my time fixing other sysadmin's misconfigured filesystem options.
In each successive iteration of NFS and Sun's UFS, the two filesystems I've used consistently for over 10 years, there has been less and less need to F.W. options to get things to work, even cross-vendor NFS mounts.
BTW I like resierfs because you can grow it on the fly.
I did RTFA but I could not view the video (/.-ed probably) My Palm will do this. I usually use my fingertips for a quick search and don't bother pulling out the stylus. If app designers made buttons and scrollbars bigger, and the Palm had a bit more screen real estate this kind of interface would be more universal.
Well, more power to them if it's a real product. But who in their right mind is going to put down an advance? I have friends making a similar product and they way to get into this market is to get someone like UPS or a public utility's meter readers to advance-order 100,000 at a time.
Just last week a drunk pilot crashed on a freeway in S California and was charged with DUI. Presumably he was a properly certificated Pilot (PP-whatever).
So what difference is lowering the medical requirements going to make? People are always hysterical about the propect of airplanes falling from the sky and killing Innocent Young Children (TM), they they hop in their car and driver 30 mph over the speed limit with a back seat full of unbelted IYCs.
This has more of an impact of the aircraft than the pilots. In fact the new regulations might allow some innovation in recreational aircraft design since the cost of flying even the least capable traditionally certificated aircraft has risen to astronomical levels. In the SF Bay area even a minimally equipped 152 is going to cost you in the $50 to $75 per hour range.
If you call 911 on your cell phone in Bay Area, you will be routed to the CHP Golden Gate regional center and immediately placed on hold for 10 minutes. At least that's what's happened to me twice. I have the "local" numbers of various agencies programmed into my phone now.
As for your cell phone working during an emergency, ha. As other posters have noticed, after even a minor disaster the first thing everyone does is jump on their cell phone. Since there haven't been any disasters in the SF Bay Area recently, my most recent data point comes from my brother, who was unable to use his cell phone for 45 min after the Seattle earthquake a few years ago.
I got sneered at when I actually insisted on weighing the mtn bikes I was shopping for. I carried my own scale in and eventually found a sub-$400 28-lb bike that's held up pretty well. I think the big price/quality breaks happen at about $500 and about $1500 - for $500 you get lightweight alloy wheels which are far stronger and lighter than the cheapo ones, for example. My mtn bike does not have a suspension - cheapo mtn bike suspensions can add several pounds.
My road bike is a cheapo 20-yr old Fuji and weighs about 24 lb.
I'll start worrying about shaving ounces off when I get my body fat down into the single digits. Like THAT's gonna happen anytime soon....
I have a feeling it was more like,
(BOFH types RETURN, followed by)
"Oh Shit!"
Well, if they can engineer resistance to Roundup, they can engineer CAFFEINATED CORN!
weather permitting - hop in your winnebagos and drive on down to Mojave to see it yourself:
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http://www.scaled.com/projects/tierone/index.ht
So as I understand it he has to fly twice in two weeks to claim the prize?
It's always been possible to get DSL from a 3rd party via SBC's copper, but as the posters attest it's a circus of finger-pointing if you have trouble. I went though a miserable experience with Earthlink - switched to SBC - and voila - no more line problems. Coincidence?
What this give our household the opportunity to do is cancel our overpriced land line service, which we never use, and has a "list price" of $35 per month when you add in all the junk fees.
But SBC currently can stay competitive in spite of this ruling: I get the mandatory POTS line and 1.5/ DSL for $55/mo - still $5 less than what Comcast charges for internet alone.