Ah, yes. Well, recording a documentary is something that happens often in my house. When I grew up, seeing something like Jaques Cousteau was special. There were very few science shows then. I love Discovery, TLC, et al.
There are a number of reasons to tape a show, not least among them the same drive that causes many people to save a book: I can read (watch) it again knowing that I will enjoy it. I still have some paperbacks that I bought 30-35 years ago. And yes, I have read some of them recently. Dog-earred and worn, but still reliable entertainment.
I know how "A Christmas Carol" (with Alastair Sim) turns out, but that doesn't stop me from watching it again. The same holds true for things certain shows from The Discovery Channels family. Things that I find enjoyable, but not $20 enjoyable.
Now that many entertainment series are being put on DVD the desire to record a pure entertainment show is much lower. But I'm telling you, I'd sure as hell would like to have "Kolchak: the Night Stalker," and several others. Especially some of the old comedies before they became sitcoms and got so tied up in the moralizing trend. "Car 54" never moralized. It was always funny.
I'd liked to have been able to tape the Rolling Stones when the came on Don Kirscner's Rock Concert in 73, too. That was a great show.
Do advertisters honestly believe that we sit enthralled by their crapulous offerings? Commercials are the point in a television show where I have the chance to take a leak or grab some cookies.
Hehhehe.. Record a commercial? I don't even do that now. that's what the "Pause" button is for.
I've been operating my own domain 94 or so. Since I've kept the same addresses and aliases for this long as well, I receive more spam than any Hormel-loving person can stand.
My most recent hosting moves have been spam related. The primary problem, though, has been a lack of worthwhile response from _MY_ hoster, not the spammer's ISP. Decent email blocking is almost non-existent. Well, perhaps only in the cookie-cutter dominated hosting market. You know the ones I mean. The "5OO MB and 20GB for $19.95" "control panel administration" kind of marketing identifies them fairly well.
I have changed to a dedicated host simply to be able to use sendmail's spam-blocking capability. Sure, it's about three times as expensive, and some (hell, a lot) of the 300 GB of bandwidth will go to waste, but it sure won't be wasted with spam.
The Asian spam would not be so bad if most of them would at least have the sense not to send BIG-5 encoded email to my.com. At least then I could read the porn spams.
I now block China, Korea, Taiwan (damned seed.net.tw). This is in addition to blocking open relays and a few countries in Europe.
I'm egotistical enough to think that everyone should speak English. But now, if I get spam from a country whose language I can't read, I'm going to block mail from the entire country. It isn't hurting me to refuse foreign language email. It's meaningless, anyway.
Persons who record television are just as likely to pause the record session during a commercial.
While tapes aren't expensive, if I am taping something special, I sure as heck don't record the commercials, too. (You do realize that 4 CD-Rs are less expensive than good quality VHS tape, don't you?)
Networks are simply mad because they are behind the power curve with commercial time revenue. It's been heading this way since the first VCR hit the street, and it isn't getting any better.
Funny commercials are widely treated as "short" entertainment (RIP, Ad Critic). Stupid commecials are ignored. After all, we all have to go to the bathroom or grab a coke sometime.
That, combined with a smarter comsumer who researches impending purchases using the web instead of relying on TV commercials to gather "facts," unlike 40 years ago when TV was king.
It's the same thing newspapers went through as sales dropped in response to television news, and that television news is experiencing now in response to the Web's instant new potential. (This is, BTW, the reason for the new generation of "entertaining" and tabloid-style newscasters).
Broadcast is dying a slow, painful death. The broadcasters have a ton of money tied up in old, outdated technology and don't want to lose it all. Hell, they're even killing Saturday morning cartoons because of low revenue (Thanks, Congress. Stupid gits. I never minded watch lucky charms commercials.) RF is dead! Long live digital video.
So, life marches on. Keep watching for an asteroid coming soon to a planet near you!
Well, this certainly takes a different spin on things, eh?
This interpretation of "country of publication" should, then, also effect the copyright laws of printed matter as well. So, I open a book in Singapore and it that makes Singapore the country of publication? I don't think so.
This sounds like any number of "We Own The Net" attitudes spawned by a lack of understanding.
The cure for this is to simply beginning access block for the offending countries. In this case, blocking Australia from wholesale chunks of the net would certainly force a new new view of the situation.
After all, that's what those Allow/Deny's are for, right? If you don't want trouble with neighbor's kids, don't let them in your yard;-)
Hi,
The only non-destructive method that works well is a bulk tape eraser. A tape eraser contains a very weighty coil that generates an extremely strong magnetic field.
When I was in the Navy, that is what we used to erase hard media that contained TS information. The thing had a warning about not wearing a watch, using it near anyone wearing a pacemaker, or using it within 10 feet of any media that you didn't need to erase.
Laying that puppy on top of a hard drive for half an hour will randomize it _quite_ well. I don't want to make any guarantees about the drive electronics, though. So proceed at your own risk.
You can probably find one at a place that handle commercial video. Try the Yellow Pages.
As reactionary as it sounds, I do believe that revolutions and massive civil disorders resulting in the overthrow of governments have been bred by actions such as this.
Isn't the Bill of Rights supposed to prevent this type of storm trooper tactic? Or was I dreaming that federally-secured civil liberties exist in the United States? I mean, hell, this isn't North Korea or Red China.
Shit. Did I spend 15 years in the military propping up a government that is screwed like some two-bit banana republic?
Just try writing the docs instead of stressing about the tool. Be a pro use FrameMaker;-).
FrameMaker started in the UNIX world, and is currently available for Solaris, HPUX, and AIX platforms, as well as for Macs and for Winblows, umm... excuse me. I meant Windows.
I suggest a visit to CERN for a very nice, real-world run down of FrameMaker. Good enough for CERN, good enough for me.
Another good site to check out is Cisco Systems, who maintains better than 10000 (yes, ten thousand) pages in FrameMaker. I'd give you the link, but I can't find it (bookmark overload;-) )
FedEx and Motorola are also big FrameMaker advocates. (Well, me, too, but I'm a fanatic)
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Hi All,
In the mad rush to help bologna farmers and debunk crypto laws, everyone has missed the most salient point here:
How the hell is this thing going to connect to the multitude of modem and network boards? And once that is figured out, how will you connect to your ISP? Are you going to remember all of the IP addresses?
Beyond that, technically, the damned thing is simply not feasible. Ever hear of TEMPEST? Better check it out if you haven't. Most monitors can be "viewed" from a couple hundred feet away using equipment designed especially for that purpose. And let's not forget about the signals spit out by that keyboard...
Things just keep getting muckier and muckier, people. The key here is not to workaround the laws, but to change the bloody government. You'll be dealing with this until you've thrown down the self-serving, cotton-brained dolts that are controlling things.
Sheesh. Come, people. Wake up. Politicians have one goal: To stay in control. To do that, they rely on your acceptance and the mindless fools who clamor for someone to control their lives (John and Jane Q. Idoit).
I apologize if this sounds inflammatory or like a call for revolution -- Not. It's time for a change...
In a peer-to-peer network, someone must be giving up those bytes or else there would be no bytes to take;-)
I understand the client-server model of downloaders never giving back. But when the network is P2P, some other user is providing the bytes to download and is therefore uploading.
Dubya grew up in an era of comic carnage as bad, if not worse (since it was mostly the "die for god and country," sort), than what is available today.
Television was rife with cowboy and police show violence: Paladin, The Rory Calhoun Show, Wagon Train, Rawhide, Sky King, and The Rough Riders, Naked City...
There has always been violence available. Even old Radio Serials had more than enough to sate even the most jaded.
Let's not forget the theater! Hollywood was more than willing give viloent movies top billing. Remember all of the old adventure serials? John Wayne appeared in many of them. So did Roy Rogers, Gene Autrey, and Audie Murphy.
And all of the great monster and Sci-fi movies....
And the countless war movies.
Strings of B grade movies showed us thousands killed by numerous and sundry monsters. EC comic books were burned by in-bred bible thumpers to save "our youth from corruption."
Clown-boy Bush grew up with a much more violent media than exists today.
Wake up everyone. None of the idiots that want to be the new president are worth the price of a new rope. And I do mean _all_ of them. It's time to start writing in "None of the Above."
Several arugments come to mind, but I only have a few minutes...
1. Does this alien race use RF for communications?
How successful would Samuel Morse have been trying to detect microwave communications?
2. Does this alien race know better than to assume the "White Man's Burden?"
Had European explorers and missionaries brought education rather than religion and instant medicine to Africa, is it possible that the Africa's severe over-population problems (famine, drought, desertification, etc.) would not have happened?
White explorer's and missionaries tampered with ecology out of ignorance and misplaced duty everywhere the set foot outside their own borders.
Cultures and ecology must evolve slowly and naturally lest they collapse. Let's hope that the aliens know better.
3. Suppose the alien space travel technolgy is something beyond our comprehension?
Sure, physics is (probably) the same throughout the universe. But 500 years ago, microwave technology that could cook food and send a person's likeness through the air would have been described as witchcraft and gotten you burned at the stake.
+++++++++++++++++++++
Come on, educated scientists. Get a clue. Just because our lives, cultures, and technolgies followed a certain progression does not mean that you can apply this assumption to the entire universe.
Form handling and interactivity require Javascript and ActiveX? Maybe the GartnerGroup really are bunch of Microsoft stooges. Hasn't he ever heard of PERL? HTMLScript? PHP? C/C++? Director? Etc. (and sorry for the others I missed)? Which time capsule did this guy crawl out of that he thinks interactivity requires Javascript and ActiveX? Get a grip Plummer!
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Ah, yes. Well, recording a documentary is something that happens often in my house. When I grew up, seeing something like Jaques Cousteau was special. There were very few science shows then. I love Discovery, TLC, et al.
There are a number of reasons to tape a show, not least among them the same drive that causes many people to save a book: I can read (watch) it again knowing that I will enjoy it. I still have some paperbacks that I bought 30-35 years ago. And yes, I have read some of them recently. Dog-earred and worn, but still reliable entertainment.
I know how "A Christmas Carol" (with Alastair Sim) turns out, but that doesn't stop me from watching it again. The same holds true for things certain shows from The Discovery Channels family. Things that I find enjoyable, but not $20 enjoyable.
Now that many entertainment series are being put on DVD the desire to record a pure entertainment show is much lower. But I'm telling you, I'd sure as hell would like to have "Kolchak: the Night Stalker," and several others. Especially some of the old comedies before they became sitcoms and got so tied up in the moralizing trend. "Car 54" never moralized. It was always funny.
I'd liked to have been able to tape the Rolling Stones when the came on Don Kirscner's Rock Concert in 73, too. That was a great show.
Well, I'm rambling now.... See-ya later.
Do advertisters honestly believe that we sit enthralled by their crapulous offerings? Commercials are the point in a television show where I have the chance to take a leak or grab some cookies.
Hehhehe.. Record a commercial? I don't even do that now. that's what the "Pause" button is for.
I've been operating my own domain 94 or so. Since I've kept the same addresses and aliases for this long as well, I receive more spam than any Hormel-loving person can stand.
.com. At least then I could read the porn spams.
My most recent hosting moves have been spam related. The primary problem, though, has been a lack of worthwhile response from _MY_ hoster, not the spammer's ISP. Decent email blocking is almost non-existent. Well, perhaps only in the cookie-cutter dominated hosting market. You know the ones I mean. The "5OO MB and 20GB for $19.95" "control panel administration" kind of marketing identifies them fairly well.
I have changed to a dedicated host simply to be able to use sendmail's spam-blocking capability. Sure, it's about three times as expensive, and some (hell, a lot) of the 300 GB of bandwidth will go to waste, but it sure won't be wasted with spam.
The Asian spam would not be so bad if most of them would at least have the sense not to send BIG-5 encoded email to my
I now block China, Korea, Taiwan (damned seed.net.tw). This is in addition to blocking open relays and a few countries in Europe.
I'm egotistical enough to think that everyone should speak English. But now, if I get spam from a country whose language I can't read, I'm going to block mail from the entire country. It isn't hurting me to refuse foreign language email. It's meaningless, anyway.
Persons who record television are just as likely to pause the record session during a commercial.
While tapes aren't expensive, if I am taping something special, I sure as heck don't record the commercials, too. (You do realize that 4 CD-Rs are less expensive than good quality VHS tape, don't you?)
Networks are simply mad because they are behind the power curve with commercial time revenue. It's been heading this way since the first VCR hit the street, and it isn't getting any better.
Funny commercials are widely treated as "short" entertainment (RIP, Ad Critic). Stupid commecials are ignored. After all, we all have to go to the bathroom or grab a coke sometime.
That, combined with a smarter comsumer who researches impending purchases using the web instead of relying on TV commercials to gather "facts," unlike 40 years ago when TV was king.
It's the same thing newspapers went through as sales dropped in response to television news, and that television news is experiencing now in response to the Web's instant new potential. (This is, BTW, the reason for the new generation of "entertaining" and tabloid-style newscasters).
Broadcast is dying a slow, painful death. The broadcasters have a ton of money tied up in old, outdated technology and don't want to lose it all. Hell, they're even killing Saturday morning cartoons because of low revenue (Thanks, Congress. Stupid gits. I never minded watch lucky charms commercials.) RF is dead! Long live digital video.
So, life marches on. Keep watching for an asteroid coming soon to a planet near you!
I own thingsthatsuck.com ...
Well, this certainly takes a different spin on things, eh?
;-)
This interpretation of "country of publication" should, then, also effect the copyright laws of printed matter as well. So, I open a book in Singapore and it that makes Singapore the country of publication? I don't think so.
This sounds like any number of "We Own The Net" attitudes spawned by a lack of understanding.
The cure for this is to simply beginning access block for the offending countries. In this case, blocking Australia from wholesale chunks of the net would certainly force a new new view of the situation.
After all, that's what those Allow/Deny's are for, right? If you don't want trouble with neighbor's kids, don't let them in your yard
What DHCP script? I have a fixed IP address ;-)
Hi,
The only non-destructive method that works well is a bulk tape eraser. A tape eraser contains a very weighty coil that generates an extremely strong magnetic field.
When I was in the Navy, that is what we used to erase hard media that contained TS information. The thing had a warning about not wearing a watch, using it near anyone wearing a pacemaker, or using it within 10 feet of any media that you didn't need to erase.
Laying that puppy on top of a hard drive for half an hour will randomize it _quite_ well. I don't want to make any guarantees about the drive electronics, though. So proceed at your own risk.
You can probably find one at a place that handle commercial video. Try the Yellow Pages.
Cheers!
Hi,
As reactionary as it sounds, I do believe that revolutions and massive civil disorders resulting in the overthrow of governments have been bred by actions such as this.
Isn't the Bill of Rights supposed to prevent this type of storm trooper tactic? Or was I dreaming that federally-secured civil liberties exist in the United States? I mean, hell, this isn't North Korea or Red China.
Shit. Did I spend 15 years in the military propping up a government that is screwed like some two-bit banana republic?
It sure seems like it to me.
FrameMaker started in the UNIX world, and is currently available for Solaris, HPUX, and AIX platforms, as well as for Macs and for Winblows, umm... excuse me. I meant Windows.
I suggest a visit to CERN for a very nice, real-world run down of FrameMaker. Good enough for CERN, good enough for me.
Another good site to check out is Cisco Systems, who maintains better than 10000 (yes, ten thousand) pages in FrameMaker. I'd give you the link, but I can't find it (bookmark overload ;-) )
FedEx and Motorola are also big FrameMaker advocates. (Well, me, too, but I'm a fanatic)
CERN:
http://docsys.web.cern.ch/docsys/framemaker/
FrameMaker System Requirements (Adobe Systems):
http://www.adobe.com/products/framemaker/systemreq s.html
Cheers!
In the mad rush to help bologna farmers and debunk crypto laws, everyone has missed the most salient point here:
How the hell is this thing going to connect to the multitude of modem and network boards? And once that is figured out, how will you connect to your ISP? Are you going to remember all of the IP addresses?
Beyond that, technically, the damned thing is simply not feasible. Ever hear of TEMPEST? Better check it out if you haven't. Most monitors can be "viewed" from a couple hundred feet away using equipment designed especially for that purpose. And let's not forget about the signals spit out by that keyboard...
Things just keep getting muckier and muckier, people. The key here is not to workaround the laws, but to change the bloody government. You'll be dealing with this until you've thrown down the self-serving, cotton-brained dolts that are controlling things.
Sheesh. Come, people. Wake up. Politicians have one goal: To stay in control. To do that, they rely on your acceptance and the mindless fools who clamor for someone to control their lives (John and Jane Q. Idoit).
I apologize if this sounds inflammatory or like a call for revolution -- Not. It's time for a change...
I understand the client-server model of downloaders never giving back. But when the network is P2P, some other user is providing the bytes to download and is therefore uploading.
-Bugs Bunny - 1956
Dubya grew up in an era of comic carnage as bad, if not worse (since it was mostly the "die for god and country," sort), than what is available today.
Television was rife with cowboy and police show violence: Paladin, The Rory Calhoun Show, Wagon Train, Rawhide, Sky King, and The Rough Riders, Naked City...
There has always been violence available. Even old Radio Serials had more than enough to sate even the most jaded.
Let's not forget the theater! Hollywood was more than willing give viloent movies top billing. Remember all of the old adventure serials? John Wayne appeared in many of them. So did Roy Rogers, Gene Autrey, and Audie Murphy.
And all of the great monster and Sci-fi movies....
And the countless war movies.
Strings of B grade movies showed us thousands killed by numerous and sundry monsters. EC comic books were burned by in-bred bible thumpers to save "our youth from corruption."
Clown-boy Bush grew up with a much more violent media than exists today.
Wake up everyone. None of the idiots that want to be the new president are worth the price of a new rope. And I do mean _all_ of them. It's time to start writing in "None of the Above."
NOTA for President!!!
Several arugments come to mind, but I only have a few minutes...
1. Does this alien race use RF for communications?
How successful would Samuel Morse have been trying to detect microwave communications?
2. Does this alien race know better than to assume the "White Man's Burden?"
Had European explorers and missionaries brought education rather than religion and instant medicine to Africa, is it possible that the Africa's severe over-population problems (famine, drought, desertification, etc.) would not have happened?
White explorer's and missionaries tampered with ecology out of ignorance and misplaced duty everywhere the set foot outside their own borders.
Cultures and ecology must evolve slowly and naturally lest they collapse. Let's hope that the aliens know better.
3. Suppose the alien space travel technolgy is something beyond our comprehension?
Sure, physics is (probably) the same throughout the universe. But 500 years ago, microwave technology that could cook food and send a person's likeness through the air would have been described as witchcraft and gotten you burned at the stake.
+++++++++++++++++++++
Come on, educated scientists. Get a clue. Just because our lives, cultures, and technolgies followed a certain progression does not mean that you can apply this assumption to the entire universe.
Blind egotism is an evil thing.
Form handling and interactivity require Javascript and ActiveX? Maybe the GartnerGroup really are bunch of Microsoft stooges.
Hasn't he ever heard of PERL? HTMLScript? PHP? C/C++? Director? Etc. (and sorry for the others I missed)?
Which time capsule did this guy crawl out of that he thinks interactivity requires Javascript and ActiveX?
Get a grip Plummer!
Form handling and interactivity require Javascript and ActiveX? Maybe the GartnerGroup really are bunch of Microsoft stooges. Hasn't he ever heard of PERL? HTMLScript? PHP? C/C++? Director? Etc. (and sorry for the others I missed)? Which time capsule did this guy crawl out of that he thinks interactivity requires Javascript and ActiveX? Get a grip Plummer!