I lived in Santa Cruz. I dealt with the legal system in Santa Cruz. It is a sham, and a travesty, at best.
Bob Lee (the D.A.) has absolutely no brains. What-so-ever. His office REGULARLY loses and destroys evidence (in my case, I was dead to rights wrong, but on trial date, the DA had to come forth and admit, foolishly, that her entire case was based upon evidence she couldn't find. All fine and dandy, but then the bitch wanted to retry me after she admitted she had no evidence and the jury was hung).
This surprises me not. I also know that Santa Cruz COUNTY has NO data recovery specialists. Santa Cruz County uses local computer repair shops. Period. They outsource their IT, so when the outsourcing firm couldn't fix it, it went to their friend. He couldn't fix it, so they both declared the DVD unreadable.
Enter real data recovery firm, and a few hours later, they are back in the business of ruining lives.
Santa Cruz County is a crock of shit. Bottom line. They are inept, can't catch people stabbing each other in front of officers on holidays downtown, and LIVE for the homeless. The entire economy is propped up by Mexican illegal labor force and marijuana (who doesn't like to smoke a joint, but when your LARGEST tax revenue for the city is a medicinal marijuana dispensary, and that owner of said dispensary runs FOR CITY COUNCIL, that's telling).
If you are using DSL, cancel the landline phone. The telco uses the landline phone to figure out what C/O your in, once that's figgired out, the DSL circuit is installed, cancel the home phone. I did, and it works great. Home phones are not contracted, usually.
If you are using cable modems, you can cancel everything but the cable modem service, but beware, this usually means you pay a higher monthly rate. And before you say anything, screw you, I enjoy not paying 69.95 a month for basic cable modem if I also pay 40 a month for something else (tv) they offer.
What you want is available, but usually you have to figure out how to get it, and then be able to stomach the fact that since your not getting everything from the cable company, your going to be paying a higher rate than if you where, for the single or two things you do end up getting.
Hard to take something seriously when they claim the spreadsheet is why the mac is so great.
Wait, the spreadsheet was out before the Lisa. Which is the PREDECESSOR to the Mac.
Which pretty much makes the rest of the story drivel.
And, I have to wonder, where are all the F/OSS people now, when Apple Developers are complaining that low cost software is keeping them from selling their high cost software. What about FREE?
When is someone going to point that out? Awwhh... The POOR POOR apple devs (yeah, that's an oxymoron) not getting paid after screaming for so long that F/OSS is the ONLY way of the future.
Amazing, the economy falls apart, and LOTS of people advocating F/OSS start bitching about two or three dollars profit.?????
Just food for thought, and readying myself for troll status.
Yes, you can replace the HDD in the XBOX with (in mine) a 120 gigger.
I also use mine with my fileserver. XBMC also runs SMB (as well as a couple other services), streams from the internet, has weather update options, etc.
Take a look at it, XBMC is a great product. My 3 yr old can navigate mine (you can modify the menus from the UI), and it supports profiles (the pr0n is only in my profile):)
Using collinear style antenna elements, you can take the RF being directed toward the sky, and have it steered (electronically using phasing harnesses or other means of propogational delay) towards the horizon, which is typically where most of the RF needs to go.
I have a double collinear 2 meter stack, and it works wonders. I can listen to a sattelite as it comes up from the horizon at great levels, to about a 45 degree incline from my antenna, where it virtually vanishes. Then, when it's at the 45 degree horizon again (after it apexes my location), it comes back at great levels.
My ground plane (1/4 wave) doesn't do NEARLY as well as the collinear, the GP antenna will actually hear the sattelite the entire pass. However, the signal from the GP antenna NEVER approaches the level from the collinear.
At the tens of thousands of watt level, any non-linear junction in the near field would cause rectification of the 60 hertz signal and cause MASSIVE amounts of harmonic radiation.
I've actually found harmonics in one of my transmitters caused by an aluminum shed (storage shed from K-Mart) next door to my friends house. Shed came down, so did the amount of interferience complaints.
Diodes can be used as noise generators, covering up to HUNDREDS of megaherts.
2.4 gig isn't the only band used, and this has potential to cause ALL sorts of problems.
The higher the frequency, the more efficiency they would be able to get, as high gain antennas become more of a reality the higher in frequency you go.
HOWEVER, transformers used to power things don't work really well at microwave, or even RF, frequencies.
This is bullshit, plain and simple. Who HONESTLY needs wireless power, that rechargable batteries can't provide?
Fm transmitter antennas are located on top of mountain peaks, or on towers where (presumably) nobody is living, ie, above a skyscraper.
If you live next to an FM transmitter, then you might want to relocate, though, as most FM transmitters aren't located in the most hospitable places (IE, mountain tops, basements, etc).
Seriously, I have more than 100Kw PEP ERP out of my transmitters I have here. The FM transmitter stations, as mine, use directional antennas and RADOMES (for FM stations), which concentrate power at much higher elevations than where you or I are.
I mean, outside of/., there isn't a lot of uptake of linux. Period. Some home users play with it, others have VM's of it running to "explore" linux, etc. but, it has no market penetration like Windows has.
Yes, exposing kids to Linux might help it take off in the future, to the levels we would like to see, but that will happen when it actually works, out of the box. I, myself, will work with 2 or 3 reboots and getting a functional system out of the box (Wintel), rather than having the 2 reboots the Ubuntu took, with non-working WiFi requiring me to actually go out and get FWCutter (real easy, when your computer HAS NO FUCKING NETWORK CONNECTION). Oh yeah, that's proprietary, so it has to be that way.
Really? Why is it the same card works Carte Blanch in Windows? How come it's SO horrible to run some companies proprietary driver in linux, but that same driver is fine for the WinTel community?
Yes, I ended up going to proprietary drivers on my Linux computer. It actually works better than when I let Ubuntu decide which drivers to use. Yes, I'm using NVidia's proprietary code, and I like it, like it MUCH better than the crap that came with Ubuntu that offered me max 800X600.
Thinking that it is the teacher's unions keeping linux out of the world is just absolute fanaticism. I mean, REALLY now. I can't promote an operating system that doesn't "just work" out of the box to people that aren't computer literate. I can promote WinTel to the same people, and 9 of ten times, it works, out of the box.
So, someone care to tell me why my wifi card doesn't work out of the box in Linux, and does with Windows, and care to expand on why that's OK, since the driver is "closed source".... WHY THE FUCK is it OK to have a broken OS, if you maintain Open Source with it.
Transparent caching appliances at the cell towers should be mandatory for this type of device, with the speeds they are talking about.
I mean, think about it. Most cell phones (not the geek style, but most that Lusers have) access WAP style pages. Caching them at the head end would SEVERLY drop the amount of traffic going in and out of the high speed link to the rest of the world.
But, since most cell towers are in areas that can't even get reliable DSL, and the providers backhaul their signals wirelessly to another head end, getting that magic 42 meg/sec isn't going to happen but to pages cached at each cell tower.
What about the fact that 9 of 10 times, a cell tower is somewhere that even getting a T1 to is kind of hard.
Where my house is, we get our internet via WiFi (802.11B and A). A T1 circuit is > 1K dollars a month, and their is ONLY the telco to get it to.
Getting a 42 meg/sec link up here would be rediculous.
I've put up cellular towers before. Man, some of these places are damn near inaccessible in good weather. Of course, their is backhaul, and we all know that TCP/IP LOVES latency, as evidenced by how well satellite internet works.
So, basically, this will help people that generally already have access to broadband at high speeds. The people who actually NEED it, outlying areas, etc., won't get it simply because of that...... What do they call it? Oh yeah, LAST MILE. Just because your distributing broadband wirelessly doesn't mean the OC12 fairy is going to be dropping fiber on your mountaintop anytime soon.
(and I've also talked to my provider here, about backhauling to Los Angeles or Bakersfield to cheapen the cost of the circuits. That's actually our failover, and the latency is SO high (we are talking 60 mile links here) that it is only good for about nothing. Squid box is about the only thing they are interested in, and I think it would help TREMENDOUSLY).
Eventually, you end up with a monopoly, when one company provides a product an order of magnitudes better than another.
I was an ardent Yahoo user until about 2003, and then switched to Google. Pretty much when I got a:beta: email account on GMail. Yahoo = megabytes of storage and Google gave me a gig. Then, once I started using them, I found their search to be SO much better.
Yahoo had it in the early to late 90s. Now it's Googles game. And ANY Corp. entity MUST act like a Corp. entity (make them shareholders some cash), so it should come as ZERO surprise when Google starts to act like a company..... ie, out for profit.
But, if Yahoo would have offered something similiar (to GMail at the time), I never would have experienced Google's superior search engine. Had Yahoo had a better search engine, I might have stuck with them and then played out with them.
Google just gave us something better, for a better price. Goodbuy (pun intended) Yahoo.
On your last paragraph, does it matter what happened to the rest of the people? Napster is still pretty much gone and dead...
Bittorrent is a protocol for stealing software. It's got legit uses, but type torrent into google, and let me know how many "legal" websites pop up... And then let me know why it's a decentralized system, with little to no way of "bust one site, get many users" (like the days of FTP, but one site, get every users IP mask))
Call it what you want, but BT was designed, from the ground up, to obfuscate the users (protect them from busts), make it easy for the masses (get everyone using it), and to promote the exchange of software (legal and not).
People don't use BT to communicate, so that pretty much blows that comment out of the water, as well. Communication would be email, im, voice, etc. Trading software isn't technically communication, it's 'trading'.... So you can't say that people would be busted for communicating via bittorrent. Sorry, that's too far a stretch.
I agree with you that people will always find a new method to steal. Especially in this day in age.
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You have a backup server and a main server?
For you HOUSE?
You really don't WANT to get laid by a member of the human race, do you? :)
--Toll_Free
I lived in Santa Cruz. I dealt with the legal system in Santa Cruz. It is a sham, and a travesty, at best.
Bob Lee (the D.A.) has absolutely no brains. What-so-ever. His office REGULARLY loses and destroys evidence (in my case, I was dead to rights wrong, but on trial date, the DA had to come forth and admit, foolishly, that her entire case was based upon evidence she couldn't find. All fine and dandy, but then the bitch wanted to retry me after she admitted she had no evidence and the jury was hung).
This surprises me not. I also know that Santa Cruz COUNTY has NO data recovery specialists. Santa Cruz County uses local computer repair shops. Period. They outsource their IT, so when the outsourcing firm couldn't fix it, it went to their friend. He couldn't fix it, so they both declared the DVD unreadable.
Enter real data recovery firm, and a few hours later, they are back in the business of ruining lives.
Santa Cruz County is a crock of shit. Bottom line. They are inept, can't catch people stabbing each other in front of officers on holidays downtown, and LIVE for the homeless. The entire economy is propped up by Mexican illegal labor force and marijuana (who doesn't like to smoke a joint, but when your LARGEST tax revenue for the city is a medicinal marijuana dispensary, and that owner of said dispensary runs FOR CITY COUNCIL, that's telling).
--Toll_Free
This is simple.
If you are using DSL, cancel the landline phone. The telco uses the landline phone to figure out what C/O your in, once that's figgired out, the DSL circuit is installed, cancel the home phone. I did, and it works great. Home phones are not contracted, usually.
If you are using cable modems, you can cancel everything but the cable modem service, but beware, this usually means you pay a higher monthly rate. And before you say anything, screw you, I enjoy not paying 69.95 a month for basic cable modem if I also pay 40 a month for something else (tv) they offer.
What you want is available, but usually you have to figure out how to get it, and then be able to stomach the fact that since your not getting everything from the cable company, your going to be paying a higher rate than if you where, for the single or two things you do end up getting.
--Toll_Free
Anyone other than me read that as "That is so wong"?
--Toll_Free
And pretty much the same whiners that scream when someone actually pays for software, rather than using a free downloadable one from the internet.
Gee, in dire economic times, people bitch about having to pay, and having to actually compete financially.
Simply amazing.
--Toll_Free
Hard to take something seriously when they claim the spreadsheet is why the mac is so great.
Wait, the spreadsheet was out before the Lisa. Which is the PREDECESSOR to the Mac.
Which pretty much makes the rest of the story drivel.
And, I have to wonder, where are all the F/OSS people now, when Apple Developers are complaining that low cost software is keeping them from selling their high cost software. What about FREE?
When is someone going to point that out? Awwhh... The POOR POOR apple devs (yeah, that's an oxymoron) not getting paid after screaming for so long that F/OSS is the ONLY way of the future.
Amazing, the economy falls apart, and LOTS of people advocating F/OSS start bitching about two or three dollars profit.?????
Just food for thought, and readying myself for troll status.
--Toll_Free
Yes, you can replace the HDD in the XBOX with (in mine) a 120 gigger.
I also use mine with my fileserver. XBMC also runs SMB (as well as a couple other services), streams from the internet, has weather update options, etc.
Take a look at it, XBMC is a great product. My 3 yr old can navigate mine (you can modify the menus from the UI), and it supports profiles (the pr0n is only in my profile) :)
--Toll_Free
Not completely true.
Using collinear style antenna elements, you can take the RF being directed toward the sky, and have it steered (electronically using phasing harnesses or other means of propogational delay) towards the horizon, which is typically where most of the RF needs to go.
I have a double collinear 2 meter stack, and it works wonders. I can listen to a sattelite as it comes up from the horizon at great levels, to about a 45 degree incline from my antenna, where it virtually vanishes. Then, when it's at the 45 degree horizon again (after it apexes my location), it comes back at great levels.
My ground plane (1/4 wave) doesn't do NEARLY as well as the collinear, the GP antenna will actually hear the sattelite the entire pass. However, the signal from the GP antenna NEVER approaches the level from the collinear.
--Toll_Free
4. Pay girl agreed upon rate, and a 10 percent bonus if she doesn't run away upon you dropping pants.
Wouldn't be a safe bet.
At the tens of thousands of watt level, any non-linear junction in the near field would cause rectification of the 60 hertz signal and cause MASSIVE amounts of harmonic radiation.
I've actually found harmonics in one of my transmitters caused by an aluminum shed (storage shed from K-Mart) next door to my friends house. Shed came down, so did the amount of interferience complaints.
Diodes can be used as noise generators, covering up to HUNDREDS of megaherts.
2.4 gig isn't the only band used, and this has potential to cause ALL sorts of problems.
Not to mention, the idea is pretty much useless.
--Toll_Free
We had those in Quake.
Called a railgun.
--Toll_Free
The inverse square law works in the near field of any power being transmitted.
Broadcasted and transmitted, in the realm of AC circuit analysis is the same thing.
I'm not an Engineer, either, but I do build some QUITE large transmitter / amplifiers. Think in the tens of thousands of watts.
--Toll_Free
The higher the frequency, the more efficiency they would be able to get, as high gain antennas become more of a reality the higher in frequency you go.
HOWEVER, transformers used to power things don't work really well at microwave, or even RF, frequencies.
This is bullshit, plain and simple. Who HONESTLY needs wireless power, that rechargable batteries can't provide?
--Toll_Free
Fm transmitter antennas are located on top of mountain peaks, or on towers where (presumably) nobody is living, ie, above a skyscraper.
If you live next to an FM transmitter, then you might want to relocate, though, as most FM transmitters aren't located in the most hospitable places (IE, mountain tops, basements, etc).
Seriously, I have more than 100Kw PEP ERP out of my transmitters I have here. The FM transmitter stations, as mine, use directional antennas and RADOMES (for FM stations), which concentrate power at much higher elevations than where you or I are.
Anyway, you can put your tin foil hat away.
--Toll_Free
It's called a battery.
Mine works well. Seldom, if EVER, do I want to sit somewhere without power and use a computer.
If I'm camping, the computer is a rarity, only to check in via cell modem with family.
Otherwise, I have time to power the laptop enough for 100 percent charge, and another 2.5 hours.
--Toll_Free
Maybe the teacher is correct in his beliefs.
I mean, outside of /., there isn't a lot of uptake of linux. Period. Some home users play with it, others have VM's of it running to "explore" linux, etc. but, it has no market penetration like Windows has.
Yes, exposing kids to Linux might help it take off in the future, to the levels we would like to see, but that will happen when it actually works, out of the box. I, myself, will work with 2 or 3 reboots and getting a functional system out of the box (Wintel), rather than having the 2 reboots the Ubuntu took, with non-working WiFi requiring me to actually go out and get FWCutter (real easy, when your computer HAS NO FUCKING NETWORK CONNECTION). Oh yeah, that's proprietary, so it has to be that way.
Really? Why is it the same card works Carte Blanch in Windows? How come it's SO horrible to run some companies proprietary driver in linux, but that same driver is fine for the WinTel community?
Yes, I ended up going to proprietary drivers on my Linux computer. It actually works better than when I let Ubuntu decide which drivers to use. Yes, I'm using NVidia's proprietary code, and I like it, like it MUCH better than the crap that came with Ubuntu that offered me max 800X600.
Thinking that it is the teacher's unions keeping linux out of the world is just absolute fanaticism. I mean, REALLY now. I can't promote an operating system that doesn't "just work" out of the box to people that aren't computer literate. I can promote WinTel to the same people, and 9 of ten times, it works, out of the box.
So, someone care to tell me why my wifi card doesn't work out of the box in Linux, and does with Windows, and care to expand on why that's OK, since the driver is "closed source".... WHY THE FUCK is it OK to have a broken OS, if you maintain Open Source with it.
--Toll_Free
dvddecrypter / dvd2avi
XBMC and 75 dollar used XBOX. :)
Just what my 2 yr old, 3 yr old and 5 yr old ordered.
--Toll_Free
Jesus Fucking Christ.
So goddammed emboldened by the fact you got linux to run on your laptop.
Copyright and patent both are older than MPAA and RIAA. Therefore shut the FUCK up.
--Toll_Free
You know a lot about goatse...
Larry Bajina = goatse???
Is your Baj, truly, a stick in the bucket?
--Toll_Free
Transparent caching appliances at the cell towers should be mandatory for this type of device, with the speeds they are talking about.
I mean, think about it. Most cell phones (not the geek style, but most that Lusers have) access WAP style pages. Caching them at the head end would SEVERLY drop the amount of traffic going in and out of the high speed link to the rest of the world.
But, since most cell towers are in areas that can't even get reliable DSL, and the providers backhaul their signals wirelessly to another head end, getting that magic 42 meg/sec isn't going to happen but to pages cached at each cell tower.
--Toll_Free
This is all fine and dandy, BUT.....
What about the fact that 9 of 10 times, a cell tower is somewhere that even getting a T1 to is kind of hard.
Where my house is, we get our internet via WiFi (802.11B and A). A T1 circuit is > 1K dollars a month, and their is ONLY the telco to get it to.
Getting a 42 meg/sec link up here would be rediculous.
I've put up cellular towers before. Man, some of these places are damn near inaccessible in good weather. Of course, their is backhaul, and we all know that TCP/IP LOVES latency, as evidenced by how well satellite internet works.
So, basically, this will help people that generally already have access to broadband at high speeds. The people who actually NEED it, outlying areas, etc., won't get it simply because of that...... What do they call it? Oh yeah, LAST MILE. Just because your distributing broadband wirelessly doesn't mean the OC12 fairy is going to be dropping fiber on your mountaintop anytime soon.
(and I've also talked to my provider here, about backhauling to Los Angeles or Bakersfield to cheapen the cost of the circuits. That's actually our failover, and the latency is SO high (we are talking 60 mile links here) that it is only good for about nothing. Squid box is about the only thing they are interested in, and I think it would help TREMENDOUSLY).
--Toll_Free
I read this as
After hours of pointless masturbation, I ate my body weight in grits
Then I reread it, and my mind babelfished it the same way.
Anyone else have that problem? :)
--Toll_Free
Yup, that's pretty much Capitalism.
Eventually, you end up with a monopoly, when one company provides a product an order of magnitudes better than another.
I was an ardent Yahoo user until about 2003, and then switched to Google. Pretty much when I got a :beta: email account on GMail. Yahoo = megabytes of storage and Google gave me a gig. Then, once I started using them, I found their search to be SO much better.
Yahoo had it in the early to late 90s. Now it's Googles game. And ANY Corp. entity MUST act like a Corp. entity (make them shareholders some cash), so it should come as ZERO surprise when Google starts to act like a company..... ie, out for profit.
But, if Yahoo would have offered something similiar (to GMail at the time), I never would have experienced Google's superior search engine. Had Yahoo had a better search engine, I might have stuck with them and then played out with them.
Google just gave us something better, for a better price. Goodbuy (pun intended) Yahoo.
--Toll_Free
On your last paragraph, does it matter what happened to the rest of the people? Napster is still pretty much gone and dead...
Bittorrent is a protocol for stealing software. It's got legit uses, but type torrent into google, and let me know how many "legal" websites pop up... And then let me know why it's a decentralized system, with little to no way of "bust one site, get many users" (like the days of FTP, but one site, get every users IP mask))
Call it what you want, but BT was designed, from the ground up, to obfuscate the users (protect them from busts), make it easy for the masses (get everyone using it), and to promote the exchange of software (legal and not).
People don't use BT to communicate, so that pretty much blows that comment out of the water, as well. Communication would be email, im, voice, etc. Trading software isn't technically communication, it's 'trading'.... So you can't say that people would be busted for communicating via bittorrent. Sorry, that's too far a stretch.
I agree with you that people will always find a new method to steal. Especially in this day in age.
--Toll_Free
TCP/IP is taken from the x.25 protocol ham radio operators used for years, as well.
--Toll_Free