and after the judge found him to be innocent, he was allowed to collect his siphoning gear back from the evidence locker.
I use similar gear to occasionally transfer gas from my car's tank to smaller devices (lawn mower, generator, etc.). I'd be angry if I got accused of a crime just for having a hose and gas can, and even more angry if I didn't get it back.
do they make some sort of attachment clock, so it can set your computer's time that way?
Of course they do. Anyone who has ever setup ntpd should know that quite well. The default/example config file is STREWN with examples of using hardware clocks... So much so it's difficult to figure out how to set it up to sync to other servers via the network.
From the man page:
The NTP Version 4 daemon supports some three dozen different radio, satellite and modem reference clocks plus a special pseudo-clock used for backup or when no other clock source is available. Detailed descriptions of individual device drivers and options can be found in the "Reference Clock Drivers" page (available as part of the HTML documentation provided in/usr/share/doc/ntp).
If they reflect radiation in the same frequency ranges as other signals all around us, don't they reflect that energy all the time, not just on occasions when they are purposefully scanned?
RFID chips will have at least some effect on the ambient electro-magnetic fields in the frequencies it responds to, yes. Though, the same could be said about a drop of water/sweat on your skin, the watch on your wrist, etc. etc. Everything responds to some frequency.
I'm not sure what you're trying to get at with your question, but in any case, because of distance, the power level is such that nobody is going to have a chance to read your RFID tag without being on top of you (supplying a ridiculously strong field, and being reasonably close, might work). And the fact that the RFID chip is there is really only going to have minimal effect on any electromagnetic radiation that is already going through your body.
So a phone at 1-2 cm away (plastic and skin) may have less effect then a n embedded RFID.
You are talking in circles... We're a long way from the sun, so the inverse square law says we don't get too much power from it. A mirror in your hands, reflecting the sun, isn't going to be as powerful as the Sun, and can't emit any more power than it received. No matter how close you are to it, the energy level hasn't changed.
The inverse square law tells you how much power the RFID chip is going to receive in the first place, and it can't output any more power than it gets. In other words, you'll have just as much power going through you from the RFID scanner, whether you have a RFID chip, or not.
There was no talk whether it was the container or the RFI emission.
That's because they assume their readers aren't idiots...
RFID chips don't emit electromagnetic radiation, they only (really) reflect it. What's more, the energy levels are far lower than any number of other day-to-day activities, in the same frequency ranges as other signals all around us, and RFID chips are only scanned for a couple seconds at a time, and only on occasion.
If the small and occasional radiation from RFID chips could cause cancer, we'd all be lucky to survive for a few months after birth before dying of cancer.
At a slower speed of 26.9 MPH it gets 3.6 MPG, which is almost 50% better than the "spider boat".
Congratulations. You've discovered that slower speeds require less power to sustain. I can't wait to see your 500MPG car that goes a max speed of 2MPH.
Now obviously the range of these boats are vastly reduced - it's like rocketry, where the more fuel you carry to gain distance, the more weight you have to haul, so the actual gain in distance is only small (or perhaps even negative).
Err, no. Boats need a certain amount of ballast anyhow. Up to a point, the added weight is free.
And please don't compare boats to rockets again...
I recommend at least looking through the MPlayer-users and -dev lists for mentions of h.264, 1080, or CoreAVC. I'd give you a few more specific references, but I don't have the time right now.
See this thread for some people with real world testing of hd playback.
What a horrible test. Forgot to recomend -vo gl -dr, which gives a huge performance improvement on HD materials over the default (Xv). The fact that most benchmark tests (even the old crap 3.2GHz P4) were able to decode faster than realtime strongly suggests the video card or VO method is the problem.
No mention if any of them has compiled MPlayer as 64-bit, even though that makes about a 20% speed difference on it's own.
but anything demanding just won't work on anything other than the latest and greatest CPU's
Nope. The speed of individual cores hasn't gotten any faster in the "latest and greatest." AMD and Intel are just combining two or four (slightly slower for power reasons) cores together. Since MPlayer's h264 decoder can't take advantage of multiple cores, even an old single-core would decode just as fast.
this makes playback under linux of HD DVB streams almost impossible (you get frames dropped even with top of the line CPU's).
That's entirely wrong. Even AMD64 CPUs a couple years old can decode h.264@1080 with MPlayer on Linux. If you're having a problem, you either have a terribly crappy video card (or drivers), or are doing something wrong.
Heck the Ascii filter could probably be good for trainging for sending images on Low Bandwidth networks and having people get the images and decode them easier.
That's a big no.
A single, (automatically produced) ASCII still is incomprehensible. It's only with 30 of them per second, or so that you can "kinda", "sorta" make-out what's going on.
A very-low resolution JPEG, with high compression/smoothing/etc. could be equally small, and infinitely more comprehensible.
High-end iPaqs aren't cheap... You could put together a low-end PDA for $30, and it would have more than enough power to handle data entry, networking, etc. I still use my B&W 26MHz Psion5mx, and haven't felt the need to get anything higher-end. The dirt cheap "Osaris" works equally well.
Break a PDA and it's an issue (replacement, management making a fuss and having to replace, yadda yadda; you know how it goes)
I'd be more worried about the durability of paper than a PDA.
PDAs require an extra little bit of logistics; charging, synchronization facilities and schedules, etc.
Hardly an issue. Paper needs to be hauled into a central office... Much bigger logistics issues there.
Comcast may actually be violating criminal impersonation statues
Good God! I expect corporations to do bad things, but violating statues is a new low. Aren't they in violation of public decency laws, or are they doing this in private?
I miss the good old days, when being covered in bird crap was the worst thing to happen to public statues.
Because no sharing at all is better than GPL-style sharing.
Quite wrong. The GPL is quickly becoming the lowest-common-denominator license, locking up previously freer code. What's worse is that much of the open source community will mindlessly go along with the flow.
Forcing open source development to be under the original license (NOT THE GPL) will prevent the fragmentation of code, and duplication of effort that is currently a big problem, thanks to the GPL community using so much BSD/MIT code.
It still allows proprietary use, but that certainly doesn't "restrict every kind of freedom for everyone" by a long shot, as you aren't deprived of the open code it was based on. It simply doesn't impose the GNU philosophy of: "If you use any of my code, ALL the rest of your code belongs to me" on everyone.
Is there an alternative to an MIT or BSD license that does the same thing, but doesn't allow GPL people to use it?
The BSD license most people know is BSDv2, specifically created to make it GPL compatible. BSDv1 included an "Advertising Clause" that, while minor, was an additional restriction, therefore GPL incompatible.
Does MS have enough money to purchase all the power companies when they start offering broadband over powerlines too? Are they going to buy the cable and the telecom companies? [...] Does MS really have the resources to buy every ISP on the planet?
Hell yes. They have obscene amounts of money.
How can they stop a grassroots, community wireless ISP?
Trivially... With a more powerful transmitter to jam such radio signals. No FCC to stop them, right?
That means that a good road network is a requirement. But it does not need 'big government' as the grandparent said; state or even local government can handle this.
Before the interstate system, all roads were local. It was a horrible mess. It was the "big government" interstate road system that made travel practical, consistent, fast, etc. I couldn't commute to work without a local interstate, and I can assure you that the local governments wouldn't ever have done it on their own. It just isn't economical for the state to put a big wide road through a lot of nowhere, so that the residents can cross (or leave) the state quickly to spend their money elsewhere.
And it only gets worse when you want to talk about keeping roads consistent across state lines. You're likely to have an 8-lane road cross the state line into some decrepit 2-lane gravel road. Or perhaps more cleverly, each state putting an interstate all the way across the state, but then nearing the state line, the egress side shrinks to one lane, and low speed, to slow or perhaps entirely prevent exit. That's the most economically advantageous model, though many people would be killed in emergencies requiring mass exodus.
Trains are a nice idea for long-range transport. For small commuter trips they're essentially useless: They take significantly longer, you have to deal with the people, you pay per trip, there's a good chance of delays and you have to connect to last-mile transportation. At least, that's the way it is now in Holland.
Indeed, that is the reality now, with low numbers of people riding. However, if it could gain in popularity, they can be the most efficient form of transportation, even on short trips.
Think of the model of elevators in a building... Despite having all the disadvantages of trains, the lack of alternatives and high volume of traffic makes them extremely efficient, and in better configurations, they can be extremely fast.
People blindly shouting for more trains are indeed idiots, but never the less, trains do have immense potential if things drastically change.
Large corporations probably wouldn't exist in a society where government doesn't give special privileges to certain businesses.
Quite the opposite. All evidence has shown that unbridled capitalism naturally leads to all small companies merging into one monopoly. Those that refuse on any grounds, will be quashed by the much larger company.
Government granted monopolies are the reasons for just a few big companies, but the vast majority are the natural result of competition, and only limited by the government (fear of lawsuits, fear of the SEC, etc., etc).
And they will only remain large and profitable as long as they don't abuse their position.
There is obscene amounts of evidence that the opposite is true. The more they abuse their position, the more they can assure no competition can possibly spring up.
Witness the rise of open source/standards challenging Microsoft's position far more effectively than the DoJ.
Just wait until Microsoft buys your ISP, which then bans users from visiting web sites hosting open source code.
And no, you can't start your own ISP, because a big company that doesn't like you, owns the backbone, and the land, etc., etc. They're probably taking bribes from Microsoft anyhow, since that's the most profitable path in the interest of both companies.
You do not have to follow, work for, or be a client of the big corporations, unlike goverments.
If you want to WORK, TRAVEL, or EAT, you're under the thumb of big corporations, who will immediately merge into monopolies, and raise prices to just below whatever price would cause a majority of people to starve. Of course they'll occasionally lower certain prices, in certain areas, to squash whatever competitors spring up, but other than that, you're entirely a serf to a few big companies.
And don't even think about going out of the city and beginning subsistence farming, because they bought all the land up with their unimaginable profits, and are keeping it under guard, so nobody can use it.
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I use similar gear to occasionally transfer gas from my car's tank to smaller devices (lawn mower, generator, etc.). I'd be angry if I got accused of a crime just for having a hose and gas can, and even more angry if I didn't get it back.
Of course they do. Anyone who has ever setup ntpd should know that quite well. The default/example config file is STREWN with examples of using hardware clocks... So much so it's difficult to figure out how to set it up to sync to other servers via the network.
From the man page:
Really? What does a fun-house mirror do then, if it doesn't "reflect" light. Or a regular mirror for that matter, since they're never perfect?
My dictionary must be broken... Under "reflect" it doesn't say anything about "w/o change"
RFID chips will have at least some effect on the ambient electro-magnetic fields in the frequencies it responds to, yes. Though, the same could be said about a drop of water/sweat on your skin, the watch on your wrist, etc. etc. Everything responds to some frequency.
I'm not sure what you're trying to get at with your question, but in any case, because of distance, the power level is such that nobody is going to have a chance to read your RFID tag without being on top of you (supplying a ridiculously strong field, and being reasonably close, might work). And the fact that the RFID chip is there is really only going to have minimal effect on any electromagnetic radiation that is already going through your body.
You are talking in circles... We're a long way from the sun, so the inverse square law says we don't get too much power from it. A mirror in your hands, reflecting the sun, isn't going to be as powerful as the Sun, and can't emit any more power than it received. No matter how close you are to it, the energy level hasn't changed.
The inverse square law tells you how much power the RFID chip is going to receive in the first place, and it can't output any more power than it gets. In other words, you'll have just as much power going through you from the RFID scanner, whether you have a RFID chip, or not.
That's because they assume their readers aren't idiots...
RFID chips don't emit electromagnetic radiation, they only (really) reflect it. What's more, the energy levels are far lower than any number of other day-to-day activities, in the same frequency ranges as other signals all around us, and RFID chips are only scanned for a couple seconds at a time, and only on occasion.
If the small and occasional radiation from RFID chips could cause cancer, we'd all be lucky to survive for a few months after birth before dying of cancer.
Congratulations. You've discovered that slower speeds require less power to sustain. I can't wait to see your 500MPG car that goes a max speed of 2MPH.
Err, no. Boats need a certain amount of ballast anyhow. Up to a point, the added weight is free.
And please don't compare boats to rockets again...
I recommend at least looking through the MPlayer-users and -dev lists for mentions of h.264, 1080, or CoreAVC. I'd give you a few more specific references, but I don't have the time right now.
Quite the opposite.
What a horrible test. Forgot to recomend -vo gl -dr, which gives a huge performance improvement on HD materials over the default (Xv). The fact that most benchmark tests (even the old crap 3.2GHz P4) were able to decode faster than realtime strongly suggests the video card or VO method is the problem.
No mention if any of them has compiled MPlayer as 64-bit, even though that makes about a 20% speed difference on it's own.
Nope. The speed of individual cores hasn't gotten any faster in the "latest and greatest." AMD and Intel are just combining two or four (slightly slower for power reasons) cores together. Since MPlayer's h264 decoder can't take advantage of multiple cores, even an old single-core would decode just as fast.
Screw 3D and gamers... I just glad ACPI developers will finally have the docs they need to get ATI video cards to come out of S3/Suspend successfully.
That's entirely wrong. Even AMD64 CPUs a couple years old can decode h.264@1080 with MPlayer on Linux. If you're having a problem, you either have a terribly crappy video card (or drivers), or are doing something wrong.
That's a big no.
A single, (automatically produced) ASCII still is incomprehensible. It's only with 30 of them per second, or so that you can "kinda", "sorta" make-out what's going on.
A very-low resolution JPEG, with high compression/smoothing/etc. could be equally small, and infinitely more comprehensible.
Learn to read. I was very obviously talking about the nuclear warheads. The sentence I quoted clearly said "nukes".
OR WE CAN LEAVE THEM WHERE THEY ARE.
They weren't supposed to be transported to begin with. You obviously didn't bother to RTFA at all.
High-end iPaqs aren't cheap... You could put together a low-end PDA for $30, and it would have more than enough power to handle data entry, networking, etc. I still use my B&W 26MHz Psion5mx, and haven't felt the need to get anything higher-end. The dirt cheap "Osaris" works equally well.
I'd be more worried about the durability of paper than a PDA.
Hardly an issue. Paper needs to be hauled into a central office... Much bigger logistics issues there.
Gee, one arbitrarily-defined segment of the economy is now larger than another arbitrarily-defined segment of the economy. I'm shocked.
Hmm...
Okay, somebody has to ask...
WTF is a homeless household?
Good God! I expect corporations to do bad things, but violating statues is a new low. Aren't they in violation of public decency laws, or are they doing this in private?
I miss the good old days, when being covered in bird crap was the worst thing to happen to public statues.
Quite wrong. The GPL is quickly becoming the lowest-common-denominator license, locking up previously freer code. What's worse is that much of the open source community will mindlessly go along with the flow.
Forcing open source development to be under the original license (NOT THE GPL) will prevent the fragmentation of code, and duplication of effort that is currently a big problem, thanks to the GPL community using so much BSD/MIT code.
It still allows proprietary use, but that certainly doesn't "restrict every kind of freedom for everyone" by a long shot, as you aren't deprived of the open code it was based on. It simply doesn't impose the GNU philosophy of: "If you use any of my code, ALL the rest of your code belongs to me" on everyone.
The BSD license most people know is BSDv2, specifically created to make it GPL compatible. BSDv1 included an "Advertising Clause" that, while minor, was an additional restriction, therefore GPL incompatible.
You should have no problem finding a copy of it.
Hell yes. They have obscene amounts of money.
Trivially... With a more powerful transmitter to jam such radio signals. No FCC to stop them, right?
Before the interstate system, all roads were local. It was a horrible mess. It was the "big government" interstate road system that made travel practical, consistent, fast, etc. I couldn't commute to work without a local interstate, and I can assure you that the local governments wouldn't ever have done it on their own. It just isn't economical for the state to put a big wide road through a lot of nowhere, so that the residents can cross (or leave) the state quickly to spend their money elsewhere.
And it only gets worse when you want to talk about keeping roads consistent across state lines. You're likely to have an 8-lane road cross the state line into some decrepit 2-lane gravel road. Or perhaps more cleverly, each state putting an interstate all the way across the state, but then nearing the state line, the egress side shrinks to one lane, and low speed, to slow or perhaps entirely prevent exit. That's the most economically advantageous model, though many people would be killed in emergencies requiring mass exodus.
Indeed, that is the reality now, with low numbers of people riding. However, if it could gain in popularity, they can be the most efficient form of transportation, even on short trips.
Think of the model of elevators in a building... Despite having all the disadvantages of trains, the lack of alternatives and high volume of traffic makes them extremely efficient, and in better configurations, they can be extremely fast.
People blindly shouting for more trains are indeed idiots, but never the less, trains do have immense potential if things drastically change.
Quite the opposite. All evidence has shown that unbridled capitalism naturally leads to all small companies merging into one monopoly. Those that refuse on any grounds, will be quashed by the much larger company.
Government granted monopolies are the reasons for just a few big companies, but the vast majority are the natural result of competition, and only limited by the government (fear of lawsuits, fear of the SEC, etc., etc).
There is obscene amounts of evidence that the opposite is true. The more they abuse their position, the more they can assure no competition can possibly spring up.
Just wait until Microsoft buys your ISP, which then bans users from visiting web sites hosting open source code.
And no, you can't start your own ISP, because a big company that doesn't like you, owns the backbone, and the land, etc., etc. They're probably taking bribes from Microsoft anyhow, since that's the most profitable path in the interest of both companies.
If you want to WORK, TRAVEL, or EAT, you're under the thumb of big corporations, who will immediately merge into monopolies, and raise prices to just below whatever price would cause a majority of people to starve. Of course they'll occasionally lower certain prices, in certain areas, to squash whatever competitors spring up, but other than that, you're entirely a serf to a few big companies.
And don't even think about going out of the city and beginning subsistence farming, because they bought all the land up with their unimaginable profits, and are keeping it under guard, so nobody can use it.