I am, of course, assuming that they would use 802.11.
How would they get around the problem of interference? I work for a small wireless ISP, and we have enough problems with interference in very small towns. I can't imagine dealing with the amount of interference in a large city.
Of course, I don't know how Ricochet was able to do it using just unlicensed frequencies, so I guess with enough money and the right technology it could be done. However, didn't Ricochet use proprietary client hardware?
Why do they have to compete with wireless? The ISP I work for has been doing everything they can to join the wireless Internet craze. I can see it now: AOL WiFi... (No, I'm not with AOL.)
The new key cylinders are not designed for tubular keys, but flat keys, so that pretty much solves the BIC pen problem. As to whether or not the new ones are easy to pick, we don't know yet.
BTW, it's Medeco, not Medico. But yeah, they seem to make nice locks. I can't find that they make any big U locks, though. The padlocks could be put in the disc brakes of a motorcycle, but that doesn't help bicyclists, unless they're willing to use a chain.
Also, Multilock only seems to make door/gate locks.
"King also warns that firing a projectile at a potential explosive goes against bomb disposal guidelines."
Ya think? I know one way bomb squads dispose of potential bombs is to simply blow them up, but to fire a bullet (even if just at paintball speeds) at a potential explosive, just to try to find out if it's an explosive? Seems pretty silly.
I've been wanting to do the *exact* same thing. So far I have my iPaq 4155 and a bluetooth GPS receiver. I'm just having a hard time finding the software to plot my GPS data onto a map. Tried searching the war driving pages, since they somehow get their data onto a map, but couldn't find what I was looking for. This is close - but I'd rather have it on a Mapquest-style street map.
Anyone got any ideas? I'm going to give USAPhotoMap a try, but would love to know how to get the data onto a street map. (I've seen that Delorme's Street Atlas 2004 will do this, but I'd rather have a free solution.:)
As a fellow 10D owner, I wish I had mod points right now.:) I do wish I still had my old G1 - I carried it around everywhere. Since I moved into digital SLRs, I don't carry a camera around anywhere, unless I'm being paid.:-\ Now if I could just get one of those Cardbus CF readers, I'd be set. Oh, and another G1.
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I, Spammer
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Holy *%&@.
I just realized something. (Yes, I'm probably a bit behind, and just mod me redundant if this has been discussed before.)
The Super-DMCA that's been going around basically makes it a crime to attempt to hide the destination or originating point of any communication with the intent to defraud a communications provider.
This Super-DMCA has been passed a lot of places. Doesn't it pretty much already make forging headers for sending spam illegal?
I suppose you think it's perfictly alright for a club keep out black people? or for a company not to hire mexicans?
Well.. No. It's not okay for a company to not hire mexicans. If that's the only reason they're not hiring a person, that's against the law. However, it's perfectly legal for a club to not allow a person in because of just about anything they choose.
Employment laws are quite a bit different from any sort of anti-segregation feelings most of us have.
Just because you own something dosn't mean you should be able to do whatever the hell you want on it.
That most certainly depends on what you're doing.:) If you're not hiring someone or giving someone a loan (or a few other exceptions), the government shouldn't really be telling you what you can and can not do.
Nope.. Wasn't a troll. I could not remember if Sendmail listened to anything but localhost in the default install of OpenBSD. I didn't think it was a remote hole, but wanted to make sure.
Doesn't OpenBSD install with Sendmail active by default? I believe it does, but I don't think it listens to anything but localhost by default. If it does, this would be the second remote root exploit in OpenBSD in as many years.
Not bad once you think about it.
- Eric
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From the article: "One important factor in the breadth of the opposition is the fact that the project is headed by retired Adm. John Poindexter. Several members of Congress have said he is an unwelcome symbol because he was convicted of lying to Congress when he was President Ronald Reagan's national security adviser. That his conviction was reversed on the grounds that he had been given immunity for the testimony in which he lied did not mitigate congressional opinion, they said."
Oh, suuuure you promise it wouldn't be used to violate citizens' privacy. We believe you.
I think the answer probably has something to do with the fact that ISPs have to have higher bandwidth available than is used on average. Say that on average, an ISPs customer base takes up 30 megabit... To serve it's customers, the ISP could probably get away with having just one DS3. However, almost no ISP that size would have only one peer, so the ISP would most likely have 2 or even 3 DS3s to seperate peers, for redundancy in case there was a problem with one, through BGP they could just temporarily switch traffic to the other two. (say a DS3 goes down because of a DDoS attack, or some equipment fails..) They would also get this extra bandwidth to be prepared for things such as/.'ing or other bandwidth killing anolomies.
So. The ISP has 3 DS3s, but it's customer base only uses about 30 mbit of all that bandwidth on average. It probably wouldn't be fair to charge all the customers the same for their usage, because #1, there are quite a few customers that are never going to pass much traffic, and #2, if you did that, your prices would not be competitive, and you wouldn't get many customers..
Solution: the customers that DO take up more than average bandwidth get to bear the burden of helping to pay for that extra bandwidth. While Joe and Jim have colocated servers that stay right around 500kbits per second average, but Bob has a colocated server that jumps up to 10 megabit for a few days, it makes sense to get Bob to pay a higher charge for the bandwidth the ISP makes available for instances such as that. Also, as more and more customers start to take up more and more bandwidth, they're also going to be paying for the costs of adding bandwidth as it's needed. New routers, new cabling and the manpower needed for such an event, not to mention the costs of the new DS3 or OC3 or whatever are probably quite a hit at startup, financially.
If the ISP didn't have the extra bandwidth available, when something did happen, customers would get very upset about the bog down that would inevitably happen. Upset customers = losing money..
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That's what CentOS is for.
http://www.centos.org/
I am, of course, assuming that they would use 802.11.
How would they get around the problem of interference? I work for a small wireless ISP, and we have enough problems with interference in very small towns. I can't imagine dealing with the amount of interference in a large city.
Of course, I don't know how Ricochet was able to do it using just unlicensed frequencies, so I guess with enough money and the right technology it could be done. However, didn't Ricochet use proprietary client hardware?
Why do they have to compete with wireless? The ISP I work for has been doing everything they can to join the wireless Internet craze. I can see it now: AOL WiFi... (No, I'm not with AOL.)
The new key cylinders are not designed for tubular keys, but flat keys, so that pretty much solves the BIC pen problem. As to whether or not the new ones are easy to pick, we don't know yet.
BTW, it's Medeco, not Medico. But yeah, they seem to make nice locks. I can't find that they make any big U locks, though. The padlocks could be put in the disc brakes of a motorcycle, but that doesn't help bicyclists, unless they're willing to use a chain.
Also, Multilock only seems to make door/gate locks.
Already done. And this was even linked in the story. The client is called COK-knocker.
:)
And yes, it was Mark Hamill.
"King also warns that firing a projectile at a potential explosive goes against bomb disposal guidelines."
Ya think? I know one way bomb squads dispose of potential bombs is to simply blow them up, but to fire a bullet (even if just at paintball speeds) at a potential explosive, just to try to find out if it's an explosive? Seems pretty silly.
Unfortunately, I'm not quite the geek yet that I'm running Linux no my iPaq. ;-) Thanks, though!
That's awesome - it's exactly what I needed!
I used GPSBabel to convert my NMEA data to GPX format, uploaded it to GPS Visualizer, and voila! Thanks!
Doh. Replying to myself. It appears USAPhotoMaps will also download topo maps. Playing with it now. :)
I've been wanting to do the *exact* same thing. So far I have my iPaq 4155 and a bluetooth GPS receiver. I'm just having a hard time finding the software to plot my GPS data onto a map. Tried searching the war driving pages, since they somehow get their data onto a map, but couldn't find what I was looking for. This is close - but I'd rather have it on a Mapquest-style street map.
:)
Anyone got any ideas? I'm going to give USAPhotoMap a try, but would love to know how to get the data onto a street map. (I've seen that Delorme's Street Atlas 2004 will do this, but I'd rather have a free solution.
In case someone hasn't posted it yet, here is their page:
http://www.csialliance.org/
Try this.
As a fellow 10D owner, I wish I had mod points right now. :) I do wish I still had my old G1 - I carried it around everywhere. Since I moved into digital SLRs, I don't carry a camera around anywhere, unless I'm being paid. :-\ Now if I could just get one of those Cardbus CF readers, I'd be set. Oh, and another G1.
Um, no, the 1D still has a 1.3x "multiplier". You're thinking of the 1Ds. (*droooool*)
:)
I hope you never need to shoot something that's supposed to go up on a billboard. :)
So, how'd a duplicate make it past the subscriber preview feature?
Talk about non-useless robots. Heh.
Holy *%&@.
I just realized something. (Yes, I'm probably a bit behind, and just mod me redundant if this has been discussed before.)
The Super-DMCA that's been going around basically makes it a crime to attempt to hide the destination or originating point of any communication with the intent to defraud a communications provider.
This Super-DMCA has been passed a lot of places. Doesn't it pretty much already make forging headers for sending spam illegal?
My car is so goth it goes "Ankh! Ankh!"
I suppose you think it's perfictly alright for a club keep out black people? or for a company not to hire mexicans?
:) If you're not hiring someone or giving someone a loan (or a few other exceptions), the government shouldn't really be telling you what you can and can not do.
Well.. No. It's not okay for a company to not hire mexicans. If that's the only reason they're not hiring a person, that's against the law. However, it's perfectly legal for a club to not allow a person in because of just about anything they choose.
Employment laws are quite a bit different from any sort of anti-segregation feelings most of us have.
Just because you own something dosn't mean you should be able to do whatever the hell you want on it.
That most certainly depends on what you're doing.
Nope.. Wasn't a troll. I could not remember if Sendmail listened to anything but localhost in the default install of OpenBSD. I didn't think it was a remote hole, but wanted to make sure.
Doesn't OpenBSD install with Sendmail active by default? I believe it does, but I don't think it listens to anything but localhost by default. If it does, this would be the second remote root exploit in OpenBSD in as many years.
Not bad once you think about it.
- Eric
"They taste like burning." -Ralph
From the article:
"One important factor in the breadth of the opposition is the fact that the project is headed by retired Adm. John Poindexter. Several members of Congress have said he is an unwelcome symbol because he was convicted of lying to Congress when he was President Ronald Reagan's national security adviser. That his conviction was reversed on the grounds that he had been given immunity for the testimony in which he lied did not mitigate congressional opinion, they said."
Oh, suuuure you promise it wouldn't be used to violate citizens' privacy. We believe you.
I think the answer probably has something to do with the fact that ISPs have to have higher bandwidth available than is used on average. Say that on average, an ISPs customer base takes up 30 megabit... To serve it's customers, the ISP could probably get away with having just one DS3. However, almost no ISP that size would have only one peer, so the ISP would most likely have 2 or even 3 DS3s to seperate peers, for redundancy in case there was a problem with one, through BGP they could just temporarily switch traffic to the other two. (say a DS3 goes down because of a DDoS attack, or some equipment fails..) They would also get this extra bandwidth to be prepared for things such as /.'ing or other bandwidth killing anolomies.
So. The ISP has 3 DS3s, but it's customer base only uses about 30 mbit of all that bandwidth on average. It probably wouldn't be fair to charge all the customers the same for their usage, because #1, there are quite a few customers that are never going to pass much traffic, and #2, if you did that, your prices would not be competitive, and you wouldn't get many customers..
Solution: the customers that DO take up more than average bandwidth get to bear the burden of helping to pay for that extra bandwidth. While Joe and Jim have colocated servers that stay right around 500kbits per second average, but Bob has a colocated server that jumps up to 10 megabit for a few days, it makes sense to get Bob to pay a higher charge for the bandwidth the ISP makes available for instances such as that. Also, as more and more customers start to take up more and more bandwidth, they're also going to be paying for the costs of adding bandwidth as it's needed. New routers, new cabling and the manpower needed for such an event, not to mention the costs of the new DS3 or OC3 or whatever are probably quite a hit at startup, financially.
If the ISP didn't have the extra bandwidth available, when something did happen, customers would get very upset about the bog down that would inevitably happen. Upset customers = losing money..