I do like pine myself, but telnet is way evil - cleartext passwords and login names:( Now pine and SSH is a good combination and a little more secure. My only remaining beef is that pine does not currently support the "Maildir" format made popular by qmail. <sigh/>
Hmmm . . . using liquid lithium-6 to control the core sounds like a really "cool" idea (sorry, couldn't resist the pun this morning). But, as the lithium absorbs neutrons, doesn't it become litium-7 and/or lithium-8? How do the extra neutrons in the lithium affect it's physical properties - i.e. coefficient of expansion as the liquid is heated and cooled?
The idea here is that as the physical properties of the lithium changes, it will expand further into the core (or not as far) and effect the control of the reactor.
I know that the scientists who designed this thing probably thought of this, but I'm just curious as to how noticeable the effect is of the extra neutrons to the physical properties of lithium. Anyone know?
PS - anyone know the proper use of "effect" and "affect"? Four hours of sleep is effecting my thought processes - or is that affecting my thought processes?
I shedule frequent "meetings" with the cute intern down the hall.
This notice is being sent to inform you that your "geek" status has been revoked.
You have been found in violation of article 12, paragraph 7 of the Geek Code by noticing a member of the opposite sex. Furthermore, this offence has been aggravated by noting that member of the opposite sex as "cute", violating paragraphs 9 and 12 of article 17.
Please remove all O'Reily books from your shelf, disassemble two of your computers and return the parts to the original manufacturers, and disconnect all active internet connections at your home.
Failure to comply with the above request will result in severe penalties up to and including the installation of Windows 3.11 for Workgroups on all active computers in your home and Rosie O'Donnel pouring cold grits down your socks!
Out of some strange combination of curiosity and boredom, I did a scan of port 80 on my entire class B network (24.255.*.*) The results were pretty interesting, and I have also included some useless statistics from my Apache server logs.
In the past 24 hours my server has been hit 347 times by 51 unique servers
on my Class B network. In the past four and a half days my server has been hit 1185 times by 76
unique servers on my Class B network.
The nmap scan of port 80 on my Class B network:
3538 servers report the port as "closed"
635 servers report the port as "filtered"
197 servers report the port as "open"
which means that 26% of the web servers on my Class B network are currently
infected with the Code Red II worm:)
A humorus way of saying that the site has been slashdotted. The AC is using IE for his web browser, and the default message when a page cannot be loaded gives some "helpful hints" to troubleshoot your connection.
Fiber is spliced by fusing the two ends together. Each end is stripped of the outer protective layers - PVC, kevlar, some more PVC, and then some cladding. The ends of the fibers are cleaved to give a smooth, flat surface. The two ends are held together and then fused (melted) together using a plasma discharge.
The nifty machine that does all this costs upwards of $10000 US.
A good chuckle here on this end. I always appreciate a good pun. Unfortunately, after reading over the FAQ at the AirIQ website, it seems that they train their installers to hide the antennas and the electronics boxes from prying eyes. My thought would be to just disconnect the RF cable from the GPS antenna to the receiver, but that might not be possible.
For now, I'll just avoid using Acme car rental and be more aware of the fine print in the rental contracts with other companies. -----------------
To support your point, there was a story on/. a short time ago (sometime in the past two weeks) about a company creating UPS systems based on flywheel technology. The idea is similar - using something besides batteries or "the grid" to supply power to a machine.
I'm all for alternative forms of power, but the things that keep holding everything back are twofold: (1) consumers are cheap and only want to spend as little as possible; (2) alternative forms of power (batteries, solar, wind, geothermal) are expensive and not nearly as efficient as good old coal, nuclear, and fossil fuel. These two things do not make a good combination for the embracing of more ecologically sound forms of power.
But as you said, small steps to big goals! The best thing about this project is the creativity factor. These are the kinds of guys you want on your engineering team.
Umm . . . the machine does user "power" to operate. But I see what you mean about not wanting to introduce 120V AC or 240V AC power into a sensitive area. A better solution, though, would be to just use batteries. You will get a longer operating time and less carpal tunnel syndrome.
. . . the orgaon grinder standing on the side of the street with the monkey collecting coins from passers by. Instead of playing music, though, this little dohickey (technical term there) will service HTTP requests. And instead of a monkey, you could have an ISP collect $20 USD a month for web hosting fees;)
The net betting thing is hard to implement and verifying via GPS isn't feasible considering the I might feel like playing while I'm not in a legal state.
Are you saying that verifying via GPS is not technically feasible (cannot be done because the technology does not exist) or that it is too much hassle for the users/administrators?
Addressing your desire to gamble online while not in a legal state, that would be the whole purpose of incorporating GPS into the authentication solution. Even though you might reside in Nevada, you cannot legally gamble while traveling in a different state. The Federal Interstate Commerce laws declare that interstate wire gambling is illegal. GPS can be used (and should be) by the online gambling sites to prevent illeagal access by "out of towners".
Nevada is not trying to license gambling sites in other states. Federal law says that interstate gambling is illegal. If you want to place a bet with a legititmate sports betting establishment in Nevada, then you must physically be in Nevada when you place that bet. You cannot call from New York to place a bet on who will win the Stanley Cup.
For an online sports betting page to be legally operating in Nevada, they must be able to prove to the gaming commission that all bets placed on their site originated from with the state of Nevada.
Other states that wish to implement online casinos, sports betting, etc. have the same burden of proof. They must be able to show that an online wager was placed from within the same state as the online wagering establishment.
That's a total of 1050 pounds! I'll stick with my 5 pound APC UPS for now. Plus, my landlord would not appreciate 1/2 ton of weight in our second floor computer room!
The specs on the flywheel system are pretty interesting, too. It is definitely big and noisy - more so than my 586 full tower web server box.
I have a Dell I5000, too, and it has been a great computer. Dell also has the best customer support in the business, and I like the fact that I'll be getting TWO brand new batteries:)
On the other hand, it has brought down an entire country's financial system. (East European, forgot name.)
That country is Albania. The government and general citizenry invested heavily in pyramid schemes in the early 90's after the fall of communism. The pyramid schemes went belly-up around 96, and a general rebellion started in the north and spread south to the capital, Tirana. The old government was ousted and a new one put in place. They have not been in the headlines too much lately.
is that every time a Win2k machine hangs up, the admin will have to walk into the server room and do a hard reboot on the machine. Now, if you have 96 of these in a rack you will need a full time intern whose sole job is to reboot machines for users.
Looking at some of the technical docuemnts, it seems that they are designing "curl" to be fairly comprehensive. It can be run as an applet inside a web browser, compiled and run as an application, run as a script, or preprocessed and distributed for faster linking and runtime of reusable code.
Currently, the scripting option is not supported:(
Some of the syntax is a little strange, but I am assuming that it is related to LISP. It appears to support object and object orientated coding paradigms, but also incorporates some cool ideas from LISP - you can reassign a function pointer at runtime, something you cannot do in Java.
I wonder how this will stack up against Micro$oft's C# and the.NET initiative. It seems to be a direct competitor to those technologies. The only drawback seems to be the syntax - very different from Java and C/C++
Most ISPs in the USA charge a flat monthly fee for access to the internet and the world wide web. What about other countries where internet access is charged on a per-minute, per-hour, or per-Mb rate? It seems like the interstitial advertising ploy is going to cost those users money each time an add comes up. True, that already happens with banner adds since they take time/bandwidth to download. But the interstitial idea seems to only aggravate these charges to the consumer - it's not just a gif anymore but a whole HTML document.
Should advertisers be forced to reimburse users for overhead costs of their adds? This is a crazy idea, but from a capitalistic standpoint, why should these users be forced to pay for information they never even wanted in the first place?
The logical solution, of course, is for users under a variable rate charge plan to avoid websites with lots of ads and/or interstitials. Or they could use programs such as WebWasher or JunkBuster.
will be to change the copyright ownership bits of all files all over the world to Cowboy Neal. Each file will then be moderated by the new Slashfile moderation system. Only those files with karma of 25 or more will be allowed to traverse the internet or be stored on local media.
My computer sits inside a big metal box in order to shield it from RF interference - it's a big faraday cage.
In the last picture on the web page, the "Shop Mac" is shown sitting on a desk next to some speakers and a few monitors. I am wondering what havoc the RF from both sources plays with the CPU and system bus?
One imporovement to the design would be to line the inside of the shop vac housing with aluminum foil. This would greatly help the RF sheilding if it is indeed a problem. -----------------
Slashdot Mirror
Pine, it's not just a car freshener anymore!
:( Now pine and SSH is a good combination and a little more secure. My only remaining beef is that pine does not currently support the "Maildir" format made popular by qmail. <sigh/>
I do like pine myself, but telnet is way evil - cleartext passwords and login names
Might wan to report this to Ximian and not /.
Hmmm . . . using liquid lithium-6 to control the core sounds like a really "cool" idea (sorry, couldn't resist the pun this morning). But, as the lithium absorbs neutrons, doesn't it become litium-7 and/or lithium-8? How do the extra neutrons in the lithium affect it's physical properties - i.e. coefficient of expansion as the liquid is heated and cooled?
The idea here is that as the physical properties of the lithium changes, it will expand further into the core (or not as far) and effect the control of the reactor.
I know that the scientists who designed this thing probably thought of this, but I'm just curious as to how noticeable the effect is of the extra neutrons to the physical properties of lithium. Anyone know?
PS - anyone know the proper use of "effect" and "affect"? Four hours of sleep is effecting my thought processes - or is that affecting my thought processes?
I shedule frequent "meetings" with the cute intern down the hall.
This notice is being sent to inform you that your "geek" status has been revoked.
You have been found in violation of article 12, paragraph 7 of the Geek Code by noticing a member of the opposite sex. Furthermore, this offence has been aggravated by noting that member of the opposite sex as "cute", violating paragraphs 9 and 12 of article 17.
Please remove all O'Reily books from your shelf, disassemble two of your computers and return the parts to the original manufacturers, and disconnect all active internet connections at your home.
Failure to comply with the above request will result in severe penalties up to and including the installation of Windows 3.11 for Workgroups on all active computers in your home and Rosie O'Donnel pouring cold grits down your socks!
Port 80 is still working in Boulder, CO
:)
Out of some strange combination of curiosity and boredom, I did a scan of port 80 on my entire class B network (24.255.*.*) The results were pretty interesting, and I have also included some useless statistics from my Apache server logs.
In the past 24 hours my server has been hit 347 times by 51 unique servers on my Class B network. In the past four and a half days my server has been hit 1185 times by 76 unique servers on my Class B network.
The nmap scan of port 80 on my Class B network:
3538 servers report the port as "closed"
635 servers report the port as "filtered"
197 servers report the port as "open"
which means that 26% of the web servers on my Class B network are currently infected with the Code Red II worm
A humorus way of saying that the site has been slashdotted. The AC is using IE for his web browser, and the default message when a page cannot be loaded gives some "helpful hints" to troubleshoot your connection.
:)
Very humorus indeed!
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Fiber is spliced by fusing the two ends together. Each end is stripped of the outer protective layers - PVC, kevlar, some more PVC, and then some cladding. The ends of the fibers are cleaved to give a smooth, flat surface. The two ends are held together and then fused (melted) together using a plasma discharge.
The nifty machine that does all this costs upwards of $10000 US.
My other answer is, "it's magic!"
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A good chuckle here on this end. I always appreciate a good pun. Unfortunately, after reading over the FAQ at the AirIQ website, it seems that they train their installers to hide the antennas and the electronics boxes from prying eyes. My thought would be to just disconnect the RF cable from the GPS antenna to the receiver, but that might not be possible.
For now, I'll just avoid using Acme car rental and be more aware of the fine print in the rental contracts with other companies.
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To support your point, there was a story on /. a short time ago (sometime in the past two weeks) about a company creating UPS systems based on flywheel technology. The idea is similar - using something besides batteries or "the grid" to supply power to a machine.
I'm all for alternative forms of power, but the things that keep holding everything back are twofold: (1) consumers are cheap and only want to spend as little as possible; (2) alternative forms of power (batteries, solar, wind, geothermal) are expensive and not nearly as efficient as good old coal, nuclear, and fossil fuel. These two things do not make a good combination for the embracing of more ecologically sound forms of power.
But as you said, small steps to big goals! The best thing about this project is the creativity factor. These are the kinds of guys you want on your engineering team.
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Umm . . . the machine does user "power" to operate. But I see what you mean about not wanting to introduce 120V AC or 240V AC power into a sensitive area. A better solution, though, would be to just use batteries. You will get a longer operating time and less carpal tunnel syndrome.
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. . . the orgaon grinder standing on the side of the street with the monkey collecting coins from passers by. Instead of playing music, though, this little dohickey (technical term there) will service HTTP requests. And instead of a monkey, you could have an ISP collect $20 USD a month for web hosting fees ;)
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The net betting thing is hard to implement and verifying via GPS isn't feasible considering the I might feel like playing while I'm not in a legal state.
Are you saying that verifying via GPS is not technically feasible (cannot be done because the technology does not exist) or that it is too much hassle for the users/administrators?
Addressing your desire to gamble online while not in a legal state, that would be the whole purpose of incorporating GPS into the authentication solution. Even though you might reside in Nevada, you cannot legally gamble while traveling in a different state. The Federal Interstate Commerce laws declare that interstate wire gambling is illegal. GPS can be used (and should be) by the online gambling sites to prevent illeagal access by "out of towners".
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Do you have a link to the CNBC article?
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Nevada is not trying to license gambling sites in other states. Federal law says that interstate gambling is illegal. If you want to place a bet with a legititmate sports betting establishment in Nevada, then you must physically be in Nevada when you place that bet. You cannot call from New York to place a bet on who will win the Stanley Cup.
For an online sports betting page to be legally operating in Nevada, they must be able to prove to the gaming commission that all bets placed on their site originated from with the state of Nevada.
Other states that wish to implement online casinos, sports betting, etc. have the same burden of proof. They must be able to show that an online wager was placed from within the same state as the online wagering establishment.
That's my story, and I'm sticking to it!
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For those of you who know of or have read any of Steve Gibson's web site, this is hilarious. Thanks for the hearty belly chuckle!
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From their technical specifications page . . .
Weight--Flywheel Module: 850 lbs
Weight--Electronics Module: 200 lbs
That's a total of 1050 pounds! I'll stick with my 5 pound APC UPS for now. Plus, my landlord would not appreciate 1/2 ton of weight in our second floor computer room!
The specs on the flywheel system are pretty interesting, too. It is definitely big and noisy - more so than my 586 full tower web server box.
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. . . but your comment both sucked and blowed simultaneously
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I have a Dell I5000, too, and it has been a great computer. Dell also has the best customer support in the business, and I like the fact that I'll be getting TWO brand new batteries :)
<homer>HeHeHe, suckers!</homer>
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On the other hand, it has brought down an entire country's financial system. (East European, forgot name.)
That country is Albania. The government and general citizenry invested heavily in pyramid schemes in the early 90's after the fall of communism. The pyramid schemes went belly-up around 96, and a general rebellion started in the north and spread south to the capital, Tirana. The old government was ousted and a new one put in place. They have not been in the headlines too much lately.
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is that every time a Win2k machine hangs up, the admin will have to walk into the server room and do a hard reboot on the machine. Now, if you have 96 of these in a rack you will need a full time intern whose sole job is to reboot machines for users.
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Looking at some of the technical docuemnts, it seems that they are designing "curl" to be fairly comprehensive. It can be run as an applet inside a web browser, compiled and run as an application, run as a script, or preprocessed and distributed for faster linking and runtime of reusable code.
:(
.NET initiative. It seems to be a direct competitor to those technologies. The only drawback seems to be the syntax - very different from Java and C/C++
Currently, the scripting option is not supported
Some of the syntax is a little strange, but I am assuming that it is related to LISP. It appears to support object and object orientated coding paradigms, but also incorporates some cool ideas from LISP - you can reassign a function pointer at runtime, something you cannot do in Java.
I wonder how this will stack up against Micro$oft's C# and the
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Should advertisers be forced to reimburse users for overhead costs of their adds? This is a crazy idea, but from a capitalistic standpoint, why should these users be forced to pay for information they never even wanted in the first place?
The logical solution, of course, is for users under a variable rate charge plan to avoid websites with lots of ads and/or interstitials. Or they could use programs such as WebWasher or JunkBuster.
Thoughts, comments, flames, ephiphanys . . .
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Now that's funny!
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[insert evil laughter here]
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In the last picture on the web page, the "Shop Mac" is shown sitting on a desk next to some speakers and a few monitors. I am wondering what havoc the RF from both sources plays with the CPU and system bus?
One imporovement to the design would be to line the inside of the shop vac housing with aluminum foil. This would greatly help the RF sheilding if it is indeed a problem.
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