My first release of my patch has been outdated. Here's the new version, fixing the "blank line" bug.
/* Intellectual Property Buster v2.0 (IPbuster.h) Include this in your kernel to prevent that nasty SCO licensing business. Since SCO refuses to release the code in question so that we may not replace it with clean code, I hereby symbolically delete all non-GPL SCO Corporation code from this kernel. Deleted section begins below. */ /* BEGIN */
DOWNWITHWHITESPACE! /* END */ /* IP Buster v2.0 (C)2003 Headonfire, all rights reserved. Not for redistribution. *//* no wait, it's GPL still! */
/*
Intellectual Property Buster v1.0 (IPbuster.h)
Include this in your kernel to prevent that
nasty SCO licensing business.
*/
/*
Since SCO refuses to release the code in question so that we may not replace it with clean code, I hereby symbolically delete all non-GPL SCO Corporation code from this kernel. Deleted section begins below.
*/
/* BEGIN */
/* END */
/* IP Buster v1.0 (C)2003 Headonfire, all rights reserved. Not for redistribution.
*/
----------------
*cough cough* Damn.
Anyways, just kidding about the license. It's really GPL!
Re:we need to develope construction techniques
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don't feel worthless in the food wagon. that's an awesome thing - the salvation army's wagon fed me and my fellows, along with the law enforcement, fire, and medical teams. i was seriously running low on energy when i got a sports drink and a bit of candy to keep me going. the funny thing was, by that time i was teamed up with the red cross.;) but the SA got in there with the food and whatnot while the RC damage assessment teams went at it.
emergency personnel was out and on the scene almost instantly. response time was fantastic. though the police were getting really, really frustrated with people both in cars and on foot. i was waiting at an intersection to get waived through and some asshole got out of his car and demanded i make a turn. made him wait for another ten minutes, then cheerfully waved as the cop let me through the roadblock.:)
volunteer service rocks, no matter what you're doing. just being on-site with a volunteer service, even if you're not doing too much, is a great thing.
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Surviving Tornadoes
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· Score: 2, Insightful
hey, welcome to the party. i'm here in lawrence, kansas and we got hit thursday. no deaths and only minor injuries, thank goodness.
we had the rubberneck syndrome last night really badly. i'm an emergency service volunteer, and traffic just started -pouring- into the area. people were on foot just walking around, taking pictures, blocking traffic, you name it. if nothing else, i'd beg people to please, for the love of god, stay clear of the disaster area if you don't live there.:/
Flatliners. This is one of my favorite movies. Keifer Sutherland, Julia Roberts, Kevin Bacon, William Baldwin, and, uh.. That other guy. He's famous too, I swear.
Also, someone else mentioned later on Wim Winders' "Wings of Desire". Few people that I know have seen it, but it's one of the most beautiful movies i've ever seen. Ever. Period. The movie "City of Angels" with Nicholas Cage and Meg Ryan was a cheap, awful ripoff of it. Go rent the real thing; you won't be disappointed. And hey, it has Columbo in it.:)
"Our precise modeling elucidates the specific requirements for scalable quantum computing. for the first time we have translated the requirements for fault-tolerant quantum computing into the specific requirements for gate voltage control electronics in quantum dots, said professor Mark Eriksson."
Is there a dilbert-esque techspeak generator they used for this article or what? The previous paragraph makes my head hurt...
OK. I gather that this is not an entire cellphone in your head, but a speaker, and maybe a microphone. That's not so bad. But how -is- the signal piped in there? Bluetooth? Great! So what happens if I'm standing next to someone using a bluetooth device as well? Do I suddenly get to eavesdrop on their entire conversation(not even just half of it, as when normally standing by someone on a cellular) just by being there? What if someone is using a laptop with bluetooth? Do I catch the sound of their data transfers? Ouch. I'm not so sure this is a good idea.
What might not be such a bad idea is an external port for this installed in your skin, with a shadowrun(or pick your favorite future sci-fi novel/movie/RPG)-style "datajack". This would allow for a good form of security - you have to have a physical link to receive/transmit(if there's a microphone) signals. Consider that the port could even be a small external job that connected to conductive "buttonsnaps" on your skin, so that you could a) remove the port when not in use, leaving a couple small metallic bumps as their only trace, and b) have an automatic safety release if you cable gets caught/yanked on(the port would just snap off and/or the cable would come unplugged, rather than the port being yanked sideways in your skin rather painfully).
Make mine a stereo miniplug so I can listen to my walkman, please.;) I've wanted something like this for quite some time now, for music, one and two-way radios, etc. Which reminds me: perhaps in the chips they'd like to install with this device, they should install an extra amplitude monitor/damper, one that maybe you can set by connecting a computer to your implant. This would let you set a 'hard limit' for your incoming volume, to keep you from a)going deaf, or b) blowing out a tooth when you bump the volume knob on your CD player up to the top. You could probably do some serious hearing damage that way.
look at a spectrum allocation chart sometime... see what percentage is devoted to amateur radio compared to other things.. As has been pointed out in other posts, it is a minute fraction, and various bands are under constant siege by commercial interests as is. Out of the entire EM spectrum, who wants to do a tally of exactly how many MHz are devoted to amateur operators?
It's proper, IMHO, that a small section of the spectrum be devoted to true public usage.
i got into amateur radio in late 2000/early 2001. i've learned all about the EM spectrum and radio waves; some basic electrical engineering(which i will have to get into a lot more to upgrade my license..), digital communications modes... history of radio... about cars, from learning to install an antenna and radio... met some great people and learned an awful lot of new stuff from them, as well...
it's not such a bad hobby. sadly, most people had either never heard of it, or only heard of it in passing, when i got my license. now at least most everyone i know knows what it is to some extent or another. most of my geekily friends also can't help but salivate over my gear, even though it's not much in the amateur world.
you feel kinda good when you're a mobile communications station, though, and you can do it without minute-by-minute charges. I can put my 2m handheld in one front pocket of my army jacket and clip an external mic to my collar, drop a portable UHF/VHF scanner in the other with an earbud, and stay informed as to what's going on locally.
that's something that i enjoy about UHF/VHF communications with amateur radio... The ability to stay connected locally. Great, I can check the web at home and find out the latest news about the rest of the world; but try to find out real-time what's going on in my own community? I'm not gonna wait for the newspaper tomorrow or the 5pm news(which i don't see, since i'm at work on second shift). I can hop on my 2m and ask for the latest, or hear what's being discussed; or grab my scanner and hear it as it comes in.
hey, i'm not downing on OS/2 as an operating system, i'm downing on the bank for using an OS that's relatively stone-aged and almost unsupported... IMHO they DO need to perform a lot of maintenance on their systems - a complete redo would suit them nicely, given their track record.
Why not linux ATM's?:)
ATM technology -should- be updated. The whole personal banking structure should be. Get us away from the whole checking account concept with ungodly turnaround times and get us to a credit system using the 'smartcard' concept. I'd like to be able to 'dump' to my card, say, $50 worth of credit from my bank account and have that spendable with the card without ever having to go through the waiting time associated with checking.
Anyways, just clarifying that it was a dig at the bank, and not at an alternative OS.
Firstar bank uses OS/2 in their ATM's for some ungodly reason. A friend of mine recently lost their old revision card in a machine - it rebooted when they tried to withdraw, and watched in horror as it went through an OS/2 bootup sequence.
I'm on a cable network, 24.x.x.x...
My logs are getting swamped, with as many as 55 hits from a single IP in minutes.
"File does not exist:/usr/local/httpd/htdocs/scripts/..Á{../winnt/syste m32/cmd.exe
File does not exist:/usr/local/httpd/htdocs/MSADC/root.exe
File does not exist:/usr/local/httpd/htdocs/msadc/..%5c../..%5c../..%5 c/..Á{../..Á{../..Á{../winnt/system32/cmd.exe
running a search script on "cmd.exe" in my apache error.log tells me:
ip is 24.124.x attempts is '22'
ip is 24.124.x attempts is '11'
ip is 24.252.x attempts is '11'
ip is 24.69.x attempts is '11'
ip is 24.232.x attempts is '11'
ip is 24.124.x attempts is '11'
ip is 24.124.x attempts is '9'
ip is 24.162.x attempts is '9'
ip is 24.124.x attempts is '15'
ip is 24.93.x attempts is '11'
ip is 24.124.x attempts is '36'
ip is 216.198.x attempts is '1'
ip is 24.124.x attempts is '44'
ip is 24.124.x attempts is '1'
ip is 24.16.x attempts is '1'
ip is 24.124.x attempts is '2'
ip is 24.37.x attempts is '2'
ip is 24.164.x attempts is '5'
ip is 24.0.x attempts is '11'
ip is 24.124.x attempts is '11'
ip is 24.1.x attempts is '22'
ip is 24.124.x attempts is '22'
ip is 24.161.x attempts is '11'
ip is 24.6.x attempts is '11'
ip is 24.124.x attempts is '55'
ip is 24.124.x attempts is '22'
ip is 24.124.x attempts is '22'
ip is 24.124.x attempts is '33'
This is just from this morning, starting in the wee hours and still continuing as I write.
make it linkable to a PC via, say, IR. Twist, twist, click, twist, click, voila, data backup/restore. And make entries IR swappable with other devices. twist, click, click, twist, click. And there we have a rudimentary form of easy to use, ubiquitous computing and networking, ultimately the proper goal for computing... Simple interfaces for ease of use, the ability to store and transfer data. All in a package smaller than a bic lighter, on your keychain.
Add some ibutton-like capabilities for each unit, and suddenly you have a new form of ID... OK, so we've bumped the cost up from $5/apiece to, say, $20 apiece. I paid more than that to get my driver's license, and it sure doesn't store phone number or give me a fortune...
Password scheme? Set a 'lock' option with another series of clicks and twists. Instant, easy to use security, and no auto-iteration of it without some nasty hardware hacking. Your thief could sit for -hours- going click click twist click twist twist click twist click click ARRGH!
The best password protection I ever used was on my palmpilot, called "Gridlock". a 5x5 grid of white squares, touch to darken one. Only if you make the proper pattern can you unlock the palm. Deceptively easy looking, yet actually cracking the password could be a pain in the arse.
On one side I'm glad that the designers of the keychain deal (i've seen them in walmart, too) stopped where they were to have a nice, clean, simple product. On the other hand, I'm sad that they didn't (or haven't yet) taken it where it could possibly go.
I'll note that the missus installed Morpheus the other day. When trying to share only a part of her files, Morpheus instead chose to share EVERYTHING on her computer. What's more, it neglected to mention on installation that it would always automatically start up when the computer does, and does not put an icon into the system tray or make it in any way obvious that you are sharing your files...
So it managed to refuse to let her choose what she wanted to share, and didn't care to tell her that she was, in fact, sharing everything from the moment her computer was turned on, regardless of her feelings on the matter.
However, Webbink believes a compromise can be crafted, with proprietary vendors on board, that allows a person purchasing a software license to reverse-engineer the software to write interfaces for the software. His example: A Linux programmer
purchasing a popular word-processing program and using its source code to port it to Linux. With Red Hat's proposal, UCITA would allow such reverse engineering and override any prohibitions in the word-processor's license agreement.
Do you suppose... "Software" or "Program" could mean "instructions for watching a movie "programmed" onto a DVD, thus making DeCSS legal in Maryland, no questions asked? Hmmmmmm...
I had an issue with my old dialup - I couldn't access sites likes slashdot, freshmeat.net, or google.com for several days(yet could contact them from other servers outside of my ISP). I logged onto their technical support IRC chat room, and talked with a tech for awhile... He said try back in 24 hours if it didn't work by then. It didn't so I came back and we discussed it. Immediately the network operations staff logged into the chat room and we talked about it, then i allowed them to bounce through my linux box and investigate - they fixed their routing tables and within minutes I was set to go. This is the best support experience I've ever had with an ISP. *EVER*. Having worked in an outsourced tech support call center where a customer could NEVER talk to anyone directly associated with the networks, I understand how priviledged I was that time:) Unfortunately I jumped ship from my dialup ISP to move to cable, but they will remain in my memory as the best ISP in Ohio, and probably the planet:)
In most if not all states, you are
required to have the front seat passengers
in seatbelts in your vehicle; otherwise,
you'll be ticketed.
Unless you're careless, you
probably won't get a ticket, however...
Typically it's hard for a cop to see
in your car to see if you've got a belt on
or not. If you fuck up and run a light,
go over the speed limit, and so on,
however, you will get nailed for not
having a belt on. Who's to think that
a requirement for child safety locks
on guns would be any different? How
often are there police in your house
inspecting your weapons, anyways?
If they're doing that, you've probably
already done something terribly wrong...
Is wearing a seatbelt the next step
to having your right to drive taken away?
Or is it just COMMON FUCKING SENSE?
I've got half-brothers, and a father
with guns. He believes in gun ownership,
as do I. They found his guns in his closet,
unlocked and loaded; they said they "tried
to figure out if it was loaded, but gave up"
and so played with it anyways. And I
nearly lost a sibling because of it; the
gun went off and the bullet passed
within inches of his head and blew through
the bedroom window.
Supposing there was gun lock legislation,
and one had suceeded in blowing the head
off of the other. If the law hit my
dad with a beefy fucking fine for that, or
even jailtime for endangerment, sure, it'd be the
last thing he needs, but HE'D DESERVE IT; even after losing a child. This is my biological
father I'm talking about here, and I care
for him. It sucks, but I feel I have to take
this stance. My siblings aren't stupid,
but they are young and ignorant; and
ignorance is NOT bliss - more often death.
Drilling holes to lay cable in your own home has to be one of the most fufilling experiences in the world, especially when you're done and have a shiny new 100mbit LAN and a cable modem/DSL on the end of it.:) Just drill surrepititiously in your apartment and you probably won't have an issue. One of the least obtrusive ways I found was to slightly bend the corner of a HVAC(heat/ventil/air conditioning) vent from below and slip some cat5 up through, lead it under the carpet along the wall, and right to my kitchen terminal.:) But then, my hub was in the basement where I had access to the ducts, too, and it looked like a spider's den of cables dangling -everywhere-. Had a nice effect on visitor, though.
Slashdot Mirror
My first release of my patch has been outdated. Here's the new version, fixing the "blank line" bug.
DOWNWITHWHITESPACE!
/* Intellectual Property Buster v1.0 (IPbuster.h) Include this in your kernel to prevent that nasty SCO licensing business. */
----------------
*cough cough* Damn.
Anyways, just kidding about the license. It's really GPL!
don't feel worthless in the food wagon. that's an awesome thing - the salvation army's wagon fed me and my fellows, along with the law enforcement, fire, and medical teams. i was seriously running low on energy when i got a sports drink and a bit of candy to keep me going. the funny thing was, by that time i was teamed up with the red cross. ;) but the SA got in there with the food and whatnot while the RC damage assessment teams went at it.
:)
emergency personnel was out and on the scene almost instantly. response time was fantastic. though the police were getting really, really frustrated with people both in cars and on foot. i was waiting at an intersection to get waived through and some asshole got out of his car and demanded i make a turn. made him wait for another ten minutes, then cheerfully waved as the cop let me through the roadblock.
volunteer service rocks, no matter what you're doing. just being on-site with a volunteer service, even if you're not doing too much, is a great thing.
hey, welcome to the party. i'm here in lawrence, kansas and we got hit thursday. no deaths and only minor injuries, thank goodness.
:/
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we had the rubberneck syndrome last night really badly. i'm an emergency service volunteer, and traffic just started -pouring- into the area. people were on foot just walking around, taking pictures, blocking traffic, you name it. if nothing else, i'd beg people to please, for the love of god, stay clear of the disaster area if you don't live there.
http://www.ljworld.com/section/severeweather/st
Flatliners. This is one of my favorite movies. Keifer Sutherland, Julia Roberts, Kevin Bacon, William Baldwin, and, uh.. That other guy. He's famous too, I swear.
:)
Also, someone else mentioned later on Wim Winders' "Wings of Desire". Few people that I know have seen it, but it's one of the most beautiful movies i've ever seen. Ever. Period. The movie "City of Angels" with Nicholas Cage and Meg Ryan was a cheap, awful ripoff of it. Go rent the real thing; you won't be disappointed. And hey, it has Columbo in it.
"so 'many 'quotes'; (and) "random?" 'punctuation!"' 'HELP!'"
"Our precise modeling elucidates the specific requirements for scalable quantum computing. for the first time we have translated the requirements for fault-tolerant quantum computing into the specific requirements for gate voltage control electronics in quantum dots, said professor Mark Eriksson."
Is there a dilbert-esque techspeak generator they used for this article or what? The previous paragraph makes my head hurt...
OK. I gather that this is not an entire cellphone in your head, but a speaker, and maybe a microphone. That's not so bad. But how -is- the signal piped in there? Bluetooth? Great! So what happens if I'm standing next to someone using a bluetooth device as well? Do I suddenly get to eavesdrop on their entire conversation(not even just half of it, as when normally standing by someone on a cellular) just by being there? What if someone is using a laptop with bluetooth? Do I catch the sound of their data transfers? Ouch. I'm not so sure this is a good idea.
;) I've wanted something like this for quite some time now, for music, one and two-way radios, etc. Which reminds me: perhaps in the chips they'd like to install with this device, they should install an extra amplitude monitor/damper, one that maybe you can set by connecting a computer to your implant. This would let you set a 'hard limit' for your incoming volume, to keep you from a)going deaf, or b) blowing out a tooth when you bump the volume knob on your CD player up to the top. You could probably do some serious hearing damage that way.
What might not be such a bad idea is an external port for this installed in your skin, with a shadowrun(or pick your favorite future sci-fi novel/movie/RPG)-style "datajack". This would allow for a good form of security - you have to have a physical link to receive/transmit(if there's a microphone) signals. Consider that the port could even be a small external job that connected to conductive "buttonsnaps" on your skin, so that you could a) remove the port when not in use, leaving a couple small metallic bumps as their only trace, and b) have an automatic safety release if you cable gets caught/yanked on(the port would just snap off and/or the cable would come unplugged, rather than the port being yanked sideways in your skin rather painfully).
Make mine a stereo miniplug so I can listen to my walkman, please.
look at a spectrum allocation chart sometime... see what percentage is devoted to amateur radio compared to other things.. As has been pointed out in other posts, it is a minute fraction, and various bands are under constant siege by commercial interests as is. Out of the entire EM spectrum, who wants to do a tally of exactly how many MHz are devoted to amateur operators?
It's proper, IMHO, that a small section of the spectrum be devoted to true public usage.
i got into amateur radio in late 2000/early 2001. i've learned all about the EM spectrum and radio waves; some basic electrical engineering(which i will have to get into a lot more to upgrade my license..), digital communications modes... history of radio... about cars, from learning to install an antenna and radio... met some great people and learned an awful lot of new stuff from them, as well...
it's not such a bad hobby. sadly, most people had either never heard of it, or only heard of it in passing, when i got my license. now at least most everyone i know knows what it is to some extent or another. most of my geekily friends also can't help but salivate over my gear, even though it's not much in the amateur world.
you feel kinda good when you're a mobile communications station, though, and you can do it without minute-by-minute charges. I can put my 2m handheld in one front pocket of my army jacket and clip an external mic to my collar, drop a portable UHF/VHF scanner in the other with an earbud, and stay informed as to what's going on locally.
that's something that i enjoy about UHF/VHF communications with amateur radio... The ability to stay connected locally. Great, I can check the web at home and find out the latest news about the rest of the world; but try to find out real-time what's going on in my own community? I'm not gonna wait for the newspaper tomorrow or the 5pm news(which i don't see, since i'm at work on second shift). I can hop on my 2m and ask for the latest, or hear what's being discussed; or grab my scanner and hear it as it comes in.
it's a good thing.
hey, i'm not downing on OS/2 as an operating system, i'm downing on the bank for using an OS that's relatively stone-aged and almost unsupported... IMHO they DO need to perform a lot of maintenance on their systems - a complete redo would suit them nicely, given their track record.
:)
Why not linux ATM's?
ATM technology -should- be updated. The whole personal banking structure should be. Get us away from the whole checking account concept with ungodly turnaround times and get us to a credit system using the 'smartcard' concept. I'd like to be able to 'dump' to my card, say, $50 worth of credit from my bank account and have that spendable with the card without ever having to go through the waiting time associated with checking.
Anyways, just clarifying that it was a dig at the bank, and not at an alternative OS.
Firstar bank uses OS/2 in their ATM's for some ungodly reason. A friend of mine recently lost their old revision card in a machine - it rebooted when they tried to withdraw, and watched in horror as it went through an OS/2 bootup sequence.
I'm on a cable network, 24.x.x.x...
/usr/local/httpd/htdocs/scripts/..Á{../winnt/syste m32/cmd.exe
/usr/local/httpd/htdocs/MSADC/root.exe
/usr/local/httpd/htdocs/msadc/..%5c../..%5c../..%5 c/..Á{../..Á{../..Á{../winnt/system32/cmd.exe
My logs are getting swamped, with as many as 55 hits from a single IP in minutes.
"File does not exist:
File does not exist:
File does not exist:
running a search script on "cmd.exe" in my apache error.log tells me:
ip is 24.124.x attempts is '22'
ip is 24.124.x attempts is '11'
ip is 24.252.x attempts is '11'
ip is 24.69.x attempts is '11'
ip is 24.232.x attempts is '11'
ip is 24.124.x attempts is '11'
ip is 24.124.x attempts is '9'
ip is 24.162.x attempts is '9'
ip is 24.124.x attempts is '15'
ip is 24.93.x attempts is '11'
ip is 24.124.x attempts is '36'
ip is 216.198.x attempts is '1'
ip is 24.124.x attempts is '44'
ip is 24.124.x attempts is '1'
ip is 24.16.x attempts is '1'
ip is 24.124.x attempts is '2'
ip is 24.37.x attempts is '2'
ip is 24.164.x attempts is '5'
ip is 24.0.x attempts is '11'
ip is 24.124.x attempts is '11'
ip is 24.1.x attempts is '22'
ip is 24.124.x attempts is '22'
ip is 24.161.x attempts is '11'
ip is 24.6.x attempts is '11'
ip is 24.124.x attempts is '55'
ip is 24.124.x attempts is '22'
ip is 24.124.x attempts is '22'
ip is 24.124.x attempts is '33'
This is just from this morning, starting in the wee hours and still continuing as I write.
make it linkable to a PC via, say, IR. Twist, twist, click, twist, click, voila, data backup/restore. And make entries IR swappable with other devices. twist, click, click, twist, click. And there we have a rudimentary form of easy to use, ubiquitous computing and networking, ultimately the proper goal for computing... Simple interfaces for ease of use, the ability to store and transfer data. All in a package smaller than a bic lighter, on your keychain.
Add some ibutton-like capabilities for each unit, and suddenly you have a new form of ID... OK, so we've bumped the cost up from $5/apiece to, say, $20 apiece. I paid more than that to get my driver's license, and it sure doesn't store phone number or give me a fortune...
Password scheme? Set a 'lock' option with another series of clicks and twists. Instant, easy to use security, and no auto-iteration of it without some nasty hardware hacking. Your thief could sit for -hours- going click click twist click twist twist click twist click click ARRGH!
The best password protection I ever used was on my palmpilot, called "Gridlock". a 5x5 grid of white squares, touch to darken one. Only if you make the proper pattern can you unlock the palm. Deceptively easy looking, yet actually cracking the password could be a pain in the arse.
On one side I'm glad that the designers of the keychain deal (i've seen them in walmart, too) stopped where they were to have a nice, clean, simple product. On the other hand, I'm sad that they didn't (or haven't yet) taken it where it could possibly go.
This article really makes me think that Erik Baard (the author) has seen Demolition Man one too many times...
Oh well. At any rate, I have to go get my suit from the cleaners. I've got a date at taco bell tonight.
My, are we quick to harsh words. Perhaps you should set yourself up with a 5-10 minute editorial timer for each post.
Thinking about that, perhaps most of slashdot should do the same.
I'll note that the missus installed Morpheus the other day. When trying to share only a part of her files, Morpheus instead chose to share EVERYTHING on her computer. What's more, it neglected to mention on installation that it would always automatically start up when the computer does, and does not put an icon into the system tray or make it in any way obvious that you are sharing your files...
So it managed to refuse to let her choose what she wanted to share, and didn't care to tell her that she was, in fact, sharing everything from the moment her computer was turned on, regardless of her feelings on the matter.
I distrust file sharing programs that do that...
Do you suppose... "Software" or "Program" could mean "instructions for watching a movie "programmed" onto a DVD, thus making DeCSS legal in Maryland, no questions asked? Hmmmmmm...
I had an issue with my old dialup - I couldn't access sites likes slashdot, freshmeat.net, or google.com for several days(yet could contact them from other servers outside of my ISP). I logged onto their technical support IRC chat room, and talked with a tech for awhile... He said try back in 24 hours if it didn't work by then. It didn't so I came back and we discussed it. Immediately the network operations staff logged into the chat room and we talked about it, then i allowed them to bounce through my linux box and investigate - they fixed their routing tables and within minutes I was set to go. This is the best support experience I've ever had with an ISP. *EVER*. Having worked in an outsourced tech support call center where a customer could NEVER talk to anyone directly associated with the networks, I understand how priviledged I was that time :) Unfortunately I jumped ship from my dialup ISP to move to cable, but they will remain in my memory as the best ISP in Ohio, and probably the planet :)
.ad.
The author of that article really knew their stuff... William S. Burrows was a fantastic writer?
Oh.. Wait.
headonfire
In most if not all states, you are required to have the front seat passengers in seatbelts in your vehicle; otherwise, you'll be ticketed.
Unless you're careless, you probably won't get a ticket, however... Typically it's hard for a cop to see in your car to see if you've got a belt on or not. If you fuck up and run a light, go over the speed limit, and so on, however, you will get nailed for not having a belt on. Who's to think that a requirement for child safety locks on guns would be any different? How often are there police in your house inspecting your weapons, anyways? If they're doing that, you've probably already done something terribly wrong...
Is wearing a seatbelt the next step to having your right to drive taken away? Or is it just COMMON FUCKING SENSE?
I've got half-brothers, and a father with guns. He believes in gun ownership, as do I. They found his guns in his closet, unlocked and loaded; they said they "tried to figure out if it was loaded, but gave up" and so played with it anyways. And I nearly lost a sibling because of it; the gun went off and the bullet passed within inches of his head and blew through the bedroom window.
Supposing there was gun lock legislation, and one had suceeded in blowing the head off of the other. If the law hit my dad with a beefy fucking fine for that, or even jailtime for endangerment, sure, it'd be the last thing he needs, but HE'D DESERVE IT; even after losing a child. This is my biological father I'm talking about here, and I care for him. It sucks, but I feel I have to take this stance. My siblings aren't stupid, but they are young and ignorant; and ignorance is NOT bliss - more often death.
headonfire
Drilling holes to lay cable in your own home :) Just drill surrepititiously :)
has to be one of the most fufilling experiences
in the world, especially when you're done and
have a shiny new 100mbit LAN and a cable modem/DSL
on the end of it.
in your apartment and you probably won't have
an issue. One of the least obtrusive ways I found
was to slightly bend the corner of a HVAC(heat/ventil/air conditioning)
vent from below and slip some cat5 up through, lead it under the carpet along the wall,
and right to my kitchen terminal.
But then, my hub was in the basement where I had access
to the ducts, too, and it looked like a spider's den of
cables dangling -everywhere-. Had a nice effect on visitor, though.
.head.
Absolutely beautiful.