"It always happens when you need it the most: the battery of you cellphone just died. But now, researchers of the University of Rochester have developed a wireless chip that needs ten times less power..."
Ok, but that still doesn't solve the "I need my phone now but I was too lazy to charge it last night" problem. So what, this chip can run from a dead battery? No.
It really doesn't matter how much power the phone uses... the fact is that it still uses power. Consuming power from a limited source means that it will reach a point when the battery is depleted, except now it just takes 10 days longer than before.
For so long now we've been hearing about the demise of traditional media -- especially newspapers and print, as their numbers have fallen right into the toilet. Constantly we hear from the media that the "blogs" and "internet" are to blame.
Then, for a while we heard a lot of reports from the media that came from blogs... rathergate and other headlines come to mind.
Obviously, the traditional media felt threatened by all these "blogs", because they no longer had the edge in the information game.
Then, the WSJ and Chicago Tribune both have stories about the end of blogs? Hmmm... call me suspicious.
Amendment I - Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.
Sounds pretty clear to me.
In the great words of George Carlin...
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... And what about Zombies? You never hear from Zombies! That's the trouble with Zombies, they're unreliable!
Not to split hairs, but Mono is NOT a clone of.NET... Mono is an actual native implementation of the CLI, an ECMA standard..NET is Microsoft's implementation of that standard... Mono is the same thing for Linux, and it isn't the only one! There is also GNU Portable.net and possibly a few others.
Would we want to clone MSH? Well.. since MSH isn't any sort of standard, a linux implementation would be a clone. I give it about a year or so before somebody implements a version for linux... not that it would be really beneficial, but somebody will do it "just because".
Is this an excercise in unnecessary cleanliness, or does the spacecraft actually cease to function normally when "contaminated"? What's the point? I never quite understood this aspect of big government space initiatives.
Are you kidding me? I bet you aren't even aware of your own ego (which is so large it's coming out of your ass). Do you actually think that we humans could destroy the planet in a lifetime? The earth has been here for billions of years, and I'm pretty confident that it will get rid of us long before we humans could get rid of it.
Car insurance is a different matter... in my example of shutting down cell service, the reason it would be so effective is that it would cause a significant disruption to most of the population in simple terms: "What the fsck, my cell phone stopped working."
At first, people would call (somehow) the cell phone companies, where they would be informed to instead call their lawmakers. Likewise, the cell companies would need to be vocal about the problem and make it a very public issue, just so people would understand *why* service had to be stopped.
Car insurance is a different matter. I don't think it would be easy (or even possible) to simply stop serving insurance. (The car insurance industry is a fraud anyway, but that's a different discussion)
If MA passes this, then all the cell providers in MA should pull out of the state and stop service. Period. How long do you think this "bill of rights" would last if there were suddenly no service? I give it about 2 days maximum before lawmakers reverse their decision, although it'll probably be a matter of only hours.
Besides this "bill of rights", what about the rights of the cell providers? The government of MA has no business meddling in private business like this. Thank god for New Hampshire!
Actually, it's not "mimicking" anyting....NET is Microsoft's implementation of the Common Language Infrastructure, which is an ECMA (international) standard. Microsoft co-sponsored the submission of the CLI along with other companies, but it is by no means a proprietary "Microsoft thing".
Mono happens to be a 'nix implementation of the CLI. Again, this is not "mimicking" anything... it's a native implementation of a recent standard. It also happens that the C# (also specified in the ECMA submission) implementation in Mono is basically complete.
The problem right now doesn't sit with the c# language or Mono... the problem is that an appropriate cross-platform gui/widget set doesn't exist. GTK# shows some promise, but is slow to be adopted. Windows.Forms (Microsoft's GUI implementation for the CLI) *is* proprietary, and thus, has proved difficult to implement on platforms other than Windows. BUT, let's not confuse the implementation of Windows.Forms with the CLI/Mono because they really don't have much to do with each other.
Additionally, Mono is NOT the only non-Microsoft implementation of the CLI. dotGNU Portable.net (www.dotgnu.org) is another -- and I'm sure there are more.
Feel free to educate yourself on the CLI and it's background by starting here:
If this actually does go through and online retailers are forced to start collecting taxes for multiple states, based on the location of the buyer (which is backwards anyway, see my previous post making a case for e-commerce in New Hampshire), the response and solution is rather simple: ALL online retailers (the big guys included) should boycott ALL sales originating from the offending states.
If ALL online retailers were to boycott sales originating from offending states, there would suddenly be a lot of pressure on the states to reverse their actions. There would be an uprising from the people themselves! All of a sudden, millions of people wouldn't be able to purchase their online goods (think Amazon, Ebay, et.al.) and there would be an emense discontent within each state. I suppose it would only take the states a few days to reverse the action, thus re-enabling online sales for their residents.
Would the online businesses lose money due to boycotting their customers??? Not really. Compared to the administrative overhead of collecting and managing taxes on behalf of several governments, a few days of lost sales seems like a far cheaper approach. Besides that, all the people who weren't able to make purchases during those boycott days would most likely make their purchases anyway, immediately after the state repeals the online tax nonsense to lift the boycott.
The funny part is (silly states), that interstate commerce is under federal juristiction. There's no way that another state can demand sales taxes from me, a business owner, conducting business in New Hampshire. It's not even constitutional! So let 'em try... the only way they have any chance of "legally" collecting tax dollers from online sales is from the online businesses within their own state... nowhere else. This once again re-inforces my previous post making a case for online businesses to make a smart move and relocate their servers to New Hampshire.
I think the big gray area (at least in my mind) is to determine legally, and consistently, where the transaction actually takes place.
In my tech oriented mind, an online transaction actually occurs at the server. That's where the order and money (credit card) are collected. I'm sure this seems obvious to most of us.
Now, let's think "brick and morter" for a moment. If somebody from Massachusetts goes to tax free NH and buys something in a store, that person is not charged MA sales tax. The clerk behind the counter doesn say, "Oh, hang on a minute, you're from MA and I need to calculate your tax."
So why then is there even any argument that online retailers should be collecting taxes for various states, when really, they should only be collecting taxes for the state they're located in... just like any other business.
I guess legally, residents of a tax-me-to-death state are supposed to report interstate purchases for tax purposes. Nobody does, or at least, you're stupid if you do. Online commerce really isn't anything different... it's an interstate purchase and the responsibility for reporting tax values does not lie with the retailer/business owner (except for collecting taxes for the state in which business is being conducted).
All this being very obvious to me, I think this makes a great case why online retail business should simply locate in New Hampshire. No sales tax. Period. Along this line, there could be a good business opportunity in NH to start a co-lo & hosting business for the incoming flood of e-commerce businesses escaping tax tyrrany.
Being a NH resident, I welcome all that value tax freedom with open arms.
Back when I was a younger kid working on my first "turbo" 10mhz XT system, a friend of our family gave me an old TRS-80 Model 4, complete with 8" floppy expansion unit, and an original copy of Visicalc on 8" floppy.
Too bad it eventually went to the garbage dump... Should have kept the 8" visicalc original, just for kicks.
More specifically, that is an APRS packet containing telemetry... the APRS network primarily operates on 144.390 MHz. It's a tactical network of stations that send and repeat location-aware information. Primarily, amateur radio operators use it for regional mapping of other APRS stations and weather data.
The original PCSat is an APRS satellite... ie: it relays APRS packets to a wider area. The ISS has amateur radio equipment on board and it also was an APRS "digipeater". Sometimes the ISS astronauts get on the radio and make voice contacts... yet another reason to get your own amateur radio license. Now that PCSat2 is installed on the ISS, I believe the ISS equipment will no longer digipeat APRS packets, but I'm not 100% sure on that.
APRS was invented by Bob Bruninga, WB4APR, the same guy that built PCSat and PCSat2 at the Naval Labratory.
Here are some ideas... perhaps NASA has already considered these, but who knows.
1. Insulate the interior of the tank instead. In this design, the tank would be like a big thermos, without the risk of external debris. To me, this design doesn't seem like it would be too difficult to build. (or, they could place an outer skin around the foam on the exterior of the current tank, thus producing the same design without reducing tank capacity)
2. Apply the foam in a vacuum. Probably easier said than done because I doubt there is a vacuum chamber big enough, but it's an idea. The problem caused by air pockets in the foam is that the air pockets are at atmospheric pressure, and once the exterior pressure on the tank is reduced at high altitude, these pockets can "pop" and cause chunks of foam to break free.
Despite all these measures, there will likely be another shuttle disaster in the future. Unfortunately, certain critical problems aren't identified until failure occurs.
After Challenger... no more O-ring problems. After Columbia... no more foam problems.
So what'll be next?
My guess is that they'll never see it coming, whatever it is. NASA is too focused on making sure the foam doesn't cause another problem. However, the foam was fine for 20+ years and the chances of the same exact thing happening again are infinitely smaller than the chances of a new problem occurring.
So, here's what they'll say when the next explosion happens... "Well, thank god it wasn't the foam or those darn o-rings again".
If the Server header is faked, then they'll be in plenty of legal trouble for rigging a contest. But based on what we see here, we must assume that the Netcraft data is incorrect... and it most likely is, being several days old now.
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"It always happens when you need it the most: the battery of you cellphone just died. But now, researchers of the University of Rochester have developed a wireless chip that needs ten times less power..."
Ok, but that still doesn't solve the "I need my phone now but I was too lazy to charge it last night" problem. So what, this chip can run from a dead battery? No.
It really doesn't matter how much power the phone uses... the fact is that it still uses power. Consuming power from a limited source means that it will reach a point when the battery is depleted, except now it just takes 10 days longer than before.
Murphy says, you will still be inconvenienced.
Didn't you mean "KFC"?
Now, if anyone get's that joke, it's a miricle. Ahh... the joy of laughs at the expense of canadians.
For so long now we've been hearing about the demise of traditional media -- especially newspapers and print, as their numbers have fallen right into the toilet. Constantly we hear from the media that the "blogs" and "internet" are to blame.
Then, for a while we heard a lot of reports from the media that came from blogs... rathergate and other headlines come to mind.
Obviously, the traditional media felt threatened by all these "blogs", because they no longer had the edge in the information game.
Then, the WSJ and Chicago Tribune both have stories about the end of blogs? Hmmm... call me suspicious.
Amendment I - Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.
Sounds pretty clear to me.
... And what about Zombies? You never hear from Zombies! That's the trouble with Zombies, they're unreliable!
Not to split hairs, but Mono is NOT a clone of .NET ... Mono is an actual native implementation of the CLI, an ECMA standard. .NET is Microsoft's implementation of that standard... Mono is the same thing for Linux, and it isn't the only one! There is also GNU Portable.net and possibly a few others.
Would we want to clone MSH? Well.. since MSH isn't any sort of standard, a linux implementation would be a clone. I give it about a year or so before somebody implements a version for linux... not that it would be really beneficial, but somebody will do it "just because".
Is this an excercise in unnecessary cleanliness, or does the spacecraft actually cease to function normally when "contaminated"? What's the point? I never quite understood this aspect of big government space initiatives.
Are you kidding me? I bet you aren't even aware of your own ego (which is so large it's coming out of your ass). Do you actually think that we humans could destroy the planet in a lifetime? The earth has been here for billions of years, and I'm pretty confident that it will get rid of us long before we humans could get rid of it.
(BTW, it wasn't the crab people, I broke the dam)
"Pentium 5"?? HAHAHAHA
Seriously, Intel should start thinking about a new name before the next version bump.
Unlike you, I believe in free markets where consumers can make their own decisions without any notion of government babysitting.
The guys at Sanswire have been at this for a couple of years now with their stratellites ...
http://www.sanswire.net/
Car insurance is a different matter ... in my example of shutting down cell service, the reason it would be so effective is that it would cause a significant disruption to most of the population in simple terms: "What the fsck, my cell phone stopped working."
At first, people would call (somehow) the cell phone companies, where they would be informed to instead call their lawmakers. Likewise, the cell companies would need to be vocal about the problem and make it a very public issue, just so people would understand *why* service had to be stopped.
Car insurance is a different matter. I don't think it would be easy (or even possible) to simply stop serving insurance. (The car insurance industry is a fraud anyway, but that's a different discussion)
There's a very quick solution to the problem ...
If MA passes this, then all the cell providers in MA should pull out of the state and stop service. Period. How long do you think this "bill of rights" would last if there were suddenly no service? I give it about 2 days maximum before lawmakers reverse their decision, although it'll probably be a matter of only hours.
Besides this "bill of rights", what about the rights of the cell providers? The government of MA has no business meddling in private business like this. Thank god for New Hampshire!
Actually, it's not "mimicking" anyting ... .NET is Microsoft's implementation of the Common Language Infrastructure, which is an ECMA (international) standard. Microsoft co-sponsored the submission of the CLI along with other companies, but it is by no means a proprietary "Microsoft thing".
a ndards/Ecma-335.htm
Mono happens to be a 'nix implementation of the CLI. Again, this is not "mimicking" anything... it's a native implementation of a recent standard. It also happens that the C# (also specified in the ECMA submission) implementation in Mono is basically complete.
The problem right now doesn't sit with the c# language or Mono... the problem is that an appropriate cross-platform gui/widget set doesn't exist. GTK# shows some promise, but is slow to be adopted. Windows.Forms (Microsoft's GUI implementation for the CLI) *is* proprietary, and thus, has proved difficult to implement on platforms other than Windows. BUT, let's not confuse the implementation of Windows.Forms with the CLI/Mono because they really don't have much to do with each other.
Additionally, Mono is NOT the only non-Microsoft implementation of the CLI. dotGNU Portable.net (www.dotgnu.org) is another -- and I'm sure there are more.
Feel free to educate yourself on the CLI and it's background by starting here:
http://www.dotnetexperts.com/ecma/
http://www.ecma-international.org/publications/st
If this actually does go through and online retailers are forced to start collecting taxes for multiple states, based on the location of the buyer (which is backwards anyway, see my previous post making a case for e-commerce in New Hampshire), the response and solution is rather simple: ALL online retailers (the big guys included) should boycott ALL sales originating from the offending states.
... the only way they have any chance of "legally" collecting tax dollers from online sales is from the online businesses within their own state... nowhere else. This once again re-inforces my previous post making a case for online businesses to make a smart move and relocate their servers to New Hampshire.
If ALL online retailers were to boycott sales originating from offending states, there would suddenly be a lot of pressure on the states to reverse their actions. There would be an uprising from the people themselves! All of a sudden, millions of people wouldn't be able to purchase their online goods (think Amazon, Ebay, et.al.) and there would be an emense discontent within each state. I suppose it would only take the states a few days to reverse the action, thus re-enabling online sales for their residents.
Would the online businesses lose money due to boycotting their customers??? Not really. Compared to the administrative overhead of collecting and managing taxes on behalf of several governments, a few days of lost sales seems like a far cheaper approach. Besides that, all the people who weren't able to make purchases during those boycott days would most likely make their purchases anyway, immediately after the state repeals the online tax nonsense to lift the boycott.
The funny part is (silly states), that interstate commerce is under federal juristiction. There's no way that another state can demand sales taxes from me, a business owner, conducting business in New Hampshire. It's not even constitutional! So let 'em try
I think the big gray area (at least in my mind) is to determine legally, and consistently, where the transaction actually takes place.
In my tech oriented mind, an online transaction actually occurs at the server. That's where the order and money (credit card) are collected. I'm sure this seems obvious to most of us.
Now, let's think "brick and morter" for a moment. If somebody from Massachusetts goes to tax free NH and buys something in a store, that person is not charged MA sales tax. The clerk behind the counter doesn say, "Oh, hang on a minute, you're from MA and I need to calculate your tax."
So why then is there even any argument that online retailers should be collecting taxes for various states, when really, they should only be collecting taxes for the state they're located in... just like any other business.
I guess legally, residents of a tax-me-to-death state are supposed to report interstate purchases for tax purposes. Nobody does, or at least, you're stupid if you do. Online commerce really isn't anything different... it's an interstate purchase and the responsibility for reporting tax values does not lie with the retailer/business owner (except for collecting taxes for the state in which business is being conducted).
All this being very obvious to me, I think this makes a great case why online retail business should simply locate in New Hampshire. No sales tax. Period. Along this line, there could be a good business opportunity in NH to start a co-lo & hosting business for the incoming flood of e-commerce businesses escaping tax tyrrany.
Being a NH resident, I welcome all that value tax freedom with open arms.
Back when I was a younger kid working on my first "turbo" 10mhz XT system, a friend of our family gave me an old TRS-80 Model 4, complete with 8" floppy expansion unit, and an original copy of Visicalc on 8" floppy.
... Should have kept the 8" visicalc original, just for kicks.
Too bad it eventually went to the garbage dump
How exactly is it that the FCC is able to dictate what VOIP companies must do? Why is nobody questioning their "authority"?
More specifically, that is an APRS packet containing telemetry ... the APRS network primarily operates on 144.390 MHz. It's a tactical network of stations that send and repeat location-aware information. Primarily, amateur radio operators use it for regional mapping of other APRS stations and weather data.
... ie: it relays APRS packets to a wider area. The ISS has amateur radio equipment on board and it also was an APRS "digipeater". Sometimes the ISS astronauts get on the radio and make voice contacts ... yet another reason to get your own amateur radio license. Now that PCSat2 is installed on the ISS, I believe the ISS equipment will no longer digipeat APRS packets, but I'm not 100% sure on that.
... www.xastir.org.
The original PCSat is an APRS satellite
APRS was invented by Bob Bruninga, WB4APR, the same guy that built PCSat and PCSat2 at the Naval Labratory.
Mr. Bruninga maintains an APRS page at: http://web.usna.navy.mil/~bruninga/aprs.html. (Most of the actual APRS specification is documented within the APRSdos package.)
There is a good Linux APRS application called Xastir
Here are some ideas... perhaps NASA has already considered these, but who knows.
1. Insulate the interior of the tank instead. In this design, the tank would be like a big thermos, without the risk of external debris. To me, this design doesn't seem like it would be too difficult to build. (or, they could place an outer skin around the foam on the exterior of the current tank, thus producing the same design without reducing tank capacity)
2. Apply the foam in a vacuum. Probably easier said than done because I doubt there is a vacuum chamber big enough, but it's an idea. The problem caused by air pockets in the foam is that the air pockets are at atmospheric pressure, and once the exterior pressure on the tank is reduced at high altitude, these pockets can "pop" and cause chunks of foam to break free.
Despite all these measures, there will likely be another shuttle disaster in the future. Unfortunately, certain critical problems aren't identified until failure occurs.
... no more O-ring problems. ... no more foam problems.
... "Well, thank god it wasn't the foam or those darn o-rings again".
After Challenger
After Columbia
So what'll be next?
My guess is that they'll never see it coming, whatever it is. NASA is too focused on making sure the foam doesn't cause another problem. However, the foam was fine for 20+ years and the chances of the same exact thing happening again are infinitely smaller than the chances of a new problem occurring.
So, here's what they'll say when the next explosion happens
When did the government nationalize the airlines?
Shortly after 9/11 when they gave billions to "save" the airlines.
When did the government nationalize the farms?
Throughout the past few decades in the form of farm subsidies.
When did the government nationalize the factories?
Not entirely yet, but it's in progress. For a good example, read up on government price fixing of television sets.
When did the government nationalize the hospitals?
Another one in progress... if you commies get your way, it'll be finished by 2007 or so.
When did the govenrment nationalize all media?
Are you kidding me?
HTTP headers directly from the server are:
1 HTTP/1.1 200 OK
2 Content-Length: 2966
3 Content-Type: text/html
4 Content-Location: http://hackiis6.com/default.htm
5 Last-Modified: Thu, 05 May 2005 23:30:53 GMT
6 Accept-Ranges: bytes
7 ETag: "f2a3b7bca51c51:5ec"
8 Server: Microsoft-IIS/6.0
9 Date: Fri, 06 May 2005 02:49:09 GMT
10 Connection: keep-alive
If the Server header is faked, then they'll be in plenty of legal trouble for rigging a contest. But based on what we see here, we must assume that the Netcraft data is incorrect... and it most likely is, being several days old now.
I bet they're using helium...
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http://www.ragnardanneskjold.com/html/p1010099.
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