A big block of IP addresses does not a major ISP make. Check out 44.0.0.0/8, aka AMPRNET. The whole Class A is reserved for ham radio use, and comprises a bunch of (mostly) low-bandwidth packet links. Not something that'd be much of a peer for a regular ISP.
Couldn't be any worse than what California already puts me through. They want you to report sales for each individual tax district in the state. Most of my sales are out of the state, and probably half are out of the country, so I've got very little to report there - I wind up paying 6 cents to one county, 12 cents to another, and so on. Or at least, that's how I'm supposed to do it. In reality I just go nuts and grossly over-pay them all - 50 cents for everyone!
So I'm a little skeptical about just how 'easy' they consider a reasonable system to be...
Speaking as a Search and Rescue volunteer, I'd say to keep in mind that your first priority is always to take care of yourself. If you're not self-sufficient, you're going to be imposing a burden on someone else. That means having food, water, shelter, clothes, and so on. I carry all of these (and a good deal more in terms of radios, medical equipment, rescue gear, and so on) in my trunk at all times, enough for a few days at least.
I don't know what the situation is down there and what exactly they might need, but you can be sure they'll be a lot more happy to see you if you can take care of yourself.
Regardless of the type of disaster, you can't go too far wrong with shovels and chainsaws (with fuel, oil, extra chains, etc). And a couple pairs of heavy duty work gloves. A good hard hat never hurts, either.
Be willing to take care of yourself, stay out of the way when necessary, work hard and follow directions, and I'm sure someone will find a use for you.
". unless they're willing to ship 10% of them to me, refrigerated and boxed, so I can crack em and suck the fresh stem cells down and become a REAL Superman."
Ok, I'm not too sure about this 35% figure. I'd always taken that to mean that 35% of the energy generated by burning the gas actually goes into moving the car - the rest being mostly dissipated as heat. I was under the impression that any properly tuned car is burning very nearly all of the fuel, or we'd all be backfiring constantly.
More efficient, sure. Isp = 452 sec for the SSME, and something like 260 sec for the F-1. But the shuttle engines are most certainly not more powerful.
Maybe it's not fair to say all of LMCO's software projects are screwed up, but go check out the RSA IIA stuff. I've had quite a bit of exposure to parts of it. It's years behind schedule, large portions are still unusable, it's way overbudget, and there's been massive turnover in the programming staff.
I know some of the people who are still there, and they're good people. But they got stuck with a poorly conceived project that seems to have been pretty much doomed 8 years ago. As far as I can tell, they gave up long ago on delivering anything useful or innovative, and for years have only been interested in patching enough holes to get the Air Force to sign off on it.
Is this how they plan to bury the records forever?
It sometimes amazes me that LMCO manages to build planes that actually fly. But then I have to remember that the people designing the planes apparently aren't the ones designing their software.
If they build aircraft the way they build software, their planes would make these look like this.
Are you saying that no F/OSS product has ever shipped with a back door, trojan, or other nastiness? I'm not saying it's a common occurence, but it's certainly going to be harder to spot than a virus.
Read the history of Ken Thompson's famous back door in the early Unix C compiler versions. Shows just what's possible when someone really knows what they're doing.
Is this the one where he's mispronouncing yogurt (er, yoghurt)? I was in London a couple of weeks ago and saw that. As an American, I guess I didn't quite get the humor - his pronunciation sounded just fine to me. =]
I spoke to someone from Symantec a couple of years ago at Black Hat (a senior VP, I think?) and I got the impression that they were working on something like that. Not sure if anything ever came of it.
Since I'm bored and this is more fun that work, here's some more info:
24' x 12' x 4.6' pool = 1295 cubic feet 17 pools = 22015 cubic feet Density of broken coal = 52 lbs/cubic foot
So that's 1144780 lbs of coal in 17 (small) swimming pools. At the aforementioned.81 lbs per kWh, you get 1.4 megawatt hours of electricity. That's enough to run IBM's Blue Gene supercomputer (216 kW) for 272 days.
Again, this is assuming smallish swimming pools. If we're talking Olympic sized swiming pools, figure 50 times that.
Maybe grandparent is assuming very, very small swimming pools.
Amount of coal needed to generate one kWh: 10,500 BTU/kWh / 13,000 BTU/lb. coal =.81 lb coal/kWh
Assuming 1/3 kW to run your computer, that's 8 kWh/day, or 6.48 pounds of coal. The VAX 6000 in my garage would consume about 120 pounds per day - about 2.3 cubic feet.
Hmm, don't think I've got an RWZ21 on hand, unless it was also sold under another brand name, but I've got a couple of spare MicroVAXen in the garage. And a VAX 6000, for that matter. Guess I'll have to dig around in the junk pile a bit...
"A semi-modern PC has a minimum 40GB sized hard drive. And it only goes up from there. I've been online for quite sometime and while things have gotten MUCH better, with respect to bandwidth, it still takes a LONG, LONG, LONG time to transfer huge amounts of data."
Well, you have to keep in mind that it's really only necessary to back up those parts of your hard drive that can't be replaced using an automated download from alt.binaries.pictures.erotica, so for the typical geek that means only storing about 3 megs off-site.
Sailing across the ocean changes a man. Spending a year in a foreign country changes a man. Having children changes a man.
Lots of experiences change us. But look back at the last three thousand years of human history, and you'll see that despite it all, people are still driven by the same basic needs and desires, have the same faults and flaws.
Don't think for a minute that the view out a window, however breathtaking, is going to fundamentally change the nature of the human race.
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A big block of IP addresses does not a major ISP make. Check out 44.0.0.0/8, aka AMPRNET. The whole Class A is reserved for ham radio use, and comprises a bunch of (mostly) low-bandwidth packet links. Not something that'd be much of a peer for a regular ISP.
Couldn't be any worse than what California already puts me through. They want you to report sales for each individual tax district in the state. Most of my sales are out of the state, and probably half are out of the country, so I've got very little to report there - I wind up paying 6 cents to one county, 12 cents to another, and so on. Or at least, that's how I'm supposed to do it. In reality I just go nuts and grossly over-pay them all - 50 cents for everyone!
So I'm a little skeptical about just how 'easy' they consider a reasonable system to be...
Speaking as a Search and Rescue volunteer, I'd say to keep in mind that your first priority is always to take care of yourself. If you're not self-sufficient, you're going to be imposing a burden on someone else. That means having food, water, shelter, clothes, and so on. I carry all of these (and a good deal more in terms of radios, medical equipment, rescue gear, and so on) in my trunk at all times, enough for a few days at least.
I don't know what the situation is down there and what exactly they might need, but you can be sure they'll be a lot more happy to see you if you can take care of yourself.
Regardless of the type of disaster, you can't go too far wrong with shovels and chainsaws (with fuel, oil, extra chains, etc). And a couple pairs of heavy duty work gloves. A good hard hat never hurts, either.
Be willing to take care of yourself, stay out of the way when necessary, work hard and follow directions, and I'm sure someone will find a use for you.
". unless they're willing to ship 10% of them to me, refrigerated and boxed, so I can crack em and suck the fresh stem cells down and become a REAL Superman."
I'd settle for my own Shakey's Pizza.
Yeah, and the inanimate objects don't like it either.
Ok, I'm not too sure about this 35% figure. I'd always taken that to mean that 35% of the energy generated by burning the gas actually goes into moving the car - the rest being mostly dissipated as heat. I was under the impression that any properly tuned car is burning very nearly all of the fuel, or we'd all be backfiring constantly.
SSMEs more powerful? I think not.
F-1: 1,500,000 lbf
SSME: 400,000 lbf
More efficient, sure. Isp = 452 sec for the SSME, and something like 260 sec for the F-1. But the shuttle engines are most certainly not more powerful.
Maybe it's not fair to say all of LMCO's software projects are screwed up, but go check out the RSA IIA stuff. I've had quite a bit of exposure to parts of it. It's years behind schedule, large portions are still unusable, it's way overbudget, and there's been massive turnover in the programming staff.
I know some of the people who are still there, and they're good people. But they got stuck with a poorly conceived project that seems to have been pretty much doomed 8 years ago. As far as I can tell, they gave up long ago on delivering anything useful or innovative, and for years have only been interested in patching enough holes to get the Air Force to sign off on it.
It sometimes amazes me that LMCO manages to build planes that actually fly. But then I have to remember that the people designing the planes apparently aren't the ones designing their software.
If they build aircraft the way they build software, their planes would make these look like this.
We can visit and study mountains, too. Moving them is another matter.
Besides, it's asteroids you want to mine for minerals, not comets.
But just think of all the valuable SLUSH you could mine from that thing! Why, you could... umm.. make.. snowcones, or something. Yeah...
Not mine. Damn Mobius rolls.
"So can I still fill up used bottled water bottles with my tap water if it is labled '1 liter'?"
Sure, but don't you dare try to put a quart in there!
Are you saying that no F/OSS product has ever shipped with a back door, trojan, or other nastiness? I'm not saying it's a common occurence, but it's certainly going to be harder to spot than a virus.
Read the history of Ken Thompson's famous back door in the early Unix C compiler versions. Shows just what's possible when someone really knows what they're doing.
Is this the one where he's mispronouncing yogurt (er, yoghurt)? I was in London a couple of weeks ago and saw that. As an American, I guess I didn't quite get the humor - his pronunciation sounded just fine to me. =]
"We have the miltary might to thrash you again...don't test us!"
Yeah, but remember - the UK actually HAS weapons of mass destruction!
Besides, they make some really good meat pies. And some decent beer.
You'll just have to wait for the MPAA to use their mercenary army to take out the BBC.
I spoke to someone from Symantec a couple of years ago at Black Hat (a senior VP, I think?) and I got the impression that they were working on something like that. Not sure if anything ever came of it.
What are the terms of this protest ban? I was there last Saturday and saw protesters that looked to be a whole lot less than 1 km away.
Since I'm bored and this is more fun that work, here's some more info:
.81 lbs per kWh, you get 1.4 megawatt hours of electricity. That's enough to run IBM's Blue Gene supercomputer (216 kW) for 272 days.
24' x 12' x 4.6' pool = 1295 cubic feet
17 pools = 22015 cubic feet
Density of broken coal = 52 lbs/cubic foot
So that's 1144780 lbs of coal in 17 (small) swimming pools. At the aforementioned
Again, this is assuming smallish swimming pools. If we're talking Olympic sized swiming pools, figure 50 times that.
Maybe grandparent is assuming very, very small swimming pools.
.81 lb coal/kWh
Amount of coal needed to generate one kWh:
10,500 BTU/kWh / 13,000 BTU/lb. coal =
Assuming 1/3 kW to run your computer, that's 8 kWh/day, or 6.48 pounds of coal. The VAX 6000 in my garage would consume about 120 pounds per day - about 2.3 cubic feet.
Hmm, don't think I've got an RWZ21 on hand, unless it was also sold under another brand name, but I've got a couple of spare MicroVAXen in the garage. And a VAX 6000, for that matter. Guess I'll have to dig around in the junk pile a bit...
"A semi-modern PC has a minimum 40GB sized hard drive. And it only goes up from there. I've been online for quite sometime and while things have gotten MUCH better, with respect to bandwidth, it still takes a LONG, LONG, LONG time to transfer huge amounts of data."
Well, you have to keep in mind that it's really only necessary to back up those parts of your hard drive that can't be replaced using an automated download from alt.binaries.pictures.erotica, so for the typical geek that means only storing about 3 megs off-site.
And all generalizations are wrong!
Sailing across the ocean changes a man. Spending a year in a foreign country changes a man. Having children changes a man.
Lots of experiences change us. But look back at the last three thousand years of human history, and you'll see that despite it all, people are still driven by the same basic needs and desires, have the same faults and flaws.
Don't think for a minute that the view out a window, however breathtaking, is going to fundamentally change the nature of the human race.