"Is it possible for inexperienced users to surf the net in safety?"
Yes, it is and it is free as well, AVG, ZA, Folding are great examples of how to protect your computer now and your life in the future. And your family as well.
"...all US stations, commercial or not, are required to maintain EAS equipment, monitor two other stations (unless they're one of the primary entry points), keep logs of tests, and participate in required monthly and weekly tests. Weekly tests must be forwarded within 1 hour, monthly tests must be regenerated within 1 hour (this is an expansion of the 15-minute rule - got passed last year). All stations are required to broadcast EAN alerts immediately (though, they do give you about one minute leeway). EAN, incidentally, has never been activated. That's the one where the President gets on the line and tells everyone to stick their heads between their knees."
Amen to that brother, and as a employee of a top twenty market local market leader television station I can safely say that we can disconnect from any government interference by simply changing a few patches. (And we would, never fear!)
It sucks working for a big company, but at least we do have ultimate control at the local level if the "Shit hits the fan".
You tin foil types need to get a life.
Having said that, the Emergency Broadcast System is a hollow shell waiting to be tested in a dire emergency, God forbid I ever hear those ten dings for real on a AP newswire feed.
I have ruined many an AOL CD carelessly left in the lunch room by my fellow employees. It is very simple and safe. Put AOL CD in microwave oven, set timer for three seconds, label side down for the most impressive arcing. Return the AOL CD to the lunch room/owner.
No more than five seconds or you are going to be breathing burnt plastic fumes!
Tackhead, you might want to add that the Microwaves are indeed very large and tend to cook things (Like your brain) One or two inches apart. The idea is to spread enough energy focused into many small rough areas and call it a draw. (Thus rotation in the new ovens) I have a very old industrial grade microwave device I would be happy to sell you. It comes with a never shut off switch and you have to run to unplug it from the wall when you smell the food burning at the furtherest end of the house away from that thing when it was running.
The kicker is it used to be a PG&E lunchroom oven until somebody gave it away.
I could sell it on E-Bay...
Hmm..
Messing with you and I am glad to echo your message, Microwaves Should be be respected!
A good debate might involve which is more destructive, Radioactivity or Microwaves?
I caught that right off the bat. These guys are so hooked on compressed air power that they are ignoring using the solar power potential due to the copius amount of surface area available. You honestly only have a five percent or so increase in the size to have a huge benefit in this potential power.
Also understand this thing is going to sound like a toilet joke your entire journey, Air tools anyone?
If you poke around in the faq on the website you will find a link to some perplexing (To me, anyway) descriptions of a new type of wind turbine that this guy has a patent for. Also the team is actually building a proof of concept "Mini-pontoon" as I write this.
I am taking this with a big grain of salt, but I would love to see a carbon fiber ball that is lighter than air due to the vacuum inside.
I say this is the acid test.
Also, Mylar is a great helium holder but I don't think it is good enough to hold up to the repeated crinkling factor.
I deal with Mylar for a living. Once you crush it. It remembers those fracture lines and you can kiss tensile strength goodbye.
Hey, I never post as an AC. I like to take the heat face into the blowtorch. I mod and many more times meta-mod very fairly. I will give you a tip, all our posts belong to Slashdot. Learn to roll with the blows.
I spent three years coming up with the perfect Sig.
The Sci-Fi Channel had the guts to air Lexx as well as a host of other ventures. I have caught my co-workers on many a time watching Outer Limits or Twilight Zone.
Has much less commercials than TNT. (Anybody been through the painfull IGEA pore sucker commercial?)
I wish these guys well, and I think they are on course so far.
Ahh, You might have hit the nail on the head. Remember that it is Win98 that Microsoft is trying to snuff. ME has very few users because it sucks. most people have XP due to Microsofts dominance, however there are still a lot of "Anti-bloatware" minded people (Mostly gamers) that run 98 because it is quick and fast and does not require a lot of overhead on a modern machine. Win 2K is a lot more overhead but feed it a modern machine and it performs decent.
XP is something I will resist using as long as I can.
Back to my point. If I were Microsoft, The most damaging thing I could think of to wipe out internal competition would be to leak the old code, Blame any security issues on the "Hackers" Then lobby the Government and everybody else to "Upgrade" to a "Trusted" operating system.
Once Microsoft washes its hands of the 98/2k code, perhaps this leak will prove useful to open source.
(I actually misread the post and thought you were talking about a computer monitor rather than a mundane vacuum cleaner. Thank you, Evelyn Wood! Oh, well. I hate to see a good explaination go to waste, and it is close enough to the topic that I am going to post it with this Mea Culpa.) FYI vacuum cleaners typically have a powerful motor and that several seconds of meter windup is the meter catching up with the current draw of the vacuum motor starting up. (My family used to own a restraunt with a normal household meter on it and I was amazed that the silver disk did not just fly off into orbit because it was turning so fast, 5k/Month electric bills can produce an amazing amount of rotation!)
The semi-OT stuff starts now...
The "spike" that you see when you turn your monitor on is because of degaussing, almost all modern TVs and computer monitors have a coil of thick wire wrapped around the outside of the CRT to de-magnetize the CRT when it is turned on.
Also most modern monitors also have a "sleep" mode where if a loss of signal occours (but is still connected to a video card) the monitor keeps the low voltage circutry running and shuts off the high voltage part of the circut. Also it does not degauss when it wakes up. I have not turned off my monitor except for perhaps ten times since I bought it two years ago.
I am hoping the OSS community gets it together before they pry W2K off of my hard drive. As far as I am concerned upgrading to Microsoft's latest and greatest is foolish behavior, and you are just asking to get whacked until say, service pack 3 rolls around. Mydoom is demonstrating how secure Windows is and is also playing havoc with my ISP. (They will not let me download my email, I can send via other options but they refuse my password for downloading. As you may gather, I am royally pissed off over the situation, And I have one of the Big boys as my ISP.)
"We need a media that knows how to do more than reprint press releases."
Granted! I have submitted as many interesting (Keyword there!) items as I can to my assignment editor.
One thing you hardcore geeks (I am one of you) do not realise is that 95% of these storys (regarding open source) are way, way over the head of the lay person.
There is a huge learning learning curve involved just to understand the issues. I love IT, but I do not code! (Well, much as I would like it there are no avoiding scripts, so maybe I dabble)
My point being: It took me three years to feel comfortable about posting on/. Yet, sometimes I still feel I am surrounded by sharks.
Here is a surprise: In my 300+ person company I work for I am in the top five IT experts. Yes, we use the rock solid Linux to run the computer that feeds the raw data for elections to our Windows server (Have to use it, Election software only runs on Windows), because nobody does it better. A simple pipe command. Of all things. (Windows won't support it, we tried like hell.)
Face it. The OSS community needs to overcome a lot of (Justified) elitism for Joe six-pack to even consider trying Linux on the desktop.
I would say two or three years from now things will change.
Oh, and by the way. We stack ourselves up against the likes of CNN in our IT and election coverage effort.
Microsoft is obviously behind the new worm. After all it takes advantage of those hidden closed-source hooks that only Microsoft knows about. And what a great way to punch the Linux community in the eye!
If I thought that SCO had the brains, I would say they were behind the worm. However they have proven over and over that they are clueless about IT matters. IP is another story with that pit bull Boies.
Hey, Wait a minute. I just happen to play in a very obscure game known as Subspace. (Google it for yourself, An open source win!) My name is Mr. Rico, (Chosen as a homage to Starship Troopers)
I claim prior art. Because I am deeply aware of the fact that if you meet me in that forum I will hand you your head.
Thus, any use of the word "Rico" is now subject to a license fee and any arbitration will be settled in Subspace.
I am reminded of that favorite movie War of the Worlds. That trinary optic system the invaders from Mars used for vision just might be the new future of consumer electronics.
"so I don't think they are afraid of pushing the envelope if it is needed to meet mission requirements."
I would think you could do some radical overclocking in the sub-zero temperatures involved.
I also just found out (Fact checking) that Mars atmosphere is 95.3% C02. (I should know this but I'm getting old) That is almost worse than vacuum to us people on Earth. Great for the frozen carbonated beverage industry however.
I keep it in a plastic bag as a keepsake because they leak all over the place unless you used it almost every day. Think huge gobs of ink flowing at the start of your report. Heaven knows what would happen to the pressurized ink capsule if it ever hit hard vacum, I can promise you that whatever happens it will be messy.
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And your Little Dog too!
"Is it possible for inexperienced users to surf the net in safety?"
Yes, it is and it is free as well, AVG, ZA, Folding are great examples of how to protect your computer now and your life in the future. And your family as well.
"This is scary"
I don't know about you but the price scared me plenty.
"...all US stations, commercial or not, are required to maintain EAS equipment, monitor two other stations (unless they're one of the primary entry points), keep logs of tests, and participate in required monthly and weekly tests. Weekly tests must be forwarded within 1 hour, monthly tests must be regenerated within 1 hour (this is an expansion of the 15-minute rule - got passed last year). All stations are required to broadcast EAN alerts immediately (though, they do give you about one minute leeway). EAN, incidentally, has never been activated. That's the one where the President gets on the line and tells everyone to stick their heads between their knees."
Amen to that brother, and as a employee of a top twenty market local market leader television station I can safely say that we can disconnect from any government interference by simply changing a few patches. (And we would, never fear!)
It sucks working for a big company, but at least we do have ultimate control at the local level if the "Shit hits the fan".
You tin foil types need to get a life.
Having said that, the Emergency Broadcast System is a hollow shell waiting to be tested in a dire emergency, God forbid I ever hear those ten dings for real on a AP newswire feed.
Challenger got eight.
My sig is crude in this context. I apologise.
I have ruined many an AOL CD carelessly left in the lunch room by my fellow employees. It is very simple and safe. Put AOL CD in microwave oven, set timer for three seconds, label side down for the most impressive arcing. Return the AOL CD to the lunch room/owner.
No more than five seconds or you are going to be breathing burnt plastic fumes!
Have fun, I sure know I have.
Tackhead, you might want to add that the Microwaves are indeed very large and tend to cook things (Like your brain) One or two inches apart. The idea is to spread enough energy focused into many small rough areas and call it a draw. (Thus rotation in the new ovens) I have a very old industrial grade microwave device I would be happy to sell you. It comes with a never shut off switch and you have to run to unplug it from the wall when you smell the food burning at the furtherest end of the house away from that thing when it was running.
The kicker is it used to be a PG&E lunchroom oven until somebody gave it away.
I could sell it on E-Bay...
Hmm..
Messing with you and I am glad to echo your message, Microwaves Should be be respected!
A good debate might involve which is more destructive, Radioactivity or Microwaves?
"solar power"
I caught that right off the bat. These guys are so hooked on compressed air power that they are ignoring using the solar power potential due to the copius amount of surface area available. You honestly only have a five percent or so increase in the size to have a huge benefit in this potential power.
Also understand this thing is going to sound like a toilet joke your entire journey, Air tools anyone?
If you poke around in the faq on the website you will find a link to some perplexing (To me, anyway) descriptions of a new type of wind turbine that this guy has a patent for. Also the team is actually building a proof of concept "Mini-pontoon" as I write this.
I am taking this with a big grain of salt, but I would love to see a carbon fiber ball that is lighter than air due to the vacuum inside.
I say this is the acid test.
Also, Mylar is a great helium holder but I don't think it is good enough to hold up to the repeated crinkling factor.
I deal with Mylar for a living. Once you crush it. It remembers those fracture lines and you can kiss tensile strength goodbye.
Hey, I never post as an AC. I like to take the heat face into the blowtorch. I mod and many more times meta-mod very fairly. I will give you a tip, all our posts belong to Slashdot. Learn to roll with the blows.
I spent three years coming up with the perfect Sig.
Excellent!
The Sci-Fi Channel had the guts to air Lexx as well as a host of other ventures. I have caught my co-workers on many a time watching Outer Limits or Twilight Zone.
Has much less commercials than TNT. (Anybody been through the painfull IGEA pore sucker commercial?)
I wish these guys well, and I think they are on course so far.
One thing does trouble me is the fact that the NT kernal might be sitting out there.
There are a lot of NT machines sitting out there.
Ahh, You might have hit the nail on the head. Remember that it is Win98 that Microsoft is trying to snuff. ME has very few users because it sucks. most people have XP due to Microsofts dominance, however there are still a lot of "Anti-bloatware" minded people (Mostly gamers) that run 98 because it is quick and fast and does not require a lot of overhead on a modern machine. Win 2K is a lot more overhead but feed it a modern machine and it performs decent.
XP is something I will resist using as long as I can.
Back to my point. If I were Microsoft, The most damaging thing I could think of to wipe out internal competition would be to leak the old code, Blame any security issues on the "Hackers" Then lobby the Government and everybody else to "Upgrade" to a "Trusted" operating system.
Once Microsoft washes its hands of the 98/2k code, perhaps this leak will prove useful to open source.
Cameras do not deter Crime.
They only drive it underground.
I suggest you check out last years episodes of CSI for example.
A couple of comments on your post.
(I actually misread the post and thought you were talking about a computer monitor rather than a mundane vacuum cleaner. Thank you, Evelyn Wood! Oh, well. I hate to see a good explaination go to waste, and it is close enough to the topic that I am going to post it with this Mea Culpa.) FYI vacuum cleaners typically have a powerful motor and that several seconds of meter windup is the meter catching up with the current draw of the vacuum motor starting up. (My family used to own a restraunt with a normal household meter on it and I was amazed that the silver disk did not just fly off into orbit because it was turning so fast, 5k/Month electric bills can produce an amazing amount of rotation!)
The semi-OT stuff starts now...
The "spike" that you see when you turn your monitor on is because of degaussing, almost all modern TVs and computer monitors have a coil of thick wire wrapped around the outside of the CRT to de-magnetize the CRT when it is turned on.
Also most modern monitors also have a "sleep" mode where if a loss of signal occours (but is still connected to a video card) the monitor keeps the low voltage circutry running and shuts off the high voltage part of the circut. Also it does not degauss when it wakes up. I have not turned off my monitor except for perhaps ten times since I bought it two years ago.
I am hoping the OSS community gets it together before they pry W2K off of my hard drive.
As far as I am concerned upgrading to Microsoft's latest and greatest is foolish behavior, and you are just asking to get whacked until say, service pack 3 rolls around. Mydoom is demonstrating how secure Windows is and is also playing havoc with my ISP. (They will not let me download my email, I can send via other options but they refuse my password for downloading. As you may gather, I am royally pissed off over the situation, And I have one of the Big boys as my ISP.)
"We need a media that knows how to do more than reprint press releases."
/. Yet, sometimes I still feel I am surrounded by sharks.
Granted! I have submitted as many interesting (Keyword there!) items as I can to my assignment editor.
One thing you hardcore geeks (I am one of you) do not realise is that 95% of these storys (regarding open source) are way, way over the head of the lay person.
There is a huge learning learning curve involved just to understand the issues. I love IT, but I do not code! (Well, much as I would like it there are no avoiding scripts, so maybe I dabble)
My point being: It took me three years to feel comfortable about posting on
Here is a surprise: In my 300+ person company I work for I am in the top five IT experts. Yes, we use the rock solid Linux to run the computer that feeds the raw data for elections to our Windows server (Have to use it, Election software only runs on Windows), because nobody does it better. A simple pipe command. Of all things. (Windows won't support it, we tried like hell.)
Face it. The OSS community needs to overcome a lot of (Justified) elitism for Joe six-pack to even consider trying Linux on the desktop.
I would say two or three years from now things will change.
Oh, and by the way. We stack ourselves up against the likes of CNN in our IT and election coverage effort.
If you don a tinfoil hat for the sake of fun...
Microsoft is obviously behind the new worm. After all it takes advantage of those hidden closed-source hooks that only Microsoft knows about. And what a great way to punch the Linux community in the eye!
If I thought that SCO had the brains, I would say they were behind the worm. However they have proven over and over that they are clueless about IT matters. IP is another story with that pit bull Boies.
You might want to try Unreal Tournament.
It meets your criteria. And there are lots of community and resources to help you learn.
I was doing pretty decent mods within hours of learning the level editor.
Hey, Wait a minute. I just happen to play in a very obscure game known as Subspace. (Google it for yourself, An open source win!) My name is Mr. Rico, (Chosen as a homage to Starship Troopers)
I claim prior art. Because I am deeply aware of the fact that if you meet me in that forum I will hand you your head.
Thus, any use of the word "Rico" is now subject to a license fee and any arbitration will be settled in Subspace.
That is all.
Heh, Heh.
That post made my day, Thank you!
I am reminded of that favorite movie War of the Worlds. That trinary optic system the invaders from Mars used for vision just might be the new future of consumer electronics.
I find it ironic.
"so I don't think they are afraid of pushing the envelope if it is needed to meet mission requirements."
I would think you could do some radical overclocking in the sub-zero temperatures involved.
I also just found out (Fact checking) that Mars atmosphere is 95.3% C02. (I should know this but I'm getting old) That is almost worse than vacuum to us people on Earth. Great for the frozen carbonated beverage industry however.
Two more words for you people: The Environmentalists.
They will not allow any of this.
Remember the stink when Cassini went up?
Funny how the Russians have no problem sending nuclear power into space.
Hey! that gives me an idea!
"Honestly, how hard is it to use a software solution with PC's, instead of wasting god knows how much on useless trinkets."
You Sir. Are an Idiot. And have zero concept of craftsmanship.
I fight for whats right. And I feel your statement is so wrong. I sure bigger, badder people are coming your way. Consider me a harbinger.
How about sending a few of these to the President as gifts?
As a community this is a great way to express support.
It did (ahem) happen on his watch.
I actually have one of these space pens.
I keep it in a plastic bag as a keepsake because they leak all over the place unless you used it almost every day. Think huge gobs of ink flowing at the start of your report. Heaven knows what would happen to the pressurized ink capsule if it ever hit hard vacum, I can promise you that whatever happens it will be messy.