I love those faculty and sysadmin types here who expect us to write these hideously involuted Access Control Lists on our routers to make up for their steadfast desire to avoid actually administering their systems. (*eyeroll*)
(If you drive a car ), Iâ(TM)ll tax the street, (If you try to sit ), Iâ(TM)ll tax your seat, (If you get too cold ), Iâ(TM)ll tax the heat, (If you take a walk ), Iâ(TM)ll tax your feet. Tax man...
... not to succumb to a "War of The Worlds" effect. If this had been an actual emergency, the terrorists would already have turned Poughkeepsie into a mushroom-cloud-covered obsidian lake bed. Everybody take deep breaths, think calming thoughts, and you can all go back to calling Snooki a skank after it's over with. Or so the voices in my head want me to assure you.
"It wouldn't be so much tearing a hole in the fabric of space as making a ripple."
Ah, so that earthquake that rocked Louisa County, Virginia a few weeks ago and knocked over some stuff at my mom's house in the DC 'burbs was a ripple from the laser firing, flowing backwards across time? Cool!
I believe one major reason that NASA's and the Air Force's launch facilities are in Florida is a combination of lots of open ocean for downrange safety and testing, and the physics of orbital insertions that put the likely launch routes over that open ocean. Supposing Challanger had been over , say, Georgia when it disintegrated, and dropped all that debris on downtown Atlanta?
I think that was the rationale behind giving Amateur Extras (the highest class of license w/ the most priveleges) all those short x#xx and xx#x callsigns - they'd be shorter and easier to send in code.
de KG4WKY/AE --- now shopping for a shorter vanity call:-)
Don't EVEN get me started. I still cling tenaciously to my Heathkit H-89, built during my first attempt at college (1983). The CPU board succummed to lightning about 15 years ago and was replaced with an Ampro LittleBoard+ (the one with the SCSI adapter) and it's got a whopping 100MB hard drive attached to it, along with 2 3-1/2" and 2 5-1/4" floppies. It's a real mongerel but it still boots CP/M (well, ZRDOS but who's quibbling?) and runs fine. I mainly play Adventure on it.
Under the desk there's a TRS-80 Mod 100 and its near twin the NEC 8201. At home there's a Kaypro II, and somewhere around here there's a Sinclair ZX-80. Other than the 2 Commodore 64s and the VIC20 I need to retrieve from Mom's house before she junks 'em, that's about it.
You know, Rob, I used to get nostalgic for the whole thing, especially after Dr. Lombardi found all that MONEY for a PROPER DHNet buildout, rather than the partially-derrierred approach I was constrained to take. But nowadays, I drive by your office and think, "There but for the Grace of God go I!":-) There is no sum of money that could EVER induce me to want that job back.:-)
That's an unrealistic approach to the problem. UF is not exactly made of (or Endowed with) endless streams of cash, and Gainesville, Florida is not exactly a Mecca of high-speed bandwidth providers. It costs UF ENORMOUS sums of money, that have to be justified to the administration every fiscal year, to provide external connectivity. The University can't just keep adding OC-3cs just to keep up the flow of bootlegged music and movies. It's kind of hard to sell the Provost on an OC-12 to Qwest just so Johnny Dormroom can snag the latest System of a Down CD without having to actually go to Bleeding Wallet Records and buy it.
I work for a big SEC university doing network stuff. What I got for Christmas was... the day off. No, wait- I'm on call Christmas. Guess I didn't get nuthin'.
Hypothetical: If someone breaks into my house while I'm out of town, steals my laptop computer, and uses the laptop computer to hack into a credit-card clearinghouse and steal credit card numbers, and I responsible?
Hypothetical: If someone breaks into my house while I'm out of town, steals some of my tools, then uses those tools to break into cars and steal car stereos, am I responsible?
Hypothetical: If someone breaks into my house while I'm out of town, steals my wife's jewelry, then uses the proceeds of the sale thereof to buy crack to sell to junior high school kids, am I responsible?
Hypothetical: If someone breaks into my house when I'm out of town, steals a chef's knife from my kitchen, then uses it to rob, rape and stab the girl living across the street, am I responsible?
Hypothetical: If someone breaks into my house when I'm out of town, steals my.45, then shoots a 7-11 clerk while robbing him, am I responsible?
Second:
I'll have to dig up particular citations, but I have repeatedly seen court decisions that hold that it is *NOT* legally the responsibility of police departments to protect the citizenry; it is the responsibility of citizens to protect themselves. So how am I to fulfill my responsibility as a citizen to protect myself, and as a husband and father to protect my family, if I am denied the necessary tools? Clearly, if there is any way to extricate my family from a dangerous situation without use of force, I will take it, but if an armed individual enters my house intent on violence toward me and mine, and will not back down when warned off, I will exert whatever level of force is necessary to stop the intruder.
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I love those faculty and sysadmin types here who expect us to write these hideously involuted Access Control Lists on our routers to make up for their steadfast desire to avoid actually administering their systems. (*eyeroll*)
(If you drive a car ), Iâ(TM)ll tax the street,
(If you try to sit ), Iâ(TM)ll tax your seat,
(If you get too cold ), Iâ(TM)ll tax the heat,
(If you take a walk ), Iâ(TM)ll tax your feet.
Tax man...
... not to succumb to a "War of The Worlds" effect. If this had been an actual emergency, the terrorists would already have turned Poughkeepsie into a mushroom-cloud-covered obsidian lake bed. Everybody take deep breaths, think calming thoughts, and you can all go back to calling Snooki a skank after it's over with. Or so the voices in my head want me to assure you.
End of line.
@!#%$@%^@&& NO CARRIER
"It wouldn't be so much tearing a hole in the fabric of space as making a ripple."
Ah, so that earthquake that rocked Louisa County, Virginia a few weeks ago and knocked over some stuff at my mom's house in the DC 'burbs was a ripple from the laser firing, flowing backwards across time? Cool!
"Whaddaya think, Sarge? How's that approach taste to you?"
I believe one major reason that NASA's and the Air Force's launch facilities are in Florida is a combination of lots of open ocean for downrange safety and testing, and the physics of orbital insertions that put the likely launch routes over that open ocean. Supposing Challanger had been over , say, Georgia when it disintegrated, and dropped all that debris on downtown Atlanta?
I think that was the rationale behind giving Amateur Extras (the highest class of license w/ the most priveleges) all those short x#xx and xx#x callsigns - they'd be shorter and easier to send in code.
:-)
de KG4WKY/AE --- now shopping for a shorter vanity call
Would that be morse-over-morse, or maybe metamorse?
de KG4WKY/AE
Don't EVEN get me started. I still cling tenaciously to my Heathkit H-89, built during my first attempt at college (1983). The CPU board succummed to lightning about 15 years ago and was replaced with an Ampro LittleBoard+ (the one with the SCSI adapter) and it's got a whopping 100MB hard drive attached to it, along with 2 3-1/2" and 2 5-1/4" floppies. It's a real mongerel but it still boots CP/M (well, ZRDOS but who's quibbling?) and runs fine. I mainly play Adventure on it.
Under the desk there's a TRS-80 Mod 100 and its near twin the NEC 8201. At home there's a Kaypro II, and somewhere around here there's a Sinclair ZX-80. Other than the 2 Commodore 64s and the VIC20 I need to retrieve from Mom's house before she junks 'em, that's about it.
You know, Rob, I used to get nostalgic for the whole thing, especially after Dr. Lombardi found all that MONEY for a PROPER DHNet buildout, rather than the partially-derrierred approach I was constrained to take. But nowadays, I drive by your office and think, "There but for the Grace of God go I!" :-) There is no sum of money that could EVER induce me to want that job back. :-)
That's an unrealistic approach to the problem. UF is not exactly made of (or Endowed with) endless streams of cash, and Gainesville, Florida is not exactly a Mecca of high-speed bandwidth providers. It costs UF ENORMOUS sums of money, that have to be justified to the administration every fiscal year, to provide external connectivity. The University can't just keep adding OC-3cs just to keep up the flow of bootlegged music and movies. It's kind of hard to sell the Provost on an OC-12 to Qwest just so Johnny Dormroom can snag the latest System of a Down CD without having to actually go to Bleeding Wallet Records and buy it.
I work for a big SEC university doing network stuff. What I got for Christmas was... the day off. No, wait- I'm on call Christmas. Guess I didn't get nuthin'.
Couple of things. First:
.45, then shoots a 7-11 clerk while robbing him, am I responsible?
Hypothetical: If someone breaks into my house while I'm out of town, steals my laptop computer, and uses the laptop computer to hack into a credit-card clearinghouse and steal credit card numbers, and I responsible?
Hypothetical: If someone breaks into my house while I'm out of town, steals some of my tools, then uses those tools to break into cars and steal car stereos, am I responsible?
Hypothetical: If someone breaks into my house while I'm out of town, steals my wife's jewelry, then uses the proceeds of the sale thereof to buy crack to sell to junior high school kids, am I responsible?
Hypothetical: If someone breaks into my house when I'm out of town, steals a chef's knife from my kitchen, then uses it to rob, rape and stab the girl living across the street, am I responsible?
Hypothetical: If someone breaks into my house when I'm out of town, steals my
Second:
I'll have to dig up particular citations, but I have repeatedly seen court decisions that hold that it is *NOT* legally the responsibility of police departments to protect the citizenry; it is the responsibility of citizens to protect themselves. So how am I to fulfill my responsibility as a citizen to protect myself, and as a husband and father to protect my family, if I am denied the necessary tools? Clearly, if there is any way to extricate my family from a dangerous situation without use of force, I will take it, but if an armed individual enters my house intent on violence toward me and mine, and will not back down when warned off, I will exert whatever level of force is necessary to stop the intruder.