There are such things as Sea-to-air cruise missiles. They're original purpose was for the U.S. Navy to defend itself from incoming Russian airplanes at ~200 miles range. They should be able to kill a drone plane too, as long as it's large enough to get a radar lock.
There are also nuclear-tipped cruise missile Tomahawks, designed for killing subs (the pressure wave crushes them) or above surface targets like ships and planes (ditto). Of course that would be overkill for a drone.;-)
Dialup modems only use the first 7 bits, so 56k maximum. And then the FCC limited the power output allowed over phone lines (to avoid crosstalk between wires), so in the U.S. the maximum is 53.3k which I usually get when I'm home, but not from hotels (unless it's a Motel 6).
>>>Just 2 months ago I found that there's Playstation tunes out there, making the Chrono Cross and FF7 tracks.....
Also PS2 and N64 tracks; I have Final Fantasy 10 and Banjo-Kazooie audios on my hard drive. By now they've probably learned how to rip Gamecube/PS3/Wii tracks.
True but the point of the movie is that the main character may have had bad DNA, but he still passed all the physical tests & intelligence tests.
They would have rejected a good candidate. People should be judged upon what they can DO, not the code in their cells. (I've known many people who had high IQ but were lazy, and did little with it.... vice versa many of low IQ have succeeded brilliantly in life.) Pre-crime is a bad idea and so too is pre-judging.
Try playing those same MP3s over a full-sized speaker system, and it will become immediately apparent they are deficient. For earbuds as low as 64k may be okay, but for speakers MP3s don't sound CD quality until they are 256k or higher (IMHO). It's somewhat similar to how I thought DVDs looked almost-perfect on my old analog CRT, but pretty bad on an HD monitor.
>>>soundwaves always peak at the maximum floor and ceiling levels
Hardly. The C64 has a volume control. 0 to 255 if I recall correctly, so the music could range from soft to loud (not maxed-out like today's CDs). Ditto other "chip music" produced by Atari 800s or Commodore Amigas.
I've tried sharing 64, amiga, and Super Nintendo music on facebook but most people think it sounds like junk. They don't appreciate that electronic sound. (shrug). BTW http://www.lemon64.com/ let's you hear 64 music directly over the web.
every other technology I use takes advantage of MP3. Asterisk can't use FLAC. Which would be hilarious if it did because the standard codecs are about the worst way to transmit music anyways. A phone call is terrible for quality.
Phone calls don't use MP3. The wired phones are uncompressed 7-bit PCM, while the cell phones use a codec designed specifically for speech and barely stream faster than 4-5 kbit/s. (Yes that's right... 1/10th the speed of a 56k dialup connection.)
Digital data does not degrade Mr. Audiophile. If it was 256k when you got the MP3 it will still be 256k. Though the CD-R might self-erase (the dye fades) and become completely unplayable. I recommend only store-bought CDs (they are pressed with permanent pits). Or just save money and stream your music off youtube for free.;-)
I actually use 32k AAC. With the tiny speakers on my player you can't hear any real difference, and it lets me squeeze more songs on the device. CD bought from a store is what I use for archiving.
I've heard one engineer complain that he mixes the music correctly, with loud and soft passages, but the musicians then demand he make it sound louder. They are not satisfied until the quiet passages are just as loud as the loud passages.
So basically a CD with 90 db range is compressed to about 10 db (plus clipping off the top of the max volume scale).
They don't seem to care. QUOTE: "Larry Gordon, iYogiâ(TM)s president of global channel sales, sent me a formal letter that was unapologetic, but which promised that the company would endeavor to do better. Gordon called the incident, a 'Tylenol moment for iYogi and the leadership team.'"
I just finished the article, and it sounds like the CEO canceled the contract based-upon just that one call with a bad technician.
Interesting tactics though... saying that Avast Free is basically junk (takes a week to download latest updates) and the customer should buy the program instead. Also running PC Diagnosis from a website. Like a scammer.
The ideal U.S. would not have an corporations..... just private-owned proprietorships or partnerships where the owners(s) are directly responsible for the actions of their company and managers/employees.
Then you work for a shitty company. You should be look forward to working for a better company that understands DDoS attacks cannot really be prevented, anymore than you can prevent a UPS truck carrying an important part from getting T-boned by a careless passenger car driver & the part getting delayed 1-2 days because of it.
Shit happens. Good managers understand this. Lousy managers do not, and if they truly will "ruin your career" because of something beyond your control, then I suggest you quit them as soon as possible. In my last job we were under a tight schedule but missed our target because of a last minute part failure.
The managers did indeed blame the engineers (fired 2 of the 3), instead of the manufacturer for lousy part design, and therefore I will never work for that shitty company again. I now work for a better company with better management. If we had a DDoS I know they wouldn't blame the IT department. They'd blame the outside attacker.
>>>if you videotape your cheating wife and invite your friends over twitter to come what them have sex
That's not what Ravi did. He videotaped it and then talked about it (over twitter). So the equivalence would be a wife who taped her husband, and then tweeted to her friends, "I caught him having sex with my neighbor!" Then the husband is embarrassed and commits suicide, and the wife gets drug off to jail.
That's the precedent this case has set... that the government can prosecute a wife or anybody else who uses a bedroom camera to catch their co-residents in a sex act.
So what are the long-term consequences of the precedent set by this court? What if a Wife uses a videocam to spy on her cheating husband in the bedroom with his adultress?
Invading his privacy? And what if the caught husband commits suicide? That's basically what this decision amounts to - if you videocam a co-resident in your own bedroom, the government could charge you with invasion of privacy.
Republicans support universal health care too. After all they were the ones who originally proposed the "universal insurance purchase" mandate (through the Heritage Foundation). And also passed the Prescription Drug Plan under Bush's watch. And continue to support Medicare/Medicaid.
They don't support same-sex marriage (because most Republican voters are Christians).
DDoS does not destroy careers or ruin businesses. That's ridiculous. At most it may incur a small loss of profits for that 1 day, which fits your definition of "civil disobedience".
It's a COMIC. There is no child. It's just ink on a page. No victim == no crime has been committed. Same as drawing a murder is not a crime because nobody was murdered.
By which point your family will have already grown-up.
I'd quit now and learn to live with a lower-cost lifestyle. You don't need cable; free TV is good enough. You don't need unlimited cellphones; $5 or $15 a month for a few hours calling is good enough. I'm not sure if you can sacrifice on internet but I do: it only costs me $15 a month............. Otherwise you might quit your 70 an hour week job circa 2020 and discover your wife is a stranger, and your kids are teens who don't want anything to do with you.
Rewatch the first 15 minutes of so. It is illegal for corportions to collect DNA and use it to screen-out candidates. (Except of course they did it anyway, and there was no way for the government to stop them.)
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There are such things as Sea-to-air cruise missiles. They're original purpose was for the U.S. Navy to defend itself from incoming Russian airplanes at ~200 miles range. They should be able to kill a drone plane too, as long as it's large enough to get a radar lock.
There are also nuclear-tipped cruise missile Tomahawks, designed for killing subs (the pressure wave crushes them) or above surface targets like ships and planes (ditto). Of course that would be overkill for a drone. ;-)
Dialup modems only use the first 7 bits, so 56k maximum. And then the FCC limited the power output allowed over phone lines (to avoid crosstalk between wires), so in the U.S. the maximum is 53.3k which I usually get when I'm home, but not from hotels (unless it's a Motel 6).
>>>Just 2 months ago I found that there's Playstation tunes out there, making the Chrono Cross and FF7 tracks .....
Also PS2 and N64 tracks; I have Final Fantasy 10 and Banjo-Kazooie audios on my hard drive. By now they've probably learned how to rip Gamecube/PS3/Wii tracks.
True but the point of the movie is that the main character may have had bad DNA, but he still passed all the physical tests & intelligence tests.
They would have rejected a good candidate. People should be judged upon what they can DO, not the code in their cells. (I've known many people who had high IQ but were lazy, and did little with it.... vice versa many of low IQ have succeeded brilliantly in life.) Pre-crime is a bad idea and so too is pre-judging.
>>> all on standard earbuds
Try playing those same MP3s over a full-sized speaker system, and it will become immediately apparent they are deficient. For earbuds as low as 64k may be okay, but for speakers MP3s don't sound CD quality until they are 256k or higher (IMHO). It's somewhat similar to how I thought DVDs looked almost-perfect on my old analog CRT, but pretty bad on an HD monitor.
Maybe I should upgrade to a 65816 (same thing a Super Nintendo and Apple IIgs uses)? ;-)
>>>soundwaves always peak at the maximum floor and ceiling levels
Hardly. The C64 has a volume control. 0 to 255 if I recall correctly, so the music could range from soft to loud (not maxed-out like today's CDs). Ditto other "chip music" produced by Atari 800s or Commodore Amigas.
I've tried sharing 64, amiga, and Super Nintendo music on facebook but most people think it sounds like junk. They don't appreciate that electronic sound. (shrug). BTW http://www.lemon64.com/ let's you hear 64 music directly over the web.
ALAC =/= AAC (which is owned by MPEG)
:-)
every other technology I use takes advantage of MP3. Asterisk can't use FLAC. Which would be hilarious if it did because the standard codecs are about the worst way to transmit music anyways. A phone call is terrible for quality.
Phone calls don't use MP3. The wired phones are uncompressed 7-bit PCM, while the cell phones use a codec designed specifically for speech and barely stream faster than 4-5 kbit/s. (Yes that's right... 1/10th the speed of a 56k dialup connection.)
What on earth did I just read?
Digital data does not degrade Mr. Audiophile. If it was 256k when you got the MP3 it will still be 256k. Though the CD-R might self-erase (the dye fades) and become completely unplayable. I recommend only store-bought CDs (they are pressed with permanent pits). Or just save money and stream your music off youtube for free. ;-)
>>>320kbps should be enough for anyone.
I actually use 32k AAC. With the tiny speakers on my player you can't hear any real difference, and it lets me squeeze more songs on the device. CD bought from a store is what I use for archiving.
I've heard one engineer complain that he mixes the music correctly, with loud and soft passages, but the musicians then demand he make it sound louder. They are not satisfied until the quiet passages are just as loud as the loud passages.
So basically a CD with 90 db range is compressed to about 10 db (plus clipping off the top of the max volume scale).
AVG.
I installed it last summer and other than the first scan to remove existing viruses, has not bothered me one bit.
Also have NoScript on Firefox which I suspect has stopped a lot of adware from sneaking on-board.
They don't seem to care. QUOTE: "Larry Gordon, iYogiâ(TM)s president of global channel sales, sent me a formal letter that was unapologetic, but which promised that the company would endeavor to do better. Gordon called the incident, a 'Tylenol moment for iYogi and the leadership team.'"
I just finished the article, and it sounds like the CEO canceled the contract based-upon just that one call with a bad technician.
Interesting tactics though... saying that Avast Free is basically junk (takes a week to download latest updates) and the customer should buy the program instead. Also running PC Diagnosis from a website. Like a scammer.
Exactly.
The ideal U.S. would not have an corporations..... just private-owned proprietorships or partnerships where the owners(s) are directly responsible for the actions of their company and managers/employees.
>>>Blame gets passed and people get fired.
Then you work for a shitty company. You should be look forward to working for a better company that understands DDoS attacks cannot really be prevented, anymore than you can prevent a UPS truck carrying an important part from getting T-boned by a careless passenger car driver & the part getting delayed 1-2 days because of it.
Shit happens. Good managers understand this. Lousy managers do not, and if they truly will "ruin your career" because of something beyond your control, then I suggest you quit them as soon as possible. In my last job we were under a tight schedule but missed our target because of a last minute part failure.
The managers did indeed blame the engineers (fired 2 of the 3), instead of the manufacturer for lousy part design, and therefore I will never work for that shitty company again. I now work for a better company with better management. If we had a DDoS I know they wouldn't blame the IT department. They'd blame the outside attacker.
>>>if you videotape your cheating wife and invite your friends over twitter to come what them have sex
That's not what Ravi did. He videotaped it and then talked about it (over twitter). So the equivalence would be a wife who taped her husband, and then tweeted to her friends, "I caught him having sex with my neighbor!" Then the husband is embarrassed and commits suicide, and the wife gets drug off to jail.
That's the precedent this case has set... that the government can prosecute a wife or anybody else who uses a bedroom camera to catch their co-residents in a sex act.
So what are the long-term consequences of the precedent set by this court? What if a Wife uses a videocam to spy on her cheating husband in the bedroom with his adultress?
Invading his privacy? And what if the caught husband commits suicide? That's basically what this decision amounts to - if you videocam a co-resident in your own bedroom, the government could charge you with invasion of privacy.
Can she also be charged & punished for videocamming his activities in the bedroom with his adultress? Invading his privacy?
Republicans support universal health care too. After all they were the ones who originally proposed the "universal insurance purchase" mandate (through the Heritage Foundation). And also passed the Prescription Drug Plan under Bush's watch. And continue to support Medicare/Medicaid.
They don't support same-sex marriage (because most Republican voters are Christians).
DDoS does not destroy careers or ruin businesses. That's ridiculous. At most it may incur a small loss of profits for that 1 day, which fits your definition of "civil disobedience".
It's a COMIC. There is no child. It's just ink on a page. No victim == no crime has been committed. Same as drawing a murder is not a crime because nobody was murdered.
By which point your family will have already grown-up.
I'd quit now and learn to live with a lower-cost lifestyle. You don't need cable; free TV is good enough. You don't need unlimited cellphones; $5 or $15 a month for a few hours calling is good enough. I'm not sure if you can sacrifice on internet but I do: it only costs me $15 a month. ............ Otherwise you might quit your 70 an hour week job circa 2020 and discover your wife is a stranger, and your kids are teens who don't want anything to do with you.
Rewatch the first 15 minutes of so. It is illegal for corportions to collect DNA and use it to screen-out candidates. (Except of course they did it anyway, and there was no way for the government to stop them.)