No, but when you get onto time scales like the sun burning out, it's not too far before the heat death of the universe, when measuring time on such a scale.
You should really read the whole story if you haven't, it's a very good story.
I don't know if I'd call it trolling. More like just being overly blunt. It could be considered "flamebait" I guess, but I never agreed with that moderation, all controversial opinions are "flamebait" really.
Sometimes I'm just not motivated to word my opinions in an eloquent way, or maybe I don't have much time to post, so I just post what I think and get on with it.
You're weak on logic, that's the trouble with you. You're like the guy in the story who was caught in a sudden shower and who ran to a grove of trees and got under one. He wasn't worried, you see, because he figured when one tree got wet through, he would just get under another one.
I think if someone else challenges the patent and it is found to be invalid, then MS could get let off the hook. It wouldn't make any sense to say that the patent was valid but suddenly became invalid, and people would still have to pay if they lost a case earlier.
happens to completely include the same frequencies as CableTV frequencies
I meant the range includes a couple channels in CATV, I realized this is ambiguously worded. Video channels are 6Mhz wide so it's possible to only be able to transmit on part of the channel.
Of course it doens't cover the whole CATV range, which is several hundred Mhz.
It's actually within the 440Mhz ham radio band, which happens to completely include the same frequencies as CableTV frequencies, so you turn your VCR or Tuner to CATV mode and channel 59, and hook up the antenna You'll note my ham radio callsign is on the transmission. It only requires the technician ham license, so you don't have to learn morse code.
You can get similar transmitters on the same freq with less power that don't require a ham license, I think mine is 250mW though (it eats 9 volt batteries like there's no tomorrow).
I launched a tethered balloon with a 450Mhz transmitter to transmit video. The 450Mhz stuff is better in some ways, it's less directional, and you can receive it on a regular VCR or TV card tuner.
I'm not exactly sure what could cause it on a large scale. If a generator goes off sync, it's basically going to be a dead short wherever the voltages don't sync with the line voltage.
The only thing I can think of is if a generation station had all it's transmission lines tripped off, and was basically an island in the grid. Then if they somehow lost speed control momentarily....
I don't know, it seems like a very unlikely situation.
Maybe his frequency monitoring equipment is very sensitive to deviations, and when the plants were resyncing to rejoin the grid, they drifted their frequency for a while to get into phase.
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Yeah, except that Apple is an incredibly common word. You can't trademark random common words, and then expect everyone else to stop calling things that. It's insanity.
Also, Linux/BSD is a more attractive target for the script kiddie. A nice shell, a compiler almost always already installed, useful shells, cron, etc.
It's not worth the effort to break into a Windows box, there isn't a whole lot you can do with a Windows box unless you install stuff yourself to make it useful over the Internet. And even after you install several hundred megs of programs to get it to the point of being useful, it'll still probably reboot on a regular basis.
It would be like a car theif stealing a 1978 station wagon, when a brand new caddie is sitting right next to it.
There's a difference between crazy and prepared though.
It's easy to make fun of some of the more extreme stuff, but I wonder how much of it comes from the need to rationalize a total lack of preparation for anything bad, because preparation means you have to admit to yourself that something could happen, rather than living in ignorant denial.
The "terrorist threat" has been used by lots of people with lots of agendas. Fear is a good way to control people. At the same time, the interesting dynamic comes from the fact that the ones who fear the most, are usually the most ill-prepared for realistic threats to safety. Their fear runs so deep that they can't admit to themselves that there really may be a threat. Confidence comes from rational preparation.
The chances of any one particular thing happening to one particular person is pretty low. There's an interesting statistical game here though. It's similar to the birthday problem. Basically, though the chance of any particular thing happening to you is miniscule, the chance of something happening to you is high, because there are so many weird things that can happen to you.
Tornados, hurricanes, flash floods, earthquakes, acts of terror, random criminal acts, terminal communicable diseases... There are many freak things that can happen to a person, and at some point, one of the "rare" things will probably happen to you. The chance of each is slight, but one can't ignore them.
Luckily the way to prepare for many of them is the same. Extra food, water, personal defense, a shelter or at least a reinforced area. It's more irrational not to do basic things to prepare, than to do them.
On the other hand, most of the things needed to prepare are basic, not fancy gizmos. Security and preparation doesn't have to constantly have the word "terrorism" after it to justify it.
Cvsweb with colored diffs also does this pretty well. Of course that won't help with comparing existing documents, unless you merge each one into a CVS tree in turn.
The main problem with increasing frequency is that at some point you will cook the retina in the eyeball. Most parts of the body could handle a little heating, but your retina can be easily damaged by microwaves.
I guess all those trains should have killed me by now, since I work right next to tracks. There's regularly low frequency pressure waves at huge amplitudes going through me.
I think you seriously overestimate the potential for damage that this represents. It's mostly just annoying, not fatal. I'd think the pressure levels that are fatal are ones that cause physical damage, like the ones caused by an explosion.
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Makes me want to reopen my non-IRA account specifically so I can short them.
A nice 99% profit when they hit 20 cents sounds nice.
And you're weak on science
They aren't my words, they're Asimov's.
No, but when you get onto time scales like the sun burning out, it's not too far before the heat death of the universe, when measuring time on such a scale.
You should really read the whole story if you haven't, it's a very good story.
I don't know if I'd call it trolling. More like just being overly blunt. It could be considered "flamebait" I guess, but I never agreed with that moderation, all controversial opinions are "flamebait" really.
Sometimes I'm just not motivated to word my opinions in an eloquent way, or maybe I don't have much time to post, so I just post what I think and get on with it.
You apparently didn't get the reference.
Private industry.
Then why do you advocate a socialist in your sig?
You're weak on logic, that's the trouble with you. You're like the guy in the story who was caught in a sudden shower and who ran to a grove of trees and got under one. He wasn't worried, you see, because he figured when one tree got wet through, he would just get under another one.
I think if someone else challenges the patent and it is found to be invalid, then MS could get let off the hook. It wouldn't make any sense to say that the patent was valid but suddenly became invalid, and people would still have to pay if they lost a case earlier.
Just a guess.
happens to completely include the same frequencies as CableTV frequencies
I meant the range includes a couple channels in CATV, I realized this is ambiguously worded. Video channels are 6Mhz wide so it's possible to only be able to transmit on part of the channel.
Of course it doens't cover the whole CATV range, which is several hundred Mhz.
Yes, it's legal.
It's actually within the 440Mhz ham radio band, which happens to completely include the same frequencies as CableTV frequencies, so you turn your VCR or Tuner to CATV mode and channel 59, and hook up the antenna You'll note my ham radio callsign is on the transmission. It only requires the technician ham license, so you don't have to learn morse code.
You can get similar transmitters on the same freq with less power that don't require a ham license, I think mine is 250mW though (it eats 9 volt batteries like there's no tomorrow).
I launched a tethered balloon with a 450Mhz transmitter to transmit video. The 450Mhz stuff is better in some ways, it's less directional, and you can receive it on a regular VCR or TV card tuner.
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I'm not exactly sure what could cause it on a large scale. If a generator goes off sync, it's basically going to be a dead short wherever the voltages don't sync with the line voltage.
The only thing I can think of is if a generation station had all it's transmission lines tripped off, and was basically an island in the grid. Then if they somehow lost speed control momentarily....
I don't know, it seems like a very unlikely situation.
Maybe his frequency monitoring equipment is very sensitive to deviations, and when the plants were resyncing to rejoin the grid, they drifted their frequency for a while to get into phase.
We can call it Shannon, Shannon Wilson Bell.
Yeah, except that Apple is an incredibly common word. You can't trademark random common words, and then expect everyone else to stop calling things that. It's insanity.
And they do that assumedly so they can work around any bugs in the driver, you don't need support from the video card manufacturer.
BTW- WTF is a "CAD engineer"? Is that like "sandwich artist"?
Also, Linux/BSD is a more attractive target for the script kiddie. A nice shell, a compiler almost always already installed, useful shells, cron, etc.
It's not worth the effort to break into a Windows box, there isn't a whole lot you can do with a Windows box unless you install stuff yourself to make it useful over the Internet. And even after you install several hundred megs of programs to get it to the point of being useful, it'll still probably reboot on a regular basis.
It would be like a car theif stealing a 1978 station wagon, when a brand new caddie is sitting right next to it.
Why doesn't he just kill httpd for a few minutes, then start it again when it's ready?
They broadcast, "We don't understand the concept of mass-mailing viruses that forge their sender addresses, so here's some junk mail for you."
To people that know what the hell is going on inside the "magic boxes", yes.
It's the unfortunate fact that the people making the AV buying decisions are often not part of that group that makes it worth sending trash messages.
In the business world, $2000 buys you a whole lot more support than $500.
Yeah, but if you need support on a video card, then someone fucked up somewhere big time. That's one of those things that's supposed to "just work".
There's a difference between crazy and prepared though.
It's easy to make fun of some of the more extreme stuff, but I wonder how much of it comes from the need to rationalize a total lack of preparation for anything bad, because preparation means you have to admit to yourself that something could happen, rather than living in ignorant denial.
The "terrorist threat" has been used by lots of people with lots of agendas. Fear is a good way to control people. At the same time, the interesting dynamic comes from the fact that the ones who fear the most, are usually the most ill-prepared for realistic threats to safety. Their fear runs so deep that they can't admit to themselves that there really may be a threat. Confidence comes from rational preparation.
The chances of any one particular thing happening to one particular person is pretty low. There's an interesting statistical game here though. It's similar to the birthday problem. Basically, though the chance of any particular thing happening to you is miniscule, the chance of something happening to you is high, because there are so many weird things that can happen to you.
Tornados, hurricanes, flash floods, earthquakes, acts of terror, random criminal acts, terminal communicable diseases... There are many freak things that can happen to a person, and at some point, one of the "rare" things will probably happen to you. The chance of each is slight, but one can't ignore them.
Luckily the way to prepare for many of them is the same. Extra food, water, personal defense, a shelter or at least a reinforced area. It's more irrational not to do basic things to prepare, than to do them.
On the other hand, most of the things needed to prepare are basic, not fancy gizmos. Security and preparation doesn't have to constantly have the word "terrorism" after it to justify it.
Don't be afraid, be prepared.
Because he hexedited the string that it names the virus file from blaster2.exe to vagina.exe.
That kid really was a scape goat. Sure he spread a virus (which is actually the illegal part, not the writing), but he sure as hell didn't write it.
The point is that all pathways will be encrypted and digital. All you'd log would be encrypted gibberish.
Cvsweb with colored diffs also does this pretty well. Of course that won't help with comparing existing documents, unless you merge each one into a CVS tree in turn.
The main problem with increasing frequency is that at some point you will cook the retina in the eyeball. Most parts of the body could handle a little heating, but your retina can be easily damaged by microwaves.
I guess all those trains should have killed me by now, since I work right next to tracks. There's regularly low frequency pressure waves at huge amplitudes going through me.
I think you seriously overestimate the potential for damage that this represents. It's mostly just annoying, not fatal. I'd think the pressure levels that are fatal are ones that cause physical damage, like the ones caused by an explosion.