Us hams have 902-928 Mhz and also the 2.4 Ghz bands. We don't really use them because they are cramped full public bands. One interesting thing is that we can transmit 1500 watts on them, and we have a higher assignment as a licensed operator. In theory we could blast 1500 watts on one of those public bands, and totally kill tons of public equipment in a large area, and it would be up to the unlicensed operators to work around us.
In practice, the FCC would probably view that as intentional interference, which is a no-no even if you are licensed for a band. Of course, when sounds like a clear frequency on one of those bands is no doubt well occupied by many signals you can't hear, since they are all so low power. So one could always claim that they were on an open frequency, from what they could hear.:)
Anyway, so yeah, we can, no we usually don't.
Besides, it would be impossible to even monitor the 902-928 without breaking Newt's law against listening to phone calls.
Well, thanks for the followup. We could probably go back and forth forever, but I think it's best to let it sit where we are.
You make some good points, and while I don't agree with all of them, they all are valid concerns. You seem familiar enough with Libertarianism to know all our positions, so it would be pointless for me to rehash them.
Just know that not all Libertarians want to live in a totally Libertarian country. It is just the best way we see to keep in check a government that is raging out of control in so many areas.
We are at least in agreement that certain things are really broken, and something will need to be done to change them, or we might as well kiss freedom goodbye.
I've not played it, and it seems neither have you, but I do know that there is a graphics library to allow any program to be converted from VGA to ascii, I don't know if this builds off it or not.
Wow, what a totally useless post. Well anyway, this is Slashdot, so I guess I get to wildly speculate. (I should have tried to pass it off as if I knew for sure though, in true Slashdot style)
Redhat follows the FHS, almost completely. Have you actually read it? It does allow for some choices to be made as to where certain things are. It's not Red Hat's fault that they chose a place that was not what you were used to. If anything the FHS should be revised to be more specific and give dists less latitude. It's a failing of the FHS itself, not of Red Hat.
It's to protect the table formatting from being blown out of whack by a long unbroken line. It would break the whole page and you would have to do a lot or horizontal scrolling otherwise.
It does answer my question. And we aren't as diametrically opposed as I thought, in fact, we are in almost total agreement.
I don't vote Libertarian because I want far out Radical Browne to win the election. I vote Libertarian because I think that is the safest way to preserve and keep our freedoms.
I don't agree with privatizing everything, like roads and such, things that would give inherent monopolies to the owners, or create havoc with hundreds of redundant roads.
My ideal government has little power, but the power that it does have is used to keep "people" from stepping on other people's freedom, and that is about all. "People" in this sense includes corporations and business entities.
I think we are both more reactionary than radical. We both long for the days of personal responsibility, and government serving it's real purpose, to protect us from each other, not to protect us from ourselves, or protect economic interests.
Libertarians would end a lot of this economic protectionism. There is no way a Libertarian would support causes like the RIAA and the MPAA. We believe in free markets, and if that causes some obselete industries to fall, then so be it. We want a government that is impotent, so it does not have the power to create false economies. The only power it would have would be to protect the rights of citizens, in a constitutional sense.
We do have some areas of disagreement, in that I don't think it is the responsibility of the government to protect your job/income, if you say something that might jeopardize it. If you were working for a company that was so oversensitive that they would fire you over something minor, then you are probably better off getting a new job anyway. And if you had something so bad to say about the company you were working for that they would fire you over it, you probably shouldn't be working for people you disagree with so much.
I don't know if this actually makes sense, or if it is more of a disjointed ramble, but I hope you get my jist.
If you havn't read this site before, please do, especially the part I linked, but do try to read the whole thing if you have the time.
What's your sig mean? Obviously my sig and your sig are diametrically opposed, so I am curious. Post as AC if you want to preserve karma, I don't post as AC because it's too hard to figure out if someone has replied to me or not.
I realize you were joking, but seriously, do any current games use SMP to their advantage? What about running games on a MOSIX cluster? Has anyone tried it?
That is the worst idea I have ever heard. Suppose you decide to store the latter half of the card number in a cookie, and some other site decides to store the beginning part in a cookie, using your method, bam plaintext credit card number on the user's computer, which is probably the least secure place for it to be stored in plaintext, since they probably have an open read-write SMB share hanging out from the latest MS worm.
This goes to show why it is very dangerous to "Ask Slashdot" about anything important or security related.
Thanks for the info. It does sound a lot more open and libre, targetet to people who know what they are doing and not plug-and-play types like Starband is.
I'll keep it in mind, as I said, I already have a pretty big investment in Starband, after a few years maybe I can amortize that off in my head and it won't hurt so much to lose it. Also, the unlimited bandwidth of starband is another plus, even though I'm sure I could manage on 12GB a month, if I quit leeching alt.binaries randomly.
I guess you are all right, there have been some famous product placements, in big films.
I'm just afraid that the content will degenerate into more and more blatent infomercials.
Have you all seen those auto-repair shows on those country networks (I think TNN used to have them before they got rid of their redneck image), that are just thinly veiled advertisments for auto products. They are somewhere above infomercials, and below real DIY type shows.
I'm just afraid that if film degenerates to that point also, there won't be much real content left once the advitisers start dictating which parts of the actual movie (plotline, characters) they want to change. Remember that money always equals power.
A great ride? Man, I rode it from $6 a share to $3 a share. Wasn't so great for me!:)
At least I knew when to fold it, and didn't get stuck holding the bag at 10 cents a share. (My friend who was investing with me wanted to keep holding, I held his portion until they hit $2 then sold his share anyway, I told him it was for his own good.)
Internal ad placement?!?!?!? You are asking for the corruption of the content itself to make money for unrelated corporations??
What if great films had ad placement in them... They wouldn't be so great now would they. I challenge you to find one film on the top 100 movies of all time list (any of the top 100 lists at any credible site really) that has any blatent ad placements in it.
Man, go watch some N'sync or something, and have a coke and smile.
I'm not drunk really. And this probably sounds more like flamebait than a mean it to, but seriously man.
If there really is that much space available out there, why havn't we seen 50GBps Ethernet over RG-6 or RG-8. I know I sure could use it for some projects at work where 1GB ethernet is pretty substandard (SAN type stuff).
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Us hams have 902-928 Mhz and also the 2.4 Ghz bands. We don't really use them because they are cramped full public bands. One interesting thing is that we can transmit 1500 watts on them, and we have a higher assignment as a licensed operator. In theory we could blast 1500 watts on one of those public bands, and totally kill tons of public equipment in a large area, and it would be up to the unlicensed operators to work around us.
:)
In practice, the FCC would probably view that as intentional interference, which is a no-no even if you are licensed for a band. Of course, when sounds like a clear frequency on one of those bands is no doubt well occupied by many signals you can't hear, since they are all so low power. So one could always claim that they were on an open frequency, from what they could hear.
Anyway, so yeah, we can, no we usually don't.
Besides, it would be impossible to even monitor the 902-928 without breaking Newt's law against listening to phone calls.
Well, thanks for the followup. We could probably go back and forth forever, but I think it's best to let it sit where we are.
:)
You make some good points, and while I don't agree with all of them, they all are valid concerns. You seem familiar enough with Libertarianism to know all our positions, so it would be pointless for me to rehash them.
Just know that not all Libertarians want to live in a totally Libertarian country. It is just the best way we see to keep in check a government that is raging out of control in so many areas.
We are at least in agreement that certain things are really broken, and something will need to be done to change them, or we might as well kiss freedom goodbye.
Sam Adams eh?
Apparently it's slow enough without color.
I've not played it, and it seems neither have you, but I do know that there is a graphics library to allow any program to be converted from VGA to ascii, I don't know if this builds off it or not.
Wow, what a totally useless post. Well anyway, this is Slashdot, so I guess I get to wildly speculate. (I should have tried to pass it off as if I knew for sure though, in true Slashdot style)
And an extension to that, Winchip/Cyrix C3's up to 933 Mhz now, still only like like 15 watts I think.
Two 5400 ATA drives in a RAID0 both cost less than your 7200 RPM SCSI, but are also much faster.
2. Redhat will again piss^H^H^Hass on the FHS.
Redhat follows the FHS, almost completely. Have you actually read it? It does allow for some choices to be made as to where certain things are. It's not Red Hat's fault that they chose a place that was not what you were used to. If anything the FHS should be revised to be more specific and give dists less latitude. It's a failing of the FHS itself, not of Red Hat.
It's to protect the table formatting from being blown out of whack by a long unbroken line. It would break the whole page and you would have to do a lot or horizontal scrolling otherwise.
I believe that OS is called "Wildcat". I have no sources on that, I heard it from someone.
So back in 1994, when I dialed into my friend's BBS, he was running a super secret government BBS software. Neat!
It does answer my question. And we aren't as diametrically opposed as I thought, in fact, we are in almost total agreement.
I don't vote Libertarian because I want far out Radical Browne to win the election. I vote Libertarian because I think that is the safest way to preserve and keep our freedoms.
I don't agree with privatizing everything, like roads and such, things that would give inherent monopolies to the owners, or create havoc with hundreds of redundant roads.
My ideal government has little power, but the power that it does have is used to keep "people" from stepping on other people's freedom, and that is about all. "People" in this sense includes corporations and business entities.
I think we are both more reactionary than radical. We both long for the days of personal responsibility, and government serving it's real purpose, to protect us from each other, not to protect us from ourselves, or protect economic interests.
Libertarians would end a lot of this economic protectionism. There is no way a Libertarian would support causes like the RIAA and the MPAA. We believe in free markets, and if that causes some obselete industries to fall, then so be it. We want a government that is impotent, so it does not have the power to create false economies. The only power it would have would be to protect the rights of citizens, in a constitutional sense.
We do have some areas of disagreement, in that I don't think it is the responsibility of the government to protect your job/income, if you say something that might jeopardize it. If you were working for a company that was so oversensitive that they would fire you over something minor, then you are probably better off getting a new job anyway. And if you had something so bad to say about the company you were working for that they would fire you over it, you probably shouldn't be working for people you disagree with so much.
I don't know if this actually makes sense, or if it is more of a disjointed ramble, but I hope you get my jist.
If you havn't read this site before, please do, especially the part I linked, but do try to read the whole thing if you have the time.
Which political party is right?
What's your sig mean? Obviously my sig and your sig are diametrically opposed, so I am curious. Post as AC if you want to preserve karma, I don't post as AC because it's too hard to figure out if someone has replied to me or not.
You mean a portable microwave generator like any 2.4 Ghz phone? I don't see how that is a security risk.
Well, yeah if UT is threaded.
I realize you were joking, but seriously, do any current games use SMP to their advantage? What about running games on a MOSIX cluster? Has anyone tried it?
There are other problems, the user could delete the cookie, reinstall, switch browsers, start refusing cookie requests, etc.
It works for me, it must be something on your side.
It's the same way they know the number of unreported rapes, and the size of the international illicit drug trade that goes uncaught....
They use the scientific method of anal-numerical-extraction!
Obviously, you'll need to store the actual billing information in a database, in cleartext
Uhhh, Why?
Yeah ask CCBILL, they are secure, so they say.
/. rejected the CCBILL story, it's probably the biggest breach of security in recent years.
Too bad
That is the worst idea I have ever heard. Suppose you decide to store the latter half of the card number in a cookie, and some other site decides to store the beginning part in a cookie, using your method, bam plaintext credit card number on the user's computer, which is probably the least secure place for it to be stored in plaintext, since they probably have an open read-write SMB share hanging out from the latest MS worm.
This goes to show why it is very dangerous to "Ask Slashdot" about anything important or security related.
Thanks for the info. It does sound a lot more open and libre, targetet to people who know what they are doing and not plug-and-play types like Starband is.
I'll keep it in mind, as I said, I already have a pretty big investment in Starband, after a few years maybe I can amortize that off in my head and it won't hurt so much to lose it. Also, the unlimited bandwidth of starband is another plus, even though I'm sure I could manage on 12GB a month, if I quit leeching alt.binaries randomly.
I guess you are all right, there have been some famous product placements, in big films.
I'm just afraid that the content will degenerate into more and more blatent infomercials.
Have you all seen those auto-repair shows on those country networks (I think TNN used to have them before they got rid of their redneck image), that are just thinly veiled advertisments for auto products. They are somewhere above infomercials, and below real DIY type shows.
I'm just afraid that if film degenerates to that point also, there won't be much real content left once the advitisers start dictating which parts of the actual movie (plotline, characters) they want to change. Remember that money always equals power.
A great ride? Man, I rode it from $6 a share to $3 a share. Wasn't so great for me! :)
At least I knew when to fold it, and didn't get stuck holding the bag at 10 cents a share. (My friend who was investing with me wanted to keep holding, I held his portion until they hit $2 then sold his share anyway, I told him it was for his own good.)
Internal ad placement?!?!?!? You are asking for the corruption of the content itself to make money for unrelated corporations??
What if great films had ad placement in them... They wouldn't be so great now would they. I challenge you to find one film on the top 100 movies of all time list (any of the top 100 lists at any credible site really) that has any blatent ad placements in it.
Man, go watch some N'sync or something, and have a coke and smile.
I'm not drunk really. And this probably sounds more like flamebait than a mean it to, but seriously man.
s/GB/Gbit... it's late.
If there really is that much space available out there, why havn't we seen 50GBps Ethernet over RG-6 or RG-8. I know I sure could use it for some projects at work where 1GB ethernet is pretty substandard (SAN type stuff).
MS already does that. There are large acedemic discounts.