You know, on the topic of Bin Laden, it never ceases to amaze me that Peter Jennings and whoever can find him and interview him, but no DOD/CIA/Other TLA officials can get to him and stop that fucker.
Even so, rationally I think tha if we WERE to kill him and a lot of his people, the remaining ones (and some would CERTAINLY escape us) they would only reform with even more of a mission against us. I don't know what we SHOULD do, but no doubt the attackers' hope is to draw us into blind shooting without thinking of the long-term cosequences. We can't let them get away with this, but we have to retaliate without stooping to their level.
HELL YES! I was just gonna mention that. That place rocks. Their sun/sgi stuff (tested) is overpriced (compared to the net) but god only knows what you'll find in that as-is yard. Not only row after row of CPUs, disks, routers and all that but tons of, well, Weird Stuff like 3' (yes that's foot) diameter knobs. You never know what you'll find in that place.
They did it again ! Sometimes the study says "cofee bad", the next day another one claims "coffe good". With so many divergent results, how can one still trust any of those studies ?
Nothing inconsistent there. Just drink the coffe and skip the cofee.
"I'm talking about a place where the beer flows like wine, where the women instinctively flock like the salmon of Capistrano. I'm talking about Aspen."
hmm i'm using Cox@home in Santa Barbara and we were letting our upstairs neighbors in our duplex borrow our NAT connection until they could get their own connection turned on (I'll be damned if we're gonna have four people in our house try and use one net-enabled computer). Unfortunatly when the cable guy came to give them their net access one of the guys living there was like "uh we already have net access." Then the cable guy saw the ethernet line coming out our window. There went our access....took a week of whining to get em to turn us on again.
Irritating coming from a DSL connection that didn't care if you used NAT, didn't care if you ran Linux, didn't care if you ran servers and gave up to 3 static IPs for I think $2 each. Oh and no PPPoE.
1.8MHz are you kidding me???? Cordless phones are in a couple places. Older style ones are in the 40MHz range (around 42 and around 49MHz). Newer style have chunks in the 900MHz range, probably a few more places as well, I don't remember.
Cell phones are 900ish for analog and well above that for newer digital ones.
I've never seen an AM phone so even if you could tweak your AM readio it'd sound all funky since it's a narrow FM signal (so it wouldn't come thru on a regular stereo very well or at all since they use a wider bandwidth). New ones are also starting to go spread-spectrum so that reduces the chances of listening in to virtually nil.
Trust me, I've got several scanners and the phone calls come in loud and clear (even the cells on my older pre-ban rig)
As for it being illegal...I find it difficult to understand how the government claims it can tell me if I'm allowed to receive an electromagnetic wave that just happens to be bouncing around the air.
Frankly, if they don't want me to listen they should use better encryption (which they are). Not that I listen anyway. I don't think it's really right to do it and besides people's phone calls are boring anyway. But I think that if there was more of an effort to get people to realize it's even possible to listen (I've shocked a LOT of friends by showing them how easy it is to do...) then people would quit using their crappy analog cordless phones and it wouldn't be an issue anymore anyway.
yup. The ironic thing about the copy-protection in DVDs is that you DON'T need to break it to make or use an illegal copy, but you DO need to break it to use the disc you actually paid for.
I know people who have been pirating those things since they came out. Do a byte-by-byte copy and play it in any commercial DVD player...even getting an MPEG out of it can be done without touching the encryption. Takes a bit more work but it's certainly possible.
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I had a hell of a time getting things done with Pacbell/SBC. Seriously took over NINE MONTHS after we called and it was a supported area (I had neighbors who had it...this was in West San Jose, Cupertino-ish)
Turns out they lost the work orders several times and they kept claiming communication problems between pacbell and sbc due to fcc regs. Anyway, my brother started harassing them daily. First "hello" he got on the phone he asked for a manager. Then asked for that manager's manager. Nobody was any help at all (even managers who said they would call back wouldn't.) Then he called Pacbell's corporate offices in San Francisco. They never called back.
What finally did it was a call to SBC corporate headquarters in Texas. He bitched and filed a formal complaint with the SBC executive offices and our dsl was on in about a week after that with corporate liasons calling with status reports daily.
The moral of the story: it pays to bitch. Luckily we were in college on summer vacation so we had time to spend 6 hours a day yelling at them...
don't forget Team Fortress 2. I seem to recall hearing "any time now" since 1998...
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damn, you guys specifically charge for net access? They should do like my school and roll it into the housing fees where nobody'll complain about another $50 or whatever it is. The thing about college fees is that they're so huge nobody cares about adding little things like that...keeps the students in line (I can happily say that now that I've been out of the dorms for the last couple years:)
But whoever sets the price of nic's at $80 needs a good whack on the head. I got my ne2k for $12...and I don't care what people say, it's no less reliable than the 3com stuff I've used.
Yeah I just started seeing those now that I reinstalled windoze over my linux (My counterstrike addiction came back in full force and the wine thing just wasn't cutting it).
Luckily us literate people know you can bring em to the front and Alt-F4 them, but there's gonna be a lot of confused folks out there trying to get rid of those damn things and have no idea what to do.
Another cool thing they had on the site was dry ice bombs. You take a 2 liter soda bottle, put some crushed dry ice into it, pour in some water, cap it tightly, shake, and throw.
Ahh, the memories...my friends and I blew a couple up in the backyard during our junior year of high school in San Jose (this was in 1998).
Next thing we know we have a police car parked facing the house from across the street waiting for backup and soon two more join him. Anyway, the cops come in the house, yadda yadda yadda, we're all getting felony citations under CPC 12303.2. Don't think it's the same thing? Check this out:
12301. (a) The term "destructive device," as used in this chapter,
shall include any of the following weapons:
(1) Any projectile containing any explosive or incendiary material
or any other chemical substance, including, but not limited to, that
which is commonly known as tracer or incendiary ammunition, except
tracer ammunition manufactured for use in shotguns.
...
(6) Any sealed device containing dry ice (CO2) or other chemically
reactive substances assembled for the purpose of causing an
explosion by a chemical reaction.
And:
12303.2. Every person who recklessly or maliciously has in his
possession any destructive device or any explosive on a public street
or highway, in or near any theater, hall, school, college, church,
hotel, other public building, or private habitation, in, on, or near
any aircraft, railway passenger train, car, cable road or cable car,
vessel engaged in carrying passengers for hire, or other public place
ordinarily passed by human beings is guilty of a felony, and shall
be punishable by imprisonment in the state prison for a period of
two, four, or six years.
Luckily our probation officers decided that we weren't trying to kill anyone so they dropped the charges after about four months and entirely too much in lawyer fees.
Damn good thing we were still 17...
But yeah, it was a lot of fun up until then....
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Well, from webster.com:
Main Entry: giga-
Pronunciation: 'ji-g&, 'gi-
Function: combining form
Etymology: International Scientific Vocabulary, from Greek gigas giant
: billion
But you need that menu key for when you finish building up that new computer only to find that windows with all its power and dedicated keyboard keys can't see the friggin mouse.
</SARCASM>
Well I think they'll sort of want mine back when I'm done, but they never made me sign anything saying it belonged to them. It just showed up in the mail one day before I even had to agree to any terms of service or anything. So if they want it back, well, they should have thought of that before they gave to me...
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You know, on the topic of Bin Laden, it never ceases to amaze me that Peter Jennings and whoever can find him and interview him, but no DOD/CIA/Other TLA officials can get to him and stop that fucker.
Even so, rationally I think tha if we WERE to kill him and a lot of his people, the remaining ones (and some would CERTAINLY escape us) they would only reform with even more of a mission against us. I don't know what we SHOULD do, but no doubt the attackers' hope is to draw us into blind shooting without thinking of the long-term cosequences. We can't let them get away with this, but we have to retaliate without stooping to their level.
I think a fight to the death is in order...
HELL YES! I was just gonna mention that. That place rocks. Their sun/sgi stuff (tested) is overpriced (compared to the net) but god only knows what you'll find in that as-is yard. Not only row after row of CPUs, disks, routers and all that but tons of, well, Weird Stuff like 3' (yes that's foot) diameter knobs. You never know what you'll find in that place.
Nothing inconsistent there. Just drink the coffe and skip the cofee.
Sorry, couldn't resist. I'll go away now.
Apparantly you haven't seen "Dumb and Dumber".
"I'm talking about a place where the beer flows like wine, where the women instinctively flock like the salmon of Capistrano. I'm talking about Aspen."
heh, well whatever you do, don't ever, and i mean EVER go into the dorm's handicapped stall without adequate footwear...
hmm i'm using Cox@home in Santa Barbara and we were letting our upstairs neighbors in our duplex borrow our NAT connection until they could get their own connection turned on (I'll be damned if we're gonna have four people in our house try and use one net-enabled computer). Unfortunatly when the cable guy came to give them their net access one of the guys living there was like "uh we already have net access." Then the cable guy saw the ethernet line coming out our window. There went our access....took a week of whining to get em to turn us on again.
:(
Irritating coming from a DSL connection that didn't care if you used NAT, didn't care if you ran Linux, didn't care if you ran servers and gave up to 3 static IPs for I think $2 each. Oh and no PPPoE.
God I hate cable companies
1.8MHz are you kidding me???? Cordless phones are in a couple places. Older style ones are in the 40MHz range (around 42 and around 49MHz). Newer style have chunks in the 900MHz range, probably a few more places as well, I don't remember.
Cell phones are 900ish for analog and well above that for newer digital ones.
I've never seen an AM phone so even if you could tweak your AM readio it'd sound all funky since it's a narrow FM signal (so it wouldn't come thru on a regular stereo very well or at all since they use a wider bandwidth). New ones are also starting to go spread-spectrum so that reduces the chances of listening in to virtually nil.
Trust me, I've got several scanners and the phone calls come in loud and clear (even the cells on my older pre-ban rig)
As for it being illegal...I find it difficult to understand how the government claims it can tell me if I'm allowed to receive an electromagnetic wave that just happens to be bouncing around the air.
Frankly, if they don't want me to listen they should use better encryption (which they are). Not that I listen anyway. I don't think it's really right to do it and besides people's phone calls are boring anyway. But I think that if there was more of an effort to get people to realize it's even possible to listen (I've shocked a LOT of friends by showing them how easy it is to do...) then people would quit using their crappy analog cordless phones and it wouldn't be an issue anymore anyway.
...it's digital so it must be bad! The news told me so!
yup. The ironic thing about the copy-protection in DVDs is that you DON'T need to break it to make or use an illegal copy, but you DO need to break it to use the disc you actually paid for.
I know people who have been pirating those things since they came out. Do a byte-by-byte copy and play it in any commercial DVD player...even getting an MPEG out of it can be done without touching the encryption. Takes a bit more work but it's certainly possible.
I had a hell of a time getting things done with Pacbell/SBC. Seriously took over NINE MONTHS after we called and it was a supported area (I had neighbors who had it...this was in West San Jose, Cupertino-ish)
Turns out they lost the work orders several times and they kept claiming communication problems between pacbell and sbc due to fcc regs. Anyway, my brother started harassing them daily. First "hello" he got on the phone he asked for a manager. Then asked for that manager's manager. Nobody was any help at all (even managers who said they would call back wouldn't.) Then he called Pacbell's corporate offices in San Francisco. They never called back.
What finally did it was a call to SBC corporate headquarters in Texas. He bitched and filed a formal complaint with the SBC executive offices and our dsl was on in about a week after that with corporate liasons calling with status reports daily.
The moral of the story: it pays to bitch. Luckily we were in college on summer vacation so we had time to spend 6 hours a day yelling at them...
don't forget Team Fortress 2. I seem to recall hearing "any time now" since 1998...
damn, you guys specifically charge for net access? They should do like my school and roll it into the housing fees where nobody'll complain about another $50 or whatever it is. The thing about college fees is that they're so huge nobody cares about adding little things like that...keeps the students in line (I can happily say that now that I've been out of the dorms for the last couple years :)
But whoever sets the price of nic's at $80 needs a good whack on the head. I got my ne2k for $12...and I don't care what people say, it's no less reliable than the 3com stuff I've used.
heh, I remember when archie/veronica was the shiznit. The good ol' days of using gopher thru my mom's VM/CMS account running on an IBM 3090....
Yup, got one on the floor above me at work.
Yeah I just started seeing those now that I reinstalled windoze over my linux (My counterstrike addiction came back in full force and the wine thing just wasn't cutting it).
Luckily us literate people know you can bring em to the front and Alt-F4 them, but there's gonna be a lot of confused folks out there trying to get rid of those damn things and have no idea what to do.
Seriously though...I don't know what it is about him but man that kid's creepy. *shudder*
Not my room. I need an air conditioner :(
Actually that quote goes along with a nice propoganda poster seen here (got one of those in my room)
Ahh, the memories...my friends and I blew a couple up in the backyard during our junior year of high school in San Jose (this was in 1998).
Next thing we know we have a police car parked facing the house from across the street waiting for backup and soon two more join him. Anyway, the cops come in the house, yadda yadda yadda, we're all getting felony citations under CPC 12303.2. Don't think it's the same thing? Check this out:
And:
Luckily our probation officers decided that we weren't trying to kill anyone so they dropped the charges after about four months and entirely too much in lawyer fees.
Damn good thing we were still 17...
But yeah, it was a lot of fun up until then....
Well, from webster.com:
Main Entry: giga-
Pronunciation: 'ji-g&, 'gi-
Function: combining form
Etymology: International Scientific Vocabulary, from Greek gigas giant
: billion
So apparantly both are acceptable...
You have the right to say whatever you want, but you don't have the right to force me to listen.
..."they were canceled".
Am I the only geek who can't stand anything trekkie-related?
But you need that menu key for when you finish building up that new computer only to find that windows with all its power and dedicated keyboard keys can't see the friggin mouse.
</SARCASM>
But I'm not bitter.
Well I think they'll sort of want mine back when I'm done, but they never made me sign anything saying it belonged to them. It just showed up in the mail one day before I even had to agree to any terms of service or anything. So if they want it back, well, they should have thought of that before they gave to me...