New Jersey can't take the fall for *this* foolishness. The Plainfield in question here is in Illinois, which is another state altogether. You could look it up...
I've been using Comcast as my ISP for over five years, since it was called @Home. When the switch from @Home to Comcast took place, they dropped usenet access entirely. I guess enough of us complained because Comcast later contracted with Giganews for 1GB of downloads per month with no increase in our rates (which were/are outrageous). Earlier this year the monthly limit went up to 2GB, and downloading headers no longer counts against your monthly limit. I sure hope that Comcast doesn't follow Roger's example...
Actually, if you had RTFA, you'd know that these things are only designed to do about 320 mph, and the plan is to race over land (admittedly, a LOT of land) and will follow a winding course.
My daughter read this thread and was royally pissed.
I'm quoting her here - "(I) got sprayed with Confront herbicide and this, on top of being BORN with a genetic disorder which renders me and some other family members hyper-sensitive to many substances (especially in aerosol, air-borne form), has basically crippled me in the spring and summer months. Some of us DO have to live inside, if we want to live."
For what it's worth, she's not someone who, until the day a couple of years ago when some buildings-and-grounds bozo at her college was spraying this crud in a totally un-approved manner, suffered from anything remotely like this. She is finishing up a PhD in AI, and fortunately can do much of her work from her apartment via a DSL line.
Who the fuck rated this comment funny? The guy was being serious, for crying out loud. I've got a good friend who developed Hanson's lymphoma as a result of exposure to Chernobyl, and I don't find it all that hilarious either.
About five years ago I gave an old Tandy 1000 to a local hospital for their after-school art program for disturbed kids. No tax deduction, but I knew the woman who ran the program, and the kids used and appreciated it for a few years.
I gave my 486 to my daughter's (then) boyfriend who made it into a Linux server.
I passed along my P200 to my sister, who only needs Word and AOL access.
Lastly, and most sadly, I recently got rid of my treasured TRS-80 Model III (my first computer, 16K RAM and a cassette recorder for storage). My county worked a deal with Lucent to be a pick-up area for old electronics, paint cans, chemical containers and other "hazardous materials." I think many areas run this kind of event periodically.
I HAD been saving the Model III until it as a "valuable icon of computing's early days," but when I checked EBay and found them going for $25 I said screw it.
I work in beautiful downtown Newark, NJ, and I live about 10 miles SW of Newark. I caught a 4:11 train (a diesel, fortunately) out of Newark Penn Station. It was very possibly the last train to leave before the power died. It took us an extra ten minutes or so to get home because of "signal problems" but since this is NJ Transit's usual excuse for running late, I didn't know about the outage until I had the radio on in my car.
My town still has power but several cities/towns on all sides of us don't. No good explanation for this; maybe we just live right or something.
I agree that we need more nuke plants. They ARE the future. However, I just read somewhere (DrudgeReport?) that four nuke plants here in the Northeast are being shut down BECAUSE of the outage...
"Rights" are things that are, as you said, fundamental to our existence. Inalienable, someone once wrote.
Cell phone numbers are certainly not "rights," but they are things that we PAY for, and therefore we should have some say in how they are administered. Unfortunately, it usually takes governmental action to force large corporations to do the right thing.
When I was a kid (late '50s) there were plastic model car kits that you could fasten either a CO2 cartridge or a Jetex solid fuel rocket motor to the back of. They went like a bat out of hell.
Naturally, we experimented a bit. The best idea we came up with was to put a CO2 cartridge on a (then) 10 cent balsa wood glider with electrician's tape. It easily exceeded the speed of balsa, ripping off the wings at the fuselage and shredding the rudder/horizontal stabilizer about 5 feet after launch.
BTW, we used a CO2 cartridge "launcher" that we bought at a hobby shop. It was a tube that fit over the narrow end of the cartridge, and it had a spring-loaded nail that punctured the soft end of the cartridge (picture a pinball plunger). Are these things still made?
I've been happily using a freeware Palm RPN calculator for several years now on my Palm IIIxe (160x160 greyscale, OS 3.51) It's called "Kalk" and is available from a number of sites providing Palm goodies. I think that I got the current version, 3.04, from versiontracker.com.
I've also seen free- and shareware emulators for the 12C, 16C and 41CX HPs available fot the Palm, but I haven't tried them.
When I was a kid, we made our own black powder (sort of) from (at that time) easy to obtain chemicals and ground it to a fine consistency by hand. Or, early in the morning of the 5th of July, we'd all go to the park where the fireworks were launched the night before, looking for duds that still had the "kaboom" part left unignited. These materials were often used as the propellant in cannons made of REAL pipe (pre-PVC). In retrospect, its amazing that most of us still have hands, and eyes, and stuff; one friend doesn't (lost most of a hand).
In the hours/days after the WTC attacks, most of the cellular phone infrastructure in lower Manhattan was dead, not simply overloaded. During that period ham communications aided many agencies begin the rescue efforts, including fire, police and the Red Cross. Most of these agencies' radio equipment operated on non-compatible frequencies, so even though their radios were working, they could not talk to other groups. Many hams volunteered as "shadows" who stayed with officials of the various agencies, allowing them to talk with other officials via ham frequencies. This lack of interagency communications still exists today, although the problem is being addressed at the local, state and federal levels.
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New Jersey can't take the fall for *this* foolishness. The Plainfield in question here is in Illinois, which is another state altogether. You could look it up...
As of 2:05 P.M. EST, The Reg has no mention of this article on it's homepage. The link from /. still works, though.
Wasn't Menudo a boy band?
Five feet of heaven in a ponytail...
Yes, I AM a geezer.
I've been using Comcast as my ISP for over five years, since it was called @Home. When the switch from @Home to Comcast took place, they dropped usenet access entirely. I guess enough of us complained because Comcast later contracted with Giganews for 1GB of downloads per month with no increase in our rates (which were/are outrageous). Earlier this year the monthly limit went up to 2GB, and downloading headers no longer counts against your monthly limit. I sure hope that Comcast doesn't follow Roger's example...
Actually, if you had RTFA, you'd know that these things are only designed to do about 320 mph, and the plan is to race over land (admittedly, a LOT of land) and will follow a winding course.
"I'm not looking for work right now, but I WOULD like a Pacific Rim job."
You have, like a death wish?
Oh, wait, I get it. It's a veiled sexual reference.
Nevermind.
My daughter read this thread and was royally pissed.
I'm quoting her here - "(I) got sprayed with Confront herbicide and this, on top of being BORN with a genetic disorder which renders me and some other family members hyper-sensitive to many substances (especially in aerosol, air-borne form), has basically crippled me in the spring and summer months. Some of us DO have to live inside, if we want to live."
For what it's worth, she's not someone who, until the day a couple of years ago when some buildings-and-grounds bozo at her college was spraying this crud in a totally un-approved manner, suffered from anything remotely like this. She is finishing up a PhD in AI, and fortunately can do much of her work from her apartment via a DSL line.
Sure seems like it. Is this a first?
Who the fuck rated this comment funny? The guy was being serious, for crying out loud. I've got a good friend who developed Hanson's lymphoma as a result of exposure to Chernobyl, and I don't find it all that hilarious either.
About five years ago I gave an old Tandy 1000 to a local hospital for their after-school art program for disturbed kids. No tax deduction, but I knew the woman who ran the program, and the kids used and appreciated it for a few years.
I gave my 486 to my daughter's (then) boyfriend who made it into a Linux server.
I passed along my P200 to my sister, who only needs Word and AOL access.
Lastly, and most sadly, I recently got rid of my treasured TRS-80 Model III (my first computer, 16K RAM and a cassette recorder for storage). My county worked a deal with Lucent to be a pick-up area for old electronics, paint cans, chemical containers and other "hazardous materials." I think many areas run this kind of event periodically.
I HAD been saving the Model III until it as a "valuable icon of computing's early days," but when I checked EBay and found them going for $25 I said screw it.
I work in beautiful downtown Newark, NJ, and I live about 10 miles SW of Newark. I caught a 4:11 train (a diesel, fortunately) out of Newark Penn Station. It was very possibly the last train to leave before the power died. It took us an extra ten minutes or so to get home because of "signal problems" but since this is NJ Transit's usual excuse for running late, I didn't know about the outage until I had the radio on in my car.
My town still has power but several cities/towns on all sides of us don't. No good explanation for this; maybe we just live right or something.
I agree that we need more nuke plants. They ARE the future. However, I just read somewhere (DrudgeReport?) that four nuke plants here in the Northeast are being shut down BECAUSE of the outage...
Huh???
The hole thingy to the bottom left of the keyboard is for a:
a) Wrist strap
b) Key fob
c) Neck chain
d) Cowboy Bob Secret Decoder Ring
"Rights" are things that are, as you said, fundamental to our existence. Inalienable, someone once wrote.
Cell phone numbers are certainly not "rights," but they are things that we PAY for, and therefore we should have some say in how they are administered. Unfortunately, it usually takes governmental action to force large corporations to do the right thing.
I'm going to guess that a "tax" goes to the guvmint and a "fee" is kept by Verizon.
Am I right?
Do I win anything?
Can I keep my cell number?
When I was a kid (late '50s) there were plastic model car kits that you could fasten either a CO2 cartridge or a Jetex solid fuel rocket motor to the back of. They went like a bat out of hell.
Naturally, we experimented a bit. The best idea we came up with was to put a CO2 cartridge on a (then) 10 cent balsa wood glider with electrician's tape. It easily exceeded the speed of balsa, ripping off the wings at the fuselage and shredding the rudder/horizontal stabilizer about 5 feet after launch.
BTW, we used a CO2 cartridge "launcher" that we bought at a hobby shop. It was a tube that fit over the narrow end of the cartridge, and it had a spring-loaded nail that punctured the soft end of the cartridge (picture a pinball plunger). Are these things still made?
I've been happily using a freeware Palm RPN calculator for several years now on my Palm IIIxe (160x160 greyscale, OS 3.51) It's called "Kalk" and is available from a number of sites providing Palm goodies. I think that I got the current version, 3.04, from versiontracker.com.
I've also seen free- and shareware emulators for the 12C, 16C and 41CX HPs available fot the Palm, but I haven't tried them.
Excellent car chase flick from the early '70s.
And, like a cartoon boomerang, smack us in the back of the head when we're not paying attention?
Can't be. He/she spelled "neighbor" wrong, with that "u" thing near the end...
The _only_ reason that there were no BSODs is that it was a Non-Windows(tm) game, on a self-booting floppy.
When I was a kid, we made our own black powder (sort of) from (at that time) easy to obtain chemicals and ground it to a fine consistency by hand. Or, early in the morning of the 5th of July, we'd all go to the park where the fireworks were launched the night before, looking for duds that still had the "kaboom" part left unignited. These materials were often used as the propellant in cannons made of REAL pipe (pre-PVC). In retrospect, its amazing that most of us still have hands, and eyes, and stuff; one friend doesn't (lost most of a hand).
In the hours/days after the WTC attacks, most of the cellular phone infrastructure in lower Manhattan was dead, not simply overloaded. During that period ham communications aided many agencies begin the rescue efforts, including fire, police and the Red Cross. Most of these agencies' radio equipment operated on non-compatible frequencies, so even though their radios were working, they could not talk to other groups. Many hams volunteered as "shadows" who stayed with officials of the various agencies, allowing them to talk with other officials via ham frequencies. This lack of interagency communications still exists today, although the problem is being addressed at the local, state and federal levels.
George/W2GEK
Great call, Ed!
73, de George/W2GEK