Re:Aloha Net
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Hawaii Wi-Fi
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· Score: 2, Interesting
Really? Damn, I was forced to learn about it by reading _Packet Radio_ by Robert Rouleau VE2PY and Ian Hodgson VE2BEN, and hanging around the university amateur radio station, VE2CUA.
Of course there was no packet radio at the time in the U.S. because they didn't allow the modulation type.
Bob and Norm later went on to form a company (PacketData?) to do their hobby commercially, and NASA bought some of their units for the Mars Rover to base station links.
Meanwhile what I learned about packets helped wonders on a number of projects. However my CDC-6600 assembler course hasn't gotten me any jobs at all. Go figure!
Yeah well, he was arguing about the purity of real D&D about the same time some guy with acne send out a letter complaining about people ripping off his Altair BASIC.
Unlike Gary, I don't think the other guy has ever gotten over it...
And damnit, it's THE Dragon magazine. Kids these days...
The only charge I see there that's serious is that IBM might have used Compuware source code and manuals to create their products.
Offering competive products and IBM sales reps steering customers to IBM products are non-starters to me.
Alas many of those installations in Asia have open email servers and proxies by default. They'll rot in a lot of blacklists until they learn to be good netizens.
Oops, I never got the ad. It must have something to do with some entries in my hosts file. I guess I should sit down and fix this problem one day, when I have spare time.
Then again, I tend to block anything from DoubleClick, so perhaps it can stay there and rot.
I could be wrong, but the Borland stock Microsoft owns is non-voting stock. (Part of the settlement for Microsoft spending $2M to buy Borland's chief architect to work on C#.)
The info on the DartMail page says that it's opt-in. My question is: Is it confirmed opt-in? (i.e. does it send out a request for confirmation email, and only if there's a reply, it subscribes you.) Otherwise it would be easy for someone to fake an add request.
That's why I never open spam. Instead, in Outlook Express, I use Properties/Message Source.
I got one spam that had code to cause a banner advertising hit for the spammer. I notified the banner ad company. I suspect the spammer was unhappy about the result.
I glad that someone took the trouble to MAME the arcade game that I worked in 1984. It was a fond moment when I booted it up a year ago. Since the company I was working for no longer exists (and hasn't for some time), I doubt anyone would mind.
P.S. the game was Intrepid by Nova Games. Looks cheesy, but consider the hardware: 4 MHz Z80, 20k of ROM, heh.
I'd just like to point out that there's a reason things cost so much when the military buys things.
In the example, you'd have to completly document everything about that tortilla maker:
Where the iron was dug out of the ground. (and probably which shift.)
Where the ore was smelted and refined. (and ditto)
Where it was cast. (and ditto.)
Transportation...
All that ISO-8002 (or whatever) paperwork costs much money. $500 hammers make a nice target for senators who want to look good with "Golden Fleese" awards, but there's a reason they cost that much compared to running down to the hardware store.
A supernova in the solar system would kill anyone out to Jupiter just with the neutrinos. (Of course, if you survived that, your problems are just begining!) They interact very weakly with other matter, but when ya gets that many of the buggers...
Re:how many slashdot posts until some idiot...
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Spam Slows AT&T Email
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· Score: 2
I've always thought of block lists like SPEWS to be the Honking Big Delete Key.
If ISP can't play nice, drop their address blocks. (Dropping all of China wouldn't be much loss right now.) The trick is to block all an ISPs blocks, not just the spammer's IP. Spam friendly ISPs routinely shift the IP address. When their legit customers start leaving they'll wise up.
It gives me the warms fuzzys when some spam friendly ISP posts to news.admin.net-abuse.email, and asks pretty-please to be taken of the blocklists. (Then someone points out that they got spam from them in the last couple of days, and to take a flying leap.
I did actually think about an application while I was waiting for the bus today. It would mean going the full Borg route. (Cell phone, PDA, processing, HUD, etc.) It wasn't that cold for Toronto in the winter, except that up until now we've had spring weather. Cold wind with teeth in it.
The TTC web-publishes maps and routes and suggested times that each bus will go by. They also have a data system for each bus to report exactly where it is. (Not published, but that's what scanners and software are for.) Combine.
I want a system that tells me when the bus is a couple of blocks away and I can leave the mall and walk to the stop and get on. I suppose it would need a GPS card as well. So be it, I remember what cell-phones were like cira 1984.
Either that or migrate to California where the jasmine blooms in March, but the exit signs are green...
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Of course there was no packet radio at the time in the U.S. because they didn't allow the modulation type.
Bob and Norm later went on to form a company (PacketData?) to do their hobby commercially, and NASA bought some of their units for the Mars Rover to base station links.
Meanwhile what I learned about packets helped wonders on a number of projects. However my CDC-6600 assembler course hasn't gotten me any jobs at all. Go figure!
Unlike Gary, I don't think the other guy has ever gotten over it...
And damnit, it's THE Dragon magazine. Kids these days...
Granted the shielding is heavy. Using a Discovery configuration with the engines at the other end of the ship from the crew quarters would help.
I'm not sure that using live steam to cook off the bullets would work very well.
The only charge I see there that's serious is that IBM might have used Compuware source code and manuals to create their products. Offering competive products and IBM sales reps steering customers to IBM products are non-starters to me.
Tish, as bad as AOL users can be, surely the webtv users will be first against the wall when the revolution comes.
Alas many of those installations in Asia have open email servers and proxies by default. They'll rot in a lot of blacklists until they learn to be good netizens.
Maybe the pocket watch will make a come-back. You'd have to fetch it out and pop it open before paying for anything.
Then again, I tend to block anything from DoubleClick, so perhaps it can stay there and rot.
First person to crack up buy the round after work.
A little work on its "speech" curcuit and "Network down, waaaaa!"
Sigh American government sites, perhaps. (And that's sites, not just web sites.)
I could be wrong, but the Borland stock Microsoft owns is non-voting stock. (Part of the settlement for Microsoft spending $2M to buy Borland's chief architect to work on C#.)
The info on the DartMail page says that it's opt-in. My question is: Is it confirmed opt-in? (i.e. does it send out a request for confirmation email, and only if there's a reply, it subscribes you.) Otherwise it would be easy for someone to fake an add request.
I got one spam that had code to cause a banner advertising hit for the spammer. I notified the banner ad company. I suspect the spammer was unhappy about the result.
The Iranian government is going to retaliate by creating their own station to broadcast to the United States! :^)
P.S. the game was Intrepid by Nova Games. Looks cheesy, but consider the hardware: 4 MHz Z80, 20k of ROM, heh.
The speakers on my computer are set to direct sound at one person. I just haven't figured out how to stop the neighbors from hearing it too yet. :^)
In the example, you'd have to completly document everything about that tortilla maker:
Where the iron was dug out of the ground. (and probably which shift.)
Where the ore was smelted and refined. (and ditto)
Where it was cast. (and ditto.)
Transportation...
All that ISO-8002 (or whatever) paperwork costs much money. $500 hammers make a nice target for senators who want to look good with "Golden Fleese" awards, but there's a reason they cost that much compared to running down to the hardware store.
A supernova in the solar system would kill anyone out to Jupiter just with the neutrinos. (Of course, if you survived that, your problems are just begining!) They interact very weakly with other matter, but when ya gets that many of the buggers...
Yes, and that's another question: How well does that jacket function after it gets wet?
But Commander, I just want to sing .. sing ..
STOP THAT!
If ISP can't play nice, drop their address blocks. (Dropping all of China wouldn't be much loss right now.) The trick is to block all an ISPs blocks, not just the spammer's IP. Spam friendly ISPs routinely shift the IP address. When their legit customers start leaving they'll wise up.
It gives me the warms fuzzys when some spam friendly ISP posts to news.admin.net-abuse.email, and asks pretty-please to be taken of the blocklists. (Then someone points out that they got spam from them in the last couple of days, and to take a flying leap.
That's not supposed to happen! :^)
The TTC web-publishes maps and routes and suggested times that each bus will go by. They also have a data system for each bus to report exactly where it is. (Not published, but that's what scanners and software are for.) Combine.
I want a system that tells me when the bus is a couple of blocks away and I can leave the mall and walk to the stop and get on. I suppose it would need a GPS card as well. So be it, I remember what cell-phones were like cira 1984.
Either that or migrate to California where the jasmine blooms in March, but the exit signs are green...