ssss;;;;jjjjjjmeeeeing it outsid;;;;ow, ans I jove it!!!;ometimes I get a little;;ne nojse, which can be distracting, but over all it's just;;;;;j jjjjj;l;jjsssssaaaajd jjjjj;l
Of course, I wouldn't do anything confidential this way... would you?
As someone who is all about open-sourcing just about everything, I couldn't help but chuckle a little when I see people wanting to keep secret the domain registrant info. While I agree that Network Solutions is not much of a solution at all (and would love to see a more democratic process working instead!), I find the WHOIS database very helpful. Not to invade privacy nor to spam. My problem is much more direct: I deal with intrusion attempts alomost daily, both at work and at home, and I find the ARIN and other lookups to be an important tool in taking care of the misfit jerkoffs who try to access other people's computers. Believe me - nothing gives me more pleasure than taking down a cracker with bad intent. I work in an ethical business, and try to conduct my life in a similar manner. I don't have any pity at all for people trying to damage or steal information "just because it's there."Being able to track down a site admin, and forward that person the IP within their domain from which an intrusion attempt is being made in minutes really does work! Nothing makes a site admin more nervous than knowing that somebody's using their domain to do harm. So I say, let's keep the WHOIS public, but work on making the rest of the infrastructure more free-flowing.
Of couese, if I'd actually read the article, I would have discovered that a neutron is composed entirely of bureaucrats - I mean Neutrons... so maybe the chances of electrons zapping about in such matter are dim?
'scuse the ramblings
Now, if only I could get a sliver of that material, and install it in the right location, maybe I'd finally solve the hardware boot issue I've been fighting for two years:) That's assuming it conducts electricity at all... I'm wondering if material that dense wouldn't have pretty bound up electrons.
I have to agree with the original post... I could just see somebody trying to stop from a dead run, thereby whirling upside down, landing on top of their head, which would make that unlucky person likely the first virtual fatality.According to the developers, one serious issue needing consideration would be construction of a hatch of some kind which would be openable from both inside and out, and I kind of have to wonder whether the disorientation which would occur when the switch is turned off wouldn't be kind of overwhelming. Still, I look forward to jumping into one at the first opportunity!
This here is what was once called an OSI Superboard, with the emphasis being on the word "board" Not to mention the groovy aspects of MS Basic, a whopping 2K RAM, and for a real thrill, genuine high-fidelity cassette storage, in case you didn't feel like retyping "1250 goto 1020" over and over again.
Once my dad got hold of that damn thing, two things happened: Radio Shack stock went through the roof, and I started to understand what it meant to be one of the first techno-orphans. Ever try to get somebody's attention when they're trying to remember which command to DATA to?
Uh, scuse the busted links... the "these" I was referring to are/were the OSI Superboard C1P. You should be able to navigate to it by clicking here (not my page, just a place with a good pic). My fault for not checking the links. Dadburn HTML andyhow.
Oh, yeah, here's a link to a picture of one, in case you needed help remembering.
By the way, did anybody else ever mess with one of these groovy old things?
since, as a mere aspiring (read: native-speaking) tech head from somewhere in the sticks, I can clearly remember the VIC20, C64, and C128 that occupied old color tv sets in my house growing up. I also remember renumbering literally hundreds of lines of basic code because I was too stupid to number by tens. So when I see people still roughing their way through these antique machnines, I've gotta chuckle.
It occurs to me that there was one old 8-bit machine which might just be ideal for WAP and other "tiny" codes: the Timex Sinclair 1000. Does anybody remember these machines? Had as much as 16k of ram if you bought this funny box that hung on the back, a little bitty thermal printer, and a tiny little pressure-sensitive "keyboard" that could guarantee its user Carpal Tunnel Syndrome after about two weeks of regular use. These little guys did have potential, though - there was a winery across the street from me where the owner used one to do all his books! I think the beauty of the T/S 1000 was how streamlined, not to mention tiny they were. Maybe somebody else with way too much time on his hands could dummy up some code to make one of these things into a hot lil' internet deck. Yeah, right!
So let me see, here... if I need to figure out how my engine works, because I think it guzzles too much gas, and I study the engine in my car, take it out, take it apart, tinker with it, and then figure out a way for it to run on half the gas, have I then committed theft? Or do I first need to tell the world that I can do the same for their cars first, for a fee?
Seems to me that the question of harm is, perhaps intentionally, being left out of the debate. When somebody pays money, or otherwise legally takes possesion of anything, be it hardware or software, that item is theirs to do with as they please. Or at least that's what I think. I imagine that all the lawyers who write EULAs would need to disagree with me, though.
As an owner of the model listed as number 2 on the "highest radiation" list, I can only say this: I'm not sure at all whether science will show direct cancer risk, but throughout the (industry-sponsored) studies linked to the chart page, one phrase mentioned time and again was "non-thermal" damage. I'm not seeing what anyone thinks about the damage due to heating of subdermal tissues. My 'lil Nokia gets so hot during use that I had the first phone sent back - I was sure it was defective! The sensation can be compared to a pressure against the side of my skull... maybe the tissues expanding due to the heat. Personally, I'm pretty concerned about this. The body has an impressive thermal regulation system, but maybe these little microwave generators (remember, we "nuke" something in the microwave oven) are messing with something best left alone. Until I personally have a better handle on what the deal is, I think I'll go buy an earpiece, and nuke some part of my body other than my brain.
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ssss;;;;jjjjjjmeeeeing it outsid;;;;ow, ans I jove it!!! ;ometimes I get a little ;;ne nojse, which can be distracting, but over all it's just ;;;;;j jjjjj;l;jjsssssaaaajd jjjjj;l
Of course, I wouldn't do anything confidential this way... would you?
As someone who is all about open-sourcing just about everything, I couldn't help but chuckle a little when I see people wanting to keep secret the domain registrant info. While I agree that Network Solutions is not much of a solution at all (and would love to see a more democratic process working instead!), I find the WHOIS database very helpful. Not to invade privacy nor to spam. My problem is much more direct: I deal with intrusion attempts alomost daily, both at work and at home, and I find the ARIN and other lookups to be an important tool in taking care of the misfit jerkoffs who try to access other people's computers. Believe me - nothing gives me more pleasure than taking down a cracker with bad intent. I work in an ethical business, and try to conduct my life in a similar manner. I don't have any pity at all for people trying to damage or steal information "just because it's there."Being able to track down a site admin, and forward that person the IP within their domain from which an intrusion attempt is being made in minutes really does work! Nothing makes a site admin more nervous than knowing that somebody's using their domain to do harm. So I say, let's keep the WHOIS public, but work on making the rest of the infrastructure more free-flowing.
Of couese, if I'd actually read the article, I would have discovered that a neutron is composed entirely of bureaucrats - I mean Neutrons... so maybe the chances of electrons zapping about in such matter are dim? 'scuse the ramblings
Now, if only I could get a sliver of that material, and install it in the right location, maybe I'd finally solve the hardware boot issue I've been fighting for two years:) That's assuming it conducts electricity at all... I'm wondering if material that dense wouldn't have pretty bound up electrons.
Yeah, right! (With appendum due to shameless karma whoring)
I have to agree with the original post... I could just see somebody trying to stop from a dead run, thereby whirling upside down, landing on top of their head, which would make that unlucky person likely the first virtual fatality.According to the developers, one serious issue needing consideration would be construction of a hatch of some kind which would be openable from both inside and out, and I kind of have to wonder whether the disorientation which would occur when the switch is turned off wouldn't be kind of overwhelming. Still, I look forward to jumping into one at the first opportunity!
Once my dad got hold of that damn thing, two things happened: Radio Shack stock went through the roof, and I started to understand what it meant to be one of the first techno-orphans. Ever try to get somebody's attention when they're trying to remember which command to DATA to?
Uh, scuse the busted links... the "these" I was referring to are/were the OSI Superboard C1P. You should be able to navigate to it by clicking here (not my page, just a place with a good pic). My fault for not checking the links. Dadburn HTML andyhow.
Oh, yeah, here's a link to a picture of one, in case you needed help remembering. By the way, did anybody else ever mess with one of these groovy old things?
since, as a mere aspiring (read: native-speaking) tech head from somewhere in the sticks, I can clearly remember the VIC20, C64, and C128 that occupied old color tv sets in my house growing up. I also remember renumbering literally hundreds of lines of basic code because I was too stupid to number by tens. So when I see people still roughing their way through these antique machnines, I've gotta chuckle. It occurs to me that there was one old 8-bit machine which might just be ideal for WAP and other "tiny" codes: the Timex Sinclair 1000. Does anybody remember these machines? Had as much as 16k of ram if you bought this funny box that hung on the back, a little bitty thermal printer, and a tiny little pressure-sensitive "keyboard" that could guarantee its user Carpal Tunnel Syndrome after about two weeks of regular use. These little guys did have potential, though - there was a winery across the street from me where the owner used one to do all his books! I think the beauty of the T/S 1000 was how streamlined, not to mention tiny they were. Maybe somebody else with way too much time on his hands could dummy up some code to make one of these things into a hot lil' internet deck. Yeah, right!
So let me see, here... if I need to figure out how my engine works, because I think it guzzles too much gas, and I study the engine in my car, take it out, take it apart, tinker with it, and then figure out a way for it to run on half the gas, have I then committed theft? Or do I first need to tell the world that I can do the same for their cars first, for a fee? Seems to me that the question of harm is, perhaps intentionally, being left out of the debate. When somebody pays money, or otherwise legally takes possesion of anything, be it hardware or software, that item is theirs to do with as they please. Or at least that's what I think. I imagine that all the lawyers who write EULAs would need to disagree with me, though.
As an owner of the model listed as number 2 on the "highest radiation" list, I can only say this: I'm not sure at all whether science will show direct cancer risk, but throughout the (industry-sponsored) studies linked to the chart page, one phrase mentioned time and again was "non-thermal" damage. I'm not seeing what anyone thinks about the damage due to heating of subdermal tissues. My 'lil Nokia gets so hot during use that I had the first phone sent back - I was sure it was defective! The sensation can be compared to a pressure against the side of my skull... maybe the tissues expanding due to the heat. Personally, I'm pretty concerned about this. The body has an impressive thermal regulation system, but maybe these little microwave generators (remember, we "nuke" something in the microwave oven) are messing with something best left alone. Until I personally have a better handle on what the deal is, I think I'll go buy an earpiece, and nuke some part of my body other than my brain.