I had the same though exactly, all you realy need is to pick a suitable frequency, the story used a 7 meter pipe so the would make the wavelenght 7*4 or 28M at 100M/S gives a freq of about 3.6Hz, definately way infrasonic. fold some pvc pipe to get your 7M length, and place a speaker at one end and play the spookey holloween music into it, while sending a pulse on the side every 0.28Sec to generate the infrasound. Curiously the 3.6 is pretty close to 60Hz/16 so some pretty simple divider circuits could set the freq.
It would be pretty cool to have a holloween haunted house where almost 25% of the guests are getting realy spooked-out.
Why would they realy care about how many 'puters are connected? My guess is if you have one machine running squid properly configured, it'l feed 10 internet users with less traffic on the ISP's network, than the scans to port 135 generate inbound. A lot of the adds for broadband advertise multiple comoputers on the internet at once as a sales feature. I've actualy chatted with the wife via yahoo messenger while we were both at home!
Linksys will ask you to ship it back and offer a replacement in 3-4 weeks. We had a bad D-Link D614+, wireless access point/router, and used the credit card to "pay" for the new one to a let them "immeadiately" ship the replacement, it still took 4 weeks to get the replacement. When we called to get a tracking number, the guy we talked to put us on hold while he walked to shipping to get the status; not what you'd expect from a company that specializes in computer networking! The new router does work and hasn't given us anyreason to believe it has been penetrated.
my hoockie-meter raised quite a bit too, this Aug has been reported as the worst for viri and worms in history. As for as not using chinese programmers or programs, I though that software piracy was so rampant in china that effectively all the chinaese use bootleged windows; which probbly makes them a little leary about getting the latest patches from those foriegn devils in Redmond WA USA. Anybody who puts all of their computers on one OS is asking for trouble
Yeah well I remember when a particualrly infamous terrorist, Badder, committed suicide in a german prison by shooting himself in the back nine times. Germans take care of business, their way, not ours. You can bet that Munich isn't paying SCO linux licence fees.
stick with a vanilla Microsoft business environment. What happens?
maybe what happens is SCO uses it's winning from IBM, then goes after BSD next. They'll say BSD violated the terms of the orginial suit, and that BSD was infact a system V derivative. This of course takes out OS X pretty quick and also means that because windows contains/contained BSD code it is a system V dirivative!
SCO said "Only Solaris is safe" not to long ago, aluding to the above.
Maybe not, this is about a contract thing, and it started back before there was any thing like copyrighted software or software patents. If IBM sucessfully argues that it aquired the IP from sequent, then releases the aquired IP under the terms of the system V license that IBM has it could produce a different result legaly than if IBM released the same IP under the terms of the sequent's system V license.
It is very possible that the legal proof in the US, could legaly dis-prove their claims in an other country!
Yes but if someone told you "Don't buy a pig in a poke" you'd know that it meant not to buy a pig, in a bag without examining it first. yet this is what $co wants us to do, buy a license to use some vague system V IP, without even showing us the supposedly miss-appropriated code. Even vaguer is that the license is to "hold harmless" so if alleged IP isn't even there we have no recourse for damages because they did in fact hold us harmless!
right now centershift's website is loading fast, infact if I was selling broadband, I'd use them for a "Gee Whiz that's fast" site, but sco's site is still toasted, so somehow methinks I smell a rat here. Of course I have to admit that maybe the website is hosted differently from the aplication, but still it seems funny.
poor SCO makes a lot of noise and when their poor old website starts to meltdown because they are slashdotted by slashdot, msn, eweek, znet ect. they whine about being DDOS. I for one don't believe it, Show the logs! prove to us it's a DDOS.
You wanted the publicity, you wanted to communicate with the community about the issues, you been in the national news for months; if you realy want to play in the big leagues, you should be able to pay for some serious bandwidth. It apears that the amount of traffic you've invited to your website is in apropriate for the class of hosting service your using.
Be a mench, your a damn unix company for crying out loud, get some hardware, install your software, lease a OC12 and self host!
your right I was a way from my computer and couldn't double check the version numbers when I posted, but you right the latest is 2.4.13 on the SCO site; but its still being distributeded under the GPL and if they don't want me to pass it on, maybe they should pay me not to.
What if we are giving SCO to much credit, it could be that they don't know that their claims are bull. As impossible as it seems, they may have started out realy believing they found something that could save their sinking ship, only to find out each time after make loud public statements that some predecessor, gave it away years ago.
To Whom It May Concern, at SCO; This short note is to inform you that on Aug 18 2003, that I downloaded the rpm package for the openLinux kernal version 2.4.19 under the provisions of the Free Software Organization's General Public License, as you distributed through your ftp site. If you have any questions reguarding your rights, duties and obligations as a distributer of GPL'ed software I'd advise you to got to the Free Software Foundation website for general information and of course seek competant legal advise regarding your specific sitsuation.
And again let me welcome you the comunity of comercial companies who have donated their copyrighted code for distribution via the GPL.
Maybe I all wrong here, but I thought a guarentee ment something like you'll be given the purchase price back if it "bad", rather easy for Linux because it doesn't realy have a purchase price, your just paying for the printed manuals, the fancy box and maybe some support with the contents being free.
The systems shouldn't even have been allowed to mix even on a shared Ethernet.
You'd think that given the incredable capital expense of things like nuclear reactors and regonal power transmission grids, that any connected computers would have several firewalls between them and that each would be strictly limited in which IP's and ports they can connect on. Not doing that is not only a safety hazzard to the general public, but a breach of their feduciary responciblity to their shareholders.
Shells as in artilary or naval guns fire realy don't need that kind of acuracy as random variations in air density and wind speed and direction are several orders of magnitude greater than floating point round off errors, that stuff used to be ploted with a map, protractor and pencil in the old days, and a pencil leads width might be 50m wide at map scales! Of course shooting nuke msl's require a lot more accuarcy, I know the navy conciders things like ocean height, and gravitational variations when doing that but when you want a nuke to detonate within 50m of a hardened target while traveling at 17,500MPH is pretty tough and an extreme case
I think even at NASA, the ability to make mid-course corrections is more important than absolute accuracy be cause actualy any system with 3 or more gavitationaly connected bodies can only be an approximation of an answer rather than a solution.
However ovarall I'd agree that when possible use integer math, it's safer and quicker.
Case Number: 03-73823sc Court: Small Claims Court, 44th Judicial District (Royal Oak, MI.) Phone: (248)246-3600 Presiding: Magistrate Donald R. Chisholm Trial Date: 2-4-2003 Update - Feb. 20, 2003 Good News! They didn't appeal, I got my check. for the full story links ect.click here.
Note altho this is a federal law, it was specificaly written so that it is to be tried in the state courts, I.e. the small claims (fuck the lawyers) courts specificaly by private citizens, or in federal district courts when a states att. gen. brings compalaint on behalf of his state's citizens. The fine or standard damages is $500, or 3X $500.00 for willfull violations.
Now all we need to do is to convince the prossecuters that forged headers are a form of Identity Theft
a simple amendment to the US junk fax law making it clear that it does indeed apply to spam is un-needed 47USC sec 227, clearly states;
(2) The term ''telephone facsimile machine'' means equipment which has the capacity
(A) to transcribe text or images, or both, from paper into an electronic signal and to transmit that signal over a regular telephone line, or
(B) to transcribe text or images (or both) from an electronic signal received over a regular telephone line onto paper.
The law does not require that the message be send via a tellephone line, meerly that the recieving machine be capable of recieving via a tellephone line.
(b) Restrictions on Use of Automated Telephone Equipment
(1) Prohibitions. It shall be unlawful for any person within the United States - (C) to use any telephone facsimile machine, computer, or other device to send an unsolicited advertisement to a telephone facsimile machine;
thus anyone who has sent an ''unsolicited advertisement'' (meaning any material advertising the commercial availability or quality of any property, goods, or services which is transmitted to any person without that person's prior express invitation or permission. to a machine that is capable of being a fax machine, but not necessarily used as a fax machine, is in violation of the federal law and subject to a fine of USD$500.00 or three times that amount if the violation is willfull( that's per incident too).
if I was a scientist and wanted to produce research that showed there was no global warming... You would be wrong, well maybe you could be right by accident, but doing research to show something is a pretty sure way to let personal agendas and biasses cloud scientific judgement. I think that if there really was any link between global warming and burning fossil fuels then Shell and Mobil would be all over finacing the instalation of CO2 reclaimation equipment at major oil and coal burning instalations.
Actualy I'd rather have a nuclear power plant operating downwind from me than a coal-fired plant because the coal-fired plant not only releases more radiation into the environment, but also releases toxic, and potentialy carcinogenic coal tar residues into the air. In a coal fired plant, any radioactive elements that the prehistoric plants absorbed and concentrated go into the air.
Doing nothing to protect the environment because it hurts the economy I've started the patent proceedures on several methods to rid the atmosphere of excess CO2, and I am ready to kick back and enjoy my billions, unfortunatly to date I have been unable to find any convincing evidence that CO2 levels are functional to the average global temperature. So finding proof would definately help my personal economy.
Oh sure it's easy to find some reports that are sugesstive of a loose casual linkage. But any evidense that withstands any scientific evaluation seems to support a close coupling between CO2 levels and temperature increase in the 0 - 100 ppm range, and very little coupling in the CO2 levvels and temperature increases in the 100 - 300 ppm range, and little coupling of CO2 levels and temperatures in the 300 - 1000 ppm range.
What I have as an atmospheric gas with strong corelation between levels and global warming is the halogenated hydrocarbons like R12 and R22 refrigerants, but these are only legally used in developeing countries now, like small african countries where the refrigeraters are used to keep AIDS medicine cool.
"If the CO2 emissions continue to accelerate, that may occur sooner, but if we cut them back the process will be slowed," said Johannessen, a professor at the Nansen research institute in Bergen, Norway.
I've got my asbestos underware on so here goes Johannessen is either a liar or a morron. How can I say that you ask, well the truth is that the infrared absorbtion spectra for CO2 is has several very sharp peaks so the adsorbance from co2 at 100 ppm in those narrow freqs is about 75% adsorbance, at 330ppm (about where we are today) is about 83%, and at 1000ppm at those freqs is about 85% at 1000ppm CO2 the air is going to be to thick to breath, to simulatis try breathing into a paper bag for an hour. Anyone who says CO2 emmissions are going to cause increqased global warming either is lying and use the statement to cover a personal agenda, or is to stupid to do a little googling, or has never used MODTRAN3 software.
Suddenly, in the end, IBM has a Linux distro, AIX for the high-end, lots of other IP, and a rep as being the big champion for Linux that is willing to put its money where its mouth is. But it's not realy working for SUN, a Linux vs. Solaris strategy, so why should it work for IBM as Linux vs. AIX? I think IBM is smart enough to see it's Linux all the way or Linux no way, mixing Linux and unix just doesn't work. The developement of Linux is just to nimble, no single vendor could ever keep their unix product suffiecently better than Linux to justify the price difference for long.
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I had the same though exactly, all you realy need is to pick a suitable frequency, the story used a 7 meter pipe so the would make the wavelenght 7*4 or 28M at 100M/S gives a freq of about 3.6Hz, definately way infrasonic. fold some pvc pipe to get your 7M length, and place a speaker at one end and play the spookey holloween music into it, while sending a pulse on the side every 0.28Sec to generate the infrasound. Curiously the 3.6 is pretty close to 60Hz/16 so some pretty simple divider circuits could set the freq.
It would be pretty cool to have a holloween haunted house where almost 25% of the guests are getting realy spooked-out.
not sure what to say here. :(. Sold the bussines last week so things will get better
say pathologicaly cheap phb here
Why would they realy care about how many 'puters are connected? My guess is if you have one machine running squid properly configured, it'l feed 10 internet users with less traffic on the ISP's network, than the scans to port 135 generate inbound. A lot of the adds for broadband advertise multiple comoputers on the internet at once as a sales feature. I've actualy chatted with the wife via yahoo messenger while we were both at home!
Linksys will ask you to ship it back and offer a replacement in 3-4 weeks.
We had a bad D-Link D614+, wireless access point/router, and used the credit card to "pay" for the new one to a let them "immeadiately" ship the replacement, it still took 4 weeks to get the replacement. When we called to get a tracking number, the guy we talked to put us on hold while he walked to shipping to get the status; not what you'd expect from a company that specializes in computer networking!
The new router does work and hasn't given us anyreason to believe it has been penetrated.
my hoockie-meter raised quite a bit too, this Aug has been reported as the worst for viri and worms in history. As for as not using chinese programmers or programs, I though that software piracy was so rampant in china that effectively all the chinaese use bootleged windows; which probbly makes them a little leary about getting the latest patches from those foriegn devils in Redmond WA USA. Anybody who puts all of their computers on one OS is asking for trouble
Yeah well I remember when a particualrly infamous terrorist, Badder, committed suicide in a german prison by shooting himself in the back nine times. Germans take care of business, their way, not ours. You can bet that Munich isn't paying SCO linux licence fees.
stick with a vanilla Microsoft business environment. What happens?
maybe what happens is SCO uses it's winning from IBM, then goes after BSD next. They'll say BSD violated the terms of the orginial suit, and that BSD was infact a system V derivative. This of course takes out OS X pretty quick and also means that because windows contains/contained BSD code it is a system V dirivative!
SCO said "Only Solaris is safe" not to long ago, aluding to the above.
Maybe not, this is about a contract thing, and it started back before there was any thing like copyrighted software or software patents. If IBM sucessfully argues that it aquired the IP from sequent, then releases the aquired IP under the terms of the system V license that IBM has it could produce a different result legaly than if IBM released the same IP under the terms of the sequent's system V license.
It is very possible that the legal proof in the US, could legaly dis-prove their claims in an other country!
Yes but if someone told you "Don't buy a pig in a poke" you'd know that it meant not to buy a pig, in a bag without examining it first. yet this is what $co wants us to do, buy a license to use some vague system V IP, without even showing us the supposedly miss-appropriated code. Even vaguer is that the license is to "hold harmless" so if alleged IP isn't even there we have no recourse for damages because they did in fact hold us harmless!
right now centershift's website is loading fast, infact if I was selling broadband, I'd use them for a "Gee Whiz that's fast" site, but sco's site is still toasted, so somehow methinks I smell a rat here. Of course I have to admit that maybe the website is hosted differently from the aplication, but still it seems funny.
your right DDOS is bad and we realy should be above such tactics as they are quite juvenile.
How about everybody just making sco.com our web browser's home page instead?
poor SCO makes a lot of noise and when their poor old website starts to meltdown because they are slashdotted by slashdot, msn, eweek, znet ect. they whine about being DDOS. I for one don't believe it, Show the logs! prove to us it's a DDOS.
You wanted the publicity, you wanted to communicate with the community about the issues, you been in the national news for months; if you realy want to play in the big leagues, you should be able to pay for some serious bandwidth. It apears that the amount of traffic you've invited to your website is in apropriate for the class of hosting service your using.
Be a mench, your a damn unix company for crying out loud, get some hardware, install your software, lease a OC12 and self host!
your right I was a way from my computer and couldn't double check the version numbers when I posted, but you right the latest is 2.4.13 on the SCO site; but its still being distributeded under the GPL and if they don't want me to pass it on, maybe they should pay me not to.
What if we are giving SCO to much credit, it could be that they don't know that their claims are bull. As impossible as it seems, they may have started out realy believing they found something that could save their sinking ship, only to find out each time after make loud public statements that some predecessor, gave it away years ago.
To Whom It May Concern, at SCO;
This short note is to inform you that on Aug 18 2003, that I downloaded the rpm package for the openLinux kernal version 2.4.19 under the provisions of the Free Software Organization's General Public License, as you distributed through your ftp site.
If you have any questions reguarding your rights, duties and obligations as a distributer of GPL'ed software I'd advise you to got to the Free Software Foundation website for general information and of course seek competant legal advise regarding your specific sitsuation.
And again let me welcome you the comunity of comercial companies who have donated their copyrighted code for distribution via the GPL.
Maybe I all wrong here, but I thought a guarentee ment something like you'll be given the purchase price back if it "bad", rather easy for Linux because it doesn't realy have a purchase price, your just paying for the printed manuals, the fancy box and maybe some support with the contents being free.
The systems shouldn't even have been allowed to mix even on a shared Ethernet.
You'd think that given the incredable capital expense of things like nuclear reactors and regonal power transmission grids, that any connected computers would have several firewalls between them and that each would be strictly limited in which IP's and ports they can connect on. Not doing that is not only a safety hazzard to the general public, but a breach of their feduciary responciblity to their shareholders.
Shells as in artilary or naval guns fire realy don't need that kind of acuracy as random variations in air density and wind speed and direction are several orders of magnitude greater than floating point round off errors, that stuff used to be ploted with a map, protractor and pencil in the old days, and a pencil leads width might be 50m wide at map scales! Of course shooting nuke msl's require a lot more accuarcy, I know the navy conciders things like ocean height, and gravitational variations when doing that but when you want a nuke to detonate within 50m of a hardened target while traveling at 17,500MPH is pretty tough and an extreme case
I think even at NASA, the ability to make mid-course corrections is more important than absolute accuracy be cause actualy any system with 3 or more gavitationaly connected bodies can only be an approximation of an answer rather than a solution.
However ovarall I'd agree that when possible use integer math, it's safer and quicker.
Case Number: 03-73823sc
Court: Small Claims Court, 44th Judicial District (Royal Oak, MI.) Phone: (248)246-3600
Presiding: Magistrate Donald R. Chisholm Trial Date: 2-4-2003
Update - Feb. 20, 2003 Good News! They didn't appeal, I got my check. for the full story links ect.click
here.
Note altho this is a federal law, it was specificaly written so that it is to be tried in the state courts, I.e. the small claims (fuck the lawyers) courts specificaly by private citizens, or in federal district courts when a states att. gen. brings compalaint on behalf of his state's citizens. The fine or standard damages is $500, or 3X $500.00 for willfull violations.
Now all we need to do is to convince the prossecuters that forged headers are a form of Identity Theft
is un-needed 47USC sec 227, clearly states;
The law does not require that the message be send via a tellephone line, meerly that the recieving machine be capable of recieving via a tellephone line.
thus anyone who has sent an ''unsolicited advertisement'' (meaning any material advertising the commercial availability or quality of any property, goods, or services which is transmitted to any person without that person's prior express invitation or permission. to a machine that is capable of being a fax machine, but not necessarily used as a fax machine, is in violation of the federal law and subject to a fine of USD$500.00 or three times that amount if the violation is willfull( that's per incident too).
see the junk fax law for the law verbatim.
if I was a scientist and wanted to produce research that showed there was no global warming...
You would be wrong, well maybe you could be right by accident, but doing research to show something is a pretty sure way to let personal agendas and biasses cloud scientific judgement. I think that if there really was any link between global warming and burning fossil fuels then Shell and Mobil would be all over finacing the instalation of CO2 reclaimation equipment at major oil and coal burning instalations.
Actualy I'd rather have a nuclear power plant operating downwind from me than a coal-fired plant because the coal-fired plant not only releases more radiation into the environment, but also releases toxic, and potentialy carcinogenic coal tar residues into the air. In a coal fired plant, any radioactive elements that the prehistoric plants absorbed and concentrated go into the air.
Doing nothing to protect the environment because it hurts the economy
I've started the patent proceedures on several methods to rid the atmosphere of excess CO2, and I am ready to kick back and enjoy my billions, unfortunatly to date I have been unable to find any convincing evidence that CO2 levels are functional to the average global temperature. So finding proof would definately help my personal economy.
Oh sure it's easy to find some reports that are sugesstive of a loose casual linkage. But any evidense that withstands any scientific evaluation seems to support a close coupling between CO2 levels and temperature increase in the 0 - 100 ppm range, and very little coupling in the CO2 levvels and temperature increases in the 100 - 300 ppm range, and little coupling of CO2 levels and temperatures in the 300 - 1000 ppm range.
What I have as an atmospheric gas with strong corelation between levels and global warming is the halogenated hydrocarbons like R12 and R22 refrigerants, but these are only legally used in developeing countries now, like small african countries where the refrigeraters are used to keep AIDS medicine cool.
"If the CO2 emissions continue to accelerate, that may occur sooner, but if we cut them back the process will be slowed," said Johannessen, a professor at the Nansen research institute in Bergen, Norway.
I've got my asbestos underware on so here goes Johannessen is either a liar or a morron. How can I say that you ask, well the truth is that the infrared absorbtion spectra for CO2 is has several very sharp peaks so the
adsorbance from co2 at 100 ppm in those narrow freqs is about 75% adsorbance,
at 330ppm (about where we are today) is about 83%,
and at 1000ppm at those freqs is about 85%
at 1000ppm CO2 the air is going to be to thick to breath, to simulatis try breathing into a paper bag for an hour. Anyone who says CO2 emmissions are going to cause increqased global warming either is lying and use the statement to cover a personal agenda, or is to stupid to do a little googling, or has never used MODTRAN3 software.
Suddenly, in the end, IBM has a Linux distro, AIX for the high-end, lots of other IP, and a rep as being the big champion for Linux that is willing to put its money where its mouth is.
But it's not realy working for SUN, a Linux vs. Solaris strategy, so why should it work for IBM as Linux vs. AIX? I think IBM is smart enough to see it's Linux all the way or Linux no way, mixing Linux and unix just doesn't work. The developement of Linux is just to nimble, no single vendor could ever keep their unix product suffiecently better than Linux to justify the price difference for long.