Everyone is switching to more efficient lighting, our profits are WAY down! We need to do what the petroleum company's have done because of more fuel efficient cars, jack up our prices!
I will NOT BUY any of your products simply because you attempted to get this frivolous patent. Any food and or food making process should NEVER be patented. Food wants to remain open, you know, like software.
I like many others are sick and tired of this dumb ass tradition. Just do away with it, extending it is going to require too much hassle. I understand why it was implemented in the first place, but now it's acquainted and irrelevant. I see NOITHING wrong to keeping things set to standard time.
Innovation Inc., 'surprised the audience at a computer-security convention last month with their finding that a version of Microsoft Windows was more secure than a competing Linux operating system' according to the Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Hahahahaha..."snort" stop it! You're killing me (holds gut in pain)..
It's amazing when the FCC actually gets something, now if we can get them to reconsider the spectrum polluting BPL decision and that pesky broadcast flag.
The only time I watch TV is when I rent or watch DVDs. There is NOTHING I want to watch on TV. And now that the broadcasters got the FCC to ram the broadcast flag down our throats I will not subscribe to anything. I will buy a HDTV eventually, but it will be used as a monitor only. In the meantime, my 27" Sony works just fine for now.
Very true, just for shits and grins I exposed a 170Mhz SparcServer5 with a default install of Solaris 7 to the Internet just to see how long it took to be compromised. Two weeks later a DDoS client had been installed and 70+ megabytes of out bound traffic had accumulated before I was able to pull the plug. Then I decided to tried again, only this time I was present to watch the ftp transfer take place and watch as the same DDoS client get installed again.
Leave it up to the wireless carriers to come up with pure bullshit. I am sick and tired of the wireless carriers following in the foot steps of the RIAA / MPAA implying free loading or piracy is the reason for their dropping revenue.
I use T-Mobile hotspots for my internet access and phone service since I told verizon to shove it when my line suddenly didn't qualify for DSL. And of course Comcast will sucker you in with a cheap introductory rate, double it and then apply a $10 punishment fee if you don't want cable TV.
Right now I pay $29.95 for my cellular service and 19.95 for my internet access each month. When it's all said and done it's still cheaper than the conventional phone service and DSL I had before I moved. Even though it's kind of a pain to sit in Starbucks to use my internet access, it's still way faster than the DSL I had before (synchronous T-1). But there is an advantage to gawking at the chicks behind the counter.
I decided to give their anti-spyware software a try, just to see how it faired against Ad-aware. I never got past the system detection routine because it demanded that I install Internet exploder 6. Since I use Firefox and Thunderbird this application was more or less useless to me, why it cannot use my default browser of choice is just plain silly.
Now that I'll be turning the answer of the universe (42) this 24th, I have some one telling me my birthday is going to be on one of the worst days of the year.
1. BPL signals will pollute ANY chunk of spectrum it uses. This is already evident in the 2-80 MHz bands that it's currently being tested in. The same thing would happen even if they shifted it to work in the 2-5 GHz band, the interference issue would still exist.
2. BPL CAN be interfered with, transmissions from any RF source be it CB, HAM or Public service can disrupt BPL service. How irate would you get if your BPL service was constantly disrupted by my LEGAL transmissions.
3. Placing RF coupling capacitors at the transformer to allow BPL signals into your home. NO THANKS. Now your otherwise "clean" AC power is now going to be filled with all kinds of other noise as well, arcing insulators / transformers, your neighbors arc welder etc come to mind. And let's not forget about lightening strikes and large static discharges.
With all due respect dude, you don't know shit! Amateur radio is still alive and well, if it's so dead then why are Icom, Yeasu and Kenwood turning out radios in droves. Icom released their $10,500 IC-7800 HF-6 meter tranceiver, Yeasu is introducing three new HF rigs that range form $10,000 to $13,000.
I hear all kinds of activity on HF, Amateur radio may not be as pronounced as it once was but it's far from dead.
Another item the TSA will take / detain you on your next trip. While this guy certainly wasn't using his brain, he doesn't deserve 25 years and a 500k fine. Just another gross abuse of the so called "patriot act".
In the eyes of animals, ALL humans are sadistic cannibals.
If I buy a CD I expect it to strictly adhere to red book standards. I don't care how bad I want the music, I won't buy any disk that contains DRM period! I don't pirate my music and refuse to be constantly be treated as a criminal because I want to rip my CDs to my laptop.
"We'll I'll tell you what ski king, why don't you take home some chicken and I won't have to stuff my boot all up in your ass!" - Capt. Spalding
Reminds me of a userfriendly cartoon where pitr was relegated to an abacus, and when he complained about it's memory storage he was just handed another abacus..
"I have some reservations about the FCC regulating something that they have not regulated much in the past. As far as I know, the power company has not needed a license to broadcast their 60 hz signal before... " "BPL won't broadcast at 60Hz... there's tons of unused bandwidth in overhead transmission lines. BPL will operate at higher freqs, typically the HF portion of the spectrum... and that'll interfere with Amateur Radio. If they were transmitting BPL at 60 Hz, they wouldn't have enough bandwidth for it to be useable at all! Hell, a TV channel uses a whopping 6000 Hz itself!"
First of all BPL signals cover 80,000,000Hz+ (80Mhz) of spectrum, furthermore a standard TV signal is 6Mhz wide not 6Khz. The FCC is a mere shadow of what it once was, it was run by technically competent commissioners. Now it's run by technically incompetent we'll bend over for industry commissioners. Power lines were designed to do one thing, deliver power at 60Hz. When broadband RF is applied the act like antennas and radiate most of that energy as interference.
For example, if I took a bullhorn and mounted it atop of a pole and transmitted say, an MT63 signal to a dish microphone several blocks away, made sure I kept the dB level down as not to break some noise ordnance would you still like it? Probably not.
BPL is going to cause radio interference on a scale that hasn't been seen since the days of spark gap transmitters. It WILL violate the international agreement the US has with other countries to keep the spectrum clean for the reception of short wave broadcast. Despite what BPL providers and equipment manufactures say, it WILL cause interference, I worked my ass off to get my extra class ham license. I put up with enough "regular" interference from consumer electronics like TVs, computers, cracked insulators, etc.
And the biggie, EVERYONE keeps overlooking the fact that BPL can be interfered with something as simple as a CB. I could drive into an area, key a transmitter and DOS entire neighborhoods. I could use a software defined radio and just drive into a BPL serviced area and conduct surveillance, sniff packets with no physical wire connection.
I'm all for broadband but deploying it on the HF band is a bad (in the extreme) idea that will eventually cost you money when it fails. Even Japan tried it and then banned it from their country because it caused so much interference.
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In a meeting room somewhere.....
Power company CEO:
Everyone is switching to more efficient lighting, our profits are WAY down! We need to do what the petroleum company's have done because of more fuel efficient cars, jack up our prices!
CEO's minion:
By your command
I will NOT BUY any of your products simply because you attempted to get this frivolous patent. Any food and or food making process should NEVER be patented. Food wants to remain open, you know, like software.
I like many others are sick and tired of this dumb ass tradition. Just do away with it, extending it is going to require too much hassle. I understand why it was implemented in the first place, but now it's acquainted and irrelevant. I see NOITHING wrong to keeping things set to standard time.
Innovation Inc., 'surprised the audience at a computer-security convention last month with their finding that a version of Microsoft Windows was more secure than a competing Linux operating system' according to the Seattle Post-Intelligencer
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Hahahahaha..."snort" stop it! You're killing me (holds gut in pain)..
I can always look forward to a good laugh from
It's amazing when the FCC actually gets something, now if we can get them to reconsider the spectrum polluting BPL decision and that pesky broadcast flag.
512k should be enough video ram for anybody..
The only time I watch TV is when I rent or watch DVDs. There is NOTHING I want to watch on TV. And now that the broadcasters got the FCC to ram the broadcast flag down our throats I will not subscribe to anything. I will buy a HDTV eventually, but it will be used as a monitor only. In the meantime, my 27" Sony works just fine for now.
Very true, just for shits and grins I exposed a 170Mhz SparcServer5 with a default install of Solaris 7 to the Internet just to see how long it took to be compromised. Two weeks later a DDoS client had been installed and 70+ megabytes of out bound traffic had accumulated before I was able to pull the plug. Then I decided to tried again, only this time I was present to watch the ftp transfer take place and watch as the same DDoS client get installed again.
Leave it up to the wireless carriers to come up with pure bullshit. I am sick and tired of the wireless carriers following in the foot steps of the RIAA / MPAA implying free loading or piracy is the reason for their dropping revenue.
I use T-Mobile hotspots for my internet access and phone service since I told verizon to shove it when my line suddenly didn't qualify for DSL. And of course Comcast will sucker you in with a cheap introductory rate, double it and then apply a $10 punishment fee if you don't want cable TV.
Right now I pay $29.95 for my cellular service and 19.95 for my internet access each month. When it's all said and done it's still cheaper than the conventional phone service and DSL I had before I moved. Even though it's kind of a pain to sit in Starbucks to use my internet access, it's still way faster than the DSL I had before (synchronous T-1). But there is an advantage to gawking at the chicks behind the counter.
I decided to give their anti-spyware software a try, just to see how it faired against Ad-aware. I never got past the system detection routine because it demanded that I install Internet exploder 6. Since I use Firefox and Thunderbird this application was more or less useless to me, why it cannot use my default browser of choice is just plain silly.
Now that I'll be turning the answer of the universe (42) this 24th, I have some one telling me my birthday is going to be on one of the worst days of the year.
Thanks for harshing by buzz dude..
Here is some food for thought on BPL:
1. BPL signals will pollute ANY chunk of spectrum it uses. This is already evident in the 2-80 MHz bands that it's currently being tested in. The same thing would happen even if they shifted it to work in the 2-5 GHz band, the interference issue would still exist.
2. BPL CAN be interfered with, transmissions from any RF source be it CB, HAM or Public service can disrupt BPL service. How irate would you get if your BPL service was constantly disrupted by my LEGAL transmissions.
3. Placing RF coupling capacitors at the transformer to allow BPL signals into your home. NO THANKS. Now your otherwise "clean" AC power is now going to be filled with all kinds of other noise as well, arcing insulators / transformers, your neighbors arc welder etc come to mind. And let's not forget about lightening strikes and large static discharges.
With all due respect dude, you don't know shit! Amateur radio is still alive and well, if it's so dead then why are Icom, Yeasu and Kenwood turning out radios in droves. Icom released their $10,500 IC-7800 HF-6 meter tranceiver, Yeasu is introducing three new HF rigs that range form $10,000 to $13,000.
I hear all kinds of activity on HF, Amateur radio may not be as pronounced as it once was but it's far from dead.
Another item the TSA will take / detain you on your next trip. While this guy certainly wasn't using his brain, he doesn't deserve 25 years and a 500k fine. Just another gross abuse of the so called "patriot act".
In the eyes of animals, ALL humans are sadistic cannibals.
If I buy a CD I expect it to strictly adhere to red book standards. I don't care how bad I want the music, I won't buy any disk that contains DRM period! I don't pirate my music and refuse to be constantly be treated as a criminal because I want to rip my CDs to my laptop.
"We'll I'll tell you what ski king, why don't you take home some chicken and I won't have to stuff my boot all up in your ass!" - Capt. Spalding
Don't let Steve Jobs and Bill Gates rip off your hard work.....
Don't forget the OJ Simpson chase that was showing on the TVs in the bar.
Reminds me of a userfriendly cartoon where pitr was relegated to an abacus, and when he complained about it's memory storage he was just handed another abacus..
I thought that read Crisco aquires Perfigo?????
Microsoft announced that in order to track bugs they will include a new dump screen called the "Blue windshield of death"
"15-25mbps is more than enough for anyone"
Now don't be pulling a Bill Gates, in 10 years 15-25mbps will seem like 56k dial-up.
"I have some reservations about the FCC regulating something that they have not regulated much in the past. As far as I know, the power company has not needed a license to broadcast their 60 hz signal before... "
"BPL won't broadcast at 60Hz... there's tons of unused bandwidth in overhead transmission lines.
BPL will operate at higher freqs, typically the HF portion of the spectrum... and that'll interfere with Amateur Radio.
If they were transmitting BPL at 60 Hz, they wouldn't have enough bandwidth for it to be useable at all! Hell, a TV channel uses a whopping 6000 Hz itself!"
First of all BPL signals cover 80,000,000Hz+ (80Mhz) of spectrum, furthermore a standard TV signal is 6Mhz wide not 6Khz. The FCC is a mere shadow of what it once was, it was run by technically competent commissioners. Now it's run by technically incompetent we'll bend over for industry commissioners. Power lines were designed to do one thing, deliver power at 60Hz. When broadband RF is applied the act like antennas and radiate most of that energy as interference.
For example, if I took a bullhorn and mounted it atop of a pole and transmitted say, an MT63 signal to a dish microphone several blocks away, made sure I kept the dB level down as not to break some noise ordnance would you still like it? Probably not.
BPL is going to cause radio interference on a scale that hasn't been seen since the days of spark gap transmitters. It WILL violate the international agreement the US has with other countries to keep the spectrum clean for the reception of short wave broadcast. Despite what BPL providers and equipment manufactures say, it WILL cause interference, I worked my ass off to get my extra class ham license. I put up with enough "regular" interference from consumer electronics like TVs, computers, cracked insulators, etc.
And the biggie, EVERYONE keeps overlooking the fact that BPL can be interfered with something as simple as a CB. I could drive into an area, key a transmitter and DOS entire neighborhoods. I could use a software defined radio and just drive into a BPL serviced area and conduct surveillance, sniff packets with no physical wire connection.
I'm all for broadband but deploying it on the HF band is a bad (in the extreme) idea that will eventually cost you money when it fails. Even Japan tried it and then banned it from their country because it caused so much interference.
They will save that for the "blue-ray" release.
Even though this "prosco" site will be a joke, it should provide some great laughs.
Surfing the net just fine with DOS 6.2 and
/16 Eithernet card
:)
Arachne 1.7 thankyou.
I was bored and put together the following
machine out of spare computer parts lying
around in my junk boxes.
Pentium 233MMX
64 meg DIMM
9.1 gig Ultra wide SCSI
Cirrus Logic 2meg PCI video card (whoo hoo)
SoundBlaster 16 Sound card
Intel
Zoom 56k modem
It's a little slow but hey, it's geeky