How close are these probes relative to the Oort cloud? I would think that what we are witnessing is that the probes lack the velocity to escape and will eventually become part of the Oort cloud.
When natural/man made/terrorist disasters happen most if not ALL centralized communication systems fall apart rather rapidly. Amateur radio is the only "fail safe" communications medium when all others fail. Look at 9/11 for example, the red cross depended on many amateur radio volunteers to pass traffic because the cell phone system was rendered useless and the public safety radios were useless because the depend on a centralized communications system. When I talk on HF for example, I don't have to depend on the phone company and all the infrastructure to communicate with the other person on the other end.
Plus the fact that most everyone is over looking is that BPL can be jammed with something as simple as a CB radio. And as discussed here before, the bridges use the 2.4 Ghz band are just as suseptable to jamming could drive into an area serviced by BPL and launch a DoS attack simply by transmitting. I can tell you if I had constant Internet outages caused my the legal transmissions of other licensed services, I would be bitching up a storm to the power company.
If this CD is copy protected then I would assume that it won't have the Phillips CD logo stamped on the disk and or jewel case liner. (since it would not technically qualify as a red book spec CD) Furthermore, I would have to agree with some of the/. crowd that most of the customers buying this CD are oblivious to the fact that it is copy protected.
I know, but I was attempting to give this an RIAA (we're loosing money to piracy) twist. Or in this case, we're loosing money due to efficent power usage:)
As you can see gentlemen, with all these efficient switching power supplys RIPPING us off, we have to do something to stop this silly efficiency craze. Its costing us a billion dollars a year!
Power company exec 2.
Well, we could always raise the rates we charge, or bury some "switching supply" tax in the customers bill every month.
I guess now the anti-virus software people now have themselves a new market to penetrate. I guess windows boxes were not enough to maintain their business model.
I suppose Microsoft will now patent logic states. Why is the patent office even granting these frivolous patents? The people working at the patent office are obviously grossly incompetent. To me, patenting the basics of computer and software operation in an attempt to stifle it's growth and muscle out any competition.
Abolish the FCC? I don't think so. If deregulation has taught us anything is that company's are incapable of regulating themselves. When the airwaves were in use before the FCC it was a war zone. Commercial, government and amateur radio operators were constantly fighting over RF turf. The FCC is there to regulate the spectrum so that everyone can have their chunk. The broadcast industry, government, amateur radio and unlicensed users can all have their pieces of RF spectrum and not interfere with each other. If the FCC were abolished, the RF spectrum would sound just like the CB band when the skip is in. The FCC needs to be given the funds to enforce the current rules, not to be abolished.
If Microsoft can get a patent on something as stupid as this maybe I could get a patent on wiping my ass. Just goes to show the patent office is severly broken...
I would have to agree with this. I use Solaris on Ultra 2 at home for learning purposes, the last thing I want is umpteen different Solaris versions. Solaris may be proprietary, but it's still better than Windows.
MPAA/RIAA The festering boil on the buttocks of America
I keep my access point open as a gratuity to anyone who may visit me. The unit is too low to the floor in order to keep it's range down. All of my Windows, and Linux boxes are patched so there shouldn't be a problem there. Now if I was in an apartment building then I would enable WEP at the very least, but until then, security has never been a problem in my area..
I use the word nonillion as my nick here on/. but since I don't use it for profit or name recognition I should be safe. For those who don't know, a nonillion is 10^30th. I discovered this name back when I was running windows 3.11 and installed some text to speech software that came with my Sound Blaster MCD sound card. I started to type random numbers in the dialog window to see how it was pronounced. It was quite funny and interesting hearing such number places as "septendecillion", "octillion" and "novemdecillion".
It is very easy to build 2.4GHz transmitters that can jam 802.11 networks, this is why people should consider things like this when deploying networks using radio technology. Even microwave ovens will do this. And as a side note, BPL (broadband over power lines) are even more suseptable to jamming from something as simple as a CB radio that can wipe out access for blocks.
Tocqueville doesn't know WTF they are talking about. I have a SuSE 8.0 machine that has been exposed to the raw Internet going on 4 years now. Not once in that time has it EVER been compromised, my Sun box running Solaris was compromised in two weeks with a DOS client. And don't even get me started with Windows boxes.
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I stopped at Win2k for the same reason. Windows 2000 was more or less, the last of the good OSes that will ever come out of redmond.
How close are these probes relative to the Oort cloud? I would think that what we are witnessing is that the probes lack the velocity to escape and will eventually become part of the Oort cloud.
I think I'll install one of the spare 5 1/4" floppy drives I have laying around. I need to do something with that empty 5 1/4 bay I have avaliable.
Only pussys wear helments :)
They better pay their $7,157,760 ($699/CPU) in SCO tax or McBride is going to be stomping around saying "NASA is screwing us!"
When natural/man made/terrorist disasters happen most if not ALL centralized communication systems fall apart rather rapidly. Amateur radio is the only "fail safe" communications medium when all others fail. Look at 9/11 for example, the red cross depended on many amateur radio volunteers to pass traffic because the cell phone system was rendered useless and the public safety radios were useless because the depend on a centralized communications system. When I talk on HF for example, I don't have to depend on the phone company and all the infrastructure to communicate with the other person on the other end.
Plus the fact that most everyone is over looking is that BPL can be jammed with something as simple as a CB radio. And as discussed here before, the bridges use the 2.4 Ghz band are just as suseptable to jamming could drive into an area serviced by BPL and launch a DoS attack simply by transmitting. I can tell you if I had constant Internet outages caused my the legal transmissions of other licensed services, I would be bitching up a storm to the power company.
If this CD is copy protected then I would assume that it won't have the Phillips CD logo stamped on the disk and or jewel case liner. (since it would not technically qualify as a red book spec CD) Furthermore, I would have to agree with some of the /. crowd that most of the customers buying this CD are oblivious to the fact that it is copy protected.
I know, but I was attempting to give this an RIAA (we're loosing money to piracy) twist. Or in this case, we're loosing money due to efficent power usage :)
Power company exec 1.
As you can see gentlemen, with all these efficient switching power supplys RIPPING us off, we have to do something to stop this silly efficiency craze. Its costing us a billion dollars a year!
Power company exec 2.
Well, we could always raise the rates we charge, or bury some "switching supply" tax in the customers bill every month.
Power company exec 1. Dude! You're a genius!
I guess now the anti-virus software people now have themselves a new market to penetrate. I guess windows boxes were not enough to maintain their business model.
Did you just hear something go CRASH!
I suppose Microsoft will now patent logic states. Why is the patent office even granting these frivolous patents? The people working at the patent office are obviously grossly incompetent. To me, patenting the basics of computer and software operation in an attempt to stifle it's growth and muscle out any competition.
Abolish the FCC? I don't think so. If deregulation has taught us anything is that company's are incapable of regulating themselves. When the airwaves were in use before the FCC it was a war zone. Commercial, government and amateur radio operators were constantly fighting over RF turf. The FCC is there to regulate the spectrum so that everyone can have their chunk. The broadcast industry, government, amateur radio and unlicensed users can all have their pieces of RF spectrum and not interfere with each other. If the FCC were abolished, the RF spectrum would sound just like the CB band when the skip is in. The FCC needs to be given the funds to enforce the current rules, not to be abolished.
"5.33 Hz ought to be a fast enough clock speed for anybody"
Cool article, I have always been fascinated by very old computers and just how much work the could really do.
I would love to see this brew avaliable in the stores. I had mentioned this to ThinkGeek once but never got a responce :(
If Microsoft can get a patent on something as stupid as this maybe I could get a patent on wiping my ass. Just goes to show the patent office is severly broken...
I would have to agree with this. I use Solaris on Ultra 2 at home for learning purposes, the last thing I want is umpteen different Solaris versions. Solaris may be proprietary, but it's still better than Windows.
MPAA/RIAA The festering boil on the buttocks of America
I keep my access point open as a gratuity to anyone who may visit me. The unit is too low to the floor in order to keep it's range down. All of my Windows, and Linux boxes are patched so there shouldn't be a problem there. Now if I was in an apartment building then I would enable WEP at the very least, but until then, security has never been a problem in my area..
And take a second and third morgage out on your house to pay for the asronomical power/HVAC/bandwidth bills ;)
I would think the RIAA/MPAA would demand that DRM be built into this device since due to its speed, contributes to piracy.
RIAA/MPAA...... The festering boil on the buttocks of America.
I use the word nonillion as my nick here on /. but since I don't use it for profit or name recognition I should be safe. For those who don't know, a nonillion is 10^30th. I discovered this name back when I was running windows 3.11 and installed some text to speech software that came with my Sound Blaster MCD sound card. I started to type random numbers in the dialog window to see how it was pronounced. It was quite funny and interesting hearing such number places as "septendecillion", "octillion" and "novemdecillion".
It is very easy to build 2.4GHz transmitters that can jam 802.11 networks, this is why people should consider things like this when deploying networks using radio technology. Even microwave ovens will do this. And as a side note, BPL (broadband over power lines) are even more suseptable to jamming from something as simple as a CB radio that can wipe out access for blocks.
Tocqueville doesn't know WTF they are talking about. I have a SuSE 8.0 machine that has been exposed to the raw Internet going on 4 years now. Not once in that time has it EVER been compromised, my Sun box running Solaris was compromised in two weeks with a DOS client. And don't even get me started with Windows boxes.
But what about the Phoenix BIOS people, I'm sure they're going to be pissed ;)
I'll never be a comcast customer now. I will not tollerate an ISP who decides what wireless device connects to my WAP.
BOYCOT COMCAST!!!