Shouldn't it be the other way around? I thought radios had to pay the RIAA for each single played. Who's screwing who? Or is this some cartel keeping out the little players?
I haven't seen a room sized faraday cage completely work in preventing transmission or reception of signals yet. A friend worked at a shop where they repaired industrial radios and had one of these supposed faraday rooms with massive iron walls and mesh. He brought a radio in one day and didn't amuse the boss with it...
I'm in my "bomb shelter" with my wireless computer access point. While the massive concrete walls and rebar underneath the house does make the 2.4GHz signal weak outside the house, I can still get a good link.
You'd have to be in a good bank vault not to get reception. Jamming would only work on selected frequencies. Try to raise the noise floor on all frequencies would require the energy of a nuclear bomb. No one would survive the energy required to saturate the entire electromagnetic spectrum. Is this what Canada plans to do?
Make sure you format once to quickly start a new filesystem, repeated by a destructive badblock test to finish off the lost data between the inode maps. Just to be safe, scramble the boot sector and randomize the partition tables. That ought to make recovery a bit more difficult.
/sbin/mkfs/dev/hda --ooops, formatted the whole drive as a filesystem, not a partition. Scrambled the partition table and the user's data all in one step. Ooops. Sorry.
/sbin/badblocks -fw/dev/hda --forces write testing on a mounted filesystem with assorted patterns of data. Truely evil.
The first step ought to take a few seconds. The second will continue to munch away until the deed is complete. Since all data will be gone, no ill will from upset mourners.
The great thing about the battery is that to charge it up, you chew gum. That's right, now we will have people walking around and trying to chew gum at the same time. The same people that outlawed talking and driving will surely have a field day with this.
Hell, I was getting my mp3's off...Valenti, clearly, has no idea
Go ahead and brag and tell us how much you know. I'm sure Mr. Valenti loves to read posts like yours detailing how easy it is to copy as he collects arguments that "piracy" exists. The average moron knows how to copy files. Jack just wants documented evidence how easy it is, so he can protect morons from technology with restrictive laws.
Right, because if they appear as ****** on the screen, they'll also appear as ****** in your proxy's logs!
I hope you aren't using wireless. Or a cablemodem. Or that your phone company doesn't have a microwave link to the neighboring town to cut down costs on buried cable. Simple microwave receivers are mighty cheap these days and the content is very interesting. Thought you might want to know that fact.
Better make wireless networks illegal too. No centralized control. People aim their antennas to help improve peering. Communication among small communities pooling their resources is increasing. These wireless networks don't require a internet gateway as they can be a truely local resource out of the Recording Industry's reach. Just like local bands that play at the city's bars and faraway country barns near you, these networks are virtually free from political control.
Re:Source based vs. Binary based: Possible comprom
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rpm --rebuild
heh, I did this with redhat over the years and while it can be done, it just doesn't seem natural. Tarballs are easy to work with if a person likes to have the source as a quick reference to why things work. Having a source tree available is like having the most comprehensive man pages if I want to know the most obscure details.
With a source based distribution, the temptation to tinker and try interesting hacks out is overwhelming. Gentoo provides an environment that is friendly for making changes if one wants control how far across the system modifications will reach. I don't see how it would be possible for rpm --rebuild to recompile just the system or selected parts of the world, while emerge makes this easy.
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Configuring how packages are compiled in gentoo can be set with the USE environment variable, or editing it in/etc/make.profile/make.defaults. There are many useful options that can be set there.
Compiling is done with the "emerge" command for that package. Just for grins if you want to reconfigure *everything* with a new set of interesting compile parameters, simply type:
emerge world
And watch the CPU happily crunch away on every line of code that is currently installed on your system!
"emerge rsync" updates the packaging tree. Then you can update packages, system, or the world with the -u option.
Exactly. You can purchase a "car charger" adapter for most laptops
If you prefer simplicity and hardware hacking doesn't bother you, run may laptop directly from a 12 volt battery.
Every laptop I have seen have fully functional built in inverters that regulate the voltage, while asking for 15 - 19 volts. If the input voltage drops, it will draw more current. It seems like this supply would make an external regulated supply redundant and just another point of failure. I have been running my laptops on the go this way for years.
A fuse is necessary. If the input supply is reversed, a diode will clamp the supply expecting a fuse to release the circuit. Most supplies are designed correctly and have a SCR crowbar circuit that will clamp the entire supply to ground if an overvoltage condition exists. These circuits protect the laptop when things go wrong and the fuse is necessary for them to operate, else you might have a fire.
Considering how hectic things are going, I'm sure a call to your local BSA hit squad would guarantee a quick response to all your backup software needs and more! They will insure a plan that you have plenty of boxed software with licenses at each computer. Problems enforcing backups? No problem, the BSA will come in with police, search warrants, complete with guns and make sure every computer is up to par with standards!
Call your friendly BSA today for a complete backup audit! Vaseline(tm) optional.
Stores do not like unhappy customers. Better have a lawyer to protect your rights, because they store is likely to call the police for crowd control and have you guys bused off to the station for processing.
Everyone should upgrade security fixes, but are these upgrades start at something like $500 for a new fully licensed version of Microsoft Office and just go from there? Upgrading when having to deal with licenses and required upgrade programs does not seem like too much fun for me.
If only a Windows computer had an easy upgrade like Gentoo Linux that could be typed in one line:
You better believe that you can get burned off 1 watt. Milliwatt laser diodes burn tiny pits into cdroms, one watt RF energy can burn away a small patch of skin in short time.
You appear to have read too much thoery and not have worked with antennas too much. If the wavelength is small enough, it indeed can be focused.
So its low power. If concentrated into a small point, 100mW can do its damage. You can burn yourself (as in smoke from the skin) with a 1 watt signal by lightly touching the tip of an antenna.
What happens to human flesh when the power increases? A CB radio puts out 4 watts and it can put the burns much deeper into the skin when contacted. That may be an example of a lower frequency, but higher frequencies such as microwaves, can be accidentally "focused" much like the sun with a magnifying glass. You can catch something on fire across the room (or set ablaze the tires to that black van parked across the street) by attatching a directional 2.4GHz antenna to the waveguide of a microwave oven.
A few hundred milliwatts here, a few hundred there, who's counting? Pretty soon, we won't need jackets in the winter.
The voltage difference between buildings over the same wires appear to be caused by the electrical load in one building being greater than the other at any time. The electrical resistance from the mains generates a voltage drop. Also, when dealing with the higher voltages, the current leakage due to capacitance and corona discharge add up greatly. It happens with 120 volts and becomes very pronounced with 480 volts. With 14400 volts from substations, this becomes a significant portion.
Its best to use fiber optic cable over large distances, unless you like to isolate the circuits and treat the chassis as possible live conductors. The voltage differences across one building can reach several volts. Over different buildings, I'd hate to touch the wires if the worst happened. I have seen 277 volts (one phase of the 480) make it through the ground reference before. If its copper from another building, beware! Don't touch!
Its just a matter of time before someone goes one step further to package the ssh packets in.gif banner ads. No eavesdropping spook would be the wiser thinking the connection is business as usual as the stealth connection would appear to be a barrage of spam popups.
Nice little flaming rant there, too bad its emotionaly charged without much fact.
Its not the fault of the United States for junk being exported. We do have very strict laws regarding wastes, where the originator is responsible of the waste "from cradle to grave." If someone generates waste, they are responsible for any harm and cleanup costs required even if they sell it to a rogue disposal service. This means if my business unloads mercury ridden waste and its discovered years later in a landfill that cannot properly manage its environment, I would be responsible for the entire cleanup.
How this law affects waste that leaves our borders would be interesting. Those who export junk are sure to have had a legal team investigating this grey area. If they had dumped it anywhere within our borders, within a few exeptions (major political bribes^H^H^H^H^H^Hdonations) it would be a guaranteed death of a company.
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The map looks like an electrical circuit.
I know how to hook up wires. Big wires, lots of amperage. With high voltage.
Just to be festive, let's charge the circuit on July 4th!
Epoxy type paint works best. Very durable, resists solvents, and the pressure washer.
It took a lot of effort on my part to play this trailer with gentoo as I had to take the time to type in these two commands...
emerge xine
xine LotR-TwoTowers-Teaser.mov
Nice movie!
Shouldn't it be the other way around? I thought radios had to pay the RIAA for each single played. Who's screwing who? Or is this some cartel keeping out the little players?
Doesn't the MPEG-LA alliance expect a user to pay .25 cents per hour of play back?
Don't worry. The decoder card's MAC address is programmed to your credit card number.
I haven't seen a room sized faraday cage completely work in preventing transmission or reception of signals yet. A friend worked at a shop where they repaired industrial radios and had one of these supposed faraday rooms with massive iron walls and mesh. He brought a radio in one day and didn't amuse the boss with it...
I'm in my "bomb shelter" with my wireless computer access point. While the massive concrete walls and rebar underneath the house does make the 2.4GHz signal weak outside the house, I can still get a good link.
You'd have to be in a good bank vault not to get reception. Jamming would only work on selected frequencies. Try to raise the noise floor on all frequencies would require the energy of a nuclear bomb. No one would survive the energy required to saturate the entire electromagnetic spectrum. Is this what Canada plans to do?
Make sure you format once to quickly start a new filesystem, repeated by a destructive badblock test to finish off the lost data between the inode maps. Just to be safe, scramble the boot sector and randomize the partition tables. That ought to make recovery a bit more difficult.
/dev/hda --ooops, formatted the whole drive as a filesystem, not a partition. Scrambled the partition table and the user's data all in one step. Ooops. Sorry.
/dev/hda --forces write testing on a mounted filesystem with assorted patterns of data. Truely evil.
/sbin/mkfs
/sbin/badblocks -fw
The first step ought to take a few seconds. The second will continue to munch away until the deed is complete. Since all data will be gone, no ill will from upset mourners.
NPR apparently wants their own network, seperate from the internet.
Complete with dialup lines, of course. Its possi ble. Does anyone still have a modem left from last century?
The great thing about the battery is that to charge it up, you chew gum. That's right, now we will have people walking around and trying to chew gum at the same time. The same people that outlawed talking and driving will surely have a field day with this.
Hell, I was getting my mp3's off...Valenti, clearly, has no idea
Go ahead and brag and tell us how much you know. I'm sure Mr. Valenti loves to read posts like yours detailing how easy it is to copy as he collects arguments that "piracy" exists. The average moron knows how to copy files. Jack just wants documented evidence how easy it is, so he can protect morons from technology with restrictive laws.
Right, because if they appear as ****** on the screen, they'll also appear as ****** in your proxy's logs!
I hope you aren't using wireless. Or a cablemodem. Or that your phone company doesn't have a microwave link to the neighboring town to cut down costs on buried cable. Simple microwave receivers are mighty cheap these days and the content is very interesting. Thought you might want to know that fact.
Better make wireless networks illegal too. No centralized control. People aim their antennas to help improve peering. Communication among small communities pooling their resources is increasing. These wireless networks don't require a internet gateway as they can be a truely local resource out of the Recording Industry's reach. Just like local bands that play at the city's bars and faraway country barns near you, these networks are virtually free from political control.
rpm --rebuild
heh, I did this with redhat over the years and while it can be done, it just doesn't seem natural. Tarballs are easy to work with if a person likes to have the source as a quick reference to why things work. Having a source tree available is like having the most comprehensive man pages if I want to know the most obscure details.
With a source based distribution, the temptation to tinker and try interesting hacks out is overwhelming. Gentoo provides an environment that is friendly for making changes if one wants control how far across the system modifications will reach. I don't see how it would be possible for rpm --rebuild to recompile just the system or selected parts of the world, while emerge makes this easy.
Configuring how packages are compiled in gentoo can be set with the USE environment variable, or editing it in /etc/make.profile/make.defaults. There are many useful options that can be set there.
Compiling is done with the "emerge" command for that package. Just for grins if you want to reconfigure *everything* with a new set of interesting compile parameters, simply type:
emerge world
And watch the CPU happily crunch away on every line of code that is currently installed on your system!
"emerge rsync" updates the packaging tree. Then you can update packages, system, or the world with the -u option.
Exactly. You can purchase a "car charger" adapter for most laptops
If you prefer simplicity and hardware hacking doesn't bother you, run may laptop directly from a 12 volt battery.
Every laptop I have seen have fully functional built in inverters that regulate the voltage, while asking for 15 - 19 volts. If the input voltage drops, it will draw more current. It seems like this supply would make an external regulated supply redundant and just another point of failure. I have been running my laptops on the go this way for years.
A fuse is necessary. If the input supply is reversed, a diode will clamp the supply expecting a fuse to release the circuit. Most supplies are designed correctly and have a SCR crowbar circuit that will clamp the entire supply to ground if an overvoltage condition exists. These circuits protect the laptop when things go wrong and the fuse is necessary for them to operate, else you might have a fire.
How about this?
I was searching for the butt hinge patent, but all kinds of wild things showed up on google. This is a riot.
Considering how hectic things are going, I'm sure a call to your local BSA hit squad would guarantee a quick response to all your backup software needs and more! They will insure a plan that you have plenty of boxed software with licenses at each computer. Problems enforcing backups? No problem, the BSA will come in with police, search warrants, complete with guns and make sure every computer is up to par with standards!
Call your friendly BSA today for a complete backup audit! Vaseline(tm) optional.
Stores do not like unhappy customers. Better have a lawyer to protect your rights, because they store is likely to call the police for crowd control and have you guys bused off to the station for processing.
It seems expensive to fight big companies.
Everyone should upgrade security fixes, but are these upgrades start at something like $500 for a new fully licensed version of Microsoft Office and just go from there? Upgrading when having to deal with licenses and required upgrade programs does not seem like too much fun for me.
If only a Windows computer had an easy upgrade like Gentoo Linux that could be typed in one line:
make -u world
You better believe that you can get burned off 1 watt. Milliwatt laser diodes burn tiny pits into cdroms, one watt RF energy can burn away a small patch of skin in short time.
You appear to have read too much thoery and not have worked with antennas too much. If the wavelength is small enough, it indeed can be focused.
So its low power. If concentrated into a small point, 100mW can do its damage. You can burn yourself (as in smoke from the skin) with a 1 watt signal by lightly touching the tip of an antenna.
What happens to human flesh when the power increases? A CB radio puts out 4 watts and it can put the burns much deeper into the skin when contacted. That may be an example of a lower frequency, but higher frequencies such as microwaves, can be accidentally "focused" much like the sun with a magnifying glass. You can catch something on fire across the room (or set ablaze the tires to that black van parked across the street) by attatching a directional 2.4GHz antenna to the waveguide of a microwave oven.
A few hundred milliwatts here, a few hundred there, who's counting? Pretty soon, we won't need jackets in the winter.
The voltage difference between buildings over the same wires appear to be caused by the electrical load in one building being greater than the other at any time. The electrical resistance from the mains generates a voltage drop. Also, when dealing with the higher voltages, the current leakage due to capacitance and corona discharge add up greatly. It happens with 120 volts and becomes very pronounced with 480 volts. With 14400 volts from substations, this becomes a significant portion.
Its best to use fiber optic cable over large distances, unless you like to isolate the circuits and treat the chassis as possible live conductors. The voltage differences across one building can reach several volts. Over different buildings, I'd hate to touch the wires if the worst happened. I have seen 277 volts (one phase of the 480) make it through the ground reference before. If its copper from another building, beware! Don't touch!
Its just a matter of time before someone goes one step further to package the ssh packets in .gif banner ads. No eavesdropping spook would be the wiser thinking the connection is business as usual as the stealth connection would appear to be a barrage of spam popups.
I see a great future for stenography.
Close one window, two more pop up!
Nice little flaming rant there, too bad its emotionaly charged without much fact.
Its not the fault of the United States for junk being exported. We do have very strict laws regarding wastes, where the originator is responsible of the waste "from cradle to grave." If someone generates waste, they are responsible for any harm and cleanup costs required even if they sell it to a rogue disposal service. This means if my business unloads mercury ridden waste and its discovered years later in a landfill that cannot properly manage its environment, I would be responsible for the entire cleanup.
How this law affects waste that leaves our borders would be interesting. Those who export junk are sure to have had a legal team investigating this grey area. If they had dumped it anywhere within our borders, within a few exeptions (major political bribes^H^H^H^H^H^Hdonations) it would be a guaranteed death of a company.