Cool!. That means that the propagandistic crap that CNN spews out won't reach the malcontented billions.
hehe... when AOL opened the floodgates upon usenet with its uneducated users with a great big post button and buggy software that duplicated sensless one liner comments seven times each into what was a thriving diverse usenet community, it was effectively a denial of service attack. Entire newsgroups were ruined.
I was reading the alt.best.of.usenet or whatever it was called --at the moment they turned on their sewage pipe. Immediately, the newsgroup filled with humorous postings was awash with crap.
You think CNN is bad now, just wait until they monopolize and control all your news feeds with their quick and agressive marketing strategy. With AOL's proven expansion, it seems many news carriers will be gobbled up and you will have one source for your news! Yipieeeee!
My question is what they are going to police. Are they going to prevent the security holes by scanning for the offenders? Or are they going to scan for "servers," such as non Windows users, such as Linux boxen with a personal home page?
I'd like to have cable access, but not a crippled Windows box with all its problems.
Whats to stop me from taking apart a DVD writer . . . and hooking it up to a dvd reader, again directly to the electronics.
There's always a hardware solution for everything. Unfortunately, using electronic means, rather than simply through software, is physical equipment that has to be set up. With the help of just an oscilloscope, possibly logic probes, or even a logic analyzer for the tough babies, the raw stream can be located for capture.
Software allows a much more portable means of distributing a solution. You can think of your computer as a programmable electronic laboratory. Those electronic project kits have to be hardwired. Linux and free software allows us to program an entire science project full of gates and latches with highly configurable code.
Granted, in this case, it would be much easier to simply copy the raw video stream if one wanted to pirate a DVD. Those who wish to steal the content and pirate it overseas can justify the costs of doing just that.
Most consumers who have no interest in copying a cheap dvd to an expensive blank can't watch it on their "obsolete" or non mainstream computer and were stuck without a player for alternative operating systems. Now we are not excluded.
I have seen what looks like the DVD CCA courting the press, especially CNN Headline News, about "hackers" pirating DVD's. Its one sided articles like these that make me wonder how ramped up the DVD CCA is toward public relations and pumping up press releases.
But then again, whenever I see DOS, I pronounce it to myself as D-O-S, not daus. I have to force myself to pronounce it that way so people would not confuse it with the acronym for Denial-Of-Service, which, in a twisted way is what DOS is as an operating system.
Acronyms. I believe self learned nerds that don't get out (such as myself) will always get these wrong and raise eyebrows whenever they meet.
These other "inventions" I have seen the likes waaaay before Microsoft implimented them. I used the VMS desktop and seen office apps years before "Microsoft Office" came out.
Usenet is not elitist. You don't have to get a client to access usenet news. I used to telnet directly into usenet server's port 119 to read and post from there. You can do this by:
telnet nntpserver.domain 119
even in Windoze. I would even say the server's raw interface is user friendly. If you want help, just type help followed by return. Its a beautiful interface and is compatible with almost anything that can display text. With a good terminal and some scripting, it can be the most productive environment for digesting news.
and bookmark it from your browser. This search form was saved from my cache when deja ruined their interface. It has none of the voting crap and your search will just yield the facts and what you are looking for.
do not agree. Just because there are users who abuse the internet and usenet groups the entire domain is black listed
I remember when AOL opened its floodgates upon the internet. No only did they put a big POST button in their software and not educate their users what usenet was, they had a little bug in their software. Each post would be duplicated seven times. Putting the entire aol.com domain in my killfile returned the newsgroups back to an enjoyable state. In fact, it would be over a year before I ever saw an intelligent post from the aol.com domain. I wasn't missing much by filtering them out.
Then other ISP's unloaded the masses onto usenet. Newbies are a fact of life, but usenet was then carpetbombed with scams and what was to be known as spam. It was unreadable. Filtering everything with the.com domain helped, but that removed some good posts too. It worked for a while and made the groups readable.
I have seen the usenet death penalty used. And it works! It keeps me from having to filter, because it forces responsiblility for those who wish to become part of the usenet community.
Breaking up a cancerous growth is worse than simply removing the problem. What's worse than One Microsoft? Three of them competing for World Domination. If those who lost their jobs due to anticompete practices were compensated, I'm sure justice would be served.
A week ago, I was at the farm taking a break watching the 6oclock news with the folks. You know, grandparents who aren't on the internet. So, I'm not afraid talking about them here. Anyhow, we were commenting on all the violence reported on the news, terrorisiom, shootings, police beatings, etc. Grandma started preaching, "if we put God back in schools, got rid of this atheism crap, censored the sex and violence from the int-r-net, the world would be a peaceful place." After that, I knew she would be hard to reach.
That's someone who is fair game for the politicians. If we don't vote, we can count on our communications being censored, many common activities being illegal, and being taught science as the way the bible would teach it. Read a chemistry book on your own time in that kind of world, and they would just know you were planning to make bomb making chemicals or drugs.
816 area code is a Kansas City, Missouri number. The DVD CCA is in California. Its not cool to post people's phone numbers in a public forum, especially to harass someone.
energy produced by combustion of 1.0 L gasoline 32 x 106 J
From the tech newsgroups, Tom Box states:
The composition of gasoline can vary significantly. Assuming for simplicity that it's pure normal octane, then 1,000,000 joules = 20.88 g. At room temperature and pressure, that's 29.7 cm^3. For the metrically challenged, that's about one fluid ounce.
75 kWh corresponds to 8.03 litres of octane, or just over 2 U.S. gallons.
And a word from the top fueler's on how tricky it is to get alcohol to burn like gasoline:
And here's a good discussion how alcohol performs in race cars and why it is used in them rather than by consumers.
I'm sure you would have no problems with electric cars in cold weather. They are also very heavy, which may help out with pushing the tires through the snow.
We use electric cars and trucks at work. They can go for days without a charge while being used non-stop. Granted, these are industrial cars and are not designed go too fast. That doesn't mean they can't. I did get a few of them to go fast enough for the road by weakening the field electromagnets on the motor. That little trick produced some needle pricking speeds and smoke. These cars have no speedometers, so I wouldn't know how fast they were. I do know the brakes had a hard time slowing them down!
Big DC motors are fun. If you ever get to work in an industrial plant, you might have the chance to play with them. They have a rated horsepower, but they can really be abused!
Would you like a 40 gallon tank of alchohol in your car? My truck currently holds 40 gallons and 80 gallons would really add some weight. Its just interesting to think about.
Well, the problem is that as the battery drains you lose your peak power output
It might be a good idea to size your battery to last longer than what you would find in a race car.
Its not a good idea to extract full power from massive batteries quickly due to the heat generated. Discharge a small automobile battery in one hour and it will become quite hot. A group of batteries discharged in one hour would be hazardous.
Non vented cells, such as alkaline and lithium ion might operate better under long discharge conditions.
What kind of batteries would you be using? Today, lead acid is mighty cheap (but very heavy!) A typical 6 cell lead acid battery has a full charge of 13 volts charged, 12 volts discharged, 12.5 volts halfway, etc... Its internal resistance is very low. Placing a heavy load on a lead acid battery might drop the voltage down to 11 volts. Not much.
The voltage will never drop much below the 12 volts under load until it is completely dead. You can ride a lead acid battery at full power until its drained. I won't mention its a bad idea to drain any lead acid battery below its 50% charge if you value its life.
Alchohol has half the energy density as gasoline. Double your fuel tank size and widen the jets on your carb or fuel injectors. So, how much does alchohol cost per gallon?
Current home electrical systems and power plants would be overwhelmed if everyone ran out and got an electric car today.
OK, I'm bored. Let's do some simple math.
Let's consider the power involved and how much is generated by a typical 150 horsepower engine. That would be 150 horsepower(746watts/1` horsepower) = 112 kilowatts, or about 1017 amps at 110 volts.
Driving down the highway would take, say, 30 horsepower. An hours worth of driving a day would be 30 horsepower(746watts/1 horsepower) = 22280 watts, or a ten hour charge at 110 volts would be (22280 watts/110 volts)/(10 hours) = 20.3 amps. How much would that cost for 30 days of driving at 8 cents per kilowat hour? (22280 watts/0.08 cents per kilowatt hour)(30 days)= $53.47. Ok, not bad. Don't forget industrial electrical rates are far lower at $0.02 cents per kilowatt hour and less!
It might be nice if one could pry into the flash memory of the more exotic sound cards to program the DSP into playing things like mp3's. When I find a site that shows more detail on how sound cards are constructed, I would like to try programming one of those things.
Right now, I just have a few simple sound cards and am not sure if they can be reprogrammed. I do know that looking at my RIO that uses only 1 AA battery, nothing is more effecient or flies like assembly on a DSP!
Ah, power consumption! My utility company provides the 125 volt standard; right now its at 123.2 RMS volts at the outlet. Currently my two computers (desktop and laptop) on the UPS main at full CPU load and my 17" monitor at half brightness are using 1754mA, which makes for 216.1 watts. At 8 cents per kilowatt hour, that will net me $12.44 a month.
My monitor consumes 1055mA, or 130 watts, or $7.49 a month. Turning it off could be a big savings.
The main computer required to host web pages, etc., consumes 600mA, or 73.9 watts, or $4.26 a month. That's under full load, cracking CSC, serving MP3's, and providing limited remote control functions for the house.
My laptop with the screen off, consumes the remainder of the power.
Let's see how much power is saved by turning off the monitor, CSC cracking, MP3's, and the monitor... 1658mA, or 204 watts total. 8 watts saved? Well, there's too much going on this setup, so the savings are insignificant.
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Cool!. That means that the propagandistic crap that CNN spews out won't reach the malcontented billions.
hehe... when AOL opened the floodgates upon usenet with its uneducated users with a great big post button and buggy software that duplicated sensless one liner comments seven times each into what was a thriving diverse usenet community, it was effectively a denial of service attack. Entire newsgroups were ruined.
I was reading the alt.best.of.usenet or whatever it was called --at the moment they turned on their sewage pipe. Immediately, the newsgroup filled with humorous postings was awash with crap.
You think CNN is bad now, just wait until they monopolize and control all your news feeds with their quick and agressive marketing strategy. With AOL's proven expansion, it seems many news carriers will be gobbled up and you will have one source for your news! Yipieeeee!
My question is what they are going to police. Are they going to prevent the security holes by scanning for the offenders? Or are they going to scan for "servers," such as non Windows users, such as Linux boxen with a personal home page?
I'd like to have cable access, but not a crippled Windows box with all its problems.
Whats to stop me from taking apart a DVD writer . . . and hooking it up to a dvd reader, again directly to the electronics.
There's always a hardware solution for everything. Unfortunately, using electronic means, rather than simply through software, is physical equipment that has to be set up. With the help of just an oscilloscope, possibly logic probes, or even a logic analyzer for the tough babies, the raw stream can be located for capture.
Software allows a much more portable means of distributing a solution. You can think of your computer as a programmable electronic laboratory. Those electronic project kits have to be hardwired. Linux and free software allows us to program an entire science project full of gates and latches with highly configurable code.
Granted, in this case, it would be much easier to simply copy the raw video stream if one wanted to pirate a DVD. Those who wish to steal the content and pirate it overseas can justify the costs of doing just that.
Most consumers who have no interest in copying a cheap dvd to an expensive blank can't watch it on their "obsolete" or non mainstream computer and were stuck without a player for alternative operating systems. Now we are not excluded.
I have seen what looks like the DVD CCA courting the press, especially CNN Headline News, about "hackers" pirating DVD's. Its one sided articles like these that make me wonder how ramped up the DVD CCA is toward public relations and pumping up press releases.
And I do it too! EISA? eeeeesa!
But then again, whenever I see DOS, I pronounce it to myself as D-O-S, not daus. I have to force myself to pronounce it that way so people would not confuse it with the acronym for Denial-Of-Service, which, in a twisted way is what DOS is as an operating system.
Acronyms. I believe self learned nerds that don't get out (such as myself) will always get these wrong and raise eyebrows whenever they meet.
Let me add a few too...
The taskbar - Hewlett Packard developed this neat little taskbar program called Dashboard later bought by Starfish Software.
These other "inventions" I have seen the likes waaaay before Microsoft implimented them. I used the VMS desktop and seen office apps years before "Microsoft Office" came out.
Usenet is not elitist. You don't have to get a client to access usenet news. I used to telnet directly into usenet server's port 119 to read and post from there. You can do this by:
telnet nntpserver.domain 119
even in Windoze. I would even say the server's raw interface is user friendly. If you want help, just type help followed by return. Its a beautiful interface and is compatible with almost anything that can display text. With a good terminal and some scripting, it can be the most productive environment for digesting news.
If you want a good dejanews interface that's free of the crap and all the advertisements,
copy this old dejanews search form to your home directory
and bookmark it from your browser. This search form was saved from my cache when deja ruined their interface. It has none of the voting crap and your search will just yield the facts and what you are looking for.
do not agree. Just because there are users who abuse the internet and usenet groups the entire domain is black listed
.com domain helped, but that removed some good posts too. It worked for a while and made the groups readable.
I remember when AOL opened its floodgates upon the internet. No only did they put a big POST button in their software and not educate their users what usenet was, they had a little bug in their software. Each post would be duplicated seven times. Putting the entire aol.com domain in my killfile returned the newsgroups back to an enjoyable state. In fact, it would be over a year before I ever saw an intelligent post from the aol.com domain. I wasn't missing much by filtering them out.
Then other ISP's unloaded the masses onto usenet. Newbies are a fact of life, but usenet was then carpetbombed with scams and what was to be known as spam. It was unreadable. Filtering everything with the
I have seen the usenet death penalty used. And it works! It keeps me from having to filter, because it forces responsiblility for those who wish to become part of the usenet community.
All I can say is @home has to be the most complete and stable home based internet service available.
Why do I get the feeling you work as PR for @home?
Breaking up a cancerous growth is worse than simply removing the problem. What's worse than One Microsoft? Three of them competing for World Domination. If those who lost their jobs due to anticompete practices were compensated, I'm sure justice would be served.
Here's the product, and its for sale now! It runs on Windows software, so it might suffer from unexpected equipment failure.
A week ago, I was at the farm taking a break watching the 6oclock news with the folks. You know, grandparents who aren't on the internet. So, I'm not afraid talking about them here. Anyhow, we were commenting on all the violence reported on the news, terrorisiom, shootings, police beatings, etc. Grandma started preaching, "if we put God back in schools, got rid of this atheism crap, censored the sex and violence from the int-r-net, the world would be a peaceful place." After that, I knew she would be hard to reach.
That's someone who is fair game for the politicians. If we don't vote, we can count on our communications being censored, many common activities being illegal, and being taught science as the way the bible would teach it. Read a chemistry book on your own time in that kind of world, and they would just know you were planning to make bomb making chemicals or drugs.
816 area code is a Kansas City, Missouri number. The DVD CCA is in California. Its not cool to post people's phone numbers in a public forum, especially to harass someone.
816 area code is a Kansas City, Missouri, area code. The above is a troll.
I wonder if my true-RMS voltmeter was telling the truth...
energy content of alcohol 23.4 x 106 J/Liter
from the same paper, for gasoline:
energy produced by combustion of 1.0 L gasoline 32 x 106 J
From the tech newsgroups, Tom Box states:
The composition of gasoline can vary significantly. Assuming for simplicity that it's pure normal octane, then 1,000,000 joules = 20.88 g. At room temperature and pressure, that's 29.7 cm^3. For the metrically challenged, that's about one fluid ounce.
75 kWh corresponds to 8.03 litres of octane, or just over 2 U.S. gallons.
And a word from the top fueler's on how tricky it is to get alcohol to burn like gasoline:
And here's a good discussion how alcohol performs in race cars and why it is used in them rather than by consumers.
I'm sure you would have no problems with electric cars in cold weather. They are also very heavy, which may help out with pushing the tires through the snow.
We use electric cars and trucks at work. They can go for days without a charge while being used non-stop. Granted, these are industrial cars and are not designed go too fast. That doesn't mean they can't. I did get a few of them to go fast enough for the road by weakening the field electromagnets on the motor. That little trick produced some needle pricking speeds and smoke. These cars have no speedometers, so I wouldn't know how fast they were. I do know the brakes had a hard time slowing them down!
Big DC motors are fun. If you ever get to work in an industrial plant, you might have the chance to play with them. They have a rated horsepower, but they can really be abused!
Would you like a 40 gallon tank of alchohol in your car? My truck currently holds 40 gallons and 80 gallons would really add some weight. Its just interesting to think about.
Well, the problem is that as the battery drains you lose your peak power output
It might be a good idea to size your battery to last longer than what you would find in a race car.
Its not a good idea to extract full power from massive batteries quickly due to the heat generated. Discharge a small automobile battery in one hour and it will become quite hot. A group of batteries discharged in one hour would be hazardous.
Non vented cells, such as alkaline and lithium ion might operate better under long discharge conditions.
What kind of batteries would you be using? Today, lead acid is mighty cheap (but very heavy!) A typical 6 cell lead acid battery has a full charge of 13 volts charged, 12 volts discharged, 12.5 volts halfway, etc... Its internal resistance is very low. Placing a heavy load on a lead acid battery might drop the voltage down to 11 volts. Not much.
The voltage will never drop much below the 12 volts under load until it is completely dead. You can ride a lead acid battery at full power until its drained. I won't mention its a bad idea to drain any lead acid battery below its 50% charge if you value its life.
Alchohol has half the energy density as gasoline. Double your fuel tank size and widen the jets on your carb or fuel injectors. So, how much does alchohol cost per gallon?
Current home electrical systems and power plants would be overwhelmed if everyone ran out and got an electric car today.
OK, I'm bored. Let's do some simple math.
Let's consider the power involved and how much is generated by a typical 150 horsepower engine. That would be 150 horsepower(746watts/1` horsepower) = 112 kilowatts, or about 1017 amps at 110 volts.
Driving down the highway would take, say, 30 horsepower. An hours worth of driving a day would be 30 horsepower(746watts/1 horsepower) = 22280 watts, or a ten hour charge at 110 volts would be (22280 watts/110 volts)/(10 hours) = 20.3 amps. How much would that cost for 30 days of driving at 8 cents per kilowat hour? (22280 watts/0.08 cents per kilowatt hour)(30 days)= $53.47. Ok, not bad. Don't forget industrial electrical rates are far lower at $0.02 cents per kilowatt hour and less!
It might be nice if one could pry into the flash memory of the more exotic sound cards to program the DSP into playing things like mp3's. When I find a site that shows more detail on how sound cards are constructed, I would like to try programming one of those things.
Right now, I just have a few simple sound cards and am not sure if they can be reprogrammed. I do know that looking at my RIO that uses only 1 AA battery, nothing is more effecient or flies like assembly on a DSP!
Ah, power consumption! My utility company provides the 125 volt standard; right now its at 123.2 RMS volts at the outlet. Currently my two computers (desktop and laptop) on the UPS main at full CPU load and my 17" monitor at half brightness are using 1754mA, which makes for 216.1 watts. At 8 cents per kilowatt hour, that will net me $12.44 a month.
My monitor consumes 1055mA, or 130 watts, or $7.49 a month. Turning it off could be a big savings.
The main computer required to host web pages, etc., consumes 600mA, or 73.9 watts, or $4.26 a month. That's under full load, cracking CSC, serving MP3's, and providing limited remote control functions for the house.
My laptop with the screen off, consumes the remainder of the power.
Let's see how much power is saved by turning off the monitor, CSC cracking, MP3's, and the monitor... 1658mA, or 204 watts total. 8 watts saved? Well, there's too much going on this setup, so the savings are insignificant.
CTRL-ALT-DEL must be a real pain for those little guys, what with their fingers all stuck together! They must have to work as a team to do it!
No, it doesn't take a whole team, when you have the proper tool to do it.