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In Kansas City, MO, it is legal to break the speed limit once per year. There are so many laws related to speeding, they might as well make it legal again or clean up the whole mess of laws on the books.
With the help of a lawyer and a total of $1055, I got out of 5 speeding tickets in one year due to things like wording of the ticket, the wording of the law did not state the difference between year and a calendar year, and a few not technicaly defined in city limits.
Now that I look back on these laws, I grew out of my bad habits and have had no traffic violations in several years. I realize that the legal system can really be unfair to many or just a game for a few when it is enforced.
I used to Live in Missouri. A law on the books until the 70's was that it was legal to shoot a Mormon on site. In Buckner, MO, last I checked about 10 years ago, there was a law on the town's books that it was legal shoot a [black person] after dark in a public place.
And in Kansas, last I checked, you can still have the option of being hanged for capitol offenses.
When the question was asked for what might the icon be for "Your rights online" for evil patents, I was thinking about those old western pictures of the stereostypical short and fat snakeoil salesmen hawking his dubious warez from a soapbox to the unsuspecting public.
Know what image I'm talking about? Good for an icon? Unfortunately, old clip art depicting these sellers of modern science escaped several search pages of google and lycos turned up dry. Oh well...
Why don't telcos just run fiber to each house? Physical connections are very expensive. May I recommend the hobby of packet radio to you? Its a very cheap way to send packets over a network that can be independent of a monopoly or one central location.
Why do you feel will it blow ISP's out of the water? Someone has to provide the pipe to the backbone and that's what the ISP's are there for. What this will eliminate is the phone company. And lower the costs of phone lines to an ISP. Imagine owning an ISP and not having to pay for 10,000 customer phone lines each month and just paying the one time cost for one $150,000 base station. Looks like a good deal to me.
I agree too, remembering the pain ISDN problems (read lack of service for weeks while getting the runaround from BellSouth) and have dreamed of bypassing the phone company with microwaves. The $150,000 seems a bit steep, but I guess that's the price for a massive base station.
It would be nice to see something I can afford for my own little network. I hope the $500 units have an option network together in the spirit of the internet. I'm using the 2mbps Zoomair modems around my neighborhood in a simple network. Too bad they don't cover the city . . .
Well, I might looking for a new job if my boss says I'm a screw up. Where I work, the managers and supervisors back us up all the way until the problem is solved.
I have always enjoyed free speech. Others may have not. My mom marched in the civil rights parades in Los Angleles before I was born and that got her investigated, kicked out of church, etc. Makes me proud.
I saw a movie over the weekend called "The Informant" that showed how easily the FBI can become corrupted. If the FBI ever investigates me, I would be honored. It is my belief that I am insignificant and an average boring person. Don't do drugs, commit acts of terrorism (unlike the FBI,) or upset my neighbors or employer. I'm not worth enough to my employer to be investigated anyway (it would be a total waste of taxpayer money!)
I feel like I'm living in China and the tanks are rolling and about to crush my mind of free speech. The FBI seems like it is trying to form its own government and commit treason against its own citizens. Should we file suit?
Don't forget there's a quick way to read those dirty MS word documents instantly from the command line:
strings documentname.doc | less
or direct it into a file into your favorite editor or word processor:
strings documentname.doc > newdocumentname.txt
Its great for reading resumes and cover letters too, since word documents often include previous junk from a memory scratch buffer during quicksaves. What this means is that previous revisions that the author had not intended might unintentionaly show up for your viewing in the final.
Kenwood is hardly a loser company. Its product line includes a complete line of communications for industrial applications, which is a very profitable market. Considering their quality over the latest Motorola products that I have to use, Kenwood looks very promising. I work in an industrial environment which requires that can deliver a clear voice. Its not much to ask, but the $450 radios from their competitor are a pain to hear.
That's why I searched around their site looking at their radios. I found lots of neat products that connect to almost anything, such as portable radios with integrated digital cameras. Fun stuff!
This is America and I will just claim prior art. In fact, I can claim better prior art as I now have your IP.
You might indeed improve upon someone else's work before you claim it as your own. Some rearrangement and a few changes here, a few needed things there, you have something with added value.
Its now stolen from its heritage and you may miss the benefits of the orginal authors. The author who wrote the code before you was inspired to write that code and had much vision. That's something you cannot duplicate. You might try to claim it as prior art, but the first author knows that code in his sleep and much better than the visible back of his hand. That is part of the author's soul you stole. You might claim it as yours, but can you relate to it, trace the history of that code, and talk about what inpired it? You might to defend yourself. But you are faking it.
You appear to enjoy programming off the work of others, not to create in its own sense. There are dangers to what you are doing and it may well profit you. But if you do cross with an original author over code you stole, you will encounter a personal battle. You might even win one or two, but people may get wise. It takes time to grow up and gain wisdom. You might learn its to your advantage to develop your own vision, rather than steal from others.
FUD stands for Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt. Its a tool used by marketing departments and paid professionals to cause confustion and mudslinging between otherwise rational people.
I said that he *implied* that Linux was immune to viri, not that he *stated* anything.
True, he may have implied such and he did not state anything, but you stated a tirade about Linux viruses, not him. You are the one bringing up the FUD and now you claim you are bored. If you have a point to make with Linux being prone to catch viruses, why don't you simply email me one?
If you are so tired about people complaining about Linux being immune, imagine yourself complaining about something theoretical (and difficult) that is not an issue. Its interesting for a moment, but arguably offtopic and flamebait.
but the post that started this thread was implying that Linux was immune to viri,
No, unless I am reading a different post than you. He suggested Dell should push Linux boxes harder. I supose you could interpret what the first poster said might suggest that Linux was a an alternative, but he did not state any facts about Linux dealing with viruses.
Theoreticaly, you are correct, but we could be doing "what if there was software written to spread viruses on Linux" all day. I have not been plagued by the bad software problem, but I do know Windows users that have been spending an awful lot of time over these virus issues.
Can Linux catch a virus? Well, send a loaded email to my ISP. They happen to run Linux, use Pine for email, and under user accounts. There you have three reasons why the system files will not be corrupted.
Now I hear people say virus can infect anything regardless of what operating system I have, no matter how secure I think I am. Well, I haven't learned how to do scripting in Pine and I can see non text funny stuff from spammers and friends like a trojan. Things between the mailers like pagers, routers, copper wire, and your modem, etc., just really are not designed to host a virus. But when you run it on a Windows system that takes security as a joke, be prepared.
Electronic warfare? I doubt it. We're just witnessing an OS that was designed like a petri dish. It has neglegable security and poor design. Why does it organized help from governments to destroy it?
Light can indeed cancel itself. Think of defraction patterns caused by coherent light mixed 180 degrees out of phase with itself. My physics is a little rusty, but I'm interested in fundamental harmonics created by other modulated wavelengths.
They claim all 1022 wavelengths were transmitted at the same time with an ultra fast laser. I thought lasers emitted coherent light at one wavelength. I have seen adjustable lasers, but it was one wavelength at a time and depended on tube geometry and the die used. How do they tune their laser to transmit multiple frequencies at the same time? It sounds unbeleivable to me.
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In Kansas City, MO, it is legal to break the speed limit once per year. There are so many laws related to speeding, they might as well make it legal again or clean up the whole mess of laws on the books.
With the help of a lawyer and a total of $1055, I got out of 5 speeding tickets in one year due to things like wording of the ticket, the wording of the law did not state the difference between year and a calendar year, and a few not technicaly defined in city limits.
Now that I look back on these laws, I grew out of my bad habits and have had no traffic violations in several years. I realize that the legal system can really be unfair to many or just a game for a few when it is enforced.
I used to Live in Missouri. A law on the books until the 70's was that it was legal to shoot a Mormon on site. In Buckner, MO, last I checked about 10 years ago, there was a law on the town's books that it was legal shoot a [black person] after dark in a public place.
And in Kansas, last I checked, you can still have the option of being hanged for capitol offenses.
When the question was asked for what might the icon be for "Your rights online" for evil patents, I was thinking about those old western pictures of the stereostypical short and fat snakeoil salesmen hawking his dubious warez from a soapbox to the unsuspecting public.
Know what image I'm talking about? Good for an icon? Unfortunately, old clip art depicting these sellers of modern science escaped several search pages of google and lycos turned up dry. Oh well...
Why don't telcos just run fiber to each house? Physical connections are very expensive. May I recommend the hobby of packet radio to you? Its a very cheap way to send packets over a network that can be independent of a monopoly or one central location.
Why do you feel will it blow ISP's out of the water? Someone has to provide the pipe to the backbone and that's what the ISP's are there for. What this will eliminate is the phone company. And lower the costs of phone lines to an ISP. Imagine owning an ISP and not having to pay for 10,000 customer phone lines each month and just paying the one time cost for one $150,000 base station. Looks like a good deal to me.
I agree too, remembering the pain ISDN problems (read lack of service for weeks while getting the runaround from BellSouth) and have dreamed of bypassing the phone company with microwaves. The $150,000 seems a bit steep, but I guess that's the price for a massive base station.
It would be nice to see something I can afford for my own little network. I hope the $500 units have an option network together in the spirit of the internet. I'm using the 2mbps Zoomair modems around my neighborhood in a simple network. Too bad they don't cover the city . . .
[Your] boss says your a screw up you can:
Well, I might looking for a new job if my boss says I'm a screw up. Where I work, the managers and supervisors back us up all the way until the problem is solved.
I have always enjoyed free speech. Others may have not. My mom marched in the civil rights parades in Los Angleles before I was born and that got her investigated, kicked out of church, etc. Makes me proud.
I saw a movie over the weekend called "The Informant" that showed how easily the FBI can become corrupted. If the FBI ever investigates me, I would be honored. It is my belief that I am insignificant and an average boring person. Don't do drugs, commit acts of terrorism (unlike the FBI,) or upset my neighbors or employer. I'm not worth enough to my employer to be investigated anyway (it would be a total waste of taxpayer money!)
Hmm... land of the free indeed
I feel like I'm living in China and the tanks are rolling and about to crush my mind of free speech. The FBI seems like it is trying to form its own government and commit treason against its own citizens. Should we file suit?
Don't forget there's a quick way to read those dirty MS word documents instantly from the command line:
strings documentname.doc | less
or direct it into a file into your favorite editor or word processor:
strings documentname.doc > newdocumentname.txt
Its great for reading resumes and cover letters too, since word documents often include previous junk from a memory scratch buffer during quicksaves. What this means is that previous revisions that the author had not intended might unintentionaly show up for your viewing in the final.
Shall I paraphrase the review . . .
Damn good book. 'nuff said!
F atbrain.com has it for $31.95 in stock.
Bookpool. com has it for $24.50, on backorder. It cost me $9 for 2 day fedex and got it the next day for the first edition.
Kenwood is hardly a loser company. Its product line includes a complete line of communications for industrial applications, which is a very profitable market. Considering their quality over the latest Motorola products that I have to use, Kenwood looks very promising. I work in an industrial environment which requires that can deliver a clear voice. Its not much to ask, but the $450 radios from their competitor are a pain to hear.
That's why I searched around their site looking at their radios. I found lots of neat products that connect to almost anything, such as portable radios with integrated digital cameras. Fun stuff!
This is America and I will just claim prior art. In fact, I can claim better prior art as I now have your IP.
You might indeed improve upon someone else's work before you claim it as your own. Some rearrangement and a few changes here, a few needed things there, you have something with added value.
Its now stolen from its heritage and you may miss the benefits of the orginal authors. The author who wrote the code before you was inspired to write that code and had much vision. That's something you cannot duplicate. You might try to claim it as prior art, but the first author knows that code in his sleep and much better than the visible back of his hand. That is part of the author's soul you stole. You might claim it as yours, but can you relate to it, trace the history of that code, and talk about what inpired it? You might to defend yourself. But you are faking it.
You appear to enjoy programming off the work of others, not to create in its own sense. There are dangers to what you are doing and it may well profit you. But if you do cross with an original author over code you stole, you will encounter a personal battle. You might even win one or two, but people may get wise. It takes time to grow up and gain wisdom. You might learn its to your advantage to develop your own vision, rather than steal from others.
That was a good site. Anybody got a mirror of it?
FUD stands for Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt. Its a tool used by marketing departments and paid professionals to cause confustion and mudslinging between otherwise rational people.
I said that he *implied* that Linux was immune to viri, not that he *stated* anything.
True, he may have implied such and he did not state anything, but you stated a tirade about Linux viruses, not him. You are the one bringing up the FUD and now you claim you are bored. If you have a point to make with Linux being prone to catch viruses, why don't you simply email me one?
If you are so tired about people complaining about Linux being immune, imagine yourself complaining about something theoretical (and difficult) that is not an issue. Its interesting for a moment, but arguably offtopic and flamebait.
but the post that started this thread was implying that Linux was immune to viri,
No, unless I am reading a different post than you. He suggested Dell should push Linux boxes harder. I supose you could interpret what the first poster said might suggest that Linux was a an alternative, but he did not state any facts about Linux dealing with viruses.
Theoreticaly, you are correct, but we could be doing "what if there was software written to spread viruses on Linux" all day. I have not been plagued by the bad software problem, but I do know Windows users that have been spending an awful lot of time over these virus issues.
if the same software was available for Linux
We could be doing "what if..." all day. The point is now that Linux is not designed that way.
Can Linux catch a virus? Well, send a loaded email to my ISP. They happen to run Linux, use Pine for email, and under user accounts. There you have three reasons why the system files will not be corrupted.
Now I hear people say virus can infect anything regardless of what operating system I have, no matter how secure I think I am. Well, I haven't learned how to do scripting in Pine and I can see non text funny stuff from spammers and friends like a trojan. Things between the mailers like pagers, routers, copper wire, and your modem, etc., just really are not designed to host a virus. But when you run it on a Windows system that takes security as a joke, be prepared.
Electronic warfare? I doubt it. We're just witnessing an OS that was designed like a petri dish. It has neglegable security and poor design. Why does it organized help from governments to destroy it?
Would there be a full moon picture that isn't eclipsed by a black square? I'd imagine only Bill and the photographer got the ugliest view.
Light can indeed cancel itself. Think of defraction patterns caused by coherent light mixed 180 degrees out of phase with itself. My physics is a little rusty, but I'm interested in fundamental harmonics created by other modulated wavelengths.
They claim all 1022 wavelengths were transmitted at the same time with an ultra fast laser. I thought lasers emitted coherent light at one wavelength. I have seen adjustable lasers, but it was one wavelength at a time and depended on tube geometry and the die used. How do they tune their laser to transmit multiple frequencies at the same time? It sounds unbeleivable to me.