Laser pointers and your supersoaker would be a great combination at the evening pool parties. Lasers really light up mists of water. I know mine shines a bright, spectacular beam in the fog. Imagine the display you could have with a bright red jet from the end of your gun!
Do they make laser diodes of different colors besides red yet?
This is a great gift to budding programmers. It was the environment that made Turbo C great for me to learn. It didn't have the nonsense that Visual C had, the help was much easier to find, and the compiles were instant. If you wanted to try out a few quick lines of code, it was hard to beat. Turbo C just didn't seem to have any bloat in its compiler.
I did buy Visual C++ (upgraded from MSC 5 through 6) and my brain started to rot. Perhaps that was my fault, but I do remember getting along very well with Turbo C and wrote lots of school projects and getting many A's with it.
Just imagine the profile they could have on your name. What are your interests? What hours of the business day did you post to slashdot? Did you ever make any posts to alt.sex? Do you ever intend to run for political office?
What business does the government have with what kind of drugs are out there? So it can create lucrative black market terrorists organizations that thrive? Seems like the government is creating all these problems in the first place.
So the government monitors traffic on the net. It learns new ways of getting in trouble after some government employees take a kickback by leaking some inside information gained by email exchange by engineers at a tech startup. Patents are issued and the government has a company paying billions in taxes on a new product on its soil.
Monitoring can create some unhappy people. Let's play fair and everyone will get along better.
Why does anything the government do have to be done in such a wasteful manner? I would imagine most people that have a server on the net that experience a problem can deal with it just by looking at the logs, find the identity, make a phone call and see if the person needs help. You don't need a multibillion dollar spying center to replace everyone's job.
Do morons run servers? They will if the government has its way and insists on playing big brother on everything. Its like we would be so helpless without laws and regulations covering everything. The internet was doing so good until we started getting laws about encryption it seems like its going downhill from there...
Who knows, maybe the NSA and other obscure data mining companies that partner with backbone providers log all traffic to slashdot. If you are a legal gun on the staff of Big Evil corporation, just hire a nickle and dime detective to find one of those companies for the identity. Next, take the owners name of the account, do a background check through one of the many employment information services to find his credit history to see if the knucklehead is worthy of a lawsuit. Bonus points for spending the extra five bucks for a criminal check.
Let me tell you how easy it is getting any information on anyone. You never know until you tried. I tried with a demo account and a few dollars worth of long distance. For fun, I pulled up different reports of myself and found the information matched my credit history, balances, driving record, etc.
So, suppose you are the proud parent of a kid (or just a neighbor of one) who gets upset at some company's new product and goes on a posting binge. Imagine the surprise when you get served with papers at your front door. The internet is now a liability due to the laws and you have been deemed responsible. Oh, the system is fair. You will have your day in court and will have due process while your guilt is being determined. Welcome to America!
I think the reason at least some companies put blocking software on internet access is due to people whining and complaining. I remember when our company replaced all the computers. One day, suddenly everyone had a new box on their desk with this new thing called the internet. No instructions, training, or guidance on how to use it. Just hack and learn. Nothing like an unrestricted T1 pipe to the net!
Well, there were a few problems. The network crawled to a halt a few times. Most have never had internet access and the wealth of information (porn) was new to them. They were like kids. Since I went through this phase several years ago at a university (who didn't?) I could see what was going on. It was a matter of time before there would be an outcry. One fateful day, the plant manager walked in an office with a few customers to be greeted with a computer monitor facing the door proudly displaying a porno screensaver.
Then there was the complaints. The policy came swift and was draconian. Blocking software was installed. Places like dejanews were blocked for reasons I could not comprehend. What got me was many technical sites that possibly had specs on products were blocked.
Blocking is nonsense. The masses craving porno is nonsense. People need to grow up, stop calling attention to this crap, and move on to better things.
Nine pounds for a laptop can't be all that bad. I used to have a 386 laptop that weighed *15 pounds* and that was light back in the beginning of this decade. It sported a 12V nicad battery pack, 40MB hard drive, and 1 MB of memory. They crammed all that in a laptop case and it was very portable... at the time. Yeah, it was a pain on the shoulders walking to classes with it!
No joke about the laptop being too big! Screen real estate is nice, but I feel its real measure is the resolution. Laptop screens are very sharp and a small screen with 1600x... resolution would be wonderful. Imagine all the xterms and browser windows you could fit on such as screen. If my 12.1" laptop had better than 1200x... I would be happy with it for life. What I'm trying to say is that I don't need a honkin' big screen as I can allready see the corners of each pixel, I just want more pixels in my screen real estate!
I remember the space program as inspirational and brough at many times brought this nation together and helped us appreciate the pretty skies at night in a special way. Now it may be other countries that will take the lead. The countries that fund this research will motivate their people in ways nothing else can. Its all about reaching for the heavens and advancing the sciences. Its to go where no man and woman has gone before.
And remember these figures are 'sales,' and do not include copies for friends (I looked at COPYING under their ftp directory and there was the GPL in its full glory.) I suppose OS usage statistics can be made from browser logs with the.jp domain.
If those are sales and copying is encouraged, I would dare say Linux is the dominant OS in Japan. Either that, or there are lots of pirated copies of Win98 and associated viruses.
They call the season 'fall' here in America, because that's when the leaves fall to the ground and cover it with so many different pretty colors. I suppose it is the other way around on the other side of the equator (so, which way do your toilets flush?)
Some people do choose to work 70+ hours a week and enjoy their job. My step dad is a teacher. He is now also the associate dean. He enjoys his career and could have been perfectly happy with his tenure, but stays up late to advance the sciences.
I prefer longer hours at my job and a shorter work week and have chosen an employer who has such a program in place. I work three or four nights a week on 12 hour shifts. This allows me sufficient time to complete projects in one day. The days off allow me to go on vacation anywhere in the country.
If you don't like your job, quit. An old boss told me that. Good advice. That was almost 15 years ago at Burger King. Now I make about 10 times as much and have great job satisfaction.
I work in the South at a non union manufacturing plant. I enjoy twice the average family wage, the company pays for health insurance, provides 100% vesting in profit sharing, and is a good company to work for. I continue working at my place of employment, because they are good employers. If I didn't like my job, I'd quit!
We did have a union (IBEW) try to hijack the plant again last year and it took us a year to kick them back out. I do not want the violence that they showed at one of our smelters to come to our plant and cause us grief in the workplace. Over 70% of us signed a petition *twice* to remove them and finally the company listened to kick them out.
Unions might be good in places, but not where I work. I sure would like to see them represent fast food workers, but we pay more and they want a cut. They want to offer us protection, you see.
They are in the electronics department. Its a little black box that takes a 9V battery and includes a double ended headphone jack. They are sold as CD to FM car stereo adapters.
The easy way to increase the effective power of any transmitter is to increase the antenna length. Be sure to make the length multiples of the original size, or if you know the wavelength of the frequency, you can go 1/4, 1/2, etc to prevent standing waves from the end that bounce back into the receiver in opposing polarity. This transmitter has something like a 3 inch antenna. A 3 foot antenna really gets the signal out. I'm not sure of the legality, but you can do a search for CFR, title 47 on telecommunications. Lots of legal writing on what you should and shouln't be doing.
How to hack the inside of the box? The best way is to experiment. Get a radio and start transmitting. Its a simple circuit and the goal is to increase power to the transmitter. Hint: resistors resist current.
After you get your license to operate your computer (different licenses for commercial and personal use, but please fill in the slot that asks what you will be using it for,) you will be shortly contacted by the IRS to fill out a form for what CPU speed you have and the OS that you use. You see, the big evil software company now uses a more efficient method to collect its tax on you. Rather than upgrades, it saw Linux taking over, and well, everyone has computers, it just needed to be taxed. A few people abused computers in high profile cases, something had to be done, a few bills were introduced, and its just not encryption that needs to be licensed anymore, so there you go! Other new taxes are being proposed, like the slashdot tax, which falls under the luxury taxes, because its not the NEWS like MSNBC news.
Government control. Have to keep the population paying its dues or this great country would just fall apart and the communists would take over. Nuclear war, terrorists, child molestors, and the plague.
Where's your license buddy? I'm gonna have to turn you in. We can't have people using this stuff for free.
I have no faith in the FCC wanting to make the airwaves available to the public. There is no way they would want to touch all the sticky issues of MP3 and the RIAA. Not only that, it would give people a voice. We can't have that. The FM radio band is dying anyway. Let the big companies strangle the monopoly until people no longer have receivers, but mp3 players and internet for the news.
I will not even voice my opinion to the FCC, because they would not want my opinion. I'm the type they would not even want on the air. I'd be one of those people they would want banned for life and blacklisted from even getting a permit in the first place.
Pirate radio stations can even be evasive. I won't even suggest *cough* *cough* transmitters strung from a tree powered by solar cells and getting a feed from a stealth IR beam. When the tree is raided, an alarm is tripped and the operator is the wiser. Who needs the trenchcoat FBI raiding your house because you want a little free speech? If ya wanna be heard, yall be heard, damnit, and the FCC cannot put a muzzle on your mouth or tunes. The internet let the cat out of the bag for encryption, Linux, music artists without a label, and now radio. Its too late. We're free! Damn the government.
Walmart sells small FM stereo transmitters for the purpose of allowing your cd player to work over your car stereo. Cost? $20.00 It is a low power transmitter and I won't tell you which two resistors to replace with lower values to increase the output power, because I'd get in trouble and you can easily guess which two they are. Those things normally transmit about 20 feet, but with the illegal mod and a few feet of the antenna, they go a few blocks or more.
Have fun, get one for each mp3 player and monopolize the frequency band with music people actually want to listen.
Here is a page that shows how to hook up a parallel port to control various devices and has example programming in the C language, with examples for both DOS and Linux. It also shows why and how to hook the diode up to the relay coil (very important.) It has a few good illustrations where those wires go from the back of the computer
The parallel port method to contol cameras is a great way to switch cameras for one card. I wonder why there currently is not a commercially available solution.
I only had one problem with that link. It had a schematic showing how to hook relays to the parallel port to a buffer chip. It needs to show a diode in parallel with the relay coil. Without that diode, the relay would work exactly one on/off cycle and destroy the IC on the off cycle due to the relay coil's inductance. For those who do not understand why relays have a diode across the coil in electronic circuits, understand that the driving transistor switches off at high speed and the nature of a coil is to maintain current. When the transistor is suddenly turned off, high voltages will result and will most likely puncture the transistor's junction. Fun experiment.
There's always someone trying to simplify the rationale for critism of shody software manufacturers. Its natural to defend the underdog. There is nothing wrong with that, but please try to come up with some better logic than that! "Most people at Slashdot hate Microsoft because they are Microsoft." I have reasons for disliking Windows and use it at work. I could try to explain to you why Windows software causes manufacturing scrap and downtime to you, but I'm judging from your logical bias and am afraid you might have problems comprehending my plea. Its not a simple issue. Its a battle. Its hell. I use Windows (not a choice!) at work.
It must be the chocolate. Its a very powerful mood enhancer combined with the effects of sugar. Its so common and chocalate is legal. If M&M's were outlawed, only outlaws would have M&M's and it would be sold at a city street corner near you.
And why do the masses not use ytalk? Its the best!
Slashdot Mirror
Laser pointers and your supersoaker would be a great combination at the evening pool parties. Lasers really light up mists of water. I know mine shines a bright, spectacular beam in the fog. Imagine the display you could have with a bright red jet from the end of your gun!
Do they make laser diodes of different colors besides red yet?
This is a great gift to budding programmers. It was the environment that made Turbo C great for me to learn. It didn't have the nonsense that Visual C had, the help was much easier to find, and the compiles were instant. If you wanted to try out a few quick lines of code, it was hard to beat. Turbo C just didn't seem to have any bloat in its compiler.
I did buy Visual C++ (upgraded from MSC 5 through 6) and my brain started to rot. Perhaps that was my fault, but I do remember getting along very well with Turbo C and wrote lots of school projects and getting many A's with it.
Just imagine the profile they could have on your name. What are your interests? What hours of the business day did you post to slashdot? Did you ever make any posts to alt.sex? Do you ever intend to run for political office?
What business does the government have with what kind of drugs are out there? So it can create lucrative black market terrorists organizations that thrive? Seems like the government is creating all these problems in the first place.
So the government monitors traffic on the net. It learns new ways of getting in trouble after some government employees take a kickback by leaking some inside information gained by email exchange by engineers at a tech startup. Patents are issued and the government has a company paying billions in taxes on a new product on its soil.
Monitoring can create some unhappy people. Let's play fair and everyone will get along better.
Why does anything the government do have to be done in such a wasteful manner? I would imagine most people that have a server on the net that experience a problem can deal with it just by looking at the logs, find the identity, make a phone call and see if the person needs help. You don't need a multibillion dollar spying center to replace everyone's job.
Do morons run servers? They will if the government has its way and insists on playing big brother on everything. Its like we would be so helpless without laws and regulations covering everything. The internet was doing so good until we started getting laws about encryption it seems like its going downhill from there...
Who knows, maybe the NSA and other obscure data mining companies that partner with backbone providers log all traffic to slashdot. If you are a legal gun on the staff of Big Evil corporation, just hire a nickle and dime detective to find one of those companies for the identity. Next, take the owners name of the account, do a background check through one of the many employment information services to find his credit history to see if the knucklehead is worthy of a lawsuit. Bonus points for spending the extra five bucks for a criminal check.
Let me tell you how easy it is getting any information on anyone. You never know until you tried. I tried with a demo account and a few dollars worth of long distance. For fun, I pulled up different reports of myself and found the information matched my credit history, balances, driving record, etc.
So, suppose you are the proud parent of a kid (or just a neighbor of one) who gets upset at some company's new product and goes on a posting binge. Imagine the surprise when you get served with papers at your front door. The internet is now a liability due to the laws and you have been deemed responsible. Oh, the system is fair. You will have your day in court and will have due process while your guilt is being determined. Welcome to America!
Deny everything. Here is an interesting hosts.allow file I have that fingers and logs all denied mischif (I catch a lot of portscans this way:)
/usr/bin/logger -p authpriv.alert -t TCPD \
/usr/bin/logger -p authpriv.alert -t TCPD) :\
/usr/bin/logger -p authpriv.alert -t TCPD) :\
ALL: 192.168.1.10
in.fingerd: ALL
in.ntalkd : ALL
sshd : ALL
ALL : ALL@ALL : \
rfc931 : \
spawn (
access to %s denied to %c ) : \
spawn (/usr/sbin/safe_finger -l @%h | \
spawn (/usr/sbin/safe_finger abuse@%h | \
DENY
I think the reason at least some companies put blocking software on internet access is due to people whining and complaining. I remember when our company replaced all the computers. One day, suddenly everyone had a new box on their desk with this new thing called the internet. No instructions, training, or guidance on how to use it. Just hack and learn. Nothing like an unrestricted T1 pipe to the net!
Well, there were a few problems. The network crawled to a halt a few times. Most have never had internet access and the wealth of information (porn) was new to them. They were like kids. Since I went through this phase several years ago at a university (who didn't?) I could see what was going on. It was a matter of time before there would be an outcry. One fateful day, the plant manager walked in an office with a few customers to be greeted with a computer monitor facing the door proudly displaying a porno screensaver.
Then there was the complaints. The policy came swift and was draconian. Blocking software was installed. Places like dejanews were blocked for reasons I could not comprehend. What got me was many technical sites that possibly had specs on products were blocked.
Blocking is nonsense. The masses craving porno is nonsense. People need to grow up, stop calling attention to this crap, and move on to better things.
Nine pounds for a laptop can't be all that bad. I used to have a 386 laptop that weighed *15 pounds* and that was light back in the beginning of this decade. It sported a 12V nicad battery pack, 40MB hard drive, and 1 MB of memory. They crammed all that in a laptop case and it was very portable... at the time. Yeah, it was a pain on the shoulders walking to classes with it!
No joke about the laptop being too big! Screen real estate is nice, but I feel its real measure is the resolution. Laptop screens are very sharp and a small screen with 1600x... resolution would be wonderful. Imagine all the xterms and browser windows you could fit on such as screen. If my 12.1" laptop had better than 1200x... I would be happy with it for life. What I'm trying to say is that I don't need a honkin' big screen as I can allready see the corners of each pixel, I just want more pixels in my screen real estate!
I remember the space program as inspirational and brough at many times brought this nation together and helped us appreciate the pretty skies at night in a special way. Now it may be other countries that will take the lead. The countries that fund this research will motivate their people in ways nothing else can. Its all about reaching for the heavens and advancing the sciences. Its to go where no man and woman has gone before.
Someone kicked it back down to 1... Its like a yo-yo! up-down-up-down...
And remember these figures are 'sales,' and do not include copies for friends (I looked at COPYING under their ftp directory and there was the GPL in its full glory.) I suppose OS usage statistics can be made from browser logs with the .jp domain.
If those are sales and copying is encouraged, I would dare say Linux is the dominant OS in Japan. Either that, or there are lots of pirated copies of Win98 and associated viruses.
They call the season 'fall' here in America, because that's when the leaves fall to the ground and cover it with so many different pretty colors. I suppose it is the other way around on the other side of the equator (so, which way do your toilets flush?)
Some people do choose to work 70+ hours a week and enjoy their job. My step dad is a teacher. He is now also the associate dean. He enjoys his career and could have been perfectly happy with his tenure, but stays up late to advance the sciences.
I prefer longer hours at my job and a shorter work week and have chosen an employer who has such a program in place. I work three or four nights a week on 12 hour shifts. This allows me sufficient time to complete projects in one day. The days off allow me to go on vacation anywhere in the country.
If you don't like your job, quit. An old boss told me that. Good advice. That was almost 15 years ago at Burger King. Now I make about 10 times as much and have great job satisfaction.
I work in the South at a non union manufacturing plant. I enjoy twice the average family wage, the company pays for health insurance, provides 100% vesting in profit sharing, and is a good company to work for. I continue working at my place of employment, because they are good employers. If I didn't like my job, I'd quit!
We did have a union (IBEW) try to hijack the plant again last year and it took us a year to kick them back out. I do not want the violence that they showed at one of our smelters to come to our plant and cause us grief in the workplace. Over 70% of us signed a petition *twice* to remove them and finally the company listened to kick them out.
Unions might be good in places, but not where I work. I sure would like to see them represent fast food workers, but we pay more and they want a cut. They want to offer us protection, you see.
They are in the electronics department. Its a little black box that takes a 9V battery and includes a double ended headphone jack. They are sold as CD to FM car stereo adapters.
The easy way to increase the effective power of any transmitter is to increase the antenna length. Be sure to make the length multiples of the original size, or if you know the wavelength of the frequency, you can go 1/4, 1/2, etc to prevent standing waves from the end that bounce back into the receiver in opposing polarity. This transmitter has something like a 3 inch antenna. A 3 foot antenna really gets the signal out. I'm not sure of the legality, but you can do a search for CFR, title 47 on telecommunications. Lots of legal writing on what you should and shouln't be doing.
How to hack the inside of the box? The best way is to experiment. Get a radio and start transmitting. Its a simple circuit and the goal is to increase power to the transmitter. Hint: resistors resist current.
After you get your license to operate your computer (different licenses for commercial and personal use, but please fill in the slot that asks what you will be using it for,) you will be shortly contacted by the IRS to fill out a form for what CPU speed you have and the OS that you use. You see, the big evil software company now uses a more efficient method to collect its tax on you. Rather than upgrades, it saw Linux taking over, and well, everyone has computers, it just needed to be taxed. A few people abused computers in high profile cases, something had to be done, a few bills were introduced, and its just not encryption that needs to be licensed anymore, so there you go! Other new taxes are being proposed, like the slashdot tax, which falls under the luxury taxes, because its not the NEWS like MSNBC news.
Government control. Have to keep the population paying its dues or this great country would just fall apart and the communists would take over. Nuclear war, terrorists, child molestors, and the plague.
Where's your license buddy? I'm gonna have to turn you in. We can't have people using this stuff for free.
I have no faith in the FCC wanting to make the airwaves available to the public. There is no way they would want to touch all the sticky issues of MP3 and the RIAA. Not only that, it would give people a voice. We can't have that. The FM radio band is dying anyway. Let the big companies strangle the monopoly until people no longer have receivers, but mp3 players and internet for the news.
I will not even voice my opinion to the FCC, because they would not want my opinion. I'm the type they would not even want on the air. I'd be one of those people they would want banned for life and blacklisted from even getting a permit in the first place.
Pirate radio stations can even be evasive. I won't even suggest *cough* *cough* transmitters strung from a tree powered by solar cells and getting a feed from a stealth IR beam. When the tree is raided, an alarm is tripped and the operator is the wiser. Who needs the trenchcoat FBI raiding your house because you want a little free speech? If ya wanna be heard, yall be heard, damnit, and the FCC cannot put a muzzle on your mouth or tunes. The internet let the cat out of the bag for encryption, Linux, music artists without a label, and now radio. Its too late. We're free! Damn the government.
(cue to the sound of tanks running over my house)
Walmart sells small FM stereo transmitters for the purpose of allowing your cd player to work over your car stereo. Cost? $20.00 It is a low power transmitter and I won't tell you which two resistors to replace with lower values to increase the output power, because I'd get in trouble and you can easily guess which two they are. Those things normally transmit about 20 feet, but with the illegal mod and a few feet of the antenna, they go a few blocks or more.
Have fun, get one for each mp3 player and monopolize the frequency band with music people actually want to listen.
Here is a page that shows how to hook up a parallel port to control various devices and has example programming in the C language, with examples for both DOS and Linux. It also shows why and how to hook the diode up to the relay coil (very important.) It has a few good illustrations where those wires go from the back of the computer
The parallel port method to contol cameras is a great way to switch cameras for one card. I wonder why there currently is not a commercially available solution.
I only had one problem with that link. It had a schematic showing how to hook relays to the parallel port to a buffer chip. It needs to show a diode in parallel with the relay coil. Without that diode, the relay would work exactly one on/off cycle and destroy the IC on the off cycle due to the relay coil's inductance. For those who do not understand why relays have a diode across the coil in electronic circuits, understand that the driving transistor switches off at high speed and the nature of a coil is to maintain current. When the transistor is suddenly turned off, high voltages will result and will most likely puncture the transistor's junction. Fun experiment.
wow, that almost sounded like a flame. sorry, I don't know what got into me. please forgive. it must be the os i?m using.
There's always someone trying to simplify the rationale for critism of shody software manufacturers. Its natural to defend the underdog. There is nothing wrong with that, but please try to come up with some better logic than that! "Most people at Slashdot hate Microsoft because they are Microsoft." I have reasons for disliking Windows and use it at work. I could try to explain to you why Windows software causes manufacturing scrap and downtime to you, but I'm judging from your logical bias and am afraid you might have problems comprehending my plea. Its not a simple issue. Its a battle. Its hell. I use Windows (not a choice!) at work.
It must be the chocolate. Its a very powerful mood enhancer combined with the effects of sugar. Its so common and chocalate is legal. If M&M's were outlawed, only outlaws would have M&M's and it would be sold at a city street corner near you.
And why do the masses not use ytalk? Its the best!