...and besides the MLB rules that the announcer reads says "...any rebroadcast of the descriptions or accounts of this game without the express written permission of [Team Name and/or Major League Baseball] are expressly prohibited."
The speaker can't "broadcast" beyond your home unless you want the baseball hit squad to show up on your doorstep.
This story quotes the Parkes facilty in NSW, the same as the Parkes in the movie "The Dish" that captured the Apollo 11 moon landing in 1969. The story in the movie is how they lost the link and barely got the tracking back in time for the landing.
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For commuter craft air traffic control I have always thought a good system would be to just assign different altitudes for different directions of travel. (I.E. 9,500 for S by SW, for example)
Umm... That's already in the rules.
It's called the hemisperical altitude rule, but it only applies when the aircraft is flying more than 3000 feet above the ground.
VFR (Visual Flight Rules - watching for other aircraft) aircraft fly at odd or even thousands altitudes plus 500 feet. IFR (instrument) fly at the exact altitude. The odd or even selection is based on direction of course, VFR is odd for courses of 360-North though 179 degrees - ie 5500, 7500, 9500, 11,500 feet MSL. Even for south and west through 359 degrees - ie 4500, 6500, 8500, 10,500 feet MSL. The odd/even choice is the opposite for IFR altitudes. http://www.californiaair.net/flightopps/FlightLeve ls.html
The article says the Newton died because Apple released it before "ironing out the kinks."
The difference with TiVo is that a TiVo WORKS and does its job well.
There are few minor new features I wish my TiVos had (the ability to erase part of a saved show - erase from here, erase to here) but I've rarely had it fail to work a the job it's designed to do.
Why do I have the trepidation that if some other DVR wins the market, like if Echostart kills off the the DirectTiVo in the DirecTV merger, it'll be another case where "the choice of the market" can't do what the original could. "Coming soon! The ability to specify the recording of shows with your favorite actor or director! (like TiVo Wishlists).
Also the article bashing TiVo has a Best Buy ad on the bottom of the page touting the Series 2 TiVo. Nice touch.
The big problem with MS's application is the idea that data can tell programs what do to. THIS IS A BAD BAD BAD IDEA.
How foolish is this? How many people would open an email that said:
Hey here is a perl script with my message in it. Go ahead and run it to see what I have to say.
Far be it for anyone to defend Microsoft on/., but the distinction between code and data was blurred long before they latched on to the idea.
Ever heard of HTTP/HTML? It started out as
1) "Connect to a remote server to fetch data with interesting content" (Gopher/FTP/Telnet)
Then
2) "That data will tell you HOW TO DISPLAY the content" (HTTP/HTML)
And 3) "That data will be wonderful CODE for you to EXECUTE to get really cool content." (Java/Javascript/ActiveX)
Microsoft just put that kind of thinking (Macros) into Office documents (data) to compete with (and yeah, attempt to supplant) the competition.
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"Clever Hans" (the horse in question) is a classic case...
The trainer really THOUGHT his horse could do mathematics....They discovered that Hans couldn't get the correct number if he couldn't see the trainer, and that they could get him to tap out any number they wanted (regardless of the math problem presented) by these slight changes of posture done intentionally.
They have links to some sources woth registartion requirements like the Chicago Tribune and Nando Times. As always, you have to register and get the cookie to see the story.
BTW, this is a repeat on Slashdot. I've been checking out Google News since the first time is was posted here as a Beta.
I'm fairly sure a false relay won't work. Just like snail mail list sellers, the spammers salt their victim lists with their own valid addresses that they can check to see if the message is getting out." MAYBE some do salt, but demonstrably some don't. As recently as 17 minutes ago one spammer sent relay spam to my (2 1/2 year old) honeypot. It isn't being delivered. If he salted the list with his own address (as you say he does) he'd have figured out the honeypot last week already. The Moscow honeypot trapped Ralsky spam from February to July. Not only did Ralsky not salt the addresses he ended up sending spam run statistics reports back to himself THROUGH THE HONEYPOT. The entire episode was one long cause for ROFL. I'll grant that there may be some smart spammers and smart spamware vendors. Please don't assume that this smartness prevails. It does not.
OK! Good for you!
I should have guessed that when you get 3-4 copies of the same spam it means that the spamming scumbags just get redundancy by spamming the entire 64,000,000 addresses repeatedly through different raped relays.
Your honeypot success gives me an idea. What if yours and other honeypots were used to cooperate to capture the spam to seed spam filters? Since EVERY message you process is spam all of the words in it, or a hashed signature could be send out to these filter dictionaries so that ISPs will know the message you captured should be delivered to/dev/null on first sight. The result would be that by sending you the message, Ralsky cuts his own throat so the spam doesn't get delivered to anyone on an ISP who participates.
I'm fairly sure a false relay won't work. Just like snail mail list sellers, the spammers salt their victim lists with their own valid addresses that they can check to see if the message is getting out.
BUT, an early spam filter at an ISP worked just like that. The design parameters were 1) that spam filtering require no more resources than actual delivery of the message, and 2) the filter give no indication to the spammer that the message was not going to delivered. This gives the spammer no feedback and forces THEM to waste CPU cycles which will slow them down.
There was a time where [Feynman] demonstrated the effect of coldness on the rubber [Challenger solid booster O-ring] during a inquiry. He was cut off from following through on it during the conference, but the press picked up on it afterword, and it made it onto the front page of the NY Times the next day, with Feynman's picture where the article continues inside.
He wasn't cut off. It went over the air live. I saw it live. I was home playing hookey that day and just happened to tune in right when gave the "I have a cup of ice water here - 0 degrees celsius" rebuttal testimony. He was actually supposed to be questioning the NASA project manager who was testifying. The project manager had just testified that the O-ring was not a problem in the cold.
Feynman said in his last book that he was led to the demonstration by the nose with subtle hints from Major Donald Kutnya, who ran space shuttle program for the Air Force.
Rather than penalizing them, this "fixes in current versions only" policy makes it PROFITABLE for the software vendor to write flaws into the code. They are acutally better off selling products that have serious proiblems.
"Now that we got you hooked and your company has stadardized on our product and all of your documents are in our proprietary format...if you want a version that really works (or doesn't possibly expose your data to damage), pay us $200 (a year) for the upgrade!"
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The cell phone rule only applies to Commercial Aircraft. Unless as the pilot in command you want to dissallow yourself from using a cell phone. So... Use a cell phone it is the cheapest way.
I may try it. I have a Nokia 6100 that has a 9600bps modem built in.
The problem, you know, is that in flight use of a cell phone is violation of FCC tariff. The word is that the FCC has never gone after a violator.
I forgot to mention the Cheap Bastard solution which uses a Palm and OmniSky. The software is free. Here's a review. OmniSky is $19 amonth. Is OmniSky still around?
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I've been searching for a few years for a way to get legit, reasonably priced, Internet connectivity in cockpit. There are many web sites where pilots can get nearly real time weather data. If we could connect in flight we could see radar images of storms ahead. Commercial weather avoidancedevices cost tens of thousands of dollars. It's frustrating that every ground-based wireless connectivity solution just won't work at 3,000-10,000 feet. Besides many, such as cellular systems, are is illegal to use in flight.
Commercial in flight internet links like ground-based AirCell and satellite phones, cost more than $3000 for equipment with conenct rates of $2-5 per minute.
The $3,000 PDA-based AnyWhere WX shows the potential. The promised inflight access to NEXRAD will fill the bill, but most avionics makers are planning systems that are still in tens of thousands of dollars range, when a laptop or PDA will do the job.
Your average weekend pilot isn't going to sign up for a $200 month subcription for something only used for a few hours on nice weekends. (Flamers should douse the fire. Most pilots are mere mortals that made flying a priority, just like those who sink money in hot cars or the hottest gaming machines. Most aren't really rich.
It would be a godsend if 802.11b connectivity could be made to work reliably in flight. Does anybody have any ideas on which wireless technology might fill the need?
As you get close tot the cutover time, set the TTLs (Time to live) on every DNS record you can get your hands on to a very low value.
Any host that does a lookup can legally only cache the answer as long as the TTL time. After that it has to ask again. With a low value you get a lot more requests to the DNS servers, but the host requesting will know about the change quickly so it'll find your servers at the new address as it changes.
Clippy: "It looks like you're voting for President!"
You mean:
Clippy: "It looks like you're voting for Al Gore for President!
I auto-corrected to record a vote for George W. Bush because we think he'll be more sympathetic in the anti-trust case."
Here's the scoop that my company's accountants and lawyers dug up. I'm not a lawyer or an accountant (insert the rest of the standard disclaimer here)...
Since I will be residing in Illinois, I will pay Illinois state taxes (and Chicago Income taxes as well:\).... AFIAK, that's all that was required in my situation.
You better check that advice really carefully. I live in Chicago, We don't have a city income tax.
There is a corporate head tax on each employee/year, which your employer won't have to pay, and various state, county, and city sales taxes that can get up to 8.75% on purchases.
I bought one of the ultimately hackable Apex DVD players. The remote had 50 buttons that let me change everything - screen resolution, NTSC/PAL format,... But THERE WAS NO REWIND BUTTON! You could only jump back to the begiing of the chapter, not just back a few seconds. I'm spoiled by the 8-second go-back on TiVos. I took the DVD player back.
I'm amazed that things I could do on a my early mechanical JVC VCR 20 years ago, I can't do now. It would record a signal on the tape atteh beginning of each recording so you could FF or REW to the program start. Only a few modern VCRs can do that.
All your friends are dead (save for the ones who were frozen, probably not many), your stuff is long gone, and your money...well, I haven't heard of any of these cryogenic companies socking away cab fare for their clients. What bank would preserve your accounts while you're technically dead?
Which reminds of two frozen guy jokes:
1) "We checked your portfolio. You have a current net worth of $245 MILLION DOLLARS."
"Wow! Could you get me a newspaper? I want to check on how each of my stocks did."
"Sure. That will be $250 MILLION DOLLARS."
2) "You were frozen in 1958? We're amazed!"
"Yeah. How's President Eisenhower doing?"
"He's dead."
"OMIGOD! THAT MEANS RICHARD NIXON IS PRESIDENT!"
I aggree. It'll take a while for the manufacturers to work out integrating all of the digital features.
I think I'll keep my ancient "analog" (actually digital internally) TV until 2010 or so. In the meantime I'll buy one or more settop digital converters with S-Video out.
BTW, There's gonna be a LOT of howling by Joe SixPack on the radio talk shows when the day comes that there will be no more analog broadcasts.
I had a handful of domains registered with Verisign/Network Solutions. The first renewal notices I got in the mail came from about every registrar EXCEPT Verisign. Most were pretty sleazy, trying to imply that they were authorized by Verisign to handle the renewal. The real notice from Verisign/Network Solutions came weeks later.
With the recomendations here, I transferred the domains to Go Daddy. I STILL get renewal notices from the other sleazeballs.
I think this is a case of Verisign deciding to play the same game and then getting called on it beacuase they're the big boys.
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...and besides the MLB rules that the announcer reads says "...any rebroadcast of the descriptions or accounts of this game without the express written permission of [Team Name and /or Major League Baseball] are expressly prohibited."
The speaker can't "broadcast" beyond your home unless you want the baseball hit squad to show up on your doorstep.
This story quotes the Parkes facilty in NSW, the same as the Parkes in the movie "The Dish" that captured the Apollo 11 moon landing in 1969. The story in the movie is how they lost the link and barely got the tracking back in time for the landing.
You have my sympathy and concern for your child, but the according to a recent column in "Cecil Adam's" Straight Dope the 350,000 kids abducted number may be exagerated.
It's called the hemisperical altitude rule, but it only applies when the aircraft is flying more than 3000 feet above the ground.
VFR (Visual Flight Rules - watching for other aircraft) aircraft fly at odd or even thousands altitudes plus 500 feet. IFR (instrument) fly at the exact altitude. The odd or even selection is based on direction of course, VFR is odd for courses of 360-North though 179 degrees - ie 5500, 7500, 9500, 11,500 feet MSL. Even for south and west through 359 degrees - ie 4500, 6500, 8500, 10,500 feet MSL. The odd/even choice is the opposite for IFR altitudes. http://www.californiaair.net/flightopps/FlightLev
The article says the Newton died because Apple released it before "ironing out the kinks."
The difference with TiVo is that a TiVo WORKS and does its job well. There are few minor new features I wish my TiVos had (the ability to erase part of a saved show - erase from here, erase to here) but I've rarely had it fail to work a the job it's designed to do.
Why do I have the trepidation that if some other DVR wins the market, like if Echostart kills off the the DirectTiVo in the DirecTV merger, it'll be another case where "the choice of the market" can't do what the original could. "Coming soon! The ability to specify the recording of shows with your favorite actor or director! (like TiVo Wishlists).
Also the article bashing TiVo has a Best Buy ad on the bottom of the page touting the Series 2 TiVo. Nice touch.
Ever heard of HTTP/HTML? It started out as
1) "Connect to a remote server to fetch data with interesting content" (Gopher/FTP/Telnet)
Then 2) "That data will tell you HOW TO DISPLAY the content" (HTTP/HTML)
And 3) "That data will be wonderful CODE for you to EXECUTE to get really cool content." (Java/Javascript/ActiveX)
Microsoft just put that kind of thinking (Macros) into Office documents (data) to compete with (and yeah, attempt to supplant) the competition.
BTW, this is a repeat on Slashdot. I've been checking out Google News since the first time is was posted here as a Beta.
I should have guessed that when you get 3-4 copies of the same spam it means that the spamming scumbags just get redundancy by spamming the entire 64,000,000 addresses repeatedly through different raped relays.
Your honeypot success gives me an idea. What if yours and other honeypots were used to cooperate to capture the spam to seed spam filters? Since EVERY message you process is spam all of the words in it, or a hashed signature could be send out to these filter dictionaries so that ISPs will know the message you captured should be delivered to
What'dya think?
I'm fairly sure a false relay won't work. Just like snail mail list sellers, the spammers salt their victim lists with their own valid addresses that they can check to see if the message is getting out.
BUT, an early spam filter at an ISP worked just like that. The design parameters were 1) that spam filtering require no more resources than actual delivery of the message, and 2) the filter give no indication to the spammer that the message was not going to delivered. This gives the spammer no feedback and forces THEM to waste CPU cycles which will slow them down.
Feynman said in his last book that he was led to the demonstration by the nose with subtle hints from Major Donald Kutnya, who ran space shuttle program for the Air Force.
Rather than penalizing them, this "fixes in current versions only" policy makes it PROFITABLE for the software vendor to write flaws into the code. They are acutally better off selling products that have serious proiblems.
"Now that we got you hooked and your company has stadardized on our product and all of your documents are in our proprietary format...if you want a version that really works (or doesn't possibly expose your data to damage), pay us $200 (a year) for the upgrade!"
The problem, you know, is that in flight use of a cell phone is violation of FCC tariff. The word is that the FCC has never gone after a violator.
I forgot to mention the Cheap Bastard solution which uses a Palm and OmniSky. The software is free. Here's a review. OmniSky is $19 amonth. Is OmniSky still around?
I've been searching for a few years for a way to get legit, reasonably priced, Internet connectivity in cockpit. There are many web sites where pilots can get nearly real time weather data. If we could connect in flight we could see radar images of storms ahead. Commercial weather avoidance devices cost tens of thousands of dollars. It's frustrating that every ground-based wireless connectivity solution just won't work at 3,000-10,000 feet. Besides many, such as cellular systems, are is illegal to use in flight.
Commercial in flight internet links like ground-based AirCell and satellite phones, cost more than $3000 for equipment with conenct rates of $2-5 per minute.
The $3,000 PDA-based AnyWhere WX shows the potential. The promised inflight access to NEXRAD will fill the bill, but most avionics makers are planning systems that are still in tens of thousands of dollars range, when a laptop or PDA will do the job.
Your average weekend pilot isn't going to sign up for a $200 month subcription for something only used for a few hours on nice weekends. (Flamers should douse the fire. Most pilots are mere mortals that made flying a priority, just like those who sink money in hot cars or the hottest gaming machines. Most aren't really rich.
It would be a godsend if 802.11b connectivity could be made to work reliably in flight. Does anybody have any ideas on which wireless technology might fill the need?
As you get close tot the cutover time, set the TTLs (Time to live) on every DNS record you can get your hands on to a very low value.
Any host that does a lookup can legally only cache the answer as long as the TTL time. After that it has to ask again. With a low value you get a lot more requests to the DNS servers, but the host requesting will know about the change quickly so it'll find your servers at the new address as it changes.
The value is in seconds. 3600 would be an hour.
Clippy: "It looks like you're voting for Al Gore for President!
I auto-corrected to record a vote for George W. Bush because we think he'll be more sympathetic in the anti-trust case."
There is a corporate head tax on each employee/year, which your employer won't have to pay, and various state, county, and city sales taxes that can get up to 8.75% on purchases.
http://www.in.gov/dor/assistance/index.html= default%5E20&10=TAX
https://ohiocrm.das.state.oh.us/tax/default.asp?2
It looks like Indiana and Ohio have some sort of recriprocal agreement on income taxes.
I agree on the user interface insanity.
... But THERE WAS NO REWIND BUTTON! You could only jump back to the begiing of the chapter, not just back a few seconds. I'm spoiled by the 8-second go-back on TiVos. I took the DVD player back.
I bought one of the ultimately hackable Apex DVD players. The remote had 50 buttons that let me change everything - screen resolution, NTSC/PAL format,
I'm amazed that things I could do on a my early mechanical JVC VCR 20 years ago, I can't do now. It would record a signal on the tape atteh beginning of each recording so you could FF or REW to the program start. Only a few modern VCRs can do that.
Things are going backwards.
DANGER, DANGER!
You could build a B9 robot replica from the "Lost in Space" TV show. The B9 Robot Builders club trades information and parts.
1) "We checked your portfolio. You have a current net worth of $245 MILLION DOLLARS."
"Wow! Could you get me a newspaper? I want to check on how each of my stocks did."
"Sure. That will be $250 MILLION DOLLARS."
2) "You were frozen in 1958? We're amazed!"
"Yeah. How's President Eisenhower doing?"
"He's dead."
"OMIGOD! THAT MEANS RICHARD NIXON IS PRESIDENT!"
I aggree. It'll take a while for the manufacturers to work out integrating all of the digital features. I think I'll keep my ancient "analog" (actually digital internally) TV until 2010 or so. In the meantime I'll buy one or more settop digital converters with S-Video out.
BTW, There's gonna be a LOT of howling by Joe SixPack on the radio talk shows when the day comes that there will be no more analog broadcasts.
I had a handful of domains registered with Verisign/Network Solutions. The first renewal notices I got in the mail came from about every registrar EXCEPT Verisign. Most were pretty sleazy, trying to imply that they were authorized by Verisign to handle the renewal. The real notice from Verisign/Network Solutions came weeks later.
With the recomendations here, I transferred the domains to Go Daddy. I STILL get renewal notices from the other sleazeballs.
I think this is a case of Verisign deciding to play the same game and then getting called on it beacuase they're the big boys.