On my commute home last night I wondered why I kept hearing VERY LOUD morse code of three letters repeated 4 times. By the 6th time the code played I racked my brain to recall my ancient ham radio training to figured out that it was dit-dit-dit dah-dah dit-dit-dit (S-M-S).
I could see the trendy little thing down the aisle was busy SMS-ing away. Gotta push a lotta keys to type "OMG!" on a phone keypad. No reason at all to turn the damn speaker down when you the phone is right in front of you.
Just because they allow 1 GB of historic e-mail storage doesn't mean they can't throtle users to 1 MB per day and make them take over 3 years to get up to that GB... there's so many simple fixes on the table that Google's gonna grab a few of them.
I can think of a simple fix.
Limit the 1GB of space for to TEXT (maybe HTML) only.
They could simply limit space for UUEncoded binaries.
Here's the "innovation" to fight worms
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It would be easier to kill worms if users didn't run attachments. It would help more if they didn't type in passwords for.zip files that are contained in.gifs so anti-virus programs can't see it in the message text.
But, here's an idea! What if the email program DIDN'T EXECUTE SCRIPTS WRITTEN IN BASIC!
Hey, Bill, here's some code that will kill worms dead:
Safe and Secure Unlike many other products, Mozilla Thunderbird doesn't allow scripts to run by default.
How long will it take until Microsoft dips into the Outlook code and stops the running scripts in message attachments?
Maybe never. They'll just build rarely updated "after the fact" virus scanning in the next XP service pack! Yeah, that'll do it.
I won't need it. I use Thunderbird and Mozilla Mail.
The first generation original one my sister had in the olden days had two 100-watt bulbs - top and bottom....AND WE LIKED IT! We also had a similar 25 watt 120 volt light bulb in the original first-generation Lite Brite.
Kids don't have many line power toys these days. Too many lawsuits.
Let me tell you about my Vac-U-Form which was a plastic heat pack machine (WARNING! Electric toy! Gets Hot!) and my neighbor's Kenner plastic injection molding machine (WARNING! Electric toy! Gets Hot!) that made plastic pellets (WARNING! Choking hazard!) into smaller versions (WARNING! Choking hazard!) of those little toy soldiers you see in "Toy Story."
I considered various ways of doing this (my parents caught me trying to take the propane tank off our grill -- so that option was ruled out) and finally settled on wiring the battery terminals directly into 120v AC power.
Nice story, but E-Z Bake Ovens use 2 100 watt household light bulbs. You can't get a lot of heat out batteries.
If you couild get them to fit, all you'd have to do is put in 200 or 250 watters. They ship with a couple dozen warning cards telling you not to do that (among other things,like the cakes will be hot.)
The Gary-Chicago-Milwaukee traffic web site gives the real-time traffic information from sensors embedded in the highways. It also tells you where the scheduled highway construction is. The only problem is that some highways, like the Illinois tollway system, don't participate.
With that all you need to see the traffic situation is wireless web access. Maybe you could use Wardriving. Ironically, then the worse the traffic backup is, the easier it would be to see the traffic map!
No, damn-near impossible. No company will ship to a hotel unless they want export controls to prosecute their asses into the ground. There are laws specifically to prevent what you propose doing.
R-i-g-h-t. And exactly how would the seller know or care that the laptop was being exported? Only the exporter (in this case, the buying end-user customer) has to worry about that.
A few years ago I bought my Canon Digital Elph from buy.com and had it shipped to the New Orleans hotel where I would be staying. The front desk handed me the package when I checked in.
That capability may have changed due to the rampant fraud in the intervening years. Today most sellers will only ship if the address is OK with your credit card, but you could make a call and arrange that.
I tried doing the same trick when I bought some sandals at the last minute and had them shipped to the el-cheapo motel I would be staying. I asked the front desk each day if the package had arrived. No. The seller shipped after I checked out.
The amazing end of the story was that my package was still stored at the motel when stopped to check when I returned the following year. I wasn't even staying at that motel that year.
The US Post Office (as it was called then) looked into doing this very thing - Faxing snail mail to the post office nearest the addressee. Luckily for them the usual government bureaucracy held them up from getting in place in time.
Federal Express CEO Fred Smith made a huge investment in FAX over a private satellite network called Zapmail. The idea being they could do better than next day delivery by getting documents there in the next few hours.
Unfortunately for them high-speed FAX machines using dial-up phone lines became cheap and common and ZapMail was abandoned in a year.
I could have predicted that the true belivers who had no problem believing the original Bigfoot film clip was real with little evidence would immediately say there was not enough evidence the hoax story is true. They will dig for minor nits to invalidate the hoaxter's story when they gloss over a hundred problems with the original story.
I have been watching DirecTV for a few years and I have no reason to ever switch off of them. Tons of channels, great shows, all is quality that puts my local cable to shame (although over the air broadcast also puts them to shame, they're terrible).
All DirecTV channels are digital and look fantasic. On my cable things look bad on the locals, on HBO, on any other channel. The varry from very mild (you have to be looking for it) to obvious (color fluctuations, 5 ghosts, etc).
I love my two modded DirecTivos (Both in the living room. The DirectV rep laughed at that.) too, but the DirecTV signal quality has been dropping and we need to call them on it. My Chicago local channels all have digital artifacts because they're overcompressing the feed. Sometimes it looks like I'm watching through a gauze curtain.
They don't dare mess with premium channels and PPV channels (which we rarely watch) so they take bandwidth away from the locals and some of the freebies.
They better get some more birds up and stop this or I'm gonna dump locals and go back to my over the air antenna.
Why in my day we had the world's first portable, the Osborne 1 that weighed 26 pounds (and had a screen with a viewable area of about 3 inches) and WE LIKED IT!
It's been 3 months and I still kill the TV power about every 20 minutes...
I do too, because
Hughes screwed it up, too. I recently added a Hughes "Series 2" HDVR2 DirecTivo. I liked that the remote had the very much needed TV source button BUT...they moved the tiny TV power button right under the 8-second replay button and added the tiny TV source button under the skip ahead button.
You don't wanna know how many times I've cursed them because I've hit those buttons by accident.
Note to the clueless "feature-add-on" leech designers at Hughes: TiVo originally set up the remote so the buttons you USE MOST OFTEN are under your fingers and near the circular jog dial. The buttons you would hit ABSOLUTELY, POSITIVELY THE LEAST are the power and source, which have no business being anywhere but the edges of the remote.
TiVo put the TV power on the upper left edge of the remote, but Hughes changed that to be a "Window" button which currently does nothing. I'll bet that once they enable the feasture, the window button will be used often of course, becuase IT's IN THE WRONG PLACE. It should be where they move TV power.
ARGGHH!!!
The TiVo remote WAS the best designed most useful remote ever, but they let their partners screw it up!
When I was a kid the Goldblatts department store would advertise very-very-cheap almost-dead-when-they-cross-the-dock loss leader imported 9 volt batteries for 9 cents.
I bought two 10 pack boxes of them for a couple bucks, rusehd home, and connected them in series by snapping them together + to - to +... in a lattice arrangement.
Once I had all 20 together... and knowing that I had, *gasp*180 VOLTS! at my disposal... I connected some wires to from the ends to a 25 watt 117VAC household light bulb and marvelled as it lit up brightly and then dimmed as it drained the batteries completely in a minute or two.
I can not imagine what it would be like if I hadn't read the books first and based everything off a movie...
I may be wrong, but as I remember HHGG was a BBC radio serial script first. Then it was a BBC TV mini-series. THEN it was a book. The book might have come before the TV show. All the versions were slightly different.
Maybe the radio listeners thought the visual versions ruined it for THEM!
"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinquishable from magic." -Arthur C. Clark
It's this kind of ignorance in high places that got a lot innocent people killed after the Salem witch trials.
The teachers and adminstration at this school should be embarrassed at their ignorance but their inherent status prevents them from being exposed to that risk. I think we know from experience they're not worth the breath to clue to them in.
would certainly go in a heartbeat if I had the option, but I don't know of the payload capacity of SS1...can it hold passengers as well as crew?
It holds three. The plan is that the passengers are the crew.The White Knight is designed to serve as a simulator for flying SpaceShipOne. Crews would be trained in the White Knight.
Rutan's space tourism plan always had the crew being trained to fly various phases of the flight, 1) launch/climb, 2) weighlessness, 3) landing.
Actually the idea was that 10 or so would buy a chance for a seat and be trained for week in the Carribean after which the two who fly will be chosen by lottery. One seat would be guaranteed and purchased for 10x the money.
You can get NASA on DirecTV. You just have to have a triple LNB dish becuase it's on another satellite, along with the non-english language channels. These days most vendors are bundling the triple LNB dish because you will also need the other sats to get HDTV channels.
There's a semi-official definition of space. Anything below 100km is atmospheric, and the FAA takes jurisdiction. Above 100km, it's space, and nobody much does; until reentry.
Actually I think the governments of the world only officially have regulatory jurisdiction to 60,000 feet. Class A Airspace starts at 18,000 feet and ends at FL600 - 60,000 feet. Above that it's uncontrolled as far as the FAA in concerned.
I'm sure there are international sovierenty laws that kick in when say, one country's fast black recon plane flies over a another at 87,000 feet at Mach 3.
In spite of that Burt Rutan did have to comply with a slew of rules regarding rockets luanched from the US. He says the laws said that the company would have to prove that that the craft would not fail in some high number of launches (200,000?) that NASA has never achieved. He managed to comply somehow.
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On my commute home last night I wondered why I kept hearing VERY LOUD morse code of three letters repeated 4 times. By the 6th time the code played I racked my brain to recall my ancient ham radio training to figured out that it was dit-dit-dit dah-dah dit-dit-dit (S-M-S).
I could see the trendy little thing down the aisle was busy SMS-ing away. Gotta push a lotta keys to type "OMG!" on a phone keypad. No reason at all to turn the damn speaker down when you the phone is right in front of you.
Limit the 1GB of space for to TEXT (maybe HTML) only.
They could simply limit space for UUEncoded binaries.
But, here's an idea! What if the email program DIDN'T EXECUTE SCRIPTS WRITTEN IN BASIC!
Hey, Bill, here's some code that will kill worms dead:
How long will it take until Microsoft dips into the Outlook code and stops the running scripts in message attachments?
Maybe never. They'll just build rarely updated "after the fact" virus scanning in the next XP service pack! Yeah, that'll do it.
I won't need it. I use Thunderbird and Mozilla Mail.
The first generation original one my sister had in the olden days had two 100-watt bulbs - top and bottom....AND WE LIKED IT!
We also had a similar 25 watt 120 volt light bulb in the original first-generation Lite Brite.
Kids don't have many line power toys these days. Too many lawsuits.
Let me tell you about my Vac-U-Form which was a plastic heat pack machine (WARNING! Electric toy! Gets Hot!) and my neighbor's Kenner plastic injection molding machine (WARNING! Electric toy! Gets Hot!) that made plastic pellets (WARNING! Choking hazard!) into smaller versions (WARNING! Choking hazard!) of those little toy soldiers you see in "Toy Story."
If you couild get them to fit, all you'd have to do is put in 200 or 250 watters. They ship with a couple dozen warning cards telling you not to do that (among other things,like the cakes will be hot.)
The Gary-Chicago-Milwaukee traffic web site gives the real-time traffic information from sensors embedded in the highways. It also tells you where the scheduled highway construction is. The only problem is that some highways, like the Illinois tollway system, don't participate.
With that all you need to see the traffic situation is wireless web access. Maybe you could use Wardriving. Ironically, then the worse the traffic backup is, the easier it would be to see the traffic map!
A few years ago I bought my Canon Digital Elph from buy.com and had it shipped to the New Orleans hotel where I would be staying. The front desk handed me the package when I checked in.
That capability may have changed due to the rampant fraud in the intervening years. Today most sellers will only ship if the address is OK with your credit card, but you could make a call and arrange that.
I tried doing the same trick when I bought some sandals at the last minute and had them shipped to the el-cheapo motel I would be staying. I asked the front desk each day if the package had arrived. No. The seller shipped after I checked out.
The amazing end of the story was that my package was still stored at the motel when stopped to check when I returned the following year. I wasn't even staying at that motel that year.
Federal Express CEO Fred Smith made a huge investment in FAX over a private satellite network called Zapmail. The idea being they could do better than next day delivery by getting documents there in the next few hours.
Unfortunately for them high-speed FAX machines using dial-up phone lines became cheap and common and ZapMail was abandoned in a year.
I could have predicted that the true belivers who had no problem believing the original Bigfoot film clip was real with little evidence would immediately say there was not enough evidence the hoax story is true. They will dig for minor nits to invalidate the hoaxter's story when they gloss over a hundred problems with the original story.
The same thing happened when it was revealed that the Loch Ness Monster picture was actually a toy submarine and when the Air Force released the true information on the formerly Top Secret Project Mogul which is what really happened at Roswell.
"It can't be true! Why did they lie all this time? What were they covering up?"
Maybe it was because the project was Top Secret, get it?
They don't dare mess with premium channels and PPV channels (which we rarely watch) so they take bandwidth away from the locals and some of the freebies.
They better get some more birds up and stop this or I'm gonna dump locals and go back to my over the air antenna.
Why in my day we had the world's first portable, the Osborne 1 that weighed 26 pounds (and had a screen with a viewable area of about 3 inches) and WE LIKED IT!
You don't wanna know how many times I've cursed them because I've hit those buttons by accident.
Note to the clueless "feature-add-on" leech designers at Hughes: TiVo originally set up the remote so the buttons you USE MOST OFTEN are under your fingers and near the circular jog dial. The buttons you would hit ABSOLUTELY, POSITIVELY THE LEAST are the power and source, which have no business being anywhere but the edges of the remote.
TiVo put the TV power on the upper left edge of the remote, but Hughes changed that to be a "Window" button which currently does nothing. I'll bet that once they enable the feasture, the window button will be used often of course, becuase IT's IN THE WRONG PLACE. It should be where they move TV power.
ARGGHH!!!
The TiVo remote WAS the best designed most useful remote ever, but they let their partners screw it up!
Do ya think this Pepsi/iTunes promo could be Scully's revenge! *gasp*
I tired this in our break room but I had to tip the entire Pepsi machine over to see which bottle I should buy! I hope the boss didn't see me.
Is that why they have that picture of the guy being crushed by the pop machine?
Is it to keep you from checking for iTunes winner bottles?
When I was a kid the Goldblatts department store would advertise very-very-cheap almost-dead-when-they-cross-the-dock loss leader imported 9 volt batteries for 9 cents.
I bought two 10 pack boxes of them for a couple bucks, rusehd home, and connected them in series by snapping them together + to - to + ... in a lattice arrangement.
Once I had all 20 together... and knowing that I had, *gasp* 180 VOLTS! at my disposal ... I connected some wires to from the ends to a 25 watt 117VAC household light bulb and marvelled as it lit up brightly and then dimmed as it drained the batteries completely in a minute or two.
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Maybe it was in regards to Juvenile-offender-sized shoes.
I thought of those when I first read the "in the heels of soldier's boots" in the story.
Cops loved it when crime suspects wearing those hip shoes tried to sneak away into the night.
Maybe the radio listeners thought the visual versions ruined it for THEM!
They sponsored the Clout Project where anybody can apply for a domain in chi.il.us.
The teachers and adminstration at this school should be embarrassed at their ignorance but their inherent status prevents them from being exposed to that risk. I think we know from experience they're not worth the breath to clue to them in.
Rutan's space tourism plan always had the crew being trained to fly various phases of the flight, 1) launch/climb, 2) weighlessness, 3) landing.
Actually the idea was that 10 or so would buy a chance for a seat and be trained for week in the Carribean after which the two who fly will be chosen by lottery. One seat would be guaranteed and purchased for 10x the money.
You can get NASA on DirecTV. You just have to have a triple LNB dish becuase it's on another satellite, along with the non-english language channels. These days most vendors are bundling the triple LNB dish because you will also need the other sats to get HDTV channels.
Nope. It's TechTV!
I'm sure there are international sovierenty laws that kick in when say, one country's fast black recon plane flies over a another at 87,000 feet at Mach 3.
In spite of that Burt Rutan did have to comply with a slew of rules regarding rockets luanched from the US. He says the laws said that the company would have to prove that that the craft would not fail in some high number of launches (200,000?) that NASA has never achieved. He managed to comply somehow.
The very same Burt Rutan.