Both are freely available to everyone with a net connection. Both rely on NOAA and NWS supplied data along with other, private sources.
The vast majority of the American public gets their weather from those or similar locations. Most wouldn't know it if the free feeds from the NOAA/NWS stopped. Lives would not be in danger as those that do use the feeds would either pay the fee or move over to feeds from the private sector.
That being said, it should NOT be made a fee service. This is a taxpayer supported service and should be freely available to the taxpayers.
I just think all those "people are going to DIE" posts here on/. are a bit off the mark.
-Charles
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Where I work uses IRC for internal communications. Channels for support, engineering, sales, etc. We'd go nuts without it.
Actually, he is saying that a DRM is independent of the content. And as much as it pains me to say it, he is right.
There are LOT of valid uses for DRM. I've worked at manufacturing companies and document control -- making sure the proper drawings are in place for the assembly teams -- was vital. Since all of our documents were converted to digital (PDF, DXF, XLS and some databases) it was all DRM.
DRM prevented non-released documents (in beta) from being accessed by non-engineers, just to make sure someone didn't get the wrong assembly instructions. DRM restricted who could edit and approve documents. There was a whole set of restrictions on who could print, etc.
There is a whole world of legitimate DRM outside of music and video files.
a) Big company with a trained staff and warehouse full of warranty/replacement parts. b) The guy who put it together over two weeks while reading a HOWTO. c) Nobody, and your business misses a week of calls while guy from (b) tries to figure out what happened.
This is so funny!
I used to work for a major telco deploying/configuring cell backhaul ATM equipment and your post reminds me of a deployment in Pensacola, FL.
b) The guys running the fiber at the new facility cut the pair 1' short, so they wouldn't reach if strung thru the runs. The only way to make them reach was to string them tight, about neck high across the facility.
Everything -- except the ATM switch I was programming -- was on battery-backed power. Of course there was a storm and we lost power 3 times that night.
The big telco had sold their fiber making plant a couple of months ago. Part of the agreement was that said telco would purchase fiber ONLY thru the new company for the next year.
Said company was OUT OF STOCK on the fiber we needed and it would take FOUR WEEKS to get some made and shipped. It was a violation of the contract to get some anywhere else. I finally had some expressed from one of the telco's European warehouses -- which counted as 'stock'.
a) The cell crew that was recently hired to replace the experienced, but much more expensive, crew that was recently laid off. This was the crew that screwed up the fiber and redundant power to begin with.
c) Customers in Pensacola, FL and Mobile, AL who had to wait an extra week for the new towers to go online while this shit was fixed.
Oh, and don't even get me started on the THREE HOUR, 13 PERSON conference call that was had to discuss how to handle peak/non-peak billing charges when a user crosses time zones.
All from two of the biggest names in the business.
Lincoln did not end slavery. The 13th Amendment did, and that was passed after Lincoln died.
Keep in mind, his "Emancipation Proclamantion" didn't apply to Union Slave States, like West Virginia. Nor did it apply to Union-controlled areas of the Confederacy.
A Presidential decree does NOT trump the Constitution, which stated that any runaway slave captured in a non-slave state MUST be returned.
But the very beauty of the U.S. Constitution is that it is flexible and adaptable, yet not so easy to change it looks like one of those things the States call "Constitutions".
You can't enact something in normal law that is contrary to the Constitution, thus the Constitution itself has to be changed to allow said laws.
How would you propose something like making sure blacks were a full 3/3 of a person and citizens, as opposed to the 2/3 in the main document? Are you talking about revising the original text?
So, you still practice slavery? (#13) How about not allowing women to vote (#19), or having your Governor appoint your Senators (#17), or lowering the voting age to 18 (#26)?
Hell, you HAVE to support #27 -- not allowing Congress to raise their own pay during a session!
Are you really sure you want G.W. Bush running for a third term? (#22)
Mission Critical machines should not have remote applications running on them without a major firewall between the application and the kernal.
You mean like file sharing servers and print servers? Samba has kernel-level components you can't do without. Apache has kernel hooks and system calls that aren't userland. Are you talking about compartmentalization? (chroot & things like SElinux). This level of PITA is hard to justify in normal business situations.
By taking telnet and SSH off of it and requiring passwords on FTP, of course. For everything else, require an administrator with LOCAL (as in hardware keyboard) access. It's called being paranoid- and it's the FIRST rule anybody trying to run a secure system should know.
This is just plain WRONG. Leave SSH on use SCP/SFTP and get secure transfers. I don't allow FTP at all. All plain-text logins are disallowed on my servers. Even e-mail requires SSL v3/TLS v1 to connect and valid user accounts (SMTP AUTH).
Considering the box is located in a locked cage at an ISP -- and a redundant box in another ISP *ACROSS THE COUNTRY* -- how do you propose to have a keyboard at each? If box #1 does down and I have to monitor/massage the backup in Dallas do you propose all my customers wait until I can arrange a flight?
It sounds like you've never administered a large or geographically diverse network. It is frequently IMPOSSIBLE to admin boxes only locally. SSH is a godsend and it belongs on damn near EVERY box.
The solution to local kernal root attacks is PHYSICAL not CYBER security.
Wrong.
And if someone exploits a remote *application* (PHP, Apache, FTPd, Sendmail, Bind, etc.) causing it to give you a shell or pass commands to the underlying system, what then?
Your "local" exploit just became a "remote" exploit. What about ISPs who give shell (SSH) access to certain accounts?
A "one user to one machine" rule is so stupid it boggles the mind. How exactly do you expect to run a server with that rule? The network is more than just that beige box on your desk.
Local and remote, like root, are only states of mind.
Seagate Cheetah U320 SCSI drives are available in 15,000 RPM models. Much faster than that and you have problems with the spinning media deforming due to the stress.
Do you have a phone capable of doing analog? If so, that is the explanation. Analog signals will sound crappy (lots of static) but are usable for longer distances.
They also use more power, with analog phone typically putting out 3-5 watts as a`opposed to the fraction of a watt used by digitals. If your cell phone kicks into analog it will boost power consumption and drain the battery quickly.
LOS helps, too. Get on top of a mountain and you can easily get a tower 10 miles away.
40 miles is a little odd, but can happen with good propagation. HOWEVER, if you did it then others could do it -- and those cell towers can only handle so many connections at once. That is why you can get 4 bars of signal and STILL not make a call every now and then.
I think it is more likely that:
a) Your phone was in analog mode -- not available on a lot of new phones;
or,
b) The local towers WERE up, but some of the switching stations were out and your call got routed around the damage -- thru Canada. If the only towers functioning were 40 miles away and you got thru then you live in the middle of nowhere and few people have cell phones; or you were extraordinarily lucky.
My cell phone can talk around the world on it's itty bitty power output.
No, it can't. That is why there are those little bars showing signal strength. You're lucky the newer digital units can get two miles to a tower (where it is then pumped thru an ATM link over a T-1 to the landline network).
Funny, fine. But to whomever modded that post "Informative" needs to go back to school.
What the rest of the socialist world doesn't realize is the non-governmental donations from American citizens will end up dwarfing what the government donates.
The difference is people like that idiot at the U.N. don't realize it is possible for actual INDIVIDUALS to be generous with their money. Their socialist upbrining leads them to believe the only truth is that INDIVIDUALS are incapable of altruism and the GOVERNMENT must FORCE them to do the right thing by taking their money before hand and doing it for them.
Reality is, the U.S. is consistantly one of THE most generous nations on earth in terms of volunteering and giving to charity. We just don't have to be FORCED to help others by our government taxing us and redistributing the wealth. We'll do it on our own.
Iraq was a man made disaster long before the U.S. got there. The difference now is there is hope it will be cleaned up in the near future, as opposed to another 40+ years of a dictator that gasses, tortures and murders his own people.
If an agency like the NSA or CIA requires security clearance for their cleaning staff, and some do, then it is very likely that the same staff will be used for multiple locations and rotated around.
Getting clearance is expensive and it isn't just done on a whim. Once they have someone with clearance, that person is going to be used as often as possible.
If a person temporarily loses clearance, they will be rotated to a non-clearance required position until their clearance is reinstated. It happens all the time with military contractors.
No, I believe one of those badges given to a sub-contracted janitor would get them into an NSA building. Or do you believe the super agents scrub their own toilets at work?
It also depends on how they are implemented. I believe a stolen smart chip from card A, implanted into easier-to-get card B would be a major threat.
Because States can't regulate trade with foreign nations -- Federal law supercedes them. There is a BIG fight in U.S. politics about who has ultimate control of forestland. The fight is between the federal gov't and the States that the forests are actually in. Right now, there are a lot of federal regs that limit what the States can do and permit.
So...they HAVE to go thru Congress to get things changed.
However, I believe the US has lost at least 2 rounds of WTO appeals. We're wrong, it is just the timber lobby is too powerful in many States to just come out and say that. There is a lot of resentment towards NAFTA in the U.S. Give it another year and it'll all go away in Canada's favor.
Hmmm... I'd need to research this before taking it at face value. PRIVATE land doesn't have to be replanted, as that is up to the owner. But leased State and Federal lands, I'm not sure. I certainly have seen a lot of freshly planted forest in National and State Forest areas.
It does vary by State, though. For example, here in Idaho something like 90% of the land is either State or Federal -- a good chunk being forest. While in Maine something like 95% is privately owned by timber companies. Opposite ends of the spectrum.
All that, because we don't require our lumber producers to purchase land before they log it; we simply lease crown land to them for a low price, and we get to maintain control over such land.
The U.S. does not require lumber producers to purchase land before they log it. The gov't does lease timber rights in National, State and other forests. The whole argument is over the phrase "low price". The U.S. contends that the Canadian gov't leases it too cheaply -- below market value.
I'm not saying who is right, just clearing up some facts. Having recently moved to north Idaho, this is a hot-button issue here.
Oh wait, that's right, the US is building almost the entire thing... Informative!!?? Ehm... sources to support that???
You see, on the Internet there is this site called "google". Maybe you've heard of it? Try searching for "ISS russia funding lack" and pick a hit. Any hit.
The Russian gov't seriously ran low on funds and the choice was between the U.S. picking up the tab and abandoning the whole project. Since it *is* up in space, I suspect the former option was chosen.
Of course, there is nothing wrong with them charging for the flighs coming up. They don't have the funds otherwise.
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http://www.wunderground.
Both are freely available to everyone with a net connection. Both rely on NOAA and NWS supplied data along with other, private sources.
The vast majority of the American public gets their weather from those or similar locations. Most wouldn't know it if the free feeds from the NOAA/NWS stopped. Lives would not be in danger as those that do use the feeds would either pay the fee or move over to feeds from the private sector.
That being said, it should NOT be made a fee service. This is a taxpayer supported service and should be freely available to the taxpayers.
I just think all those "people are going to DIE" posts here on
-Charles
Where I work uses IRC for internal communications. Channels for support, engineering, sales, etc. We'd go nuts without it.
Actually, he is saying that a DRM is independent of the content. And as much as it pains me to say it, he is right.
There are LOT of valid uses for DRM. I've worked at manufacturing companies and document control -- making sure the proper drawings are in place for the assembly teams -- was vital. Since all of our documents were converted to digital (PDF, DXF, XLS and some databases) it was all DRM.
DRM prevented non-released documents (in beta) from being accessed by non-engineers, just to make sure someone didn't get the wrong assembly instructions. DRM restricted who could edit and approve documents. There was a whole set of restrictions on who could print, etc.
There is a whole world of legitimate DRM outside of music and video files.
KDE changes major number when they break binary backwards compatibility.
The major change will be the move to QT4. KDE major release numbers match QT major release numbers.
a) Big company with a trained staff and warehouse full of warranty/replacement parts.
b) The guy who put it together over two weeks while reading a HOWTO.
c) Nobody, and your business misses a week of calls while guy from (b) tries to figure out what happened.
This is so funny!
I used to work for a major telco deploying/configuring cell backhaul ATM equipment and your post reminds me of a deployment in Pensacola, FL.
b) The guys running the fiber at the new facility cut the pair 1' short, so they wouldn't reach if strung thru the runs. The only way to make them reach was to string them tight, about neck high across the facility.
Everything -- except the ATM switch I was programming -- was on battery-backed power. Of course there was a storm and we lost power 3 times that night.
The big telco had sold their fiber making plant a couple of months ago. Part of the agreement was that said telco would purchase fiber ONLY thru the new company for the next year.
Said company was OUT OF STOCK on the fiber we needed and it would take FOUR WEEKS to get some made and shipped. It was a violation of the contract to get some anywhere else. I finally had some expressed from one of the telco's European warehouses -- which counted as 'stock'.
a) The cell crew that was recently hired to replace the experienced, but much more expensive, crew that was recently laid off. This was the crew that screwed up the fiber and redundant power to begin with.
c) Customers in Pensacola, FL and Mobile, AL who had to wait an extra week for the new towers to go online while this shit was fixed.
Oh, and don't even get me started on the THREE HOUR, 13 PERSON conference call that was had to discuss how to handle peak/non-peak billing charges when a user crosses time zones.
All from two of the biggest names in the business.
-Charles
Lincoln did not end slavery. The 13th Amendment did, and that was passed after Lincoln died.
Keep in mind, his "Emancipation Proclamantion" didn't apply to Union Slave States, like West Virginia. Nor did it apply to Union-controlled areas of the Confederacy.
A Presidential decree does NOT trump the Constitution, which stated that any runaway slave captured in a non-slave state MUST be returned.
-Charles
The how do you proposed dealing with slavery? It is codified in the original text. The document isn't perfect.
-Charles
But the very beauty of the U.S. Constitution is that it is flexible and adaptable, yet not so easy to change it looks like one of those things the States call "Constitutions".
You can't enact something in normal law that is contrary to the Constitution, thus the Constitution itself has to be changed to allow said laws.
How would you propose something like making sure blacks were a full 3/3 of a person and citizens, as opposed to the 2/3 in the main document? Are you talking about revising the original text?
I'm curious.
as previously said: 802.11a[a-z]
:-)
You mean like the power over ethernet standard, 802.11af?
Sorry, i dont acknowledge anything above #10.
So, you still practice slavery? (#13) How about not allowing women to vote (#19), or having your Governor appoint your Senators (#17), or lowering the voting age to 18 (#26)?
Hell, you HAVE to support #27 -- not allowing Congress to raise their own pay during a session!
Are you really sure you want G.W. Bush running for a third term? (#22)
-Charles
I'm not quite sure where to begin...
Mission Critical machines should not have remote applications running on them without a major firewall between the application and the kernal.
You mean like file sharing servers and print servers? Samba has kernel-level components you can't do without. Apache has kernel hooks and system calls that aren't userland. Are you talking about compartmentalization? (chroot & things like SElinux). This level of PITA is hard to justify in normal business situations.
By taking telnet and SSH off of it and requiring passwords on FTP, of course. For everything else, require an administrator with LOCAL (as in hardware keyboard) access. It's called being paranoid- and it's the FIRST rule anybody trying to run a secure system should know.
This is just plain WRONG. Leave SSH on use SCP/SFTP and get secure transfers. I don't allow FTP at all. All plain-text logins are disallowed on my servers. Even e-mail requires SSL v3/TLS v1 to connect and valid user accounts (SMTP AUTH).
Considering the box is located in a locked cage at an ISP -- and a redundant box in another ISP *ACROSS THE COUNTRY* -- how do you propose to have a keyboard at each? If box #1 does down and I have to monitor/massage the backup in Dallas do you propose all my customers wait until I can arrange a flight?
It sounds like you've never administered a large or geographically diverse network. It is frequently IMPOSSIBLE to admin boxes only locally. SSH is a godsend and it belongs on damn near EVERY box.
-Charles
The solution to local kernal root attacks is PHYSICAL not CYBER security.
Wrong.
And if someone exploits a remote *application* (PHP, Apache, FTPd, Sendmail, Bind, etc.) causing it to give you a shell or pass commands to the underlying system, what then?
Your "local" exploit just became a "remote" exploit. What about ISPs who give shell (SSH) access to certain accounts?
A "one user to one machine" rule is so stupid it boggles the mind. How exactly do you expect to run a server with that rule? The network is more than just that beige box on your desk.
Local and remote, like root, are only states of mind.
-Charles
Seagate Cheetah U320 SCSI drives are available in 15,000 RPM models. Much faster than that and you have problems with the spinning media deforming due to the stress.
Hard drives get bigger and bigger, we might reach the 1TB limit one day ! More at 10.
So, you're planning on buying two of them?
Do you have a phone capable of doing analog? If so, that is the explanation. Analog signals will sound crappy (lots of static) but are usable for longer distances.
They also use more power, with analog phone typically putting out 3-5 watts as a`opposed to the fraction of a watt used by digitals. If your cell phone kicks into analog it will boost power consumption and drain the battery quickly.
LOS helps, too. Get on top of a mountain and you can easily get a tower 10 miles away.
40 miles is a little odd, but can happen with good propagation. HOWEVER, if you did it then others could do it -- and those cell towers can only handle so many connections at once. That is why you can get 4 bars of signal and STILL not make a call every now and then.
I think it is more likely that:
a) Your phone was in analog mode -- not available on a lot of new phones;
or,
b) The local towers WERE up, but some of the switching stations were out and your call got routed around the damage -- thru Canada. If the only towers functioning were 40 miles away and you got thru then you live in the middle of nowhere and few people have cell phones; or you were extraordinarily lucky.
-Charles
My cell phone can talk around the world on it's itty bitty power output.
No, it can't. That is why there are those little bars showing signal strength. You're lucky the newer digital units can get two miles to a tower (where it is then pumped thru an ATM link over a T-1 to the landline network).
Funny, fine. But to whomever modded that post "Informative" needs to go back to school.
-Charles
Well, you don't have to lead a laser whereas you'd have to be a damn good shot to hit a plane with a bullet.
.50 caliber rounds thru an engine would do a great deal of damage. And you can shoot those things from a mile or more away.
Lasers make no noise, whereas guns go "bang" and alert everyone around you and are thus easier to isolate.
Guns leave residue on the user, lasers do not. A laser with a non-visible beam is going to be VERY hard to track.
Actually, a couple
Outlawing them, however, is probably a very stupid and ineffective idea.
-Charles
What the rest of the socialist world doesn't realize is the non-governmental donations from American citizens will end up dwarfing what the government donates.
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The difference is people like that idiot at the U.N. don't realize it is possible for actual INDIVIDUALS to be generous with their money. Their socialist upbrining leads them to believe the only truth is that INDIVIDUALS are incapable of altruism and the GOVERNMENT must FORCE them to do the right thing by taking their money before hand and doing it for them.
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http://www.jhu.edu/~cnp/pdf/comp
Reality is, the U.S. is consistantly one of THE most generous nations on earth in terms of volunteering and giving to charity. We just don't have to be FORCED to help others by our government taxing us and redistributing the wealth. We'll do it on our own.
Iraq was a man made disaster long before the U.S. got there. The difference now is there is hope it will be cleaned up in the near future, as opposed to another 40+ years of a dictator that gasses, tortures and murders his own people.
If an agency like the NSA or CIA requires security clearance for their cleaning staff, and some do, then it is very likely that the same staff will be used for multiple locations and rotated around.
Getting clearance is expensive and it isn't just done on a whim. Once they have someone with clearance, that person is going to be used as often as possible.
If a person temporarily loses clearance, they will be rotated to a non-clearance required position until their clearance is reinstated. It happens all the time with military contractors.
No, I believe one of those badges given to a sub-contracted janitor would get them into an NSA building. Or do you believe the super agents scrub their own toilets at work?
It also depends on how they are implemented. I believe a stolen smart chip from card A, implanted into easier-to-get card B would be a major threat.
The devil is in the details.
Because States can't regulate trade with foreign nations -- Federal law supercedes them. There is a BIG fight in U.S. politics about who has ultimate control of forestland. The fight is between the federal gov't and the States that the forests are actually in. Right now, there are a lot of federal regs that limit what the States can do and permit.
So...they HAVE to go thru Congress to get things changed.
However, I believe the US has lost at least 2 rounds of WTO appeals. We're wrong, it is just the timber lobby is too powerful in many States to just come out and say that. There is a lot of resentment towards NAFTA in the U.S. Give it another year and it'll all go away in Canada's favor.
Hmmm... I'd need to research this before taking it at face value. PRIVATE land doesn't have to be replanted, as that is up to the owner. But leased State and Federal lands, I'm not sure. I certainly have seen a lot of freshly planted forest in National and State Forest areas.
It does vary by State, though. For example, here in Idaho something like 90% of the land is either State or Federal -- a good chunk being forest. While in Maine something like 95% is privately owned by timber companies. Opposite ends of the spectrum.
All that, because we don't require our lumber producers to purchase land before they log it; we simply lease crown land to them for a low price, and we get to maintain control over such land.
The U.S. does not require lumber producers to purchase land before they log it. The gov't does lease timber rights in National, State and other forests. The whole argument is over the phrase "low price". The U.S. contends that the Canadian gov't leases it too cheaply -- below market value.
I'm not saying who is right, just clearing up some facts. Having recently moved to north Idaho, this is a hot-button issue here.
-Charles
Oh wait, that's right, the US is building almost the entire thing... Informative!!?? Ehm... sources to support that???
You see, on the Internet there is this site called "google". Maybe you've heard of it? Try searching for "ISS russia funding lack" and pick a hit. Any hit.
The Russian gov't seriously ran low on funds and the choice was between the U.S. picking up the tab and abandoning the whole project. Since it *is* up in space, I suspect the former option was chosen.
Of course, there is nothing wrong with them charging for the flighs coming up. They don't have the funds otherwise.
-Charles