The article says that at least 3 of the hijackers had purchased GPS receivers, and possibly all 4...
If you have a programmed waypoint in the GPS receiver, it will literally display an arrow that points in the direction you need to go. Makes navigation into childs play.
Admittedly, shutting down the entire GPS system or part of the constellation probably would not have helped on September 11th, as we were caught with our pants down.
Oh I read what it said in the article. But the truth is, 100% of the mail I get from Chinese netblocks is spam. So my solution works, to some degree...
I get no mail of any value from China. I don't know anybody there. So I don't feel bad about automatically trashing all mail that originates in Chinese netblocks. It's amazing the effect that has had on what spam I actually see.
If everybody did this, it could become a real problem for the Chinese. (duh)
Many of the posters here seem to think that the US is opposed to the Galileo system because the technology will be "better" than the current GPS system.
I don't believe that. If the US military-industrial complex was worried about superior foreign technology, they would have already bombed Toyota, Honda, Sony, etc. out of existence!
The American military is worried that a system such as Galileo allows much, much simpler creation of missile and other automatically guided weapons systems. The current GPS system supports "selective availability" where the accuracy can be deliberately degraded during times or war or other threats.
The Galileo partners should be worried that when the American military feels threatened, the usual "shoot first, ask questions later" philosophy will prevail, and the Galileo system will be jammed or destroyed to protect American interests. (At that same time, the current GPS system would be deliberately degraded or disabled.) I would bet money on that.
GPS signals are piss-weak, and can be easily blocked with a bit of metal. Wrap your GPS antenna in tinfoil every other week, and you will only log 1/2 the miles...
Of course, your reported gas mileage will be pretty crummy, but you do drive with a lead foot, right?
Or, to quote Mr. Scott, "the more they overthink the plumbing, the easier it is to stop up the drain."
OK, if you feel that strongly about it, give away all your shit and move to China or Cuba or North Korea then.
Everybody in MY country (The USA) has a chance. You just have to be willing to work really hard for it. This country was built by people who, by and large, came here with nothing. Now we have the highest GDP in the world.
Your precious equilibrium was best described by Neal Stephenson in Snowcrash... It is a good standard of living if you happen to be a Pakistani bricklayer. (No offense to hardworking Pakistanis out there.) I want something better, for myself and my offspring.
My wrists have been destroyed by bad keyboards and worse mice. That mouse looks cool, but my wrists start to ache just looking at it.
I want a mouse that is comfortable to use for long periods of time. I need one that has a good 15-30 degree slant up towards the left, like the Goldtouch Mouse. Sure, it's ugly, but I can still hold a beer after a long day of computer use.
it wasn't management that failed, it was marketing
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Digital could not market for shit.
And that was on a good day.
Yes, there were certainly some engineering and management blunders (mostly management) but Marketing was completely inept.
During the 70s the PDPs practically sold themselves, and during the 80s VAX literally sold itself; it was the hottest thing you could hope to get. So when the big Unix wave came, with its cheap-ass Sun hardware, and so-called software compatibility, the Marketing droids could not cope, and the former #2 computer manufacturer is now just a zit on HPs ass.
Yeah, and if you are using Itanium, you are keeping Alpha technology alive. Intel and DEC had a huge suit over Intel stealing DEC IP that was used in Itanium. The suit was settled by Bob Palmer foolishly selling the DEC semiconductor business to Intel.
Actually, DEC VMS did both 1 and 2. No other vendor has shipped any kind of clustering that has worked as well as VAXCluster. (The same is true for VMS itself, IMHO.)
Re:Still policy blocked from work...
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Hmmm. Try https://gmail.google.com
The filters at my office don't handle https! So it works well that way.
Yes. Dark Side has a 2-channel mix on the CD layer. And it does not sound as good as the DSD 5-channel version. No surprise there. The DSD version sounds better than the old half-speed mastered vinyl I bought 20 years ago, too. The Dark Side CD version sounds damn good, too. I don't believe that the CD layer was made to sound crummy in comparison. I think you need to get out from under your tinfoil hat.
With respect to the Brubeck recording, the sound stage sounds full and realistic. I can hear sounds that I could not hear on the conventional CD version. I expect it sounds much closer to the original tapes that all these versions are sourced from. You should listen to it, I think you would be convinced.
My DVD player (Sony DVP-NS755V) supports SACD. So I bought some discs. I don't have a audiophile grade sound system, but it's pretty OK. Homebrew (but very high quality) loudspeakers fed with a Sony 6-channel surround sound receiver.
The DSDs (SACD) discs sound truly amazing. The Dave Brubeck Quartet's Time Out DSD sounds like you are in the studio. I have it in regular CD as well, the difference is very audible. The remastered Dark Side of the Moon DSD is incredible, as well as another classic, the first Boston album. I like the sound of this format. I think even the mechanical-transducer bigots (hah! phonograph!) could be convinced about DSD if they got off their $12,000 turntables.
Get a life. A real one. Your own. Not the pretend game life. Real World.
When you are old and gray, or when the game loses its luster, you will want the woman in your life to still be interested in you, not some other guy.
I think you need to evaluate your priorities for life. Choose instant gratification (the game) or long term comfort and satisfaction (the woman, with a little luck and a little more effort.)
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Yeah. I know. There is still a limit. OTOH, it uses the same size (16 bits) so the size of the data remains the same....
Hmmm.
why would anybody make ae event counter a signed value?
short numberScheduleChanges;
hello?
unsigned short numberScheduleChanges;
fixes the problem.
Hmmm. I'll vite for that.
How about some ACL-based protection mechanisms!
And VMS-style "logical names" that allow a virtual "file system" location to point at multiple real file system locations...
And while we are at it, let's add real clustering, and DCL for good measure.
(Did anybody else use Posix services on VMS? That was some cool stuff. Unix interfaces on a modern OS...)
Read...
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http://archives.cnn.com/2002/US/05/22/hijack.pa
The article says that at least 3 of the hijackers had purchased GPS receivers, and possibly all 4...
If you have a programmed waypoint in the GPS receiver, it will literally display an arrow that points in the direction you need to go. Makes navigation into childs play.
Admittedly, shutting down the entire GPS system or part of the constellation probably would not have helped on September 11th, as we were caught with our pants down.
Uhhh, I'm pretty sure that handheld GPS units were instrumental in targeting on 9/11.
Oh I read what it said in the article. But the truth is, 100% of the mail I get from Chinese netblocks is spam. So my solution works, to some degree...
Yep. In the unlikely event that any of those things happened, I'd be hosed. A risk I'm willing to take.
I get no mail of any value from China. I don't know anybody there. So I don't feel bad about automatically trashing all mail that originates in Chinese netblocks. It's amazing the effect that has had on what spam I actually see.
If everybody did this, it could become a real problem for the Chinese. (duh)
Many of the posters here seem to think that the US is opposed to the Galileo system because the technology will be "better" than the current GPS system.
I don't believe that. If the US military-industrial complex was worried about superior foreign technology, they would have already bombed Toyota, Honda, Sony, etc. out of existence!
The American military is worried that a system such as Galileo allows much, much simpler creation of missile and other automatically guided weapons systems. The current GPS system supports "selective availability" where the accuracy can be deliberately degraded during times or war or other threats.
The Galileo partners should be worried that when the American military feels threatened, the usual "shoot first, ask questions later" philosophy will prevail, and the Galileo system will be jammed or destroyed to protect American interests. (At that same time, the current GPS system would be deliberately degraded or disabled.) I would bet money on that.
A tinfoil hat for your car...
GPS signals are piss-weak, and can be easily blocked with a bit of metal. Wrap your GPS antenna in tinfoil every other week, and you will only log 1/2 the miles...
Of course, your reported gas mileage will be pretty crummy, but you do drive with a lead foot, right?
Or, to quote Mr. Scott, "the more they overthink the plumbing, the easier it is to stop up the drain."
Now I know that glaucoma is no laughing matter, but does this mean if I keep working this hard I can get a prescription for Medical Marijuana?
The ability to boot multiple systems off the same device sounds a lot like VAXcluster technology.
Everything old is new again!
OK, if you feel that strongly about it, give away all your shit and move to China or Cuba or North Korea then.
Everybody in MY country (The USA) has a chance. You just have to be willing to work really hard for it. This country was built by people who, by and large, came here with nothing. Now we have the highest GDP in the world.
Your precious equilibrium was best described by Neal Stephenson in Snowcrash... It is a good standard of living if you happen to be a Pakistani bricklayer. (No offense to hardworking Pakistanis out there.) I want something better, for myself and my offspring.
I have a computer here that never gets any spam.
It's like magic!
Ever since I unplugged it, the spam has stopped.
And that's about how useful that dmail system will be. If nobody can mail you, you will get no spam.
I like the idea of 24-character randomly generated names in an email address.
If you want to email me, just send mail to
K5P3o2fx9uidJw98qF7rrio7@example.com
If you can actually remember it.
My wrists have been destroyed by bad keyboards and worse mice. That mouse looks cool, but my wrists start to ache just looking at it.
I want a mouse that is comfortable to use for long periods of time. I need one that has a good 15-30 degree slant up towards the left, like the Goldtouch Mouse. Sure, it's ugly, but I can still hold a beer after a long day of computer use.
Digital could not market for shit.
And that was on a good day.
Yes, there were certainly some engineering and management blunders (mostly management) but Marketing was completely inept.
During the 70s the PDPs practically sold themselves, and during the 80s VAX literally sold itself; it was the hottest thing you could hope to get. So when the big Unix wave came, with its cheap-ass Sun hardware, and so-called software compatibility, the Marketing droids could not cope, and the former #2 computer manufacturer is now just a zit on HPs ass.
Do I sound bitter? nooooooo.......
Yeah, and if you are using Itanium, you are keeping Alpha technology alive. Intel and DEC had a huge suit over Intel stealing DEC IP that was used in Itanium. The suit was settled by Bob Palmer foolishly selling the DEC semiconductor business to Intel.
What a waste.
It will be a damn long time before you can get a cheap PC and software that let's you tune and record DirecTV.
And yes, there are TiVos with DVD recorders, and TiVos with ethernet export.
The plus for DirecTiVo users is that DirecTV uses a $25,000 statistical MPEG II encoder, something you won't find in your garden variety cheap PC.
But you can still buy a new one with support today!
There will still be plenty of VAX to go around for a long time.
You only had the version 4 manuals then.
The version 5 manuals would take all 10 feet of the back of my cube.
Wow! Nothing like a 10 foot stack of documentation.
Actually, DEC VMS did both 1 and 2. No other vendor has shipped any kind of clustering that has worked as well as VAXCluster. (The same is true for VMS itself, IMHO.)
Hmmm. Try https://gmail.google.com
The filters at my office don't handle https! So it works well that way.
As always, your mileage may vary.
Yes. Dark Side has a 2-channel mix on the CD layer. And it does not sound as good as the DSD 5-channel version. No surprise there. The DSD version sounds better than the old half-speed mastered vinyl I bought 20 years ago, too. The Dark Side CD version sounds damn good, too. I don't believe that the CD layer was made to sound crummy in comparison. I think you need to get out from under your tinfoil hat.
With respect to the Brubeck recording, the sound stage sounds full and realistic. I can hear sounds that I could not hear on the conventional CD version. I expect it sounds much closer to the original tapes that all these versions are sourced from. You should listen to it, I think you would be convinced.
The DSDs (SACD) discs sound truly amazing. The Dave Brubeck Quartet's Time Out DSD sounds like you are in the studio. I have it in regular CD as well, the difference is very audible. The remastered Dark Side of the Moon DSD is incredible, as well as another classic, the first Boston album. I like the sound of this format. I think even the mechanical-transducer bigots (hah! phonograph!) could be convinced about DSD if they got off their $12,000 turntables.
Get a life. A real one. Your own. Not the pretend game life. Real World.
When you are old and gray, or when the game loses its luster, you will want the woman in your life to still be interested in you, not some other guy.
I think you need to evaluate your priorities for life. Choose instant gratification (the game) or long term comfort and satisfaction (the woman, with a little luck and a little more effort.)
Gah! Slashdot.