After all the bitching and moaning about how Disney/Miramax "censored" Moore's film, I find it appalling to see the result of the moderation of my original comment:
50% Insightful 30% Overrated 20% Flamebait
Hmmm. Moderated down because it's "overrated" or "flamebait?" Perhaps it was moderated down because it dares to present a dissenting viewpoint.
Riefenstahl made artful propaganda movies to further her own political goals. How is that different than Moore? Their political ideology is different, but otherwise, both made powerful propaganda films.
People need to understand the difference between propaganda and truth. Moore's films are long on propaganda and short on truth.
The point was to say that both are brilliant filmmakers, and both used film as a method to further their socio-political goals. I do not agree with either's political agendas.
Bowling was an attempt to blame the tragedy at Columbine high school on 2nd ammendment nuts and the "American gun culture." I saw the movie, and it was very well done. I fear for those who did not recognize it for what it was: anti-gun propaganda.
This is not news for nerds. This is about a piece of political propaganda, and it is not appropriate for this forum. Taco can post whatever he wants, since it is his site, but that doesn't mean I have to like it. I would hate to see Slashdot turn into Red vs. Blue.
Personally, I place Moore in the same category as Nazi propagandist Leni Riefenstahl.
it's already fixed? My mail client does not know how to verify a message is signed by a signer I want to trust. I'd like to know about any solution that is not going to triple the amount of time I spend working on email.
If you are an amateur radio operatorand an earthlink customer, please consider switching providers to protest Earthlink's action here. Make sure they know why you are switching to a new provider.
Ahh, no. Magnetic radiation is not absorbed by the lead in the front of the CRT. The lead is there to block x-ray radiation. Most of the magnetic field goes right through that.
Do you recall the vertical refresh rate of your monitor? Most modern computer monitors refresh between 60 and 85 hertz, un-nervingly close to the 60 hertz rate described in the article. Fortunately, most of this oscillating magnetic field is in the back of the CRT monitor. So yes, your computer CRT monitor may be harmful. If this worries you (should it?) then invest in a LCD display.
I wonder what the prolonged effects of the 60 hertz field produced from the synchronous motor or power transformer of bedside alarm clocks does for you.
After reading the article, I plan to become a luddite hermit.
This is yet another good reason to hack your TiVo.
Once properly hacked
you can telnet to your TiVo and purge the keystroke logs! (in/var/log, where else!?) Not to mention the other nifty capabilities, like web-based control and Video Extraction...
Use the old phone trick. The parts are cheaply obtained, and not likely to get stolen. Plus, it works very well. The only downside is that you have to hold onto the handset. But there are solutions to that problem, as well.
The first home computer my family had when I was growing up was a Digital PDT-11/150. This thing had 2 8" floppy drives and 24K(!) of 16-bit memory. We had three terminals attached to it, one CRT (DEC VT-62), the venerable LA36 DECwriter II, and a DECwriter IV that I had in my bedroom. The printing terminals ran at a whopping 300 baud. The computer ran RSX-11 and RT-11, and multi-user BASIC. We used it for word processing, programming/hacking and running the killer app: Advent!
We had this for a few years when I was in high school. Later it was replaced with a DEC Rainbow 100. (Does anybody remember the Rainbow with it's Z-80 and 8086? It could run either CP/M or MS-DOS, but was fatally flawed by not being PC compatible.)
I found 4 different copies of errno.h on my Windows XP box!
Two were from Cygwin, but the other two were Microsoft's.
For instance, c:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio.NET 2003\Vc7\include\errno.h says it is copyright Microsoft. This file includes preprocessor directives that seem strangely familiar
I found Quicksilver to be painful to read. For instance, a significant character dies in the middle of the book, only to be replaced by his brother. Piffle and Rot!
Stephenson's writing has been uneven, to be sure. The Diamond Age is another that let me down. Cryptonomicon was great, as was Snowcrash, but hey, we all can't be Stephen King, now, can we?
Hell, If I were you I would consider training for a career with a future, like medicine or law. Soon all the well-paying computer jobs will all be outsourced, and then where will you be with your fancy PhD?
Look at articles like this and this and decide carefully before you invest your time and money into what is rapidly becoming a dead-end career.
There is a lot more in the affected bandwidth than ham radio. The hams are just the most vocal group to oppose BPL.
There is worldwide shortwave broadcast, citizen's band, government and land-mobile radio, too, including police and fire dispatch (although a lot of that has moved up to VHF higher, there is still a lot on "low band"), cordless telephones and baby monitors, television channels 2-6, etc.
So it's not just hams that will lose out if this technology is deployed. Shortwave listeners, public safety communications, other land mobile (there are a lot of utilities using these frequencies) and pepole receiving television off antennas will all find their communcations disrupted.
Not to mention the technical problems of distributing RF over a very-low-frequency network.
This is a bad idea, poorly implemented. Like a nuclear powered airplane with an air-shielded reactor. An idea who's time will never come.
Icom
is a top-tier manufacturer of ham radio gear. Their newest creation, the D-STAR
system supports 128 kb/s data and phone (voice) over 1.2 GHz links and 10 GHz backbone links. The user radios have a mike, speaker, control head, as well as USB and 10 base T ethernet. Very interesting stuff.
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After all the bitching and moaning about how Disney/Miramax "censored" Moore's film, I find it appalling to see the result of the moderation of my original comment:
50% Insightful
30% Overrated
20% Flamebait
Hmmm. Moderated down because it's "overrated" or "flamebait?" Perhaps it was moderated down because it dares to present a dissenting viewpoint.
I am not surprised, but I am disappointed.
Riefenstahl made artful propaganda movies to further her own political goals. How is that different than Moore? Their political ideology is different, but otherwise, both made powerful propaganda films.
People need to understand the difference between propaganda and truth. Moore's films are long on propaganda and short on truth.
Bowling was an attempt to blame the tragedy at Columbine high school on 2nd ammendment nuts and the "American gun culture." I saw the movie, and it was very well done. I fear for those who did not recognize it for what it was: anti-gun propaganda.
Personally, I place Moore in the same category as Nazi propagandist Leni Riefenstahl.
Re: Wolfram.
Yeah, I thought that too. So much for Wolfram's "original idea..."
IMHO, he invented the first programming language.
Details here
News? Hardly. Google shows this foolishness was on the web in December 2001. It wasn't very funny then, and it is even less funny today.
Can we have a subject category for irrelevant, boring dupes?
I guess it got loose from Grace's notebook, then.
it's already fixed? My mail client does not know how to verify a message is signed by a signer I want to trust. I'd like to know about any solution that is not going to triple the amount of time I spend working on email.
Email is one of the biggest threat vectors.
When email gets fixed (through authenticated access), the worms and virii will need to find a new way to spread.
This is in addition to the more obivous effect of cutting down the overall flow of spam.
I have been telling you how Broadband over Power Line was going to interfere with everything. Now it's happening. This is just the beginning.
If you are an amateur radio operatorand an earthlink customer, please consider switching providers to protest Earthlink's action here. Make sure they know why you are switching to a new provider.
Ahh, no. Magnetic radiation is not absorbed by the lead in the front of the CRT. The lead is there to block x-ray radiation. Most of the magnetic field goes right through that.
Do you recall the vertical refresh rate of your monitor? Most modern computer monitors refresh between 60 and 85 hertz, un-nervingly close to the 60 hertz rate described in the article. Fortunately, most of this oscillating magnetic field is in the back of the CRT monitor. So yes, your computer CRT monitor may be harmful. If this worries you (should it?) then invest in a LCD display.
I wonder what the prolonged effects of the 60 hertz field produced from the synchronous motor or power transformer of bedside alarm clocks does for you.
After reading the article, I plan to become a luddite hermit.
Once properly hacked you can telnet to your TiVo and purge the keystroke logs! (in /var/log, where else!?) Not to mention the other nifty capabilities, like web-based control and Video Extraction...
Use the old phone trick. The parts are cheaply obtained, and not likely to get stolen. Plus, it works very well. The only downside is that you have to hold onto the handset. But there are solutions to that problem, as well.
No utilities probably means no internet, because the power budget of a satellite internet setup will eat you alive.
Suggest you invest in some pens and paper.
We had this for a few years when I was in high school. Later it was replaced with a DEC Rainbow 100. (Does anybody remember the Rainbow with it's Z-80 and 8086? It could run either CP/M or MS-DOS, but was fatally flawed by not being PC compatible.)
Two were from Cygwin, but the other two were Microsoft's.
For instance, c:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2003\Vc7\include\errno.h says it is copyright Microsoft. This file includes preprocessor directives that seem strangely familiar
#define EPERM 1
#define ENOENT 2
#define ESRCH 3
#define EINTR 4
#define EIO 5
etc.
Which look sufficiently like what SCO is claiming is their copyrighted code!
This is fun!
I found Quicksilver to be painful to read. For instance, a significant character dies in the middle of the book, only to be replaced by his brother. Piffle and Rot!
Stephenson's writing has been uneven, to be sure. The Diamond Age is another that let me down. Cryptonomicon was great, as was Snowcrash, but hey, we all can't be Stephen King, now, can we?
Gator is spyware, spyware,
Spyware, spyware, spyware.
But you can't say gator is spyware
and get away with it,
Except on Slashdot!
Look at articles like this and this and decide carefully before you invest your time and money into what is rapidly becoming a dead-end career.
There is a lot more in the affected bandwidth than ham radio. The hams are just the most vocal group to oppose BPL.
There is worldwide shortwave broadcast, citizen's band, government and land-mobile radio, too, including police and fire dispatch (although a lot of that has moved up to VHF higher, there is still a lot on "low band"), cordless telephones and baby monitors, television channels 2-6, etc.
So it's not just hams that will lose out if this technology is deployed. Shortwave listeners, public safety communications, other land mobile (there are a lot of utilities using these frequencies) and pepole receiving television off antennas will all find their communcations disrupted.
Not to mention the technical problems of distributing RF over a very-low-frequency network.
This is a bad idea, poorly implemented. Like a nuclear powered airplane with an air-shielded reactor. An idea who's time will never come.
Icom is a top-tier manufacturer of ham radio gear. Their newest creation, the D-STAR system supports 128 kb/s data and phone (voice) over 1.2 GHz links and 10 GHz backbone links. The user radios have a mike, speaker, control head, as well as USB and 10 base T ethernet. Very interesting stuff.
You need to check out the comment above about Captain Midnight.
t m
Here's the link to make it easy for you:
http://www.signaltonoise.net/library/captmidn.h
how the hell do you pronounce C++0x?
c plus plus zero x?
???