but it's not universal and it's pretty unreliable since there are so many different ways to format addresses and they don't always match what's in the bank database. (#10 101 1st St., 101-10 First St., 101 1st Street Suite 10, etc
Actually, it isnt. The ole USPS has addressed this, and there _IS_ a standardized format. You can purchase software to "sanitize" your lists and make them match any other sanitized list. It's actually mandatory for bulk mailing rates.
If you are a true sadist, you can read about it here
Automation Direct makes some cheap PLC's (for some values of cheap; relative to the big industry giants- I think they start ~$100 + $100 for the control software)
I have written several conveyor control projects with them- you can do serial port interface using a couple different PLC protocols. Unlike building your own, they come pre-wired with manly relays for both AC (for line voltage) and DC (for motors, etc) contacts and relays (input switches and output for motors, etc).
Programming isn't really hard if you have had an electric primer- you can do simple on/off or write really complicated logic using "virtual" interlocking relays, etc.
If you have the money and some time, a PLC will produce a much better project IMHO than hacking together circuit boards and optoisolators, etc.
My (now departed) grandfather recieved an Omega watch as a retirement present ~1950. It, too, never required winding and sure as hell wasn't $10K (or whatever, adjusted for inflation)
. I never bothered to open it and play with it, but he said it had something to do with the pendulum action of your arms... Still works like a charm today.
An interesting idea, indeed; certainly better thought out than some of the other SMTP replacement ideas on/. as of late...
However, I feel there is one major flaw in your idea: think about the web-bugged HTML spam now. How is this much different? You send something... anything really [the "token"]... if it gets to it's destination, and the end user accepts, it retrieves the "payload" from the server... in your case, the message; in the current case, your name on a confirmed email list.
To get around this, methinx you would need some sort of way to preclude this delivery confirmation of sorts...
Or, alternatively, you could exit the fight by just dropping your home connection...
I trust my cell company explicitly (and could get one of their competitor's phones w/in 24 hours) and don't miss paying my Bell $35+ just to have a line with the arms-race additions...
I once wrote a program (which ran under NT 4/SP6) that did a massive dump of orders for a company (~5K sheets at a time) to a 4050.
I was using the HP PCL 6 driver under NT (my code printed through the M$ engine vice raw PCL cuz I had to render 2D barcodes), and at random times my print job would crash with a "kernel tag" error.
Solution: Use the PCL5 m$ driver. Worked on several printers, with a the massive multi-K page print jobs.
Before anyone gets excited over this, a brief reminder of the business policies of Sprint:
Here in Chicago, Sprint cancelled ION Service (Voice & Data over ATM), Wireless Broadband (From the Sears Tower To your house), and _BUSINESS_ ADSL (8D/1U) (The latter within two months of rolling it out.)
I wouldnt count on this service being around all that long if it isn't as profitable as they want it to be.
>the range was on the order of tens of meters {Snip} >the tags were nearly invincible and cost only a couple cents apiece
ObDisclaimer: I sell RFID equipment professionally.
There is NO passive tag being manufactured on any commercial scale now that can do that. Please, have him call me. I have an investment for him.
(In general, passive tags have an average range of about 15 feet, with a well-powered antenna. In _six figure_ quantities, they are ~$.40 wholesale, $~.50 end-user. )
Think carefully about the physics of this. Hmm... metric 10m ~= 30ft. From 30 feet away, you need to send an EMF powerful enough to induce voltage into a coil, which is read by a chip, which RE-SENDS the signal back over 30 ft. Remember, it isn't a point you are sending to, you're broadcasting 360 degrees. To further this, most RFID tag readers have "autocollision" compensation, which allows them to read multiple tags in the read range at once. With very weak signals, good luck...
With Win2K, WFP can, effectively, be nilled. An undocumented registry value cuts it out; when this became public, M$ quickly eliminated it (with W2K SP2). Rather than quote it all here, you can find out how to hack the SFC.dll that is causing your pain here.
Now what I really want, in my sick and twisted world, is to find out how to hack WFP to work for me- protecting the files I want to protect, while trashing m$ files like netmeeting....
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As I work for an integration company that sells RFID equipment (Shameless Plug with more information), that just won't happen with the current generation of technology.
The best passive tags (those that don't require their own power source) are expensive, (~$4 ea) and have a maximum range of about 15ft if you jack up the power on the antenna.
With an array of antennas (the usual configuration for warehouses, etc) on the more common tags (~$.50 in six figure quantitites), the nominal range is about seven feet (with two antennas, (one on each side) you can build a path wide enough to drive a forklift thru and scan everything on the pallet.
Here's the kicker, for you anarchist types: I havent found a tag yet (and we deal with about six different types of tag technology) that will still read when wrapped in aluminum foil.
And, for the record, we aren't talking about the anti-theft tags commonly used at retail shops- these are the tags that actually have enough memory (8b-8K) to do something useful. (Although it would probably work for them too, haven't tried it;p)
My girlfriend has one. It makes a short beep sound whenever someone picks up the phone (any in the house.) Someday I might go over there with an o-scope and see what frequency it is and post it somewhere...
In theory, these also work to various degrees if sent down the line: NC - No Circuit Found: 985.2 Hz, 380.0 ms; 1428.5 Hz, 380.0 ms; 1776.7 Hz, 380.0 ms IC - Operator Intercept: 913.8 Hz, 274.0 ms; 1370.6 Hz, 274.0 ms; 1776.7 Hz, 380.0 ms VC - Vacant Circuit: 985.2 Hz, 380.0 ms; 1370.6 Hz, 274.0 ms; 1776.7 Hz, 380.0 ms RO - Reorder (system busy): 913.8 Hz, 274.0 ms;1428.5 Hz, 380.0 ms; 1776.7 Hz, 380.0 ms
M$IE is actually quite resistant to things like this IF configured correctly. Most people won't bother, of course, to do this.
You CAN disable, independently of each other, and on a site-by-site basis Java, JavaScript, running plug-ins, automatic installation of plug-ins, and all sorts of other crap that pisses one off.
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Keep in mind, though, professionals are also liable for downtime... if your HDD dies and it takes two weeks to get fixed...
So somehow you're saying that not being held accountable for your actions is a bad thing?
He might be, but I'm not. I _AM_, however, against monetary gain by private corporations that this (could) cause.
Another (pre-coffee and thus far out) analogy is if your ISP records were sold to the RIAA and sold to retail record companies... "Hey! you did a lot of downloading on $P2P_FILE_SERVICE! Your CD now costs four times as much since you are considered a high risk for piracy!"
>But should we really cheer the restraint of speech on the net?
Spam is _NOT_ Free Speech.
Spam is a (sometimes) (moderate) form of a Denial of Service Attack, which utilizes precious resources of all types. Optimally, I'd treat it as a terrorist act (with the way things are going now, it might even be feasible...)- it is really no different than grafitti. Snail mail spam is PAID FOR by the sender; email is paid for by everyone but the sender.
What you maybe meant to say (I'm all about our constitutional rights) is something along the lines of protecting a right to fair trial if accused, protecting the right of SOLICITED (opt-in or the like) speech, and an accurate definition of SPAM.
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Actually, it isnt. The ole USPS has addressed this, and there _IS_ a standardized format. You can purchase software to "sanitize" your lists and make them match any other sanitized list. It's actually mandatory for bulk mailing rates.
If you are a true sadist, you can read about it here
IIRC both halon (the fire extingushing agent) and Aspartame were accidents...
I have written several conveyor control projects with them- you can do serial port interface using a couple different PLC protocols. Unlike building your own, they come pre-wired with manly relays for both AC (for line voltage) and DC (for motors, etc) contacts and relays (input switches and output for motors, etc).
Programming isn't really hard if you have had an electric primer- you can do simple on/off or write really complicated logic using "virtual" interlocking relays, etc.
If you have the money and some time, a PLC will produce a much better project IMHO than hacking together circuit boards and optoisolators, etc.
. I never bothered to open it and play with it, but he said it had something to do with the pendulum action of your arms... Still works like a charm today.
However, I feel there is one major flaw in your idea: think about the web-bugged HTML spam now. How is this much different? You send something... anything really [the "token"]... if it gets to it's destination, and the end user accepts, it retrieves the "payload" from the server... in your case, the message; in the current case, your name on a confirmed email list.
To get around this, methinx you would need some sort of way to preclude this delivery confirmation of sorts...
I trust my cell company explicitly (and could get one of their competitor's phones w/in 24 hours) and don't miss paying my Bell $35+ just to have a line with the arms-race additions...
"Your honor, I never published my email address... This man is guilty, and the court should make an example out of him...
Would never switch off of it to DeadRat or the like...
I'd love to see MSFT change my /etc/rc.d/rc.firewall script to let itself through.
Nail polish remover disolves most cyocrylanate (sp?) glues nicely as well...
(Be sure to nix the spaces!)
I was using the HP PCL 6 driver under NT (my code printed through the M$ engine vice raw PCL cuz I had to render 2D barcodes), and at random times my print job would crash with a "kernel tag" error.
Solution: Use the PCL5 m$ driver. Worked on several printers, with a the massive multi-K page print jobs.
Here in Chicago, Sprint cancelled ION Service (Voice & Data over ATM), Wireless Broadband (From the Sears Tower To your house), and _BUSINESS_ ADSL (8D/1U) (The latter within two months of rolling it out.)
I wouldnt count on this service being around all that long if it isn't as profitable as they want it to be.
That's not such a bad idea, especially if, rather than postmaster@... you can get the email of the CEO/CIO/CTO etc... ;)
Textpad is what our firm uses... syntax highlighting, line numbers, multiple documents w/selection tabs, block select, the list goes on and on...
And no, I have no financial interest in them...
{Snip}
>the tags were nearly invincible and cost only a couple cents apiece
ObDisclaimer: I sell RFID equipment professionally.
There is NO passive tag being manufactured on any commercial scale now that can do that. Please, have him call me. I have an investment for him.
(In general, passive tags have an average range of about 15 feet, with a well-powered antenna. In _six figure_ quantities, they are ~$.40 wholesale, $~.50 end-user. )
Think carefully about the physics of this. Hmm... metric 10m ~= 30ft. From 30 feet away, you need to send an EMF powerful enough to induce voltage into a coil, which is read by a chip, which RE-SENDS the signal back over 30 ft. Remember, it isn't a point you are sending to, you're broadcasting 360 degrees. To further this, most RFID tag readers have "autocollision" compensation, which allows them to read multiple tags in the read range at once. With very weak signals, good luck...
OBExcuse: I have to manage a M$ network at work
With Win2K, WFP can, effectively, be nilled. An undocumented registry value cuts it out; when this became public, M$ quickly eliminated it (with W2K SP2). Rather than quote it all here, you can find out how to hack the SFC.dll that is causing your pain here.
Now what I really want, in my sick and twisted world, is to find out how to hack WFP to work for me- protecting the files I want to protect, while trashing m$ files like netmeeting....
The best passive tags (those that don't require their own power source) are expensive, (~$4 ea) and have a maximum range of about 15ft if you jack up the power on the antenna.
With an array of antennas (the usual configuration for warehouses, etc) on the more common tags (~$.50 in six figure quantitites), the nominal range is about seven feet (with two antennas, (one on each side) you can build a path wide enough to drive a forklift thru and scan everything on the pallet.
Here's the kicker, for you anarchist types: I havent found a tag yet (and we deal with about six different types of tag technology) that will still read when wrapped in aluminum foil.
And, for the record, we aren't talking about the anti-theft tags commonly used at retail shops- these are the tags that actually have enough memory (8b-8K) to do something useful. (Although it would probably work for them too, haven't tried it ;p)
In theory, these also work to various degrees if sent down the line:
NC - No Circuit Found: 985.2 Hz, 380.0 ms; 1428.5 Hz, 380.0 ms; 1776.7 Hz, 380.0 ms
IC - Operator Intercept: 913.8 Hz, 274.0 ms; 1370.6 Hz, 274.0 ms; 1776.7 Hz, 380.0 ms
VC - Vacant Circuit: 985.2 Hz, 380.0 ms; 1370.6 Hz, 274.0 ms; 1776.7 Hz, 380.0 ms
RO - Reorder (system busy): 913.8 Hz, 274.0 ms;1428.5 Hz, 380.0 ms; 1776.7 Hz, 380.0 ms
M$IE is actually quite resistant to things like this IF configured correctly. Most people won't bother, of course, to do this.
You CAN disable, independently of each other, and on a site-by-site basis Java, JavaScript, running plug-ins, automatic installation of plug-ins, and all sorts of other crap that pisses one off.
Keep in mind, though, professionals are also liable for downtime... if your HDD dies and it takes two weeks to get fixed...
How about something with less characters, say: ;
main () {
for (;;) {
printf ("Hung up\t\b\b\b\b\b\b")
}
}
Hint: BSOD/Reboot on W32 machines. If you want to use this w/ VC++ compile as a console application and SAVE YOUR WORK before running...
Then again, if the RIAA started using it, it would be a circumvention method prohibited by the DCMA...
He might be, but I'm not. I _AM_, however, against monetary gain by private corporations that this (could) cause.
Another (pre-coffee and thus far out) analogy is if your ISP records were sold to the RIAA and sold to retail record companies... "Hey! you did a lot of downloading on $P2P_FILE_SERVICE! Your CD now costs four times as much since you are considered a high risk for piracy!"
Spam is _NOT_ Free Speech.
Spam is a (sometimes) (moderate) form of a Denial of Service Attack, which utilizes precious resources of all types. Optimally, I'd treat it as a terrorist act (with the way things are going now, it might even be feasible...)- it is really no different than grafitti. Snail mail spam is PAID FOR by the sender; email is paid for by everyone but the sender.
What you maybe meant to say (I'm all about our constitutional rights) is something along the lines of protecting a right to fair trial if accused, protecting the right of SOLICITED (opt-in or the like) speech, and an accurate definition of SPAM.