Sprint was originally set up by the Southern Pacific Railroad (thus SPrint). They had hundreds of miles of right of way betwen cities and laid fiber along all the tracks.
The first 2 paragraphs of the post I'm replying to are an excellent description of the benefits of the AT&T breakup, BTW.
It allows for more systems to be on the net, which runs over the rails, without packet collision. Because dcc often uses a protocol similar to RS-485 one of the problems is that, if too many engines are on the track, the latency climbs. RS-485, and most dcc implementations, use polling to communicate. Therefore, each device on the net slows down the communications for all the devices. This system seems to avoid that problem.
Just because he's a troll doesn't mean he doesn't have a point.
My father has been playing with model railroading since the 40's. He specializes in modelling the western U.S. during the late steam era and also the Pacific Electric Red Cars. His layout has over 100 switches, a reversing loop, is multilevel, has both standard and narrow gauge,and has been under construction for years. Oh, and it's HO scale. I offered to computerize it so that he wouldn't need all the toggles. He likes the toggles. He likes the tactility. He gets as much, or more, enjoyment from building the layout as he does from running it.
MIT, IIRC, used this technique to get around US export restrictions on the PGP program. They published it in a book, with instructions on how to run it through an OCR system. Gov't couldn't touch them because books are protected by the 1st amendment.
Or, I could be trolling;). Unsuccessfully, since no one else is joining the thread. Darn it. Guess I should stick to serious comments.
In response to your first post, you might want to read "The Dreams Our Stuff Is Made Of" by Disch (IIRC). It's great commentary on SF as an American art form. Though I don't entirely agree with all he says, it is interesting, provocative, and well written.
And, if it's my honest and heartfelt opinion that hunting is a Good Thing, and I post it to a newsgroup frequented by PETA members, is that not a troll?
Wrong. He's not pushing for more nukes. Rather the opposite, in fact. His plan is to reduce the number of nuclear weapons to that which is needed for a 'credible' deterrent. If the missile defense system works, and is deployed, the number of weapons needed for deterrence wil be smaller yet.
Not that I think the current missile defense system is particularly deployable. And it would certainly be expensive. But, it might provide a deterrent to someone attacking us with nukes. Nukes don't worry me as much as bio-weapons.
They didn't notice him because he was one of the people who was looking for spies in the FBI. Thus, he would have known if they were getting close to him, and could take evasive action. If your sys admin is breaking into the system, and editing the logs, how would you notice? BTW, since he was, apparently, one of their top techies, and had access to everything, we can assume that the Russians know exactly how carnivore works.
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When I was in college I did sys admin work on a vax. Learned pascal and c on a vax. Nice machine.
IIRC Swaine, who writes for Dr. Dobbs, said that Pirates was partly based on this book.
This book, (I've read it) is about the revolution in silicon valley (thus the name) and in Washington.
The first 2 paragraphs of the post I'm replying to are an excellent description of the benefits of the AT&T breakup, BTW.
At least you don't have to sacrifice a goat by the light of the full moon.
Please.
I dunno, Kuro5hin does pretty well using that model.
Hangs head in shame.
Desperately trying to dump karma so he won't be called a karma whore
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;) And, after all, cross posting is spam.
I saw it over on Kuro5hin already!
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Weel, that is pretty much the definition of 'internet'.
All your...
It allows for more systems to be on the net, which runs over the rails, without packet collision. Because dcc often uses a protocol similar to RS-485 one of the problems is that, if too many engines are on the track, the latency climbs. RS-485, and most dcc implementations, use polling to communicate. Therefore, each device on the net slows down the communications for all the devices. This system seems to avoid that problem.
My father has been playing with model railroading since the 40's. He specializes in modelling the western U.S. during the late steam era and also the Pacific Electric Red Cars. His layout has over 100 switches, a reversing loop, is multilevel, has both standard and narrow gauge ,and has been under construction for years. Oh, and it's HO scale. I offered to computerize it so that he wouldn't need all the toggles. He likes the toggles. He likes the tactility. He gets as much, or more, enjoyment from building the layout as he does from running it.
MIT, IIRC, used this technique to get around US export restrictions on the PGP program. They published it in a book, with instructions on how to run it through an OCR system. Gov't couldn't touch them because books are protected by the 1st amendment.
In response to your first post, you might want to read "The Dreams Our Stuff Is Made Of" by Disch (IIRC). It's great commentary on SF as an American art form. Though I don't entirely agree with all he says, it is interesting, provocative, and well written.
And, if it's my honest and heartfelt opinion that hunting is a Good Thing, and I post it to a newsgroup frequented by PETA members, is that not a troll?
The above post is, of course, one of the methods described in the howto...
Read the Slashdot Trolling HowTo and then re-read the post you're replying to...
You must have read the Slashdot Trolling Howto. You do put up some nice ones.
Is not by anon. It's by JFK.
The X-15 wasn't a jet. It was a rocket. Air launched from a B-52. They have one at the National Air & Space Museum. Seriously cool looking.
Yep, that's pretty much my belief.
Not that I think the current missile defense system is particularly deployable. And it would certainly be expensive. But, it might provide a deterrent to someone attacking us with nukes. Nukes don't worry me as much as bio-weapons.
They didn't notice him because he was one of the people who was looking for spies in the FBI. Thus, he would have known if they were getting close to him, and could take evasive action. If your sys admin is breaking into the system, and editing the logs, how would you notice? BTW, since he was, apparently, one of their top techies, and had access to everything, we can assume that the Russians know exactly how carnivore works.