If you run the sample code from init, you will find init keeps spawning till it shuts off.
Good deamon code should check to see if its ppid==1 and not fork in that case.
First of I suspect this device works by looking for signatures of local radio recievers and recording that. Much like a radar detector but for fm radios.
Second is that this kind of monitoring has a Heisenberg uncertainty principal effect about it. Anytime you measure something you have a risk of changing it. When people know they are being watched, they will behave diferently. A friend of mine has a bar code scaner that some company gave him to measure his spending habits. They give him free "gifts" for sending in data. He has a well equiped kitchen (that I don't think he uses) because most of the gifts are thigns like fancy mixers and other useless kitchen gear. The problem with this is that the company has messed up data on his purchases of things like tosters because he doens't buy them. He buys other things and scans them and then gets the toster for sending in a few hundred bar codes. He has a reputaiton of being cheap, he will go buy a hundred of something he will never use so he can get the bar codes to get something more expensive that he wants. He also scans stuff he is getting for free from some buy-in refund program. All this will do is measure the listening habbits of people who will do what they are told in exchanges for some shiny bits which I guess is just the people that Nelson and clan care about.
Third, I'll get flamed for effect vs affect and I don't care.
The pictures on the tombs (any good picture book on Saccara will have a few) show India style Indians. The reference to the 4 races was a french translation of some older documents.
Email me and I'll try to dig up some more info.
In the newer tombs at Saccara in Egypt, they seemd to have a dislike for the black africans as well as the indians since it was common to show these two races being kinifed by the person in the tomb. The odd thing is they knew about 4 races other than their own but I haven't tracked down which ones. It appears that 5000 years ago they Egypteans had boats that could survive in the ocean. The boat found at Giza is longer than the mayflower. The interesting part is that there is almost no evidence for these boats anywhere in the millions of documents that have survived and without the one that was preserved, we would assume the Egypteans didn't build strong boats. I think that the current count is 3 boats that have survived from that time, two are part of a barial and the other was stuck in the mud in the nile. Archeology has a long way to go to even find out the basics of how these people used to live.
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Keep in mind that Alcatel (the French phone co) are about to buy Bell Labs since Lucent have basicly dot.com'ed them selves.
This could get real interesting because Bell Labs have done a bit of work with X-ray lasers involving nukes and if the French get ahold of that tech, they may blow up some more of French Polynesia doing more tests in the pascifc aginst the wishes of most of the world.
Acceleration lanes need more room to accelerate while exit lanes only need enough room to get off the main road and break. Many of the interchanges on the se are backwards. email me for more details...
An early theory of gravity said it pushed in all directions at the same time but things with mass blocked it slightly. The attraction force is simply the delta of pushes from two sides not being equal. This was thrown out because things in space would slow down over time. However...
it appears that things do slow down over time. The deep space probes are not the only ones showing this. The gps sats are doing it and this is one of the problmes that gravity probe B is suppoed to help solve. I guess it means we have a wrong view of what keeps up stuck on this world.
Its only money....
And its a goverment that uses every option to create a new set of standards to promote jobs. Too bad the jobs all end up overseas and the locals pay for it.
Oz has its very own TV standard that isn't quite like anywhere else in the world. TVs cost 4x what they do in the US, Tiwan, Japan... Its part of the reason why you can count the digital TV's on one hand. At least the US has nearly 100k of them:-)
The power here is the highest voltage in the world. Its 240V measured the old way. Europe is working on 230V the new way. The new way, I get 280V true RMS here.
Phones need Austel approval. FCC & CE approval won't cut it here. We need extra protection.
How about radio devices. A 5 watt device here is not going to interfeer in a different country. But there's special testing that has to be done thats extra over standard FCC and CE testing. The frequency spectrum seems to be a mix of almost UK and almost US stuff but offten swaped. 800mhz vs 900mhz for analog phones 900mhz vs 800mhz for police bands. This was to protect the local radio market but Motorola is still an American company.
Smoke detectors need special approval. Thats why they were only required last year. They were too expensive for landlords before that.
The SE freeway in Melbourne looks like it was designed in the US or Germany. Great design except the accleration lanes are where the exit ramps should be. Opps. Good thing thouse are almost symetrical. The Island road rule (if you live on an island you drive on the wrong side of the road) bites again. Australia is the largest market for large right hand drive cars in the world with total new car sales typical of a small US city means every body gets to pay more in money, emmisions and safety.
Builders do have a problem getting their hands on "current" building code just after it changes. It can take years for the info to get out in the work place. As a test of this, call up your local building inspector department and ask if you have to have a "low voltage electrical license" to install network cable. If they are using the code that 99%+ of the US is using, the answere is yes and a normal electrical license won't work. Ask them how many people have the correct licnese. You may find that no one does except some old guys at the local telco.
The guy has lots of options under both fair use and I think I would make a strong point that any law is in the public domain by act of the goverment.
Note that the US goverment is unique in not allowing the goverment its self to have a copyright. A copyright is a work created by named persons and the goverment doesn't count. This gets tricky since a book published by the British goverment is not copyright under US laws and can be copied but that same book can't be legaly copied anywhere else in the world.
Maybe the ALCU might be helpful on this once since they have much more $$$ than the EFF.
C2 is a very old standard from the "orange book" which was dropped by the people who developed it because it was lacking way too much. That didn't keep someone else from picking it up and deciding it was a good idea. I guess its beter than nothing.
Telstra's high costs come from the fact that they don't understand modern phone systems and are clueless with rollouts of new stuff so they have to do it lots of times till they get it right.
They installed a E1 line for our RAS and installed about $20,000 worth of kit to give us one E1 circut. If they had a clue they could have done it for much less.
64k Frame relay in Aus costs somewhere in the area of US$1500 a month. We get to pay $.19/mb for almost all traffic and other wonderful things.
A 128 isdn link is about the only real choice and is currently the cheapest outside of ADSL areas.
Something like a T3 in the metro area... in Aus its over US$30,000 a month. In the US, $2000/mo
Years ago one of the first usenet spams involved a company called Madera International (WOOD). They said their stock price would go up to several dollars a share. I figured the spam might cause a rush on the stock and bought $25 worth and got 400 shares. The current closing price is.00700 a share and is down 92% over the last year. My last statement from my broker claims its worth $2 but I fear thats an overestimate.
What kind of company is this? They were going to make assult rifles in Asia for the US market but some law messed that up. Then they decided to log wood in the Amazon. The last time I saw their web page, they were doing some sort of "sponser a rain forest tree" for $10 gig. One of these days I'll sign over the stock to someone like greenpeace.
I wish I could find the orignal spam... I would build a nice web page about this kind of "deal"
The people doing the orbit calcuations did them by hand with a slide rule. The high priced nasa computers were just used to veryify the results. Odd thing is that in many places they just used 3 as a value for pi.
I used to know some of the people that built the thing. I even saw it launch. It was quite impressive. It seems that the probe out lasted many of the workers that built it.
The Aussie post office tried this. The post office has the advantage that they know where everyone lives. Same should be true for the tax office but that can get strange with offshore compaines.
The UK has made their decision and they are not backing down from it. Germany seems to be split and could go either the US way or the UK way. If they go the UK way then the rest of the EU will follow and that might wake up the US.
I've had.biz in my dns for a long time. Any email that comes from.biz is spam. My mailer checks to see if the domain resolves and.biz doesn't but I much prefer to point.biz off into never never land where the lookup takes a real long time which just ties up resources on the spamers box.
When.biz goes live, I have no reason to change this and I expect all email with.biz in it will still be spam.
One thing that I think is interesting is.biz has rules to fight squatting. Too bad there are holes in them there rules.
.pro is going to be a complete failure and I suspect will cause the current trademark confusion into the realm of personal confusion. Who is johnsmith.law.pro? Their current rules say there has to be a licensed professional lawyer named johnsmith to get the domain but that doen't fix the problem of which john smith gets the domain and they aren't smart enough to force all john smiths to share it.
ICANN says the new tlds are experimental. Maybe they will can it after it failes but that hasn't happend in.com,.net,.org and the orignal source of the mess:.us
If.us would get fixed and used then gtld could be global. most sites in.com are in the US and do not deal with any other countires.
For what it is worth, I did go to the ICANN meeting and I did ask questions.
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You opt out by finding an ISP that isn't going to accept above.net's routes and that isn't routing traffic over them. Its that simple.
I for one would love to have my ISP use rbl's blacklist but I'm forced to use just their email filtering database.
If you run the sample code from init, you will find init keeps spawning till it shuts off.
Good deamon code should check to see if its ppid==1 and not fork in that case.
First of I suspect this device works by looking for signatures of local radio recievers and recording that. Much like a radar detector but for fm radios.
Second is that this kind of monitoring has a Heisenberg uncertainty principal effect about it. Anytime you measure something you have a risk of changing it. When people know they are being watched, they will behave diferently. A friend of mine has a bar code scaner that some company gave him to measure his spending habits. They give him free "gifts" for sending in data. He has a well equiped kitchen (that I don't think he uses) because most of the gifts are thigns like fancy mixers and other useless kitchen gear. The problem with this is that the company has messed up data on his purchases of things like tosters because he doens't buy them. He buys other things and scans them and then gets the toster for sending in a few hundred bar codes. He has a reputaiton of being cheap, he will go buy a hundred of something he will never use so he can get the bar codes to get something more expensive that he wants. He also scans stuff he is getting for free from some buy-in refund program. All this will do is measure the listening habbits of people who will do what they are told in exchanges for some shiny bits which I guess is just the people that Nelson and clan care about.
Third, I'll get flamed for effect vs affect and I don't care.
The pictures on the tombs (any good picture book on Saccara will have a few) show India style Indians. The reference to the 4 races was a french translation of some older documents.
Email me and I'll try to dig up some more info.
In the newer tombs at Saccara in Egypt, they seemd to have a dislike for the black africans as well as the indians since it was common to show these two races being kinifed by the person in the tomb. The odd thing is they knew about 4 races other than their own but I haven't tracked down which ones. It appears that 5000 years ago they Egypteans had boats that could survive in the ocean. The boat found at Giza is longer than the mayflower. The interesting part is that there is almost no evidence for these boats anywhere in the millions of documents that have survived and without the one that was preserved, we would assume the Egypteans didn't build strong boats. I think that the current count is 3 boats that have survived from that time, two are part of a barial and the other was stuck in the mud in the nile. Archeology has a long way to go to even find out the basics of how these people used to live.
Keep in mind that Alcatel (the French phone co) are about to buy Bell Labs since Lucent have basicly dot.com'ed them selves.
This could get real interesting because Bell Labs have done a bit of work with X-ray lasers involving nukes and if the French get ahold of that tech, they may blow up some more of French Polynesia doing more tests in the pascifc aginst the wishes of most of the world.
Acceleration lanes need more room to accelerate while exit lanes only need enough room to get off the main road and break. Many of the interchanges on the se are backwards. email me for more details...
An early theory of gravity said it pushed in all directions at the same time but things with mass blocked it slightly. The attraction force is simply the delta of pushes from two sides not being equal. This was thrown out because things in space would slow down over time. However...
it appears that things do slow down over time. The deep space probes are not the only ones showing this. The gps sats are doing it and this is one of the problmes that gravity probe B is suppoed to help solve. I guess it means we have a wrong view of what keeps up stuck on this world.
And they match what the GPS sats have been doing for years.
Its only money....
:-)
And its a goverment that uses every option to create a new set of standards to promote jobs. Too bad the jobs all end up overseas and the locals pay for it.
Oz has its very own TV standard that isn't quite like anywhere else in the world. TVs cost 4x what they do in the US, Tiwan, Japan... Its part of the reason why you can count the digital TV's on one hand. At least the US has nearly 100k of them
The power here is the highest voltage in the world. Its 240V measured the old way. Europe is working on 230V the new way. The new way, I get 280V true RMS here.
Phones need Austel approval. FCC & CE approval won't cut it here. We need extra protection.
How about radio devices. A 5 watt device here is not going to interfeer in a different country. But there's special testing that has to be done thats extra over standard FCC and CE testing. The frequency spectrum seems to be a mix of almost UK and almost US stuff but offten swaped. 800mhz vs 900mhz for analog phones 900mhz vs 800mhz for police bands. This was to protect the local radio market but Motorola is still an American company.
Smoke detectors need special approval. Thats why they were only required last year. They were too expensive for landlords before that.
The SE freeway in Melbourne looks like it was designed in the US or Germany. Great design except the accleration lanes are where the exit ramps should be. Opps. Good thing thouse are almost symetrical. The Island road rule (if you live on an island you drive on the wrong side of the road) bites again. Australia is the largest market for large right hand drive cars in the world with total new car sales typical of a small US city means every body gets to pay more in money, emmisions and safety.
See what you get when your politions try to help?
Builders do have a problem getting their hands on "current" building code just after it changes. It can take years for the info to get out in the work place. As a test of this, call up your local building inspector department and ask if you have to have a "low voltage electrical license" to install network cable. If they are using the code that 99%+ of the US is using, the answere is yes and a normal electrical license won't work. Ask them how many people have the correct licnese. You may find that no one does except some old guys at the local telco.
The guy has lots of options under both fair use and I think I would make a strong point that any law is in the public domain by act of the goverment.
Note that the US goverment is unique in not allowing the goverment its self to have a copyright. A copyright is a work created by named persons and the goverment doesn't count. This gets tricky since a book published by the British goverment is not copyright under US laws and can be copied but that same book can't be legaly copied anywhere else in the world.
Maybe the ALCU might be helpful on this once since they have much more $$$ than the EFF.
C2 is a very old standard from the "orange book" which was dropped by the people who developed it because it was lacking way too much. That didn't keep someone else from picking it up and deciding it was a good idea. I guess its beter than nothing.
A few of us have gotten bits of the linux kernal running on the n64. All we needed was an i/o device to the real world :-(
Telstra's high costs come from the fact that they don't understand modern phone systems and are clueless with rollouts of new stuff so they have to do it lots of times till they get it right.
They installed a E1 line for our RAS and installed about $20,000 worth of kit to give us one E1 circut. If they had a clue they could have done it for much less.
64k Frame relay in Aus costs somewhere in the area of US$1500 a month. We get to pay $.19/mb for almost all traffic and other wonderful things.
A 128 isdn link is about the only real choice and is currently the cheapest outside of ADSL areas.
Something like a T3 in the metro area... in Aus its over US$30,000 a month. In the US, $2000/mo
The orignal had some sort of Egyptean scientific advisor listed in the credits.
Copyrights on masks for silicon chips are only protected for 10 years so there is already law in place that moved in this direction.
Years ago one of the first usenet spams involved a company called Madera International (WOOD). They said their stock price would go up to several dollars a share. I figured the spam might cause a rush on the stock and bought $25 worth and got 400 shares. The current closing price is .00700 a share and is down 92% over the last year. My last statement from my broker claims its worth $2 but I fear thats an overestimate.
What kind of company is this? They were going to make assult rifles in Asia for the US market but some law messed that up. Then they decided to log wood in the Amazon. The last time I saw their web page, they were doing some sort of "sponser a rain forest tree" for $10 gig. One of these days I'll sign over the stock to someone like greenpeace.
I wish I could find the orignal spam... I would build a nice web page about this kind of "deal"
The people doing the orbit calcuations did them by hand with a slide rule. The high priced nasa computers were just used to veryify the results. Odd thing is that in many places they just used 3 as a value for pi.
I used to know some of the people that built the thing. I even saw it launch. It was quite impressive. It seems that the probe out lasted many of the workers that built it.
The Aussie post office tried this. The post office has the advantage that they know where everyone lives. Same should be true for the tax office but that can get strange with offshore compaines.
The UK has made their decision and they are not backing down from it. Germany seems to be split and could go either the US way or the UK way. If they go the UK way then the rest of the EU will follow and that might wake up the US.
Why support one set of greedy bastards vs another set? If one of these alternate nics want my support they can convince in the form of kickbacks.
It came from a rule set out by the registry before nsi.
.org is domains that do not belong other places.
There are at least two RFCs that disagree. One of the uses for
I've had .biz in my dns for a long time. Any email that comes from .biz is spam. My mailer checks to see if the domain resolves and .biz doesn't but I much prefer to point .biz off into never never land where the lookup takes a real long time which just ties up resources on the spamers box.
.biz goes live, I have no reason to change this and I expect all email with .biz in it will still be spam.
.biz has rules to fight squatting. Too bad there are holes in them there rules.
.com, .net, .org and the orignal source of the mess: .us
.us would get fixed and used then gtld could be global. most sites in .com are in the US and do not deal with any other countires.
When
One thing that I think is interesting is
.pro is going to be a complete failure and I suspect will cause the current trademark confusion into the realm of personal confusion. Who is johnsmith.law.pro? Their current rules say there has to be a licensed professional lawyer named johnsmith to get the domain but that doen't fix the problem of which john smith gets the domain and they aren't smart enough to force all john smiths to share it.
ICANN says the new tlds are experimental. Maybe they will can it after it failes but that hasn't happend in
If
For what it is worth, I did go to the ICANN meeting and I did ask questions.