Some of the 5 Ghz spectrum was allocated for a second set of ILS (instrument landing systems) frequencies and its looking like it will never get used for that. That opens up at least 100 mhz in the band in most countries.
Second is the 4W ERIP limit has its advantages but it means you can't use low cost microwave to do backhaul. The US FCC rules allow much more than 4W ERIP with a very narrow beam. Aparently this won't be allowed the UK so whats the point of cheap last mile if the lines to the base station cost a fortune.
There area number of freqencies allocated for older TV satellite uplinks and they are also in the mid 5 Ghz region that are no longer being used but provide income for island nations that may need to the money to keep from sinking.
The last issue is that the FCC has opened most of 4.8->5.99 Ghz under new conditions which means by July every low cost radio will be designed to work everywhere in that range. That means any radio that is likely to end up in teh UK will can be made to work on frequencies the UK didn't allocate.
The energy savings comes from lack of friction in the drive shaft and the battery bank can store power so you need an engine big enough to supply the average power, not peak power which results in a smaller engine. This is good for larger vehicles like busses and some trucks. It also means more effecent engines can be used. A modern internal combustion engine as found in cars and trucks is designed to work over a wide range of speeds that aren't need if your just running an generator. Once an engine is running on a consistant load and output, efficiency can be improved even more.
This will not work so well for cars beause the high unsprung weight will make a car handle very poorly and the friction losses in a u-shaft would be better than extra weight in the wheels.
It turns out that the British have figured out they can outsource their legal people and have been for some time. Right now its just the low level people who do the real work but its starting to be higher levels. Soon if you call your attorney for business advice, you will be getting a call center in India.
This isn't a problem for routine advice because I'm convinced that the legal profession is much like early days of grunt coding, you have to be able to find stuff in books and make decisions based on that.
What will be interesting is that most congresscritters are lawyers and I'm curious to know what they will do about their profession being outsourced.
How would I go about finding out if someone else has some form of credit opened in my name?
If the offers you get change, its time to start looking at your credit report. If your getting offers for gold cards and then you start getting offers for secured credit cards, there is a reason and it will be on one of your credit reports.
I end up with 0.25" by 1.5" confetti. Good luck putting that back together.
Its simple, you dump the stuff out on a scaner, do a boundry scan and then run length encode each end and then sort thouse. The result is a map of how to put it all back together. No big deal and there is shareware that will do it.
That size of paper is good for running through a blender with a bit of water.
Thus contradicting (in point 3) the points made by people much more familiar with the law than you. I can only conclude that you are not only loudly ignorant, but willfully so.
Courts have the ability to throw out cases if both sides agree to some other set of terms. If you steal my code and the copyright law says your up for $250,000 in fines, I can give you a choice of paying or doing something else (such as releaseing source code under GPL or dancing like a chicken). So you may not be quite forced into the 3rd case by the hurt party but it might be in your best choice. Judges can (and have) come up with other solutions to problems in courts. Its common in family courts and even a few domain name disputes.
As far as lawyers being more familiar with the law, have you ever had any dealings with lawyers involving anything technical?
As far as the drivers license example, it is a very complex contract. A typical gov't side of the contract will be several thick volumes. If I don't accept the terms of their contract, I can't use their roads in some ways. That has nothing to do with them granting other rights in other situations or having other restrictions that are the same. If you don't understand that, ask your self what happens if you run 5000 stop signs on a bike vs doing it in a car. In one case your contract will be revoked.
A license is an implyed contract. My drivers license is a contract between the state and my self that I will follow the road traffic laws. My pilots license is a contract between my self and the govt where they give me a limimited ability to fly an air plane and I agree to not break their rules.
People get very confused about the term "License" mostly because we learn that our "Drivers license" is a bit of plastic with our picture on it. That isn't true. The "license" is simply an unwritten contract. The plastic bit is a "certificate of license".
I can not think of one case where a license doesn't meet the contract requirement of "exchange of obligations".
As far as how this goes with the GPL, if someone steals GPL code and it goes to court, the results will be 1) they pay for past damages and/or 2) they stop shipping the product or 3) some new agreement is forced. The court has to deal with 2 situations, one is the past violation and the 2nd is future issues. The second can be delt with by simply removing the offending code but that still means the 1st case was a copyright violation wich will result in fines.
I think the FSF should be dealing with violators in the terms of "we will sue you for $MAXCASH if you don't relase your source". They claim they want to make source code free but the actions I've seen so far with 3com's nbx don't seem to back that up. The court wouldn't force a 3rd party to release the code but if the violator has the choice of a cheap way out, they will take it.
I wonder if you could open one of these nice cheap flashing bicycle warning lights and put that on the bird as well. At 250km/hr, the flashing lights just might confuse the falcons enough to go find some other dinner (or as the kiwi's would say Tea)
A typical human cell has 32 generations from a stem cell before it goes bad and then it will go bad.
Modern humans as very good at pushing thouse odds. Skin cancer tends to happen in people that raipidly destory their skin cells. Lung cancer tends to happen when people breath in a large number radioactive substances such as potassium 40 (found in coal and other inhaled recreational pharmaceuticals). Bowl cancer tends to happen in people with diets that leave excessive amounts of junk in places for too long. Lymph cancer tends to happen when stuff gets traped in the lypnh system which has no good way to dispose of the junk.
A cmall cut is better than a big stick on a few cells. The problem is that there isn't a good way to kill a few select cells using the modern "drill a hole" systems that are in place.
The scary bit is that there is a better solution out there but the guy who was pushing it died of cancer and no one at NASA picked up on what he was doing.
The scary bit is that it was the same techonology that brought us holography.
RSA's security is based on there being only two primes that make up the magic numbers. The RSA contests are about the difficult problem of factoring primes however that isn't the only hard problem that RSA encryption depends on. Another problem is the Euclidian algorithm which I feel is the main weakness. The problem is that there isn't a 1:1 ratio of public keys to private keys and there may be a very large number of private keys that will decrypt a given public key.
What we need is one small town DA thats got the balls to go after one of these idiots and one judge that feels he must protect the children.
Lets assume I've got the name of one of the bastards. What can I do about it? My local DA is clueless and won't do a damn thing. The FBI could care less. The state police are even less interested than the FBI. MS is now offering a reward in theory but there seems to be a lack of decent contact info.
The best DA for this kind of case would be someone that has political aspirations, knows how to make use obscure laws to extend sentences, is very conservative and is willing to stand up for what they belive is right. I'm looking for someone like Ashcroft when he was still a prosecuting attorney. They also need to be contactable so they need to be from an area small enough that someone random person on the street could call them at their office.
So does anyone have the name and phone number of a DA that meets the requirements?
Could Gates code? A friend of mine called in a bug report on one of the early assemblers since it didn't understand a specifc opcode. Billy Gates answered the phone and fixed the program to deal with the new opcode. The problem is that his fix wasn't by adding it to the opcode table like it should have been, he hard coded in a special check. That special check required the opcode to be in all CAPs and didn't deal with operands at all.
I figure Gates was the sort of boss that though he could code and his employees went along with it. His strenth was being able to put together deals and having his mommy work her United Way contacts didn't hurt one bit.
If you haven't read the "Art of Computer Programming" you haven't studied CS at at depth. You will find that its a very deep mathbook(s). Knuth is a mathematician and one of best CS guys around. There is a difference between idolising and just knowing who the leaders in the field are and understanding their work. I suspect Knuth is a better mathematician than Einstein was.
Depending on teh area, it may not be too hard. With very narrow antenna paterns and logs of which other cells picked up the signal, its easy to be within a block in most densly populated areas.
The new TCP stat should be much faster for what most servers do and not what people thought they would be doing 2 decades ago.
One place where I expect this to reduce the load is combined with "doors" which are sort of a light weight RPC call that doesn't do a full context switch. The result is you can hand of data streams to other programs and have them deal with them without the mess of full context switches. This could come in very handy for some types of spam filtering. Add in sendmail's new TCP based maps and you can do some very low overhead filtering.
is vote selling a problem? It sounds like you have two evils here and you get to pick one. At this point I don't trust anyone to do it right so I want the total intergrity of the people to be checkable.
You can't have a system that allows a voter to verify their vote in such a way that they can't take a photo of the ballot, reciept or whatever is there?
Its simple. You have a computer take the votes and print a reciept that is human readable that gets taken home. Along with that, it prints a very large random number. After the election, you can go to a webpage and type in that number and it will tell you how that person voted. Thats allows the voter to veryify the results.
The second bit is that you need to be able to go to the same web page and ask for the 1st vote or the 12,232 vote. In fact you should be able to download all the votes (including the random number) and check it in the privacy of your own home without revealing your vote.
If the paper doesn't match what the database says, then you have a problem but thats a different problem that doesn't need to be solved now since there are already laws on the books on what to do about bogas vote coutns.
Scattered around AF bases you will find safes with two cords that are to be pulled if the place was going to be over-run. The idea is that it would start off a thermmite burn that would destory the safe and everything in it. These of course would have all sorts of warning signs all over it. I would love to get one (even minus the 2Al Fe2O3) for the computer room.
ALDI tends to be about the same all over the world. For example they tend to sell one brand of Corn Flakes and it tends to be a generic brand as well. They only sell mass produced commodities at a low markup.
What this means for the PC industry is that its at the has gotten to the point where a large number of people look at the machines and say "I'll take the generic one". Thats going to make things even harder for the likes of Dell and Gateway who go after the home market.for the likes of Dell and IBM.
I don't know when that came about but the early AT&T systems with dynamic linking used/sbin to mean static-bin. I think the s becaome overloaded early on and if your mounting a file system and have/bin/mount and/sbin/mount which one should the init script use? I think thats where the "s is for system" came into meaning.
The Wheelman is much cheaper and appears to have about the same risk level. Its only $1500 for a motorized device that you stand on and doesn't have anything to hold on to. I've seen these in action and the seem to work well.
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Some of the 5 Ghz spectrum was allocated for a second set of ILS (instrument landing systems) frequencies and its looking like it will never get used for that. That opens up at least 100 mhz in the band in most countries.
Second is the 4W ERIP limit has its advantages but it means you can't use low cost microwave to do backhaul. The US FCC rules allow much more than 4W ERIP with a very narrow beam. Aparently this won't be allowed the UK so whats the point of cheap last mile if the lines to the base station cost a fortune.
There area number of freqencies allocated for older TV satellite uplinks and they are also in the mid 5 Ghz region that are no longer being used but provide income for island nations that may need to the money to keep from sinking.
The last issue is that the FCC has opened most of 4.8->5.99 Ghz under new conditions which means by July every low cost radio will be designed to work everywhere in that range. That means any radio that is likely to end up in teh UK will can be made to work on frequencies the UK didn't allocate.
The energy savings comes from lack of friction in the drive shaft and the battery bank can store power so you need an engine big enough to supply the average power, not peak power which results in a smaller engine. This is good for larger vehicles like busses and some trucks. It also means more effecent engines can be used. A modern internal combustion engine as found in cars and trucks is designed to work over a wide range of speeds that aren't need if your just running an generator. Once an engine is running on a consistant load and output, efficiency can be improved even more.
This will not work so well for cars beause the high unsprung weight will make a car handle very poorly and the friction losses in a u-shaft would be better than extra weight in the wheels.
It turns out that the British have figured out they can outsource their legal people and have been for some time. Right now its just the low level people who do the real work but its starting to be higher levels. Soon if you call your attorney for business advice, you will be getting a call center in India.
This isn't a problem for routine advice because I'm convinced that the legal profession is much like early days of grunt coding, you have to be able to find stuff in books and make decisions based on that.
What will be interesting is that most congresscritters are lawyers and I'm curious to know what they will do about their profession being outsourced.
How would I go about finding out if someone else has some form of credit opened in my name?
If the offers you get change, its time to start looking at your credit report. If your getting offers for gold cards and then you start getting offers for secured credit cards, there is a reason and it will be on one of your credit reports.
I end up with 0.25" by 1.5" confetti. Good luck putting that back together.
Its simple, you dump the stuff out on a scaner, do a boundry scan and then run length encode each end and then sort thouse. The result is a map of how to put it all back together. No big deal and there is shareware that will do it.
That size of paper is good for running through a blender with a bit of water.
Thus contradicting (in point 3) the points made by people much more familiar with the law than you. I can only conclude that you are not only loudly ignorant, but willfully so.
Courts have the ability to throw out cases if both sides agree to some other set of terms. If you steal my code and the copyright law says your up for $250,000 in fines, I can give you a choice of paying or doing something else (such as releaseing source code under GPL or dancing like a chicken). So you may not be quite forced into the 3rd case by the hurt party but it might be in your best choice. Judges can (and have) come up with other solutions to problems in courts. Its common in family courts and even a few domain name disputes.
As far as lawyers being more familiar with the law, have you ever had any dealings with lawyers involving anything technical?
As far as the drivers license example, it is a very complex contract. A typical gov't side of the contract will be several thick volumes. If I don't accept the terms of their contract, I can't use their roads in some ways. That has nothing to do with them granting other rights in other situations or having other restrictions that are the same. If you don't understand that, ask your self what happens if you run 5000 stop signs on a bike vs doing it in a car. In one case your contract will be revoked.
A license is an implyed contract. My drivers license is a contract between the state and my self that I will follow the road traffic laws. My pilots license is a contract between my self and the govt where they give me a limimited ability to fly an air plane and I agree to not break their rules.
People get very confused about the term "License" mostly because we learn that our "Drivers license" is a bit of plastic with our picture on it. That isn't true. The "license" is simply an unwritten contract. The plastic bit is a "certificate of license".
I can not think of one case where a license doesn't meet the contract requirement of "exchange of obligations".
As far as how this goes with the GPL, if someone steals GPL code and it goes to court, the results will be 1) they pay for past damages and/or 2) they stop shipping the product or 3) some new agreement is forced. The court has to deal with 2 situations, one is the past violation and the 2nd is future issues. The second can be delt with by simply removing the offending code but that still means the 1st case was a copyright violation wich will result in fines.
I think the FSF should be dealing with violators in the terms of "we will sue you for $MAXCASH if you don't relase your source". They claim they want to make source code free but the actions I've seen so far with 3com's nbx don't seem to back that up. The court wouldn't force a 3rd party to release the code but if the violator has the choice of a cheap way out, they will take it.
I wonder if you could open one of these nice cheap flashing bicycle warning lights and put that on the bird as well. At 250km/hr, the flashing lights just might confuse the falcons enough to go find some other dinner (or as the kiwi's would say Tea)
Right now if you want to use someone elses number on a credit card, you need a blank that at least looks like a real card.
The new system allows you to take your own real card and fry it and carry around something bigger in a backpack and rip of merchants with ease.
There is quite a bit of security in the physical token that we call a credt card considering the other major part of the token is a 16 digit number.
A typical human cell has 32 generations from a stem cell before it goes bad and then it will go bad.
Modern humans as very good at pushing thouse odds. Skin cancer tends to happen in people that raipidly destory their skin cells. Lung cancer tends to happen when people breath in a large number radioactive substances such as potassium 40 (found in coal and other inhaled recreational pharmaceuticals). Bowl cancer tends to happen in people with diets that leave excessive amounts of junk in places for too long. Lymph cancer tends to happen when stuff gets traped in the lypnh system which has no good way to dispose of the junk.
A cmall cut is better than a big stick on a few cells. The problem is that there isn't a good way to kill a few select cells using the modern "drill a hole" systems that are in place.
The scary bit is that there is a better solution out there but the guy who was pushing it died of cancer and no one at NASA picked up on what he was doing.
The scary bit is that it was the same techonology that brought us holography.
RSA's security is based on there being only two primes that make up the magic numbers. The RSA contests are about the difficult problem of factoring primes however that isn't the only hard problem that RSA encryption depends on. Another problem is the Euclidian algorithm which I feel is the main weakness. The problem is that there isn't a 1:1 ratio of public keys to private keys and there may be a very large number of private keys that will decrypt a given public key.
Before 1970 there were many cars like this. Odd thing is most were based on the VW bug.
What we need is one small town DA thats got the balls to go after one of these idiots and one judge that feels he must protect the children.
Lets assume I've got the name of one of the bastards. What can I do about it? My local DA is clueless and won't do a damn thing. The FBI could care less. The state police are even less interested than the FBI. MS is now offering a reward in theory but there seems to be a lack of decent contact info.
The best DA for this kind of case would be someone that has political aspirations, knows how to make use obscure laws to extend sentences, is very conservative and is willing to stand up for what they belive is right. I'm looking for someone like Ashcroft when he was still a prosecuting attorney. They also need to be contactable so they need to be from an area small enough that someone random person on the street could call them at their office.
So does anyone have the name and phone number of a DA that meets the requirements?
Could Gates code? A friend of mine called in a bug report on one of the early assemblers since it didn't understand a specifc opcode. Billy Gates answered the phone and fixed the program to deal with the new opcode. The problem is that his fix wasn't by adding it to the opcode table like it should have been, he hard coded in a special check. That special check required the opcode to be in all CAPs and didn't deal with operands at all.
I figure Gates was the sort of boss that though he could code and his employees went along with it. His strenth was being able to put together deals and having his mommy work her United Way contacts didn't hurt one bit.
If you haven't read the "Art of Computer Programming" you haven't studied CS at at depth. You will find that its a very deep mathbook(s). Knuth is a mathematician and one of best CS guys around. There is a difference between idolising and just knowing who the leaders in the field are and understanding their work. I suspect Knuth is a better mathematician than Einstein was.
Depending on teh area, it may not be too hard. With very narrow antenna paterns and logs of which other cells picked up the signal, its easy to be within a block in most densly populated areas.
The new TCP stat should be much faster for what most servers do and not what people thought they would be doing 2 decades ago.
One place where I expect this to reduce the load is combined with "doors" which are sort of a light weight RPC call that doesn't do a full context switch. The result is you can hand of data streams to other programs and have them deal with them without the mess of full context switches. This could come in very handy for some types of spam filtering. Add in sendmail's new TCP based maps and you can do some very low overhead filtering.
is vote selling a problem? It sounds like you have two evils here and you get to pick one. At this point I don't trust anyone to do it right so I want the total intergrity of the people to be checkable.
You can't have a system that allows a voter to verify their vote in such a way that they can't take a photo of the ballot, reciept or whatever is there?
Its simple.
You have a computer take the votes and print a reciept that is human readable that gets taken home. Along with that, it prints a very large random number.
After the election, you can go to a webpage and type in that number and it will tell you how that person voted. Thats allows the voter to veryify the results.
The second bit is that you need to be able to go to the same web page and ask for the 1st vote or the 12,232 vote. In fact you should be able to download all the votes (including the random number) and check it in the privacy of your own home without revealing your vote.
If the paper doesn't match what the database says, then you have a problem but thats a different problem that doesn't need to be solved now since there are already laws on the books on what to do about bogas vote coutns.
Scattered around AF bases you will find safes with two cords that are to be pulled if the place was going to be over-run. The idea is that it would start off a thermmite burn that would destory the
safe and everything in it. These of course would have all sorts of warning signs all over it. I would love to get one (even minus the 2Al Fe2O3) for the computer room.
ALDI tends to be about the same all over the world. For example they tend to sell one brand of Corn Flakes and it tends to be a generic brand as well. They only sell mass produced commodities at a low markup.
What this means for the PC industry is that its at the has gotten to the point where a large number of people look at the machines and say "I'll take the generic one". Thats going to make things even harder for the likes of Dell and Gateway who go after the home market.for the likes of Dell and IBM.
I don't know when that came about but the early AT&T systems with dynamic linking used /sbin to mean static-bin. I think the s becaome overloaded early on and if your mounting a file system and have /bin/mount and /sbin/mount which one should the init script use? I think thats where the "s is for system" came into meaning.
So what happens if there is an "accident" and there is premature news of ones death?
Can you say Opps?
The Wheelman is much cheaper and appears to have about the same risk level. Its only $1500 for a motorized device that you stand on and doesn't have anything to hold on to. I've seen these in action and the seem to work well.