The new sats may not be able to turn it back on the way it had been. S/A is pointless anyway the way it was done since there are much better ways of keeping the other guys from using GPS such as local area jamming. Modern recivers can all do DGPS which bypasses the SA induced errors. Remember the US Air Force took out a russian jammer in Iraq with a GPS guided bomb. Also with WAAS now live, there is no way they AF will turn on SA and risk the political mess that would cause. They have better ways and SA is gone forever.
The point with the new systems is that the rows are in the exact same spots every year. Since most of Australia's farm land is qucikly turning into the Oklahoma dustbowl (isn't it great to see history repeat?), they have to do whatever they can to keep the soil from blowing away. What they are doing involves alternating rows of crops so you have a row of food, then a row of some plant that takes little water and provides wind resistance sort of like mini-treelines. The result is you need to harvest the crop out of the middle of another crop. This also allows you do crop rotation in the same field.
The water and soil erosion problems in Australia are getting to the point where something drastic must be done soon or there will be no more crops in many places. Many areas have pumped all the fresh water out of the aquifers and they are being replaced by salt water. The massive fires last summer also manged to transfer several trillion liters of water back into the oceans. The major cities are growing without bound but the two largest cities are nearly out of water. Melbourne is sucking its water reserves at 200 billion liters a year but its population keeps growing and there are no more new water reserves. If the rain stays the same for 5 years, there won't be any more water. The goverment's plan right now it encourage people to store the rain water that falls on their roof and they collect all the water from upstream. The problem with that is that its needed in the ground and in the trees. (for reasons why see Okla in the 1930s). water saving faucets not only aren't requireed, but you can still buy shower heads that aren't water saving. New shower heads in Calif are 1.5 gal/min. The best you can buy here are 2.5 gal/min (9.5l/min) and they are next to the very popular ones that are more like 15 gal/min. The only place Aussies are ahead on water savings are the dual flush toilet.
So someone dumps a bunch of shreded documents on a scanner and does a scan. Find the outline of each one and run lenght encode each side of each rectangle you find and then sort by thouse. The result is a nice graph (a comp sci term) of what rectangles go next to what other rectangles.
If you could get everyone who has been arested in the US to vote one way, they would win. There are more convicts in the US than there are voters for most elections.
If they know of 9000 people who bought a device just to get around paying for one pay TV system, how many people out there can rip off the new credit/debit chips cards? I see the ability of ripping off the cable company as something most people will tell their friends down at the pub but when it comes to stealing cash out of someones account, most people that could do that won't talk about it. 5 years ago the number of fake chip cards had already exceeded the number of fake mag stripe cards by several million so I wonder how bad the fraud rate is on these new banking smart cards.
The massive diversity works fine as long as people aren't poor. When people are poor, the start blaming others and the 1st group is anyone outside of their ethnic group. Remember the race riots every 20 years in LA? They are in poor areas and are a result of situations getting bad, lots of blame going around and a racial incident. Then all hell breaks loose. Look back to Europe in 1929. The entire area was having money problems and recent immigrants always got the blame. Throw in the fact that Christians couldn't be bankers until quite recently and that resulted in the Jewish bankers getting lots of blame. The level of anger was so bad that nearly every country in Europe at some point between WWI and WWII were tring to deal with what they perceived to be their "Jewish problem". England and France were looking at exporting Jews to Australia, Middle East, Madgastar and other places. The Germans told its people the were relocating them. The typical poor man on the street was happy to see the richer person of a different ethnic group go away. We hear about the Jews in Germany but how about the other ethnic groups? Gypsies and Russians were exterminated in higher ratios than the Jews. Africans from Germany were nearly all killed.
In the US today, the worst race problems are in the poorest parts of the US.
Posix file systems aren't required to be hierarchical they just of sort of look that way. Remember hard links? The name space is hierarchical but files and directories can appear in many locations. link (no ln) has been able to create hard links for directories since Unix version 2.
So your saying the 99% of coders out there that are bitching about tailing ; are simply illiterate when it comes to C? I agree with you. I know I don't make these errors when it comes to C but I have had to explain it to plenty of programmers who think they know the language.
There seems to be some indication that teaching kids to drive when the are 10 will reduce the number of accidents involving the stupid things that teenagers do in cars.
In may rural parts of the US, its not uncommon to see drivers as young as 14. The accident rates of people who started driving when they are 14 are much lower than the rate of the ones that started when they were 16.
US accident rates are bad and getting worse in the category of alcohol because many people never learn to drink while they are still under their parents care. The pushing for a 21 yr drinking age simply pushed the drunk driving accident stats from 18 yr olds to 21 yr olds. Countries with low (or no) drinking age have fewer problems with anti-social drinkers. That includes drunk drivers and violnet drunks.
12 year old kids are less rebellious than 16 yr olds and that may make them better drivers. Its not like they don't know the road rules, many of them have to deal with them on their bikes.
Thats not exactly true. What happens is the goverment tells the company making it what the price will be and they can either have their drug on the list of approved drugs at that price or not sell any.
Drug prices in the US are just odd. What happens is you walk into the pharmacy and give them your insurance card and a prescription. Say its for something cheap like penicillin. Thats entered into the computer which calls you insurance company and they send back three numbers, the price of the drug, how much you pay the pharmacy and how much the insurance company will pay the pharmacy. So in the Penicillin case if you have a $25 drug plan the numbers may look like $38.95, $25, -21.75. So you think your getting a good deal since you only paid $25 for that $38.95 worth of drugs but the pharmacy has to pay your insurance company 21.75 our of the $25 they collected. Had you gone in with the prescription and paid cash, it would have cost you somewhere between $3 and $5.
When I've had to buy prescription drugs in Australia (who has a state medical system like Canada in addition to a private system), I tend to pay an extra few cents on for a $15 precsription becaue I don't have a goverment medical card. On common drugs that treat common problems, the govement isn't subsidizing the price much. It also means that the range of antibiotics that are prescribed tend to be the ones on the goverment plan and not the expensive ones that are being pushed by the drug compaines.
One problem is fibers break off and tend to collect in things like fans. If the fiber size is small (like asbestos), it can even find its way inside hard drives.
I used some tar lined sheets. They are about 2mm thick and have metal foil on one side. They weren't cheap but the inside of my case isn't that big.
Congress already has been involved with the replacement. Its called X.400 and its very nasty and there is no way you can run your own server with out some type of approval that cost way more than an SSL cert does. Do some research on "gossip" if you want more info.
Or you could email me at:/admd=something/c=us/o=abnormal/prmd=whatever/g=ti m/what_was_the_rest?
There are two frequencies for use in the US around 5, one is 5.2 the other isthe top end of 5.7. It turns out that 5.2 is used for uplinks for many sats and is protected by many countries because one of their neighbors assigned it for a sat uplink. The problem is those old agreements of not stepping on other countries frequencies are very hard to change because the orignial country isn't going to give up their old frequency and may not be reporting that its not longer in use. Of course it would be very stupid for anyone to depend on using 5.2 or 5.7 for a sat uplink over the next few decades. Australia has (or maybe had till last month?) rules that allow you to use 5.2 but not out doors for this very reason.
Don't forget the bribes if they are typical in your part of the world. When I was working for a very large international banking company, I had to get some domain names from a number of South American countries and while the fees were around $100, the bribes that went along were in the $20 to $1000 range which were all put in the accounting system with the right accounting codes (like fees-Brazil-bribes-gov-nonelected). Some new guy from accounting got all up set that I was paying bribes but got a bit confused while tring to explain whey the account codes where already in the system and he had a nice long talk to the legal dept.
In many parts of the world, bribes are required to get things working. In other places, its helpful to hire a local to take in the paperwork.
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The US also has one of the highest rates of burnout in the world. Japan who was 2nd lowest in the chart also has the same problem.
When will American compaines understand that having their workers take acations is good for the company. People who take time off, do more effecent work. It like the recent studies that show once workers start putting in more hours their productivity can increase to about 10 hours a day but an office worker that is doing 12 hr days less productive than when they were doing 8 hour days since they spend so much work time doing other things.
It will be interesting to see what happens in New Zealand. Its my understanding that they used to have a European model for holiday time but have recently removed some of thouse requirements so they are more like the US model. Maybe that explains why at least 50% of their labor pool is in Australia.
I've currently have 34.5 unused vacation days. Over the next year, I'll collect 20 more. I think its time for a round the world trip.
the spam compaines claim that the email will increase hit counts. As far as the suckers that paid to get their ads out are concerned, a bot hitting their page is just another user hitting their web page.
Some of them are dealing with the pain. A guy I meet recently paid about AU$5000 to a spam house to send his ad out to a million people in an opt-in mail list. His web server got 40 hits that day compared to the daily averge of 13 and none of them bought his book. He was taught a $5000 lesson that spaming doesn't work. What was interesting is that the "demo run" got more hits on his web site than the real run.
This is the next thing is spamware.
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This appears to be research efforts of guys who are working for the big spamers.
What they want to do is be able to crack say 100 well connected servers. Each of those servers will send out packets with a forged source address of the other hacked servers. Some spamers are putting it all in one packet but its trivial to have sendmail check the buffer size after the HELO has come it. No real MTA will send anything extra. (Don't confuse this with Pipelining which allows the rest of the data to be sent in one packet). So now a spamer must send an inital tcp handshake and a HELO packet. If you keep track of the inital sequence number, you can have another server send the rest of the data.
Most firewalls don't deal with this well. Some MTA's will have issues as well and it may find ways through spam filters. Keep in mind most firewalls only check the 1st packets and once the stream is set up, it just passes the packets through without any other checks.
The solution to this is to get major ISPs to not send packets where both addresses aren't in their space but that will be bad news for dual homed sites.
Student loans and Las Vegas? I don't know if it still works but some grad students use to go there for spring break. There were about a minivan worth of EE studetns that would go all put up a bit of money and one guy would deposit it the casino. Then every day he would take out 1/7th and give it back to its owners. From the casino's point of view the guy was a sucker worth a free room and other free stuff. The the students, it was a free trip where they got to camp out in a nice free room.
But what are DVD prices? Why does it cost 2x as much to get a DVD over a vhs tape when the DVD costs much less to make. DVDs can be made very quickly, a video tape must spend at least 15 minutes in a very expensive machine.
But 3.8 million DVD players isn't much in the US. At one point a few years ago there were more than 280 million TVs in the US (I know more than one per person) so 3.8+1.9+? is about 2% which is very lame considering a what a DVD player costs. According to wal-marts web site the cheap ones are US$59.6 but the DVDs are 17 to $20.
I think record sales are down beause everyone has the music the like and the new bands all suck. All the CDs I have bought recently are either Indy bands, replaments for dmanaged discs or old bands with new material (and I'm not talking best of).
If the record company wants some of my business, they are going to have to improve the product and keep the price down. I used to have a rule that I never paid more then $10 for a CD and most of my collection is in that price point and my only exceptions were imports and local bands.
Don't count your chickens while congress is still in session. You may wake up on the 20th to find that the patent expires sometime in 3003. Of course congress doesn't have to act tonight, the extended (c) after the use by date.
A big fat check now from a record company won't last as long as a big fat check from the lottery. Wasn't there a book about the 1st 100 winners of the NY lottery that showed nearly all of them were bankrupt after just a few years?
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The new sats may not be able to turn it back on the way it had been. S/A is pointless anyway the way it was done since there are much better ways of keeping the other guys from using GPS such as local area jamming. Modern recivers can all do DGPS which bypasses the SA induced errors. Remember the US Air Force took out a russian jammer in Iraq with a GPS guided bomb. Also with WAAS now live, there is no way they AF will turn on SA and risk the political mess that would cause. They have better ways and SA is gone forever.
The point with the new systems is that the rows are in the exact same spots every year. Since most of Australia's farm land is qucikly turning into the Oklahoma dustbowl (isn't it great to see history repeat?), they have to do whatever they can to keep the soil from blowing away. What they are doing involves alternating rows of crops so you have a row of food, then a row of some plant that takes little water and provides wind resistance sort of like mini-treelines. The result is you need to harvest the crop out of the middle of another crop. This also allows you do crop rotation in the same field.
The water and soil erosion problems in Australia are getting to the point where something drastic must be done soon or there will be no more crops in many places. Many areas have pumped all the fresh water out of the aquifers and they are being replaced by salt water. The massive fires last summer also manged to transfer several trillion liters of water back into the oceans. The major cities are growing without bound but the two largest cities are nearly out of water. Melbourne is sucking its water reserves at 200 billion liters a year but its population keeps growing and there are no more new water reserves. If the rain stays the same for 5 years, there won't be any more water. The goverment's plan right now it encourage people to store the rain water that falls on their roof and they collect all the water from upstream. The problem with that is that its needed in the ground and in the trees. (for reasons why see Okla in the 1930s). water saving faucets not only aren't requireed, but you can still buy shower heads that aren't water saving. New shower heads in Calif are 1.5 gal/min. The best you can buy here are 2.5 gal/min (9.5l/min) and they are next to the very popular ones that are more like 15 gal/min. The only place Aussies are ahead on water savings are the dual flush toilet.
So someone dumps a bunch of shreded documents on a scanner and does a scan. Find the outline of each one and run lenght encode each side of each rectangle you find and then sort by thouse. The result is a nice graph (a comp sci term) of what rectangles go next to what other rectangles.
If you could get everyone who has been arested in the US to vote one way, they would win. There are more convicts in the US than there are voters for most elections.
If they know of 9000 people who bought a device just to get around paying for one pay TV system, how many people out there can rip off the new credit/debit chips cards? I see the ability of ripping off the cable company as something most people will tell their friends down at the pub but when it comes to stealing cash out of someones account, most people that could do that won't talk about it. 5 years ago the number of fake chip cards had already exceeded the number of fake mag stripe cards by several million so I wonder how bad the fraud rate is on these new banking smart cards.
The massive diversity works fine as long as people aren't poor. When people are poor, the start blaming others and the 1st group is anyone outside of their ethnic group. Remember the race riots every 20 years in LA? They are in poor areas and are a result of situations getting bad, lots of blame going around and a racial incident. Then all hell breaks loose. Look back to Europe in 1929. The entire area was having money problems and recent immigrants always got the blame. Throw in the fact that Christians couldn't be bankers until quite recently and that resulted in the Jewish bankers getting lots of blame. The level of anger was so bad that nearly every country in Europe at some point between WWI and WWII were tring to deal with what they perceived to be their "Jewish problem". England and France were looking at exporting Jews to Australia, Middle East, Madgastar and other places. The Germans told its people the were relocating them. The typical poor man on the street was happy to see the richer person of a different ethnic group go away. We hear about the Jews in Germany but how about the other ethnic groups? Gypsies and Russians were exterminated in higher ratios than the Jews. Africans from Germany were nearly all killed.
In the US today, the worst race problems are in the poorest parts of the US.
Posix file systems aren't required to be hierarchical they just of sort of look that way. Remember hard links? The name space is hierarchical but files and directories can appear in many locations. link (no ln) has been able to create hard links for directories since Unix version 2.
Can someone explain why this isn't an X-ray machine?
TV voltages have to be very carefully controlled or else they produce x-ray.
So your saying the 99% of coders out there that are bitching about tailing ; are simply illiterate when it comes to C? I agree with you. I know I don't make these errors when it comes to C but I have had to explain it to plenty of programmers who think they know the language.
There seems to be some indication that teaching kids to drive when the are 10 will reduce the number of accidents involving the stupid things that teenagers do in cars.
In may rural parts of the US, its not uncommon to see drivers as young as 14. The accident rates of people who started driving when they are 14 are much lower than the rate of the ones that started when they were 16.
US accident rates are bad and getting worse in the category of alcohol because many people never learn to drink while they are still under their parents care. The pushing for a 21 yr drinking age simply pushed the drunk driving accident stats from 18 yr olds to 21 yr olds. Countries with low (or no) drinking age have fewer problems with anti-social drinkers. That includes drunk drivers and violnet drunks.
12 year old kids are less rebellious than 16 yr olds and that may make them better drivers. Its not like they don't know the road rules, many of them have to deal with them on their bikes.
Thats not exactly true. What happens is the goverment tells the company making it what the price will be and they can either have their drug on the list of approved drugs at that price or not sell any.
Drug prices in the US are just odd. What happens is you walk into the pharmacy and give them your insurance card and a prescription. Say its for something cheap like penicillin. Thats entered into the computer which calls you insurance company and they send back three numbers, the price of the drug, how much you pay the pharmacy and how much the insurance company will pay the pharmacy. So in the Penicillin case if you have a $25 drug plan the numbers may look like $38.95, $25, -21.75. So you think your getting a good deal since you only paid $25 for that $38.95 worth of drugs but the pharmacy has to pay your insurance company 21.75 our of the $25 they collected. Had you gone in with the prescription and paid cash, it would have cost you somewhere between $3 and $5.
When I've had to buy prescription drugs in Australia (who has a state medical system like Canada in addition to a private system), I tend to pay an extra few cents on for a $15 precsription becaue I don't have a goverment medical card. On common drugs that treat common problems, the govement isn't subsidizing the price much. It also means that the range of antibiotics that are prescribed tend to be the ones on the goverment plan and not the expensive ones that are being pushed by the drug compaines.
Modern DNA testing isn't comparing the 4 bit code but it compares the weight of each chromosomes. If they match, the law will not be on your side.
One problem is fibers break off and tend to collect in things like fans. If the fiber size is small (like asbestos), it can even find its way inside hard drives.
I used some tar lined sheets. They are about 2mm thick and have metal foil on one side. They weren't cheap but the inside of my case isn't that big.
Congress already has been involved with the replacement. Its called X.400 and its very nasty and there is no way you can run your own server with out some type of approval that cost way more than an SSL cert does. Do some research on "gossip" if you want more info.
/admd=something/c=us/o=abnormal/prmd=whatever/g=ti m/what_was_the_rest?
Or you could email me at:
Does anyone else think that .1x was bad considering people have been using x to be a wildcard for 802.11[abg] for some time?
There are two frequencies for use in the US around 5, one is 5.2 the other isthe top end of 5.7. It turns out that 5.2 is used for uplinks for many sats and is protected by many countries because one of their neighbors assigned it for a sat uplink. The problem is those old agreements of not stepping on other countries frequencies are very hard to change because the orignial country isn't going to give up their old frequency and may not be reporting that its not longer in use. Of course it would be very stupid for anyone to depend on using 5.2 or 5.7 for a sat uplink over the next few decades. Australia has (or maybe had till last month?) rules that allow you to use 5.2 but not out doors for this very reason.
Don't forget the bribes if they are typical in your part of the world. When I was working for a very large international banking company, I had to get some domain names from a number of South American countries and while the fees were around $100, the bribes that went along were in the $20 to $1000 range which were all put in the accounting system with the right accounting codes (like fees-Brazil-bribes-gov-nonelected). Some new guy from accounting got all up set that I was paying bribes but got a bit confused while tring to explain whey the account codes where already in the system and he had a nice long talk to the legal dept.
In many parts of the world, bribes are required to get things working. In other places, its helpful to hire a local to take in the paperwork.
The US also has one of the highest rates of burnout in the world. Japan who was 2nd lowest in the chart also has the same problem.
When will American compaines understand that having their workers take acations is good for the company. People who take time off, do more effecent work. It like the recent studies that show once workers start putting in more hours their productivity can increase to about 10 hours a day but an office worker that is doing 12 hr days less productive than when they were doing 8 hour days since they spend so much work time doing other things.
It will be interesting to see what happens in New Zealand. Its my understanding that they used to have a European model for holiday time but have recently removed some of thouse requirements so they are more like the US model. Maybe that explains why at least 50% of their labor pool is in Australia.
I've currently have 34.5 unused vacation days. Over the next year, I'll collect 20 more. I think its time for a round the world trip.
the spam compaines claim that the email will increase hit counts. As far as the suckers that paid to get their ads out are concerned, a bot hitting their page is just another user hitting their web page.
Some of them are dealing with the pain. A guy I meet recently paid about AU$5000 to a spam house to send his ad out to a million people in an opt-in mail list. His web server got 40 hits that day compared to the daily averge of 13 and none of them bought his book. He was taught a $5000 lesson that spaming doesn't work. What was interesting is that the "demo run" got more hits on his web site than the real run.
This appears to be research efforts of guys who are working for the big spamers.
What they want to do is be able to crack say 100 well connected servers. Each of those servers will send out packets with a forged source address of the other hacked servers. Some spamers are putting it all in one packet but its trivial to have sendmail check the buffer size after the HELO has come it. No real MTA will send anything extra. (Don't confuse this with Pipelining which allows the rest of the data to be sent in one packet). So now a spamer must send an inital tcp handshake and a HELO packet. If you keep track of the inital sequence number, you can have another server send the rest of the data.
Most firewalls don't deal with this well. Some MTA's will have issues as well and it may find ways through spam filters. Keep in mind most firewalls only check the 1st packets and once the stream is set up, it just passes the packets through without any other checks.
The solution to this is to get major ISPs to not send packets where both addresses aren't in their space but that will be bad news for dual homed sites.
Student loans and Las Vegas? I don't know if it still works but some grad students use to go there for spring break. There were about a minivan worth of EE studetns that would go all put up a bit of money and one guy would deposit it the casino. Then every day he would take out 1/7th and give it back to its owners. From the casino's point of view the guy was a sucker worth a free room and other free stuff. The the students, it was a free trip where they got to camp out in a nice free room.
But what are DVD prices? Why does it cost 2x as much to get a DVD over a vhs tape when the DVD costs much less to make. DVDs can be made very quickly, a video tape must spend at least 15 minutes in a very expensive machine.
But 3.8 million DVD players isn't much in the US. At one point a few years ago there were more than 280 million TVs in the US (I know more than one per person) so 3.8+1.9+? is about 2% which is very lame considering a what a DVD player costs. According to wal-marts web site the cheap ones are US$59.6 but the DVDs are 17 to $20.
I think record sales are down beause everyone has the music the like and the new bands all suck. All the CDs I have bought recently are either Indy bands, replaments for dmanaged discs or old bands with new material (and I'm not talking best of).
If the record company wants some of my business, they are going to have to improve the product and keep the price down. I used to have a rule that I never paid more then $10 for a CD and most of my collection is in that price point and my only exceptions were imports and local bands.
Don't count your chickens while congress is still in session. You may wake up on the 20th to find that the patent expires sometime in 3003. Of course congress doesn't have to act tonight, the extended (c) after the use by date.
A big fat check now from a record company won't last as long as a big fat check from the lottery. Wasn't there a book about the 1st 100 winners of the NY lottery that showed nearly all of them were bankrupt after just a few years?