After the sitefinder thing, i wasnt happy with verisign, i didnt like them, but I wasnt stark raving mad. They at least heeded the will of ICANN and everyone else, eventually. I might have still gotten a digital certificate or something since they really are good at those. But now, I would very much like to put them out of business. They are so off in their thinking that I can't stand to have them still in business. The sad thing is I am almost sure that they will win their case because the judges are not edjucated enough with regards to computers. The court room is not a technical place, and money and big guns wins over the technical truth. I dearly hope that someone can somehow put verisign in its place and stop this insatiable and unreasonable greed. Its not so much that theyre greedy, but how theyre going about satiating it. Few things not in my direct personal life infuriate me this much.
Well technically you should only be using whats needed to get over the top of BPL. Though, 1500w probably wont be enough by the time it gets to the receiving end since we'll hear all the data instead of the ham.
Taking this a step further to explain, since it -is- the only part of spectrum that bounces off the ionosphere, why in the heck should it be used for something that doesnt need distance propagation? If we're going to make the argument that the spectrum should be used in some other fashion (which i wholeheartedly DISAGREE with), then by god make long distance broadband 802.11ZZZ or some junk, why waste it on a technology that it is unnecessary for. Tons of communication methods depend on ionospheric propagation, BPL could use some other frequency range, or BPL could just never come to fruition and use some other means. This is about waste, about options, about ignorance, and about forgetting a community that donates millions of dollars and man hours to hopefully saving your life someday. Just because ham spectrum is free to use, and people have fun using it doesnt mean it is necessarily a hobby though some people use it as that. Is open source coding a hobby? Ham is the open source of the communications world. All of you who realize that truely innovative and novel software can come from open source should see that ham radio is the same thing for communications technology. The radio waves are the medium to test the new technology. While yes some old codgers collect old radios and such, ham is on the frontlines of innovation. To forget the past is to not understand the future. Those who keep track of old gear are honoring tradition, as well as the evolution of technology and understanding where it came from to better understand how to get to the next level. And hey, while I'm at it, when has open source saved your life? At least ham radio will get you to safety.
You tell your wife and kids that as you're bleeding to death under a cement beam that fell on your legs and your wife is about to catch fire and your kid has to watch both of you die because you couldnt get help from anyone. Granted its a bleak picture, but you know what, its happened.
Good god, statements like this make me want to scream at someone. Ham is not and cannot be outdated. Get the pictures of morse code keyers out of your head, ham is about communications, the forefront of communcations. Picture satellites, rovers, talking from one continent to another around the world, talking from one part of a natural disaster to another. Until communications is outdated, ham will not be outdated.
I should add, hams get communication in/out of third world countries, countries currently embattled in warfare, and other places where communication in any form would otherwise not get to.
Remember 9/11? Guess who got communication through first? Guess who helped police and fire get new antennas and communications going? While morse is what people think of when they think ham radio, but in reality that is a tiny tiny subset of ham radio. Most of being a ham is about communications in general, over all kinds of bands, all kinds of formats, data, voice, video, etc. and trying to do it with the lowest power, or just plain old electronics experimentation. But you show your ignorance of the ham band in blazing colors. Granted, most of america probably thinks this and that ultimately is why BPL wil make it and youll find yourselves mute next time the lights go out.
You know what, if a police officer tells you to do something you do it and worry about suing them later. If they really had gotten a call about a potential battery situation the police have no reason to believe him whatsoever. He's lucky they didnt draw weapons on him. Now after reading the transcript, its obvious that both the officer and dudly are not the smartest of beings. Had this case occurred in Oakland, CA or South Central LA, this would have never gotten anywhere. I dont see a case for him either. Yes his daughter was mistreated, especially considering that she was the one purportedly being battered, or at least most likely to be in the majority of situations, so I believe she would have a case, but not him. I think the judge should and ultimately will reject the case or rule in favor of the state.
The book wasnt written for the uber-geek like most slashdot readers, it was written for the general public. Books like kryptonomicon are more for the reader like us. Keeping that in mind and letting our techie psyche lay low, this book is wonderful.
Digital Fortress was Dan's first book, and was quite an amazing read for a first timer. He has made leaps and bounds in his writing style and ability. He has more and better editors now as well, having made it from new writer to multiple #1 best seller writer. Dan is a personal friend of mine and I've been amazed to watch him reach and expand his potential. I look forward to his next book.
I say keep it the way it is, once you get a DUI, you get required to have the interlock installed. Dont make it happen from the get go. Or even if installed from the get go, then dont enable it until an offense occurs, but then thats retarded anyway. If the test takes 30 seconds, then what about when youre in a hurry and really need to get going fast, or in an emergency of some kind. What if the car stalls out and you have to restart it? Do you have to puff in the middle of the street/intersection? Id quickly not drive the car ever again if I had to puff every time. Id buy a motorcycle or ride my bike, id rather ride 1000 miles than blow into a stupid straw every time i want to start the car. Id probably hack the thing and disable it with a switch thats hidden so if i get pulled over i can re-enable it fast. For the record, i dont drink alcohol at all.
Yes, but ok so the code is changed, but cant they keep the suit since it was still techincally 'plagiarized' in the past? Its like releasing a book thats got sections copied, and then releasing a new edition that has those copied sections remove, but the original edition is still in print.. I think it probably doesnt matter in terms of the suit, but could save us from being sued for future infringement
Hasn't this already been done? We have CrossoverOffice installed on our linux machines at work. Its MS Word, Excel, etc for linux through wine. Don't know who its actually made by. The rpm we install is called cxoffice.
Indeed, it is an over the net backup client that can do SFTP, tar, gzip, bzip, etc using the ICSharpCode ZipLib as well as a compression library/format I wrote myself with MD5/SHA hashes. Builds/runs happy on linux and windows. I had to write a couple special functions for unix that does calls to get unix permissions and stuff, but doesnt run unless System.Environment.PlatformID == 128 (unix), so the code compiles happily on windows and unix, i can build and run it in VS.NET and make some changes and bring it back to linux and build and run it there.
You took it to a bit too coarse a granularity. You compile it into IL, then run the IL with the virtual machine (ie ilrun with dotgnu) to compile the IL code.
Aside from the sheer disturbance to the ham community and worldwide communications, as well as possibly satellite (and interplanetary someday?) communications, I dont like the idea of having gobs of RF coming from my power sockets. 60 cycle hum is bad enough, we're going to have to filter every audio component even more, as well as figure out how to rf protect our devices. some old and new stuff just wasnt designed to take rf directly into its components. Plus, electrocution now comes with fun burns, not to mention increased headaches for those of us who are RF sensitive to begin with. FCC should leave well enough alone.
I agree with the dell install concept. I think the fact that dell and other vendors do indeed install linux in some configurations is a big deal.
I was a little too terse with my original post and most of my thoughts didnt make it onto the post. Mainly what I was getting at is that the article is making the picture that mozilla is this holy grail of linux, but i think that there are other browsers like konqueror etc that display fine/great, and mostly having an application suite that is fairly decent will get people to use it. Crossover Office is nice, though not perfect, but works well enough for most. I think that with a relatively easy install (or preinstalled os), crossover office and konqueror/mozilla/etc, most people would be happy with their linux machine.
My primary point was that mozilla isnt the holy grail, though it does have stability, speed, eye candy, nice features, compabibility and all.. Mostly just pointing out that there are other factors involved and i tried to just name one or two and didnt phrase it to say that the ones i said werent the only ones.
While web browsing is a major part of what people do with their operating system, somehow I think the battle for linux on joe-user's desktop lies in other areas. Major improvements in ease of use have taken place in gnome and kde, as well as in the os installers such as redhat and fedora. The key to getting joe user is first getting the install to be plopping in a cd and putting in some minimal and straight forward information and letting it go wild.
Konqueror has been showing my webpages well for quite some time now, and is my primary browser though I do use Firebird/FireFox on occasion.
Granted, web browsers are significant part of the application base of a functional os: in my honest opinion, mozilla itself hardly matters in the war of linux vs windows.
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Sort of funny to see us going from computer plugged into phone jack to phone jack plugged into computer (or network)
After the sitefinder thing, i wasnt happy with verisign, i didnt like them, but I wasnt stark raving mad. They at least heeded the will of ICANN and everyone else, eventually. I might have still gotten a digital certificate or something since they really are good at those. But now, I would very much like to put them out of business. They are so off in their thinking that I can't stand to have them still in business. The sad thing is I am almost sure that they will win their case because the judges are not edjucated enough with regards to computers. The court room is not a technical place, and money and big guns wins over the technical truth. I dearly hope that someone can somehow put verisign in its place and stop this insatiable and unreasonable greed. Its not so much that theyre greedy, but how theyre going about satiating it. Few things not in my direct personal life infuriate me this much.
Well technically you should only be using whats needed to get over the top of BPL. Though, 1500w probably wont be enough by the time it gets to the receiving end since we'll hear all the data instead of the ham.
Taking this a step further to explain, since it -is- the only part of spectrum that bounces off the ionosphere, why in the heck should it be used for something that doesnt need distance propagation? If we're going to make the argument that the spectrum should be used in some other fashion (which i wholeheartedly DISAGREE with), then by god make long distance broadband 802.11ZZZ or some junk, why waste it on a technology that it is unnecessary for. Tons of communication methods depend on ionospheric propagation, BPL could use some other frequency range, or BPL could just never come to fruition and use some other means. This is about waste, about options, about ignorance, and about forgetting a community that donates millions of dollars and man hours to hopefully saving your life someday. Just because ham spectrum is free to use, and people have fun using it doesnt mean it is necessarily a hobby though some people use it as that. Is open source coding a hobby? Ham is the open source of the communications world. All of you who realize that truely innovative and novel software can come from open source should see that ham radio is the same thing for communications technology. The radio waves are the medium to test the new technology. While yes some old codgers collect old radios and such, ham is on the frontlines of innovation. To forget the past is to not understand the future. Those who keep track of old gear are honoring tradition, as well as the evolution of technology and understanding where it came from to better understand how to get to the next level. And hey, while I'm at it, when has open source saved your life? At least ham radio will get you to safety.
You tell your wife and kids that as you're bleeding to death under a cement beam that fell on your legs and your wife is about to catch fire and your kid has to watch both of you die because you couldnt get help from anyone. Granted its a bleak picture, but you know what, its happened.
In addition, with the recent slashdot article on magnetic fields rotting our brains, youd think they would not want to introduce unnecessary fields.
Granted it was just a movie, but I swear we're all going to get NAS (ala Johnny Mnemonic) if BPL goes through.
Good god, statements like this make me want to scream at someone. Ham is not and cannot be outdated. Get the pictures of morse code keyers out of your head, ham is about communications, the forefront of communcations. Picture satellites, rovers, talking from one continent to another around the world, talking from one part of a natural disaster to another. Until communications is outdated, ham will not be outdated.
I should add, hams get communication in/out of third world countries, countries currently embattled in warfare, and other places where communication in any form would otherwise not get to.
Remember 9/11? Guess who got communication through first? Guess who helped police and fire get new antennas and communications going? While morse is what people think of when they think ham radio, but in reality that is a tiny tiny subset of ham radio. Most of being a ham is about communications in general, over all kinds of bands, all kinds of formats, data, voice, video, etc. and trying to do it with the lowest power, or just plain old electronics experimentation. But you show your ignorance of the ham band in blazing colors. Granted, most of america probably thinks this and that ultimately is why BPL wil make it and youll find yourselves mute next time the lights go out.
You know what, if a police officer tells you to do something you do it and worry about suing them later. If they really had gotten a call about a potential battery situation the police have no reason to believe him whatsoever. He's lucky they didnt draw weapons on him. Now after reading the transcript, its obvious that both the officer and dudly are not the smartest of beings. Had this case occurred in Oakland, CA or South Central LA, this would have never gotten anywhere. I dont see a case for him either. Yes his daughter was mistreated, especially considering that she was the one purportedly being battered, or at least most likely to be in the majority of situations, so I believe she would have a case, but not him. I think the judge should and ultimately will reject the case or rule in favor of the state.
The book wasnt written for the uber-geek like most slashdot readers, it was written for the general public. Books like kryptonomicon are more for the reader like us. Keeping that in mind and letting our techie psyche lay low, this book is wonderful.
theres something to that code. see his website. IIRC you can submit the code and find out if youre right.
Digital Fortress was Dan's first book, and was quite an amazing read for a first timer. He has made leaps and bounds in his writing style and ability. He has more and better editors now as well, having made it from new writer to multiple #1 best seller writer. Dan is a personal friend of mine and I've been amazed to watch him reach and expand his potential. I look forward to his next book.
2 words: air compressor
I sent the senator an email with the subject "Are you crazy?" no body. *shrugs*
I say keep it the way it is, once you get a DUI, you get required to have the interlock installed. Dont make it happen from the get go. Or even if installed from the get go, then dont enable it until an offense occurs, but then thats retarded anyway. If the test takes 30 seconds, then what about when youre in a hurry and really need to get going fast, or in an emergency of some kind. What if the car stalls out and you have to restart it? Do you have to puff in the middle of the street/intersection? Id quickly not drive the car ever again if I had to puff every time. Id buy a motorcycle or ride my bike, id rather ride 1000 miles than blow into a stupid straw every time i want to start the car. Id probably hack the thing and disable it with a switch thats hidden so if i get pulled over i can re-enable it fast. For the record, i dont drink alcohol at all.
Yes, but ok so the code is changed, but cant they keep the suit since it was still techincally 'plagiarized' in the past? Its like releasing a book thats got sections copied, and then releasing a new edition that has those copied sections remove, but the original edition is still in print.. I think it probably doesnt matter in terms of the suit, but could save us from being sued for future infringement
Hasn't this already been done? We have CrossoverOffice installed on our linux machines at work. Its MS Word, Excel, etc for linux through wine. Don't know who its actually made by. The rpm we install is called cxoffice.
Indeed, it is an over the net backup client that can do SFTP, tar, gzip, bzip, etc using the ICSharpCode ZipLib as well as a compression library/format I wrote myself with MD5/SHA hashes. Builds/runs happy on linux and windows. I had to write a couple special functions for unix that does calls to get unix permissions and stuff, but doesnt run unless System.Environment.PlatformID == 128 (unix), so the code compiles happily on windows and unix, i can build and run it in VS.NET and make some changes and bring it back to linux and build and run it there.
The classes ive written compile happily in both VS.NET and dotGNU
You took it to a bit too coarse a granularity. You compile it into IL, then run the IL with the virtual machine (ie ilrun with dotgnu) to compile the IL code.
Likewise, we compile gcc 64bit with gcc 32 bit. What? compiling a c++ compiler with c++ code? Crazy! =)
Aside from the sheer disturbance to the ham community and worldwide communications, as well as possibly satellite (and interplanetary someday?) communications, I dont like the idea of having gobs of RF coming from my power sockets. 60 cycle hum is bad enough, we're going to have to filter every audio component even more, as well as figure out how to rf protect our devices. some old and new stuff just wasnt designed to take rf directly into its components. Plus, electrocution now comes with fun burns, not to mention increased headaches for those of us who are RF sensitive to begin with. FCC should leave well enough alone.
I agree with the dell install concept. I think the fact that dell and other vendors do indeed install linux in some configurations is a big deal.
I was a little too terse with my original post and most of my thoughts didnt make it onto the post. Mainly what I was getting at is that the article is making the picture that mozilla is this holy grail of linux, but i think that there are other browsers like konqueror etc that display fine/great, and mostly having an application suite that is fairly decent will get people to use it. Crossover Office is nice, though not perfect, but works well enough for most. I think that with a relatively easy install (or preinstalled os), crossover office and konqueror/mozilla/etc, most people would be happy with their linux machine.
My primary point was that mozilla isnt the holy grail, though it does have stability, speed, eye candy, nice features, compabibility and all.. Mostly just pointing out that there are other factors involved and i tried to just name one or two and didnt phrase it to say that the ones i said werent the only ones.
While web browsing is a major part of what people do with their operating system, somehow I think the battle for linux on joe-user's desktop lies in other areas. Major improvements in ease of use have taken place in gnome and kde, as well as in the os installers such as redhat and fedora. The key to getting joe user is first getting the install to be plopping in a cd and putting in some minimal and straight forward information and letting it go wild.
Konqueror has been showing my webpages well for quite some time now, and is my primary browser though I do use Firebird/FireFox on occasion.
Granted, web browsers are significant part of the application base of a functional os: in my honest opinion, mozilla itself hardly matters in the war of linux vs windows.