Yes, it appears that Sprint finally got tired of Cogent's unwillingness to pay for connection and disconnected them after giving Cogent more than adequate notice.
The problem is that Sprint gave THEIR OWN CUSTOMERS zero notice that they were going to kill their access to a fair chunk of the internet by de-peering Cogent.
The bosses and bean counters at Sprint were only looking at the business case between the two carriers, NOT at the services they would severely affect for their customers.
I suspect that is why Sprint has "temporarily" re-connected directly to Cogent again...
The web hosting company is IX Hosting, and I certainly hope they get Slashdotted into a smoking crater, and that their support folks get a whole lot of input from various sources about the idiocy of their policy...
Having worked at Bell Labs, Holmdel back in the '80s, not only does the shutting down of basic research at the 'Labs sadden me, but Lucent dumping that beautiful Eero Saarinen designed building in Holmdel and allowing it to be torn down really bothers me..
Holmdel was magnificent. Seeing pictures of it's last days, with the atrium forest dying, the building getting into horrible shape, and the places I was so familiar with turning to rubble actually affects me emotionally.
With the final shut down of basic research at the Labs we are finally seeing the true results of the break-up of the old Bell System 01JAN1984 by Judge Greene. There are no companies left with the income and drive to support good, large scale basic research in the United States. It was more than just Ma Bell who died that day.
Maryland DOES have a library privacy law that forbids the library from sharing information that identifies individual users, etc.
Those computers are accessed using the patrons library card (or a temporary access card) that identifies the usages to an individual.
With a warrant, the library can, of course, release the information, but lacking a warrant patrons DO have an expectation of privacy BY LAW in that state.
Here is the pertinent information that the library director should have known by rote:
The computers, with information on individual patron usage of same, were unlawfully seized if taken without a warrant, even with the incorrectly given permission of the library director.
As a handicapped "mobility impaired" person I would very much like to have something similar to this: small, light, easy to use, and, I assume, reliable.
While I'm no longer in the wheelchair I spent three years in, I am limited in how far I can walk, even with assistance - after about 200 feet I've hit my limit.:o(
Something like this unit just might extend my range enough to be able to get around in a mall, or even a larger store while standing.
That would be much better than a wheelchair in a number of ways... Since it puts weight on the legs, it helps to maintain skeletal strength, being lighter than the typical powered wheelchair or motorized scooter mobility aid (which can weigh up to 600 pounds including occupant) it could be safer for others as well as easier to transport, and instead of rolling about with my face at crotch level, I'd be eye-to-eye with other humans.
If the cost ends up reasonable, I'll be looking into one once it makes it's debut.
It took me a while to read through it all, and to follow a few links to refresh what I remembered of some of the references (and I did find one typo in your article: "These proposed measures wil [sic] advance..." in your conclusion).
I don't know how you managed to get the honor of presenting your views in this publication, but I'm glad you did and pleased that you appear to have taken a conservative stance in presenting your information, observations, and suggestions. There were only two if the fifteen that as a non-lawyer I found challenging to agree with wholly.
In any case, many thanks for your many efforts in this arena, and also thank you for trusting the technoid crowd here and especially at Groklaw to offer suggested answers to some of your technical questions.
Carry on!:o)
--Tomas
P.S. I'm not a potential RIAA target (at least from anything I'VE done...), so my thanks are based on principal.
...who decided to brute-force modify each and every copyrighted audio track on YouTube (every audio track) without permission from the copyright owner?
Destroying the dynamic range intended by the originator in this manner is not acceptable.
If Google feels that some audio needs "normalization" or whatever they wish to call it, at least make it a feature that can be opted into by the owner of the video...
I don't disagree with most of what you say there, Plugwash, and I was not suggesting that the block-heater outlets would be sufficient for charging a whole line of cars, I was just wondering how complex a "charging station" actually would have to be...
(BTW, the difference in efficiency between gasoline and electric "motors" in vehicles is gas is about 30% efficient and electric is about 96% efficient. Adding in the tire rolling resistance, transmission and differential losses, parasitic loses - oil pump, water pump, alternator power steering, etc. - a gas engine actually only gets about 15% efficiency in power actually delivered to the road.)
IIRC it takes about 12hp/ton (at the wheels!) to move a car down the freeway at a constant 60MPH.
Anyway, I'm not that much into figuring out all the details anymore, nor am I pushing any particular layout for electric charging stations. I was just wondering about how COMPLEX a charging station would be as opposed to something reasonably simple like, maybe, an OUTLET.:o)
(The fact that it would likely be more similar the outlet for an electric range, wasn't really germain to my thinking, I just didn't see a reason to make it some sort of $10,000 weatherproofed electronically controlled power conversion console.
Heck, if only the power connector is outdoor and weatherperoofed, and all the locked switches and meters were inside a small building, the most expensive part might be the cable carrying power to the outlets.)
Yes, handling today's batteries in electric vehicles can be very hazardous. Exposed connections, brute-force lifting and moving heavy, high energy devices, etc.
From what I remember seeing the drawings in the old magazines years ago the idea was a standard battery pack about a foot tall, four feet wide, and three feet long.
To R&R a battery pack one would open and fold the locked battery compartment door out of the way (picture it being the space between bumper and top-of-hood, nearly the full width of the front of the car - or the equivalent in the rear), rolling up the dedicated battery cart to the vehicle (looks sort of like the front of a fork lift) one slides the forks into the two provided slots, flips the quick-connect latches to firmly attach it to the cart, flips the quick disconnects to detach it from the vehicle and rolls the battery out.
Installing the replacement is the reverse.
Alignment of forks, connectors, latches is all mechanically forced with guides.
There would be no human contact with the covered connectors at the rear of the battery pack, there would be no lifting, there would be actually very little manual, error prone handling of much of anything.
Remember these aren't actually MY ideas, but 40 year old ideas that I'm simply tossing out for consideration and discussion.
Oh! Before someone mentions it, continuous electrical functions of the vehicle while having batteries swapped are handled by a separate small "auxiliary" battery in the vehicle that charges from the main battery pack. It would keep the clocks, computers, radios, and such running for maybe an hour.
Yeah, there are a lot of little nagging details, but I'm betting that every one of them could find decent answers, right down to even having batteries owned by nationwide co-ops with yearly membership and per-swap charges.
I can even imagine top brand "stations" advertising that their batteries are guaranteed to have higher energy levels than the cheap brands, and new battery packs being introduced with great fanfare as batteries get better and better and contain more energy in the same space...
Yeah, if folks want things like that bad enough, they could happen - if not, it will just have to happen when they are forced into it in panic mode.
Here's an idea: If you find a potential problem with the idea, don't just point and laugh - find a solution. That's the way to progress.
"Progress isn't made by early risers. It's made by lazy men trying to find easier ways to do something." --Robert Anson Heinlein
Same arguments apply to the gasoline you buy or cars you rent, or any other product.
I suspect that fairly simple and secure tracking of relevant parameters could be built right into both the cars and the battery packs at minimal expense.
I would expect a battery pack for a reliable brand name station would carry a guarantee of "Minimum of ____ watt-hours energy in each battery pack."
Let's face it, though, no matter HOW anything is set up SOMEONE will try to mess it up or get something for nothing.
Even such a simple thing as a locked AC outlet will have some idiot with a crowbar make a mess.
I would think that a vehicle that could plug into any 50-60Hz, 90-260VAC source would make the absolute most sense.
Thinking of that, at a motel I recently stayed at in Montana, each parking spot had a regular AC outlet mounted about 7 feet high on the wall in front of the parking spot.
That kept it out of casual contact from kids, pretty much ensured that any water on the cord would run down-hill away from the outlet, and each outlet had a spring-loaded weather-proof cover for when they were not in use.
(Those were primarily for winter use: Block heaters to keep oil and fuel from gelling.)
With the addition of some way to simply meter the load on each outlet, and providing a key-switch so one could only use the outlet one is assigned, something like that could be an inexpensive, nearly universally available, simple to install and maintain charging grid for plug-in vehicle charging. (I've seen very similar things on parking meter posts, and they could even be coin/bill/credit card operated, just like modern parking meters...)
Still, though, my biggest problem with plug-in rechargeable vehicles is the length of time it takes to recharge and the very limited mileage between charges.
Driving from home to destination on that recent trip required about 600 miles/day, and is not something that any currently-being-discussed plug-ins can accomplish.
When electric vehicles were first being energetically discussed, one of the promising ideas was removable battery trays/packs that were "leased" with a full charge and rolled into the vehicle.
Instead of parking and charging to "refuel," each electric car service station would have a batch of charged batteries available on carts to be swapped in no longer than it takes to refuel a petroleum powered vehicle.
The discharged batteries would be charged overnight at off-peak times and be ready for the next day's needs.
That would also cover the cost of replacement batteries, as the lease or rental fees would cover not only the cost to charge and change the battery packs, but the cost of replacing them when they were no longer up to required minimum power retention levels.
At least doing it that way, stopping every 200 miles or so to swap batteries, would be better than stopping every 200 miles for several hours to recharge non-swappable batteries.
(It would also allow for some much needed standardization in battery packs and such...)
What bothers me is that idea is from reading magazines like Popular Mechanics and Popular Science in the '50's and '60's... We don't seem to have come very far since then, eh?
...as I'm moving things around and accidentally kill it's power. It's an old Linksys BEFSR41v3 that runs utterly reliably, and has been, 24/7, for years.
I should have a reasonable expectation of privacy in my e-mails so far as my service providers and others involved in transporting it.
There is always the chance of some sort of "man-in-the-middle" attack, or misdirection of e-mail or even of the technoids trying to chase down a problem seeing random e-mails on occasion.
BUT, without probably cause and a warrant I should have a complete expectation of privacy in my e-mails in reference to the US federal and local governments.
Unless it is addressed to them, they should only be allowed to intercept or inspect my private communications pursuant to a warrant.
Anything less is NOT what I put my ass on the line for, fighting to protect this country and it's Constitution. That Constitution that I swore to protect from all enemies, foreign and domestic, clearly spells out that I should be protected from my government spying on me or seizing my property or communications.
The current regime does NOT play by the established rules, and simply makes up their own as they go along, despite clear precedent.
We, the people, need to take back control of our country from those we hired and elected to run it for us.
Does that mean that I have to un-plug my lappy to charge my cell, or maybe have a $100 "all-purpose" adapter in each room so I can power my lappy in the living room, charge my cellphone in the bedroom, have my portable radio playing in the kitchen, and all the other things that use power bricks all over the house?
Do I get multiple smart power units at a hundred a pop instead of the cheapo $2 ones I use now?
Will these fancy $100 units power multiple devices at the same time, each using a different voltage?
Will it really handle an 85 watt load for a loaded laptop plus the dozen other devices that need simultaneous power for operation/charging?
Wait a minute, my WiFi base, router my cable modem, my scanner, and who knows how many other "things" in my office all have wall warts powering them. How may devices will one of these $100 units actually handle?
Naw. I'll stick with my little cheap wall warts and a power strip with a switch...
Usually I wait AT LEAST a week to see what sort of problems folks have before considering going for a big update, but this time I decided that I'd just go ahead and give it a shot on my lappy (2.2G Macbook).
It was a 420MB monster for this machine, and took a considerable time and a couple of auto-starts, but it's up, it's running, I don't have any new problems (yet?), and a couple of small peeves with 10.5.2 appear to have gone away.
Time will tell, but so far I'm either lucky or actually came through unscathed.
(As to number of updates, I'd rather have Apple's way of doing it over Microsoft's - I don't understand waiting for long periods until you get a large enough mass of updates to make a giant "Service Pack" for the system. Quicker, more directed upgrades at reasonable intervals suit me fine.)
I sincerely hope they sue Earthlink, because maybe then Earthlink will stop the stupid practice of NOT returning a failure when the domain is not found.
It is getting ever more difficult to find DNS that just works as it should, instead of coming up with a result for every request, even if it has to make one up.:o(
Slashdot Mirror
http://www.scion.com/#contactUs will get you the contact info...
Scion had readily available contacts and generally respond very quickly.
That's where I would (and did) start.
I recommend calling to start with and following up in writing.
I suspect this can be resolved very quickly (by corporate reeling their over-eager lawyers in).
Tomas
ScionLife.com
Yes, it appears that Sprint finally got tired of Cogent's unwillingness to pay for connection and disconnected them after giving Cogent more than adequate notice.
The problem is that Sprint gave THEIR OWN CUSTOMERS zero notice that they were going to kill their access to a fair chunk of the internet by de-peering Cogent.
The bosses and bean counters at Sprint were only looking at the business case between the two carriers, NOT at the services they would severely affect for their customers.
I suspect that is why Sprint has "temporarily" re-connected directly to Cogent again...
--
Tomas
The web hosting company is IX Hosting, and I certainly hope they get Slashdotted into a smoking crater, and that their support folks get a whole lot of input from various sources about the idiocy of their policy...
http://www.ixwebhosting.com/index.php/v2/pages.customerCenter#top
--
Tomas
Having worked at Bell Labs, Holmdel back in the '80s, not only does the shutting down of basic research at the 'Labs sadden me, but Lucent dumping that beautiful Eero Saarinen designed building in Holmdel and allowing it to be torn down really bothers me..
Holmdel was magnificent. Seeing pictures of it's last days, with the atrium forest dying, the building getting into horrible shape, and the places I was so familiar with turning to rubble actually affects me emotionally.
With the final shut down of basic research at the Labs we are finally seeing the true results of the break-up of the old Bell System 01JAN1984 by Judge Greene. There are no companies left with the income and drive to support good, large scale basic research in the United States. It was more than just Ma Bell who died that day.
--Tomas
I spent a quarter century as an engineer and engineering manager battling marketing droids in the old Bell System.
It really is a wonder I didn't kill any.
--Tomas
Maryland DOES have a library privacy law that forbids the library from sharing information that identifies individual users, etc.
Those computers are accessed using the patrons library card (or a temporary access card) that identifies the usages to an individual.
With a warrant, the library can, of course, release the information, but lacking a warrant patrons DO have an expectation of privacy BY LAW in that state.
Here is the pertinent information that the library director should have known by rote:
http://www.ala.org/ala/oif/ifgroups/stateifcchairs/stateifcinaction/marylandprivacy.rtf (Courtesy the American Library Association)
The computers, with information on individual patron usage of same, were unlawfully seized if taken without a warrant, even with the incorrectly given permission of the library director.
--Tomas
As a handicapped "mobility impaired" person I would very much like to have something similar to this: small, light, easy to use, and, I assume, reliable.
While I'm no longer in the wheelchair I spent three years in, I am limited in how far I can walk, even with assistance - after about 200 feet I've hit my limit. :o(
Something like this unit just might extend my range enough to be able to get around in a mall, or even a larger store while standing.
That would be much better than a wheelchair in a number of ways... Since it puts weight on the legs, it helps to maintain skeletal strength, being lighter than the typical powered wheelchair or motorized scooter mobility aid (which can weigh up to 600 pounds including occupant) it could be safer for others as well as easier to transport, and instead of rolling about with my face at crotch level, I'd be eye-to-eye with other humans.
If the cost ends up reasonable, I'll be looking into one once it makes it's debut.
--Tomas
[...] so my thanks are based on principal.
Since we were pointing out typos. ;-)
Touché! (Of course my /. comment isn't being published in a learned journal.) :o)
--Tomas
It took me a while to read through it all, and to follow a few links to refresh what I remembered of some of the references (and I did find one typo in your article: "These proposed measures wil [sic] advance..." in your conclusion).
I don't know how you managed to get the honor of presenting your views in this publication, but I'm glad you did and pleased that you appear to have taken a conservative stance in presenting your information, observations, and suggestions. There were only two if the fifteen that as a non-lawyer I found challenging to agree with wholly.
In any case, many thanks for your many efforts in this arena, and also thank you for trusting the technoid crowd here and especially at Groklaw to offer suggested answers to some of your technical questions.
Carry on! :o)
--Tomas
P.S. I'm not a potential RIAA target (at least from anything I'VE done...), so my thanks are based on principal.
...who decided to brute-force modify each and every copyrighted audio track on YouTube (every audio track) without permission from the copyright owner?
Destroying the dynamic range intended by the originator in this manner is not acceptable.
If Google feels that some audio needs "normalization" or whatever they wish to call it, at least make it a feature that can be opted into by the owner of the video...
--Tomas
I don't disagree with most of what you say there, Plugwash, and I was not suggesting that the block-heater outlets would be sufficient for charging a whole line of cars, I was just wondering how complex a "charging station" actually would have to be...
(BTW, the difference in efficiency between gasoline and electric "motors" in vehicles is gas is about 30% efficient and electric is about 96% efficient. Adding in the tire rolling resistance, transmission and differential losses, parasitic loses - oil pump, water pump, alternator power steering, etc. - a gas engine actually only gets about 15% efficiency in power actually delivered to the road.)
IIRC it takes about 12hp/ton (at the wheels!) to move a car down the freeway at a constant 60MPH.
Anyway, I'm not that much into figuring out all the details anymore, nor am I pushing any particular layout for electric charging stations. I was just wondering about how COMPLEX a charging station would be as opposed to something reasonably simple like, maybe, an OUTLET. :o)
(The fact that it would likely be more similar the outlet for an electric range, wasn't really germain to my thinking, I just didn't see a reason to make it some sort of $10,000 weatherproofed electronically controlled power conversion console.
Heck, if only the power connector is outdoor and weatherperoofed, and all the locked switches and meters were inside a small building, the most expensive part might be the cable carrying power to the outlets.)
Just thinking out loud.
...I gotta print an MP3 player and load a couple of songs. Be ready to go in a sec. :oD
Yes, handling today's batteries in electric vehicles can be very hazardous. Exposed connections, brute-force lifting and moving heavy, high energy devices, etc.
From what I remember seeing the drawings in the old magazines years ago the idea was a standard battery pack about a foot tall, four feet wide, and three feet long.
To R&R a battery pack one would open and fold the locked battery compartment door out of the way (picture it being the space between bumper and top-of-hood, nearly the full width of the front of the car - or the equivalent in the rear), rolling up the dedicated battery cart to the vehicle (looks sort of like the front of a fork lift) one slides the forks into the two provided slots, flips the quick-connect latches to firmly attach it to the cart, flips the quick disconnects to detach it from the vehicle and rolls the battery out.
Installing the replacement is the reverse.
Alignment of forks, connectors, latches is all mechanically forced with guides.
There would be no human contact with the covered connectors at the rear of the battery pack, there would be no lifting, there would be actually very little manual, error prone handling of much of anything.
Remember these aren't actually MY ideas, but 40 year old ideas that I'm simply tossing out for consideration and discussion.
Oh! Before someone mentions it, continuous electrical functions of the vehicle while having batteries swapped are handled by a separate small "auxiliary" battery in the vehicle that charges from the main battery pack. It would keep the clocks, computers, radios, and such running for maybe an hour.
Yeah, there are a lot of little nagging details, but I'm betting that every one of them could find decent answers, right down to even having batteries owned by nationwide co-ops with yearly membership and per-swap charges.
I can even imagine top brand "stations" advertising that their batteries are guaranteed to have higher energy levels than the cheap brands, and new battery packs being introduced with great fanfare as batteries get better and better and contain more energy in the same space...
Yeah, if folks want things like that bad enough, they could happen - if not, it will just have to happen when they are forced into it in panic mode.
Here's an idea: If you find a potential problem with the idea, don't just point and laugh - find a solution. That's the way to progress.
"Progress isn't made by early risers. It's made by lazy men trying to find easier ways to do something." --Robert Anson Heinlein
--Tomas
Same arguments apply to the gasoline you buy or cars you rent, or any other product.
I suspect that fairly simple and secure tracking of relevant parameters could be built right into both the cars and the battery packs at minimal expense.
I would expect a battery pack for a reliable brand name station would carry a guarantee of "Minimum of ____ watt-hours energy in each battery pack."
Let's face it, though, no matter HOW anything is set up SOMEONE will try to mess it up or get something for nothing.
Even such a simple thing as a locked AC outlet will have some idiot with a crowbar make a mess.
I would think that a vehicle that could plug into any 50-60Hz, 90-260VAC source would make the absolute most sense.
Thinking of that, at a motel I recently stayed at in Montana, each parking spot had a regular AC outlet mounted about 7 feet high on the wall in front of the parking spot.
That kept it out of casual contact from kids, pretty much ensured that any water on the cord would run down-hill away from the outlet, and each outlet had a spring-loaded weather-proof cover for when they were not in use.
(Those were primarily for winter use: Block heaters to keep oil and fuel from gelling.)
With the addition of some way to simply meter the load on each outlet, and providing a key-switch so one could only use the outlet one is assigned, something like that could be an inexpensive, nearly universally available, simple to install and maintain charging grid for plug-in vehicle charging. (I've seen very similar things on parking meter posts, and they could even be coin/bill/credit card operated, just like modern parking meters...)
Still, though, my biggest problem with plug-in rechargeable vehicles is the length of time it takes to recharge and the very limited mileage between charges.
Driving from home to destination on that recent trip required about 600 miles/day, and is not something that any currently-being-discussed plug-ins can accomplish.
When electric vehicles were first being energetically discussed, one of the promising ideas was removable battery trays/packs that were "leased" with a full charge and rolled into the vehicle.
Instead of parking and charging to "refuel," each electric car service station would have a batch of charged batteries available on carts to be swapped in no longer than it takes to refuel a petroleum powered vehicle.
The discharged batteries would be charged overnight at off-peak times and be ready for the next day's needs.
That would also cover the cost of replacement batteries, as the lease or rental fees would cover not only the cost to charge and change the battery packs, but the cost of replacing them when they were no longer up to required minimum power retention levels.
At least doing it that way, stopping every 200 miles or so to swap batteries, would be better than stopping every 200 miles for several hours to recharge non-swappable batteries.
(It would also allow for some much needed standardization in battery packs and such...)
What bothers me is that idea is from reading magazines like Popular Mechanics and Popular Science in the '50's and '60's... We don't seem to have come very far since then, eh?
--Tomas
...as I'm moving things around and accidentally kill it's power. It's an old Linksys BEFSR41v3 that runs utterly reliably, and has been, 24/7, for years.
Well, first thing is to kick the bastards out...
If the folks we elect or hire aren't doing the jobs we pay them to do, get rid of them.
Other than that, let me answer a question with a question: How did we take control the first time?
Right.
I should have a reasonable expectation of privacy in my e-mails so far as my service providers and others involved in transporting it.
There is always the chance of some sort of "man-in-the-middle" attack, or misdirection of e-mail or even of the technoids trying to chase down a problem seeing random e-mails on occasion.
BUT, without probably cause and a warrant I should have a complete expectation of privacy in my e-mails in reference to the US federal and local governments.
Unless it is addressed to them, they should only be allowed to intercept or inspect my private communications pursuant to a warrant.
Anything less is NOT what I put my ass on the line for, fighting to protect this country and it's Constitution. That Constitution that I swore to protect from all enemies, foreign and domestic, clearly spells out that I should be protected from my government spying on me or seizing my property or communications.
The current regime does NOT play by the established rules, and simply makes up their own as they go along, despite clear precedent.
We, the people, need to take back control of our country from those we hired and elected to run it for us.
--Tomas
Heheheheheheheh... It's an affectionate diminutive in common use, derived from "lap top" and ususlly used in reference to a lap top computer. :^P
Yeah, us nerds often make up our own words.
--Tomas
Does that mean that I have to un-plug my lappy to charge my cell, or maybe have a $100 "all-purpose" adapter in each room so I can power my lappy in the living room, charge my cellphone in the bedroom, have my portable radio playing in the kitchen, and all the other things that use power bricks all over the house?
Do I get multiple smart power units at a hundred a pop instead of the cheapo $2 ones I use now?
Will these fancy $100 units power multiple devices at the same time, each using a different voltage?
Will it really handle an 85 watt load for a loaded laptop plus the dozen other devices that need simultaneous power for operation/charging?
Wait a minute, my WiFi base, router my cable modem, my scanner, and who knows how many other "things" in my office all have wall warts powering them. How may devices will one of these $100 units actually handle?
Naw. I'll stick with my little cheap wall warts and a power strip with a switch...
--Tomas
Usually I wait AT LEAST a week to see what sort of problems folks have before considering going for a big update, but this time I decided that I'd just go ahead and give it a shot on my lappy (2.2G Macbook).
It was a 420MB monster for this machine, and took a considerable time and a couple of auto-starts, but it's up, it's running, I don't have any new problems (yet?), and a couple of small peeves with 10.5.2 appear to have gone away.
Time will tell, but so far I'm either lucky or actually came through unscathed.
(As to number of updates, I'd rather have Apple's way of doing it over Microsoft's - I don't understand waiting for long periods until you get a large enough mass of updates to make a giant "Service Pack" for the system. Quicker, more directed upgrades at reasonable intervals suit me fine.)
--Tomas
...I'll be happy.
--Tomas
Black powder is based on potassium nitrate (and charcoal and sulfur), but so is the salt substitute I use in my low-sodium diet.
I suspect that I probably have enough potassium nitrate on everything I own to leave trace on everything that touches anything I own.
Given the extreme sensitivity of this solution, my entire world would probably glow blue.
Of course anyone who just ate fries at MacDonalds has hands just COVERED in nitrates (sodium nitrate - plain old table salt)...
I question how useful this is in the real world.
--Tomas
I sincerely hope they sue Earthlink, because maybe then Earthlink will stop the stupid practice of NOT returning a failure when the domain is not found.
:o(
It is getting ever more difficult to find DNS that just works as it should, instead of coming up with a result for every request, even if it has to make one up.
*mutter* *mutter* *mutter*
Tomas