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  1. Re:How this works on Remotely Counting Machines Behind A NAT Box · · Score: 1

    so what's the purpose of the ipid field? how does one reassemble packets if there are unpredictable gaps in the id fields?

    or is it really simply for each packet to be entirely unique from other packets, even if the contents, source, destination, etc are the same?

  2. Re:How this works on Remotely Counting Machines Behind A NAT Box · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Can somebody please explain to me how one computer with 2 FTP uploads running looks different than 2 computers with 1 FTP upload each?

    _It's_my_understanding_ (please educate me) that for each connection I make, I have a new "id" count started... so, either way there would be 2 out of sync "id" counts going.

  3. Re:Not where I'm from on Remotely Counting Machines Behind A NAT Box · · Score: 2, Informative

    Verizon DSL in NJ told me a NAT was no problem, and they are willing to support certain brands... and sell them to you. Of course, that was probably a last ditch effort to give up trying to restrict users and instead make money off multiple computer some other way. With something like this, they could quickly change their minds again.

  4. Re:Better Idea on 11 Digit Dialing Comes Home to New York · · Score: 1

    too many commas and fragments out of order. that'll teach me to edit in the textarea without previewing first.

  5. Re:Better Idea on 11 Digit Dialing Comes Home to New York · · Score: 1

    A more practical solution, until everyone has a bluetooth cellphone, from over 2 years ago was sold by simulring. Basically, you get one number and depending on the time of day, it will ring multiple phones at the same time, and connect the caller to whichever answers. For whatever reasons, they closed down a few months ago, but check google.

  6. Re:minor nit on Conan the Bacterium · · Score: 1

    "Inflammable
    means flammable?! Boy, what a country."

  7. httPort on Tunnelling NTP Through a Firewall? · · Score: 1

    check out httport which allows you to run TCP over HTTP (over TCP over IP). You can go right out over port 80, or anything else that's open. There are some public servers, but you can also run your own server elsewhere to tunnel out - you can encrpyt the traffic between you and your own server too. Great for getting web and email from work - setup one browser to be your personal encrypted web connection and use another as your "work" browser.

  8. Re:slow down on Lego Segway · · Score: 1
    I attempted to build LegWay using an accelerometer to detect tilt, but soon realized the acceleration due to gravity would not change as the robot tilts, because the robot is accelerating at 9.8 ft/sec?(physics was a long time ago). So the reading will be zero, until it smashes into the floor.


    Ok, so this is only true if the measuring axis of the accelerometer is always perpendicular to the earth, which won't be true if the thing is tilting over. Otherwise, the measured accelaration is going to be a cos/sin of 9.8 METERS/s^2 (which is what the parent post talks about) - you can use an accelerometer to measure tilt.

  9. Re:1970s and earlier probably on The First Smiley :-) · · Score: 1

    I think "hi hi" actually originates from morse code, where sending it ".... .. .... .." sounds more comical than "ha ha" ".... .- .... .-"

  10. Re:So? on Great Firewall Becomes Greater · · Score: 1
    maybe "the wiley" will use HTThost to tunnel to an external proxy via http on port 80. works ok [where 'ok' is defined as 'ass slow'] through my great firewall.

    Though, it would help if everyone in china had a computer on broadband "at home" (outside china) to be their proxy.

    -a

  11. Re:exhorbiant cost? on Polarized Screens to Hide Sensitive Data · · Score: 1
    As was posted, there were services at least 5 years ago that you could send your laptop to and they would do this for you. But here's something a little cooler.

    Uses shutter glasses, but instead of displaying alternate Left/Right images and alternating which lens is blocked for 3D, it opens and closes both lenses in sync and displays the image you want to see when they are open and the NEGATIVE of the image when they are closed. You just see your image a little dimmer, everyone else just sees a grey blur. Also can be used to display the difference between your image and another (when the lenses are closed) so that people without glasses see an entirely distinct image.

    I "came up" with this idea about 3 months ago, probably because I had read about it previously.

  12. APRS anyone? on Mobile Phones for Geese and Seals · · Score: 1
    sounds like a good application for the Automatic Position Reporting System (ham radio GPS tracking system) which even has satellite coverage with a few passes/day for much of the world... (even via the ISS)

    wouldn't need to be on any cellular network to send the data. (tho, if you weren't in a populated area with any APRS internet gateways, you'd need to do some more complicated math to figure out if a sat was overhead to send through).

  13. data over FRS illegal on Garmin To Marry GPS with FRS/GMRS · · Score: 3, Informative
    When I saw this radio first announced a few months ago I couldn't figure out how they'd get FCC approval - transmitting data via FRS IS illegal already, unless they can argue that it is a "tone to make contact" with another user. See this section of this FRS FAQ which references some law that i'm too lazy to look up

    -adam
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    "I rule. -aron"

  14. Re:2.5G /3G on 2.5G Services Start Trial Run In Seattle · · Score: 1

    > > 2G is where we are now, the CDMA/TDMA digital
    > > PCS systems.

    > That's only for your maybe 100 million
    > cellphone users. Still just 20% of world's 500
    > million GSM users.

    GSM IS a digital TDMA technology, my friend, and falls under the PCS definition.

    And as for americans sucking... We must have had SOMETHING to do with renaming your beloved GSM from "Groupe Spécial Mobile" to "Global System for Mobile"

  15. Re:2.5G /3G on 2.5G Services Start Trial Run In Seattle · · Score: 1

    3G = 3rd generation

    1st generation cellular was the original analog AMPS (Advanced Mobile Phone System, I think).

    2G is where we are now, the CDMA/TDMA digital PCS systems.

    3G is the next step... high speed (2Mbps?) to the phone.