Should we make 4mb a cap for all connections? How about for backbone connections? How about 4mb max for a connection for a town or city? How about a 4mb limit to hook up schools,?
All this does is justify their sticking with DSL in many markets. I won't go into the details, but best I can tell the reason
AT&T stuck with DSL was due to the union workers not wanting to deal with fiber. The reasons were:
1. They would not need as many workers to keep fiber running
2. LIghtning destroys copper (and creates more work).
I could add some annoyances like:
DSL could (and probably does) create RF hash and interference.
I don't do 4mb and lower unless I don't have a choice. Needless to say, AT&T is not going to be my choice until they actually
get a clue and start rolling out FTTH, like they could have done damn near 20 years ago.
If your using the same controllers as the target for that virus, but your not running applications requiring precise speed control you would not even notice anything has changed. As I understand it, centrifuges rely on a well controlled rotation speed to hit a certain amount of G force. Most industrial applications don't require speed control to be that exact and generally are not going to be running fast enough to cause destruction from the stress.
It sure is sad that the trolls have nothing better to do than take this subject so far off course this leads to 95% of the thread being useless garbage. I guess many of them are now unemployed and looking for something to do, since they seem to have at least another 4 years to find a job.
You happen to believe voting is secure now? I know people that can tell me which graveyards have the most active voters. That alone ought to be a clue
that web voting is something worth considering. The biggest problem I see with web voting is that many don't have, or know how to use the web.
The potential for someone using mis information to influence the outcome of the election is a very real possibility. Of course we already have that with the advertising done for most any political candidate now.
If you have not had the chance to see the movie "An Inconsistent Truth" do so! It reveals why many people want you to believe in Global Warming. Several people will be made very rich by the 'redistribute the wealth' plan. It is another plan to push the 'one world order' agenda. http://aninconsistenttruth.com/ . It is absolute junk science that is designed to make things more expensive at your expense and to benefit a very few others. When it showed in Nashville three theaters had to open to handle the crowd on the first day.
This is actually a good thing. The FCC was trying to push a technology that does not work well, interferes with others, and costs much more than some other ways of getting connectivity. Even if the Amateur bands can be notched out, the other frequencies suffer. There are a lot of other communications in the range of frequencies that BPL wipes out. The FCC needs to rethink their stance and pay attention to the laws of physics. If BPL is allowed to exist I believe there will be a time in the future we will regret the down side of this technology. In the places it is being used now there are a number of interference problems that keep different services either off the air, or make the use of that spectrum damn near impossible. There is also another side to the story. Licensed equipment transmitting in close proximity to a BPL system can shut down the BPL connection. The bottom line is BPL should never have been adopted.
There are better, more effective and less costly ways of getting connectivity without polluting the HF spectrum.
I think shooting itself in the foot is really appropriate about now. When I took a course in copyright law many years ago I am pretty sure it would have been considered fair use to move a file to the computer from a CD. Radio stations do that all of the time (has anyone ever seen a record company deliver a loaded computer to the radio station studios?). I can fix that problem for the RIAA though, it is pretty simple really. I don't have to buy any CDs or download any music files. If they don't want them on my computer that is fine with me. Unfortunately it is the artist that will loose.
I always bought Albums and CDs of artists that I have heard. I can't recall (out of thousands of records and hundreds of CDs) ever buying a recording that I have not heard before. So, if the RIAA wants to go down this road it is the public, the artists and the authors of the material that needs to fix this problem. There are cases where I have to consider ownership of a file and copyright rights of the owners of those files. For programs and audio files that I have purchased on any media, I think fair use should be the rule. If I didn't keep backups of my computer files I would think that would be signs of extreme stupidity.
What your describing is not difficult to do, however does mean some PLC related programming. Planning will need to be done. Since it may be critical to the operation of the place I would recommend making plans to simulate the real world field wiring and make things work before actually making the commitment to put that equipment on line. From past experience with many custom control projects I can attest that modifications usually need to be made several times before and after such a project goes on line. Beside much of the off the shelf PLC hardware there is the MAT PLC project on Source Forge. One of the more interesting small PLCs I have run across (and been very happy with) is made by Tri Logi. If you have not dealt with PLCs or control systems I would highly recommend finding someone that has some experience with them to help. They are not generally difficult, however out of the 15 - 20 various flavors I have worked with in the past all have had some differences that make writing the programs a bit of an art. Different manufacturers have different ways that the logic is processed. Sometimes those minor differences can make what initially looks like a simple task a challenge to debug.
Take a look at Rivendell. In the commercial realm there is also a Linux based commercial product from Smarts Broadcast.
Others may be in the works. I know of another fairly well known company that has been discussing putting a new system on the Linux platform.
I have not programmed a cell phone, so I could be way off, however it doesn't sound terribly difficult to do that to many of the phones. If the configuration / software can be pushed out to the phone same as an update to the software, what is to keep you from disabling the on/off button. All the on/off button would have to do is to kill the display and ringer, maybe even autodial a number with a recorder on the other end. I doubt anyone would notice that the phone was still on if there is no display. If the battery dies how would someone notice? It certainly sounds as if this worked well for this one instance. Finding the location of a cell phone is also rather easy. Why would this be a surprise?
It seems to me the problem is that most patents that have prior art troubles don't surface until many months if not years after the patent is approved.
Sure Microsoft and other companies would support this. It gives them a way to write patents and ignore any prior art or it sounds to me like previous patents. This legislation sounds like an exceptionally bad idea to me.
Being one of those that has participated in communications for a disaster relief effort, I have seen some of the work hams do from being there. Some of the things they are doing are not done well by the military. The military has some communcations equipment, but they don't have the flexibility to communicate with many of the other law enforcement / relief groups. There are many efforts going on now on the ham bands to assist in the relief effort. One you might find interesting is a http://www.boatwatchnet.org/. If you want the spread sheet short story on the status of many of the boats in the area, you can find that from a link at http://www.winlink.org/ The hams had most of the status on those boats posted several days ago. Many hams were busy on the Winlink system passing various messages about the status of people and relief needs almost from the time the quake was felt. If you wonder what hams do in a disaster, ask someone that is a ham, or someone in the Red Cross that handles communications. You will find there is much more going on than is ever mentioned in the press.
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I think ESR is on the right track here. Darl's horse is about to be shot and made into glue right before his eyes.
My take on this mess is that SCO won't last until the court room battle.
You can find my rant
here. A quick test follows:-).
As a licensed operator for over 25 years, I can tell you are not aware of some of the things hams do. Yes, TCP/IP has been and is still used over amateur radio. Much of the technology you now have (cell phones are a good example) had a good part of the development done by hams. In the 1970s I had the forerunner to a cell phone. One difference, I was able to make calls 100 miles from a repeator site. This helped immensely when I had to ask TVA to shut down some power lines due to them being collapsed from a tornado. Phones were out for 90 miles in both directions that night. If the Internet was available then, it would have been down in that area too. We had 13 dead in the county I was in (over 90 state wide) and it would have been many times that number dead if it was not for the quick response and ability to communicate in a hurry with the proper authorities.
Does this have anything to do with current events? Yes! Two months ago a tornado struck 12 miles from my house. We were not only tracking the storm, as soon as the funnel left we had people on the scene. We had to immediately call to have power lines and gas lines shut down. With over 60 houses heavily damaged, and a few totally blown away, the damage was extensive. Cell sites were overloaded, phones were down, Internet connections in the area were not possible. Maybe you should look around to find what some hams are doing. A few sites mtsh.org arrl.org qrz.com eham.net findu.com tapr.org w4rpt.com. maybe in that list you can find something to enlighten you.
I find it interesting that you think this is a good solution. The shorter the cell tower, the more radiated energy there is in the area close to the site, and the more towers that are needed
to cover the same area. When you use another device to relay the traffic, it takes at least a doubling of the bandwidth (it has to recieve, and then send the traffic to the next node). With the addition of a bit of overhead, and possibly
other traffic being relayed, the bandwidth problems become substantial in a hurry.
This is pretty silly. I administered one box
with 1000 email clients 80 web sites and a few
other things running on a Pentium 90 with 48
MB of RAM. Rarely did the system load go over.3
It was exceptionally reliable.
On a mainframe this is major overkill.
You obviously have not paid attention. Just not clicking on EXE files will not assure you of safety. One of the problems with the Nimda worm
is that it can be aquired from a web page and other sources. Microsoft has traditionally come out with huge update files for different flavors of Windows that are supposed to be applied in sequential order from patch file #1. This makes patches a very lengthy process. Unfortunately if you happen to have a box that was recently hit by one of the code red variants, and did not reload the box from scratch, you may have other back doors installed that are not covered by the patch files. RedHat on the other hand (as others) put out patches for the individual programs affected and they roll those fixes into the next release. That means that the actual problem for programs is fixed, instead of a general painting over the problem that might, or might not fix the problem. If you want to see
what has changed with the different versions, take a trip through the update list for 5.0, and then for 7.1 . Notice the old bugs were fixed, and the new ones are new and improved:-).
My experience is that no OS is perfectly safe. If you don't pay attention to security it will bite you. With Linux you will spend 10% of the time keeping the same number of boxes running than you will with Windows.
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This politically correct crap is stupid. I have no problems with .bro and could suggest lots of other options that would probably be worse.
Should we make 4mb a cap for all connections? How about for backbone connections? How about 4mb max for a connection for a town or city? How about a 4mb limit to hook up schools,? All this does is justify their sticking with DSL in many markets. I won't go into the details, but best I can tell the reason AT&T stuck with DSL was due to the union workers not wanting to deal with fiber. The reasons were: 1. They would not need as many workers to keep fiber running 2. LIghtning destroys copper (and creates more work). I could add some annoyances like: DSL could (and probably does) create RF hash and interference. I don't do 4mb and lower unless I don't have a choice. Needless to say, AT&T is not going to be my choice until they actually get a clue and start rolling out FTTH, like they could have done damn near 20 years ago.
If your using the same controllers as the target for that virus, but your not running applications requiring precise speed control you would not even notice anything has changed. As I understand it, centrifuges rely on a well controlled rotation speed to hit a certain amount of G force. Most industrial applications don't require speed control to be that exact and generally are not going to be running fast enough to cause destruction from the stress. It sure is sad that the trolls have nothing better to do than take this subject so far off course this leads to 95% of the thread being useless garbage. I guess many of them are now unemployed and looking for something to do, since they seem to have at least another 4 years to find a job.
You happen to believe voting is secure now? I know people that can tell me which graveyards have the most active voters. That alone ought to be a clue that web voting is something worth considering. The biggest problem I see with web voting is that many don't have, or know how to use the web. The potential for someone using mis information to influence the outcome of the election is a very real possibility. Of course we already have that with the advertising done for most any political candidate now.
If you have not had the chance to see the movie "An Inconsistent Truth" do so! It reveals why many people want you to believe in Global Warming. Several people will be made very rich by the 'redistribute the wealth' plan. It is another plan to push the 'one world order' agenda. http://aninconsistenttruth.com/ . It is absolute junk science that is designed to make things more expensive at your expense and to benefit a very few others. When it showed in Nashville three theaters had to open to handle the crowd on the first day.
This is actually a good thing. The FCC was trying to push a technology that does not work well, interferes with others, and costs much more than some other ways of getting connectivity. Even if the Amateur bands can be notched out, the other frequencies suffer. There are a lot of other communications in the range of frequencies that BPL wipes out. The FCC needs to rethink their stance and pay attention to the laws of physics. If BPL is allowed to exist I believe there will be a time in the future we will regret the down side of this technology. In the places it is being used now there are a number of interference problems that keep different services either off the air, or make the use of that spectrum damn near impossible. There is also another side to the story. Licensed equipment transmitting in close proximity to a BPL system can shut down the BPL connection. The bottom line is BPL should never have been adopted. There are better, more effective and less costly ways of getting connectivity without polluting the HF spectrum.
I think shooting itself in the foot is really appropriate about now. When I took a course in copyright law many years ago I am pretty sure it would have been considered fair use to move a file to the computer from a CD. Radio stations do that all of the time (has anyone ever seen a record company deliver a loaded computer to the radio station studios?). I can fix that problem for the RIAA though, it is pretty simple really. I don't have to buy any CDs or download any music files. If they don't want them on my computer that is fine with me. Unfortunately it is the artist that will loose. I always bought Albums and CDs of artists that I have heard. I can't recall (out of thousands of records and hundreds of CDs) ever buying a recording that I have not heard before. So, if the RIAA wants to go down this road it is the public, the artists and the authors of the material that needs to fix this problem. There are cases where I have to consider ownership of a file and copyright rights of the owners of those files. For programs and audio files that I have purchased on any media, I think fair use should be the rule. If I didn't keep backups of my computer files I would think that would be signs of extreme stupidity.
After cleaning out 10K emails today... Yes, using a search engine is to hard :-)
We need to stop spam.
What your describing is not difficult to do, however does mean some PLC related programming. Planning will need to be done. Since it may be critical to the operation of the place I would recommend making plans to simulate the real world field wiring and make things work before actually making the commitment to put that equipment on line. From past experience with many custom control projects I can attest that modifications usually need to be made several times before and after such a project goes on line. Beside much of the off the shelf PLC hardware there is the MAT PLC project on Source Forge. One of the more interesting small PLCs I have run across (and been very happy with) is made by Tri Logi. If you have not dealt with PLCs or control systems I would highly recommend finding someone that has some experience with them to help. They are not generally difficult, however out of the 15 - 20 various flavors I have worked with in the past all have had some differences that make writing the programs a bit of an art. Different manufacturers have different ways that the logic is processed. Sometimes those minor differences can make what initially looks like a simple task a challenge to debug.
Take a look at Rivendell. In the commercial realm there is also a Linux based commercial product from Smarts Broadcast. Others may be in the works. I know of another fairly well known company that has been discussing putting a new system on the Linux platform.
I have not programmed a cell phone, so I could be way off, however it doesn't sound terribly difficult to do that to many of the phones. If the configuration / software can be pushed out to the phone same as an update to the software, what is to keep you from disabling the on/off button. All the on/off button would have to do is to kill the display and ringer, maybe even autodial a number with a recorder on the other end. I doubt anyone would notice that the phone was still on if there is no display. If the battery dies how would someone notice? It certainly sounds as if this worked well for this one instance. Finding the location of a cell phone is also rather easy. Why would this be a surprise?
It seems to me the problem is that most patents that have prior art troubles don't surface until many months if not years after the patent is approved. Sure Microsoft and other companies would support this. It gives them a way to write patents and ignore any prior art or it sounds to me like previous patents. This legislation sounds like an exceptionally bad idea to me.
Being one of those that has participated in communications for a disaster relief effort, I have seen some of the work hams do from being there. Some of the things they are doing are not done well by the military. The military has some communcations equipment, but they don't have the flexibility to communicate with many of the other law enforcement / relief groups. There are many efforts going on now on the ham bands to assist in the relief effort. One you might find interesting is a http://www.boatwatchnet.org/. If you want the spread sheet short story on the status of many of the boats in the area, you can find that from a link at http://www.winlink.org/ The hams had most of the status on those boats posted several days ago. Many hams were busy on the Winlink system passing various messages about the status of people and relief needs almost from the time the quake was felt. If you wonder what hams do in a disaster, ask someone that is a ham, or someone in the Red Cross that handles communications. You will find there is much more going on than is ever mentioned in the press.
Take a test... How about a short test on your thoughts about the SCO matter? The test can be found HERE.
I think ESR is on the right track here. Darl's horse is about to be shot and made into glue right before his eyes. My take on this mess is that SCO won't last until the court room battle. You can find my rant here. A quick test follows :-).
Does this have anything to do with current events? Yes! Two months ago a tornado struck 12 miles from my house. We were not only tracking the storm, as soon as the funnel left we had people on the scene. We had to immediately call to have power lines and gas lines shut down. With over 60 houses heavily damaged, and a few totally blown away, the damage was extensive. Cell sites were overloaded, phones were down, Internet connections in the area were not possible. Maybe you should look around to find what some hams are doing. A few sites
mtsh.org arrl.org qrz.com eham.net findu.com
tapr.org w4rpt.com. maybe in that list you can find something to enlighten you.
I find it interesting that you think this is a good solution. The shorter the cell tower, the more radiated energy there is in the area close to the site, and the more towers that are needed to cover the same area. When you use another device to relay the traffic, it takes at least a doubling of the bandwidth (it has to recieve, and then send the traffic to the next node). With the addition of a bit of overhead, and possibly other traffic being relayed, the bandwidth problems become substantial in a hurry.
This is pretty silly. I administered one box with 1000 email clients 80 web sites and a few other things running on a Pentium 90 with 48 MB of RAM. Rarely did the system load go over .3
It was exceptionally reliable.
On a mainframe this is major overkill.
You obviously have not paid attention. Just not clicking on EXE files will not assure you of safety. One of the problems with the Nimda worm is that it can be aquired from a web page and other sources. Microsoft has traditionally come out with huge update files for different flavors of Windows that are supposed to be applied in sequential order from patch file #1. This makes patches a very lengthy process. Unfortunately if you happen to have a box that was recently hit by one of the code red variants, and did not reload the box from scratch, you may have other back doors installed that are not covered by the patch files. RedHat on the other hand (as others) put out patches for the individual programs affected and they roll those fixes into the next release. That means that the actual problem for programs is fixed, instead of a general painting over the problem that might, or might not fix the problem. If you want to see what has changed with the different versions, take a trip through the update list for 5.0, and then for 7.1 . Notice the old bugs were fixed, and the new ones are new and improved :-).
My experience is that no OS is perfectly safe. If you don't pay attention to security it will bite you. With Linux you will spend 10% of the time keeping the same number of boxes running than you will with Windows.